skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peugeot Fractal concept revealed
Sounds interesting, I'll send you an email. German or English?
That's true for McDonald's, but certainly not the other three.
Well this gave me a good laugh.

Brilliant essays by John Perry, defending yet more life choices
generally seen as faults.
The worst limitation of A/B testing is that it's not producing anything better than a local maxima. Nature does indeed work like that, but it took millions of years along with random mutations and we don't have that much time. And if in our thinking process we would have relied on optimization algorithms favoring the local maxima, then Jazz wouldn't have been produced, amongst others.
As a user, I'm pro-getting rid of interstitial ads on mobile. But just for dissenting opinion, this definitely feels monopolistic.

"Stay on the native web so we can sell more ads!"

Maybe it's mutually beneficial for Google and its search users, but this is certainly the argument that's going to come from folks who are about to lose a ton of app downloads.

http://searchengineland.com/google-goes-app-interstitial-pro...
To play the devil's advocate, if it's coming at all, I'd rather it be halfway through the article than right as I load the page. Presumably if I've read half an article, I'm at least partially interested in what's on their site. Nautilius seems to do an embedded newsletter ad halfway through the article, no pop up, just enter your email if you're interested or keep reading. Very happy about this (though I still didn't subscribe).
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The specific hurdle mentioned in the article is that they only live in the tropics. However they do mention research looking at using wood ants to protect Maize or to control winter moths in temperate regions.
That was my experience. If you don't use pesticides spiders and ladybird beetles will come along and eat the aphids... unless the ants are protecting them. I ended up having to put tanglefoot around the base of all my trees.
> it's hard to dislike something you actually got to know, because knowing requires some sort of empathy.

I can't say that I agree. I don't see why dislike has to be irrational.

> You can list all the problems with something you know, and say why it's not as good as it could be, etc., but if you declare that you "hate" it whole, it's a sign you don't know much about it.

It's not one or the other. That list of "all the problems with something you know" is an explanation for why you dislike that something.
Yeah, that doesn't sound good!
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[2] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0823a136-0ead-11e5-9ae0-00144...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-04/wall-stree...

[4] http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/06/09/symbiont-blockchain...
Games are stories, things to explore, played by people who add their own commentary to it. That's interesting to me. Do you think an adventure movie is boring because you're merely watching a person going on an adventure, rather than doing it yourself?

Other games are competitive and require skill, and the way people play them, the tactics and strategies used, and the commentary, that's also interesting to me. Do you think sports (from a 'sport' like poker, to say football) are boring? Or say coding challenges?

I can get behind the idea that you prefer to play yourself, but can you not imagine (any reasons) that also watching games be played to many is not like watching paint dry, at all?
> a phpBB forum, meaning I won't find what I'm looking for anyway.

I'll have to disagree on this point. There are a lot of phpBB forums out there, and their quality and content varies widely as the Internet itself. Many of them, esp. some of the long-established ones, are invaluable sources for all sorts of arcana. Wikipedia doesn't even begin to touch the kinds of obscure practical knowledge embedded in the "dark web" of phpBB forums. There are a lot of Google searches for which a single post by some domain expert is the top result, many of which in old, old forum software of some sort, usually phpBB.

FWIW, I've never once run into a Discourse forum in the wild, i.e. via a web search, site link, etc.
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I remember reading a blog post by a mobile dev manager saying that it was was shocking that the iPhone didn't support J2ME and that Apple would inevitably be forced to support it by market realities. Good times.
But claiming someone has privilege isn't a value judgement on the person, or a sin. Its not claiming they did anything wrong, or that its their fault. I'm not sure why people are so offended when others point out their privilege. Saying someone has privilege is just pointing out the state of the world, it isn't a judgment.

People without food allergies have privilege in that they don't have to constantly worry whether what they eat will kill them. The people with privilege often just don't have to think about or deal with stuff that those without do.
> What I did manage though was a means of getting on to any computer anywhere in the world even if it was totally air gapped and owned by someone that did not speak English. Even better, in most cases this would take seconds from a standing start.

