skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'd consider performance a big difference. Their performance is generally very close, and if you're in a situation to care enough about performance to split hairs then you really shouldn't be using a managed platform in the first place.

The _real_ big difference is that Java has an enormous open source ecosystem, whereas much of what .NET has is ports or clones of successful Java projects.

That said, I think .NET's probably the better choice for a lot of line-of-business applications simply because the tooling allows for very rapid development of that sort of stuff, and not having easy access to Hadoop or Akka really isn't much of a handicap when you're mostly just banging out a mess of business rules.
Yes but RNA is much more destructible, whereas DNA is more resilient. RNAses(enzymes that degrade RNA) are everywhere whereas DNA is double stranded and the conditions required for its degradation are harsher. DNA may have 'evolved' as an aberrant form of RNA and because of its durability, it has an increased lifetime. This renders it more apt to serve as an archive that is copied multiple times. An organism relying only on RNA for information storage would have to deal with the shorter lifetime of RNA and that it is more damage prone. That organism would have to spend more energy just propagating its blueprint faithfully and so its population would not grow as fast. Still DNA is not so durable that its sequence is not malleable, like proteins. If I were designing the most robust organism, I would prefer to encode information in amino acids. I would then design a polymerase that would read the protein and copy it. The problem is that proteins are so robust that they are not easily unfolded to be read.

Perhaps a tenuous analogy can be made to information storage in transistors versus magnetic media. Transistors can serve as storage medium as well as logic gates. Yet power fluctuations can corrupt their function. Magnetic storage however can be read many times and is more durable with respect to environmental insults. Of course the most durable form of storage might be laser etching defects in a diamond disc but at the cost of a slow energy intensive process.
Thank you. You make some good points. I've kept myself from touching BLE too much in favor of wifi and zigbee. I'll give noble a try on my mac. :)
Not only am I not arguing (and thus don't have an argument), but even if I were, that would certainly not be my argument.

I was explaining why the comment was getting downvoted.

It is, however, interesting to see how you yourself are adopting a very similar tactic to the one I talk about in the post you replied to. Simply fascinating.
I don't care about CPU speed very much, but yeah, 16GB at least for a dev machine. You need something you can run a database on, perhaps an http server + framework, etc.
There were two experiments that caught my memory back then.

The first was them trying to understand why the ARM chip they had on a test board was working, despite the fact that the power supply wasn't plugged in. It transpired that there was leakage currents from the keyboard which ended up giving the CPU enough power. (Discussed in a Computerphile YouTube video on the origins of ARM.)

The other was a demo of showing an ARM chip being powered off a thermocouple of the waste heat from a 286 (or maybe 386 ... either way an old Intel CPU)
JVM optimizes and reoptimizes as your code runs, so that "hot spots" run very quickly. Last I heard, CLR still doesn't do this... it JITs once only.
Splitting hairs, but the CLR is just one implementation of the Virtual Execution System (VES). The spec for all of this behavior is about the VES.
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But how many hangers do you really need? I am sure we consume order of magnitude more single use containers than long term products.
I feel like a good solution for consumers would be a "certified by Amazon" program.

Still allows small new businesses, provides the user with the "garentee" they want, gives the business advertising, and keeps you on Amazon.

I understand why they went straight to making then themselves, but I can dream!
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The voltage is mains AC, but the current is measured in microamps. It's still enough charge to cause static discharge.
> but are there any technical reasons say JVM perfs better than CLR on windows

Considering the amount of man-hours that have gone into both, the exact reasons are probably hidden under a whole bunch of implementation details.

That being said, I've run benchmarks where the JVM (version 1.8) outperforms C++ and Fortran... The JVM seemingly optimizes everything, and the amount of fine tuning you can do is amazing.

I've never heard of the CLR coming close to Java performance on large-ish apps or tasks, all else being equal.
User www doesn't need to be a superuser for this to work btw
yeah, the biggest plus of AR is interaction. They failed to showcase that.
How do you propose to kill only certain species of mosquitoes without killing the rest (and intense collateral damage).

Edit: well, I read that article poorly. Sorry!
It's discussed in the article (second page).

A summary would be releasing sterile males and gene drives.
You may be interested in reach technology's display modules. You program the GUI and send it some commands and it will display whatever you want. You can write some really snazzy Qt touch widgets. I interned for these guys a couple years ago and it sounds very similar to what you're asking for.
http://www.reachtech.com/
> Not everyone who wants to leave a comment has to pay. SolidOpinion leaves the bulk of the comments section to operate as it always has, but it adds three slots at the top for “promoted comments,” which can be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Let's say you can't use promoted comments for advertising spam, as that would defeat the quality-control purpose of the system.

