skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lubos Motl has a really good post that cuts through a lot of journalistic hype and explains possibilities:

http://motls.blogspot.com/2015/12/first-batch-of-9-pheno-pap...

I'll just quote the summary:

> You see that the diversity of the explanations is huge – it's a landscape of possibilities. Whether you like it or not, whenever certain things are uncertain, the possible answers are diverse. String theory's landscape reflects the same principle in another, more consistent and more constrained, formalism. And the purpose of this new particle is simply mysterious at this moment.

> It seems very likely that the new particle is a j=0 scalar particle. And it seems guaranteed that it can't be the only new particle that has to be added relatively to the Standard Model. But who are the friends of SS and what is their relationship and purpose? Nobody knows. If this extra knowledge about the particle emerges, we may start to call it a heavy axion, a technicolor or composite scalar, a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson, or – which I find more likely – a new Higgs boson analogous to the (three-year) old one.
If you're looking for stroke order animations, try out my site , Tasty Mantou: https://www.tastymantou.com/blog/the-best-chinese-character-...
exactly this
It adds complexity and creates another procedural weapon to kill bills without discussing their contents. I see both of those as strictly worse.
Passwords have a decade of life left in them, survey shows
Found a gap, wrote a solution, created a service: here is my first startup
IMO this is not really impressive. He bought iPods that were still under warranty, transferred the warranty and paid the price of shipping. There is no hack about this, he's following existing policy laid down by Apple.
It was ixtli. I wrote iPHUC and still own the repo, i think: https://code.google.com/p/iphuc/source/browse/trunk/AUTHORS
Possible to upload an example image + result?
Yes but both you and the person I'm responding to casually ignore the fact you are basically engaging in broad generalizations while complaining about the fact other groups make broad generalizations and his primary justification was the fact it happens on Reddit.

The sheer irony involved in that original comment and his choice of example should have been immediately obvious. The fact it wasn't makes me think, frankly, its OP who is the issue.

The fact I have to put up with bullshit from people who live in the [insert location here] on a regular basis and make condescending comments doesn't mean I assume the entire [insert location here] behaves that way in general. Rather, I recognize that its the specific individuals I deal with in that instance that are the problem and not the general population.

The fact both of you immediately jumped in to defend the generalization and expand on it, frankly, makes it even more ironic to the point of hypocrisy.
If a typo is made 1:1000 times Candy Japan would have had.. 2? At this small scale it's probably worth it - the loss of a customer isn't as big a problem as loss of physical goods.
Structure from chaos: using DOM structure to recommend mobile actions
I think mainstream macro acknowledges that negative rates can be needed to spur demand even though there isn't a good mechanism for achieving negative rates. The zero bound is pretty much a 'natural' restriction that doesn't have anything to do with just how much people want to hang on to their capital in times of uncertainty.
If everyone has been so far as to do look like, why do you even?
You can improve the best case to log log n by choosing optimal cut points instead of always cutting in half.
I dunno, it's still pretty easy. I think if google really wanted to they could make it quite a bit harder. And fixing exploits that give apps root access would prevent malicious apps from abusing it, no?
What happens with the fraud? Does the charge back affect the seller or the bank? Sucks if the former. What do other people/companies do about this? Surely all the CC frauds in the world haven't chosen to gang up on one tiny seller of niche candy from Japan...
Can't say for sure, but in PHP some modules are writted in C and optimized, it might be that you are seeing that. Overall PHP due to number of things, how collections are processed etc is very slow.

Elixir/Phoenix is pretty much consistently fast and encourages practices that I believe will make your app really fast.
Good to see smart people working on something actually useful, and not another group chat or instagram clone app.
Equities dry up as well. Pretty much everything dries up before FOMC announcements.
All those fingerprints on my monitor that will never wash off... Priceless.
So, the alternative is what? Allow wages to move toward zero? Then what?
Wow, thanks, I was thinking about COBRA yesterday and wondering what or stood for.

Definitely not what I came up with...
Uncle figure grounds.
I don't think a learner should skimp on reading, but I think its worth asking if so much time should be spent learning to write Chinese. It's a lot of rote practice that can't be sped up, but in China, writing has been replaced by typing (on computers and cellphones). Typing Chinese using any modern pinyin IME is a reading exercise.
Some low hanging fruit: orders where the billing address is an exact match and it also matches the shipping address are probably the most likely to be legit.

There are many more factors to consider though.
Agreed, up to a point. But a lot of companies are already using hosted email, and a lot have signed up for Office 365 and/or Google Docs....

https://cloud.google.com/customers/
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-custom...

