skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr: Showing the scale of the solar system using household objects. An 8" sphere or ball as the sun, a peppercorn as the Earth (another as Venus), other objects for the other planets, all set out a given number of paces from the sun, e.g., 10 for Mercury.
That pretty much validates their motivation.
Its a useful technique, to never describe your protagonist in a book. Allows the reader to customize, imagine themselves in the role, to really identify. I know 'Twilight' is famous for Bella's blank aspect. Also an old childrens' book "Harris and me" had a main character that not only was never described; they never had a name.
That deal is one of the most interesting, as it seems they've locked up not just streaming exclusivity, but all subscription services, meaning no HBO
The trick is to pick the right sorts of projects for the top of the list. The ideal sorts of things have two characteristics, First, they seem to have clear deadlines (but really don’t). Second, they seem awfully important (but really aren’t).

I did this for years. #1 on my list was proving Fermat's Last Theorem. While I didn't do that, I got a thousand other things done.

Alas, someone else has proved Fermat's Last Theorem and now my task list looks like everyone else's.
Add the five circles to it in the spiral and you get 6OOOOO.
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Dockerizing Python stack and it didn’t benefit that much
Exact same thing I've felt. I've met a number of founders and while there are definitely the ones who had nothing but smarts and a strong degree, the majority had this idea that if things don't work out, there's family to back them up.
Or a company that has dishonesty baked into its product and its culture, continues to lie about its user metrics.
Probably submitters are inspired by Oliver Sacks' death.
I must admit, he totally got me with watch this space. Bookmarked for later. I wonder how honest the security researchers will be?
I'd also love to see the same survey replicated with those who exploit the vulnerabilities they find.... Those may not be as honest
If I simplify this & other news to the statement, “our GPUs are Turing-complete”, then one question seems to follow logically: When will our CPUs become multi-core on the scale of a GPU? Or is that a stupid question that only looks logical?
Other commenters and myself feel we have low visualization ability but do well on those tests. In fact, at one point for me they were significantly my best area in a battery of similar IQ-like tests.
> This was a couple of years ago, but I wouldn't trust it unless they have completely rewritten it since then.

The software hasn't been updated since May 2011, when they released version 3.16.
A problem; deserves attention. Yet I can't help but believe the article's title image was fake; that lighter looks clean and unworn. Was the image staged? The photographer is an artist after all. I know he claimed it was all unmodified. I'm just not buying it.
I think I have the same problem.

For example I knew that I want to look for a new room. I couldn't start it because I did not know how much time it would take. This makes it really hard to start.

When I finally started I just said that I'll do it until 8 pm or something. This makes it easy to not stop cause "oh it's only 30 minutes I have to do this then I can go take a shower".

This is why I think techniques like pomodoro can really help someone. It's just hard to start something, and more you do it, more you know what's left. Usually this stops the fear for me.
The first customers are often people you know well, who need the product. I.E connections.
I agree completely.

I also always laugh at those suckers standing in line at the grocery store. The customer experience of just picking out my Mountain Dew and ice cream sandwich and just walking straight out of the store without paying -- it's cheap, it's easy. You don't have to deal with pesky middle-men trying to take their cut. Astonishing.

Such comfort.
More standardized testing will mean more parents pushing their kids into test prep.
Exactly; people are not allowed to be homophobic, misogynist racists and keep their responsible public job. I celebrate the internet for revealing the ugly side of imposters, who propose to rule us (politically or economically) yet are fundamentally unsuited to the task. Especially on the eve of a new age of human rights.
There are other approaches that don't involve self-deception but instead work on your intuition about what you're best equipped to deal with at the time...

http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2015/5/21/the-final-...
That's what I was thinking as well. This whole thing could be just a PR move full of lies.

In case this news is genuine...I guess it's true that any publicity is good publicity.
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It's hard to start business in france because of the regulatory bs.

Even trying to register a company is a right pain.
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What are the best ways/techniques you can use to motivate yourself? When desired results are not coming?
Just point me to the 'pirate solution' that can sustainably produce and deliver original content.
She had symptoms, but how did he verify her claim that she felt them in the presence of electrical/wifi?

I wouldn't presume to say it's not possible to be sensitive to electrical emissions. I would like to know exactly how he made the determination that the woman actually felt symptoms that were only present if there were actually emissions. Some method where the emissions were covertly and randomly toggled on and off.

It seems to me that if she can't tell when the emissions are present, it may point to an underlying psychological problem.
Yup, Rails had a similar problem back in 1.0 days where it had a sequential migration number.

Then it moved to essentially date formatted migration names in 2.0 and that solved that.

