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Former MLB Player Jason Giambi Takes a Swing at Virtual Reality
This applies for jobs outside of technology, but the unfortunate part my household is finding out is that even if you get a name brand institution on your resume, moving to an area with very scarce jobs like most areas in the South outside an international airport means your credentials don't matter perhaps as much as your last name because the tier of jobs you're looking for with a solid middle class job is the .1%er jobs of big cities equivalently.
Thanks I'll check it out
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With face-recognition software using CCTV cameras pointed at your face while in the checkout lane they will recognize and profile you, credit card or cash, WiFi or no WiFi. At least, the technology is there.
I think soon enough, citizens of England will realize there's a problem. I don't think they can take this concept to its logical conclusion.
No flying kites? Isn't that what we were saying you couldn't do under Taliban control about 5 years ago and laughing at how ludicrous it was?

Nice to see tens of millions of public money going on vanity projects like this with ridiculous baggage attached to it.

The £20mm public loan over a 50 year period sounds interesting. I wonder what interest rate they are getting on that. I would LOVE to see it. Maybe I'll do a FOI request. If I could bet on it, I'd bet they have a pretty swell deal.
Is it possible to formulate category theory without set theory?
This. Article ends with:
> But Cantley says it may be possible to make an oral formulation that reaches high doses in the blood—which may be one way to get companies interested in sponsoring trials.
Bit authoritarian makes tracking everyone's phone meta seem tame - and don't give the Home Secretary Ideas :-)
My solution to this problem was to find a remote job.
What? I'm not saying they are jerks. I'm pointing out that it is harder for existing projects to track the changes in the market place. It is hard for a new open source project to launch and build up enough of a community to be viable.
"A country can withdraw any time, on six months’ notice."

Why not give notice now? Who exactly has this power? This is incredibly vague.
That's what email is for already. An out-of-office message just reiterates the fact that email is not reliable and not time-sensitive anyway. There's no point. Every single email could have an out-of-office message, saying if you need urgent help to call/text/send something else.
Well, he was 93 years old. That's still kind of beating the odds in a way.
Bug Compatibility
Majorgeeks is excellent. However, their refusal to accept money to distribute crapware means they are extremely dependent on donations. ISTR they were having to lay off staff...
Perhaps technology has advanced too fast for the "culture".
Perhaps we should design our intentions before we build the tech, and not the other way around. Look at NASA for inspiration on design and forethought.
It's also strangely in that sweet spot of big city that you have to drive everywhere in. It's in the top couple good case studies of mid-20th century American urban planning.

I mean, that light rail system is just, man. It's no wonder the Twin Cities are (one of) the most bike friendly cities in the country -- if you're not driving somewhere it's the only other way to reliably get where you're going in reasonable time :)
Google Offers Free Software in Bid to Gain an Edge in Machine Learning
Actually a bigger problem is that his advice is just straight up hard to follow. If correctly valuing public companies were easy, the market would be a lot less volatile.
I hope they intend to add back the decoration. Comparing the photos the old building had character, but the new one is all blocks and smooth faces.
Another example would be great!
When I lived there it irritated me a great deal, not that I minded hiking up the hill but the residents are very aggressive. They'll stop you if you even walking along the road, that kind of thing gets me worked up.

I thought about confronting the issue but figured I don't need to waste my time or money on such endeavors.
You're looking for "litotes" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes
I think that is a different problem than what this solves, as this tries to make it easy to enforce a code style for a project across multiple editors, while shortcuts are inherently more personal and editor-specific.
You want the truth? You cant handle the truth
Wasn't there an old standard for text format strings that could be placed at the end of source files that would be understood by Vim and Emacs? I never used it, but this reminds me of it.
What Is Polycentric Law?
I posted this question over at math stackexchange after the thread about category theory and haskell from yesterday[1].

I found Carl Mummert's answer especially illuminating and definitely recommend reading it. He compares category theory to a strongly typed language, and set theory to a weakly typed one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527428
I think this is a duplicate post as this article is already posted and discussed here.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529716.
You're talking about two different types of games: Games of Sport vs. Games of Immersion

The difference: Context

Starcraft multiplayer is a Game of Sport, where character and story are nonexistent and mechanics/"interaction" are all that matters in a game of chess completely removed from any context other than the tournament you are playing in.

Switch over to campaign mode and the context becomes the story line and plot. Sure, the game still relies on mechanics but you advance through different scenarios where you meet new characters, form alliances, explore new worlds, and even switch sides and play as a different race based on the plot of the story. Solo play is a Game of Immersion.

