skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experiences with the musical Linnstrument have me quite excited about the amount of expression this will lend to software synths. Video synthesis as well, combined with a physics engine I think you could make some very pretty and dynamics interactions.
Neat idea. Someone needs to implement that in HTLM5/Webgl.

Couldn't resist trying something similar with 2D canvas:

https://output.jsbin.com/zorepe

It will definitely look better in genuine 3D, but that's a bit more painful. Totally doable, though.
> most people go through some vulnerable time when they could become addicted (or otherwise abuse drugs), and at that time you don't want to have the stuff in your house or a dealer friend ready to supply

Sometimes people do drugs to cope with their other problems in life. They need drugs as a reprieve. Life can be hard and people have used alcohol, pot and many other substances to create a refuge. Of course that doesn't solve the problem, but solving the problem is not always the top priority, and many times the problem has no solution. Why should we morally deny a refuge from anxiety and suffering to other people?
1) Clicking a button that says download is too hard? I'm confused by the mythical people who want encryption but are too dumb to follow a software installation paradigm that's been around for probably longer than they've been alive. Fine, search the appstore for an [proprietary] app: http://imgur.com/a/WbuZA . How exactly does this address your original issue of wanting OSS that's verifiable?

2) I could but I would go broke in minutes. 99/100 people would reach into their pockets or purses and pull out a ring full of keys and would intuitively understand that their computer uses an application to do similar. If your faith in people is so low you think they're all morons, why bother encrypting what they have to say. They're idiots anyways, not like they have enough mental capacity to plan anything according to you.

3) By default it uses either pgp.net or MIT's hkp servers, I can't recall. Most public keyservers sync their directories multiple times a day. You can search by name or email: http://imgur.com/a/SSHlP

4) How does using gmail prevent you from using the built in Mail.app or have anything to do with the headers not including gmail stuff? OSX provides a system-wide onboarding process for linking your gmail to all the system apps...

5) So you can send user generated input that doesn't match what they wanted to send. How is that helpful?
>> The American empire is perhaps the first empire in history where people want to be under its banner as opposed to out in the cold.

This kind of thing has happened before in some cases. Malta wanted to be part of the British Empire when the French left in the early 19th century. Of course "wanted" might need to be taken with a pinch of salt, given that representative democracy and polling were not established procedures at the time.
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Held accountable how? Arresting the representatives? Sounds like a recipe for really serious problems.

But then isn't this the same ECJ that invented the right to be forgotten?
Lol still not loading after 15 hours. Comcast is rekt
> Obviously I never talked about going through red lights, since for red lights you always have time to switch to a lower gear beforehand, and stopping isn't optional anyway.

Sorry, I misunderstood you since this isn't obvious in New York: plenty of bikers don't slow down to go through red lights. They trust that the cars are going slow enough that they'll stop for them -- it's a fairly safe assumption, but very rude.
Strange, I though all trains had that.

There is this little anecdote about regeneration in trains: there is a mine ore train next to the Swedish/Norwegian border that goes downhill to the harbor full of ore and uphill empty, even with the efficiency factor, it's still sending quite some power to the general electric grid.
am I the only one who doesn't understand the horizontal axis on their graphs: "Images sorted on compression ratio"?

what does it mean that the FLIF lines suddenly get worse than PNG over on the right-hand side?
This is somewhat like the demo I've seen of florescent lights working under high-power transmission lines without connection.

Interesting our bodies absorb all that energy every day without lots of cancer. Actually, there is lots of cancer.
>That's if they can be implemented in time.

They've been talking about SDRs for over 40 years. I'd say it's a demand problem, not an implementation problem.
So uh, why aren't admissions implemented as an algorithm that reviews academic performance? Minor human intervention could be used to prevent mistakes by the algorithm... Or not, humans make mistakes too. But machines don't intentionally discriminate.
I read an article yesterday about micro-dosing LSD at a level where no hallucinations appear, but a boost in energy and creativity is felt. Like a different kind of coffee that doesn't wane after only two hours.
If viruses are alive, is a zygote within a woman yet a human being?
A Native American actor classmate of mine did a lot of tv during the era where Vietnam-based programs (e.g. China Beach) were running as casting directors would hire him for those parts (his hair was short then). I guess that's why you see self-financed stuff. Defiance has a Native American in a lead part, but I am hard pressed to think of anything else. Figure 2% of the population would give you something statistically.
wtf

Automatic differentiation only works for the simplest functions for which you already know what the Taylor series looks like. For those cases, you might as well just hardcode derivative functions and the basic derivative rules (linearity and chain rule). It is not a general-purpose method.

For functions that you can't even express by a simple formula, you still have to rely on finite differencing.

