skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which really puzzles me, given their transit infrastructure. Do they still lack cell coverage in the subway? Smartphone on transit is what killed my cycle commute. I just love those sleepy minutes idly indulging in some light social media infotainment before the day really starts.
you mean 100k ofcourse :)
But Monocle is a magazine put out by and aimed at wealthy urban professionals with mucho disposable income. Their priorities and idea of liveability is not the same as other groups'.
Coal irradiates far more people than nuclear even when it's operating properly.
Twizy is technically an ATV ("quad") and doors and windows are available as optional features from Renault.
When you say academia you mean academic PL research, which makes up a very small portion of CS academia. Most CS people care about FP just as much as the industry does, and the JVM is quite popular in the algorithmic fields (maybe not as much as C, but more than any other managed runtime).

Aside from tail-calls (which will come once people really ask for them), the JVM is about to have pretty much everything functional languages can ever need (value types and excellent box-elision), and the new JIT (Graal) is the biggest breakthrough in compiler technology in the last decade or so. PL academics are drooling over it. ECOOP had a full-day workshop dedicated just to Graal.

And you don't want to change calling conventions, because language interoperability is one of the JVM's greatest strengths. Here it is running JS, R and C, in the same REPL with Graal: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/292832/useR_multilang_de...
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If Google (very many smart people, massive amounts of data, massive amounts of processing) can't do it then it seems like it could be a hard problem.

The abuse of ContentID on YouTube, or auto-generated DMCA requests, show that letting content owners report stuff doesn't work particularly well at scale.
In fisrt (2?) novels of The Baroque Cycle there is a section explaining this system and character who uses it as a trader. Wall street floor traders use(d) their own system for quickly flashing round numbers in ranges higher than ten http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xRJQ7X06g_I/TgyPveGUbqI/AAAAAAAAAl...
Seth Godin: "Purple Cow" & "All Marketers Are Liars"
Quote from Rosemary Sassoon's book in the OA...

"We must find ways of holding modern pens that will enable us to write without pain. …We also need to encourage efficient letters suited to modern pens."

Can you describe the way you hold your pen when writing and perhaps comment on the way you form your letters? I'm interested as I find the ubiquitous Bic impossible for more than a couple of sides.
It's sad to hear that he died. I just started reading his book, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat". It's an extremely interesting book about the case stories of some of his most interesting patients. The book gives a lot of insight into the lives of patients with the strangest brain dysfunctions, and puts into perspective many of the things we take for granted, such as how we recognize facial expressions, our own body and more. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in neuroscience or even artificial intelligence.
The real problem, I believe, is the shame associated with mental disorders, and addiction in particular. Addiction is in many cases a (sign of a) legitimate disease, rooted deeper than just a nasty habit of popping Hydrocodone pills. We have reasons to believe that while addiction can be influenced by individual's choices, it is often not exclusively the patient's fault.

We allow patients to follow a slightly different path than the rest of the society till full recovery in the case of disorders such as cancer or depression, which can take years. Addiction should be treated the same way.
Lifestyle factors: Tokyo is a wonderful place to live and work. (Much, much better than I had expected prior to moving there.)

Relevant to startup factors:

a) Unbelievably bad fundraising environment as compared to the Bay Area. The absolute amount of money available is pretty large, but for a variety of pipeline reasons, I would not assume it was easily accessible for a variety of firms that would have an easy time accessing Meaningful Amounts of Money in the Bay Area as of 2015 (or any time for the last 10 years, for that matter).

b) Talent market: with specific regards to foreign entrepreneurs hiring in Tokyo, I often find that they have... interesting expectations. "Hey I'd like to find a bilingual Japanese/English engineer who has startup-compatible risk tolerances, is comfortable working in a bicultural environment under a minimum amount of supervision, can solo-ship code in one or more modern programming stacks, and is willing to work for $2.5k per month." I think if you also have this expectation, you will not find the Tokyo labor market to be accommodating of your desires.

Assuming one is reasonably clueful with regards to looking for folks who actually exist... I think one would be a bit disappointed with regards to who actually exists and it what quantity. It's a minor miracle that one can reliably staff a team of 20 engineers to build a never-before-seen highly scalable application out of nothing to do something which is actually meaningful. You can accomplish this miracle in the Bay Area. It will be expensive, but it is doable, and you'll be one of hundreds of firms doing it at the same time. In Tokyo... you're going to find that individual pieces of that 20-strong team are very, very hard to find. A CTO who has done it before? An architecture lead who is both capable of making good choices and will also happily actually touch an AWS account with their own two hands? An intermediate Rails or Python developer who can both ship code and is willing to work for you? Times five? Every hire there is a fun adventure which might end in "And then despite everyone's best efforts there was no engineer available for hire and the company died ingloriously."

c) Ambient competence levels among Tokyo entrepreneurs and other people associated with the startup ecosystem are... how to be charitable here... lagging ambient competence levels in Silicon Valley. By at least a few cycles, if not more. Stuff which is way-the-heck-below table stakes for e.g. a YC startup which is N weeks old is treated here like PhD thesis level black magic. (Specific example: "Your cost of customer acquisition is actually highly sensitive to your conversion rate if you're using paid acquisition sources." "That doesn't sound right." "sigh Alright, let's go to the whiteboard for a minute." 15 minutes later "WHOA.")
Sorry, I didn't word that very well.

