skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the area. Windfinder and Windguru are using the GFS model which has a resolution of only 50/100km.

For example for winds, in the US we are using NOAAs HIRESW with a resolution of 5km and in Europe we are using mostly WRF models from national agencies with 2-10km resolution depending on area.
I think it would be unwise for your landlord to allow this. They have little to gain but a lot to lose.

My wife and I rent two vacation homes on AirBnb and other websites. We started with a one night minimum in the off-season and then quickly change to 3 nights. This essentially means we book fewer off-season weekend rentals.

Here's why we did that: It takes 1 night to trash a house. So do you want someone to pay you $200 to trash your house or $600 to trash your house?

You're also playing Russian roulette where every new guest is a trigger pull. The fewer trigger pulls, the less likely you are to take a bullet.

We'd rather a higher vacancy rate with an overall fewer number of guests. In the end this means we might reduce our revenue by 10% to have 50% fewer guests.

Your landlord would have to decide that couple extra thousand dollars a year would be worth hosting 20 random visitors. If that's how the numbers break down the risk isn't worth the reward IMO.
similar story of "greatest filter in whole CS 5 year path quietly removed" here, albeit ours was actually non-programming related. It was theoretical electronics, don't ask me why we had to go through that guy - actually other students, focused on electronics had much nicer guys.
the guy was firing people out of school with passion (literally for a single dot missing in Fourier equations at one place, often with deep personal insults, nobody liked him, not even from professors.

yeah, my uni was pretty bad, all the useful stuff I learned and use daily came from my own learning, none from university. campus was a fun place and great experience though :)
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That sounds like a fairly postmodern-ish stance, which I don't really subscribe to. To me, some opinions are better than others, and being able to articulate them well, showing where they come from and what they immply, is part of what makes many discussions interesting. I don't assume an opinion is so good that others will understand it immediately so there would be no need talk about it, or that it is a great piece of wisdom that I should study or let others study.

Good discussions can make you see things differently, take a new perspective that you had not fully considered before. If you only make "life statements" and never cordially exchange points of view, you lose a much useful way of changing your own; you risk keeping yourself in a warm sense of certitude, losing precious feedback from other people's insight.
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If he wanted to be a company instead of an individual for legal purposes, he could probably incorporate in his own name fairly easily.
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I had googled just now and read that somewhere else, but you are right, I just tested it, and it does not work as I described on the website itself.
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Not sure why they'd write all these libraries from scratch instead of just reusing something like Play or Dropwizard that are more used and thus probably better supported and have more of the kinks worked out. Wish they'd explain that up front.
It's interesting , do you think B&N is well aware of all these shortcomings yet they don't do anything(for whatever reason) or the management is not or doesn't care?

Isn't knowing exactly who customers are and what they want the priority of any business? (one might argue sometimes customers don't know what the want)
"George Hotz will be a panelist at Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2016 on April 11, 2016."
I love Barnes and Noble, however, one of my issues with BN is that they are mostly out of the way and not near malls where they'd get a lot of traffic.

Another issue I think is absolutely mind boggling is that their online prices are not what's in store; you can't even price match their website with their own in-store pricing, let alone price matching with Amazon.

I generally browse BN and then pull up Amazon to check pricing there, and either order the book with same-day delivery/next day or buy the e-book. Its still cheaper to pay for same day/next day than to buy it in store.
That is what lead to Intel's behaviour; in doing so they limited AMD free cash flow, and in turn limited AMD ability to fund newer die shrinks. And Intel's main advantage over AMD at the moment is the fact that it is one die shrink generation ahead.
Sweden's effective tax rate is 37% on a salary of $100k (2012). UK is about 32%, US about 27% (all read from a graph) [1].

In Sweden this extra tax provides free schooling up to and including university (you even get paid going to higher education US$300+/month in grants), low cost health care with a cost ceiling (US$130/year), affordable child care, social security net, local government owned and (well) managed infrastructure (power, water, fibre, roads, etc.)

Our local government is funded through direct taxation. My local government tax rate is 30.2%.

Not sure it tells the whole story though. VAT is not included in effective tax rate AFAIK (as defined in the Economist article).

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/10/focus-4
Prototypical case of the 80/20 rule. He has implemented the happy case. But that system is nothing people realistically would want to drive their cars.

What he did is impressive. But the results are not that outlandish for a talented person.

1) Hook up a computer to the CAN-Bus network of the car [1] and attach a bunch of sensor peripherals.