Quite a lot use salesforce.com and other services. It isn't the majority, but the cloud business is big and it's growing fast.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2974016/enterprise-appl...
That's 2000 pages! "Sane" isn't a word I'd use to describe it either.
> WIMP is a baseline from the 70's that we need to move on.

Yeah! Screw accuracy and fine control.
"Rationalisation" has a negative connotation.
I think there are bitcoin escrow payment systems.
The performance and elegance of this is breathtaking but I couldn't find if it has hot reloading built in.

If you have to recompile every time you change something, you're going to have a baaad time.
There are very respected economists and historians on all sides of debate as to whether the New Deal programs were effective, not effective, or if they actually prolonged the depression. Also, the New Deal was multi-faceted, so any analysis of its effectiveness needs to be specific. What parts were effective? Giving legal privileges to labour unions? Infrastructure investment? Social Security? Tax changes? You also have to consider the political side. Some of the New Deal proponents claimed that they saved capitalism, by preventing the crisis from boiling over to revolution. If they're right, there's certainly value in that. Now apply any lessons learned to today, a very different set of economic, social, and political circumstances.

Also, beware of the broken window fallacy. Unproductive make-work is of no net benefit to society, and if foregone productive work is the opportunity cost, it's a net loss. Obviously, infrastructure investment is ideally productive, but the government has a pretty terrible track record for effectively spending money.
Vice is usually pretty good about pointing out which articles are sponsored. They put "Presented by X" next to the author's name, or just replace it with "Sponsored Content"
They aren't doing it to take money from them, they are using Candy Japan to test their cards out before using them for more expensive items that can be liquidated.
> you want more stuff if you have more money

I don't think that's a valid statement. There is only so much 'stuff' that you can use. Beyond a certain level more money does not translate into a better quality of life or more 'stuff' for most people, there are a few outliers but lots of very wealthy people are actually quite modest. They're so modest you won't read about them in the newspapers.
This is called an interpolation search[0]. Works well on data with a known distribution and is useful especially useful when reading is expensive.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation_search
The website, http://makeit.netflix.com/ asks for us to submit our own ideas. Most of the things I think would be cool to do with Netflix involve having some form of API access to its catalog or apps. IR socks are not Netflix socks.
When you are introduced to someone, do you demand to see their birth certificate before using their name? Would that behaviour be considered vaguely acceptable in any society?

Calling someone by their preferred name is kindergarten-level etiquette. It is your right to break from that simple etiquette, but the rest of us have the right to dismiss you as an oaf.
> For much of the past decade, congress could have removed the entire discretionary budget (yes, including the military) and still had a deficit.

Two fiscal years in the past decade (2010 and 2011) had deficit exceeding discretionary spending. That's not "much of the past decade". (The highest deficit was in 2009, but discretionary spending was actually higher.)

> The deficit is driven by social security, medicare, and medicaid. If you want to balance the budget, you have to reform those.

The deficit is driven by a shortfall of revenue vs. spending. Even if your portrayal of the spending side was accurate, ignoring the revenue side is not. If you want to balance the budget [0], you probably shouldn't ignore one side of the balance.

[0] The question of whether you should want to is one which is rarely addressed directly, merely assumed.
small clarification - that was $65k gross, not nett. sounds like a lot of it went back into broken/spare part purchases.
Judging by the downvotes, we're just going to have to accept that institutionalized classism is the price we pay for being on HN.
I've noticed an up-tick of maple syrup related articles on various sites recently (something that I wouldn't normally notice).

Is Canada doing a big branding push for maple syrup at the moment?

Like another commenter mentioned, smells of sponsored content.
Six Common Reasons SaaS Sales Plans Fail
Yes, that kind of journalism exists, but does it have a place here?
Build it with Me is back online again
Limiting the vehicle size by weight is crazy. At 300lbs you're specifying nearly the bulk of a normal American adult (we have a lot of obese and nearly obese people; but a lot of strength trainers also qualify). The effort would be better spent more directly attacking the desired result; short-medium (intra small city) transit in extremely lightweight vehicles (bicycles are the traditional solution, but electric scooters are another option).

Of course instead of those moving beltways might be a better use of one of the pathways (and promote walking).
This. "The right answer, too late, is wrong."
Squash is my new favorite thing. It's a fantastic high energy workout for the mind and body. You can do an hour session and that's all you need. Perfect partner game.

Snowboarding, although I've been doing it for so long I'm bored of it.