"Regular" determinism doesn't necessarily affect Bell's Theorem. All you need is that the measurement choices at each end are "effectively free for the purpose at hand". The kind of determinism you'd need to actually affect Bell's Theorem is a pathological, conspiratorial one in which the universe is well aware of which measurement choices you are going to make and just sets things up so that you'll get the same outcomes that quantum theory predicts.

This is discussed in Section D of the following paper: http://www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/mertens/teaching/seminar/theme...
His last op-ed in the NY Times: http://nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-sa...

"And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense of peace within oneself. I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.”
Is it that tough? As a freelancer, I'm sure it's not easy, but as a funded company hiring engineers with college degrees, I thought it was relatively straightforward either with the Engineering visa or by somehow classifying the work under the Specialist in Humanities visa.

(btw will be back in Tokyo in September, would love to buy you coffee)
recent radiolab episode http://www.radiolab.org/story/archives-oliver-sacks-table-el...
That's ludicrous. You can get better scanlines by using Cathode or Cool Retro Term, and the latter comes with the beautiful 3270 font that stands upon the long clean design heritage of IBM's 360/379 line. This beautiful font, by the way, you can take for a spin on any civilized operating system by simply typing `apt-get install 3270font`. Go, try it.

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

;-)
Tokyo has a lot more foreigners than say Beijing or even Shanghai. It is quite amazing to me that almost everyone seems to speak some English (coming from China, where foreigners are as rare as pandas and English is not common at all).
I tested the 3270 on HiDPI displays (Mac and Linux) and it was glorious. Seriously.
"it's not that likely that I'll be droned" - this article

Stop with the fucking headlines.
They use a optic fiber. This version has mare technical details, but is still understandable: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/experiment-confirms-t... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141658 (4 points, 12 hours ago, 1 comment))

> To get around this, the researchers started with the diamonds over a kilometer apart in two different labs at the Delft University of Technology. They entangled each electron spin with a photon, then sent the photons over fiber optic cable to a third lab somewhere in between. There, the photons were entangled, which in turn caused the electrons in the diamonds to be entangled as well.
Install Chrome, install extension, don't use Safari :)
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Why would they make two cars rather than one? Most people would be sharing cars in x years. There would be fewer on the road over all. You'll use the truck for a couple of hours and then until you need it again, it'll return to the pool of available cars unless you want to hold it for the day.

In the future, you won't be driving the car so I don't think U25 will be such an issue.
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It should be noted that this is the design for a single "Compute Unit" of a GPU, not an entire GPU. A GPU consists of an array of many of these connected up in a complex fabric, along with a lot of other components. The linked design includes none of these.
You are missing the point. Look at it from the consumer's perspective. It will be identical to how they fill up their car today. Nothing new to learn. No change in behaviour. No finding new stations out of the way. No proprietary battery swaps that exist only at specific stations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7xCbmkWKkw
A lot of people like to talk about Tokyo as the next start-up city for some reason.

I love Tokyo, but I imagine places like Shanghai or Shenzen to be much better. Cheaper cost of living, better economic environment (that is, despite the recent crack, China is still growing their economy tremendously)

When I went to an embassy networking event in Shanghai there were plenty of people starting new business or new offices, but a networking event in Tokyo for the same country could only muster people who worked for the big old companies for a long time.
Does it seem feasible to you to have every single published book checked against every other single published book and then to hire a whole department to handle disputes?

As the other commenter has mentioned, see how well that worked out for Youtube? People all over the Internet blame Google for the abuse of process that goes, ignoring the fact they have no choice in the matter.
I taught my wife to count this way. She is a teacher and 31 is about as big as a class gets at her school, so she can count her kids as they come in and still carry her books or her laptop etc. Its quite a simple pattern once you get then hang of it. She can just advance the count without thinking and then look at her hand and work out what she is up to.

I'd suggest inverting the numbers so that your thumb is 1, your index finger 2, you middle 4, etc. That way your more dexterous fingers do the fast movements of 1's, and 2s and 4s while your slower ring and pinky count up in 8 and 16s.

It really can be rather handy.

