skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always. V=IR. More amperage means that resistance has a more significant affect. This is why transmission lines are ran at high voltages. You can get away with smaller wire sizes and significantly less thermal loss.

The first thing I think about when I see 4Ka is that any wires used would be enormous.
One of my goals for interviewing any candidate is for me to learn something from the experience.
You would think Parisians would oppose that since it increases the distance traveled by the vehicles which ramps up emissions for literally no good reason at all.
Until we have 'common sense' AI (which is still probably quite a ways off), design can help expose the syntax that AI can understand. Here are some thoughts on that: https://medium.com/@tedp/how-design-can-help-bridge-the-ai-g...
Crack text files encrypted with vim's :X command
Yes, I for one would have kept looking at the demo if it was Brad Pitt.

But that's not the point. Sexism, in reality, favours men and hurts women. That's why an image of Brad Pitt is okay, whereas an image of Emma Watson is not okay! (and by the way, they are suggestive)

Any argument that goes "But if we switched genders, then it would be fine!" is completely missing the point that we are still living in a de-facto patriarchy, where objectification of men is not even an issue.

In any case, I found the choice of images immature and closed the website right away.
I believe the Chess/Go engines are not really AI. They are operating on a set of rules written in code. It can compute and search the moves faster than a human. It can also remember a longer chain of moves better than a human can. But all those rules have been fed via code and it is just exploring that state space.

Only recently researchers have started to expose chess to reinforcement learning (i.e. a true AI engine that learns chess on its own and beats humans). But the existing commercial engines that beat humans (like stockfish) are anything but AI.
> no cholesterol == no testosterone

Complete nonsense. Cholesterol = animal products, which contain estrogen, which lower testosterone. You don't need cholesterol in a healthy diet, in fact it's completely antithetical to healthy eating.
nutrient density. if you have the choice between spinach and potatoes, spinach has more other nutrients per calorie.

http://www.peertrainer.com/gfx/en_us/nut_density.jpg is an example chart i found after 10sec of googling

you might say potato is higher than chicken. but im not going to turn potato into muscle, i will turn chicken into muscle.

at the end of the day, fat and protein are necessary to survive, starch is optional.
Hey Someone fragmented my Internet, and didn't even tell me
Pay a small fee for every transaction and here you go, HFT will be over.
This is an interesting assertion. Could you elaborate? AIXI is pareto optimal, but I'm not seeing the line from that to "AI can do everything a person can" - though I want to!
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "creepy corner of reddit"?
wtf coffeescript. What is the point of that?
I don't know what it is, but I agree. There is something subtly and subconsciously going on that nudges me away from FF too. I think it's the loose feeling UI, the default smiley face icon of the chat that I don't know anyone uses, the paper airplane as the share icon. It's that there is still not unified search/address bar even if one would prefer it without running a poorly executed extension. It's that the tabs feel so childish with the far too rounded corners and loose padding and it's even the few pixels more of padding between the address bar and the tabs boundary. It's the small font of the address bar, it's the disproportionately large back button, it's the apparent lack of design and style requirements for extension icons that make them look blurry and generally shitty and bolted on in the UI, etc.

I know that all that maybe sounds rather petty and maybe there's something wrong with me and it's my biases for some reason, but it just all adds up to a fuzzy notion of childishness and less than "down to business" feel. I say that as someone that used to exclusively use FF and shunned Chrome for all the various reasons mentioned by others.
Thanks for that. Much appreciated.
Coffeescript returns the last line always, all you needed to do was add a 'return null' (or just 'return') as the last line in the function.

You have to be explicit in Vanilla JS to return things or it just return null. Coffeescript explicitly returns the last line every time.
It has been suspected that for a long time now people have been parking questionable cash into NYC real estate. Somewhat related to this, the Treasury dept. will pierce the veil of LLCs making >= $3 million cash real estate purchases and require the owner identities to be reported. I guess we'll see if that leads to new tricks...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/us-will-track-secret-bu...
Hi,

We just finished working on this a few days ago for the GopherGala hackathon. We will be adding HTTPS soon.