Your manifest idea seems interesting, have to remember that one...
Oh, yeah. It's not like there aren't half a dozen programs that will grab schedules and listings for you and even program a pcdvr.
Why blacks on every continent they are (talking now mostly about the US, Africa and Europe) statistically earn less, perform worse in school and commit more crime per capita than white/asians? Even with the sometimes absurd amount of affirmitive action and tax money pumped into social programs directed at them? Why I never seen such problems with east asian immigrants?
I take it as more positive than normative.

In other words: here is a description of how it turns out I get (certain) things done; and not: here is a recipe for getting things done.

(It occurred to me to post it this morning because I spent half an hour making a 'retina'/hi-dpi version of the HN voting arrow and emailing it in, on the off-chance it might get used, in preference to about 14 more pressing tasks).
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"Why would a person fleeing a war zone leave behind their smartphone? "

Quite a first world question.
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"mainly built around in-app-purchase mechanics"

In-app-purchase mechanics is awesome for Amazon delivering stuff to my house, listening to music, watching videos, kickstarter type support. As the root of atari2600 level gaming experiences, it doesn't work well. Once you condition people to sit on the couch and spend small amounts of money online, don't be surprised when they spend it on movies, music, pr0n, amazon stuff, instead of the intended "we wrapped Frogger in an in-app-purchase skin, now give me my entitled billions".

If I'm sitting on my couch in the mood to blow money on worthless stuff, almost anything I can buy provides better return than IAP games. So in a supply and demand sense either games have to get better (good luck) or cheaper (good luck) or they can collapse down to the point the survivors can do better or cheaper. Or games have to find a way to destroy online paid shopping / video / music.

There is another aspect of free hit where a new tech like mobile gaming gets a free hit... for awhile. Now its not new anymore and they (as an industry) can't survive, well, that's why they'll go away.

Nobody is making money off Pixel Dungeon and its forks. Oh well, good luck stopping them. I think they're a lot of fun.
It is not a public company. So basically, they can say what they like. There is no need for them to prove their numbers (as long it is not advertisement). They probably also lied about their numbers on female members.
This vaguely reminds me of a "restaurant" I ended up at in an industrial area in France while staying near the airport for a flight the next day. The entire place consisted of one wall of frozen foods and another wall of microwaves. Not completely automated but pretty minimal human involvement since you had to microwave your own food.
I'd hazard a guess that, if true in any way (ludicrously unlikely), 99% of these allegedly female accounts might be wives looking for their husbands.
Sadly, it's not anywhere on the page text but the <title> makes it clear: “for learners and educators”

This makes a TON of sense for those groups where someone doesn't spend half of their class time walking people through installing and configuring apps, dealing with whatever weird system customizations they've made, etc. Every time I've helped at a tutorial, that's been a big problem with some people never getting fully up and running in time.

Instead, it's “click this link” and you're actually in the class, with the ability to have pre-canned examples and starting points ready to go without also having to cover things like version control first.
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true. there was an interesting text posted here once, about how one of the worse things about poverty is that it kills the will to dream big and make plans. when you're scraping by, it's much harder, and any big plan can easily fall through due to bad luck (some unexpected expenses you cannot cover eat up your small savings, e.g., and ironically, since poverty is not healthy, unexpected expenses are more likely).
I could write the exact reverse title for a blog post about my life.

As in everything, you should find the right balance and not too much of one thing (you really should do as I say not as I do ;-).
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This is the aspect that absolutely boggles -- the company has provably lied time and time again. They've lied about markets, metrics, and the composition of their userbase.

There is no honor among thieves, the saying goes, and you can't expect an adultery site to show great morals.

Yet it keeps getting reported as if it were truth. There was one single news group that actually basically said "Yeah...sure...", but everyone else just went with it as a statement of fact.

The company has no credibility at all.
Seems that screen/window resolution is an important factor.
No, you didn't.
A person's life is their responsibility. The only thing disingenuous is believing that is not so. A person brings shame upon themselves when they blame others for lack, instead of choosing to create for themselves.

Your fancy words conceal an illogicality of thought. Clear your thought, before you clothe it in fancy words, otherwise you get confused. Stopping making excuses and tolerating that from others, is the way of genuine concern for helping others improve.

Believing differently is your choice, and it won't work. Think more before you write more.
I tend to think of my procrastination not as avoiding important work, but work that is of unknown difficulty. If I don't know how hard something is to do, then I can't predict how long it would take. I could budget 15 minutes for it and it could end up taking 4 hours.

That so very rarely ever actually happens, but that is the feeling I get when I stare at my TODO list. The solution is often to create a task just for analyzing the complexity of another task, to be able to break it up into sub tasks.

