skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the most popular cheese, far ahead of anything else, is mozarella... it is not high quality as actual italian ones though (it is way less "fibrous").

then we have Prato (it means "Plate" as in dinner plate... or dinner dish...), that has the exact same recipe as Danbo, but is made with brazillian milk, and seemly tastes very differently (I dunno, since I never ate Danbo).

then we have a purely local invention called Minas, named after the state of Minas Gerais, despite being a São Paulo invention... (go figure...), that one is hard to describe, since it refers to 4 different cheeses (or the same cheese with 4 slightly variations in the process to make them, but with end results drastically different).

Then other italian cheeses are popular here, maybe because the large italian community here, and how much Brazillians also love pizza, so here almost every supermarket offers Provolone, Parmesan and Gorgonzola.

In urban areas you can find frequently "Steppe" cheese, it is a russian cheese it seems, it is expensive (double the price of "Prato") but not much as local clones of french/swiss cheese (Steppe is half of the price of local clones of Emmental, Gruyere, etc...)

cheddar cheese is sold a bit, but most people consider it low quality crap, the biggest seller of cheddar cheese don't even bother in selling actual cheddar, and instead sell a clone that tastes mostly the same, for very little... people still prefer to buy more expensive mozarella instead.
Works for me in Charlotte without any tricks on my phone anyway.
whatismyipaddress.com knows I'm in Charlotte though whatismyip.com thinks I'm in Herndon, VA
> [Medium is] the ultimate "Do it for exposure!" content factory

That's pretty much how all businesses try to get artists/creators to work for free ("it'll look great in your portfolio"). Medium has just found another way of doing that, it seems. Well played, Ev, well played.
Side note... I really hope this doesn't affect Google Fiber in Charlotte.
I don't understand why people are supposed to want this, other than nostalgia. "We care about analog..." and all of that sounds nice, but why? Is this like some people still preferring vacuum tubes for certain applications, because there is an objective benefit?

Is this just nostalgia?
"We want to become a tech company" is the new management fad. Culture change is incredibly hard and requires really great leadership. Capital One wanted to become a software company just like Ford says, the difference, Capital One already had great leaders. Is Ford full of great leaders?

Sure Ford can throw some money at a few labs and occasionally turn something into a product. Spending money on R&D doesn't make you a software company.

I wish them the best.
> “What happens,” Tyson said, “if there’s a bug that crashes the entire program?”

What if there's a bug in the simulation, and the whole computer goes up in flames- but then the experimenter restores from a backup, fixes the bug, and re-runs the simulation with the same random seed. Things proceed again exactly as before, and pass the bug-triggering point without incident. Do we notice anything happened?
> Being sentient as an experience is completely different to appearing to show sentient behaviour.

You don't know this. All you know is that being sentient as an experience seems to be completely different from appearing to show sentient behavior.

> You can make a model of sentience that's as complicated as you can invent, and you'll still have no idea whether or not a modelled sentience is having a sentient experience of the universe around it, or whether it's faking its responses mechanically.

This is the standard "zombie" argument, and it makes no sense to me; it is tantamount to saying that the fact that you are sentient makes no difference to your externally observable behavior. Really?
I find it far-fetched, but you're right, it is fun to think about :)

To be fair, far-fetched things happen all the time, the trick is that we're usually wrong about which ones do.
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It doesn't take a PhD in data analytics to figure out that profit-motive will create a ceaseless pressure for page views, which means Medium will inevitably try to get people to spend all day everyday on Medium. Which means their unavoidable path is to become BuzzFeed.
Yes, you need to survive today to see tomorrow, that's true. Two reads that border on fringe speculation that I happened to enjoy thoroughly were:
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank J. Tipler, and The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil.
Now, I am an atheist, and I fully know the zaniness of Kipler's Omega Point and its ties to Christianity, but there are discussions in there like in Kurzweil's book about how we will expand throughout the cosmos all based on hard science. It only gets trippy in some places. Still more fun to read than junk fiction.
I do believe that we are in the period of 'accelerating returns', and that things will come sooner than we think with space mining, colonization and humans spreading throughout the universe. And, yes, we will try to preserve the Earth in the process, but moving it, performing climate engineering on it, etc... will probably fall by the wayside when we are living on other worlds. It's artifacts and history will be preserved I believe. I don't think we will recreate it per Tipler due to having mastery of information, his 'resurrection' discussion which involves everything, not just people! Fun stuff.
Frozen rabbit brain restored in cryonics breakthrough
The article is certainly generic business speak I think he's probably referring to the practice of using different brands in different countries. In Australia general motors is known as Holden. Ford is Ford.
What's the license on this project? I'm wondering if it might fit in well with some work Tim Daly has started on the Axiom project hooking up computer algebra to coq et. al.:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2015-07/m...
Ask HN: Those who got YC S16 interviews, what's your startup?
In the real world I pretty much never talk with other people unless I have a specific reason to do so. On the other hand, I talk to random people on the internet everyday via channels like IRC, reddit, Twitch, video games etc. So your initial claims are a little hollow to me. I'd rather VR/AR interaction not become more real worldy b/c real world interaction sucks.
I really like this piece from Jacobin, "Reading Hamilton from the Left": https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/reading-hamilton-from-the...
What amazing concept, paying people extra money for extra work.
And that content will be served through what internet paid for by who(m) exactly?
I caught that too, and I was surprised, but like all closed research, it was there. I am guessing it will help to reinvigorate some uses for older Intel chips, and certainly newer ones. All good for Intel, and those who need the speedup.
Facebook Relay v0.8 – now render multiple Relay apps at once
Languages don't create bug, people create bugs and there will always be bugs. Instead of looking for the new hotness just study your chosen language more, carefully research your problem, spend more time designing your system to be fault more tolerant and test the system to find the bugs you do have. If we're talking only about languages introducing bugs it's best to have a mature language that works best for your problem and that you are proficient at.
> My third goto channel for electronic stuff is EEVBlog who also does amazing stuff. If you are going to watch one teardown today then please watch his rather famous video about the worlds worst tablet computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk

Oh boy, that thing is a MESS. When he first opened it, I thought it looks like the sort of thing I'd knock together - not pretty, probably mildly unstable, but gets the job done. Then he took a closer look, and it's the sort of thing that wouldn't even be acceptable as a secondary school project, never mind a device to be sold.
We’re still stuck in some very naive thinking, with the idea that people consuming media means that’s what they want – it’s like, well, we put junk food in front of them and they ate that, so that must be what they want.”

Really disappointing from the Guardian.
Content marketing is destroying the things we love :)

It's almost impossible to read a well written popular piece of content today that isn't selling something either directly or indirectly.

I think we will see advertising in the form of a piece of promotion attached to other content is going to disappear as we become better and better at injecting it into our normal content.
GCE down in all regions
No YC S16 company will announce that they are in the batch, as it has press value (IMO, nowadays I disagree with that, but that's a topic for another day)
The problem with thinking of capital gains as "income" is that you end up with a tax system that punishes people for deferring consumption (aka saving). Or put another way, if I earn some money and don't spend it immediately, I end up paying more of it in taxes than if I do spend it immediately. Only taxing above-inflation capital gains would help some; only taxing capital gains above some discount rate (which one, though?) would help more.

The ideal thing here would probably be a progressive consumption tax, but implementing that in practice is rather difficul, unfortunately.

Oh, and there is no happiness threshold. Or more precisely, more money doesn't necessarily buy more happiness, but it does tend to buy less unhappiness (which is not the same thing!), albeit not linearly.
How many cores and SIMD lanes? What type of ANN did you use if for? Was it hard to implement into your existing code? This is a big deal for me, since I gave up C for Erlang/LFE, and I am working my way through Gene Sher's book 'Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang'. I like the conceptual fit, but I would be more interested in the present to try this on some old C coded NNs.
If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle people there
Hey, alien! People of Earth salute you!
Thanks for the feedback. Would you be interested to try out pnyxter and post a video on a topic?
"...I'm just getting started..."

What a hero! Very excited to see the innovations coming out of VR/AR over the next few years.
Whenever I see an article that has much lower upvotes than comments I wonder why HN doesn't just automatically upvote an article when someone makes an initial comment (if they haven't already upvoted the article).

If you are interested enough to post a comment then you probably should upvote the article, even if you don't agree with it. Why? Because it's likely generating a good and interesting discussion. This article is a great example of this phenomenon.
On a related note, has there been much progress in the past 20 years in the digital SLR space (edit: for consumers / photographers)? Mirrorless is interesting, Lytro was a cool concept but mostly fizzled out (edit: in the consumer space). Is there much to be excited about going forward?
The thesis project that I proposed, failed outright. It was quite ambitious, and was a sort of win-or-lose proposition. It took me 3 years to reach the point where it was evident that I wouldn't observe the signal needed to complete the work. My own abilities were doubtlessly a factor.

A lab mate of mine, who had already accepted a professorship at another university, gave me one of his start-up projects. By agreement, as I built the experiment, I sent him copies of my drawings, circuit diagrams, and source code, letting him reproduce my work almost concurrently.

That became my thesis, and the technical work became my ticket to industry.

Often, dissertations bear little resemblance to the proposed project.
It's my favorite thing to do. Also helps that in a museum no one will judge you for staring at the wall for an eternity.
> You make it sound like this is a positive thing

Meaning only exists between our ears -- it's not some intrinsic attribute of reality. I, for example, experience bouts of depression, where nothing about the world around me has changed, and yet my perception of (and feelings about) it becomes melancholic and devoid of purpose or meaning.