I'm curious - how did you do this?
Yeah, I said Florida and California....

Anyways the weaver Ant is endemic to places that are not just the tropics, they've been used on citrus plants in China since 400 AD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_ant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee
EDIT3: 233/114 should be 233/144, and it's off by ~10^{-5}
U.S. Musician banned from UK under antiterrorism laws
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Relevant:

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Unnecessary? Reference from Emacs Lisp Manual
Technologies from Daala, Thor, VP10 and contributions from other participants in the group will all be combined to essentially make one uber codec.

Since Thor was released Daala already started incorporating parts of it that made sense (and vice versa for Thor). So this will just expand that pattern.
When a company is capable of replicating those black-box functions as an algorithm or business process, then it will be ready to launch the era of automated design.

Until then, the best known way to design something nice is to hire a talented designer and trust their instincts.
Google Maps on the iPhone really is awful. Sometimes you swipe to close something, sometimes you click a teeny tiny little x, sometimes you click a left arrow as in going back.
"All this ads liquidity risk which in turn reduces the value of the infrastructure."

Completely agree, and here's what's especially interesting about that comment: in the "traditional" (non-Bitcoin/ripple/etc) finance world, it takes an even SMALLER minority to block transactions.

From the perspective of "how many people do you need to piss off before you cease to have liquidity", the worst system on the planet is ye old bank.
"Illness is often caused by tiny lifeforms, invisible to the naked eye"

I think this is the most important thing to learn, because it would spare the future from a lot of suffering and give future people leisure time to think about the world and discover things for themselves. However, I don't like that this is a bit of knowledge that doesn't easily allow humans to verify it.

Instead, I would tell them that one can see many tiny things some of which make us ill, but not the tiniest of them, by staring through a tiny water droplet.

Item #2 would, I think, be a statement on the periodic table that can easily be verified using minimal technology, again with a hint that there are even smaller things.
And some HNers say that the right to be forgotten isn't justifiable.
Should I Use Signed or Unsigned Ints? (Part 2)
If anyone tries to make that argument, the counter will be simple: "We want developers to make native apps! That's why we're making App Indexing a thing."

There's definitely some advantage to keeping people on the web, since App Indexing requires buy-in from content producers, but, if browsers start truly losing to native apps, Google are prepared.

https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/
That barely qualifies imo. The plugin mechanism is just prototypical inheritance - you're just adding methods to a prototype, nothing more.
Unless you have access to a DOE-grade supercomputer :) good interview here w/ one of the pioneers of Large Eddy Simulation for turbulence physics:

http://www.cascadetechnologies.com/pioneering-large-eddy-sim...
Unless you have an aphid infestation. Here in Northern California ants farm aphids and are damn good at it. Your plants will have aphids all over them.
maybe they should punish their fucking AdX buyers that redirect people to the app stores for a change

note: i work for a publisher and when an app store redirect comes through AdX or AppNexus and someone makes a complaint it is one of the worst, most helpless feelings. this is why people use adblock and there is nothing we can do because the networks are, still, an important part of our entire revenue stream
At least in Australia, the existing equivalent case study is Cane Toads, which didn't turn out so well. I can understand why people may be hesitant to try with ants.
You have to trust someone to build trusted chain. Trusted CA roots from SSL are good practical choice IMO. May be NSA or China government theoretically could crack that setup, but for other adversaries it would be much harder.
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I can't seem to get it installed on windows 8.1... The lwip package in one of the other dependencies fails to build :( sad day
People that want to avoid recruiters should just move to Brazil.

I am in Brazil, and I accept any tech job that people offer, even if someone offered me to work with MUMPS I would accept (it is better than going hungry at least...)

But I get one or two recruiter calls (as in, phone calls! not e-mail) per year, and usually it is useless (the last one they told me some bullshit about their process needing adjustment and that they would call me later and they never did... another one before that complained I was not experienced enough, but wanted something that is almost impossible to find anyway...)
Well... it might help, sometimes.

