skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to be referring to financial definitions of capital rather than an economic definition of capital. It would surprise me if the physical capital stock of any country weren't at least 5 times larger than it's GDP. A global capital stock of USD 100 trillion against a world GDP of USD 80 trillion strikes me as too low.

Also, how does one add up the values of financial instruments? The capital he's referring to includes stocks, bonds and loans. What if I take a loan so that I might buy some bonds?

Lastly, not all assets are traded in each period, and some might never be sold, such that their values cannot be observed in financial markets.
Not just their space
Show HN: EQCSS, the Element Query polyfill hits v1.0.0
Some sell their own, like Github. http://github.myshopify.com/products/octodex-sticker-packs
To be fair, I've seen some of those miniatures cases up close, and they do kind of look like gun cases. The response was over the top, but I can understand someone getting confused and calling the police about them.
Browsing the ancient Web with an ancient browser
Never attribute to conspiracy what you can attribute to incompetence.

I work on a software product that's very hard to test. IMO, it's harder to test the product that I work on than to implement the product.

In VW's case, I think it's safer to assume that emissions testing is harder than we realize. The engineers might need to make assumptions that, in practice, require a very complicated test situation to verify.

Therefore, the real problem is playing the blame game.
Researchers in the UK present the Periodic Table of Protein Complexes, making it easier to visualize, understand and predict how proteins combine to drive biological processes
Vegetarianism for Meat-Eaters
Sure, and sometimes these audits are people asking the managers "do you do this?". That is all they do. They don't sit in and watch people.
In addition to the advantages of Matlab mentioned by others, a lot of uni/college freshman level (and even upper level) STEM curricula include one or more courses involving Matlab. They've gotten themselves included in a few textbooks as well.
How long has it been since we last had new close-up photos of Venus? I know there's been nothing from the surface since the Russian landers, but was Magellan the last fly-by?
And they're mostly paving the way for companies already doing that not having to fudge it as much or be as careful.
It looks like you need to remove the XSS attacks; http://typed.pw/a/397
Yeah, while not denying the possibility, at this point I don't see anything that points to Bosch as being complicit.

Unless there was a wink and a nudge to go along with Bosch's warning.
They also raised $605.49 in 2014. Total funding to date is $1.8B over 17 rounds. At a $20B valuation this puts them at about 11:1 valuation over funding, which is informative about their investors guess into their growth prospects.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/palantir-technologie...
I think this is complicated by perceived fairness: normal people do not view different formats as separate products and even people who aren't particularly price sensitive will bristle at something which they see as unfair.

Since there's no way to buy an ad-free copy of the NYT, all of their existing customers have been trained to think of the fair price as what a paper subscription costs with little thought about how much of that is subsidized by advertisers.

Even high-income people are sensitive to these effects – Doc Searls wrote about a similar problem where the New Yorker's intro pricing made him feel like he was being ripped off, even though I'm certain the cost isn't a noticeable financial issue for him:

https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/05/23/dear-magazines-...
In a word, California. Because of the geography and climate there, smog forms very easily in large parts of the state. So, California emissions regulations have been focused - since the mid-20th century - on smog precursors. NOx is a major smog precursor, so they have a very good reason to minimize it.

This is where we get into politics. The US as a whole wants to adopt somewhat tougher emissions regulations, and car manufacturers want to minimize the number of different standards they have to meet in a single market. It turns out that everyone's on board with "just make the California standards the national standards" and so that happens. Then California tightens their standards again and the cycle repeats.

Europe doesn't have a comparable political subdivision with such a high natural propensity for smog formation and the ability to make their own standards. The regulatory differences emerge from a combination of geography and political systems.
I see, that makes sense now. Thanks
Marketing is often an enemy of markets and more a factor of destruction than of production: functioning markets require informed consumers making rational choices about what to buy; marketing is most often concerned with creating misinformed consumers and convincing them to make irrational choices about what to buy.
Virtical video is just getting started
Sometimes you dont have a choice, say receive your data in Jason. In those cases, my experience is that ujson is much faster than the alternatives. Interesting that the author concludes the same for small objects but a different picture with bigger objects.
Greetings from Tor's New Executive Director
> “We’ve been able to calculate where he took his views from, and most of them end up outside pubs,” says Rees.

That might be just because England has so many pubs. There are currently over 60,000, and this is after the closing of 28,000 pubs.
It just seemed to stall out. Either the technology wasn't up to par, or (more probable) there wasn't the impetus to roll it out everywhere - failure to reach critical mass. For NFC, however, practically every card reader MUST be upgraded this year to support chipped cards, with NFC riding along as a given capability which Apple is leveraging with its "half the market" NFC-capable phones & watches. About this time next year I'd expect widespread availability of Apple Pay and other NFC services.
Twitter Aims to Show Advertising to Much Wider Audience
Since these are stacked solid layers, heat isn't really "rising" though, is it?
Well, the author points out that meat is beneficial, but eat just a small amount with meals so it largely gets absorbed in the small intestine (and he explains why this is important).

