jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Buy home automation products with local control and no internet communications at all. Ideally with an open protocol, and open source control software.

Same protection against vendor death/depreciation/etc, and on top of that your data is more secure, the system survives internet outages, and you don't have to mess with the immense complexity blockchain adds.

Remote access, if you even need it, can be done through a thousand other methods (direct IP address, tunneling proxy, VPN, etc etc).
I am glad you liked it.
A very long time ago (15 years maybe?) there was a great internet site (I don't remember the name anymore) which showed a graph of top ~100 largest companies in the USA, their CEOs and their boards.

When expanding the graph you could basically see that the same 30 or 40 people where in the boards of major companies, from Pepi to Johnson&Johnson to Microsoft to Fox and other communication companies.

It showed a really interesting picture of how really consolidated the control was at the top.
The range between the highest and lowest db reading at that given moment. The measurements were taking by us, analyzed by Arup (Arup.com), and visualized by Sha Hwang. He literally built it in 2 days and one of the few folks who specialize in data visualization.
"Seems that English has appropriated many words from other languages."

Metric ass-loads.

It's the best feature of the language: Shameless theft when a good word comes along.
"The most significant factor which contributes to depth perception is bionocular disparity"

There's no way this is true. How impaired are people with only one functional eye? Not very--their diminished peripheral vision is much more impairing than their lack of binocular disparity. I don't have any evidence to back it up, but I believe that motion parallax is the single most important source of depth information. Notice that one-eyed people and non-3D films don't suffer from any lack of motion parallax.
My eyes hurt (literally) after a few seconds of trying to read the text.
Wernher von Braun is one of the main reasons why there is any space flight in the first place, without his obsession it would be much delayed.

Doesn't make him a good person to lead NASA
It’s completely insane and unfortunately many are wasting time trying to fix it instead of focusing on real problems that weren’t created for the hell of it.
> 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?

The happy ones.
> it was exactly 8.5 hours of focused, deliberate practice

As already pointed out, that's a very low amount of practice to change the technique. For piano, when learning forearm rotation, the point when it became much, much more comfortable to me than my previous way of playing was after roughly two months of practice, 10-12 hours a week. That's just my experience, but when I asked my teacher about not feeling improvements around the one month mark (40 hours in), he said that everything is progressing at an expected rate.
Prove? we are talking about Russia here.
I'm not sure this is a SV mantra. Plenty of companies with products in spaces with lots of players get funded by very good VCs. Stripe. Zoom. Snowflake. 50 other data analytics companies. Arguably Airbnb. Lots of CRMs.
Smart people can't really understand dumb people. I'm somewhere in between, so I can see that anybody who actually believes this conspiracy theory would never read something like this, so it does not need to be explained.
It's time for major universities and/or research budget granting organizations to join forces and negotiate with these publishing groups to pull down prices and allow for open access.

In this day and age, organizing a new respected online journal is not too hard a task if top researchers in a field agree to work together. An interesting case study is the formation of The Journal of Machine Learning Research, which has become a top journal in computer science and quickly outranked its closed-access competitor, which was the top journal in the field of machine learning.

DARPA, NIH, and the like would be able to force this change to happen very quickly and increase the efficiency of the whole system. I still wonder why they haven't done that so far.

Imagine how much the world would be better if almost all new advances in medical & bio sciences, computer science, and other fields are available to everyone without unnecessary fees.

More details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Res...
http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html
Heck, even the irredeemably eeeevil Haliburton which did the (apparently) failed cementing is getting off easy, so far.

In all fairness, I've read detailed accounts about how BP specified an inadequate cementing, but since when have inconvenient facts like that mattered in D.C.?
If there's a killer app on their platform, then Apple can't change their platform in a way that breaks the app. Consider the hoops Microsoft has had to go through with Windows and IE to avoid breaking important third-party products. Since the whole point of Apple products is high-end, uncompromising design, letting killer apps get the upper hand would quickly make iOS stagnate and lose relevance. Once that's happened, the only way to get ahead again is something like the MacOS-to-OS X upheaval, which wasn't particularly pretty.
While I agree with you, I don't particularly find publicly announced personal attacks a proper way of addressing the issue. I've found the best thing to do is ignore her and laugh at the investor's who find her, or any other fluffer for that matter, worthy of receiving capital.
Anyone know of good commentary on the causality between sci fi art/books/film and technology? As in, is the artists' work often inspiration for tech or are the artists just making predictions?
I love code-heavy posts, but damn I hate lines with a bunch of javascript all bunched together with semicolons between statements.
A bit of documentation for your claims would would greatly improve the post.
Me too, but you do realize he just sold you on something utterly untrue? :)
> ... you wouldn't want your bank to use software written by someone who didn't have professional-level skills in programming.

