skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earth was a sealed environment, but it was also completely sterile. Exposing the experiments to a large amount of cells of any kind would totally distort their results.
>how to convert queries to use the GPU as its best, a document which would not require its reader to be a GPU geek nor a Postgresql expert

Uh, isn't this like asking "how do I do calculus without being a calculus geek"? I mean it's specialized - how do you get around being a "GPU geek" if you're coding for a GPU "at its best"?
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> I would pay much more if I could have a single place to look for content

You're describing the traditional pay-TV model in an on-demand world. Every industrialized nation has one.
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Grasswire has been submitted in the past, but it's very different now:

It used to be a way for people to come together and fact check social media, and we had a pretty monolithic system for how that would work.

Now it's a very different, more holistic approach: Quite literally a news source anyone can edit (http://grasswire.com) powered by a newsroom that anyone can join (http://newsroom.grasswire.com).

We have a really strong community of citizen journalists, as well as two full-time journalists to oversee everything and make sure everything is done properly. It works really well: I'm really excited about the combination of diversity and leadership.

And most of all I'm excited that I don't have to read news that I know is wrong anymore without the power to do anything about it.
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I've heard about these out of body experiences frequently (a roommate in college was a really smart talented guy named Pete Sanders who has now written books and been on television talking about some of these things, see for example, http://www.freesoul.net). Yet, I remain skeptical.

Seeing a scene from an unusual perspective would require reception of the light wave at a location other than ones body. Are there disembodied eyes, floating above the room looking down? If there are why can't those in the room see these floating eyes? If they can't be seen, then we know that the eyes aren't absorbing or refracting any light. It the floating eyes do refract any light, necessary to focus on anything, then from high school physics we know that there will be refections at the interface between the materials of different indices of refraction. These reflections would be visible by outside observers in the room. Invisible float eyes that nevertheless can see without absorbing light. How is this supposed to be working? The floating, the seeing, the invisibility, the transmission of information to the eyes' owner, all require complex, supernatural, to date undiscovered phenomena that would invalidate not only the results of many scientific discoveries but important, fundamental science. Or ... it could just be a dream.
I'm a big procrastinator, but I finally found a way to get around it. Instead of thinking about the big tasks, I just allot myself a fixed amount of time that I'll be doing something, work on it steadily during that time, and quit at the end regardless of the state it's in. For some reason, it really makes it easier to face big important projects if I just say "I'm going to spend 8 hours putting up siding today, then I'm done" as opposed to "I need to get that siding put up..." I've used that trick to get tons of stuff done around my house as well as to write a book (which hasn't been published yet because I've been putting it off, so I guess there's still room for improvement).
Not to mention... John Rogers' research group already did implantable optogenetic stimulators with wireless control and telemetry -- reported in the popular tech press [1] and in the journal Science [2]. The real key contribution for the Stanford team seems to be the wireless power transfer, which is fairly limited by their specialized antenna.

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/513446/wireless-micro-l...

[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1232437

Better Photo: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/211/F1.large.jpg
Which raises the question: why not extend the time after the last bid that raises the price? Is this not how regular auctions function?

Another idea is: why doesn't eBay write their own bots for users to use, and call it a "bidding strategy"?
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If they ever said that fewer than 95% of female "members" were really prostitutes who wanted to advertise online, then yes, they lied about numbers on female members. It's easier for a website to stay open when claiming to cater to "cheating" than when truthfully admitting to cater to prostitution.
By definition, that's not piracy, that's content production.

The real answer to your real question is probably Patreon. Usually you can't "pirate" the results of Patreon because they're freely released anyhow. Kickstarter to a lesser extent, but that site seems less focused on "content" production and more on "thing" production. (Yes, there is a lot of "content" being done there, but I'm yet to see even a single such thing go really viral and big.)
> Now after ten years mostly working in large companies, I have some savings which will allow me to last two years in case I lose my job.