What incentive then would people actually bid for a promoted comment spot?
The solution? Make it smell like ass.
I saw, it looks great :)

I've never used wit.ai, can you give me a rundown of how it works? I usually use spacy.io, where it instantiates an NLP on your local machine.

PS: Should your config.py have the access token?
VGChartz has console sales figures: http://www.vgchartz.com/
True, but do you think it would be different if you had chosen a different stack? Honest question.

Doesn't that 150k lets you afford other fun stuff?
What does your salary history look like and how many jobs have you worked at?
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> I think it is incredibly valuable to see people like me succeeding

I feel the same way. In fact, most people here feel the same way, regardless of whether they are part of a minority or not. We all love to see people like ourselves succeed. It's incredibly empowering to feel that "this can be you". It doesn't just apply to careers, but in any situation where we feel we are faced with a challenge (this is why, for example, weight loss communities like /r/loseit are so successful).

Displays of success don't have to be contextualized as "they are successful because they are a minority", or "it's a big deal because they are a minority". Doing this cheapens the accomplishment and (I think) that's what rustynails was getting at.
I'm from the UK and now live in California. Income tax rates aren't very different.

As a proportion of GDP, Government spending in the US is only a couple of percentage points lower than the UK. The US actually spends slightly more on public healthcare than the UK, 7.9% vs 7.3%.

Of course healthcare here is so horrifically inefficient that another 8.5% of GDP is spent privately...

http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT
I've never seen a xiaomi phone in person. It looks pretty good from the website. Care to elaborate about your experience?
We seem to not care about science anymore for more or less the same reasons.

Media outlets report a single study or conclude something and all of a sudden the world decides the science is done there's no reason to discuss things anymore.

Then the moment someone says something differing from this opinion he is wrong. Even tho he may be proving something factual.

Mass media has ruined a lot of things :(
Its arguably a possibility that we are so unsure of the effect because we have scientists "cautiously creeping" so as to not hurt their future reputation.

There was anomalous scaling in the observed effects in one Chinese research teams results, but it has not been repeated because full reproduction and pushing past their power levels would cost some decent money.

Seems stupid the (possibly) most groundbreaking advance in propulsion ever made, can't get a million or two when we collectively gamble more than that each day at casinos lotteries and horses races.

We could quickly eliminate the question of "is this anomalous results from bad experiment design" with a bigger experiment that would make such flaws more evident. Yet we waste time instead of money.
I don't think your perspective is valid anymore - in the mid-2000s USV was the only game in town, but today there's probably 5-10 good size NYC-based VCs focusing on tech, tons of little firms (<$100m funds), and many other SV firms with a NYC presence, and then the whole second order of NYC investors in PE or funded from a vertical perspective (like real estate investments, etc.).
I have an AmazonBasics bag for my surface. It was cheap and decent quality. I'm really happy with it. It's good enough for me and the price is right.
Is he bipolar (or on the spectrum) because it constantly sounds that way. I still value his opinion and he is a great entertainer.
this is so true of Seattle culture. I expect it to change over time however. Amazon for example has tremendous turnover even among devs.
Thanks very much. I'd never heard of letsencrypt. Plus I happen to use nginx for websites these days. Great tutorial; simple.
If your goal is the advancement of human knowledge, is it not a good thing that those following behind the pioneers can catch up so easily.
Ask HN: Recommend Cofounder Split IP Agreement Template?
Ask HN: Recommend Cofounder Split IP Agreement Template?

A friend and I came close to doing a startup together, but when it came time to drop out, my friend chickened out. I am looking for a template for an IP assignment agreement for people splitting up. Since we never formed a company, and never assigned IP to an entity I am fine with clearly dividing the IP, signing a mutual NDA about each others respective IP, and going merrily on the way. I found IP assignment agreements for founders forming a company, but did not see agreements for people who had never formed a legal entity, and were wishing to carve up IP between individuals before parting.

Would a simple agreement for the leaving friend to the effect of below be sufficient?

I agree we worked on X, Y, and Z together from __ to __.
A complete list of things I own is:
K algorithm
J library code
L graphics

All other IP belongs to $STAYING_DUDE.

I agree I have zero ownership in $COMPANY_STAYING_DUDE_JUST_REGISTERED.

I agree that IP belonging to $STAYING_DUDE that was communicated to expressly or implied, was done so in confidence, and is a trade secret.
I kind of wanted to downvote you for such a dumb post, but whatever let's leave it in your post history. Breaking the law (when you disagree with it) doesn't make you cool. Being cool makes you cool.

I agree with the change in this law, as a non consumer who has tried it in the past, but let's not draw a stupid line between those who partake and those who don't.
Despite popular belief, simple possession laws ARE upheld in Canada, but the people charged are disproportionately minorities and poor/homeless people.

It's quite likely that those are compound charges, meaning possession is not the only charge, i.e. they are arrested for something else, then found to be in possession.

