skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10ka ago there were no castles, only huts in which tiny communities of pre-agricultural hunter-gatherers lived.
I don't mean 'get rid of nukes'. I mean 'invent some effective (result much smaller than expenses) way of world policing that doesn't mean nuking bad guys'.
The main beef with Google is all or nothing for ALL phones produced by manufacturer.

If you want Google Android on one phone you can't ship another model with AOSP version.
Asus T-100 TA series work pretty well as Windows 8/10 tablets.
I'd imagine that many people wouldn't even notice (unless the truck's color is part of the plot)
I do understand that it is a recurring theme. This belief approach to science can be scientifically proven to be a bad idea (given evidence such as yours).

While every chance should be made to further explore our current assumptions (such as with the LHC), we shouldn't be neglecting low hanging fruit that challenges our ideas (such as the EMDrive). If as much as 1% of the money that is being spent on LHC went to "anomalous science" we'd likely have a conclusive answer on whether the EMDrive doesn't work. Science is tool that disproves, and we've been hacking it into a proofing tool for far too long. It's time to go back to basics and figure out more about what we don't know.

> McCulloch’s theory makes two testable predictions.

Think about the cost of either of those experiments - vanishing in the face of other science that is being performed today. If science wants to see the EMDrive go away, and is certain that it doesn't work, a comparatively small grant is all that it takes.
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Not the same guy, but I feel like Uber is a pretty cutthroat company, and they are probably not an example of a sustainable model in a more freelance/gig based economy. I like that they're paving the way for a new way of doing things and I use them almost exclusively here in London.

I wouldn't say I want Uber to go under, I really don't. But if another company like Lyft can do it in a way I feel is more ethical, I would easily switch over.
Writing here to support this. Is all true.

I grew up in a very communist country, where the gender didn't matter, men and women were expected to be treated equally. The misoginism was barely noticeable. Salary didn't pay attention to sex, were really equally paid.

Leter I emmigrated in Germany. I was tottaly surprised how misoginist the society here is. So much, that there are laws that enforce the equality between man and woman. This is now so much tilted towards women, that man are most of the time suppressed, just because they are men. This is also not healthy, but, hey, we lived in matriarchy before, so we will survive just as well.
The problem with the ARM assault is that unlike AMD, which could be killed by messing with other users of the chipset and patent attacks and contract shennanigans, killing off someone making an ARM chip does nothing but make the other ARM chip vendors stronger. And they can't kill all of them at once. And worse, to compete with them they have to sacrifice margin on their x86 line and that is something they have never done, it breaks their business model.

Someone who was in IT before MS and Intel showed up said MS and Intel got big even though they did not have the best technologies.
They got big essentially with smart alliances and good business practices (which included messing with competitors, some practices that can be called dirty).
Yes - how do those two projects differ in their approach ?
Surely a more useful comparison would be UK / US where cost of living is much much easier to factor out

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3461585.stm we see 2008 tarring for heart bypass was 10,000 or about 16k USD

This compares sensibly with the cost of living adjustments between UK and India so we can be happy the UK / Indian health services are doing well

As for the US - well, why is your operation 8x the cost in the UK?
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You're right, it would be a fun side effect to see the color change between different scenes :)
I guess there's not enough in commercial interest in fixing these problems, but it can be probably done with the current algorithms. Precise 3D reconstruction is much more important than colour reconstruction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864801
Well, going on pure logic, all disingenuous defendants refuse the test =/= all those who refuse the test are disingenuous.

However, an overhaul of the process would need to accompany any use of a polygraph.
I mean that! That's why it is impossible! Too many people value their nationhood/independence too much. So it is a double-edged sword: if you value your independence and sovereighnity of your country and other countries, you must also accept the fact that most countries are shitty and put their subjects into conditions little short of genocide, while others (like yes Nordic countries) are well-off. It's hard to call that unfair, if you don't allow others to mess with your stuff, nobody can help you avoiding fucking things up.
Polygraph? What kind of joke is this? Polygraph don't prove or disprove the innocence. It's useless.
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Nice article !
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The point that was made is that multiple (static) classes cannot be declared in the same file, which is 100% false. I'm not arguing that C# is functionally equivalent to Java. There was no mention of "compilation unit" or "partial classes", which are a completely different subject.

It doesn't matter whether the additional classes defined in the file are top level or not, they're still classes that can be used independently.
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Cool. So they basically took away Cas9's ability to cut, but retained its ability to target specific loci on the genome. Then attached an enzyme that converts the base.

Changing the other combinations of bases might be tricky. Not sure if there are existing enzymes that will perform those functions biochecmically, as C -> U conversion is relatively simpler compared to other conversions.
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If he didn't like it you would know it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASnLL6ebaco

In the end you need to balance the pros and cons and see which comes up on top in your particular use case.

