skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A programmer told me that after 2 months on Soylent, he "Missed the feeling of eating" and returned to eating regularly.

Evolution took a long time to evolve our DNA. It doesn't change easily.
I lived like this recently for month, at a residency in Iceland. I think it's great if your housemates are intellectually & culturally compatible. Ideally there'd be coliving spaces for those with different ideologies: I can't imagine wanting to live in space with conservative religious types or party-hard fratboys.
Seconds, minutes at best.
It seems a pretty obvious portmanteau of magic + git. I always said it with a different rhythm: "ma-git" rather than "mag-it", so that might also be a factor.
Yup, just a teeny taste of how things would look if it did all go to shit.
What's the scenario where you need to re-render hundreds of components? Is this something like a state change propagating down a long line of components? If you assume a roughly balanced tree like structure to your components though wouldn't even this still be bounded logarithmically by the number of components on the page?
The proof is in the pudding.

You know why we have JavaScript? Because someone went and built it. Once it was built, it existed and people used it. All the theories about what a scripting language for the web should look like fell out the window the moment someone went and put one in their browser.

De facto standards beat de jure standards. Every time.

Theory is great. It makes for amazing and stimulating conversation. But in the real world the only thing that counts is building shit.

PS: this is also why English is the global language of trade and not Esperanto. Even though English is both harder to learn, has a terrible "API", and inconsistent semantics and grammar and syntax. Esperanto is clean and well designed and and learnable in 150 hours and not used by anyone.
Handwritten Math Executor by Physics-AST. Alternative for MyScript Calculator
People stopped sharing on Facebook
Is there a Josephine-equivalent in Melbourne?
This strategy has worked so well in Israel/Palestine /s.
It doesn't matter what you majored in
Don't you need a license to sell cooked food? How do FDA regulations work on such kind of things?
Nobody used the word "trigger". It's interesting to me that you're conflating pointing out a potential issue (their sarcastic "classy") with being personally upset ("triggered") - what's going on there? Also, why are age and gender the two attributes you want to learn about them as a result?
Pet Rescue Saga v1.56.10 Hile Mod Apk İndir
How would you find others still out there living in similar precarious situations?
Not just psychology but neurochemistry as well, some really deep nature-vs-nurture stuff in there. Great book, as a technical diver and divemaster I got a lot from it.
>And yes, this should attack anyones assumption that the people always vote for the best.

In democracy people are not meant to "vote for the best".

They are meant to vote for what they want, as they judge it for themselves.
It is absolutely criminal how much we let builders get away with, and since building inspectors are no longer independent (the builder pays for them) everything is stacked against home-buyers these days
Is there a problem? I am not sure if I am supposed to read between the lines.
An abstraction is only useful if you can use it.

What sold me on applicatives was being able to write "traverse", and similar operations, that would be m * n if you had to write them for each (traversable, applicative) pair but can be m + n instead ( http://m50d.github.io/2013/01/16/generic-contexts.html ). That's a very concrete code saving. Having three examples of things that form categories is great - but can we show a real-world function that we can write that takes a generic category, that does something useful with each of these three examples? That would demonstrate that we're getting real value (i.e. a code saving) out of the abstraction.
I'd like to believe that but long-term, I expect the app is just a rent-seeking gatekeeper between the restaurant and their customers. We can expect the gatekeeper to turn the screw and make margins barely survivable eliminating quality leaving only a few low cost supply chain optimisers.

We see the same pattern again and again. Small businesses should fight like hell to keep a direct relationship with their customers.
http://www.hollows.org.nz

The Fred Hollows Foundation has been doing this since at least 1992 around the world including Nepal where Dr. Hollows and Dr. Ruit worked closely together.

Unfortunately Dr. Hollows passed away years ago but the foundation continues his work.
Completely agree, the other thing the EU doesn't do well is sell the benefits, there are some real ones but all you ever see is some crazy story in the media about bananas or something equally asinine.
The effects of automobile accidents are also extremely unpleasant; how would you rate your willingness to take the extra effort of not traveling to prevent them?
There is one thing that is not mentioned in the article: very-short term post-docs.

For instance, I just started my first post-doc after having defended my PhD, but my contract only lasts for one year. This is not atypical, at least in France and in computer science, to have one-year post-doc. And since you can't do a post-doc at the same lab where you did your PhD, it means that in the course of one year you have to:

1- get to know a new domain or at least a new subject,

2- become proficient in this new domain or subject to the point you can publish something in a good peer-reviewed journal or conference,

3- apply for competitive faculty positions and/or another post-doc position (in which case, rinse and repeat, unless you get to extend your current post-doc for one more year, but that depends on external fundings that you have no control or effect on).

Of course 3 requires 2 which requires 1, which means that you only have something like a bit more than half a year to complete 1 and 2, otherwise your applications for your next position will seem weak ("you didn't do anything this year?").