That's the first step toward creating a programming priesthood, a very bad idea. Software is as software does. Good software can be identified without requiring its creator to have some credential attesting to his ability to craft "professional-level" code, no more than a writer needs a certificate attesting to his ability to write a readable novel.

For proof of this thesis, one need only look at Microsoft -- until recently the top of the programming profession, highest salaries, copious certificates and assertions of competence, and the worst software.

http://www.vexite.com/2005/ending-microsofts-cowboy-spaghett...
What if the conspiracy is actually true, and their anger is justified? For example, if a couple of years ago you started writing about how the NSA is reading everyone's e-mail, many people might have thought you were a nutjob. If in 2006 you would have predicted that there would soon be an global economic collapse caused by the excesses of Wall Street, you would have been laughed at by most people. I think it's very dangerous if the government gets to decide which "conspiracy theories" are false, especially if they concern something that the government is trying to hide.
I'm super into coffee. I have a ton of different pieces of brewing hardware, roast my own beans, etc. I've always hated the snobbery aspect of people who are super into anything, so I've thought of a few general rules of thumb for coffee drinkers that can up your game.

First and foremost, just cleaning whatever you brew your coffee in makes a huge difference. Even if you use a $9 Mr. Coffee drip machine, wash the glass carafe, drip cone, etc. with mild soap, and rinse. You will taste a huge improvement in the taste of your cup of coffee.

I've landed on a simple ceramic drip cone, kettle, and coffee mug for being the absolute best brewing system because its so easy to clean.

Freshness of the beans is a big factor. Coffee beans are exploding with flavor 1 to 7 days after they're roasted. After that it still tastes like coffee, but complexity around the flavor starts getting lost. This is why I roast my own beans, and its also really cheap ($6-$8 per pound as opposed to $14-$20). http://www.sweetmarias.com/ is a great place to buy green coffee beans in the Bay Area and you can roast them stove top without buying additional equipment.

When you start getting into roasting your own coffee or buying stuff that's 1-2 weeks from the roast it makes sense to get a decent grinder to preserve flavor. Lots of people buy blade grinders because they're so cheap, but they make it really difficult to brew coffee with a ceramic cone filter. You want to shop for a burr grinder which cost $40 for a hand grinder up to $80 for a decent electric grinder.
I guess it's not that an original invention so it may have different names in different places ;)
A bike that you can use outdoors too.
Right.

Laravel 7 and 8 have been excellent. It's a good product with beautiful documentation.
The point about the templates is that they're evaluated in the same context as the actions. Have a common context between the controller and the view makes a lot of sense to me. I don't see any reason why this is necessary though, you could always pass a context object to the template parser.
the exclamation at the beginning would throw off most script kiddies seriously. Who puts an exclamation point at the beginning?
I like it...this is an idea I had in 1999, but the technology just wasn't ready yet. I think the big challenge will be getting data from smaller stores who often have a good price but don't serve up their inventory online. For example, while looking for an iPod charger recently, my fiancee pointed out that TJ Maxx (discount women's clothing store) had them for $5. I would have missed this if I just searched online. It may be that you'll have to broker deals with these merchants to get data feeds, or rely on crowd sourcing to get the data, but this is where the real value could be. One other idea I had back in 1999 was the ability to supply a list of products (e.g. Christmas list) and get back a list of places that have all the items with options for lowest total price, shortest total distance, or fewest number of stops.
PayPal's Website Payment Pro isn't too bad. I've used it for 5 years and it's been mostly hassle free. I don't have experience with any others however.
Basically, any "serious" PSP is going to want a stack of information from you before you can start trading. PayPal shut down and suspend accounts on a regular basis because they basically only fraud screen you after you're up and running, which is why their barrier to entry is so low, and why they're such a wretched hive of villany and scum.

SagePay do have some kind of deal where they do the whole merchant account bit for you, but will require a fair bit of info before they'll let you trade.

Other good ones in the UK, however : Commidea, SecureTrading, Ogone, GlobalCollect, ServeBase, and Paypoint.net. Out of all of them, I'd recommend Paypoint, Sagepay, and Commidea on a par - basically, pick whichever fits your pricing model - all three have nice XML APIs, Commidea is kinda "enterprisey", but very competent, and Sagepay falls on its ass at least once a week (they had a 5 hour outage last week, which caused merry hell over here).
I was not impressed by this. It would have been nice of LinkedIn to include a more specific reason for requiring a password reset other than "We have recently disabled your account for security reasons.". I was in panic mode this morning thinking that someone had gotten into my LinkedIn account (and email) and triggered my account to be locked.
Yep, that was the first thing I checked as well, actually broadcast.com is by far the most expensive acquisition.