The other valuable information is why whole grains are OK to eat (I favor them in small portions only) and processed grains are so bad for us.
Akatsuki means "red moon" so it probably appeared in many animes before THAT one.
This AI Algorithm Learns Simple Tasks as Fast as We Do
I like the London Skyline, except for the Shard which is so large - and indeed ugly - that it can be seen from many places across London. These 'super-large' buildings pollute the skylines of many many neighbours in a way that Canary Wharf, the Gerkin etc simply don't.
Capitalism has never been about making the world a better place. All systems deal with humans and humans inevitably prefer helping out themselves and people close to them over others, which leads to corruption regardless of the system. And capitalism seems the best method for controlling innate human corruption (see China's incredible economic growth once socialism was all but abandoned for capitalism in the 80's pulling a billion people out of abject poverty).

As for investors preferring Snapchat to curing cancer? The amount of money invested in cancer dwarfs Snapchat's investments by magnitudes. You don't just cure "cancer" you find cures for the hundreds of different diseases that fall under the umbrella of cancer. There's so much money invested in cancer there are often not enough candidates for a new clinical trials.

If we have a shortage of anything, it is medical research scientists. And the way to get more of those is to change the regulations so there is more room for profit medical research.
If I remember correctly, wasn't one of the main reasons they weren't considered contractors is because they don't set their rates? How would this affect other industries... Like the tech industry... I mean I guess the contractor can always just say no if they don't like the rate being set.
Build and consume machine learning models for text analysis from your Ruby apps
Considering how expensive housing and office space is in and around DC, I think this would be a terrible idea. We shouldn't make housing and office space more expensive so that we can allow one special industry to lobby slightly more effectively.

This was even true in the 40s and 50s; DC had had explosive growth due to WWII and the population was over 800,000 people. There was a shortage of housing even then which Arlington and other areas took advantage of.

If anything, rural interests are already over represented in the Federal government given the nature of the Senate and how we determine the number of members in the house and electoral college votes.
No ponzi scheme is complete without a set of fake satisfied customers and bogus tesimonials!

/joke
Fenchurch or DLR? The latter is the best experience; I'm stuck on the former, unfortunately.
Exactly. Uber is doing all of the work on the regulation front, which benefits any company wanting to do the same thing. And I would imagine the barrier to entry is already fairly low.
Another good introduction was given by Mike Acton at CppCon [0]. The QA at the end is particularly delicious. If your first instinct is, "maintainability!" or "developer productivity!" then you should watch it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

update: And keep an eye out for when his interview at the recent Handmadecon hits youtube. (You can presently find it on twitch). He is full of pearls of programming wisdom.
The video pausing doesn't always mean that it's stopped downloading.
>I'm not sure how factors of production (including durable capital goods) can possibly be an "enemy" of anything.

I'm a Marxist. So in the aforementioned sense, capital is only wealth that grows over time through the process of exchange. I am referring to the process, not the assets.

As I mentioned before, I am not interested in analyzing the behaviors of individual employers. I am interested in analyzing the behaviors of the classes. You may call this oversimplification, but I call it cutting through the bullshit.
Insurances and the state need to pay for this which is why kei style cars are outlawed on most roads in europe. Don't forget that the speed likit anywhere in japan is 60km/h so the problem does not exist there. The speed limit in europe on highways is 130.

If there was a market for kei cars they would exist.
Scientists have performed full-scale genome analysis of the Ebola virus
I think akatsuki means 'dawn' rather than red moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki
Well, there was more than one day.

But yeah, results limited to himself.
Immunity isn't what you should be concerned about. Incentives are the issue here.
Title led me to expect a discussion of the mentioned theory; it turns out to be a biographical piece in the "Look how awesome our alumni are!" portion of the Harvard Crimson magazine. Nothing wrong with that per se, but not what I expected from the title.
It doesn't come with a floppy :(
From the feature article:
"Lets however get one thing
straight right off the bat. Nobody
can forsee that the Amiga
will rise from the ashes to be a
mainstream competitor."