It is really a horrible feeling to be urged to do science. Especially when you just finished your PhD, you have lots of ideas that you want to explore and being so short-sighted (one year term is really peanuts in science) is an atrocious feeling.
So the author doesn't like Uber-for-food but loves Airbnb-for-food: is that so much different?

Why does he not learn to cook instead, and meet people on the market where he would go buy ingredients?
Good use case for http://openbazaar.org
Google never left China to be exact, although google.com.cn is currently a symlink to google.com.hk, which its internet governance is under HK's Common Law. One may argue that HK is under China's governance, but I have not seen anyone complaining about Internet censorship (political correctness is a different thing).
I think there needs to be a bit more flesh on the term "censorship" or we risk making everything appear the same and shrug it off as normal.

In my view it makes sense to distinguish at least these forms of censorship:

a) Censorship with the purpose of keeping the rulers of a country in power by suppressing criticism of their work or themselves.

b) Censorship that attempts to enforce some culture specific definition of decency, often oppressing sexual minorities, atheists or religious minorities.

c) Censorship that is meant to enforce copyrights and other private interests like reputation or credit standing.

d) Censorship to support legitimate work of the police, the courts and the security services that does not in effect amount to (a).

I think it's important to acknowledge that (a) dominates all other forms of censorship because it prevents the democratic process that will shape the laws governing all other forms of censorship.

That is why in my opinion Google should not bow to demands of censorship in the sense of (a) but should keep working in countries where it has to cooperate with all other forms of censorship, even though the direct effects of (b) and (d) are sometimes worse than (a).
> An interesting aspect of a Bitcoin ransom is that third parties can verify that a ransom was paid.

Huh, interesting. If third parties have attackers' bitcoin address, they can also pay the ransom themselves.
Maybe I have an overactive conscience, but I'd feel kind of wrong about selling without disclosing that I had good reason to believe it was compromised (a serious, unfixable, almost-invisible defect), and probably nobody would buy if I told them that.
Why do they need so much oversight? Can't the kids just walk to school on their own? (We took our bikes to school in Germany on our own in the 90s.)
Best of luck!
Why would that be illegal? You'd think it's the taking that's illegal, not the method?
I mean, the day of SOPA blowing up when everyone was protesting what was necessary to take down piracy websites they shut down megaupload and arrested people across the world. My only question that day was: why doe we need SOPA again?
You're thinking of Foveated 3D Graphics[1]. Despite being a research project, they still got a 5-6x performance improvement.

VR will get foveated rendering eventually. The performance improvements are too good to ignore.

1. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/176610/foveated_final15.p...
Your taxes used to be: f(income)

In the new system they would be: f'(income) - basic income

No need to wait until the end of the year. That's just when people customarily compare actuals to projections. Before that you get your withholding of tax, and eg monthly payout of the basic income.
Foveated 3D Graphics (2012) [pdf]
Well, presumably an advance will eventually provide a competitive advantage.

For example, before the Copernican revolution, we had a model for the cosmos that made decent predictions. The heliocentric model actually made worse predictions for a long time until it was evolutionary improved. However, to the early scientists who adopted it, the heliocentric model "felt right."

Maybe right now programming in a shitty language like javascript with no regard to program structure is better at "getting shit done" than programming in a functional language using universal abstractions like composition. To people who study and think about it, though, it "feels right." Perhaps if they stick with it and perfect the art, it will eventually provide such a competitive advantage that it will be universally adopted.
My mom used to tell me about a similar procedure she would perform to help people with cateracts in Africa 30 years ago, so I'm a bit confused. I'm not saying this isn't awesome or special, just a bit curious what has changed to make it particularly special now.

EDIT: So I asked her, it seems the main difference is the new lens they're putting in. With a cateract the lens is clouded and the essence of this procedure is cutting out that lens so that light reaches the retina once more. 30 years back they did not have new lenses to put in though, so (quote) "we would send everyone home with +10 glasses". She also recalls the expeditions into Nepal going into the mountains to operate cateracts 14 consecutive days full time even back then (takes a while to get up to 100.000 I suppose :]).