The Dark Souls franchise has a good balance of the two. You advance across the world (semi) linearly in a movie-like fashion, learning about the various NPCs and lore of the world. You are also regularly invaded by other players, and then the game becomes completely mechanics/interaction-based until one of you wins the duel.

You're basically arguing that video games are/should be more like a football game than a movie. They can span both forms of entertainment, and people will choose to engage with one or the other based on personal preferences.
That already happens. Bills are written in mostly private negotiations between legislators. They are made public before they get voted on. They can amend the bills in Congress because amendments are voted by the same people who will approve or reject. If legislators in America, Canada, Japan, Vietnam all offere amendments, it's essentially going back to the drawing board of international negotiations.
I always do it both to preserve battery and for privacy (and I never turned on location services) but a customer of mine, in the business of counting people entering and leaving stores, told me that about 60 to 80% of people has WiFi turned on all the time. That was a surprise. I would have taken a zero off those figures if I were to guess.
In terms of raw impact on life, probably the Japanese language.

In terms of "clearly weaponizable in one's business/career", it's "measurement and leverage" from PG's wealth essay. http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

In terms of "things which I wish I had known when I was much younger", I'll pick "In most things you will become the average of your five closest friends, so choose your peer group carefully." and "Dating is a sales and marketing exercise, with all that that implies." (Granted, telling myself that when I knew nothing about sales or marketing probably wouldn't have helped that much.)
> You can store SAXified time series in ElasticSearch, or Solr but time-series database doesn't fit for this.

That's making some presumptions about the time-series database use case. SAX is convenient for storing and retrieving the data as well as identifying trends or recurring behaviour. What more do you need?
The fabled SNES-PlayStation prototype has been turned on and disassembled
I see the IMO very dismissive "competitive Starcraft sucks now" sentiment being repeated all over the internet. While it is smaller than say DOTA/LoL, I would encourage you to check out the Blizzcon finals from this past weekend, which I think shows that it is still just as compelling as any of the other eSports out there.
As far as I can tell, this may not be faster than theano/torch, but it doesn't sound like it'll be slower. It takes a similar approach of sending all the big computation stuff out to efficient implementations. The "slow" language code is simply building up a graph of work to be done by the efficient implementations.
Too many articles are duplicated in Hacker News recently.eg.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532349
Zoho services under criminal attack
There's a copy of the TPP on Documentcloud.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2507281-tpp-complete...
> In any case, it seems to be that the threat to democracy will come from these paid trolls that seek to influence the minds of the western citizens.

We need some kind of Ministry which would spread the Truth to the masses to counteract this threat.
I think anyone fitting the bill would rather double their pay elsewhere...
Nothing lasts forever. Sports go through cycles like this. Tennis was in quite a down cycle before the emergence of Roger Federer. Competitive RTS is in a down cycle now. The real tragedy here is how much more power large corporations have over esports as compared to traditional sports.
> with no investment in the outcome other than graduating

Come on. Grad students are motivated by advancing the field.

... are they not? Maybe you can also be saying that the ones who write libraries are motivated only by graduating.
This is the Nintendo PlayStation that almost was
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The diaper genie is just okay. The plastic can retain smells after a while. During the diaper years my wife and I would simply take the trash out to the can twice a day or toss the soiled ones immediately to get then out of the house.
sure. Thanks for your feedback. We might change the color to something else
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A large salmon fishery is inestimably more valuable than a gold mine, even if gold is worth more money than salmon. Salmon has real value as food while gold is merely cash. A sustainably managed fishery is an ongoing resource that could supply food for a thousand years or more. It is foolish to destroy a renewable long-term resource for a short-term cash grab.
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I dont know why people feel the need to check their emails after work. I feel the same way you do. It makes no sense to me to do something for work without getting paid for it
You could try buliding an email list with people interested in this kind of chatting and could use skype or whatever software you prefer.
That's what I was wondering.

~$ factors 854
854: 2 x 7 x 61

Factoring 854 doesn't seem to help unless those meant something to the person who came up with it (old high school locker combo?).
I am a newbie to machine learning.

How does it compete to Azure ML besides it is open source?
Consider the case of a 1-bit image. Let's say the "signal" is a smooth gradient of black to white from one side of the image to the other. If you simply quantize to the nearest value, one half of the image ends up solid black and the other half, solid white. No amount of after-the-fact "dithering" of this image will recover the original gradient - it is lost forever.