After 10 years of being a software engineer you should have enough to retire forever (albeit in some third world country).
Maslow says that the layers overlap and that one does not need 100% of a lower level before one starts reaching for higher layer.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm

Degree of relative satisfaction. -- So far, our theoretical discussion may have given the impression that these five sets of needs are somehow in a step-wise, all-or-none relationships to each other. We have spoken in such terms as the following: "If one need is satisfied, then another emerges." This statement might give the false impression that a need must be satisfied 100 per cent before the next need emerges. In actual fact, most members of our society who are normal, are partially satisfied in all their basic needs and partially unsatisfied in all their basic needs at the same time.
Documentation now available on the GitHub page :)
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This certainly seems to have the potential to be a game-changer. One added benefit might be the circulation of existing content across regional languages - currently the only way for a Bengali to read Malayali material is if it translated in English, and so much gets lost in translation!
I think what you're describing is something similar to pomodoro technique (http://pomodorotechnique.com/), only on bigger scale (8 hours at once). Maybe you will find it useful.
Vivek Pani, CTO of Reverie, the company mentioned in the post, will be following this post to answer any technical questions developers may have. So fire away!
I understand and respect your point of view, but I disagree.

> "maybe they have a very legitimately pressing reason in their life to do so today."

From the article:

> Here’s why I finally switched from ‘allowed unless by request’ to ‘banned unless required’.

If people have more pressing things to do, they can also avoid attending the class. This is what time management is about and it has nothing to do with technology. Maybe the students sitting far in the back of class don't learn as effectively as they could as a consequence of your policy.

Saying the material should be more engaging is quite perturbing: students are not children anymore and can focus on a material without being given candies. The content of course is generally sufficiently interesting by itself: after all, why study if you have no interest for the subject?
> which can make you feel good but doesn't get anyone any closer to solving the problem

That does a better job of describing piracy.
There's a link on the bottom of the Wikipedia article - A Hurrian Cult Song from Ancient Ugarit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZatnTPhYWc
Even that varies based on your ability to find an alternative. If, say, you're a well-spoken geeky-looking white guy with a degree from a decent school, the worst-case scenario from a complete meltdown is something like “I took a job one cube over from Dilbert at <big corp> which has trouble keeping developers”.

The further you deviate from that (not fluent in the right language, from the wrong minority/gender, self-taught, etc.) the more reasonable it is to question how a failure will impact your ability to get jobs at your level or even stay in the field.
From a disadvantaged family (no initial savings) and perhaps student loans (ill-advised, but not uncommon) -- it's not unthinkable that he hasn't hit "soft retire" numbers after 10 years.

But your sentiment is correct: If you're debt-free, you should be able to "soft retire" after 10 years as a software engineer in today's markets.
> Being a fake victim doesn't work

What if you're a real victim, I wonder? What works then?
I picked contraception and melatonin on purpose because they illustrate two ways to get around Algernon's argument, which is the justification behind the "no free lunch" heuristic in nootropics.

http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics
Google Test requires you to write your tests in C++ rather than C; so there was times I just could not use it.
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The article claims that the one big determining factor for a successful relationship is The Other Person. This is of course nonsense. Yes, the other person is one of the two big factors. The other is you. The article treats people as passive, unchanging objects, but that isn't true. You can work to make a relationship work. In fact, you have to work to make it work.

I'm convinced that there's no such thing as a magical combination of two people resulting in a perfect, no fuss, maintenance-free relationship. And I think it's possible to make any relationship with a random stranger work as long as both people are willing to work at it and trust each other.

I remember a quote from someone from a culture of arranged marriages: "You marry the one you love, we love the one we marry." Many (though not all) of those relationships work fine.

So don't just look at the other. Also look at yourself, what you bring to the relationship, and what you expect, and talk with each other about that.
For anyone interested in this article, I would recommend this documentary about Dave Shaw's last dive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlmJeP2Cr0
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That is beyond cool :) Thanks
Lenient bankruptcy laws are one such social safety net available in the US. Minimum income is another which is discussed in some countries.
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It's just that we have predefined looks for a given type of characterization that sometimes adaptations don't get quite right. With time I've gotten over the fact that yes, a character from an adaptation probably will look different from what I imagined and I expect it as a normal thing.

Think of it as personal stereotypes. For example I often imagine how a character looks before getting to the physical description and in that case it's very hard to change my predefined image. Even if e.g. the description says it's a tall blonde character with a big nose if I had already imagined the character small and with black hair I can't change that throughout the book. I've actually tried to and it's very hard. If I concentrate I'll get the correct image out but next time I'll encounter the character I will automatically think of the previous picture.

Personally I think this is pretty regular and other people are like that too, but how can I be sure?
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That's just a bunch of standard (ARM currently) boxes networked together with a special backplane that allows for DMA between different servers. Not really comparable to a GPU.
Macros are used to handle platform specific details, for the most part.
I don't think it's that opaque, but then again I might be biased.
I live in Canada and for the past four years the majority of my clients have been from outside the country!