- Faraz
I don’t think this is helpful. There is no medical test for it being in your blood. This ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you quit, it wasn’t in your blood, if you succeed it was in your blood. Most entrepreneurs I’ve come across so far in SV have taken very little risk and come from rich, prestigious backgrounds. The ‘entrepreneurship porn’ of the amazing struggle tends to primarily be used to justify the huge disparity between employee and founder/vc equity. The “they deserve it” crowd, when in reality it’s just the structure of the power dynamic and has little to do with deserving.
South Africa’s startups turning out to be silver lining in struggling economy
I don't want to be negative put performance is really not that great (specially when pinching), there is simply no comparison to native (massive lag/unresponsive) It's certainly possible to build web native par photo viewers (I've done it) I'll try to open source my implementation soon. However props to the author it seems to have good documentation and well thought out features.
> To me, the worst part of the fantasy is that we then consider the people that actually do make it to the "money shot" as if they were management geniuses, instead of lottery winners.

This extends to engineers and computer scientists as well.

Take Wozniak. Constantly given countless platitudes when he was most likely as qualified as many engineers at HP who never came in contact with Steve Jobs. [1] But the story is always played as "he was Einstein in the Patent office just waiting to be unleashed".

Or Marc Andressen. Was he that special when he came up with, as an undergraduate, the Netscape browser? [1] Einstein special or just "special"?. (And of course there was Jim Clark who was there to help him..). Or the google guys as phd students. The list is endless.

This is not to take away from anyone's hard work as opposed to others of equal ability that slacked off of course. Credit is due however the over the top hyperbole of the media and bloggers is quite distasteful at times.

[1] And of course nearly 100% of what most people know about these people is what is written about them by others..
You might try the "Custom Tab Width" add-on to shrink your Firefox tabs. I also like to set my toolbar bookmarks' names to an empty string, so my toolbar is just a bunch of bookmark favicons.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-tab-wi...
Been a fusion customer for years. Its the only way to do CNC on a mac, and its always been great. It always did what it said it would do. Really the best kind of software.
It's good to have some cynicism. At the same time, it seems every research helps the collective knowledge

Maybe fb will go the Alphabet route?
The complete guide to virtual reality in 2016 (so far)
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications (2005)
I've been a huge Apple fan, but they've been constantly pushing me away with both their hardware and software.

Now that we have so many pixels to push, graphics acceleration has become a key part of the computer, and apple's offerings are anemic at best on mbp.

OS X has also become much more "walled garden"-like and fisher price feeling. With every release they become less developer friendly.

I'm moving to Linux as much as I can and when I finally had to get new hardware, I got the top of the line Inspiron 7559 and replaced the hd with an ssd. It's better than any mbp hardware you can buy today (with the exception of the trackpad. Apple cannot be beat with that!) at half the cost!

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/inspiron-15-75...

Developers are why Apple was successful in the first place, I hope they start making serious tools again instead of toys.
Extra ) in your link.
Hah! You are delusional. To be specific, it's obvious he meant virtualbox + the roughtly 2 other less commonly used free desktop virtualization softwares.

Let's spell out the obvious: People, like me, use virtualbox etc. for free instead of paying for vmware fusion / workstation. If the free products didn't exist, vmware would be making much much more money on licenses for worstation etc, and developers would still be getting paid to work on the vmware products.
"He’s not a billionaire, just a centi-millionaire." I stopped reading right there.
Here's my lightbox implementation:

<a href="photo.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="photo_thumb.jpg"/></a>

Works in all browsers, native, lightweight, public domain.
Excel on OS X seems to have many problems with somewhat large xls(x) files. I know a project manager that had to switch back to Windows because of that.