If you walk away from an experience with a renewed sense of meaning or purpose, even if you can't give a rational reason for such changes, I would think that would still be a good thing, no?
Are we living in a computer simulation that is running atop another computer simulation and so on in regress ad infinitum? Does asking questions like this even mean anything? Maybe.
Jesusland map
Did you even read the article? It talks about rising death rates due to preventable causes like smoking, obesity, alcohol, and opioid abuse. While the changes may seem minor, they are indicative of larger social issues.

EDIT: Looking through your submission history, it's all links to a dubious site, www.fightaging.org. Surprised you didn't just provide a direct link.
I personally prefer Fassbinder's Welt am Draht more. The atmosphere and cinematography are breathtaking.
L-M-M himself comments on the lyrics on Genius fairly often, too.
Thanks. Is being well-versed in C a prerequisite for the role then? I'm imagining you need to be fluent in at least one statically compiled language or ???
Hey, nostalgia got us Instagram, and Polaroid would love a piece of that billion dollar market.
And the fact that warehouses are robbed, eighteen wheelers are robbed, trains are robbed, etc shows that it is indeed practical to steal literal tons of goods.

Practical and common, however, are not the same...

(I'll also point out that in my comment I said: is it the same difficulty to steal 1TB as 1MB? I never said it was impossible, just drawing a distinction).
Ask HN: How many machine learning or other research-type jobs are there?
As patio11 says[1], 90% of all software is line of business software.

Where are the other 10% of jobs? How are they distributed? One or two people per company? (I worked for a company with 2 research-type engineers out of 10ish total.) How large is the team inside Google or Amazon? What are the qualifications needed to get into those positions? Are they significantly better paying? Are there more skilled people for these positions (like in academia), or more positions than skilled people?

Basically, it seems that there is some missing information about the market, and I'm not sure how much effort to put into training for a highly specific skill set without specific information about the potential benefits.

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/
Lytro hasn't fizzled out. They have just shifted their focus from consumer cameras to high-end cinema cameras.
"Diminishment", not "negation". A reductio argument is only valid if the assertion whose absurd terminal case you're highlighting is actually part of the original claim. You're making a straw man here.
People turning down Billion dollar offers and where those companies ended up.﻿
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Interesting perspective and an enjoyable read, thanks OP.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11475507
Spotify is down
Hmmm. That does not quite explain the exodus of people or the people who desire to leave.

I understand the universal education and healthcare, but that does not go very far when on average your take home is about 100 bucks a month.

And I don't see Mexicans (who have good relations, or Dominicans or Venezuelans for that matter) getting on boats and hoping for a better life in Cuba.

One thing, among others, Cuba does offer is a kind of time warp porn which some people find compelling, yet, day to day life, I imagine many Cubans would trade for an economy which was not ruled so much by decree and doctrine. They have had to live in that imagined idyll where humans have not been despoiled by money...

Rather because they have so few material possessions they have no choice but to enjoy the few things they can count on in life.
You're right, I was specifically referring to their consumer camera model.
Are there some people who exhibit the trait of being biased toward people who are not like them?
Meta: as per usual, I'm finding the HN discussion far more stimulating than the original article.
You are ignoring the fact that banks are at least as culpable for the bad loans to Greece as the Greeks are. Yet only one party is truly suffering the consequences. There is no gift to Greece. The so called bailout comes with onerous terms and is nothing more than the German government giving money to it's banks via the Greek government.

German bankers are not made to pay for their profligacy. Also, clearly the Germans do reap the benefits of their labor. It's hard to argue otherwise given their GDP per capita, purchasing power parity, standard of living, and relative power in Europe.

Germany needs a monetary union so that it can be the exporter it is. The import/export imbalances caused by the monetary union has led to the situation Greece and Germany find themselves in. Both parties are at fault.
My ad-run business is doing pretty well and I'm the only person running it. Ad blocking doesn't seem to have affected me - yet - because my ads are relevant, nice to look at, and self-hosted. Readers and advertisers (and me) get value out of them.

I hope I'm around in the future, and I hope that other websites will see the light and follow good practices.
Google cloud issue, perhaps

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007
Same here. I'd love to work in automotive tech. I recently came across Koenigsegg's camshaft-less, pneumatic valve actuator system and it made me question everything I know about cars/bikes.
Yeah discord is down too
Take a good look at the management structure.

