skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's another way to look at it: Compared to medical regulated DNA tests, such as those for breast cancer risk or other types of risk factors, which can cost in the thousands per marker, 23andme is astonishingly cheap.

Many of those medical genetic tests are more expensive because they directly sequence the region of the gene associated with the disorder, providing much more data (for example, for some BRCA tests, a 'marker' consists of thousands of genomic positions, where 23andme might provide only several SNPs). This is important because a lot of disease-causing mutations are private to a single individual or a very closely-related group of individuals, and would not turn up in the population-level GWASes behind the construction of the present 23andme assay.
Curators of weekly menu: Yelp if you're going out, New York Times "Recipes of the Day" if you're staying home

Curator of gym sessions: private fitness trainer you hired

Curator of films: Netflix's own "suggestions for you" section, Rotten Tomatoes, movie critics
"how can you hurt the Windows brand when the whole point of the product was to commoditize the hardware to bring the cost of the total solution - hardware + software - down in price? "

You answered your own question. The OEM's "ruthlessly cut the cost of production" too far and thereby damaged the PC brand.

This "ruthlessly" cutting of costs would have been survivable, however with Apple attacking from the flank with the iOS/app model, the PC makers were/are now in an even deeper hole.
I think those players all have the potential to achieve legend status at Arsenal (maybe not Monreal so much, and maybe not Giroud though for the latter I'd argue because he's under-rated by many) if they a.) Keep going the way they're hoped to for a few years (improving for youngsters like Bellerin, staying the same quality for Cazorla) and b.) are instrumental in bringing a few more trophies to the club. It needs a mix of personal quality, longevity at the club and also team success.

That said, even if none of them go down in the books as legends, they can still be excellent examples of great value purchases.
>It's an enormous leap however, to get to "therefore having no choice, and expecting shitty outcomes, is the best answer."

Only the article never says that. Low expectations here is not a stand-in for "shitty", it's "don't overthink and overanalyze your jam purchase to get some near absolute best etc".
The Guardian is reading far too much into Tesco's actions. Following the Paradox of Choice, the effect was widely studied and found to not be particularly robust. The classic jam study (cited by this article) failed to replicate. There are various circumstances when having more choices increases sales as well (e.g., a higher priced option that no one takes can cause more sales of the low priced choice). Even the author of "Paradox of Choice" admits the science is far from settled.

I've been to Tesco. From a consumer's perspective, it's amazing - I really wish I had a place like Tesco where I am. Most likely the reason Tesco is reducing choices is because stocking more SKUs is expensive, but at the end of the day the customer buys the same quantity of cheese. Choice is fantastic for the consumer, particularly the consumer with minority tastes. If you are an Indian or Nigerian person living in the UK and you are hungry for some home food, Tesco's got you covered.

I'm not even going to discuss the blatant cheerleading for state monopolies and Corbyn.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/is-the-famous-parad...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9cebd444-cd9c-11de-8162-00144feabd...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/more-is-...
Yes.

But the guard code are just macros, so... ;)

But I do believe that Erlang underneath does have actual limits.
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yea, really weird stuff here
For as far as I can tell, the solution is that whenever there is a choice to be made, all choices are made and you get separate branches/parallell universe bubbles that expand at the speed of light, interacting (or not) with other universe bubbles. The bubble in which entangled electron A had spin up interacts with the other in which electron B had spin down and vice versa.

So essentially you have an ever growing set of merging and splitting history branches, always growing for every point in space, continously.

I've got no idea how to make that work for your example of polarizers, or for the example of delayed quantum eraser experiments, etc... The surface of the bubbles apparantly have to carry all of that information and there must be some mechanism for them to decide which ones interact with which others.
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Sounds to me like VW or Nvidia:

(Why so fast)

"On the downside I did not validate the unused side-structures. I think it is not necessary to validate data you are not using. So basically I only scan them so much as to find where they end. Granted it is a bit of optimization for a benchmark, but is actually handy in real-life as well."
This is really extremely nice. Some questions:

I noticed that after adding a folder to the library, it simply adds all the filepaths in that folder to lib.pl. It doesn't cache any of the metadata. This means that it has to rescan everytime. I'm wondering what thoughts went into that design decision. On the one hand, it's very easy to manage, since it's just a list of files. On the other hand, for large collections, startup time can be considerable. I have 109GiB of music, but with a top of the line SSD, it only took ten or fifteen seconds to scan the whole thing, which isn't bad.