Office on OS X has always sucked. If it wasn't for Office's dominance on the Windows side, the product would have died a long time ago.
Regarding "Drapegate", It's not known exactly who ordered the drapes put there or why. Even if it was Ashcroft, his motivation is not necessarily not liking nudes. He may have been annoyed by media photographers standing at odd angles to get photos of the breast next to his head. This was an in-joke amongst photographers that started with Edwin Meese - getting a photo of a breast next to a conservative AG, bonus points if he happens to be bashing porn at the time.
What happens if you try to reframe the argument in terms of chess not requiring a great deal of intelligence?
I submitted this because, ever since reading Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, I've always thought about not only the tasks that I do, but who I do them for. Eichmann was a very talented engineer, but he used his talents to support one of the most brutal regimes in modern history.

I think it's particularly relevant for programmers today. Many of us are tempted by pay or prestige or excitement to do morally dubious tasks. And even though it feels safe to do things like collect data for the NSA or help build weapons for the US military, that history is filled with examples of people who "just did their job," but later learned a very harsh lesson that they should have considered more carefully who they were doing it for.
No, that's what the ppx rewriter is for (the metaprogramming I mentioned). You write type foo = ... with sexp and those functions will be generated automatically for you. Mind you, the whole Jane Street Core machinery is still a bit heavyweight for my taste, but that particular concern shouldn't be an issue. For example, in utop:

utop # #require "core";;
utop # #require "core.syntax";;
utop # open Core.Std;;

utop # type foo = int * string with sexp;;
type foo = int * string
val foo_of_sexp : Sexp.t -> foo = <fun>
val sexp_of_foo : foo -> Sexp.t = <fun>

utop # sexp_of_foo (1, "foo");;
- : Sexp.t = (1 foo)
There was a theory behind why SSRIs work that existed when they were developed (the serotonin theory of depression), but this theory was later shown to be wrong - basically, SSRIs do modulate serotonin but that has no relation to whether you are depressed; if SSRIs do work, its through another mechanism. In addition the efficacy is greatly overstated; large follow-up studies have shown that they only have measurable effects on the most severely depressed individuals. The vast majority of people being prescribed SSRIs do not fall in this category and likely receive no benefit beyond placebo.
Right. This whole topic revolves about human identity as well. In Go, you can tell who you are playing with, and what emotions he is going through (particularly easy to do when you are stronger than your opponent).

Historically, when you play with a bot you sense relentlessness(instead of calmness), and sometimes desperation(computers sometimes go wacky when they see they are losing).

What will we sense when they are even or stronger in the more artistic and strategic phases of the game?
I believe that point is that JS always returns something for every object. Many users of JS just don't realize it. (I know I didn't till I started drinking the coffee flavored kool-aid)
"We should not be afraid of AI. Instead, we should hope for the amazing amount of good it will do in the world. It will saves lives by diagnosing diseases and driving us around more safely. It will enable breakthroughs by helping us find new planets and understand Earth's climate. It will help in areas we haven't even thought of today."

Zuckerberg isn't afraid of AI because he already has more money than he will never need (or thousands of other people would need) in a lifetime. However, when AI gets good enough, it will make many jobs obsolete and they will not be replaced at a fast enough rate.

I use simple forms of automation at my own company. Instead of hiring 3 or 4 workers, I write software. I can't imagine how many jobs will be replaced when AI gets to the point of near-human levels of learning.
> spinach has more other nutrients per calorie

Erm .. so? One can't survive on spinach alone, so I don't see this as a reason not to eat potatoes, or other starches.

> im not going to turn potato into muscle, i will turn chicken into muscle.

Well, why not? Every single whole plant food has a complete amino acid profile and sufficient protein (5-10% of calories).
The articles I've seen don't talk about transplants to help people change their weight. Their thrust was more geared towards explaining (or disproving the significance of) measured differences, and detecting differences doctors can recommend the most likely most efficient diet for people with health problems who are currently having trouble shifting weight.
The ships undergoing this look kinda crazy. Couldn't find the exact image I was thinking of but here is a sub with wires wrapped around it:

http://systems.polyamp.com/images/stories/DepermingSub.jpg
How recent layoffs at technology startups proved a blessing for younger startups
The degausser is a pier-like structure constructed at shore facilities for submarines.

