skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Less efficient means more expensive. And as the article noted, more expensive food triggered wars which killed tens of thousands of people.

But that small mixed farm is more efficient than the large factory farm in many ways. They're wasting less food, they're using fewer resources, they're more sustainable in the long term.

But they lose in terms of "economies of scale", which translates into labour and capital. And since those are by far the greatest expenses on a farm, they're not as "efficient".

The solution? Proper pricing of externalities, eliminating distorting subsidies, and further technological development.

Monocultures are a technological problem -- they're much less efficient land usage, but they allow the use of large machines. What if we could replace those expensive large machines with lots of cheap small robots that could harvest all the corn in a field without harming the squash, to give an example of a traditional biculture.
How 'glitch' came to be placed so close to 'classic Dutch pop' escapes me... Fascinating to hunt around in though! Much more fun than writing my dissertation!
Yeah, I suppose reading a bunch of one-sentence-per-line paragraphs might be a bit sub-optimal, but I haven't found it to be a problem in practice. For longer documents, it's not much trouble to read the rendered version and do edits in the source.
The word is 'solitudine'. Wiki quote:

'In lingua inglese il concetto viene espresso con due differenti vocaboli, solitude e loneliness, che si riferiscono rispettivamente al piacere e al dolore provati in condizioni di esclusione'

'In English, the concept is expressed by two words, solitude and loneliness, which refer to pleasure and pain in the condition of exclusion.
> When I search for a word or phrase on Google, I'm running code remotely on their server. Yet no one feels like I should have the right to see that code. Why?

Because I have not paid money to Google purchasing a tangible thing. If I buy any tangible thing, it should honor the doctrine of first sale, and I should be able to modify my tangible thing as I see fit. It is my property.

Google is akin to a remote service provider; I send in a thing, modifications to my thing are made, and then I get the thing back. I don't ask my warranty repair firm or any other entity that provides a remote service how they did it. I simply make a request at an agreed-upon price (or agreed upon terms: you'll provide ads in exchange for the service) and if the terms are not satisfied I will not hold up my end.
Setting aside the fact that the POTUS can't actually do that, when you think about the fact that information is what makes governing possible in the first place, it makes complete sense that they would explore this sort of thing. Given an vague(and ultimately impossible) mission of "stopping all terrorist attacks", it makes sense that the NSA would be exploring what they have been, and that TPTB would be wholly supportive of it.
The maker of the ECU is not necessarily the one who does all (or even most) of the software development for that ECU.
AFAIK the code running on the car model in question is largely from IAV, and some is probably code developed by VW.
Why did we end exit polling? Seems like an obvious counter-measure/check.

I don't trust for-profit media to conduct them. This is something that we all need to chip in to accomplish, if we care about democracy. If we can't trust election results, we really can't trust anything connected to government, and as the state continues to grow, that's very little.
The Limited Subset
It's possible this was coördinated, but likely it's rather one of those current trends things. Like on HN, article on X comes up, and soon after article on tangent of X comes up shortly after riding the coattails of X.

Mr Xi is in town, what else related to Xi can give us more eyeballs now that all things Xi/China are in the news, what do we have? Oh, yes, of course, spying!
I'm a big fan of the recent changes and follow YC much closer than before, glad to hear that this experiment is probably off to a good start, thanks for the note!

Thanks for the advice! (I'm in Taiwan time, and didn't think much of the timezones). Not sure what's the repost etiquette, though.
Are they doing dual writes from the phone? That is, updating datacenter A and B (and possibly C) at the same time? If so, then yeah this will cut down on their need for backhauling between datacenters. If they are only using the phone as the arbiter of truth during a datacenter failover, then no they're not saving any money. You're going to have a circuit or transit in place and that has a monthly fee at 95/5 or flat rate, not per byte transferred.
Onshape Raises $80M Led by Andreessen Horowitz
Resting bitch face is in your genes
Ah, I see it now. I wasn't reading it the way the author intended. The Chinese governments wants the OS. With the goal of replacing Windows.

Excellent explanation, thank you canjobear! (And jameshart).
Well, not meaningless. You can monitor the original values of the hashes, and verify they haven't been changed. The PDFs will be copied around and around.

Also - There is no known method to (within the lifetime of this universe) create a different document with the same MD5 and SHA1 and SHA256. Adding the MD5 doesn't weaken things, and might improve them.
You can blame this administration or the other one for pervasive snooping. The sad truth is that we are prisoners of our fear. Remember when Obama tried to shutdown Gitmo ?
find a different church. (Unless you're in a town so small that there's only one.)
How a sting operation brought down the lie detector’s biggest enemy
> Get checked and officially diagnosed.

That can be a surprisingly difficult process.