On a similar note, it appears that because it adds all the files to the lib.pl file, and not the top level directory I added, it doesn't have any support for noticing when new files are added to my ~/music folder. This means I have to re-add ~/music when I add files to it. I guess that's not too bad. And I assume it won't add duplicates or anything if I re-add the root level directory. But what about when I remove items? Will it be smart enough to detect that they're not there? (An algorithm like: "I just traversed a directory for which there is an existing file entry in lib.pl, but during this traversal I didn't see it. I should therefore remove it.")
And here some of the other side--that the paradox of choice might be s myth: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/more-is-...
> If you're not going to do it, who will?

And if you're hit by a bus, then what? The company goes under? People shouldn't exactly be replaceable, but they also shouldn't be carrying the entire company on their shoulders. No wonder they get burnt out.
Well, that's 7.2 minutes I'll never get back. Who's stupid now, brah?
You can't control what the value will be or when it will open/close. It isn't a detectable "push event" like in computer systems.
It's a paradigm shift compared to the usual approach to programming, so I don't think it is for everybody, and realistically, it doesn't have to be.

For me, the most useful thing about learning some of this is that while I never, in practice, do fully formal proofs, I make informal arguments for correctness as I write and I think about what it would take to formalize them - what is the invariant, preconditions etc. here? For the tricky bits, I will write out an informal argument for correctness and include it as a comment.

According to the article, Praxis is not using formal proofs exclusively, or even predominately, and is using Z mainly for the precise expression of ideas, while keeping them free of unnecessary implementation detail (in other words, for abstraction.)
Because whether the spin is up or down when you observe it is completely random. Both observers at either end would believe they looked at it first without any other information, and the stream of bits would be completely random AND 100% correlated with other.
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You've never stood in a supermarket and watched someone agonize for 10 minutes over which $5 sandwich.
The thing I don't understand about the demo on the web page is that, those students, they weren't wearing magic leap's device, how did they see the augmented whale? what did they cheer at?
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Just eat your fruits and veggies.
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From the article: you’re standing before a towering aisle of water bottles, paralysed and increasingly dehydrated, unable to choose looks like the definition of Buridan's ass to me.

I'm familiar with the Schwartz's paradox of choice, but the author is pushing it too far. Does anyone really agonize over trivial choices such as which bottle of water to buy? Is anyone really getting dehydrated and unable to chose among many alternatives? Does anyone even considers opportunity cost when making such trivial choices?

My problem is not with the paradox of choice, my problem is with the author's trivialization of it.
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Look at U+2000-2008:

M M -- en quad

M M -- em quad

M M -- en space

M M -- em space

M M -- three-per-em space

M M -- four-per-em space

M M -- six-per-em space

M M -- figure space

M M -- punctuation space

I think you want either 2001 - em quad or 2007 - figure space
Any plans to add PayPal?
It actually baffles me that most Japanese men dress that way. Japanese clothes (for men) are much better suited to the Japanese climate. Women's clothes are another matter. A kimono (well "kimono" just means "clothes", but you know what I mean) is complicated to wear and can be uncomfortable. My wife enjoys wearing them, though and will wear one whenever she gets a chance (she is Japanese). I work from home, so I very often work in Japanese clothes. If I was working in an office, bizarrely I wouldn't have that choice. A suit is the only thing acceptable, except in summer where you can wear an open collar white dress shirt without a coat or tie. I can't understand what is wrong with hakama and haori, though. Not business-like :-P. But when I've worked in offices, I never complained. I guess I'm becoming Japanese ;-)
Interesting reading, but this threw me a little:

>meta tag This is probably the most common option. [...] If you do this, it's important that it's the very first element in the head.

...and a bit later on:

>If you're going to specify a viewport size, do it at the very top of the head.

@nateberkopec and other people much smarter than I: which is it?

Edit x2: clarity.
To your point, I'd say two of his best signings in recent memory were Cech and Özil -- both mature players who were already recognized as hugely talented on the international level.

However in fairness to Wegner, I think Danny Welbeck was identified to be a potential "hidden gem" but unfortunately he has been plauged by injuries. And it's hard to criticize one for being unable to find the likes of Henry.
It's amazing how many people think that Quantum Mechanic's "two states" (e.g. in the Schrödinger's cat example [1]) just mean "it's actually in one state, and we just don't know which until we look".

You don't need quantum mechanics for that. That's an ordinary cat (dead or alive) put in a box by someone else without telling you, e.g. the very classical, and intuitive "I don't know yet" thing we deal with in everyday life -- which poses absolutely no problem and no questions about the nature of the universe, the kind quantum mechanics do.

The "two states" in QM is a different beast. It's not "a box we don't know yet what's inside".

[1] Well, actually all possible states, but let's stop at the simplified 2 state cat example.
I like Steve Blank's definition of startup:

"A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."

So, by definition, you don't know how much it's worth using traditional valuation methods you'd use for "normal" companies, so investors use other indicators like growth, number of users, etc. (which can be gamed).