Here is a degausser for the largest US submarines: https://www.google.com/maps/place/30°46'44.3%22N+81°29'30.6%...
Monitoring applications with StatsD
That's good news. The requirement to purchase the Intel C compiler and tools like MKL before programming their processors efficiently is IMO one of the chief reasons why NVIDIA is kicking them to the curb here with 6.6 TFLOP $1,000 consumer GPUs that come with an enormous toolkit of free candy, including a DNN kernel library that plugs into all the important frameworks.

Compare and contrast with ~1 TFLOP ~$7,000 Xeon CPUs.

I have brought this up with multiple Intel engineers and for the most part they nod and agree. Then they tell me that there's no way Intel would ever start doing things like NVIDIA does here. And then I nod and tell them why I continue to bet on NVIDIA for the immediate future, sigh...
What in the world are you talking about? Griffiths is substantially worse than shankar.

Griffiths doesn't even get into Hilbert spaces until chapter three, at which point he delivers a broken and incomprehensible explanation. He attempts to teach Hilbert operators by analogy to the multiplication or application by adjacency people use in normal arithmetic. This is a terrible approach, and confuses the hell out of students who haven't already taken abstract algebra.

In what way is Shankar less rigorous than Griffiths?
It's smart imho, as it leads people to what the default choice should be by artificially making the other choices harder. And you might disagree but studies have shown that choices make people unhappy.

On the other hand these were needed let's say because some items are not appropriate to Like. Like say a piece of news for some tragedy.

But I do think this will backfire as I think it will lower engagement. Right now when people cannot Like, they Share. And for other reactions they place comments. Many in the form of emoticons but still.
I didn't even read that far :0 The point of my comment was their lack of understanding of how the existing transmission system is connected to their neighboring regions. This is the base infrastructure of the electric energy market (long term, day ahead, and spot markets). These interconnects between regions (grids) requires that frequency is in synch and any deviation will cause a disconnect.
I'm not convinced a foil hat is necessary. The rise and fall of both nations and civilizations isn't the exception. It's the rule.

Whether from pressures from within or without, states inevitably degrade or even collapse. One of the typical patterns of collapse for a democracy is regression to dictatorship. It's not implausible.

Now, when looking at the nation as it is, rather than as it could be, I'm rather comforted. By all appearances the government continues to provide basic services, the military has unwavering loyalty to the civilian government, and the government is run by politicians chosen by popular election.

But government deficits are exploding, the sovereignties of the world are gobbling up private debt to prop up large financial firms, and the financial sector is so disconnected from the real economy that it has become one giant martingale that is due for a 25% downward correction.

What worries me most is that previously, there could be no permanent dictatorship. The United States has both the power and the infrastructure to become one. A few legal judgements here, a few electoral tweaks there, and our democracy becomes mere government theater, advertising that distracts us from the actual sovereigns and their interests.

I believe the current pattern of creeping statism from the left and steady erosion of Constitutional protections from the right are a lethal combination for a democracy.

There's some paranoia here, sure. But I find that when dealing with political matters recently, a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted.
I think this is true of all AI today. Personally I've always been a fan of the distinction between "Virtual Intelligence" and "Artificial Intelligence" (Thanks to Mass Effect!). Currently all "AI" is really "VI" in that it's exploiting a closed system of rules that it can implement faster, better, and longer than a human because it can do the equivalent of rote memorization and state tree traversal. However as Zuckerberg is saying, nobody is close to implementing something that actually approximates human/animal intelligence other than in single-dimensional ways.
> Like other steroid hormones [i.e. estradiol/estrogens/progesterone], testosterone is derived from cholesterol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Biosynthesis
To be fair, you're using a 3 year old iPhone, with Safari. My HTC One M8 runs it pretty fast with Chrome.
I think what is being highlighted here is the rather strong statement "you cannot outrun a bad diet" followed by "it isn't realistic to achieve substantial weight loss through exercise" and "base metabolic rate is the primary means of weight loss". It suggests that exercise is not important to weight loss. Let me try to describe why this is a bit misleading even for the 99-95% of the population who werent student athletes in college.

