skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nest thermostat actually works without an internet connection. You just can't control it remotely without one (or get updates). If Nest vanished, we'd just have what many people currently have, a disconnected thermostat that is never updated.
Of course not everything is about ROI. However, the VC model is predicated on outsized returns. Without that they don't exist. Novelty's value to a VC is that it makes it more credible that they'll see such outsized returns.

When founding a new organization, you have a choice of making it for-profit, or non-profit. If you choose for-profit, you are making a statement about your priorities; when you take VC money, the term sheets are very clear about the ambitious ROI you are going for.
Because it demonstrates that that pattern does not follow the default mode of operation for the language.
But the real goal isn't preventing internet addiction, this is just a part of the campaign to control internet in South Korea to shape political opinion.

Read up on KSCS and the internet censorship there.
Ted Cruz introduces bill to raise H minimum wage to $110,000
I've been a member for a while, but mostly view that as a discount and not much more.

What I really wish we had in the US was Decathlon, which has cheap outdoor stuff that is "good enough". I wouldn't buy there for something I did a lot (cycling!), but for casual outdoor stuff (say, snowshoeing) I don't do much, their gear is often a really good deal, and not so cheap that it's going to fall apart on me or be unpleasant to use.
Right, your comment argued that "view logic, domain/business logic and database boilerplate code intermixed in a single file" is not "ancient history in the PHP world". Which it is, regardless of the `<?php` tag at the top of all the files. How a source file is processed has no impact on how programmers choose to model their applications.
And a pile of resonant modes, ensuring a non-flat response. But how is a small room causing non-linearity?
Right on. I wish there's internet access in the afterlife.
Could use a (2014) in the headline, but it's obviously still relevant. The privatization of public space has been a pretty clear theme in William Gibson's work, I assume hostile architecture comes as no surprise to him...
Italian neurosurgeon appeals to billionaires to fund first human head transplant
I've been following Hancock for quite a while and every year the push is a little stronger in support for his arguments. Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, is now forcing it forward. Its fantastic.
Yes, thank you. The civil way is to assume that someone is mistaken and correct them politely.
I find most of the stuff I buy from REI is hit or miss whether I can find substantially better deals online. As for the return policy change though, that really surprised me when I heard about it relatively recently. Yeah, there are assholes who abuse this kind of thing but was it really so bad that they had to scrap it? Couldn't they just update their return policy to the effect of "This isn't intended to cover long-term wear and tear. At our discretion, we may reject returns that aren't the result of a defect. Just be reasonable."

[EDIT: With often relatively expensive gear that may not be used as much as I would like to use it, I've absolutely had parts break, leaks develop, etc. in things that had only been used maybe 10 times or so over more than a year. Recently, I returned for repair something to the manufacturer--which they fixed--because it was under their warranty but not REI's new one.]
> It is certainly possible to write a spaghetti component that would do everything.

So...like PHP, then?
Maybe doctors should hire someone to help with the paperwork?
This seems like a case where scaling horizontally works better than scaling vertically. Like how some tech companies make use of QA departments while others do their own QAs, perhaps some doctors having an assistant on hand could make things more efficient.
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I don't know about uptime, but most of the new programming languages have no undefined behavior (a Java program always behaves as a Java program whatever your bugs are), while most of the old languages do have undefined behavior (even Ada has garbage-initialized variables.) Hardware-wise, there's memory protection and virtualization, whereas old Unix, Windows, etc. all let you crap all over any piece of memory because there was no efficient way to prevent arbitrary machine code from doing that. Security also improved tremendously, in relative terms.

So we're far from unhackable, never-crashing software, but then cars, too are still relatively dangerous, just much less so than they used to be.

(Now one interesting thing that I wonder about, though, with all those thank yous going out to the government, Ralph Nader and other deities in sibling comments, is just how reliable this crash test is; meaning, what happens if you try other angles, which are not in the standard test.)
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I'm not sure why you've been greyed out. This is a fantastic point. This is by no means a book for every person. This is hardly even a book for every culture (though it's a huge best-seller in Japan).
Yep. To elaborate: really big batch sizes can speed up training data throughput, but usually mean that less is learned from each example seen, so time-to-convergence might not necessarily improve (might even increase, if you take things too far).

