skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10/10 using the fade-out at the end. Choice of clip is a poor example of the benefits of higher sample depth, because the dynamics are relatively constant and there are a lot of noisy overtones.

Having $700 headphones helps, too.
>"Vitamin C treatment significantly reduced tumor growth compared to vehicle control treatment (Fig. 2B)."

This is a perfect example of what is wrong with biomed research. Just because the null hypothesis of no difference is rejected does not mean it is for your favorite reason. There are other reasons for this difference. For example, as mentioned above, perhaps the initial tumor size was different (which we cannot see since the size of the points in figure 2 correspond to ~50 mm^3 on the y axis).
Your experiences are in stark contrast to mine. Keep in mind that we're a country of 35 mil. people and that we compete with countries ten and twenty times our size. Sure we're risk-averse, but I'd prefer that over crapping out off-the-shelf delivery apps every 6 months like SF.

Honestly, from being in the industry in Toronto for 5 years now, the "top talent" that leaves is anything but. Just title-chasers waving expensive degrees. My director just left for SF to build "spotify, but for food. It'll totally be great man." Yeah, great talent there!
It was already assumed that American eels breed in the Sargasso Sea. But that's a pretty big target[0][1]. The glass eels, or baby eels are really only valuable to eel farmers, you wouldn't eat them.

[0] http://sustany.org/local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-s...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea
In a few years I think we will look back on how today's dentists look after teeth with shock, similar to how we do now knowing that they used to treat depression with a frontal lobotomy.

"They used to DRILL your teeth? And if that didn't work they yanked them out of your jaw?"

It all seems so low tech.
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Just keep going. One page at a time (easier to do if you employ 2 bookmarks in a paper book). It will begin to gel. Just focus on how funny it is, rather than what's going on. It is very much worth the effort.
So influxdb is now ready to be used as prometheus long time storage?
No, it doesn't. (Even if we were looking at it from the perspective of the country before same sex marriage was made legal.)

Changing all the specific legal benefits, privileges, and obligations of marriage to be "marriage or partnership" makes less sense than changing the admission criteria for marriage.

I mean, this is a tech forum, right, think about it from DRY perspective.
Incorrect. Sharepoint is Satan's wiki. Confluence is amazing in comparison (and it's not too bad in absolute terms to be honest).
Find people who do truly care about you; learn to truly see and care about others; those are the most important relationships.
Is $300m in Revenue the New $100m?
The problem is you would never reach the point of a vote. You could never reach the needed compromises with hundreds of people trying to serve their own interests at every step.
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This why the US is a republic and not a democracy.
Anybody who walks in pushing some personal agenda tends to be a bit of a red flag. The article doesn't really take that into account.

It's a shame because it would be interesting to know how it would have turned out had they not wore the hats. Or maybe the control group could have taken a year off to go skydiving on the resume and worn a hat that said "I love skydiving"
Well the legal status of the road certainly seems to have a complicated history, tied up with a very large failed development project in the 60s called Marincello:

http://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/44...

http://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/12...
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If I understand correctly, I believe a "digital native" to be the equivalent of a "millennial" or a "gen y" person. If so, no, 30 is not too late to be a "digital native".

This would typically be people born 1983 or after. If you are 30, you are more than likely a "digital native".
Thought I'd hop in here for everyone who isn't satisfied with Confluence (or think it's the preferred publishing method of the devil).

My startup's building wiki software that's targeted at small groups to start who want a team wiki (instead of having to post everything to the entire corporation). The idea is to really focus on making the publishing and discussion experiences delightful.

I'd love to chat with anyone who is thinking about setting up a wiki for their startup or team My email is andy@tettra.co and the site is http://tettra.co.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532793 and marked it off-topic.
Can you suggest a better term that would enable a speaker to convey a generally identifiable demographic?
One more thing: For your career, look up the concept of "career capital" - that is what you want to focus on developing at the beginning, much more than your income.
It still seems like many (not all) of those are major world events, or stories that involve the US (Volkswagen, the FBI, Jeb Bush, Libor, etc.) And that's a section about 50 different countries.

If I look at the Le Monde Americas section (http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/) I count 12 stories about the US in the last 4 days, the majority of which have very little relevance to the rest of the world. There's lots about Keystone, the University of Missouri racism scandal, the Seattle gum wall thing, etc.

I'm not saying Americans don't care about the rest of the world or that the news doesn't report on stuff outside our borders, but comparing US news about Europe to European news about the US is sort of proving my point. I think Europeans tend to know more about the US than Americans know about any one European country.

Also, this discussion is specifically focused on culture. I see maybe one or two culture-related articles on that NYTimes page, and pretty much no non-US articles in the Arts section. I think all the articles there about foreign artists are specifically about what they're doing in the US.