Its funny, because I have given serious thought for the past 10 years about acquiring the IP and rebooting the brand (and doing a REAL reboot, not just sticking a PC in a Commodore skin (or keyboard, as one IP holder did)). If you look at Apple, the company was in a rather dire situation before Jobs stepped back in. Likewise, I think dust is collecting on one of the most valuable "unclaimed" brands out there.
"Hopefully there's a new version of AMOS." - nice! Blitz Basic perhaps?
In the criminal law there is a big difference between accepting a plea bargain, which generally involves the accused allocuting in open court and admitting to wrongdoing, and pleading no contest which is specifically not an admission of guilt, but a pragmatic decision that the costs borne fighting the charge outweigh the benefits.
Adidas 3D prints shoe from plastic ocean waste
I suppose there's a big difference between intentionally driving people out to replace them, and it being an unintentional side effect of all sorts of stuff that's going on. It was my impression that the problems with gentrification are generally of the second type, but your comment makes it sound like this is being done intentionally.

In any case, in Amsterdam there's a pretty hard limit to how much rent can be increased, particularly for existing tenants. If landlords are free to set rent to whatever they like, it's easy to see how that could lead to all sorts of terrible situations.

In any case, I think a mixed neighbourhood like the one I live in is pretty much the ideal. The mix of high and low incomes means there's money to pay for jobs in shops and restaurants, and people to fill those jobs. According to the article, it also means that it's easier for those at the bottom to find better jobs.

Of course attempts to intentionally drive people away are terrible and should be stopped, but my impression was that gentrification was more subtle than that.
Ask HN: What programming languages do Google interviewers prefer?
I've read a lot of blogs and articles about the interview process and it seems Python, C++ or Java are all good picks. However, some well known posts such as Steve Yegge's talk pretty exclusively about C++ and Java. Are these languages preferred more than Python?
Show HN: Numerai – A global AI tournament to predict the stock market
Climate science is basically an apocalyptic doom-religion. It follows the same scheme. For example, I just read a reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion/comments/3vsoe7/chri...) the other day and the post reminded me of climate science a lot. There is an apocalypse, some external information that you should rely on instead of you intuitive faculties because they are biased and unreliable, but if you follow the path of the leader you'll be saved.

And another problem is that nobody serious has ever rolled up their sleeves, went through and criticized the whole mess of their Bible (called Climate Science Papers), a massive collection of writings, interlinked thousand-fold in an intricate complex network. Simply because the people who could do this don't want to be criticized in the media.

Fortunately since the Climategate story came out and we could see the leadership's reaction, it was an eye-opener for many people. Still this movement is quite well-spread and gets linked to often by journalists, politicians, etc.

None of your critiques are remotely specific to lesswrong. All could be equally well applied to climate science or a variety of other things where I suspect you'd be unwilling to apply it.
Do you accept the labor theory of value and the tendency for the rate of profit to fall? If so, then any economic argument you make will be on false premises.

Firms and markup prices are not at all individual employer behaviors. They're industry-wide behaviors that practically define mixed economies and thus, by your own definition, capital (though I think yours is overly vague).
I find OpenCV to be a far better alternative to MATLAB for image processing and CV work. The API's are extremely similar and when things don't work the way you expect, you can modify OpenCV to fit your needs.

Plus, if you're a grad student and you write it in C++/Python with OpenCV, your algorithm might finish before it's time to graduate.
Getting started with MongoDB
> (And drop the idea of browser stuff)

"Dropping the idea of browser stuff" was never a goal of Rust.
That is exactly what was done in Philadelphia on Pine and Spruce streets. These are East-West bike lane "arterials" that allow parking on Sundays.
how the disappeared from the title.

Was this manually edited out or is there a list of un-approved words in a title?

Is penis a "bad word" now? :)
Yeah, even worse.
You'd be surprised: http://www.thewire.com/business/2014/04/heres-how-much-ameri...
The piece leads with:

"It started in Soho, then moved to Chelsea and the East Village"

As someone very familiar with these areas I can tell you this is wrong and inaccurate. The art scene in 80's become very hot in the East Village and the galleries moved out of the storefront galleries to SOHO because there was larger space there. When they were priced out of SOHO, the galleries moved to Chelsea.

Why is this important? Namely because it shows that the author's glaring disregard for basic fact checking and attention detail. Two qualities you might think that are important in writing a piece that deal with demography and statistics. To me this makes the whole piece suspect.

The pieces then goes on to site data that is now 25 years old?

"Sharkey took a close look at black neighborhoods that saw significant changes to their ethnic composition between 1970 and 1990."

Gentrification and Hyper gentrification are something that has become something of a phenomenon in the last 10 years or so. The author then goes on to site a study that is now 11 years old:

"In 2004, Columbia University economists Lance Freeman and Frank Braconi conducted a similar study of gentrification in New York City in the 1990s"

Then the authors drops this nugget:

"If gentrification occurs so infrequently—and if it may help rather than hurt existing residents—why are so many people so upset about it?
?"

Huh? Nice bit of editorializing there.

Journalism like this is dangerous as it is little more than a policy piece disguised(not very well) as real actual journalism.