2) Drive around for some time and record everything to disk.

3) Implement some of the recent ideas from deep reinforcement learing [2,3]. For training, feed the system with the oberservations from test drives and reward actions that mimick the reactions of actual drivers.

In 2k lines of code he probably does not have a car model that can be used for path planning [4] (with tire slippage, etc.). So his system will make errors in emergency situations. Especially since the neural net has never experienced most emergencies and could not learn the appropriate reactions.

And guess what, emergency situations are the hard part. Driving on a freeway with visible lane markings is easy. German research projects autonomously drove on the Autobahn since the 80s [5]. Neural networks were used for the task since about the same time [6].

[1] http://www.instructables.com/id/Hack-your-vehicle-CAN-BUS-wi...

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02971

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00702

[4] http://www.rem2030.de/rem2030-wAssets/docs/downloads/07_Konf...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Prometheus_Project

[6] http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2874&c...
When somebody doesn't state the thing obvious to a novice, it could be because it's not obvious to them, or because they're trying to hide something.

Or it could be because it's also obvious to them and was obvious years ago, and by now it's so banal and irrelevant to their day-to-day work that it's not worth mentioning.
Hey Iwan - I just shot you an email over at your fastmail address. Looking forward to start a discussion there.
>Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.

-MLK, last speech the night before assasination
Why would you believe so?

That extension has been clearly signed.
Denying the heritability of IQ and its attendant effect on class is just perpetuating the state they bemoan. Intelligence is heritable. Most people desire wealth. The more intelligence you have, the more able you are to achieve your desires. Smarter people, on average, will tend to become wealthier than less-inteligent people. Though regression to the mean certainly exists, even accounting for this their children will tend to be smarter than average, which will be caused by differences in brain structure. Obviously this is neither fair nor good. But natural selection is a lecherous Lovecraftian horror - we should not expect it to be fair. It's up to us to fix it. Sticking our heads in the sand an pretending everyone is equally intelligent isn't going to fix anything.

If IQ is hereditary (which the evidence really does support) improving the lives of impoverished children is an engineering problem - nothing some pretty doable advances in embryo selection won't fix, basic embryo selection gives you about a standard deviation per generation, iterated embryo selection takes you to the edge of human capability in one conventional generation. The fact that IQ is heritable and increases human productivity is reason for hope. Biology is mutable, society is fixed:http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolog...
This is a fantastic idea that I've often considered myself. I work for a dental school and regularly interact with faculty members that continue to maintain their own private practice offices. Some of the more tech savvy dentists manage their own systems, while others have "a guy" that takes care of it. Both of those scenarios scare the hell out of me.

Getting an EHR or imaging system up and running for a small office is for the most part straight forward. Getting those systems configured correctly is where things start to fall apart. Things like backups, disaster recovery, HIPAA and PCI compliance are easy to overlook or screw up.

Vendors aren't much better. I work with a number of systems that would be out of compliance had we followed the vendor's recommended method of deployment. Technical support from these companies are spotty at best.

That being said, there are only a few big names that are used by the majority of practices. If you can get in there and really learn the systems and make things "just work" then you'd be in a great position to sell your services.
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I don't believe that we should have to register these drones, but at least in the U.S.A, owning a gun is a defined right where as owning and operating a drone is not.
People pay for the New York Times. They're writing as a profession. And an article is supposed to be a polished product, that goes through editors. People writing comments on Hacker News are amateur writers. Different standards apply.

That said, I appreciate the irony.
> Also try IO or text processing in Julia. Python is known to be faster right now.

Back when I used Python (early 2000's), that was actually C code, if I remember correctly.

The question is with IO and text processing implemented in pure Julia and pure Python, except for the OS FFI, which JIT compiler provides the best implementation?
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The same can be said about any other security measure.
I see parallels in other industries as well. I recently purchased a new camera (Olympus PL6). Normally, I just order my electronics online. However, in this case, the size and feel of the camera was very important to me, as I'll be using it on a cycling trip next year. I wanted something to complement my pocket-sized Canon S-series.

I swung by my local Best Buy to see some of the options in person. They didn't have much of a selection. A few full size DSLRs and a bunch of cheap point and shoots. Maybe one Sony mirrorless.

This seemed to be true of all the areas. The shop was a bit of a ghost town. Lots of "stuff", but nothing to get excited about (and I'm a gadget geek).