Whereas Le Monde, while of course it's focused on French culture, has Fallout 4, YouTube, a couple American art auctions, James Bond (maybe that's cheating though), Justin Bieber, and more. US culture is everywhere, and no one country or even continent gets that much space in American newspapers.

Finally, since I'm now realizing that picking a newspaper called "The World" might have biased my results, L'Express and Le Figaro seem to have similar amounts of American politics and culture.
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How Facebook puts petabytes of old cat pix on ice in the name of sustainability
Wikipedia has a better translation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demain_d%C3%A8s_l%27aube
For those looking for more context, here's the Google research blog post:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/11/tensorflow-google...
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"Reliable business" is a double edged sword in this case because reliable also means predictable. A lot of blue chip companies get their high valuation because the public can see the potential but not completely so. Whereas companies like Splunk or Hortonworks it's pretty much predictable how they will keep making money (at least for the next couple of years assuming that nothing surprising will happen)
Note, I'm not talking about Russia, the current somewhat democratic country, but the USSR.

The oil and gas trade is good for both sides. It's not like Russia is some benevolent country that provides for others, they sell resources for money and influence.

But soviet rule was shit. It institutionalized a system and a whole kind of thinking that was unsustainable, which then devolved into chaos.
In Constitutional structure, the US is both a (democratic, federal) republic and a (representative) democracy, it is not, by design, "a republic and not a democracy".

Cynically, one might argue that it is, in practice, a (plutocratic) republic and not a democracy, I suppose.
I don't understand. Aren't collisions why a hash of any kind isn't sufficient for proving equality of inputs?
The thing with Atlassian's whole stack, I've found after nearly 5 years administering them, is that how the users perceive it depends entirely on how it's run.

That applies to nearly everything they make, Jira, Confluence, the whole lot.

It's possible, and very very easy, to set up a shitty Confluence wiki, and some of the details of its performance are not exactly obvious. It takes a bit more work to set up one that's both well liked and easy to use.

If I had it to do over again, I'd still pick Confluence over MediaWiki every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Life's too short to deal with wiki markup by hand.
I don't know, but if you find some, let me know so I can give them my money.
Many of the tweets are in English and they're not hard to find. See https://twitter.com/PSaramo/status/613739897552281600 In addition, each tweet does have a "view translation" button; useful since many of the tweets are also in Swedish or Russian.

I have to say I don't understand your comment. I was quite careful in my original comment to simply answer the grandparent factually, saying Saramo is too smart to say things that are easily debunked -- Finland has a different political discourse than the US. Instead, like you are doing in this comment, he casts doubt on the original reporting (as in the linked English-language tweet above). I provided some background and several articles that illustrate the conflict as it's being played out in the mainstream and social media, without taking either side, and you have implied a number of things about what you are sure I was trying to say.

Interesting.
This is from 2010.

Facebook uses HTTPS for everything now, right?
Eventually, somebody would notice the car there and remove it by tow truck. Most garages need parking passes or have assigned numbers or something. When someone complains is usually when someone gets towed.
> Atlassian started in Australia, a country where technology is generally considered a scam to separate idiots from their wallets

sorry, can you explain this further? i don't know much about australia but this seems strange for a 'western' country, especially one in the british commonwealth.
Indeed, my mother visited Berlin during the 60s or 70s and was surprised by how many buildings lay in ruin or bore obvious marks of the war. Warsaw was immaculate by comparison. (For those who don't know, Warsaw was intentionally flattened by the Germans in almost its entirety.) Most of the rubble had been cleared away and much of the city had been rebuilt, albeit according to new socialist principles and styles. Only a fraction of the pre-war architecture was rebuilt (most famously the Old Town). I'm sure a difference in politics in both cities played a role—the communist regime in Poland had been the most "liberal" of the Eastern Bloc—but I don't know for certain what the exact causes were.
Step 1 is to find a client. Talk to the large and small companies you've worked for, and see if there are any large problems that they haven't been able to solve.

You only need 1 client to get started, and you can use them to springboard you to more. The demand doesn't matter if you can't find one client.

Do this first, and then worry about client 2 after you get client 1.
> The whole point of the Pono player is to have higher quality hardwhere everywhere, including pre-amps and DACs so you have a chance to hear subtle differences.

Yes, hardware quality might make a difference in fidelity. Still, 16 bit CD-quality audio is enough. The marketing of the Pono player with 24bit/196kHz is just nonsense.

And of course any listening test requires quality hardware to make sure it can actually reproduce the test-signal correctly.

> The pre-existing harmonic distortion will only serve to mask any distortion and fidelity loss from truncating to 8bit.