If the management tree is deeper than log(2) your age, run away :-)
It seems to me that if you follow TheOtherHobbes logic to its conclusion, you arrive at the proposition "sentience is a supernatural phenomenon" which is an absurdity. The problem is that we have trouble agreeing on what sentience even is, so of course we can't agree how to measure it. But to suggest that sentience lies outside the natural world doesn't really answer any questions, either.
I'm wondering who exactly the target audience was. School children? University students? The general reading public?

And yeah for sure it is propaganda. It is clearly trying to tell a pretty standard colonialist narrative that "Africa is a lovely place, too bad the Africans couldn't get their act together. It's OK though, the friendly, altruistic Europeans are here to educate and civilize the locals".
In case it wasn't clear, I was referring to the price difference as ludicrous. I have an Iizuka viola and it's worth every penny.
Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Yes - remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, Ruby/Rails, Cordova

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeleahdaidone

Email: angeleah@angeleah.com

I like to test my code, I like challenges. I haven't come up against one yet that I haven't been able to figure out. I love to learn and can be thrown in the deep end. I'm not that great at talking shop but I deliver.
We seem to have reached a bearable truce with spam. I think well north of 90% of email people try to send is spam nowadays, but no more than 50% of what I actually see on any given day is PR junk, unsolicited or otherwise. Granted, messages I care about sometimes get lost, but it doesn't happen often enough to make email useless. ML-based "native advertising" blockers will eventually become as common as spam filters, and the war will become a slightly unpleasant stalemate. Maybe the end-state will be something like current product placement in movies and TV, which is usually either comically heavy-handed, or completely unobtrusive and ignorable.
You're giving meaning the word 'sentience' by pattern-matching on your own experiences, so naturally if a computer can do the same it is no different from you in that regard.

Anyway, if one starts thinking the whole universe is a simulation, then that word loses all meaning, as every experience we've ever had is a simulation, including whatever you think isn't a simulation. A predicate needs to have two results to be meaningful. If you have a predicate that always returns the same value, it tells you nothing. So if we can define "F(x) = 'Is x a simulation' = TRUE", then F is meaningless.
This was 2 years ago. The situation is much better now. You can find how Seafile handles user passwords at http://manual.seafile.com/security/security_features.html
> It's not clear to me why such a simulation would be made (what purpose it would serve to the parent universe).

Imagine the simulating species is running something akin to a weather simulation, and you just happened to evolve - along with the weather patterns of interest - in the simulation.

That is, it's not about you, it's about the phenomenon the simulators want to study. Maybe it's galactic evolution?
I'm imagine an SRE needs to be fluent in at least one statically types compiled language. Would Go fulfill that in terms of getting an interviewed or hired or does it need to be C/C++?
Damn. This is my normal without any drugs. No LSD for me.
I wonder what the hell's gone wrong in that department to not have a replacement after all that time.
And then the engineer went home, got drunk, and talked his niece/nephew through building this on a bad skype call.
Tesla Model 3 ‒ an Electric Car for the Masses or Still the Select Few?
Right. Opera has been using live supertitles for a long time (at least in the United States). I have to admit that I've never thought about how they were made.
Multi-chart interactions using d3.dispatch and crossfilter
To my fellow self-taught mathematicians and computer scientists:

When I was starting out, I'd learn from what was too-dense-for-me (Mac Lane, Awodey, Spivak). When I didn't understand, I'd get frustrated, then go learn something else.

There are two differences between me-then, and me-now. First, I spend a lot more time choosing books to read. I find books that meet me where I am. I need all the help I can get. Second, when I don't understand, I skip being frustrated, and go learn something else.

I agree though with dkurai when it comes to math I'm already familiar with. If I'm reading what I already know, it's usually foundational to something I'm about to learn. Then, I need rigor and concision, to avoid being misled.
Oh dear. Are they going to pull their browser too? That might access that very same content.
Sigh...

Deja vu.
I agree that the parent comment's three types of travelers isn't quite right -- I'm curious to hear what the archetypes that you have in mind are though.

[I'm a huge fan of spontaneous travel and have some side projects in travel destination/activity discovery myself. Happy to chat more via email.]
I honestly don't think a person like you're describing actually exists (as an otherwise perfectly polite and well-adjusted member of society--including to members of that ethnic group that they interact with personally). But lets suppose for the sake of argument that they did.

I probably wouldn't invite them over to my house, nor champion their job application at my workplace. That goes beyond tolerance. But what I wouldn't do is try to get dropped from giving a convention talk (which they're qualified for), or seek to get them fired from their job or shunned from their peer group.
It is a rule for the interview or just for when they get selected for the batch?
ah, reminds me of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/
That index claims that there is less crime in Colombia and Russia than in the US. Also that there is less crime in Azerbaijan than in New Zealand.
How about communism? Communists have murdered somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 million people in the last century.

If some guy with idiosyncratic political views and a blog qualifies, surely communists must?