For example: "do taxes" might be broken into "find receipts", "print forms", "fill out form 1 worksheet", "complete form 1", "mail form 1", etc. The more detailed I can get it, the more space it takes in the TODO list, the more it blocks out other things, and the more it keeps the TODO list from stagnating--which is an important component of motivation for me.
I havn't heard in a while "hey check out this mobile game". All I hear is about new gaming console games coming out.
It's perhaps an exaggeration to describe them as 'those that can't imagine': Galton noted that inability to visualise was much more prevalent among his colleagues, the scientific men of the day, than among the general public.
Want something more than a year old or a little less than mainstream? Good luck finding an active torrent. Maybe you'll find one with incredible bandwidth where the CD or TV show from a year or two back you seek can download at all instead of sitting stalled at some random percentage.

You seem to be describing the picture of 4 or 5 years back rather than now
GPU's were designed for a problem that is easy to make massively parallel. If we tried to make our CPUs like GPUs we'd end up with something not very useful for most of what we do.
Volansys extends its services with Amazon Echo
Automated homes are more or less a trend. And yes, it is meant to stay in the long run. Apparently, big tech labels like Apple, Google and Amazon are running a close marathon in the automation market. After falling in love with Apple’s Siri, the world is now being increasingly exposed to Amazon’s babe, Alexa.
This is trying to find meaning where there is none. I don't think shading of seeds has any impact on the evolutionary fitness, even if we assume that light is coming in radially which is of course not true at all. Furthermore, even if we make the two (clearly incorrect) assumptions that sunflowers do care about shading of the seeds and that light does come in radially, that does not even constitute a convincing argument that the seeds grow in that pattern. Here is a far more convincing argument along the same lines. Plants care about getting energy. They get energy by absorbing sunlight. Black absorbs the most light. Ergo, plants are black.
If I had to guess, an overwhelming bulk of the signups must be by people who heard about this thorough the negative publicity. They're going to sign up and log in because it's mandatory to view the content. Once they're in, they will search for their friends, colleges and significant other... and then they will never use it again.

I'd like to know how many of those are paid vs un-paid accounts.
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I feel so sad for people who are completely pwned to save a few bucks. The convenience and value of a Netflix account is what is astonishing.
Meanwhile, we wait for AM founder to bend over for the soap.
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From the article:

>>Even for the snipers clever or lucky enough to make the winning bid, this process takes time and energy.

I'd be surprised if most if not all snipes were't automated. I don't think people sit round their PC with their finger on the buy button as the auction counts down.
So which great performer, a pianist for instance, 'made up' for lack of talent?
Right, but I didn't want to complicate the explanation. Only deterministic strategies are allowed, or require both answers to be correct in order to get a reward.
http://volansys.com/volansys-extends-its-services-to-next-ge...
How can people even read this to disagree with it -- wouldn't it be too faded out? o_O
Hopefully the query planner would choose whether or not to use PGStrom for a specific query.

Many interesting queries in normalised databases involve a lot of joins. In a BCNF database most interesting queries use 3 or more joins. Whether or not I believe the microbenchmarks is another thing :)
Learn how to hack drones and robots. You'll have a career.
I do this all the time. I find I have tons of energy to work on projects when I'm putting something else off.

In my experience, the side projects need to have one key trait, they need to be achievable in chunks of a few hours. I don't mind doing work multiple times in a week, but as soon as I'm expected to work on something 5+ hours in a single session I'll switch to do something else. Also, they need to be one off tasks, I don't like repeating myself.

Whilst this may annoy the non-procrastinators, it's just something I've worked out that works for me, though I never gave it a name before. I can still be very productive in short bursts.

To whomever wrote the article, thank you.
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Fascinating. I speak a language from the area that still uses some Hurrian vocabulary, I always imagined these guys are my distant ancestors. Would be cool to actually hear the songs...
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After teenage angst, came a time of value/family fallout for me. At one point, I haven't even been face to face with any of them for a period of almost 2 years. Not that anything was particulary wrong with anyone, mind you. After 100+ hour workweeks slaving for someone else, ending up in ER several times (but still showing up 8AM sharp day afterward), finally burning out, quitting job, breaking up, and living in windowless installation-free underground solid-cement garage for better part of year (life's paraphernalia funded entirely by sale of single iPhone), I've come home.

I cannot even describe what sort of relief I felt having my meals provided for, laundry taken care of, having bed to sleep in, someone to talk to, help to, care for... That was when I figured, given this bare essentials provided by family, I have basically nothing to lose by taking much more risks in life and working on what I care about. I like to think I've instilled that appreciation to my siblings, as well as parents.