What the grandparent's post is highlighting is the physics of this system is that the difference in weight is proportional to calories in - calories out. It's important for people to reduce calories in by modifying their diet. No one is disagreeing with this. However individuals committed to reducing weight can put in some time to increasing calories out (often by cardio activities such as jogging/running/cycling/swimming).

It just doesnt follow to say "you cannot outrun a bad diet" followed by "the base metabolic rate is the primary means of weight loss". There is tons of evidence that exercise is exactly what increases your base metabolic rate! Here is just one study:

"Resting metabolic rate (RMR) is the largest component of the daily energy budget in most human societies and, therefore, any increases in RMR in response to exercise interventions are potentially of great importance" [0]

If RMR is the most important thing to reducing weight, exercise is the most straightforward way to improve RMR and reducing weight. But I wont make this reductionist claim; clearly diet is also important.

Exercise can be very helpful in reducing weight; it's simple physics of increasing calories out. My most successful friend losing weight changed both his diet and increased exercising to about an hour a day. He not only shredded 30-40 pounds, but gained from the additional benefits of higher resting metabolic rate, increased cardio health benefits, reduced stress, and felt like he had more energy with fewer coffees. The quick weight loss he felt meant he didn't have to have a yearlong slog waiting to see results, making the process all the more rewarding which significantly helps for some people's psychology. Sure it sucked in the beginning, but his life was unbalanced and he committed to making big changes.

It's almost cheating to exercise with improved diets; imagine if you were keto eating salads and still able to remove "chocolate bar debt" from the past by 30 minutes to an hour of activity a day followed by increased RMR for the next 24 hours.

Bad diets are bad. Complemented with exercise you can improve your metabolic rate which will give you long term weight loss and health benefits.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14692598
> (good) oils

Okay, I'll bite. What is a "good oil"? All oil is fat, and consuming fat causes serious health problems. The only "oil" you need are polyunsaturated fatty acids which occur naturally in whole vegetables and nuts.
If only it were open source, then we could check.
True. The gravity gradients from the sub may be different, though.
Privacy is a way of limiting governments' power, and singular attempts to limit power don't seem all that effective. So why wouldn't we try everything we can? Readily giving up one protection in hope of replacing it with another is a great way to be left with neither.

Furthermore, the definition of "abuse" isn't universal. If 80% of people think some self-contained behavior should be prevented, then lacking privacy the remaining 20% will be abused with no way to change it.
Thanks for posting your React version and offering a bullet list of real points of critique.

That said, please don't use the word "trolling" to make what is essentially an ad-hominem attack against someone whose point you disagree with. The author probably spent at least an hour, if not multiple hours, thinking through a problem and presenting a solution as a blog post. Whatever you think of his argument, this is clearly not the work of the troll.

"He's trolling" has recently become the tech community's version of Salem's "She's a witch."
That's talking about the cholesterol made in your liver - the only cholesterol you need.
> Yes, I for one would have kept looking at the demo if it was Brad Pitt.

That makes you the sexist in this instance.
I haven't used Uber or Lyft in a while. If it's the same now as then, both apps seemed to make it purposely difficult to estimate what you were paying ahead of time, burying their estimator in multiple menus and including multiple warnings of it being inaccurate. Plus, not including surge pricing in the estimator. It was basically impossible to tell the app "I'm here and going there, about how much will it cost" and get any sort of straight answer. Has that changed more recently?