As the grandparent post states, "unicorns" are companies that already have a repeatable business model, so they should start to be looked at differently.

It's in the "unicorn's" best interests to be valued as a startup for as long as possible, that's one reason they cling to the title far after it's not applicable. It's also a status symbol :) , but it sounds silly when people talk about their "10 year old startup".
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I suppose different people may answer your questions in different ways, depending on how they define words like "proof" and "correct". I would answer like this: the proof was correct, but it was solving the wrong problem (unbounded ints rather than bounded).

Inside a formal system it's relatively easy to understand what's going on; the real difficulties are at the boundaries: how do we build a formal model of a real system, and how do we translate formal results back to the original system? It's a lot like programming: manipulating data is easy, the problems are getting the right data and interpreting what the output means.

In this case, the model didn't capture overflow; so the proof is valid for that model, but it's not a useful model for Java's ints.
Reminds me of PaintStrap. When I tried Strapping, my Chrome seems to get overwhelmed and lock up.
I was responsible for a 10^6 views/day (due to most traffic being daytime, comes out to 10-20 req/sec) website running on Django. I went through hell arriving at this solution because the system was in disarray when I took over and deployed on an expensive cloud solution (so resources were limited). Finally I just put my foot down and demanded we buy servers instead, we would have more bare metal by a factor of 4 than we needed and we would pay only a fraction of what we did for the previous "solution". I could provision all the VMs I wanted, provided I didn't break the host.

I arrived at this procedure: Spin up a dyno, worker, caches and warm everything up. Run smoketests to validate everything from the app-server onwards is lit and firing on all cylinders. Redirect nginx traffic to the new setup. If everything turns to shit in a second, reverse traffic change and re-evaluate. If everything works and nothing is broken after an hour, take the old dynos/workers/caches offline.

The trick was if there were migrations that broke the older version that you did it in 2 or more steps to isolate the changed model interactions.

And nobody should be using gunicorn, it's way less performant than uWSGI (citing:http://blog.kgriffs.com/2012/12/18/uwsgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-node...).
I agree completely with this review of the current state of development for atom.

I believe one of the biggest issues today is their choice of going with coffeescript - for everything ( including package development! ). If we want to involve the largest audience possible - then there is no doubt that - people have to go with javascript. They do support ES6 ( using babel ) - but as a pure javascript developer the documentation being in coffeescript means that - I have to go and translate coffeescript documentations to js and then understand how to actually use any particular api.

Having atleast a pure js documentation - would definitely help quite a lot.
Thank you. It does explain what I was missing from the video.
They should try pig's blood. Isn't that easily available from a butcher or similar?

That said, it would be funny if they were just low on iron or something. They should have their blood tested for deficiencies.
Character encoding, then viewport tag.

Really, the viewport tag just needs to be before any CSS - external or inlined.
What was the nvidia thing? I recall http://techreport.com/review/3089/how-ati-drivers-optimize-q... , but that was ATI.
Freedom of choice is what we got

Freedom from choice is what we want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU
Buying decisions can have so many confounding variables (emotion, status, cost, quality) this article draws some very loose conclusions on relatively little data. Less choice can be an interesting A/B test for a business, but I wouldn't be surprised if results feel more random than this article suggests.
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The general approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments#A_typica...

Then there's this: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2464#comment-829791 (also read the comment by Scott just below that one, as well as the full post)

I can't provide any ELI5
Thanks for the encouragement. Had a bit of fun getting it to build correctly[0], but got there in the end! Would love to create a new Deb package but haven't done it before, am short on time etc. - maybe another day.

[0] - https://github.com/cmus/cmus/issues/347
Got it - thank you for clarifying.
> Recreational drugs are not inherently any more dangerous than the chemicals produced for medicinal use.

That is true, but the general public creates its view on perceptions. Recreational drugs are frowned upon in many societies. In some (often primitive) societies the same substances may even be revered. But much of the world is very averse to psychoactive drugs in the popular opinion.

Same is true for other chemicals in our environment, too. For instance, it is common that people (even the same people) have a negative attitude towards a company that sells alcohol for human consumption (recreational use for intoxication) and a positive attitude towards a company that sells alcohol for use as fuel (biofuel, a renewable source of energy).

(And it is also common that people approve of drinking alcohol but do not approve of smoking marijuana, regardless of legality. And vice versa.)
If you seriously want no downtime you should never touch-reload. ALWAYS spin up new infrastructure, smoketest, switch the loadbalancer. You might run into problems with load you didn't see from testing but you can reverse and minimize downtime.
Low interest rates are forcing asset allocators who have high (7-8%) nominal return targets into PE/VC

I go over the logic of this here, many seem to miss it: https://medium.com/@emad/asset-allocation-not-share-prices-w...

