skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use the WRF-ARW core for some regions, it's a solid model. Haven't considered higher level winds, are you a pilot/paraglider? :)
Not surprising. That's all standard clauses in a lease. For a long list of reasons you can't treat a rented propert like it's your own and just start renting it out without having the real landlord in the loop.

Also doesn't get around the usual "hotel" regulations in many cities that forbid short term rentals, also for a long list of reasons.
The 21" monitor portrait-style in the car is fantastic.

The testing of a hacked-together system on the public road is not. He probably won't kill anyone, but if he were to I suspect he'd get the book thrown at him in the way that everyday death-by-DUI drivers don't.

Actually I'll go futher with this criticism: we've just seen drones being FAA regulated because users were unable to refrain from doing dangerous or nuisance things with them, such as flying near airports. DIY self-driving car research is similarly likely to damage the concept if it goes wrong.
I think you've created a false contradiction here.

The study is about differences in brain shape and brain capability that come from poverty.

You're worried about differences in character that come from how you raise kids.

It's true that some rich parents spoil their kids. But I know plenty of people from affluent backgrounds that are just as scrappy under pressure because they've been raised well.

So as you raise kids, you could try to generate the experiences of being poor. E.g., you could make a checklist out of this article and its excellent comments:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

Or you could instead try to teach them your values through experience.
Because, as the article states, the experimental group will be given three years of significant income supplements, while the control will not.

> In this study, we’ll recruit 1,000 low-income families across the country at the time of their children’s birth. Half of the families will receive a large monthly income supplement, and half will receive a nominal monthly income supplement. They’ll get these payments every month for the first three years of their children’s lives. In this way, we’ll be able to study the effect of poverty reduction on children’s cognitive, emotional and brain development, as well as the effect on family behaviors.
I started thinking about it, after reading this: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pirate-bay-founder-peter-su...
Yeah, I am assuming that long train ride + cheap mortgage is probably cheaper than very short commute + downtown Chicago rent, which may not be the case everywhere. And quality of life goes down pretty quickly with increases in commute.
I really respect philips for having the humility to come back on a decision like this. As someone who already owns hue and has bought into the ecosystem, this makes me want to promote their brand further, and I will.

Hat down to whoever made this happen over there! The world is better when things are open.
The history of people who enter your store is none of your business. Or are you really suggesting that you support segregation?
When all the major players are switching to a different market. Sure, the installed base is still conventional office suites, but that's like saying that the car market is still gas-based even if all new cars sold are electrical (hypothetical situation).

http://www.winbeta.org/news/office-365-overtakes-google-apps...
Bitglass also found that the share of companies using a cloud application for their productivity suite rose from 28% last year to 48% this year. Their report shows that Microsoft has successfully capitalized on the growth in cloud based productivity suite adoption rates to take the lead from Google.
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If you haven't beaten The End within two weeks of starting the battle, the next time you load your savegame a cutscene shows he has died of old age. He is replaced with a ninja squad you have to evade/defeat in the jungle.

You can also kill The End using a sniper rifle the first time you see him in the game (right after emerging from The Sorrow's boss "fight"). You have to snipe him while he's sitting in the wheelchair before he's taken away.
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> First, that assumes the savings mostly go to customers rather than into the pockets of executives and shareholders. Trends over the last few decades suggest otherwise.

The price of shipping over the last several decades has fallen, as indicated in that article. Those savings have gone to shippers, not to trucking executives. Meanwhile, given competitive markets, customers of shippers have realised those same savings.

> Second, it's a negative for truckers and their families but also for everyone who works in any industry that supplies anything truckers buy, directly or indirectly

Dubious. Reduced friction tends to make everyone better off.
At the time I was using the National Climatic Data Center's datasets from AWOS and ASOS and combining that with locally sourced airport weather stations, mobile micro-climate stations, and helicopter mounted climate collection systems. It was a lot of fun... :(

We were evaluating using a service provider such as Weather Underground or AWS Truepower. But those providers couldn't deliver the granularity or locality of collection that we needed for our obligations.

The utility industry required aerial LiDAR collection to be partnered with same time collection of local climate conditions for use in modeling the impact of wind/solar/temp on conductor line sag. We did a bunch of pioneering work in that area back in 2012.
Possibly like the DNA database - really hard to get off. IIt's worse than just convicted criminals being stuck on the database though. A bunch of people are arrested, and have their photo and DNA taken and added to databases, but they're never tried and thus never convicted, but their details stay on the system unless they apply to have them removed.