With dithering, smaller sample depths only decrease the signal to noise ratio. There are no distortions. The sample is chosen "badly" (but that was by design) because it contains little to no dynamics.
Novamin is a great way to remineralize teeth. Similar to Recaldent (found in Trident Extra Strength.) It's basically a type of micro-glass that slowly remineralizes teeth with continued use.

GSK bought Sensodyne a couple years ago and removed it from all the US Sensodyne toothpastes. Only way to get it in the US is to order from overseas, or to get a prescription from a dentist.

As much as I don't like to be that "conspiracy guy" it's kind of convenient for them to buy the product, remove it from over-the-counter, mark it up, and allow insurance to pay for a prescription strength version..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NovaMin
So, with Saturn-5 only 15% was dry mass - and with Skylon 20%? That's 33% increase. Moreover, Saturn-5 was staged - and Skylon is single-stage, and have single stage to orbit with 20% dry mass looks somewhat like a miracle.
A better solution would have been to just block your own driveway.
A secret larger than 10,000 is not useful -- since the multiplication is mod 10,000, the first digit of the secret could be ignored anyway (54321 = 5 * 10000 + 4321 === 4321 mod 10000).
I'd be tempted fly a bag of cheap phones under a kite.. "The tracking system says there's a gang of people gathering... What?!? Now they're hovering over the water?!?"
Discourse was released in 2013 making it around 2 years old. I would hardly say the discrepancy he's showing is negligible and mostly attributable to bad code.
Protolabs, 3M, Honeywell, Medtronic
10/10 too by listening to the fade-out, with a bluetooth headset.
Depends on the brain. There are people with faster metabolic rates or as one paper detailed some time ago that people with very good eye sight had to paid a higher price in terms of energy spent.
Eh.

Ok, if you must, I actually agree that programmers should stop calling themselves engineers. Like I've said before here on HN, I don't think it helps us (programmers). We should own our title and wear it with pride. Taking someone else's title does two bad things - first, it opens programmers to the charge that they are insecure and are misappropriating someone else's hard earned title and reputation. Second, it may give engineers (the PE kind) the impression that they have some claim on software development. That last part is important, because I would prefer not to see software regulated by the PE exams (though my objection to this diminished greatly when they went to much more industry specific exams).

I consider software development to be a genuinely difficult task, one that can push very smart people past the edge of their own capabilities. It can be intensely creative, and the stakes can be very high. However, I think we should just consider it to be its own thing.

Now, all that said, I'll go back to my first statement: eh. In a world of train engineers, special effects or sound engineers, financial engineers, pft. Calling someone who reads a book on PHP (or buys one but doesn't read it) and throws up a bug ridden website an "engineer" seems a bit of a stretch, but is it really so outrageous to call someone who has spend decades learning to design highly complex, scalable, performant software applications that need to be reliable in a high stakes environment an "engineer"? Is that really such an egregious use of the word?

Like I said, I'd rather software developers redirect that impressive accomplishment back to the word "programmer" or "developer", but in the end, this whole thing is completely overblown.
Some did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
In Soviet-satellite East Germany, car drives you!
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I don't think it's changed recently? But we're working on it.
This is the convention in mathematics.

From the AMS statement on The Culture of Research and Scholarship in Mathematics:
"For this reason, mathematicians traditionally list authors on joint papers in alphabetical order. An analysis of journal articles with at least one U.S. based author shows that nearly half were jointly authored. Of these, more than 75% listed the authors in alphabetical order. In pure mathematics, nearly all joint papers (over 90%) list authors alphabetically."

http://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/CultureStateme...
This is a terrible source material for this kind of test. The biggest audible difference between 8 bit and 16 bit, assuming the same sample rate, is the noise floor. But, this source material is LOUD throughout, which masks the noise floor. It is in dynamic material that bit depth makes an audible difference. The prior listening test used Gangnam Style, which is also loud and lacking in dynamics that would reveal audible distortion due to low bit depth.

The thing is that I agree with Monty on the (lack of) need for 24/196 audio for consumers. My degree is in audio, and I (mostly) understand the physics of the thing (and have done tons of blind listening experiments in controlled environments using professional equipment, as well as using high quality measurement tools for spectrum analysis, etc.). But, this particular test isn't really a useful proof that we don't need 24 bit and 196k. It only proves that loud material can mask noise, even at 8 bits.

Using a more dynamic Neil Young song would have been a better choice. Maybe Old Man, or similar. Acoustic guitar is good for allowing one to discern audio equipment flaws. It is commonly the source material people use when trying to rate good pieces of equipment that have very small differences across a very broad price spectrum (microphones, preamps, etc.).