There's probably a bug in the visualization library getting the thousands coma as a decimal separator, too bad :)
He needed some time to grow into his role too. He was clearly still getting into it in Season 1 of TNG :)

One example that comes to mind is the end of the first double-episode encounter at farpoint. Where he's like "Let's see what 's out there! Engage!". That really looked like stage acting.
Aye, functional core, imperative shell (us!).
I don't get it. I thought corporations were taxed on profits and not assets? How do tangible/intangible assets factor into this?
>the compositional structure of Bayesian inversion is well known

/u/tsmithe's results on that are well known, now? I can scarcely find anyone to collaborate with who understands them!
Heh, heh. As a physicist, I wrote the entire technical section on polarization for my small company’s optics catalog. It got “edited” by the personnel manager, a UT Austin English major who was not dumb. Almost had a coronary at age 36.
mind you this was historically the case nearly everywhere in Wurope too. This only really changed drastically after world war 1, which saw the fall of many empires (german, ottoman, astro-hungarian and russian) which resulted in a lot of political instability. Trade unions and other labour organisations where able to demand representative power in a turmoil time when many new countries where created. (having a nationwide strike or even a revolution was a really bad thing for the (newly established) establishment).

This got further cemented when the USSR was formed, and it actively supported many left winged militant organisations in europe. This was used as leverage by trade unionists and social-democrats to demand further rights (or else the militant forces will get into power and things will end much worse for the establishment).

This dynamic only really changed right before world war 2, when stalin (and other USSR leaders) focused on a policy of "socialism in one country" instead of a the dogma of a worldwide workers revolution.
> Hey folks. Let's do A.

In an earlier concurring opinion when he was on the D.C. Circuit — i.e., before joining the Supreme Court as Chief Justice of the United States (his official title) — John Roberts referred to "... the cardinal principle of judicial restraint — if it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more ...." [0]

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=192785774326304...
Even if it is "Apache logfile", it is still being treated as an uncountable noun.

The measure here is 'lines', analogous to 'cups of water'. Adding a format or brand so that it's 'cups of Perrier water' or 'cups of fortified water' doesn't change anything.

Neither does stating the size, any more than '2 liters of water' does.
US law only applies to US companies
In cases where you have to deploy the model and you are limited in terms of flops, this paper does not help much, unless it’s removal of batchnorm somehow allows a future network that is actually faster at inference time.
What about Turner/Warner & cnn?
Not having it both way is an argument to fairness. You should want fairness in a game of checkers. It was never a thing in employment anyway nor will it be.

A high local real estate price is a reason you can't profitably work for less and its something you can profitably express to an employer if they will take it into account in order to access the local labor market.

A lower local real estate cost is a reason you could work for less not a reason you ought to want to.

You absolutely should try to have it both ways to the greatest extent possible because they are too.
Sometimes I catch myself pondering if location-based pay makes any sense, and every single time I end whatever train of thought I'm having with "but they're not gonna pay me more if I decide to move to LA".
fixed, to be more limitted in the claim
A Merkle tree is just one component of a blockchain. It also requires: a byzantine consensus mechanism, a p2p network stack, public key crypto, and a set of economic incentives to keep it going.

You can't build a public database on a Merckle tree without being able to agree on what goes into it.
That and their hardware footprint seemed ridiculously overprovisioned. You can serve content to millions of people per day with fewer boxes than they were using.

I always try to design a "degraded mode" read-only into my apps that covers maintenance windows and unscheduled outages. That is usually easier to lift and shift than the full app and can even be hosted someplace else if you don't mind it lagging behind the live website.
If you don't mind me asking, how are you using julia? Are you using modules to wrap your code and functions to structure it, or are you just running one big script in top level scope?

Aside from compiler improvements, most caching related optimizations are happening on the module level, because that's where namespaces are seperated.
What we understand under "mutation" consists of 2 basic facts:

* During replication of cells, DNA changes happen by accident and random chance. This yields random new traits.
* A random trait might be useful to survival and reproduction, or it might be a hindrance. Maybe a trait that was once beneficial becomes a hindrance when the environment in which an organism lives shifts (i.e. higher Ph values of a pond of water will cause a shift in which bacteria will thrive, and which won't)

Regardless of what you do, you can't stop mutation as long as cells are living and replicating. You don't control the appearance of traits directly as replication is basically a roll of the dice. (Technically, you can through genetic engineering, but we're talking about what happens outside the lab).