Personally, for my use cases (field repair of RC gear), I might buy one after this review.
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Apple does something similar, uses a ARM M-series microcontroller to do sensor readings (activity detection etc.) when the device is sleeping [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_motion_coprocessors
Minor note: At the bottom of your page, your link to "GeekyBuddha" is broken, and the Facebook link doesn't work for me.
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It came out red :-(
You can smash the window by driving the pillars of the headrest down into the door to the edge of the glass. Twist down to start a crack at the weak edge and the whole tempered sheet will shatter.

https://youtu.be/tZTa8Nh0VlE?t=25
"diversify investments"

Yes, definitely.

In addition to all the other diversification advice you can read everywhere, you need to have three pots of savings:

1) pre-tax retirement savings such as traditional 401(k) or traditional IRA

2) post-tax retirement savings such as Roth 401(k) or Roth IRA

3) normal cash and investments, outside of any sort of retirement scheme

Being diversified in that fashion will give you more flexibility to react appropriately to any changes in the tax laws.

And, if you can swing it, you also want some assets that aren't readily visible to the tax man. In decades past, that meant something like a Swiss bank account. Now, perhaps, it might mean something like gold coins.

And there are even more exotic ways to "shelter" your assets. My father, who was displaced by WWII, stressed the value of a good education in a useful field. A malevolent government could confiscate your house and your money, but it couldn't take away what was inside your head.
> The current state is that there is no real current state of programming on those devices.

Yes, that's what I suspected but I feel there _should_ be some advices/best practices.
This looks very promising. Please tell us more about the current state of the company. Your blog and Twitter feed suggest that progress is slow at the moment.
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You think "pure logic" is being applied at any part of the process?
This is still blaming nerds for something they really can't do anything about.

There's really a gap between "scientific surveys" and the terrain I've seen. In my last project as contractor there were 9 male/developers and 4 females with a management title. The meantime-to-management I've seen is 2 years after graduation for women, 7 years for males. All 15% females of my 150-student class are now in management positions, 10 years after IT master's degree, and only 50% of the male students. If a women really wants to know what discrimination is, just step in as a male.

I've left companies where I wasn't promoted and created my startup 3 years ago. Sounds like my skills weren't the problem: I'm doing better than seasoned product managers who left the same company and created startups in my field, so as a developer I'm better at product management than my previous employer foresaw. But it sure seemed very important to my previous employer to promote a female team lead.
I knew about UberX but I thought that was just a side-project. I always thought Uber's tagline was 'your personal driver' and all the photos on the website used to be black cars.
I'd be interested to see what kind of hidden biases this might reveal, especially about people, e.g. skin tone, eye color, etc.
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Google pressured Samsung two years ago:

http://recode.net/2014/01/29/after-google-pressure-samsung-w...
Ah yes, the typical "let's prove this doesn't work" so do it half-assed and then go "see, it doesn't"

It is possible to "disprove" a lot of known science with those kind of experiments
>especially related to opinions about Russia

What year are you living in? There's certainly some self-censorship in Finnish media, but it's mostly related to PC-issues (e.g. disproportionate amount of of crimes committed by foreigners, and especially some humanitarian immigrants), but that's mostly a political statement by the reporters and certainly not a government policy (and thus does not extend to all of media).
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I'm colorblind and I can't tell the difference between the prediction and the GT. My coworker says that they have slight differences in some colors.

Congrats, you wrote the first colorblind NN ever!
Are those people's opinions respectable?

I know people who question the earth being round. Who question the moon landing. Does that mean the matter itself is "in question"?

I guess I phrased it pretty vaguely huh? Fair enough.
"We’re still not able to break the whistles and burst pulses into meaningful units, the equivalents of words or phrases."

Seems like something machine learning could help with.

Of course it may turn out it's impossible to translate between human and dolphin languages in a meaningful way.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129624-300-dolphin-...
Is there a version in Scheme that is Free? I'm looking for a demo for class and we work in Scheme.
Sometimes you have to do a lot of detective work to know what technology was used to make the software. Web-tech doesn't ask you to "install Java", for example when running the "web app" with Electron or nw.js
The iPhone meant you no longer needed an iPod. The iPad meant grandma no longer needed a Mac. The Apple Watch requires an iPhone.
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I already talked to a bunch of consultants and everyone has a different "right path". Hence my question here to get it in front of a lot of experts.
The benefits of human population control through disease, isn't much of a benefit at all, as child mortality and fertility tends to be correlated. The less chance of your kids dying, the less kids you'll have, in general. This probably means that while we might see a population boom in an adjustment period, we'd probably soon see drops in fertility.
Yes, because they ship a keyboard and touchpad. But you wouldn't buy the Asus ZenPad instead and try to use Windows 8/10 solely with touchscreen, would you?