(my background: hedge fund manager/strategist with clients like those mentioned in article)
Agreed. I could be traveling around the world, or alternatively I can just load up MapCrunch and look up some random street views (albeit that they always include a street).
How are you different from Buffer?
As always, I am a day late and a dollar short, so I don't know if you'll read this, but here is a feature request:

1: Allow people to import their facebook friends
2: Set up a script they can download that will block fb on their hosts for *nix, osx and win platforms.
3: Set up a step by step guide on how to download all their data and completely delete their facebook account.
4: ???
5: You profit by being responsible for creating the world's newest, largest decentralised social network
It's an interesting thought for sure. Another is that there is the one-electron universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
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Gotta disagree there. Take the game against Bayern a couple of days ago - he knew that Guardiola prefers to play possession football so he let him do that. Arsenal defended deep in response, hitting Bayern on the counter and reaped a 2-0 result. He certainly exploited the flaws in Bayern's game.
> No, that's exactly why they're not needed. You can't prevent those things, period, get used to it and adapt because no matter how many idiotic technical measures

So your logic is that since people will do it anyways, we don't need the laws? Do you have any idea how that sounds from a logic standpoint? "People will always murder other people, so the laws on murder are useless. Let's get rid of them".

What kind of logic is that?

> but it will inconvenience / trample rights / disenfranchise everybody else.

Yeah, just like the laws regarding food safety inconvenience the people in the industry. "Making sure our food doesn't have salmonella before we ship it to our retailers is such an inconvenience! We should do away with those regulations."

I'm sorry, but you're beginning to regurgitate libertarian nonsense. There's a reason why libertarianism never made it out of the 1800s. It's because it's an old-fashioned ideology for an old-fashioned world. It would never work in today's globalized world. Hell, it never worked period ...the fact it hasn't persisted is proof enough.
For visualiser, you might like https://github.com/karlstav/cava

For libcaca, see mpv's or mplayer's "-vo caca" flag.
Auto is just a keyword to invoke/assist type inference in the parser -- the objects are still statically typed. C++ 11x (or however it's called) uses the same.

You were probably thinking of something like the "dynamic" type that C# has.
>He was going for rhetorical effect.

I guess I'm having a bad day and the author's malcolmgladwellization of the paradox of choice was too much...
Pushing early adoption of a platform is bad for the platform and users alike
I still don’t get it. ELI5?
Does she optimize for the best pension for employees, or for the cheapest plan up front?

Or the one who's friendly sales guy took the HR people out to a nice steak dinner.

(Actually kind of how it happens now with 401ks. One big benefit of shifting jobs regularly is that you can rollover your 401k - chosen via the steak dinner method - into an IRA and just buy ETFs.)
We've had quite a few posting about this story in the last few days. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=lives%20in%20a%20truck&sort=by... . There are 90 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422976 .

I don't understand the furor. This sort of thing has always happened. Here's an HN thread from earlier this year about secretly living in the office for 500 days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481017 . A couple of comments refer to people sleeping in parking lots.
So the Perry expedition counts as systematic oppression to you? A forced treaty between two countries?

For cultural appropriation to happen you'd first have to live in the same country, not at other sides of the world.
TTIP and similar deals fucks it up for the rest of us as well.

I say a maximum of 25 years free copyright (i'd rather see something like 5-10 years), and then progressively increasing fees that start becoming crazy after something like ten years.

Then use that money to finance culture.
they have symptoms and have found a way to improve their symptoms. they are reaosnable about it. there don't appear to be stories of assault for blood drinking (at least in the article). it doesn't really fit with craziness as in strange beliefs, delusions of grandeur, psychosis, etc.

except for the ones who sleep in coffins. stay away from the ones who sleep in coffins...
I use ubuntu, and haven't noticed any performance issues. What sorts of things did your friend report?

Edit: I have a model with 8GB RAM and SSD, but some models have less RAM and solid-state drives.
Rocket Internet is renowned for being a Fast follower - they see an idea they like and build a copy of it; for example they started Wimdu which has had moderate success competing with AirBnB in some European countries. Obviously I'd probably bet AirBnB is bigger than Wimdu even in Germany.

I really enjoyed working in Berlin for a few months though, it was excellent fun and I had an enormous apartment all to myself for about a third of the cost for the same thing in London.
And apparently, you have no idea what type inference is. ;)
what magic (ie applications) might come from this? Not challenging; hopefully inquiring.
Why are the bigger stores so popular then? I actually like choosing the product that I think has the best price/quality ratio. I compare prices per unit of weight and everything. In the end I'm satisfied that I made a seemingly rational choice. When there's only one choice I can't help but feel it must be overpriced since there's nothing else to compare it to.