Three months after that, I've found investors, moved to freeload in one of their penthouses, while I work in a high-risk field of game development. We'll see how that turns out, but I have no fear - I have family to fall back on.

---

I'm aware not everyone has what I have with my family, but I'm certain many more do not appreciate what they already have.
Oh, come on, this list is still full: http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems

:)

If you need help picking, I'm definitely going to go with P =? NP. That seems likely to keep you busy for a long time....
> Friends! If you find someone trying to criticize your achievement as being "just because you are privileged"...

As the Spartans said to Philip of Macedonia: "If."
I think it can still be very useful for learning and teaching.
They seemed like decent chaps, and decent chaps don't check up on decent chaps to see if they're behaving decently. Furthermore there's no point: if they're honest, it's a waste of time - and if they're not honest you don't find out about it until it's too late anyway.
Its not clickbait. It looks like interesting research on swans, but applicability to drones seems to be "flapping drones" that are hardly common; drones are generally quite smooth.
N.b., I'm the OP. I'm writing a short set of posts on building a small content piece in React, and how it can be evolved to include routing, stores, more flexible architecture and so on. This is the first one, and if you're just getting in to React, I'd love your thoughts on it, and anything you'd like explained further, so I can make sure the follow-up posts cover everything people want unpacked.

Demo of the actual project available here: https://builtvisible.com/history-of-humanity/
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Sigh.

I was hoping you were going for an analogy with self-checkout. That would have neatly and effectively pointed at the missing piece of the puzzle. Instead you went for the cheap moralizing, which can make you feel good but doesn't get anyone any closer to solving the problem.
This was pretty entertaining, altho i always like to see a simple graphic laying out oscillators, LFOs, filters/effects or routing matrix or whatever.

my weak tl;dr, updating the mellotron with everything that musician/hacker knows about MIDI, samplers, sequencers and Eurorack modules.

________

(also recommended, the thread yesterday about MIDI piano looper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149025

____________

also fun, reading about frippertronics, how the flanger effect came to be, and Pink floyd's tape effects

http://www.kitrae.net/music/Music_mp3_DSOTM.html (you can google the first 2
When/If HP finish the machine with 2500 cores, that will basically result in the CPU becoming as parallel as GPU's.
I can't understand how people fail to comprehend that not even 20 years ago homosexuality was in the same bucket as racism: it was immoral and it was wrong. In many places around the world it's still one-in-the-same (if not worse: in some places it's punishable by death).

The only way we got to where we are today is by allowing people to believe "the ugly things" that they believe, to be "the ugly things" that they are - so long as they never hurt anyone.

> revealing

Yet you still use that word. These people often outright declare that they have a primitive moral ground, there is nothing to reveal. Unlike the pretenders on the internet that you praise who, in absolutely no different way, are utterly and convincingly prejudiced to everyone but themselves. With an attitude like theirs, if the first homosexual was born today, they'd never have a chance are fair and equal rights.

> Especially on the eve of a new age of human rights.

This is nothing new. It has been a long and slow journey made by people who can accept that not everyone believes or values the same things; that not everyone's beliefs are the same color of grey as theirs.

Is it so hard to discern the difference between agreeing with someone and accepting someone?
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Hulu only has commercials on their second-run (day-after-air) content from broadcast sources. They have a substantial back catalogue of stuff that doesn't include said commercials.

I get why they have commercials: a $10/mo. service that provides shows the day after they air would devalue that content too much without commercials and would be uncompetitive when pricing to exclude them. For a comparison: a season pass for the newest season of Doctor Who (S9) on iTunes/Amazon Instant costs around $31 (it happens to be a featured show on iTunes), or about $2.58 per episode. It does not include commercials, and can be cached and viewed offline, and is available the day after it airs. After three episodes, you've just about met the budget for a full month of Hulu Plus.
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They could have run control experiments where they didn't actually start the reaction and just looked at how much background polymer to expect from contamination. Of course, if there's a lot it would drown out any signal they got in the actual experiments, but if you get an order of magnitude more polymer then you can be confident you're not seeing an artifact.
Does the machine share the same memory layout/architecture as a GPU (I don't know each one). Thanks.
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THIS. So much this.
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I think this should be renamed "Why many people are unhappy" - this isn't completely a trait of a millenial.
> "I'm now further from where I started, than where I started was from where you started. So if you couldn't even make it from where you started to where I started, how do you expect that you could have made it from where I started to where I am now?"

That is so ridiculously built on false premises that I don't even know where to start. But for starters, you are assuming that the 'effort' (since that's all you think it takes) to get from, say $10K to $100K, is exactly equivalent to the effort to get from $100K to $190K, or whatever. Unlikely to be true.
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