I think about something like Stokes' theorem: The integral of a function over the boundary of a manifold is equal to the integral of the derivative of the function over the interior of the manifold. But in practice, one integral or the other is often easier to do; that means that the theorem has the practical effect of letting you transform some hard problems into equivalent but easier problems.

But note well that I said "some problems". There are many problems that this won't help with. There are others where the problem you're trying to solve is the easier one, and applying the theorem turns it into a harder problem.

I suspect (but do not know) that the Yoneda Lemma is similar. It can sometimes give you a simpler way of looking at a problem. But just sometimes. Sometimes the Haskell/ML view is the easiest way to solve the problem you have. And sometimes it's not.
If you think that's what 'for programmers' means, then lol
Back in the old days, we'd have labs of computers with the software for the course pre-installed. Now that everyone has their own computer, I guess that doesn't make sense anymore, but software installation is still a problem.
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That is fascinating, thanks for sharing. I had no idea the NYC subway was being run by a 100 year old electro-mechanical system.
Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea
Even if you include the ipad, it's still not true. The top 3 sellers nowadays have about 50% of the PC marketshare, and they're still IBM(but now called lenovo), HP and Dell. That's around million units - well in excess of ipad sales (mac's don't really make a dent). If you took the top 5...

And I don't think it's really reasonable to include tablets at all. The motivation is that they're a new, unforeseen development? But then you really should be including android tablets in those numbers too; and those happen to be sold primarily by other vendors.

At the end of the day, it's clear that tablets aren't laptops, nor do they look like they really replace laptops (especially not the ipad - you could quibble about microsoft's offerings, but those haven't been too successful yet.)

The heart of the prediction was that apple would come to dominate the laptop business. Clearly, it has not. It's still mostly windows-vendors. If you include tablets, apple does better, but there too it's a minority market share; android dominates.
Florida, maybe. California isn't all that 'tropical' in terms of its climate - it's mostly way too dry for that, and the wet portions along the north coast are too cold to be tropical.
This is, in fact, how I knew that one of my trees had an aphid infestation.
i always thought that domesticating insects would be a great boon for humanity. and/or, why did we stop at honeybees and silk-worms? termites for bio-reclamation, locusts for invasive plant control, dragonflies for extermination of mosquitoes, cockroaches for subterranean telemetry.. (probably avoiding preying-mantises out of a sense of 'what could possibly go wrong?')
The Great Equalizer indeed...
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> So while they might champion for the open web in cases like these, it's obvious that the only thing they really care about is their bottom line and not paying license fees on video formats.

So? Netflix and Google are the two biggest online video players. Without them, adoption is going to be pretty pathetic. You want to start excluding people because of perceived (or actual) motivations?
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Mocha.jl: Deep Learning for Julia
This is a good point. Humans have a long history of deliberately introducing invasive species to control pests, and it almost always ends in disaster.
Uber is preparing for this by building one of the best robotics divisions in the world, be careful what you wish for Uber drivers, you may just quicken your obsolescence
Companies definitely look for things that serve themselves. But they are not binary "all good" and "all bad." Those companies have also contributed open technologies as well. And this codec would have nothing in it inherently DRM or "closing."

If successful this will be good for all of us, not just good for them and bad for us.
The correct answer is that features like push notifications should be opt-in in the browser. Too many of these features exploit the general ignorance of users.

> If a browser feature is annoying you, the correct approach would be to disable that feature in the browser.

Yet when some of us shut off Javascript - a feature that is often annoying, enables many kinds of tracking, and occasionally creates serious security problems - half of HN freaks out. Given that Javascript is necessary for many types of surveillance-as-a-business-model, hostility to the idea of disabling javascript is expected.

Push notifications are still a newer feature, but once that feature becomes entrenched enough that some people's profit depends on the feature, disabling push notifications in the client will be regarded with similar hostility.
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