So they are charged disproportionately because they commit crimes disproportionately,[0] and some of them happen to have a bag in their pocket while doing so.

[0]Aboriginal and black Canadians are grossly overrepresented in Canada’s correctional institutions

http://www.academia.edu/5110524/Race_Crime_and_Criminal_Just...

This paper is itself biased against Ockham's Razor, they hit on some truth here,
We cannot discount, however, the probability that increased rates of offending among certain racialized groups contributes to their overrepresentation in correctional statistics. but then spend the whole paper trying to hand wave it away.
Bully for you. Not all of us are down to hang out with old hippies, just to purchase some weed. I'd rather have Amazon ship it.
Yeah, I know about the dongles. Just want a solution with it built in. Thanks!
The whole paper is worth reading and is largely factually and historically correct. People often pay analysts hundreds of dollars for papers like this. Consider it a gift.
I haven't seen any yet, but Colorado is being studied very closely.
I can't explain the details, but I was able to measure the current. Interesting that I didn't measure any current from a genuine Apple charger, but enough current to cause a tingle from the cheap import chargers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjz4I69YoUA
mediatek socs are actually $4(this is a price from 2014, when Intel had to match that $4 price while subsidizing Atoms), and that includes pmic. $20 is a price for a hieng quad core chips.
but the amazing coincidence is that DNA strongly resembles a binary code. There are only two kinds of base pairs- AT and CG - In itself this is a striking similarity to the way we use transistors to define a 0 or a 1.The pairwise complementarity serves as an error correcting algorithm. I am rather surprised though that no one has constructed a biological model of the cyclical redundancy check so common in computer hardware. Error correction in DNA is haphazard in the sense that when DNA polymerase detects a mismatch of a base pair, it really doe not 'know' which one to correct. Errors have a 50% chance of being corrected the 'wrong' way. Still that's better than no correction because broken DNA always fails. A CRC check at every 1000 base pairs would virtually eliminate genetic mutation and all the diseases associated with DNA degradation (cancer, aging, etc)
How else should I communicate with a smartphone?
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Think of the children!
Sweden is regularly prosecuting and convicting elderly people who buy or grow, and use, to ease their pains and medical conditions. No consideration is taken for the very sick, or their stories about how it allows them to live a decent life.

Then again, with politicians like these: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/sweden-justice-...
I love it. I find the color rgba(52,165,255,0) works really well in transparent form.
Have you tried Serverspec?
I've been thinking about this sort of thing for a while now. I can't help but think of things along the lines of "good fences make good neighbors."

Essentially, I feel like we've built ourselves digital houses that have no walls. All we have to do is to look around us and we'll see advertisements, social media, news reports, porn, and scholarly journals. The problem is that finding information has become easier than deciding what information we want to find. I think that in order to have a healthier relationship with the internet, we need houses with walls, and a fence. I should not be able to just glance around and see everything at once, because everything at once is overwhelming. I should have to get up and walk to the door, or down to the mailbox. Imposing those kinds of small costs to information access would, I think, go a long way to reducing the anxiety and distractions that currently blow through our digital houses.
In terms of library management, I think Beets is pretty hard to beat!
I also like the UNIX philosophy, which this seems to violate. I yearn for the ability to use a Beets library as a source for streaming, along with the ability to combine with other sources (e.g. Amazon, Pandora)
The closest to this I've seen is mopidy-beets, but it is now unmaintained and doesn't seem to have the ability to manage playlists from multiple sources.
No. Arguing about what cool is makes you cool.
From what I've seen, the USB->serial chip on the inexpensive Chinese Arduino compatibles on AliExpress generally is not an FTDI knockoff. They usually seem to use a CH340 or CH341. This does not try to emulate or pretend to be an FTDI. It has a different interface and needs a separate driver.

The only problem I've heard of with these is that the drivers are not shipped with some operating systems (such as OS X) and so you might have the hassle of installing a driver. FTDI drivers come with all major operating systems, so one less thing to deal with.

I believe I've seen Uno clones on AliExpress that are about twice as expensive as the cheapest clones (so around $6) that use an ATmega16u2 to handle this, which is what a genuine Arduino Uno uses, and so is no more hassle than a real Uno.

There are some USB->serial chips that cost more than a CH340 but quite a bit less than an FTDI, and that work with the generic serial communications driver that is built into all major operating systems. I haven't seen any Arduino clones that use these, which is a shame. I'd love not having to rely on any vendor-specific code.
I just tested it out (I'm procrastinating writing a term paper). Eliza helped me pep myself up!

(Although it's probably a side-effect of my optimism. And the caffeine.)
I'm not a fan of LinkedIn. People have 'verified' that I have tons of skills that they have no idea whether or not I actually have.

I've also found that plenty of people my age (25) dislike it for various reasons.