Training data throughput isn't the right metric to compare -- look at time to convergence, or e.g. time to some target accuracy level on held-out data.
A quick test shows this to be _much_ faster than NPM 2 (Browserify ~8s vs ~27s using NPM 2). I've been on the look out for a faster NPM given it takes 30m to install dependencies for an application I work on :(

Unfortunately IED (Soon to be renamed "NOM") doesn't support Git dependencies :(
Lol, what, just what... the biophysics of the Cas9 system are understood pretty well. We literally get as close as you can get to observing the accepted mechanism of action. How would you explain the consistency of site specific gene integration? You can't be selecting from existing mutants and "just happen" to get your transgenic product inserted at the exact site you specified. Your comment is just absurd. You also don't seem to realize that CRISPR is used at pretty much every university in dozens of different systems by thousands of different scientists. What a bizarre comment.
Edit: uh, if you actually need a "source" for this:

http://m.pnas.org/content/109/39/E2579.full
Accessing Cell Phone Records Without a Warrant Violates the Constitution
TLS client certificates are even easier, don't require consuming party (the server) to know private key at all, and are reasonably secure.

They are not working for end users, because no browser ever cared about those (UI/UX-wise), but I don't see any reason to not use those for automated access by IoT stuff. Generate keypair on-device, send a CSR, ask user to open browser and check if device's theirs (by comparing a conveniently formatted fingerprint - as a picture and/or series of dictionary words, not hex digits), sign and use if everything's good.
Yes, there are many many more secure schemes out there. By minimum I meant minimum.

The point was what the client sends should not be what's in the database or easily reversible from what's in the database. I guess the larger point was you can't trust clients in any way shape or form.
You are right! I cannot edit the post anymore :(
Mandatory arbitration reduces the cost of resolving disputes (i.e. lawyer's fees). There are many arbitrators available who are comparable to the courts in outcome, but much speedier, more predictable, and cheaper. In cases where the parties are interested in good low cost dispute resolution, they may be willing to choose one of these arbitrators to reduce uncertainty and transaction costs. In other cases, one party may pay the other extra to 'buy' biased arbitration, or a specific arbitrator (or set of rules) may be selected as a way of shifting risk from one party to another, much like buying insurance; I do not see why this should be disallowed.

There is also a signalling aspect to this, which we usually do not account for. By allowing the other party to select the arbitrator, you may be showing that you trust them; refusing their pick may be a sign of deeper issues.
10+ years is a long time to steward a project. Most projects don't even live that long!

Transitioning away after 10+ years is a sign of several positive things:

* Creating a successful project that lasts 10+ years

* Having the perseverance, patience, and willpower to guide that project for its lifetime

* Creating a healthy community whom you are able to transition day-to-day responsibility of that project to

Matt has accomplished something that most of us never will. I'm envious of what he has accomplished and that he is able to walk away from a healthy and successful project. Truly a remarkable accomplishment.
Frats are like the perfect petri dish for misogynism and racism. You get a bunch of white guys together in a usually racially and always sexually homogeneous club, and these kids, who don't know much about the world yet, suddenly don't have to be accountable for saying racist or sexist things. I have watched friends of mine from high school join a frat in college, and you know what? They mostly turned into douchenozzles.

Compare to something like the punk scene where radical politics, antiracism, lgbt rights, antimisogyny are almost prerequisites for membership, the community is diverse, and racism/sexism/homophobia are often called out on the spot...you see ppl go in with hateful attitudes and come out more tolerant people.
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For some values of "true".
One solution would be for the United States, the land of liberty, to give its citizens privacy protections similar to what Europeans enjoy.

What does a U.S. citizen gain from not having the option for privacy? You always can forgo it if you like.
To be fair to the book author, on page 22 he writes, "often there will be complex non-linear relationships between the parts of a biological chemical pathway."

Still, I found alex's comment very informative, a good addition to the book on that topic.
There's a big difference between exclusive licensing and non-exclusive licensing. New drugs (like penicillin) tend to be exclusively licensed because of the costs involved in regulatory approval, and that can slow down technology diffusion - the wrong licensee can sink the technology.

But enabling technologies (like CRSPR) get licensed non-exclusively, particularly when the patent holder is an academic institution. If the patents around CRSPR are licensed non-exclusively, at reasonably prices, and with appropriate treatment for academic researchers, these patents aren't going to slow science down.

A good example is the original polymerase chain reaction patents, which were held by Cetus. Despite lots of legal arguments, PCR was always widely available.

Here's a nice analysis of the PCR patent situation and its effects on technology diffusion:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1523369/
A lot of space is used up on safety equipment. As one small example A-Pillars (at the edges of the windshield) are very large to incorporate the safety cage, rollover protection, and airbags. [1] This leads to a weird problem where the car is very safe in a crash, but slightly more likely to get in an accident due to visibility issues.

There are existing lane change warning systems for rear visibility, I expect there will soon be forward sensing systems as well; and of course SDCs are coming as well.