Get online to industry-related job boards and search for 'remote', 'anywhere', or 'telecommute' opportunities, especially in places where the cost of living is higher than yours.

I would check out Github's job board, AuthenticsJobs.com , and te Smashing !agasine job board. not the most glamorous places but I have found work!

Good luck, and charge your full rate, you are worth full price :)
I know they want to heavily support the "pay what you want" model, as a way to appreciate and reward open source developers for their work. Proprietary apps are supported too, kentonv mentions in-app payments specifically.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10150249
Great stuff man, I wonder how many apps would suffer from problems when trying to access directly Amazon s3, also how many app updates would get pushed just to update plist
There are tradeoffs in design both between few and many cores and between optimizing cores for throughput versus latency and between optimizing for DSP-like code with predictable memory access and control patterns and business logic with lots of pointer chasing.

It's actually pretty easy to have CPUs on the scale of a GPU right now. A 15 core Xeon can put out 600 gigFlops of compute so you just need 10 of them to equal one Titan X. Now, those 10 Xeons take much more silicon area and power to generate that processing power than the Xeons but that's because they have all these branch predictors and out of order execution engines and such that mean that their performance falls of much more slowly as you throw them at problems that are more complicated than DSPish code.
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>Mob opinions are correlated. People whose opinion differs from the mob, even are intimidated into either changing their opinion or, at the very least, remaining silent.

Voting is supposed to be secret. So I don't think what you say applies at all.
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Not to mention lightweight machines like Chromebooks. I can actually see a web-only environment being very attractive, at least for web development.
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Not sure if this is useful to anyone, but on the off chance there are Handlebars.js users here:

I wrote this as a drop-in replacement for the Handlebars.js templating library in a few of my projects. It's significantly smaller, and often times faster, but has a reduced feature set.
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You're missing one level of reference here. The usual joke has the person reply "Practice". The article is suggesting that talent is more important, relative to practice, than is commonly thought.

So when you see the headline you're supposed to read the first bit, expect the ending "practice", see "talent" instead, and understand that the article is likewise going to replace "practice" with "talent" somehow. (Or to look back at it after reading the article, see what they were playing at, and be impressed by their wit.)
It's not just that people have to stand in line. They also have to go between a bunch of different stores since Milk producers have an exclusive contract with Walmart and Bread producers have an exclusive contract with 7-Eleven.

Furthermore, after you grab your Milk, the terms and services of the Milk states you have to sit and watch an advertisement on their projector before you are allowed to leave the store.
kentonv answers that mostly here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10150249
Not in any effective way. I'm pretty sure you can take Chromium, replace the logo and branding, compile in mp4 support and drop in the 2 plugins (ppapi flash, and ppapi pdf viewer) and you'll end up with Chrome. No difference
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I tried http://www.canistream.it/ but it's pretty unreliable. Do you have a better suggestion?
The custom tutorial aspect of this is exactly what I need for a new intern that will be starting soon.
The point is to isolate access to the host, and single secure random numbers have nothing to do with the host.
Peru might have a lot more entrepreneurially minded people, and more self-employed people but France certainly has more successful tech startups (even on a per capita basis).

Just as lack of a safety net biases towards action and self reliance, it also skews the risk/reward ratio of those actions firmly towards those most likely to keep the roof over ones head.
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> And I think its truth is self-evident

Reads as if you are saying that nothing can convince you otherwise.
It takes very little money to start an internet company these days. If you dont have the capital, work and save it. Stop making excuses.
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" I can't imagine someone like Steve Jobs or Warren Buffett actually wanting to keep people from resources or excess wealth if they had no use for it."

1. Na, some wealthy people would totally do that. It's their hard earned money and they're entitled to spend it however they want, after all. Get a job and stop looking for handouts!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-c...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/17/ro...

2. Who says they even have excess wealth to begin with? I may make a billion dollars a year, but I'm living in this cramped mansion, and I've still got payments on my super-yacht. Living this lavish lifestyle is expensive!

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-f...
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I think for #2, you mean in computer privacy. "security" is still alive and well: but it's only half-heartedly implemented to protect privacy.
> For what it's worth, many of today's finest, most important algorithms are from the 50s-70s, or maybe special adaptations of them.