Nonetheless, I got 8/10 right using crappy ear buds in a noisy place, which isn't much better than random chance. I'm pretty confident I'd be able to recognize 8 bit vs 16 bit on any reasonably dynamic source played on good equipment in a good listening environment. But, I also know I can't recognize 16 bit vs 24 bit (I've tested), and I know Neil Young can't either. Neil Young was around for the era when ADC/DAC quality was very poor; it actually was true that many early digital recordings were inferior to the very high end analog recordings of the time. And, it's even true that when recording, mixing, and mastering, it is useful to work at higher bit depths (because there's a lot of summing, raising the noise floor each time; though that may just mean you need to process at 24 or 32 bits, rather than actually record at higher depths).

It seems obvious, to me, that the reason most music sounds like shit is because of the loudness wars (dynamics reduction), lossy compression (cramming a lot of music down tiny network pipes), and the low quality of most people's listening equipment and environment. Those factors utterly dwarf the noise floor of 16 bit audio, and completely nullify any frequency advantages of higher bit rates (even if we could hear them).

In short: Pono is elitist bullshit, as most audiophile stuff is.
Only time I've ever run into XML hell on Confluence is when dealing with imported pages. Their automated import tool is neat, but it leaves you with some cleanup to do since not all of the markup from $wikiPackage transfers cleanly to Confluence macros.

Combine this with the fact that there's no error handler for broken pages - if the XML that makes a page work is invalid on the back end, the page just straight up won't render and has to be fixed another way. (Which sucks, but as I said, this is not a thing most people will ever encounter). It's not possible to generate invalid XML using the WYSIWYG editor, but plenty possible if you're using either the code editor, or plugins that do strange things.

The logs are chatty as hell and you'll generally get stack traces for even completely benign problems/notices. That's one thing I wish they'd deal with, but it's pretty minor.

If you're getting error-level stack traces and XML nonsense on a daily basis, something is terribly wrong in your instance. That is simply not standard behavior, and I'm kind of curious what their support people are telling you.

(Shoot me an email if you're comfortable doing so - I may be able to help you out)
abolishing private land ownership has problems -- who decides how the land gets used? Ownership enables execution.

Property taxes are a way to recover some rent from the property owner, while still enabling the independent decision making that capitablism relies on for its productive success
The captions on these photos tell a bit more of the story:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/35182

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1247442

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/102054

There's also a wiki entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerfield_Estate_and_Links).

So on further examination, It looks increasingly like this is an American-style gated community for the wealthy, and that the new home-owners probably wouldn't even know what an angle grinder is, much less which end was safe to hold. And on further examination of the fence, one pair of bolt cutters and enough time to make 20 unmolested snips would be sufficient to restore the previous state of the locals' Allemansratten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam).

There's also this amusing article: http://www.scotsman.com/news/pub-tycoon-hit-by-new-fences-ba...

And this: https://www.scotways.com/court-cases/181-archerfield-access-...
The recommendation to go to Lake Hollywood for a view of the sign instead is an odd one. The access road to the reservoir is even more twisty and narrow than Beachwood Canyon.
Unfortunately, not everyone is in the position of privilege where they can afford to be discriminated against.
Of course the man/woman/kids abstraction leaks - many cultures use marriage to describe the legal union of old people, infertile people, and people who just plain don't want to have kids.
From the FAQ[1]:

The conditioning step takes about four minutes to perform currently and, once optimized, the remineralization step will take about 20 minutes. The whole treatment will be comparable to the typical time scheduled for current drill and fill procedures.

[1] http://www.reminova.com/faqs
But he was in his 90's. Really, the only way to test if it worked is to make him relive his life without vitamin C :-)
can anybody tell me if this can calculate the gradients of a conditional graph? (something that is not implemented in theano which gives me a huge headache right now)
Because people don't need any encouraging to do those things. From a dentists point of view there's no scarcity of poor dental decisions, so they don't need to artificially try to create them.
> Keep in mind that we're a country of 35 mil. people and that we compete with countries ten and twenty times our size. Sure we're risk-averse, but I'd prefer that over crapping out off-the-shelf delivery apps every 6 months like SF.

I don't really see size of the country as en excuse in this case. We have the same or better ability to pull talent from overseas, and free trade visas with the US work both ways. SF produces a ton of shit, but they also end up with actually impressive tech companies. Canada has really no answer to that.

> Honestly, from being in the industry in Toronto for 5 years now, the "top talent" that leaves is anything but. Just title-chasers waving expensive degrees.

um okay. Apparently going to work on interesting stuff for a big tech company for 50% more money (more now, the dollar is tanking again) makes me a title chaser.
Is it not possible to dampen phonons before they will break the thread? You probably don't need to have vary long monomolecular threads, you can have many shorter ones weaved in a thicker rope.