Here is a case from 2008 where two people went to court to get their details taken off: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7764069.stm

And here's an earlier quote from a stupid judge suggesting everyone should be on the database: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6979138.stm
TL;DR: Slash costs (i.e. fire tons of people, discontinue unprofitable stock) and target stores better for their demographics.

I've spent a lot of time in both B&N and Waterstones. B&N has a lot of problems Waterstones never had even ahead of bankruptcy:

- The stores are too big. 1/2 of a B&N store is tat, reference books, niche stock, a Nook display area, and other nonsense. You could cut almost all B&N stores in half and not notice as a customer.

- They place them poorly. B&N is perfect for foot traffic. But B&Ns are typically located as drive-up "out of town" shopping. Somewhere you need to go to intentionally. They need to be in malls.

- No good Nook tie-in for the stores. My SO often goes into B&N and looks at books, and then says "I'll buy it on my Nook later." They should have made an agreement with the publishers YEARS ago: When you buy a physical book, you get the Nook book included.

- The children's area is really nice, but poorly leveraged. No classes, no reading groups, no reason to come in. Stay at home parents WANT a reason to get out of the house, you offer a free reading group for small kids, the parents will buy the books after the group.

- Atmosphere in the coffee shop is bad. Waterstones feels like a nice little swanky coffee shop, somewhere you'd go and work on your novel, B&N's coffee shop feels like a generic coffee shop at the airport.

- B&Ns has no brand, and keeps making it worse. 3D printers, toys, Nooks, what is it that B&Ns is? They're all over the place, and now when you go into a B&N store you'll never know what they'll be pushing this week.

I think B&N will go under. I just don't think the management is very good, and every attempt they make to right the ship makes it worse. The whole business needs to be restructured.
Actually, your first example is also grammatically correct (not a run-on). "Not only / but also" is a correlative conjunction set; when it splits items that are complete verb phrases -- as in your first example and the Grammarly quotes -- there is a comma before the "but also", which is correctly present in the examples. There is no run on.

For a basic discussion with examples, see http://www.theyuniversity.net/blog/2015/4/29/parallelism-wit...
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Agreed. This report could've been a little less confusing.
How is that practically different from how any modern beehive apartment complex operates today? In a building with hundreds of units, neighbor tenant stability is rarely found.
I doubt this is meant for single individuals instead of a company. I also doubt it is allowed without prior notice.
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As someone who rents from Equity Residential in NYC I will move to another apartment if they open my building up to this.

It is illegal in NYC to rent an apartment for less than 30 days and is enforced by many landlords. If Airbnb is trying to convince landlords to look the other way, I find that disgusting.

I don't want my building to be a hotel. I don't want random people in my building. The idea that landlords can rationalize steeply raising rents with the expectation that tenants will find the money by letting someone crash on their couch for a few days every month to make it up is dehumanizing.

Will this be exploited by the 20% of affordable housing units in these buildings paying well below market rates?
> All the books mentioned in the article are links to Amazon

They link to Amazon with referral ids from Slate Magazine, so Slate earn a cut.

But Waterstones run an online book shop: https://www.waterstones.com/, and the "Christmas" banner at the top seems to link to a semi-curated collection of titles.
Probably really bad now, or doesn't react at all and also probably will collide in critical and dangerous positions. But that is also not the future. The future is how does it interact in non-dangerous positions long-term while other cars are self-driving in compliance.
I'm so used to listening to spoken word at 2x speed these days that it's basically muscle memory for me to hit the options menu in youtube and select 2x. For a while, I was completely boycotting vimeo because they refused to implement a 2x function but then I found a chrome plugin that lets you set the speed of any HTML5 video.

It was a surreal experience hearing the Slate Gabfest live and having it sound completely different to what I was used to because IRL doesn't have a speed control function.
we also have snark and hostility :)
Not very comfortable, but I wonder what effects this would have on our industry.
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> is the opportunity to take risks without feeling the true punishment of hard failure

Then it is not true a risk. I can see how this could lead to less effort.
We used Singapore Math and really liked it. I think of it as having all the good parts of Common Core (an emphasis on abstract thought) but without all of the crazy parts.
B&N's coffee shop is a generic coffee shop. At my (now closed) local B&N, it was a Starbucks. With very little seating. And too loud pop music. It was not a place somebody would ever go to sit and read a chapter of the latest novel.
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Likely. There's some recent discussion at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6975#issuecomment-... regarding taking inspiration from Clojure's protocols. There are a few different Traits and Interfaces packages floating around showing proof-of-concept implementations. Couldn't give you a timeline on when it'll make it into master, but it should happen.
Socioeconomic status is simply a proxy for the amount of engagement parents have with their children in the first 1000 days of a child's life. This is pretty well studied and documented by the Stanford infant learning lab:

https://web.stanford.edu/group/langlearninglab/cgi-bin/publi...

http://www.versame.com/research/

EDIT: Point being, lower socioeconomic households can speak more to their children for free, and the brain development would much greater match those in higher SES.
What's the source of your data? I get quite different predictions on WindFinder and WindGuru.
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Sony just lost their top LLVM open source proponent to Apple. Read into that what you will.
> a major hand in slavery.