I find the most useful times is when you think of your hands as two five bit registers... when you need to count two things at once.
Thanks for writing this. It roughly describes my own experiences. I managed to pull out of my own spiral primarily because the love of my life didn't leave my side, and because I continued to feel hope and the possibility for change. And I worked my butt off to get out of the hole.

The hopelessness and loneliness and anxiety came first, though. Heavy knocks of life, indeed.
As with most typefaces, i fail to see how this is better than Comic Sans.
This is not a new way of looking at addiction. In fact, it's the OLD way.

Animal models clearly show compulsive behavior, and through various techniques scientists can modulate that behavior. As far as I care, that's how we roughly define a disease.

No, he's right, it's not a disease in the sense of "[patients listen to your doctor and take your medicine]" but that's always the case with mental disorder.
Similar to what other providers of original content do, e.g. Netflix.

I wonder, if local cache setups would have different impact on jurisdiction, taxes and such. Google is known to always say you deal with Ireland, e.g. outside of the US but what if the cache is local?
This is about human error, not malfeasance. A more detailed explanation is in this news report.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/repo...
>The similarity to 2 coins is: if i have a 1972 coin and a 1973 coin, and give one to you randomly, then you go a million light years away and look at your coin and find you have the 1973 coin, you will know I have the 1972 coin. Although this is only a simplified analogy of entanglement the important point is that the state was prepared before we separated, and no information has been communicated. When you try to understand this in terms of classical physics, it's weird.

If that was the case (the coin analogy) it would be perfectly understandable by classical physics.

In fact it wouldn't even need physics to understand it, just common sense.

If that was the case there wouldn't be any EPR paradox etc.

The coin analogy is very misleading in this way -- and doesn't convey the problems physicists have had with explaining this phenomenon.
I concur -> In computer programming, homoiconicity (from the Greek words homo meaning the same and icon meaning representation) is a property of some programming languages in which the program structure is similar to its syntax, and therefore the program's internal representation can be inferred by reading the text's layout. Wiki
I'm always online. At home, my desktop runs 24/7. At work, my desktop runs 24/7. My phone is in my pocket, unless it's in my hand or on the table next to my bed.

But XMPP is not an emergency contact protocol. If I miss something, oh well.

If you needed me in realtime, there's a cellphone number which will do that. For anything else, I will possibly see your message (XMPP, IRC, Slack) or I will definitely eventually see your message (email).
The Nissan Leaf takes 8 hours to recharge.

I just don't understand how electric cars scale out to all consumers given the housing situation. There would need to be an electric charging unit on every parking spot. Is this logistically practical ?
MySQL on Mesos: today's database meets tomorrow's datacenter – Mesosphere
Yeah in that angle addiction is mostly a political or social term.

I wonder if psychology really accounts how society can be oppressive for certain people who can't integrate properly because of their education.
Well, even if I don't drive a car personally, I would still like to own one, to keep it personal. Sure, you could order one and it would pick you up, but then you are sitting in a seat that thousands of other people sat in. You can't leave any of your things in the storage spaces, because tomorrow you might get a different car. There's also the factor of hygiene that puts me off buses and taxis.

And they would make two cars because I would need one vehicle to go to work,and another to take my stuff over the weekend - rather than one vehicle which does both.
I don't see how you can claim that the idea of wave function collapse here is a misunderstanding.

The mathematical meaning of the statement "two things are entangled" is that you cannot factor the states into the product of two separate quantities. So there is only one equation for the two particles. So once you "collapse" this for one particle (whether or not collapse is a physical action) it is by necessity collapsed for the other particle, because there is no other state that could not be collapsed.
As a retro-computing geek who had an early contact with IBM 3278 terminals, I am very fond of their font. So much, in fact, I recreated it based on earlier bitmaps that trace their history back to a student who copied it pixel by pixel from a real terminal. May not be your piece of cake, but you can try it:

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

When I can't use it, Terminus is a favorite. A long time ago I added a central dot to Luxi Mono's 0 and used it as my terminal font for a long time.
Did you even read what I wrote, or follow the sources? Hydrogen pumping is absolutely not identical to how people fill up their cars today. And you can't simply retrofit a standard gas station to pump hydrogen: you need to build an entirely new facility. Just like a battery-swap station, except much more expensive (and therefore rarer and further out of the way).

If you could simply replace gasoline with hydrogen, then your arguments might have some merit (although it still wouldn't be "clean" by any real measure). But you can't, and therefore your arguments don't.
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Mars is sexy, Moon is practical.
I work at a young startup based in Brussels, Belgium and we're looking at a good scaling solution. Our current services rely on MySQL quite heavily and Mesosphere DCOS on AWS seemed like a great option – although I was quite surprised to hear that running a persistent data-storage like MySQL on Mesos was a bit of a soup.