Now supposing we add noise to our signal before we quantize. A given pixel at 25% gray (which under the previous scheme would always end up solid black) now has a 25% chance of ending up white. A contiguous block of such pixels will have an average value of 25% gray, even though an individual pixel can only be black or white. Thus, by flip-flopping between the two closest values ("dithering") in statistical proportion to the original signal, information is preserved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1_bit.png
I'm not sure that your definition works for all types of engineers. Certainly it is unlikely that a civil engineer or aerospace engineer will physically build a building or aircraft, but in many disciplines there is a lot of prototyping and iterative hands on design work being done by people with engineering degrees.
I don't get your Church of England reference. I'm a communicant member of a liberal CofE church and these restrictions would be anathema to me and to most of our church's congregation. Indeed, I "play a [rather loud] musical instrument" for the church every week...
There's a wide spectrum of capabilities within the set of People Who Can Command Technology. Similarly, there's a wide spectrum of need in various industries for those people. When a company says they want "software engineers," what do they mean? Do they just want coders? People who convert a diagram into code? Do they want someone who can design and implement every layer in their system? There's no "software architect" degree. Nor a "data[base] architect" degree. Yet these are titles that individuals call themselves when they have certain skills.

Maybe instead of simply labeling the skills or the needs, we could spell out our experience (résumé) or requirements (job description.) But we still need a label to get the proverbial ball rolling, to pique the interest of employers and employees; something that says "I know how to tell a computer to do what you want done."

"Software Engineer" sounds like a fine phrase for that.
>I don't think this article ever specifically explains why TPP is bad for Canada.

Does any TPP article do more than fearmongering? Its clear there are people who are against low barriers to trade by principle. They believe in strict isolationist protectionism as being economically superior. Historically they've been wrong, but they have an activist voice on the web. Stuff like this should give people pause on how things get popular on the web and who is selling you what message.

From a larger perspective, I feel that TV and print media had guys like Neil Postman and Marshall McLuhan, but the web doesn't really have anyone giving a critical message about how untrustworthy and unreliable communication like this is.
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Global temperatures set to rise more than one degree above pre-industrial levels
They're planning to release a graphic novel, web comic series, and animated shorts to support Overwatch. Metzen announced it at BlizzCon just a couple days ago, so I think a lot of the writing talent has moved to Overwatch.
Actually, it's just bad reporting. I had the same thoughts as you, but I found the paper here: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Craig_White6/publication...

Control group wore plain white hats, and each participant acted as their own control by applying to one store with a cancer hat and a different with the plain hat:

> In the experimental condition, confederates wore hats and provided resumes that disclosed cancer survivor status. The resumes included the following statement, “Please note: There is a gap in my employment because I was diagnosed and treated for cancer. I have been in remission for one year” and the hat had the words “Cancer Survivor” depicted across the front. In the control condition, the resume provided no extra information and participants wore a plain white hat. Finally, it is important to note that all confederates served as their own control—they entered some stores wearing the “Cancer Survivor” hat and other stores with the plain white hat. Confederate applicants remained blind to condition
I've been trying to figure that out too. Part of it is certainly some kind of bug hunter fame that is being played for.

That just seems like bad architecture, period. Now if this can be exploited with RMI or something, I wouldn't be too shocked to see some client/server type applications using that as an interface.

are there session cookies that are serialized objects or something?
> We're at a point where ad blockers are used by a majority of the first parts of the audiences.

Ok. I guess if that meant urban young German laptop owners I was misinterpreting.

Audiences of content, in general, really aren't yet close to being a majority ad block users.

Of course, the trend will continue if media companies continue as they are or become more belligerent. I don't think it's a stretch to imagine a browser manufacturer partnering with / buying an ad blocker to install as default. Then we'll certainly see these majorities.
Greenhouse gases hit new milestone, fueling worries about climate change
Strictly speaking, flying kites is not allowed in other London streets as well ("any street, to the obstruction, annoyance, or danger of the residents or passengers", from a 19th century law http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/section/28). Flying a kite from the pavement of Waterloo Bridge seems intuitively a bad idea so that's not very controversial. It does undermine their "park" claims though...
But the fun benefit of Smart's posts here are just the layers and layers of beautiful schadenfreude irony of multiple pots calling kettles black. Also, with BC3K as the benchmark, Roberts could still beat Smart and if he doesn't, it will be hilarious.
Exactly. The most expensive part of getting to orbit is circularization. It takes a delta-vee of ~9.4km/s to reach LEO from earth. If you could lift yourself into LEO altitude without any thrust, you'd still have to circularize to the orbital velocity of ~8km/s [!]. That's still the majority of your delta-vee!