Maybe the problem is that the older guys have all been forced into management paths and have been working on nontechnical skills. I really like the valve idea that management is a skill, not a career path.
If we have to keep putting civilians in jail so that criminals don't benefit for a brief time, I think that thought should be rethunk.
Remembering the hits, and forgetting the misses does make the past seem golden. Meanwhile, Z-Rays...
Fail fast!
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Something which likely contributes to this rank or at least gives the appearance of it is this:

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...

Note this article is from 2012.
Yes, good idea. I'm currently moving to using a static site generated by Lektor. That would help a lot.
CNN, MSNBC, and the other "network news" companies rarely do reporting. There are literally thousands of reputable articles published by US outlets yearly - from The Atlantic to the Washington Post. Not everything they publish is good - quality correlates more with the author than anything else.
The title implies that it's comparing the runtime engines, and the performance is absolutely a major selling point of any such comparison, even if the practical effect of any difference is negligible. Ultimately, the comparison claims to be between the CLR and the JVM while it's more like between C# and Java, given how it only covers fairly superficial features at the front-end level and not what can and can't be done in VM code, let alone how different VM architectures can have major impacts on code design, etc.
"Einstein Was Wrong- Click here to find out why!". That's the real, ugly truth. This is the endpoint of clickbait, a kind of Brandolini Black Hole.
Who? Oscar is the biggest one I can think of, and they're <$3b.

I'd also bet on at least two of these being >$50b within 3y. {Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Didi, Meuitan, Ola, Flipkart, Snapchat} (Uber already is, so it's really "a second one")
It's an unsatisfying answer, but Alzheimer's (and most disease for that matter) is a combination of genetic risk and what you do with your life. It is hard to know exactly how much genes or the environment contribute. There are subsets of neurodegenerative diseases that are almost entirely genetic (Huntington's, some forms of Parkinson's, etc.) and some that are almost 100% environmental (there's an interesting story about a group of IV drug users in San Francisco who developed Parkinson's after taking something laced with MPTP). Most cases are somewhere in the middle though.

Learning other languages or instruments is probably useful from a brain health standpoint regardless of your genetics (even if you already have early-stage AD you can slow progression), but they are just proxies for activity. I would guess that learning something that interests you is more important than what that thing actually is.
Loon, low-orbit satellites, and similar technology are like going from the frying pan to the fire.

All technologies of this sort are challenged by extreme variations in demand in different geospatial areas -- for instance you have to provide coverage for uninhabited ocean areas, etc.

Inevitably around big cities you will find concentrations of people who want to buy reliability/diversity at any cost, and if you don't keep these people out, they will affect the system for 100s of miles around them.
Anti-trust action is going have to come down on Amazon eventually.
There's also a certain amount of acknowledgement that you're not going to get the best or perfect product for the price that you pay Amazon, but you will get better service (that is, replacement/refund) than you're likely to get from TJ's Wholesale Emporium or a random individual seller on Amazon.
Definitely. I used to build my own cables back in the early 2000s and barely broke even due to radio shacks pricing. Currently have a Boe bot laying around somewhere in the lab. Might have to dust it off.
The effect is so tiny it could easily go un-noticed. How many people are trying to do ultra-sensitive acceleration measurements on microwave cavities?
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"Yes, they're still using warp drives to heat food..." - alien observers
So what does this mean? Do I get one of these or what?!
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only way to get unbiased news is from a source that doesn't have advertisers, so they can truly speak their mind and report on the real news.

No Agenda Show [1] (podcast) is pretty reliable source of information as they're 100% listener funded. They basically 'deconstruct' traditional news media, politics and world events and go above and beyond anything that will be ever produced by 'mainstream news'

The show is hosted by one of the 'founders' of podcasting.

[1] http://www.noagendashow.com
Right, and one of this sweet little cluster of neighbouring cities was Westminster, which ended up running the largest empire in history. And now, a hundred years later, arguably the City of London is more important than Westminster.
I wish I had the budget! No, I'm building an IoT system not aimed at low power mc.
That's a fair point, but it's not a lie like the article asserts.
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"Isn't it all about finding 'A' players who can excel?"

It would be nice if that were true, but there are other factors at play in many jobs. For example, because I'm over 55 and know about the harsh realities of the business world, you'd have a hard time convincing me that I should work 80-hour weeks because your company is going to change the world and I'll get rich on my stock options.
Put your own RAM in.

I used to have to upgrade my own machines. For years. Monitors and RAM. I haven't had a place that gave me anything less than 16G for years now, though.
"constant overreach"? Are you addressing the comment or just getting angry over a perceived slight? They literally said "Granted this only happened recently" but you're lecturing them about how recently this has happened? It's not controversial to say that people not from North Carolina have an opinion of it being place with a history of racism (really, you could say that about just about anywhere).