Don't call "legacy" anything that you don't understand.
Like Pepe said below, each letter spawns in a specific diredtion, so A, or red, always goes up, and you can check that in the beginning, where there are only few lines. so the final shape is more important than color. the color is basically irrelevant, except for the fact that maybe you can see which of A, C, G, T appears more times in that dna sequence.
I don't know why but it often takes a really long time for me to reload the web page using Python 2 and 3 on Linux. Anybody has similar experience?
(Answer: none of them; FFTF is simply making that up.)
The colloquial use of the word "anyways" nearly ruined this article for me.
Not sure I understand why there's 4 nginx processes, 4 php-fpm processes and like 20 mysql processes, why so many, don't you need like 1 (or 4 if there' no pooling)?
>I'll be very happy when everyone can just stop worrying about what race everyone else is.

Technical discrimination and preference heuristics (Racism) is the default function of the mind. That this crosses over from thought to action in the form of policy is a function of our social systems, like everything else.

It can't be solved with the wetware we have, it's a feature not a bug.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09babies-t.html?_...
Tobacco smoking, alcohol abuse and exposure to lead, mercury and asbestos have been shown to have strong negative health effects by extensive studies with a lot of statistical power and grounded in theory.

This is not the case for cannabis use. The public perception of cannabis as having horrible negative health consequences comes from state propaganda, not science. Look it up yourself. But look for scientific articles, not newspaper articles.

So before you use that classical argument, you have to actually have some data that provides evidence for the substance under question being generally harmful.

Carl Sagan (one of the counter-examples) used to confront his scientist friends with this, and they were surprised to find that there is indeed very little scientific support for this view. For a while, the strongest result was that cannabis could help trigger early schizophrenia, but even this research is on shaky grounds (turns out that the population under study was highly biased).
> Americans view everything in life through the race and skin color lens. It's becoming really exhausting and frustrating to deal with.

As a popular TV program put it, it's America's original sin. Also, it factors into targeted politics that is in vogue. Separate everyone into groups and target them with specific (and sometimes conflicting) messages. It works, so I wouldn't expect a change.
Why would a company take such a huge risk for a paltry 10% gain in engine power, and a probably even smaller gain in mpg? This seems like a very dumb thing to do.
This reminded me of the idea of the attention economy.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/07/paying-atten...
>After all, what exactly is being measured by this?

Purchasing power of Americans.

>how does measuring prices account for how much M0 money there is?

Why does it need to? On its own, the amount of M0 is irrelevant. We care about how the effects of supply manifest in prices.
There's no such thing as cultural appropriation.It's a nazi leftist concept.
There was a recent HN topic here on the redox-os[0] which is written in Rust (and heavy WIP). It did actually use a lot of unsafe, though.

[0] https://github.com/redox-os/redox
>If anyone is to try this, the states are ideal candidates.

I'm inclined to disagree. It'll be easier to implement in a place like say Canada or a northern European country where there is already wide acceptance of social support structures.
Assuming that you're right that we're not (and I'm not convinced; a lot of amazing stuff is coming out of the open source community):

Time.

I'm working on a Ruby ahead-of-time compiler. I started in 2008. I slowed myself down a lot by all the blog articles I've written about it, but yet, at this point it's only now getting close to being able to compile itself.

The reasons it's been so slow going, is that in those years, I've only put in the equivalent of a few months of fully time work on it - it's not my only project, and working on my side projects have to compete with spending time on my son and other leisure activities.

It takes a lot more people to get the equivalent output of a lab of fulltime staff. Even more so because this slows down interaction and communication as well.
I have always wondered if a TV/Movie director or producer would make a better manager for a software team than an MBA.
Maybe because you are considering asians in a foreign country? Surely most managers in China are Chinese. I would not expect to see a completely even ethnic distribution in high positions in any country.
Given the local nature of the problem and the potential for using O(n) operations (as opposed n log n) my first suspect was wavelet transforms and sure enough people have done that but that body of work seems more recent than the use of FFT.
Heh. Back when I had to use a Sun keyboard for years at a time, I physically removed the giant Help key because it was right next to Escape and I kept hitting it by accident. Each accidental Help would introduce an obnoxious pause as the system launched some help window that stole my focus on top of it all.
That would only be fairer if everyone has the same level of access to education up to that point.

I don't know anything about the Australian school systems, but I know for sure that is not the case in the U.S.
Minority/minor is political term. Women are declared minority even though they outnumbers men. It's related to something recently called victimhood culture[1]. Declaring yourself as minor brings you advantage.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise...
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Yes, the water pump is interesting but it just will not work for so long at this state. If made of concrete, aquatic organisms will block the lames in a couple of months.
I can't find any details about how much power you can get with this. Let's try a back of the envelope calculation.