Seats also take up a significant amount of room - partly to safety considerations, but also a bit to lazy design.

1. http://wardsauto.com/news-analysis/new-pillars-enhance-safet...
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Thank you all for prodding my brain in the right direction. :)
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Kind of reminds me of Pytheas that was not believed what he told about lands where the sea freezes and other stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas
I hope the future generations have an opposite scenario. Where they're told they'll never amount to anything besides being taxpayers, and then they rebel and become the successes they were never meant to be.

Besides your success is entirely how look at it. For me, it's waking up another day to a wonderful family & friends, anything beyond that is a bonus.
I don't think any 101 classes going to get to that level of detail...
I feel like snowflakes are memory structures -- the progression of shape starting from the center would reflect humidity/air pressure/temperature over time.

Does that make sense to anyone? Why couldn't you encode memory in this?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. The malibu is certainly not a small car.
> I'm talking about Microsoft, Uber, Amazon etc... the ones who have literally changed the way people live.

...or they road a wave...

You didn't mention Walmart. ;-)

Uber has had a number of competitors, back in their day when they were "changing the world", so did Microsoft & Amazon. Hell, Microsoft's operating system ride started with an operating system they bought from someone else.

If you grow at a crazy fast rate to become a household name, you inherently are riding some kind of wave change. I don't think that was what the MIT Microfluidics PhD friend was referring to as "novel". If you want to call that "novel", then you are going to have a much harder time making the case that Theranos isn't trying to be novel.
> This is what happens when frat boys get jobs

Why do you think it is OK make a massive generalization about a group of people like that? While I wasn't personally involved in Greek life during college, I have very good friends that were upstanding and principled members of fraternities that would certainly abhor the horrific and abusive behavior described in this article.

If you met a nice person today and later found out they were in a fraternity during college, would you immediately make judgements about their morals and conduct just based on that association?
Servants of some sort have been a staple of the historic middle class for a long time. The thing we often overlook is that the consumer technologies of the 1950's and forward meant that we could use machines (like washers and dryers) instead of people, and as a result our perception of middle class changed: if you had a car, a washer and dryer, a refrigerator, and a phone, you were middle class.

As someone said on HN a while ago, a lot of these gig economy apps of publicly sourced private service seem to be there just to make the 1% feel like the .01%
I've also been a member for years, though certainly not back to the 6-digit member number era. I do get the voting stuff in the mail, though I think I've only voted once - as noted elsewhere, there's not much information really available about the candidates, and there generally aren't many more candidates than there are positions. I'm familiar with that problem from my HOA (which I was on the board of for years) - 7 positions, 4 open for election, 3 candidates.

As far as the question of engagement, seems to me that (if they're not already) perhaps their local stores should be sure to get involved with other organizers of outdoor activities. How many outdoor groups organize through Meetup.com? And how many of those is REI involved with/sponsoring/providing meeting space for? Member engagement is going to have to come from the local level.
Members can no longer vote on anything meaningful. From the article: *"Likewise, in the 1998 election members voted on the first board pay raise in 15 years. But since 2002, the board sets its own compensation, a policy REI says is “consistent with companies of similar size and scope.”"

State Farm Mutual Insurance Company, which is owned by its policyholders, no longer lets its members vote on anything. There was a time when policyholders got an annual ballot, but it only had one choice for directors plus a write-in blank.
I never understood why mandatory arbitration is ever allowed. Someone should be able to decide if they want arbitration after the incident has occurred. The default should be court and arbitration should only happen if both parties agree it is a better course of action.
How do you backup your paper books?
I'm not sure why everyone is being so elusive with their answers. Nipples (on either sex) can become erect when exposed to cold. The band-aids are meant to imply that the women should apply them to their nipples to hide them from poking through their bra and shirt. If you've ever seen a marathon runner with two red streaks on their shirt running down from each nipple, you'll better understand why. Some runners do, in fact, put band-aids (or duct tape, etc.) over their nipples to protect the tissue from rubbing against their shirt.
Quite true. Also, crammed into those A, B, and C pillars, and the trims above them, can be air bags. This also increases the cross section.
I've used Mercurial on Bitbucket in the past and loved it.
Very thank you for your hard workd, Matt.
Too bad that git is on everywhere now.
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A pair of jack stands and a floor jack are all you need to change your brakes anywhere with enough space to park your car...
I suspect the number of cars (per capita) has dramatically increased too, hilighting the improved safety even more.
I would love to see a case, even contrived, where planar quads produce artifacts from floating point precision but I think it would be extremely difficult to demonstrate it even on an enormous ground plane quad, let alone a subpixel quad.