So it used to be they were getting people who saw nothing to see something. Now they get people who see nothing to see really well, which is of course huge.
There's no such contract. And there's no coalition of neither workers nor capitalists. See http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/14/does-class-warfare-have...
What was all the Windows Server 2012 stuff about, did they get out of the VM ?
For the past 4 months my family has used between 554GB & 968GB each month. We are just 3 people that surf the net, play a little bit of online games, and watch Netflix on 2 TVs. Nothing out of the ordinary at all, yet we would blow through 300GB in a couple of weeks.
The bulk of your comment is an highly speculative attack on A16Z. Chris Dixon publicly stated they passed on investing initially because of technical obstacles.[1] Their investment in RapGenius was in part because Marc Andreessen tried to build it himself as part of Netscape.[2]

A VCs job is to make an ROI for the LPs. "Socially motivated" is just window dressing to attract capital that might otherwise go to a different fund.[3] The significant LPs are primarily restricted by asset allocations. You are projecting your desires onto VC to hope that it is anything different.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2013/12/oculus-vr-funding/

[2] http://genius.com/1107425

[3] Pessimistic? Sure. Better to be honest about the underlying motivations and surprised by the outcomes than not.
Ha, well I wan't on the ML, and ok not mainstream famous but https://www.google.com/search?q=ltu+bitc yields a lot of discussion about it.
Well, that was one issue, but they also say:

> We started to log the installer package name in our crashes and quickly figured out that, yes, users were installing the app from various sources, and each new UnsatisfiedLinkError was coming from a manually installed app where the user mistakenly installed the wrong flavor for their device’s architecture.

It is probably still blamable on bad design from Android, that it's possible to successfully install and launch an app that can only possibly use some of the code it requires (or maybe the app devs need to do something to indicate the native libraries are absolutely required?)
The funny thing is that pretty much every single curriculum says this in the liner notes and syllabus. It's just as much of a buzzword these days as "synergy" and "outside-the-box."

Critical thinking is simultaneously hard to teach and uncomfortable to teach. For one, when you teach someone to think critically, you now have them questioning everything else that you're teaching them. Many, many people define "critical thinking" as "thinking like I do." Which, of course, leads to them discouraging critical thinking.

I had a history teacher in high school who loved talking about critical thinking and how important it was that we question everything. He didn't like the fact that every single one of my papers (which were all about developing a viewpoint and explaining it) were diametrically opposed to his political opinions.

Looking back, I wrote some genuinely cringe-worthy shit, mostly just to wind him up. Hilariously, as mad as he got at me, I was probably one of the few kids in the class who really took his "critical thinking" lectures to heart.
Maybe, especially if it's the kind of market where you buy "tokens" from the market owner to exchange for food. (Common at music festivals, theme parks etc.)
One issue is old exemptions remain, like tax free books in the UK.

Clearing up some of these would be good, if we can get counties to agree whether books should be tax free, reduced rate, or normal rate.
Richter Scale-Here comes another bubble
this is dangerously misleading advice, firmware exploits are known to exist and have been used by the USG on targets of interest.
This is a really good point, and it's not just because of the bankrolling that the parents do. They also set a good example for financial management, discipline, respect for education, and perspective toward business.

My parents are upper-middle-class. They're not rich, but they're wealthy enough that they know what to do with money. If I were thinking about starting a business, I could easily bounce ideas off my dad and get genuinely good advice. And if he couldn't give me the advice I needed, he knows people who would be able to do so.

In contrast, someone who grows up poor is working in a vacuum. Whom are you going to ask, your deadbeat dad? His shithead friends? Your mom, who's working two minimum-wage jobs just to put food on the table and keep the lights on? They work their asses off, but they have no idea how to build a business.

As a result, it's no surprise that the wealthy tend to come from the middle class. The rich might fall from grace into the middle class, and the middle class will often make a whole bunch of money and become rich, but the poor tend to stay where they are.
I don't think I've ever seen a Brutalist building that I consider good. Worse still, stupid architects get them heritage listed so we can't even replace them with actually useful buildings (i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Offices,_Belconnen)
In high frequency focused ultrasound therapy, transient cavitation occurs in the kW/m^2 range, which is associated with tissue heating and damage. This is useful for various surgical techniques and tumor ablation. For instance, it takes 1 - 3 seconds to heat tissue to 70C with 1 kW/cm^2 [1]. Therapeutic ultrasound (for tissue hyperthermia) is performed in the 0.5 - 3 W/cm^2 range, and surgical ultrasound is typically above 10 W/cm^2. [2] It appears they've set the top end of their power delivery at just below the therapeutic range.

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/1.1591291#page-1

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/med.10004/pdf
I think Zirx - http://zirx.com/ has a lot more to it than meets the eye.

At the moment it seems like it's just another part of the on-demand economy, a kind of reverse-uber for people who own cars in the city.

But if and when self driving cars appear, Zirx are the company that will know how to run the infrastructure and facilities for autonomous vehicles in and around cities, and other forms of transport.
> you take action to diversify your applicant pool.

Wait I don't understand - how exactly do you do that without letting race influence your hiring decisions?
Just curious if this is a case of an actual female being offended at an innocuous "bad pickup line," or (what is more likely) a male SJW.
Lawsuit claims AMD lied about the number of cores in its chips
Very uncomfortable to look at.
What do you mean by `society needing (or not needing) babies'? Society _is_ babies plus time.

What goals would be served by having babies (or not having them)? And whose goals are these?