It turns out that the issue is on its way to be solved, but that doesn't solve our problem – we've currently hit high system usage and we're looking to migrate onto a more scalable architecture within the next month.

What I'd really like to discuss is:
– Mesos has native support for Cassandra. Is it advisable to migrate from MySQL to Cassandra? What are the costs for such a migration.
– By when is Mysos expected to arrive?
– Is there another way to run MySQL on Mesos? What are the most secure and scalable strategies?

Thanks.
Some of us grew up with the Brain Puzzler.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BXFN4E
Who cares about maximum torque ? Is the best selling car in the world a sports car ? No. It's a Camry.

We are talking about the future technology of the masses here.

And yes car companies can make normal looking hydrogen cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex09fldnr1E
Thomas Szasz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj7GmeSAxXo
A while back on HN someone linked to "Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It" [1] and "Here’s What I’ve Finally Concluded About 12-Step Programs" [2], which argues that many of the ways in which we try to treat addiction just make things worse, e.g. by recommending that a former alcoholic never again has a drink, you're actually making it more likely that when they do snap, they will not have learned to keep things under control and they'll probably feel so guilty about drinking that they will hide it from others rather than seek help.

I'm really not qualified to argue one way or another, but I find the idea intriguing.

[1] http://www.substance.com/most-people-with-addiction-simply-g...

[2] http://www.substance.com/heres-what-ive-finally-concluded-ab...
I don't get the "smart grid" buffer argument why would anyonce cycle their car battery (and hence reducing its lifespan) for little to no financial gain
> Some however are nice, like the parenthesis placement

I see the parentheses as problematic on their own. When I read the functions that don't have any arguments, it looks like they have one space character within the parentheses!
There's Lake Placid or the 1000 islands. Once upon a time (1870's to WWI-ish), presidents and influential people used to come to the 1000 islands for the summer. If you like fall leaves, October here is like no other. Do not stay past halloween; it gets cold fast. You don't want to be here in the winter, unless you like snowmobiling. There's better skiing in places with less extreme weather (or so I'm told).
BTW, photo in the linked article was made from the top of this 2500-place 3-story-high bicycle parking structure at the Amsterdam Central train station:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fietsflat

edit: grammar
Right. Eventually uranium 238 decays down to non-radioactive lead. http://www.ccnr.org/decay_U238.html
The levy for "taking money from oil producers" does not exist. What the OP is probably referring to is the phasing out of the roundabout renewables' subsidy mechanism whereby renewable energy suppliers received tradable Climate Change Levy Exemption certificates which power consumers could purchase to claim tax breaks against the "Climate Change Levy".
But that's not a Mercedes Benz, it's a Smart. Same as BMW purchased Mini.

You don't "pollute" your brand with cheaper products, once you're established like MB and BMW are.
Every time I read something on quantum theory I can't help but notice how close to notion of magic it feels like. And I've studied physics in college.

Some time ago I thought how strange these all would look to someone who had no knowledge in physics at all. But then I got it: two particles in different galaxies being entangled is not much different from calling someone on the other side of the globe using a cellphone if you don't have prior knowledge/beliefes about either.
It took quite a long time for the UK phone system to be converted to support tone dialing everywhere so there were still places in the UK where pulse dialing was required. The last Strowger exchange, where the pulses directly stepped the switches, was only taken out of service in 1995.

There were phones out there that had a keypad but only supported pulse dialing too; if I remember correctly, my parents had one when I was a kid.
With compile time checking that is already there + Dialyzer, you basically have the whole 'code correctness' side of static typing? Right?
Except in capitalism no. You are not obliged to give anybody anything for free.
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Could you clarify / source / double-check that?

If you've got an electric drivetrain, adding a mechanical drivetrain: gearbox, driveshaft, differential, and powered axles, is a lot of additional weight. Powering a generator and transmitting power via electricity to the electric motors you've already got in the wheels makes a lot more sense.
Android- how to launch lync 2013 from myapp
Hi
I have a use case where I need to launch the Lync application conversation window from my application.
I need to start a Conversation Window with the emailID i provide in the intent.
my code :-
if (lyncDoesExist()) {

Uri lyncUri = Uri.parse("lync://aaa.bbb@ccc.com");
Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);

myIntent.setData(lyncUri);
myIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
startActivity(myIntent);

}

This just starts the HubActivity ( the Lync application) .
It doesnot start the ConversationWindowActivity (the chat window of the specific email id that I passed)
Am I missing anything in the code above ? I need to open the conversation window.
FYI - I also tried using Uri lyncUri = Uri.parse("sip:aaa.bbb@ccc.com"); but android says no activity found to handle the request.
Kindly help . I need this urgently.

Thanks,
Animesh.