Finally, viruses are arguably life. They are envelopes with genetic material. They aren't a hive mind following a conscious strategy. Their emergent behavior is dictated by the traits they happen to have, and a gazillion environmental factors. Nothing else.

So, when we say "The virus is spreading", we are really saying "More people are infected and infecting others as well." a virus doesn't willfully jump between hosts.

Lethality isn't a good trait either. The goal of a virus is to spread genetic material, killing its host is an inadvertent second order effect of replication. Viruses that are inadvertently too lethal will run out of hosts rather quickly.

This SARS-Cov2 is a perfect storm because (a) of the properties of the virus itself - very contagious in 1-1 contact, low lethality, it's entirely new - and (b) because of environmental circumstances: 7.75 billion available hosts and globalisation / massive mobility.

While we don't control mutation, the best case scenario is that quarantines, lockdown and eventual treatments will subdue that people keep spreading this strain. But replication might yield other traits and less harmful cousins of this virus might spread instead.

(edit: lest we forget, homo sapiens sapiens is the net result of many mutations over the course of millions of years. So, beware of inadvertent value attribution!)
The correct link is http://romuluscrisan.com/blog/2014/02/24/why-i-choose-github...
Trouble is I bet the members get undercut by people who don’t care about any of this as most councils don’t have have enough (any?) inspectors to ensure everyone plays by the rules
In this scenario you would have to rebuild all of civilization. I do not think modern civilization could survive the loss of the entire electrical grid.
haha awesome. What we were doing is a really hard problem I think. I think there's a reason internship/college job related sites are a dime a dozen. Hopefully not literally ;)
You are completely right. Now that I'm reading it again they are repeating "radio" a lot of times and there are a ton of clues that this is radio frequency, but the picture of the device on the yellow peppers just triggered "oh they are measuring the light spectrum of yellow peppers". Sorry for the confusion.
OK, I'll grant you the smart card example. I have no experience with those guy; there are what, a half-dozen vendors? For obvious reasons they don't talk about the details of their software much.

The nub of our disagreement: the definition of an embedded system. Per Wikipedia, "An embedded system is a computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions often with real-time computing constraints."

So a cheap MP3 player counts as an embedded system, because playing audio is what its hardware and software is designed for. A personal computer, in whatever physical form, that runs a variety of applications, including audio players, is not an embedded system. And therefore, no, I don't count smart phone applications as embedded systems software. If you're writing device drivers that are burned into a smart phone's ROM, on the other hand, then I'd consider it embedded software.

When you find hardware running Android that's designed to be dedicated to a single task, such as, say, a climate control system, then you can count it as an embedded system. A tablet PC or an application running on it that sends commands to your existing climate control system, not so much.
sold. the other six 'online notepad' options are terrible. this should be #1. the only thing i'm going to change is stick an ad for one of my sites (inboxSEO) on it. also, i'm a sucker for helping out starving college students.
I don't even think I can begin to guess. I have absolutely no reference point.
You have to realize that our food supply is a horribly unnatural beast, not reliant on anything "native" to anywhere. Native species could easily pollinate the amount of food required to support the Native American population in 1450 -- the New York City population of 2010, not so much.
This is the critical winter for the beekeeping industry. I don't think we can survive.

As a beekeeper, this phrase has meaning that might be overlooked by someone who is not one. It may seem obvious, but the most difficult time for bees is during winter; almost all hive deaths occur during the colder months. In a bad winter, some beekeepers will lose up to 75% of their hives. And hives only "reproduce" in summers when they're very strong. If this year is a bad one... they could literally not survive.
So, if I beat the crap out of you, but take you to the hospital later and pay all your bills, it's OK?
I agree with this sentiment. I've been hearing the 'hacker vs cracker' argument for years and it gets old. Move on. It certainly wouldn't be the first time that the media has defined or changed the meaning of words in our language. Languages change over time. Stop trying to fight the current. If you prefer one definition over another, cool, but your time and energy is better spent fulfilling its definition rather than proselytizing to strangers on the Internet over the semantics of a word.
Bah! I met you guys at a TechCrunch event. Sad to see it not work out. I would recommend Flippa. Or, perhaps what all the cool kids are doing: "Offer HN"
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It took some looking but I think DTS=Device Tree Spec.
https://elinux.org/Device_Tree_Usage
> The overall molecular structure of this virus is distinct from the known coronaviruses and instead most closely resembles viruses found in bats and pangolins that had been little studied and never known to cause humans any harm.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-la...