This is only the case/sensible for algorithms that have not been practically improved.
Think of GPUs as excelling at MapReduce, either they do the same operation on many data points or they reduce the data by combining them in an aggregate. The query listed is taking an avg on a variable # of joins. Each join is doing a sequential search which can be a lot faster if you can process this in parallel and then when you find the right data you want to aggregate, you are then doing the aggregate. Both are incredibly faster in parallel.

The gpu was designed so you can, lets say, move all vertices in a character's body 1 inch forward, you would need to process this one translation for potentially thousands of vertices. It was also designed to do bitmap operations very quickly where you need to get the same image, but smaller so the GPU would combine nearby pixels to provide a good heuristic of what that same image would look like further away.
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The 'Hacker CMS' app is actually based on Jekyll, I believe. It can be a bit kludgy at times, but works.
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"Astonishingly, there are no known terms corresponding to a single note"

While perhaps counter-intuitive, that actually makes a lot of sense, tell the person the interval to play not the note itself. I think people new to music would pick up music much more quickly if we switched to a system like this. In my limited experience, one of the biggest early hurdles in learning music is making terms with intervals > notes.
Apparently not.

I moved to Peru for 4 years to save some money and then came back to start a business, the entrepreneurial spirit was way strong stronger there even though the social safety net is inexistent.
It took me a couple of years after college working in restaurants etc before I had the skills to pat the bills. The only way I could afford the time to teach myself code was due to the relaxed schedule that comes from knowing you can ask your parents for help.
Yes, I know all of this. I never saw IORs as a truly necessary feature, although I see the attractiveness of the idea. I'm sure you could, if you desired, implement IOR-like behavor on top of other RPC systems.

I never really had problems with message versioning because I owned the client and server, and created new messages when I wanted new versions.
What NVidia calls a core and what Intel calls a core really aren't comparable. If you go by the Intel definition which is more or less "Capable of independantly issuing an instruction" then you might find 15 cores in a Xeon versus 24 SMM "cores" in the top NVidia chip. Going by the NVidia definition which is more or less "Things that can execute instructions from a queue" NVidia would have 3072 cores in it's top chip and Intel would have 120 cores or "execution ports" as they call them.
if you have no life outside work, sure ;)
If this is interesting, recommend looking at Tahoe-LAFS too: https://www.tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

(And https://leastauthority.com/how_it_works )
Looks like they are taking the software approach to fixing things.
This is what I've been saying. The ability to quit college or stay with a startup long enough until it starts succeeding, or better yet, borrowing money to pay off those loans you took on while believing deeply in your startup, depends on being able to ask your parents for money while things are going not-so-good.

For everyone else, there's Limited Liability.
I was just looking into this yesterday and it looks like the ship has sailed. Dropbox used to make it easy to share HTML pages on the public web, but I couldnt get that working right yesterday either.

Are there any consumer-level cloud services that would make it brainless for a non-technical user to share a single-file HTML page publically?
Agree. The risk of having to run back to mummy and daddy with their tail between their legs is no risk at all. I could be quite entrepreneurial if I didn't also have to pay for my apartment and food every month without fail.
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Maybe it's difficult to judge because people don't usually talk about it. I'd say I can visualize things just as vividly as I would experience when I look at them. That is, I won't notice every detail, but I don't notice every detail even when I'm staring right at something. I can look at something, look away for a while and visualize it, then look back at it and compare the subjective experience, and it's pretty much the same. It's more along the lines of getting the same mental stimulation of recognition and experience as I would get if I were looking at something, and it's the same as other senses. I can imagine myself on a beach, see the contrast of colors of leaves and the sky, hear the waves, feel the courseness of the sand, smell the sea, and I know from experience that if I were actually there, I would have the same sensations except I couldn't turn them off easily.
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Oh please ... spare us. You're comparing physical goods that have to be physically transport, stored, distributed, etc. Goods where some (admittedly minimal in your Mt. Dew example) scarcity is involved.

The parent is talking about goods where there is effectively no (or again, minimal) cost for transport, storage, or distribution. And absolutely no scarcity.

Nobody is saying we refuse to pay for digital content. We just want to pay a reasonable price. But most most important, we don't want ANY _artificial_ restrictions on transport, storage, distribution, and ESPECIALLY consumption.
Something so obvious that has been lacking in the Indian internet framework. What Reverie is building will be a total game-changer! With 270 million mobile internet users and counting,every non-English user can fully utilize what a comprehensible Internet has to offer.

Kudos team Reverie. May the force be with you!