[!] I am not a rocket scientist, so I haven't taken into account the orbital velocity you'd get from being rooted on the earth at takeoff, but it should be at most ~500m/s.
I had this moment when I moved out of my parents house to study. I still remember the moment clearly when I discovered that (some of) my thoughts were not strange, just different. I always thought that it was my fault, even though I never could ignore them.
Why does texting or calling have a different "urgency" level? Historical? (Email not historically being pushed to you wherever you might be). Cultural? In the microcosm of my work life they are on similar planes (especially given Google Voice), perhaps because they do the same thing: make my phone vibrate.

Maybe every text or call should autorespond saying if you need urgent help to come find me in person!
...which is still inferior, because it couples every footnote to every other footnote; if you add a footnote to the beginning you now have to go through and change the numbers on every single one. That's not even considering the issues you'll run into if you want to break up the content into pages.

Also, usefully displaying the footnote elsewhere on the page in a useful way is not a trivial task.
There's been a lot more full blocks lately.

They do raise the price, but only temporarily. Note the dizzying volatility, where it touched $500 briefly before dropping to $370.

Also, note the remarkable spread between CNY and USD prices.
A Short History of Live Programming
Lots of mice studies don't translate well into humans. This one is highly specific -- a specific mutation. It's unlikely to have much bearing on real world cancer.
But they are grammatically correct.

Chinese trolls > Russian trolls
Why not talk to people on IRC? irc.ponychat.net #geek is my usual haunt.
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Limiting free speech, banning political opposition, arresting dissidents, persecuting people for their sexuality, invading neighbour sovereign states etc, etc.

I don't know about you, but I think "totalitarian" draw a more correct picture, than "corruption level is high".
Well, wait to see how support goes etc... In the meantime take on Keras or Lasagne, and do your stuff, i.e. acquire hands-on experience now. When time comes that you need to go into production, or you need a model that is not available in your current lib or framework, then consider a switch. Point being that experience acquired with one framework will empower you whatsover.

In my view, these frameworks are like programming languages, you do need to pick a new one up from time to time, but you can do most of the things with all of them.
> all parliamentary debates should be secret,

By the time something has reached the debate level, which is just theater for the most part, the big decisions have been made. No one is changing their minds or votes at that point, unless something previously unknown and exceptional is revealed, which is rare.
Floats are evil.

Here's some more fun you can have:

int main() {
float a = 0x7FFFFFFF;
printf("%f %f %f\n", a, a - 64, a - 65);
return 0;
}
I think you're confusing Snowden with Manning. Snowden is not in the military and is not subject to UCMJ. Perhaps what you meant is that some evidence, being classified, would not be released to the public? That does go against what Snowden asked for, but there's nothing military about that. It's also IMO an unreasonable demand unless the information in question is a subset of what he already leaked, which is unlikely.
It's essentially the "souped up" version of the old Google account that you had in the past. If you want, you can fill out a profile and use it to share/collaborate with other people or you can continue to ignore it if you aren't interested in those functions.

I always thought it was kind of a bummer that G+ was dead in the water due to a critical mass of users on Facebook (and no common protocol like email, etc). If I had to choose one of those services for social networking I'd pick G+ any day due to (IMO) a much nicer UI, functionality, and mobile app but again, since you can't just pick your service and communicate with everyone, as you can with email, this would require everyone to migrate en masse and that just isn't happening for various reasons.

So yeah, sorry for the digression. G+ is their name for the functions they added to the original Google account and can be used or ignored as you see fit.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529390
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> or the article describing it doesn't do it justice

Yup, total linkbait writing here. I was able to find more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10533808
Google is certainly Nvidia's top customer.
How about they just create an official parking lot that has a good view of the sign for the tourists, to funnel them all there.
Tango that, how about a space railgun that is launched either from earth or from a high airplane?
How is it any more laughable than the overarching concept of loyalty to a geographically defined nation-state?
You are indeed correct. This article uses quartz and quartz glass interchangeably, so I assumed the author was making the sapphire/"sapphire glass" error (because sapphire is never a glass) but upon checking out the original article, you are right, they are working on fused silica.