How do you think those phones are made.
Your point? You know any studies disproving his theory?
> I don't want my building to be a hotel. I don't want random people in my building.

Here's the thing... it's not your building.

I totally understand it being wrong to AirBnB a rental without the landlord's approval. But if the landlord is ok with it... they own the building, that's their call. If you don't like it, find a different apartment.
At what age is it appropriate to begin Khan Academy's math content?
Not really. The main landlord could operate one or multiple units on Airbnb now. The reasons they don't likely have to do with their risk at being brought up for violations of hotelling laws where applicable, and their increased need for maintenance and maid service would eat into their easy monthly income from a standard tenant.
This is a pretty silly piece.

First of all, the vast majority of LTCM's trades had nothing at all to do with the Black-Scholes-Merton formula (BSM). They were just highly levered mean reversion trades. The fall of LTCM had nothing to do with the BSM formula, it had everything to do with leverage.

Secondly, vanilla BSM with constant volatility isn't really used to do anything important anymore. It was going away much earlier than 1997 anyway; the Heston model came around in 1993, and Derman was using a primitive version of local vol around the same time. And of course people knew that financial asset returns were not normally distributed with constant vol (Mandelbrot wrote a paper describing that in 1963!).

I won't even get into why his (and Salmon's) description of how the Li formula was used is completely wrong.
it's the christmas BMJ, which is traditionally full of somewhat tongue in cheek articles. That said, how does your dominance hypothesis explain the consistent asymmetry?
Apologies for this comment. I dashed off about 30% of my thoughts (the shittiest 30%) and this isn't really what I was trying to express. I'll leave it here to remind myself to think more.
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If the most convincing case you can make for your morals is "you should because I say so" then you can't be too surprised when it's not 100% convincing to people.
Sure. But that belief is a genuine worry when you are talking about creating something that'll move a hulk of metal down a road at 70mph.
It's a win-win because the renter wins and the landlord wins. If the neighbors also won, it would be a win-win-win.
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I recently visited a Barnes & Noble for Christmas shopping. I was shocked at the markup! A $13 brand-new hardcover on Amazon is $30+ at Barnes & Noble. All books were 2-3x the price I saw on my phone. I noted a few I wanted, and bought them from Amazon the next day. Same-day delivery, no less! I understand competing can be hard, but the markup they are pushing is unnecessary.

I fondly remember in my youth grabbing a book and a drink from their cafe. I would sit down and read an hour or two while my mother shopped around. I'd love to see B&N survive by innovating instead of relying on egregious markup. Perhaps a coffee shop with a book rental service? (Pay by the hour, all you can read, or something along those lines. Additionally, sell new books as they do now)

At any rate, B&N needs to get creative. Their current model will be increasingly difficult to perpetuate.
Agreed. However in the case of statins, the benefits for an individual are very slight, even if the population benefit is large. This means that this sort of uncertainty about side effects can make it rational for an individual to abstain from taking statins.
Presumably the article's stance is that they'll allow it, rather than it being a violation (assuming no subletting allowed) of the contract.

I mention it because the headline reads a bit more like "greedy landlords decide they want your money from letting on airbnb!"
http://www.windguru.cz/int/help_index.php

Use the standard implemented on WindFinder and WindGuru.
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It's not that simple. When a renter lets out their place on Airbnb, they do the work of marketing the place on Airbnb and of dealing with subtenants. Landlords could be doing that same work, but most aren't. Very few of them, however, are likely to refuse "free money".
> If you don't like it, find a different apartment.

That's exactly what parent commenter said he would do, in opening sentence..
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I dont think there is anyway that Hotz's and Musk's personalities get along well in any type of working relationship. They are both difficult people to deal with (from an outsiders perspective).
> they own the building, that's their call

No, actually it's not. It's against the law to use a residential building as a short term occupancy hotel.
What does pivot mean in this context ?
The number of unsold books that were returned to publishers fell from about 20 percent before Daunt took over to just 4 percent today.

A small but important waste reduction.