So, I went to the local camera specialty shop. It's a bit further away, but it was nice to get all the options spread out on the counter, chat with a knowledgeable salesperson, and end up buying something. Yes, it was full retail, but I got what I wanted, no regrets.

Same for my local bicycle shop. I can order most of the stuff online, but for some items, having knowledgeable staff and items I can touch is worth the extra retail markup. But, the items need to be in stock, the salesperson needs to be able to help me, and the atmosphere must be something enjoyable.
I love this guy's personality.
Did they at least attempt list comprehensions rather than loops?

EDIT
Also in the scientific fields I've encountered not using the various libraries like numpy is non-idomatic. I personally think that python should absorb numpy into the standard library but effectively people I know treat it as if it were already there.

You can argue that numpy etc are implemented in C. But is the Julia interpretor not implemented in C?
>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.

Malls are dying in the US, though. The only malls that remain successful these days feature more upscale products in affluent areas that people want to see in person before purchasing. For everything else, shoppers seem to prefer your outlet style strip malls where there's less crowding and inconvenience. Or if they can wait a day or two, just order it online.
It's necessary, for too many of these global corporations, a small local fine is too insignificant to bother heeding.
The wii hacks were all based on awful implementation of the AES methods, wasn't it?
The talk specifically discussed GCP being free for internal use and one of it's costlier services being used without any thought being put toward optimization. Once they started charging they optimized and used dramatically less.
I would totally agree with you IF this kid hadn't proven his chops with iPhone and PS3 hacks, not to mention building a self-driving car in his garage.

I also realize this kid probably won't end up making a huge dent in the universe.... but.... statistically speaking, there should be several "Leonardo da Vinci"- level humans alive right now. Why not this kid?
I feel like shaving off your eyebrows is actually going further than putting some make-up on.
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If only HP hadn't off-shored so much maybe they could have :(
Your loved ones will die, too. The memories they have of you won't last either.
B&N is really suffering from a way bigger problem in the US: The death of retail. Other than a few big cities, the cost of going to a store in the US is far higher than in Europe, just because e have to actively go to a store, instead of passing them on the way to work. This is what made American stores into big boxes: Since people had to make specific trips to the store, it paid to make them big, fill them up with lots of inventory, and make them service large areas.

But then the internet happened, and as internet retail gets getter and better, the weakest stores suffer, and the weakest of the lot are bookstores and electronics stores. We've seen competition in those areas dwindle already, because the market just couldn't hold: CompUSA, Circuit City, Borders, are gone, but it's not as if the survivors are thriving: Their sales are still getting eaten by Amazon more and more every year.

So B&N will probably manage to stay alive until the next economic crisis happens, consumers start buying a bit less, and the internet eats them alive.

In more dense urban areas, very efficient book retailers will still have a chance for a while, because it is often more convenient to buy at a local store than to buy online. They'll still have to be afraid of the switch to ebooks though.
if you have competencies in areas A, B, C and apply for several positions and due to the vagaries of HR you get interviewed by team A which is not a good fit for some reason, why should you have to wait for a year to apply for teams B and C?

This is like meeting a group of friends going on a first date with one of them, getting shot down and not being able to date any of the others for a whole year even if you could be a good fit for them instead.

We've seen here plenty of times however how we all consider the interview process pretty much random and broken, so it shouldn't be too surprising when companies are not operating efficiently and shrugging off false-negatives as if they don't matter, it's just basic human behavior, just like if you are extremely attractive you're going to be extremely picky and not care if you don't give somebody a shot because no matter what there will always be a line of potential suitors waiting at the door.
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Huh, I'd mentally flagged that one as "dead space, ignore". I should clear that flag and re-investigate.
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Their moral standing doesn't have anything to do with their wealth. 'In History' naturally has to include companies going back hundreds of years.
This is great. "The mark of a true expert is neglecting obvious explanations to avoid being boring."

That said, I do expect this perspective to make church more bearable :p
Completely agree. There's absolutely no way you could use this approach for level 4 autonomy. Level 3, fine, but not level 4.
They have to know, right? If not, they're incompetent.

Of course, the current CEO presided over Toys R Us as they fell into oblivion and ended up purchased by Bain Capital. And Sears Canada, another example of failed "big box" retail shopping.
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Follow-up: Open letter by the fictional "Liam Cooper", or how @ProductHunt might respond to recent criticism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10745098
He built an impressive prototype, considering he hacked it together in a month.