Backcountry camping and canoeing is fun, whitewater kayaking and fishing.
Why the bottom has dropped out of the antiques market
this is why in real db the indexes aren't in pure binary tree, it is a variation of B-tree instead. So a billion rows table will have only 4 levels deep index (ie. 4 disk reads worse case).
Need is the construction of the world order; satiety is the universal conflagration. (Kahn translating Heraclitus) If you want to stoke consumer demand in a country where the poor have massive televisions and cable, maybe notch up the bullying of people wearing cheaper brands and carrying fake designer brands and charge 30 grand for VR headsets but advertise them during the Super Bowl? I dunno. I've never even had a real job and there aren't any gadgets I want and I want to get more crap out of my house than I want to add. Eliting schooling for hypothetical kids I'll probably never have is the only big ticket purchase I can seem to summon strong desire for.
or maybe particles are a convenient metaphor for small scales
It's not a stage name in the show business sense. This is actually what people call them on a day-to-day basis. It is just as "serious" a name as Moon Unit Zappa; you might think it's odd, but it's their name, so deal with it.

FB: "Our policy has never been to require everyone on Facebook to use their legal name. The spirit of our policy is that everyone on Facebook uses the authentic name they use in real life. For Sister Roma, that's Sister Roma. For Lil Miss Hot Mess, that's Lil Miss Hot Mess."
That's blocking, not async. Of course you could always create a new thread, but you might want to avoid that for performance reasons...
Housing and other real-estate development projects require much more money than moves around the startup ecosystem and such projects don't offer the sort of returns that those investors typically seek. Throw a billion dollars at an active urban real-estate market and maybe it moves a little and maybe it provides a low teens internal rate of return. There aren't unicorns in real-estate. It's a place where pension funds and insurance companies park assets for the term of fifteen and thirty year mortgages by backing project types with track records, e.g. Class A office space.

To put it another way, adding a 1000 rental units in a place like San Francisco at an affordable $200,000 each (as if it were possible) requires two hundred million dollars in funding and would take four or five years for acquisition, entitlement, construction and occupancy under the best of circumstances. Rent them out at $3000 per month and the income is $36,000,000 a year. After ten years or so, assuming that the market doesn't go south, there's the potential for a pretty good return...but those just ain't startup numbers and venture capital timelines.

And that's just a few units in one local market. At scale the amount of capital required is vast.
>So to explain the world we see, we combine quantum theory, theory of relativity, dark matter, gravitation, electromagnetism, two types of nuclear force and a zoo of now 62 elementary particles?

Well, the standard model includes all the forces and particles, and neither the particles or the forces are arbitrary, but arise from various symmetries in the laws of physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_Way_(physics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

The symmetries in the standard model have been so good at predicting and explaining particles and forces that many physicists are convinced that there are a whole class of undiscovered particles to go along with another type of symmetry.

They didn't build the LHC just to see what's out there. They have pretty strong reasons to believe that there are these other particles. The fact that they can predict these particles (like the higgs) should tell you that there is a underlying theory that explains all of this.

The LHC is mostly just helping the physicists discover the details about the particles that aren't predicted by the theory (such as the mass).
Interesting follow up to our blog post! This goes into a lot more details about why startups might prefer product-focused people, and larger companies might need technical people.

The discovery of product motivation in interviews is limited to “are you interested in this product?” [...] Technical interviews discover technical programmers, even if YC startups prefer product programmers.

Interesting point. Could the explanation be that larger companies (with more demand for technical programmers) define interviewing culture, and skew all interviews in this direction?

If you have more microservices than users, you may not have an engineering problem, but you definitely have a product problem.

Ha. Great quote.
this is revolting code. period.

it does nothing special or novel whatsoever - except maybe to set a quality bar for writing unmaintainable code.

the very first example given is simple, but demonstrates a thorough lack of understanding for what constitutes readable code. if i had to code review this from a junior i wouldn't let it go in without significant changes, and i'd make time to teach them some of the most basic concepts about producing maintainable and readable code... but only because its easier than firing them.

i am skeptical that the label 'transducer' has any solid value whatsoever here. i can understand the concept... its basically to encapsulate stages of algorithms neatly. the fact that it manifests one way in Clojure says nothing about the value of using exactly the same mechanism in C++ to achieve the same...

normal classes, normal functions, and not being rubbish at writing code combine to give a much better result for the same class of problems.
He may well know everything there is to know today, but there's bound to plenty more breakthroughs in AI research.
It would be like Newton saying "I know everything there is to know about physics today".
Sheldon Adelson: http://fortune.com/2015/12/16/sheldon-adelson-bought-the-las...
Yeah, pretty much this. It's also often the case with certain media outlets and politicians too, who make the assumption that anyone who's religious, not socially 'left wing' or anything else is a bigot who should be looked upon with disdain at every possible opportunity.

It's great ammunition for certain politicians (like Trump or his UK and European counterparts).
> production creates demand. Not because people want to buy it, but because the act of production gives you something to trade

What are you describing is called Say's Law. There's various ways it can be false, and the US economy experienced lots of them.