For example the NHS isn't entirely sure how to diagnose ADHD in adults. My GP didn't even know it was possible, and had to go and make phone calls to find out where the nearest specialist was. Unfortunately if your answer to "Did you get bad grades at school?" is "Not really" then hard luck, as they want evidence of underachievement as a kid to confirm the diagnosis. And there really is no way to complain your above average grades were underachievement without sounding like a dick.

It wasn't until I was in the final stage of my degree that somebody noticed that I had problems, and luckily the University helped me get a private diagnosis for some of my issues.
That's fair - although I can't imagine letting someone rename my project and deciding to collaborate on it together while still trying to retain my own copyright notice on files.

I don't understand, why not? That's in fact what usually happens; projects usually have a list of contributors, providing attribution.

For example: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/CREDITS
The meaning of Noether’s Theorem (2011)
Out of the data fire swamp
Tom Ferry Discusses How to Earn 7% Commissions Every Time
How likely is a plan to build a new accelerator, over 30 years, to succeed?

If we look at the technological changes of the preceding 30 years, anything we started in 1985 and finished in 2015 would likely be eclipsed by modern capabilities.

Should I work on Physics, or General AI, or IA? It seems that GAI or IA solve the other two.
It's interesting to think about whether it is engineered to be like this, or if it is just that poor webdesign did better in the metrics important to managers (clicks) than metrics important to UX.
5 Unusual Things to Live In
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Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches
Similar reading - https://goodui.org/
You have a better local bookstore than I do. Mine is all Star Wars expanded universe dreck (last decade or so, in prequel land or tying into a children's cartoon), Star Trek fan-fiction, Halo novelizations, etc. With some classic Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Bova, and a very few other authors thrown in to class up the joint, although usually just the more well-known titles I've already read.
The Henry classification system seems to be useful only as an index to reduce the number of fingerprints a human investigator needs to compare against. It looks like it is expected to frequently have collisions.
Under this "canonical" answer, ONE of those layers owns as much as the rest of the company combined. By some curious phenomenon, this outsized layer belongs to... the person who invented the scheme. What a twist!

Founders should own as much as every single other contributor and investor, combined?? They should keep several orders of magnitude more than all the other professionals that give years of their life, and make important decisions and breakthroughs? Only greed and self-importance justifies this outlook.

The company's first non-founder employee takes a HUGE risk. He joins when no one else has taken that leap of faith. He joins maybe a few weeks after the founders started up. He takes a huge financial hit, foregoing that fat salary and bonus of the established company. And without those first employees, there will not be enough product or progress to show, to recruit the next batch. Derek Sivers explains this best in his First Follower talk [0]. That employee's reward? A percent (if he's a good negotiator). Compared to the founders' 50%. How equitable!

[0] https://sivers.org/ff
Depends on the jurisdiction, but generally (there may be some variation even in these high-level descriptions) in the US:

Jails are operated by counties, prisons by the State or Federal government.

Jails are for pre-trial detention and serving sentences for less-serious crimes, prisons for sentences for more serious crimes.
Ok, thanks for the tip and link. Weekend here I come!
Some of it is closed source, but there's actually a good amount of open source material at https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud and IBM contributes huge amounts of code upstream to the open source projects that we build on top of.
Ben Carson: Anti-science
Good luck forcing people to use deliberately broken encryption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
Its slower than my java build with 300000 lines in it. More than 0.5 seconds is slow.
It's probably not correct that Obama could close down the entire NSA tomorrow. However, he has essentially complete control over what it does. If he wanted to direct it to do, for example, only military intelligence activities directed solely at warfighting intelligence, he could.

This Executive Order:

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execut...

can be changed at any time and to whatever the President desires it to be. He could change it this afternoon if he liked.
The amount of "preaching down" varies a lot by denomination. Pretty common in Southern Baptist churches. Pretty uncommon in Episcopal churches. Catholic churches pretty much depend on the temperament of the pastor.
Ahhh, well if you're taking aim at Haskell somehow being "right" then I'm not going to say a thing. :)

I think as far as monads go I quite like your distinction drawn elsewhere between abstractions for mathematical sake and abstractions for human cognitive sake. I think ultimately it has a lot to do with someone's goals as a programmer and person as to which abstractions they should hold and realize.

I think, personally, monads have a very high power-to-weight ratio here, even outside of Haskell, but I've never been one to argue that one cannot live without them. Or even shouldn't.
It is all about the JDBC Basics
The Incredible Proof Machine
In this way, and assuming the clicks can be made indistinguishable from actual for-real user clicks (maybe a tall order if a proxies are involved?)

Unless your automated system actually spends money then it will always be distinguishable from the real thing. Advertisers, no matter how wealthy they might be, cannot afford to pay for a "fully automated exchange bubble" that gives them zero returns.
That's right. This map begins as a scatter-plot, not a force-network, so particularly in the middle of the map individual pairwise distances in these two dimensions can be perfect or misleading. The readability adjustments to keep the names from landing on top of each other also distort the data in a technical sense.