My WiFi router has probably 2W. If you put this device at 1m (3') and assume that the power is evenly distributed you get 2W/(4 pi 1m^2) = 0.16 W/m^2. Let's assume that the surface of this device is 10cmx10cm (4''x4'') (quite big for a small device) and it's perfectly perpendicular, you get 0.16 W/m^2 x (.1m x .1m) = 0.0016W = 1.6 mW (and this calculation is quite optimistic, because it assumes no loss in the transmission and in the conversion or storage)

A typical LED has 30 mW (or more), so this is not enough to keep it light. Perhaps blink it once every 20 seconds.

And if the device is further away, it's worst. The calculation assumes that the distance is 1m (3'), with 2m (7') the power is reduced x4.

In the web page they show a fire detection device with a nice led that, so I'm not sure that they can collect enough power to blink the led. The surveillance camera is completely out of discussion, specially if it has a motor.
Microdosing of psychedelics isn't very well (or at all?) researched and it's hard to tell whether what people are experiencing is a placebo or not.
The central line can get quite toasty in the summer, especially at peak travel times. I'd be interested in an estimate of how much of that heat is a direct result of the current friction braking system. Will the stations get noticeably cooler if induction braking is adopted? "Enough [electricity] to power more than 100 homes for a year" coming out of a single station over just five days sounds like a ton of energy, all of which is currently being dissipated as heat.
I accidentally upvoted you. :-/

If I lived near overhead power lines (or had them on my land) I'd definitely make use of as much of this kind of charging as I could get away with. It's probably not legal, but it'd make an interesting case. (Assuming it hasn't already been tested in court.)
How we used Typeform to reduce our recruitment time drastically
Talk therapy works a lot better than placebo, but it doesn't matter what kind. Talking to one type of therapist works as well as talking to another type of therapist. Even talking to a priest works as well as talking to a therapist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict

This article is more interesting for me in that it supports the dodo bird verdict. Cognitive behavioral therapy results have for a while been put forward as the exception. According to the article, those results have been inflated, and there are no exceptions.

edit: of course, if you consider a priest the control for the psychology industry - then it may be fair to say that established therapies have no better success than placebo. Is a priest a placebo?

edit: tl;dr

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"The most commonly studied of [talk therapies is] cognitive behavior therapy — in which people learn to identify and defuse automatic, self-defeating assumptions, like 'I’m unlucky in love' or 'I always choke' — and interpersonal therapy, which focuses on reshaping how people interact with others. These studies typically have subjects engage in weekly, hourlong sessions with a therapist for three to four months.

"The researchers found that 13 of these funded studies were completed but never published, usually because those who did the trials did not think a finding of no benefit stood much chance of being published. The team contacted each of the 13 investigators originally paid to do the work and requested their data. Once that data was included with those from the other, published papers, the effectiveness of the therapies dropped significantly — by about a quarter.

"'That seems to be the magic number, a quarter — about the same as you see in the pharma trials' of antidepressants, said a co-author, Dr. Erick Turner, an associate professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University and the lead author of the 2008 paper detailing bias in those drug trials."
Too slow for what?
That's true. There are pockets in reddit that are good, like the one you mention and /r/golang. And good posters, too. But reddit, at large as you said, is a vast pool of script kiddies at best.
Remote Preview is nice for free: https://github.com/viljamis/Remote-Preview
(but since it uses iframes it will break under some things and is one-way)

However Ghostlab looks amazing for $34 http://www.vanamco.com/ghostlab/
What is transmission-remote?
Some other things to know...

The "pbcopy" command-line tool on the Mac will also copy things, which is a powerful way to copy almost anything you want.

Soem Mac terminal programs also have options to auto-Copy on select.
That's worker threads, not processes. You can enable tree view in display options, then the worker threads would have been sorta moved to the right to indicate that fact, but that's not a default option.
> In the first experiment of its kind, the London Underground has installed an inverter system that converts braking energy into power.

http://www.septa.org/sustain/blog/2011/07-06.html SEPTA has been doing something similar (but using the electricity more generally than for just stations) since 2011. I'm sure SEPTA hasn't been leading the way in this type of hardware either.
I think it's overlooked because for many Asians it simply comes down to parenting. Many people don't want to address the fact that that may be one big difference between certain minorities.
Consensus algorithms and failure-detection algorithms are two different things. For example, a gossip-based failure detector is statistically likely to converge in well bounded time despite partitions, without providing the absolute guarantees of a consensus system. Your criticisms are specific to the category that's irrelevant to this discussion. Please, if you've only built on top of such systems and merely dabbled in their implementation, don't try to bluff your way through.
Flexport is hiring a Product Manager
The machine learning challenge at apple
I'm on hand over the weekend to discuss any of the details, stack, market fit or strategy. Basically an against-all-the-odds single founder, bootstrapped startup needing not very many paid accounts to be profitable (discounting sunk costs).