It's the complete opposite of how iOS/Android tablets operate.
Worth reading if you're into fast data and graph db real-life usage :)
No. It's probably worse.

E.g. you can get life in prison for 3 "strikes", even if it's for something like stealing cookies. You know, the thing Europe derided back in 19th century with Jean Valjean.

A 15 year old can be sentenced to death (and has).

A man that's later proven innocent can rot in jail for decades without much recourse.

The 5% of the world's population have 25% of the world's prisoners.

...
I'm not aware of any ARM systems that have this yet.
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It could also push off the Earth magnetic field.
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I've been looking at Honeybadger, Airbrake and Rollbar. I've noticed that this same question was asked on HN three years ago, but I expect the feature sets have changed since then. I'm looking at this for a Java/Spring web application.
Isn't "everybody can succeed with enough determination and work" the American Dream in a nutshell? (not talking about how it works out in practice, since that's not the point in your "soviet era" scenario either)
What's false about it? I drive through Germany regularly and there are stretches of the autobahn where there's no speed limit, I've driven at 130mph past police cars and it's absolutely fine - are you saying that the "big" part is false?
Am I the only one to whom those things remind the Seashells from Fahrenheit 451?
Couldn't find link in English. German government is planning to make it impossible to buy SIM cars anonymously.
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Another explanation could be that during the hardships of the post-Communist era everyone was on their own, men and women equally. In Russia, the percentage of women in management positions is still the highest in the world (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-womens-day-business-idUSKC...).
> ... "golden age" of science.

An interesting and relevant example was the Dean Drive:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive
Body can be trained to improve strength of signal and make it directional.

I tried to train myself to improve strength of my look few years ago by training, and girls describe their feeling at that period as "burning skin". When I looking at them with concentration, they able to feel that at distance of up to hundred of meters. I also saw video with similar experiment recently, but I cannot find it right now.

So, IMHO, telepathy is possible physically at some short distance, but requires years of training of participants. Someone need to train himself to be strong signal emitter, which can be confirmed by measurement of body EM radiation at frequency interval of 1.3-30Hz. Then somebody else need to learn how to hear that weak EM signal, like blinds do.
What kind of bizarro metric is that?

The iPod never meant you don't need a Mac.

The iPad never meant you don't need an iPhone (and hardly ever meant you don't need a Mac/PC).

The idea that a device should replace previous devices was never much of a concern. The only thing that qualifies 100% in that story is that the iPhone was by nature also a portable music player -- and if you had one obviously you didn't need the iPod. Apart from that, all were individual lines, with their own strengths and limitations -- not supposed to replace one another.
HN is particularly great at making the first / best digestion top comment as well
(Software person here, so excuse my ignorance).
If you run one of these via a laptop USB, won't it put a lot of stress (heat) on the power / usb circuitry? The soldering iron end is basically using all that current to generate heat so my assumption is that the current flowing through the circuits will have some sort of heating effect as well. I always assumed USB was for relatively low power appliances.
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From Wikipedia as well:

plants can be a vector for prions. When researchers fed hamsters grass that grew on ground where a deer that died with Chronic wasting disease (CWD) were buried, the hamsters became ill with CWD, suggesting that prions can bind to plants, which then take them up into the leaf and stem structure, where they can be eaten by herbivores, thus completing the cycle. It is thus possible that there is a progressively accumulating number of prions in the environment

Are you afraid yet? ;-)
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This just makes it worse!

They've publicly admitted that their test will have its result ignored. Any lawyer will quickly learn this and tell their clients, "you might as well, even if you fail, even if you are actually guilty (two entirely unrelated variables), they will still revisit your case".

What a waste of time, money and credibility. And this is the new, improved system. And it truly does seem better than what went before it. The mind boggles to comprehend the brokeness of this.
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I think a guilty person has nothing to lose by taking a polygraph test.
I occasionally stop by the Bootstrapped.FM forums, which seems to be the spiritual successor to the old Joel On Software forums. (Excellent podcast as well.)

http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm
Yeah, I was looking for information on pre-industrial deforestation and found that too. Apparently, deforestation was also a problem in the vicinity of some ancient cities.
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We might be looking for sentences and words that just aren't there. Dolphins see with sound, so maybe all those clicks and whistles are their way of sketching images for each other.
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This is a larger area than Ireland!
The polygraph is a fig leaf for the real process, which is getting a bureaucracy to admit it made a mistake. Without unravelling too much of the process or making anyone fear for their job.