But if you go into a genre's own page and scroll down, there is a little inset map of that genre's immediate neighborhood. That view is restricted to the most similar genres according to ALL the dimensions, so breakcore's neighborhood, for example (http://everynoise.com/engenremap-breakcore.html) doesn't include "boy band" at all.
Agreed, I don't know why anyone would come in as employee number 1 at a startup. You take a large portion of the risk with almost no upside. At least if your engineer number 20 your getting full salary and benefits and you have no delusions about your stock option value. I think Joel's post is not correct. Most people have to just discount all options to zero value
Did you take a look at tcomb[0]?

[0] https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb
Can U.S. VCs Propel Canada's Tech Rocketships?
This is a fragment. There's no way either of these books are less than a couple hundred pages.
> Jail is for pre-trial sentencing and sentences under one year.

In California, specifically, since the recent prison realignment adopted to address Federal court orders with regard to California's overcrowded state prisons, that is substantially less true than it used to be; many non-serious, non-violent, non-sex offenders sentenced to more than one year are now sent to county jails, and population pressure resulting from that has reduced pre-trial detention in many county jails, as well.
CERT warns cookies can enable attacks on HTTPS sites, all browsers vulnerable
I'm just going to requote those excerpts with flowing text:

All-cause mortality was 5.85 per 10,000 person–years among people with ADHD, compared with 2.21 per 10,000 person–years in people without ADHD. The risk of death among people with ADHD was more than double that in the general population (adjusted mortality rate ratio [MRR]=2.07, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.70 to 2.50, p<0.0001).

Age at diagnosis of ADHD was associated with mortality, with the risk of death highest among people diagnosed in adulthood (adjusted MRR=4.25, 95% CI 3.03 to 5.78). Mortality among people with ADHD was also affected by comorbid oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder (adjusted MRR=2.17, 95% CI 1.33 to 3.31) and by coexisting substance misuse (adjusted MMR=5.63, 95% CI 3.69 to 8.16). Among people without these comorbid conditions, mortality was higher in girls and women with ADHD (adjusted MRR=2.85, 95% CI 1.56 to 4.71) than in boys and men (MRR=1.27, 95% CI 0.89 to 1.76).

“Even if these complications did not develop, ADHD was still a risk factor for mortality. This could well be because the core problem of impulsiveness is a cause of accidents, and accidents were the major cause of death.
Here is a link to the underlying study, for people who are interested in digging into the data themselves: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.06461v1.pdf
One particularly relevant feature of Flow is that it does its type checking in a server. It watches the file system and incrementally rechecks automatically when files change. With this setup, "running" the type checker is actually just querying the server, which returns very quickly.
Dear Dependency_Hell,

Do you realize that the program you tried to install, cloc, is written in Perl and has no binary components? You don't need to use Macports, just download cloc from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloc/) and run it on the command line:

$ /usr/bin/perl ./cloc-1.64.pl

Save your rage for Macports.
> Your opinion is that what is usable to people around the world is knowing which page ranks highest according to a metric such as PageRank when it comes to "late night hamburger place". Because numerical metrics is "how the world is". There's no way you could be a casual habitant of Earth and think that that's how many other people evaluate things in this world.

Yes, and? The question was what I find better. I answered that. That others find something else better is not relevant to what I find better. I'm more than just a casual habitant of Earth and I notice people generally gobble up anything just because it's there and someone is pushing it. The success of corp X or Y means as much as the success of Hitler to me, I still have to make up my OWN mind, people are mostly useless even as individuals and doubly so in aggregate. What they like or don't like doesn't matter unless they can present a good argument for it. Yes, I'm arrogant. And I do not expect Google to agree, they "have a business to run". But that doesn't change my opinion.

Also, I said "how the world is according to Google".

> But here's an example: What if a user types, "late night hamburger place near me"? How should Google interpret that?

Where to buy product X or eat Y is below even trivial, I find it nauseating but not surprising that such stuff is constantly brought up. And yet that's the "killer application" I have to find a replacement for, with "why would anyone even think about that much less spend one second programming anything related to it" not being a valid answer, and my concerns about people seeing what others see not even worth being mentioned, much less addressed.

Don't interpret it at all, and people will have to be more specific, try out various phrases, which they will learn to do quickly. Adding "in [name of city]" to a query shouldn't be that hard.

Also, I'm tired of "information" being held hostage by what is merely about products and those who sell them. Yes, technically that's information too, but it's a very high-minded word for the lowliest of human aspirations in my books. The ones that matter when I am (indirectly) asked what I like or don't like.
And not a single mention of Glysophate and how it's killing the environment (and us) far more.