An example of how production does not create demand: people can save money for the future. A person who wants to save more will produce more (work harder) and reduce their spending. If everyone does this simultaneously, we get a glut: supply exceeds demand, and real production will fall.

Note the simple remedy: give everyone money, everyone can increase their savings, and resume their old level of demand. Here money did increase real output. And (even in your example) everyone got money, so the Apple employees were not cheated. Lost real income from iPhone sales is compensated by the additional money they received.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say%27s_law
I've read the paper closely.

> Herb mentions that it still less than lifetimes in Rust given C++'s type system:

Yes, I know Herb claimed that. As far as any of us can tell, it's based on a misunderstanding of Rust's rules and is wrong :)
I don't follow why AI vehicles need to be 100% good. Plain old human-driven vehicles sure aren't and we accept their utility as being worth the trade.
I suspect something more accessible to the general public could be done with the heart rate sensors and accelerometers already in Android watches, Apple watches, and Fitbits.
making some reserves for the next crisis?
Specifically, it typically has a connotation of ex post facto.
I signed up for spotify for now. They're doing a promo so you get the first three months of premium for $1. I like some things about the interface better, some things worse. Overall, I wish rdio wasn't closing, but spotify seems like a sufficient substitute. I may also check out google play music in parallel.

My one strange requirement is that I want to play music on a headless computer hooked up to my stereo system, and control it remotely with a nice interface (including discovery, etc.). Rdio did this basically by default. For spotify, I think I'll end up using mopidy as the player, but I'm not sure about the remote control yet. There's some conflicting information about whether spotify connect (their shared queue feature) is supported on linux or by 3rd party clients.
usually, sure - this case is interesting b/c the fraudsters don't care about receiving the actual product

this is a really big field - most large companies that have to process tons of transactions will implement a big data approach - put together as much demographic and behavioral info about customer as possible and analyze risk. this is really impossible for small vendors
Rationalization is usually said when the conclusion comes first, and the "reasoning" latter. First you decide what you think, then why. This "reasoning" is considered suspect, and called a rationalization.
Do you really want me to start going through the list of Democrat cunts I want out of office such as Dianne Feinstein despite the fact I usually vote for Democrats?

Just because people are in a given group doesn't mean you want them around with the ability to exercise power.
This kind of argument is verboten when it's a white person talking to a black person, say, because it's not OK to tell someone their experience isn't valid. Strangely, that rule seems not to apply when it's a progressive talking to a traditionalist. And progressives wonder why they have such a hard time talking to traditionalists? You'd have to be willfully blind.
Might've been Frank Herbert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Sabotage
Absolutely exciting stuff. Imagine if you have 100, 1000 or 10000 cars each with deep learning software on board. Have them all upload data after each drive to central repository and download updates from other cars. You might start without stuff like 'react to that deer that just jumped on the road' but when you have 10 000 or 100 000 cars that learn and share their knowledge between them you'll quickly learn a lot of corner cases.
Thanks, next year I want to get back and try to fix the situation. I fell back to PayPal only and have been losing customers since.
I was blocked by a large mass of people with a shared Twitter block list including a number of comedy feeds I used to like to follow, because one of them disliked my political affiliation I had listed on my Twitter page. The person told me as much before blocking me. I've since removed it to prevent future discrimination, but I shouldn't have to and I don't much care for this brave new world.
> ...said it was difficult to demand transparency from the people and institutions the paper reported on when their organization was not being forthright itself.

Does anyone else see a contradiction here? By not knowing who the owner is, no reporter can bias any article for or against the owner. If they never find out then they'll have the only unbiased publication in history. That should more than compensate for 'lack of transparency'.
A global minimum income. Or the strictly-superior-to-a-minimum-wage Earned Income Tax Credit [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit
> For each and every one of those, it's better for society to act as a unit to make the optimal decision.

Depends on how you define "better". Who is to say that "better for society" trumps "better for the individual". There's no particular objective reason to take that position over the one favoring individual choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons*

If everybody owns something, then nobody owns it. We should probably rethink our notion of what "the commons" means, vis-a-vis property rights.
The Bitcoin protocol supports multisig transactions. You can use it to implement escrow by including a third party public key and require 2 of 3 parties to sign the transaction.
I offer as a hypothesis the belief that graduate study programs, even in hard sciences such as physics, aren't looking for scholars, but disciples.
I'm all for AMD going open source with these tools (I love the fact they're doing this) but the reason that developers go with GameWorks in the first place is because Nvidia is able to allocate staff/resources to the game studios to assist in implementing.