Sales is the next major challenge. Think I'll crack it given enough time. I have all the runway I need, at least. Hopefully be able to join the profitable side project threads next year.
Great idea! But wouldn't it be best to restrain the output of htop to a few interesting processes that are running without root privileges. It seems to me that it could be possible to bubble up processes that can leak information, especially at startup and when you put the server under load externally...
That's good advice. You have to "get out of the building" as they say, and try to find people with that problem.

You're probably competing with wedding planners (they already have a list of venues!).

Congratulations on your site, it looks clean and professional. I'd add some info (prices are in XX CAD per person, right?). Also to consider, you might want to add a calendar (when you have the availability data), but that can wait - get information on your potential customers first :)

See Steve Blank's advice on Customer Discovery:

http://steveblank.com/2014/06/28/customer-discovery-the-sear...
This is valuable feedback. It's great that Rust has been so receptive, making changes where appropriate.
How do the women and less-physically-able people on your team feel about that?
Isn't it everyone's original sin? Which nation did not conquer the land it occupies today from some other nation? Which nation did not have the institution of slavery?
Politics aside: What your business can learn from the United States CIO
Data Elixir #55: Mainstream AI. Academia vs. Industry. Automating Data Science
I've always wondered if there was some way to allow buildings to prewarm water for boilers using subway heat.

It'd be an interesting experience without all the extra heat, especially in the winter. (Now we just need to go full circle and use that saved electric to heat the station :-p)
Because graphdb are not good at listing/scanning single types e.g. Lunch, Dessert, Drinks, etc. Simple queries have similar complexity but there is no optimization for the mildly complex queries:

> SELECT COUNT(drink.id) FROM lunch, drink WHERE lunch.id == drink.lunch_id ORDER BY lunch.delivery_date, lunch.total_price

Everything that is not recursive is better served by RDBMS.

My understanding is that it's not that it's impossible to optimize the RDBMS usecase in graphdb implementation but that it's difficult in terms of query language to express both the traversal and scan. Arangodb want to be tackle that area through AQL.

You can also build somekind of graphdb schema, a specific graph topology that alleviate the need for specific optimization by basically denormalizing the schema.

> I'm inclined to make a comparison between functional language vs object oriented vs procedural programming languages

IMO tinkerpop and neo4j looks like Python (dynamic oo and functional language) vs Java (static typed and class based) which look like RDBMS. ArangoDB and OrientDB (multi-model) looks like Scheme Guile.

Even if graphdbs have weakness, like dynamic programming, they allow to build things more quickly.

> where thinking in Graphs these days causes a bit of a mental shift and therefore dissuaded b/c it "feels" different

Yes definitely. That said from my point of view, it's clear where a graphdb "is the right tool for the job" whereas functional programming is a writing style that can be applied to procedural or OO languages; It's not clear what's the pragramatic purpose of purely functional language.
>on-State digital cryptocurrencies was not even mentioned in this article.

I'm probably in the minority on these boards, so call me crazy: I want my currency backed by the economic and military might of the state.

To me, "money" is a means of performing transactions and acquiring real assets. I don't need a hunk of metal or a fancy digital wallet that is "unreproducible" to do that. Being able to print money is a feature of the system, not a detriment. The current system works well enough for me, for now.
In South Australia, at least, there are a measure of bonus points provided to students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds and rural regions.
The article does allude to that.

> Additionally, regenerative braking doesn’t produce the heat that conventional friction braking does, so the tunnels themselves stay cooler, requiring less energy expenditure on climate control (and keeping Tube riders happier in the process).
Good post! Years ago I had a slight head gasket leak, and needed to drive the vechicle just one more day before I took the head off and did the nasty job.

I had a little bit of extra smoke comming out of the tail pipe, and I got pulled over by a Police Officer. I told the officer, the extra smoke was mainly water vapor, but was still expecting a ticket.

Well, the officer said he used to be a mechanic, and knew I was likely telling the truth. He let me off with a warning.

I think those days are over though. I have seen people freak out over the wiff of cigarette smoke. Yesterday, I heard this lady yelling at a janitor over bleach smell. She squelched , "You're giving me cancer!". I don't think he understood English, and was probally better off?

I'm all for cleaning up the air, but people need to educate themselves on what exactly is going to give them, or the environment problems.
No. It's a runtime based on some low level chrome internals like Skia, and with the Day VM on top. There's no built in HTML or CSS.
That's actually a pretty common retort often used by snarky people against other snarky or depressing people on the internet. Is it a meme? Possibly...