But Monsanto (and GMO) will save us all, right ?
Yes but that doesn't take into account that startups are far more likely to hire someone in a growth/reach position. Yes the employee takes a risk, but in many cases the company is taking a risk hiring them as well. Joining a startup early isn't the best choice for everyone, but for someone looking for a new role, or significant responsibility growth, it can be a great opportunity to prove yourself that you otherwise wouldn't be offered at a bigger company.

Examples of this can range from someone coming out of a bootcamp into their first engineering position, or a senior engineer from a bigger company joining as CTO of a startup.
Thanks, don't know why but opening it in incognito mode broke the signup-wall
I'm pretty sure Nima was featured in the fantastic documentary Particle Fever ( http://particlefever.com/ )
Suffice it to say that every auto maker who has to pass Euro emission tests is doing this to one degree or another, and has been for years. Mechanics know it, as do the regulators who resist attempts to reform the emissions legislation.

All of which is to say that this is bigger news than it seems, mostly because the US EPA is actually following up on this.
When I visited Yahoo the other day and looked at the very long list of URLs necessary to track me and to display ads, I knew that the same system without this feature would be a lot cheaper and a lot faster (read: less servers are required).

The next thought was that a paid service with a low fee for Yahoo news, email etc. can be profitable and have happy users.
#1 I might be completely wrong, but I think this might be doable in Haskell with a monad that tracks total time + maybe STM would help for the rest of the requirements (for a subset of the problems)

#2 can also be done by writing a custom type for the table row e.g. MyType and a function mkMyType :: columns -> Maybe MyType that never produces a result if the invariants are not satisfied, then updating your data access layer to only allow MyType to be used in insert/update commands. Or is that not sufficient?

#5 is similar to #1 but easier because of the missing deadlock/starvation requirements

Don't know about #3 and #4

edit: What I'd really like in Haskell are Elm style extensible records [1] to replace the glorified product types with auto-generated functions. Everything else seems really great to me

[1]: http://elm-lang.org/docs/records
Re: silent grouping, that is my experience, it pays to be aware of it, and pays to aim for Type I.

But Re: assuming frequent interruption reflects negatively on performance, that is contrary to my own experience. I'm trying as hard as I can to rule myself out when I say this, but my friends and coworkers all suffer from more interruption the more knowledgable they get, and the more valuable they become to the company. This is one of the most damaging aspects of interruption culture IMO -- it often hurts the people most capable and willing to help the most.
The problem is that our editors are at the core still "text" editors. That forces the tools (IDEs) to continuously synchronize the text with the parsed AST.

It's trivial to get an editor right if it edits the AST directly. You skip the whole tokenization/parsing step which is where most complexity is. However, such an editor will need specific plugins for each language, and these plugins will be easier to write for languages which have a standardized AST (Haskell comes to mind). Also, users would have to give up part of the formatting (whitespace etc), and some people are very religious about that :(
> almost every company has patents invalidated for prior art

Yeah, that's pretty true. But the way the parent comment said it, it sounded like it was some intentional thing where they were out to screw everybody by fraudulently obtaining a patent that was anticipated by prior art. Which... I don't think many companies are trying to do that.
As an American citizen I don't have an issue with gov't funded development of attacks on encryption so long as they don't pass laws that give them an advantage like, as an example, requiring companies to back door their own software. Edit for clarity: I realize that they do this. I'm trying to say that such abuses of power aside, I have a hard time finding it scary or surprising that they, or anyone else want to break encryption.
I took a step back and read Think Bayes by Downey and watched some of his youtube videos. Then Introduction to Bayesian Statistics by Bolstad is great once you're reading to deal with probabilities. Now I'm reading

* Building probabilistic graphical models with Python (Karkera)

* Mastering probabilistic graphical models using Python (Ankan)

* Probabilistic Graphical Models Principles and techniques (Koller)

Having skimmed (just started reading them) I'm very excited to continue to delve into them.
“Germany is sucking demand out of the world economy”
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Tearing Down Exclusionary User Input
Over the last few years I've seen many comments on Hacker News that are pro-GMO. The thing is... I don't understand how any respectable developer could support programming DNA with current technologies.

You know how they code new organisms? They rip out code from one organism and then they randomly insert it somewhere in the DNA code of another organism. They do this thousands of times... 99.999% of the time the cell dies. So they keep trying to compile random variations of code and it keeps crashing. But let's say they get lucky one time and the code compiles. The cell lives, and then they use that cell to create a new organism. If that organism has the one property they wanted to port over from the new DNA code, they call it a success. They don't do any unit testing, they can't possibly test every scenario this new organism would be used in production, and yet no one cares.

Would any software developer use a process like this in a production environment? No - it's obvious this way of coding would would cause drastic unintended consequences. With GMOs you get malformed proteins, new chemicals/toxins, and interbreeding with other plants that could cause even more unintended consequences.

Usually I'm all for technological progress. But until we understand DNA inside and out and can precisely edit just the code we want, GMOs seem very dangerous.