I'm not sure why you would say no modern API deals with quads, what would you call the ability to draw quads and quad strips from gpu buffers in OpenGL?

Geometry shaders should work well, what I described is an approach for lower tech situations.
My first car was a Pontiac 6000. God, it was awful. But, it was a station wagon, so at least I could pile a bunch of friends in the back.
Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition
quite simply, you don't. the motivation is to be either first to market, or have some advantage to your process.
If you do the research, you can hold it tight to your chest until it's time to announce your product, by which time you will have a significant advantage over any competition, the amount of time of which is a factor of the difficulty of the subject matter... there's your graduated incentive. low hanging fruit will get plucked. good.

regarding costs of governmental approval: they are a problem. the government will need to use our tax money for this sort of activity rather than shiny new weapons, I suppose. Their fees are absurd. Approval of a specific substance as a treatment for illness ought to be borne by the same public sector that owns it in my common-sensical world i suppose...
Thanks, appreciate the insight.
My issue isn’t with placing some of the blame on Churchill but all of it. The world was in a war where untold millions were killed and the outcome was anything but certain. My guess is that Churchill had to juggle multiple aspects of the decision, but the outcome and his words were used to paint the most unflattering picture in the linked article, perhaps justified, perhaps not, likely somewhere in-between. And I truly do appreciate counter viewpoints that expand my understanding of the world. The tragedy and his racist viewpoints clearly deserve more prominence in the histories of him.

You attempt to discredit my take on Stalin with rhetorical flourish, so generously implying that “you don’t think I’m a neo-nazi”, yet you provide no evidence that he wasn’t a butcher. While I don’t think you are an “uneducated fascist”, most attempts to propagandize pro-Stalin viewpoints come from… Not a good way to change someone’s opinion if that is your goal. You did make a good catch on the first google link, but hardly surprising when providing supporting references in HN comments. Wikipedia has the number at 3-60 million, with 3 being the “officially” recorded number. [1] Perhaps you are right that Stalin was better than my interpretation, but you haven’t convinced me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
While I completely agree that the behaviour described by the author is totally unacceptable and must be rooted out from the workplace, I also find the context ironic: Bear Stearns just before the 2008 financial crisis.

As we aspire to a better society, is this really the goal we want to reach for? Better female representation in a corrupt enterprise that precipitated a global financial crisis which caused hardship for hundreds of millions of people?

I hope the author, a member of senior management, was troubled by more than just sexism at pre-collapse Bear Stearns.
> As far as I was able to determine when I evaluated both hg and git is that they are essentially equivalent technically.

Today, yes. Significant work went into getting Mercurial's internals up to parity with Git's, and conversely into getting Git's UI up to parity with Mercurial's.
It was the title when I copy-pasted it and submitted the link.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-clock-is-ticking-for-dropb...
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I would defined it as something that you like doing regardless of income.
I do not doubt the premise of the video, but there appears to be a large rust cloud on impact. Did they use a structurally sound old car or did they help prove their point by using a rusted out car?
I am almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by "more efficiently" and "with a positive attitude"?

I confess what I imagine out of those frases is roughly: "for less money/with no strings attached" and "in blissful ignorance of the economic violence that entails".
Thanks for the numbers. I don't think it will be worth it for such a small payout. I've been against ads from the start, but at the end of the day, it takes time to maintain a website. I'll have to look at other options.
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I'm still a believer in a universe of huge numbers of diverse Chaumian token issuers intermediated by markets, but Zcash is an amazing system.

Zooko, btw, used to work for DigiCash long ago. The world of anonymous ecash has been...without a lot of progress, overall. Hopefully Zcash changes this.
> important to realize that the majority of automobile safety improvements came before 1960:

This is an absurdly false claim. Cars in the 60s had bias ply tires (which blew out frequently and had no traction), drum brakes (awful), single circuit brake systems that would fail if there was a leak, solid rear axles (tail happy), lap belts (if anything).

Old cars were several orders of magnitude more difficult and dangerous to drive. Airbags, ABS, crumple zones, traction/stability control, and radial tires have all massively improved the safety of driving.

Car safety has improved so much in the past 10 years that the NHSTA and IIHS have needed to make their tests more stringent because so many cars were getting perfect scores. A ten year old Camry would have a perfect score in 2006, but would likely fail a 2016 crash test.
I'm familiar with the type of articles you're complaining about and agree with the complaint, but I don't believe this is one of them. The title was interesting, the article was also, and it contained concrete examples and actionable requests. I thought it was pretty good honestly.
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