As tired as I am on the ubiquitous gentrification conversation. I have also watched it unfold first hand in three different places I have lived. I doubt that I have somehow imagined this phenomenon.
As far as I heard. I'm in Atlassian ecosystem myself.
No, redlining is something different (not loaning money), though very messed up.
Hume was deeply concerned to distinguish empirical reasoning from math and logic (matters of fact vs relations of ideas). Induction doesn't work in the sense that it doesn't guarantee its conclusion but of course even Hume thought it works whenever you are ok with something less than a guarantee (which he thought we are most of the time).

Also, the problem of induction is only one part of this marvelous tome. Protip: get the new Fate-Norton Oxford edition and not the Selby-Bigge-Nidditch.
Yeah really. Just look at these:

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A relentlessly vague, grand sounding mission statement (solve all the world's problems), combined with a cool startup-like (lots of free perks) atmosphere and a work environment I've heard described as both "insular" and "cult-like".

If you're young, tech savvy and a bit of an idealist it sounds like a very attractive place to go.

Glassdoor reviews are very good https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Palantir-Techn...

Salaries appear to average low https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Palantir-Technologies-Salar...
Please consider switching your team over to Signal. Or at least give it a try if you are on an iOS or an Android phone.
First thing I noticed, another Gov site using Drupal (7) - currently working with a Federal Entity that uses Drupal for it's websites, funny how it seems to be used more than, say WordPress or Umbraco (Which would make more sense). On our end, it's because we are currently Army (but not much longer with the conversion to DHA) and the Army has a CON (Certification of Networthiness) which doesn't have much on it, though Drupal is on there.
Binary Repository Manager Feature Matrix
It still is on Mavericks, which is where my laptop is for now. (I'll check Yosemite, as my wife's laptop got the same message.)

I had flakey network stuff happen last night (which only seems to happen with one of my APs), and it flipped into needing to creating a new backup. The old backup is gone, the new one has gotten to about 7%, got interrupted, and now claims that it's in use.
> suburban-style layouts create long commutes and regular traffic jams in electronic circuits

> millions of "vias," which play the role of tiny electronic elevators

Is it unreasonable to suggest that maybe there is such a thing as trying too hard to avoid scaring people with technicalities?

I mean, I get it, they made a neat skyscraper-versus-suburban analogy. Fair enough. But why not "just as suburban layouts in cities can mean long commutes and regular traffic jams, suburban layouts in chips can mean signals take longer to get from one place to another" or something?
The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists
The Tail End
A fix for Twitter's decision to deactivate the counts API endpoint
Wish I could upvote your response twice.
Except for people who ride a bike to church.
I often thought this, but a Cray is not a normal computer. From some comment, I learned that it had a 8MB L1 cache, meaning it could crunch all of it in one go, then refill, so on and so forth. It means these little 800MHz were used to their fullest, while nowadays multicore GHz chip have to wait a lot to get new data in smaller quantities. Making a Cray still as fast today (for adequate tasks of course).

So todays processor have higher peak bandwidth, on average, Cray can sustain larger bandwidth.

ps: https://archive.is/FWzLF read jojomonkeyboy comment
Seems like you'd NOT want to do machine learning if you simply want to hold all of the data parent mentioned...
Ask HN: 5mths left in the bank, what can I do?
Lost all my savings, have been unemployed/depressed for ~3yrs after losing my tech support/windows sysadmin job, got divorced, went through surgery but am now recovered/healthy and ready to get back on my feet!

TL;DR: I need to learn a way to make 1000eur/mth to pay bills & survive. Currently living in Germany with a student visa which expires end of next year. I speak english, spanish, some french and really bad german. Current plan is taking free courses (data analyst path seems a good choice?) at Udacity and going through Automate with Python to get a remote job somewhere and then apply for a freelancer visa (I am a foreigner).

Any input/feedback and specific area to focus on, would be very much appreciated! The hardest part for me right now is getting feedback (have no mentor/programmer friends) and staying motivated due to my isolation (little to no friends and no family nearby).
The "sin" they are accused of it explicitly detecting that certain test equipment is connected. That's a binary, if-then-else sort of thing. "The boss is looking; look clean."

A GA (or any machine learning ) within a controller is less about being able to cheat than it is ...rebasing something that would otherwise be a constant (from the frame of reference of the algorithm) in a control-feedback arrangement.

If the GA was part of a test stand and exhibited emergent... dishonest behavior :) then ... they did it wrong.
No, the GC still periodically runs, polluting cache, consuming cycles and halting the rest of the program until it's done. The only exception is if you completely avoid allocations, which is generally next to impossible in GC based languages.

With ARC, there is exactly zero overhead unless a new reference is created or destroyed. In that case there's an integer add or subtract, not a global "stop the world" kind of event.