This is just the start, not the end.
I didn't mean during the test, I meant progress towards the goal internally as an organization.
ONE DAY MY TIME WILL COME!
The game does not actually force you to replay old missions. You just have to complete certain side missions to progress in lieu of them. That confused me as well though - but I never had to complete any of those repeat missions and I completed the game. The game did not do a good job making that clear, however.

I would not call MGS5 an unfinished mess. I would call it unfinished, but that fact doesn't detract from it as one of the most innovative games I have ever played. I have never had the opportunity to truly "be" a character in a game before. When you're playing every mission in MGS5 - you are Snake.

You decide how every single objective is accomplished. Every mission can be played in a variety of varied ways. The fact that each mission felt so fluid and organic is a testament to the tremendous engineering and ingenuity that went into designing it.

Oh, but how I pine for the final chapter that could have been!
> They need to be in malls.

They used to. From 1987 to 2010, B&N owned a mall bookstore chain called B. Dalton. There were in every mall, but then B&N decided they didn't need that market anymore, so they liquidated the stores and killed the Dalton brand.

There actually are a few full-size B&N stores in some malls, but only a few malls have them, and they're typically positioned as anchors.
Agreed. I wrote a blog post outlining a way to get around this. (https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/slack-is-too-...) The gist: turn off all notifications then flip them back on by channel. Still doesn't address de-coupling of pop-ups and sound, though.
> 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.

Yeah, there are all sorts of questions you can discuss about how your values inform the way you spend money above and beyond what's necessary, whether it's about luxury, convenience, status, or how you would want to spend charitable money.

What annoyed me was the raising up of an observation ('people don't care about anything beyond their surroundings') into something which is glibly justified because it is Rational. I would say that's a "you should because I say so", or at best a "you should because it is" argument for morality.

Edit: Ah, I see your edit, consider the above part of the fossilized argument then!
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No, but their idea of a good reason might be "they're middle-eastern", "they're black", "they're old", "they're young".
There are clubs in most British cities where the CV Dazzle look wouldn't look out of place. (From experience, while travelling to and from the club one certainly looks out of place.)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cyber+goth+hair&tbm=isch
Also I think the UK has more foot traffic. There are certainly places in the US that generate enough foot traffic to support a bookstore, but the European market for foot traffic is much bigger.

B&N needs to quit adding "new stuff" to failing stores, as it's just not enough to make people want to go vs shopping on Amazon, and shutter them instead. Maintain a smaller but better brand.
Economically, you would still get a better deal in Silicon valley. Rent/Cost of living might be comparable, but salary would be higher for sure.
If Elon is seriously interested in what he can do, why doesn't he let him use the Tesla test track? That's a safe space for him to try out his solution and affords a control scenario to compare against MobileEye/Tesla.

And I think you missed the part where he wants to drive for Uber, so he's also endangering the passengers in his car. (!)
I dunno the model but my dad had one.
Yes, would be useful for paragliding.
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> As a side note: I support the right of store owner to punish dick customers. I believe society needs to have stronger mechanisms to penalize douchy behaviour.

I agree with this, but I don't believe that a store ought to be able to farm out this punishment to every other retailer that subscribes to this system.

If a customer is being a dick, bar him from your establishment; don't subscribe them to be discriminated against and harassed everywhere else.
Really? The dropwizard example looks almost identical except for an extra Config related class (which seems like a more sane design to me) and 2 extra methods to implement. Not sure I'd call it a lot less complex.

I think what is happening is the getting started guide for dropwizard looks significantly more indepth than the Apollo guide, covering some features that are entirely optional (and may not even be supported by Apollo.)
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Well, you could argue that their understanding of it is implied.

Aside from simple heredity, stress during pregnancy and early life could make its mark on the child via epigenetics. We know already that this happens in mice-- a young mouse that is touched by its mother receives beneficial epigenetic changes (lower life stress, etc) than mice that are not touched by their mother or not touched a sufficient amount. There are doubtless such mechanisms at play with humans.
I'm not confident we can argue Google or anyone else has done much better. You might notice Google has never announced testing their cars where snow occurs, for example.

I think it's likely that much more of self-driving car development is smoke and mirrors than people realize. Best case scenarios are promoted as examples of how innovative a company is. Great PR, not necessarily a practical result.
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Landlord gets paid twice? Nice work if you can get it!
"My building" is a common English colloquialism to mean "the building in which I reside." It does not actually imply ownership.

If you don't like it, find a different language. :P