For any finite human life span, you need two babies on average per woman to keep population stable. Transitioning into a lower population number via below replacement fertility works great for a while (children are expensive), but causes problems once you have more pensioners than working people. Japan and various European are about to experience that soon, China a bit later.

> I'd say we can do better and drive it further down all over the world but we cannot promote this until we have some kind of assurance that doing so will not cause the global economy to stagnate, or worse, contract.

Per capita, or absolute? And why care about the global economy so much? (If you do, there are some easy policies to drive up global GDP like crazy: full free trade, free movement of people, simplify urban real estate development (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/wealth-i...), and transition to a less distorting tax system (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-val... and perhaps carbon tax).
No they don't. They are just another set of rules that are created by a bunch of people and other bunch of people apply them to everyone else.
Code Hoarders
Many people choose to not link their device to a Google account, so cannot access Google Play. Others use devices that haven't licensed Google Play. Widely used apps are frequently available officially as apk downloads (eg WhatsApp), or other more inclusive app stores (eg f-droid), others you have to get from unofficial sources.
What about higher labour productivity that comes from one adult looking after more children than their own family?
Also looked like some windows 95 stuff going on there.
Monads are a common joke to this effect.

So much so that I wonder if the popular monad tutorial involving spacesuits and burritos wasn't actually made as a pisstake (but I am 99% sure the author was serious).
I totally agree. Just exploring. I'm also a musician first.
Agreed. This would be similar to knowingly selling a defective device, only much worse.

But another thought that crosses my mind is that future disclosures and research may give him new insight to inspect the equipment and try to understand the extent of potential compromise. I would replace it but then hold onto it forever. Twenty years from now, the parts could be a goldmine for documenting what will surely be a historically significant time in the world of surveillance and privacy.
Or in other words. Mathematicians have been thinking of ways to solve problems much longer than anyone else, they have formalized it, they developed amazingly general methods.

There's a lot to learn from them.
> Based on my experiences, the best way to teach kids is to show them the hidden interestingness in the things you want them to learn.

This is consistent with the ideas behind BetterExplained [1] and Crash Course [2], both excellent learning resources that are really compelling.

"Learning is about a permanent shift in viewpoint, an Aha! moment, not memorizing facts that are quickly forgotten."

---

[1] http://www.betterexplained.com/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse/
True. That's why I read books.

But books are written by dictator. I'd want something that's ranked like HN or reddit, without the newness bias. With wide range of topics and varying depth and length of article.

This only works if the community is cool. But I' have a hunch it would attract mostly cool people.
> De facto standards beat de jure standards. Every time.

Only for a very base definition of "beat". People are falling over themselves to write X-to-Javascript compilers because Javascript simply isn't good enough.
That's not a fair comparison in any way. Your assembler program doesn't do half of the original code.
There's something utterly perverse with the logic that "Some people are getting left-behind by the current economy; definitely definitely don't find them new, value-creating jobs because that will spirit-murder them."
Tyson himself cited his experience with Carl Sagan as one of the best moments of HIS life:

> At the time deGrasse Tyson was just a 17-year-old kid from the Bronx with dreams of being a scientist, but Sagan had invited him to spend a Saturday with him in Ithaca at Cornell University, after seeing his application to attend University there.

> He toured their labs there, and Sagan gave him a book, “The Cosmic Collection” and inscribed it “to a future astronomer”:

> DeGrasse Tyson describes how this influenced his entire life:

> At the end of the day, he drove me back to the bus station. The snow was falling harder. He wrote his phone number, his home phone number, on a scrap of paper. And he said, “If the bus can’t get through, call me. Spend the night at my home, with my family.”

> I already knew I wanted to become a scientist, but that afternoon I learned from Carl the kind of person I wanted to become. He reached out to me and to countless others. Inspiring so many of us to study, teach, and do science. Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations.
The Ruby example doesn't handle exceptions with the same granularity as Java example and is therefore much shorter. Please do not compare the examples.
If the FBI had (remote) access to the machine prior to seizing it why would they need to seize it?
Focusing Illusion (2011)
Hmm.

File numbering is already available via `git add -i`.

git add -i
u
1,9
<return>
q

And you get a more powerful tool, and you're using regular git.
Thanks, any thoughts on why I get this?

$ ghc -o blink blink.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( blink.hs, blink.o )

blink.hs:7:22: parse error on input `='
Does the Alaska Permanent Fund have offices for disbursing funds?
Lower cost, probably. But if your mom is around, perhaps just ask her instead of HN?
Yes, one shouldn't confuse outsourcing and remote work: with remote work I mean people working in the same tools (version control, issue tracking etc) in the same time zone (+/- 1 hour), and being always available on chat/voice/video and occasional physical meetings.

Most people who work in a multi storey office communicate the same way with the people on a different storey as they would with people in a different city.