It seems that by freeing the staff he's created what's effectively a chain of indie bookstores, where each one has its character determined by the staff. This works because people who work in bookstores are far more likely to love books than other kinds of retail workers love their product (except maybe some fashion brands, but they're tightly brand-controlled).
The apartment building and its tenants have recourse against abusive tenants: they can break the lease and eject the tenant. That recourse doesn't exist with short-term renters, who are going to leave soon anyways.
I would pay full price for native adobe tools on ubuntu - especially now with the subscription pricing. My excel needs aren't as big and have mostly been covered by sheets in google docs. But that's personal need; I absolutely agree that excel is a beast. I've seen some amazing things put together by teams of "non-programmers" (in the professional sense) on excel.
Seems to be a good way to be exempted of business trip to/from the US for the rest of your life. Too bad it also affects leisure trips.
Sometimes, the free market does something that really impresses me. This is one of those times. Here we have AMD releasing open source tools in an attempt to beat a competitor whose hardware is technically superior. Sure, this seems like a desparate measure from a company that's lost its way and will try anything to make a buck. And it's probably motivated by a desire to generate lock-in for their hardware. But that's capitalism!
Yep.

I had a two-year unemployment spell from 2010 to 2012. I applied to tons of jobs, and I got a bunch of interviews, but all of them rejected me until that very last interview at the end. And when I did get a job at the very end, it ended up being with a very young startup that never stopped having serious problems until I left them at the end of 2014 [0].

I was... not in a good state. Halfway through those two years, I had a nervous breakdown where I alienated a lot of people and lost some friends. It set my gender transition back by three years (I didn't even start thinking about it again until a year and a half after I was employed again). I thought about ending it multiple times. In fact, when I finally got my job after two years of unemployment... the day after I accepted the offer (the day of my in-person interview, I was given the offer and immediately accepted it) was the day I found out that my extended unemployment benefits had reached their end. If I didn't get that job, I wouldn't have been able to make rent at the end of the month, and I can guarantee that I would've killed myself rather than become homeless.

It also fucked up my emotional state so much that I stuck with my next job longer than I should have, that I made myself accept the downright abusive way my employer treated me, because my two years of unemployment made me feel so worthless that I felt like I didn't deserve a better job than the one I had. In fact, I believed I was truly stuck with that job, that it would never be possible to get something better. It took years for me to break out of that and actually find something better. It wasn't until after I left that I realized I was in the same mental state as a victim in an abusive relationship.

[0] Moving this to the end because it's long and ranty, but I need to get this off my chest. These serious problems include: being paid barely enough to stay afloat, no health insurance, no equity even for early employees, a verbally abusive boss who handled stress by taking it out on his employees, technical managers who made awful decisions because they had no management experience, a non-technical owner/CEO who refused to seek VC because he wanted to keep control so he had us constantly demo our product to rinky-dink angel investors over and over, an office in a building run by utterly terrible property managers (I have horror stories...), and management too cowardly to stand up for me when the property managers decided to discriminate against me for being transgender (I had to get the city involved, I did all the legwork myself, and I won despite our bumbling CEO almost accidentally sabotaging my case). I lived with all of this for almost three years because I honestly believed I was so broken that I didn't deserve a job at a company that wasn't abusive.
> Just do an XP fork for VM to run all the legacy stuff on and start fixing stuff already, damn!

Oh yeah. I can just see "most people" powering up VMs to run their outdated broken software that they depend on.

Why I'm sarcastic? Because the situation is completely broken, there's no right solution. All that's left is to ridicule all sides of the argument, because everyone who thinks that there is a way to make it right is wrong.
> All the other tenants in the building have to deal with a small, unregulated hotel being opened in it.

Is that particularly worse than tenants having to deal with Section 8 tenants in their midst?
"Those who speak do not know, and those who know do not speak"

-Said the guy who wrote the Tao Te Ching
Kerf – Array language and database in one
Kerf appears to be an array-based language similar to J/K/APL, and a database all rolled into one [1]. I am a long time fan of the J Programming language, and I have followed Scott Locklin's blog for a bit now, so I was very happy to see this [2]. There is an evaluation copy that expires, and updates are available as it changes. I will take it for a spin to see how it compares to J. I see they have an email and reference to sales, so I assume it is going to compete with KDB from Kx systems.

[1] https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/
[2] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf
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I remember when Borders (another bookshop chain) went bankrupt and they closed down the Oxford branch. By the time I reached it, they were desperately trying to sell trash books at any price, just to make back money. They were also begging people to buy the shelving.
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It makes sense that control characters are removed (or replaced). I didn't know the ALT-1 was SOH, so that's good to know. (I guess I'm showing my age a bit there)

Thanks for the info!