It sounds ridiculous that "the defendant might actually be innocent" is something that hitherto was excluded in the process.
Hmm.

3rd paragraph they break it down some -- 15 Trillion for health care over 10 years, or averaging 1.5 Trillion per year.

There were ~151 million Americans in the labor force and employed last month[1]. If they're the folks that will be paying, then it's something like $9,934 per year in taxes that need to be collected per tax payer, to support the (in 2013) roughly 316 million population[2] of the US with an additional roughly $4,747 in government spending.

(I'm using 2016 employment numbers because 2013 we were still recovering from the recession, unemployment was much higher, and it's better to play with conservative estimates.)

WHO[3] has 2013 numbers indicating Government spend on healthcare at $4,307 per capita, and total spend (govt. + private) at $9,146.

With 2013 numbers, we'd be bumping the public spending on health care to $9,054 per capita.

To note, in 2013, of the US private spending, $3,063 out of $4,839 is on insurance plans. The remaining $1,776 is the per capita out of pocket cost (again, for 2013).

I don't think I know of any single-payer systems around the world that covers all costs. UK, Germany, Sweden [3-5] all have expansive single-payer systems established. The out of pocket is indeed lower for these -- a few hundred to $700 ish per capita vs our $1,700.

Those programs, if you have a gander, are more substantial for the massively lower government spend per capita on healthcare overall. If we're suddenly looking at $9k per capita govt spend, vs the 3-5 for these other states, I'm not sure that we've yet fixed something.

The selling point of the Bernie concept must be putting this initially more-expensive insurance plan in place ($3,xxx vs $4,747) with the goal that sometime after 10 years we'll have seen enough price suppression that our out-of-pocket goes down enough to break even, or start to reduce total costs, over the private-only market.

10 years is a really long time. And adding $9,900 / year on average to each taxpayer seems like a big number.

[1]: http://www.dlt.ri.gov/lmi/laus/us/usadj.htm

[2]: http://www.worldpopulationstatistics.com/us-population-2013/

[3]: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.country.country-USA?lang=e...

[4]: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.country.country-GBR?lang=e...

[5]: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.country.country-DEU?lang=e...

[6]: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.country.country-SWE?lang=e...
I never said "very useful". I just wanted to highlight how an otherwise throw away idea might have some merit and wasn't the most stupid idea ever.
Article acknowledges the power of local prosecutors, but not the perverse incentives and lack of counterweights leading to high conviction rates.
Depending on who's budget that compensation comes out of, you may well just be giving another financial incentive to put/keep innocent people in jail.
>> ... then we could simply focus at the moment of judgement (which btw, is also currently biased [1])

[1] being a link to Steinpreis/Anders/Ritzke (1999)

> You're right that it's biased, but perhaps not in the way you think it is: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract

At risk of repeating myself... You've taken a study that looked specifically at tenure-track faculty hiring within four STEM subjects, i.e. a very specific, limited, scope. You then presented that as "evidence" in a general context (in reply to a point about hiring in general being biased against women) in order to argue that the hiring process is biased against men, without any mention of the limited scope of that study.

The way I see it, one of these things is true;

(a) You made a mistake, fair enough, no big deal

(b) You're unfamiliar interpreting studies, fair enough, no big deal

(c) You're misrepresenting science to further an agenda

Given your vociferous objections to affirmative action I'm guessing (c) but happy to give you the benefit of the doubt.
"If a lion could speak, we couldn't understand him" (Wittgenstein)
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> Punch line: the best place to be a Bitcoin profiteer is in the libertarian bastion of the People's Republic of China.

Why is that a punch line? I don't see the contradiction.
It's the same sort of thinking that used to say "the African does not truly think or feel, he simply exhibits reflex responses that can give the appearance of thinking and feeling". Given what we know of cetaceans their classification as non-human persons seems fair, and future generations may look at our treatment of cetaceans today as dimly as we now do early 20th century whaling.

Assuming that only humans are sentient is a arrogant as assuming only the white man is sentient.

On the note of how they communicate - I wonder if anyone has considered sonar holography - I.e. The clicks and whistles aren't words per se but are interpreted visually, as an actual sonar reflection off an actual object would be. I'm trying to find the paper but I seem to recall some research in which they realised a dolphin was mimicking the sonar echo of an object, with startling accuracy.
Is Vice any more reliable? A lot of their stories look too outrageous to be true. Like this one: http://www.vice.com/read/this-guy-has-eaten-nothing-but-raw-...
Feeding wildlife is generally not a good idea. You can easily end up hurting or even killing the animals that you're trying to help. I hope you did your research on their diet and behaviours.