skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have clarified this better but I'm talking more about "villages" really. Places that are too tiny to be classified as a city center (by my arbitrary east coast standards at least), but afford a little pocket of shopfronts and rental units amongst lower density residential housing.

Of the cities you listed that I know well, Pinole is actually the best Norcal example I can point to. It's just 2 blocks of shopfronts and most of the residents could walk to the post office if they wanted to. A little 19th century main street that got attached to it's sprawling suburbs much later.

Sure there's more places like this in Norcal than Socal, but it's overall pretty rare anywhere in CA to live in a low-density outer suburb and still comfortably walk to a legacy village center rather than a strip mall or gas station. By contrast most 'burbs in the Northeast have these pockets of villages available to incorporate into mixed use zoning plans (but seriously fail at appreciating their potential).

Just an unfortunate roadblock in the way of balancing suburban housing density in Western states that I don't feel a lot of people are even fully aware of
Thats already bitcoin. Personally I use it to settle debts with my friends. They are mostly tech people and find it fascinating to use. Bitcoins go from me directly to them without any middleman ( except the bitcoin network I guess ).
This should answer your questions: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dced8150-b300-11e5-8358-9a82b43f6b...

Tldr: mostly hype. The "solve cancer" claims haven't worked out. Now there are lots of big data/machine learning APIs being branded as "Watson" and some are quite good.
aye man; embrace change
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First of all, I assume you mean the Paraolympics. The Special Olympics is for people with mental disabilities, the Paraolympics are for individuals with physical disabilities.

Second of all, that metaphor is not true at all. Great works are often improved by working within the limitations of their medium. To claim otherwise is utterly absurd.
So in addition to the hazing you have to endure before you work at one of these big tech companies, you also have to face a 3 month review that could very well end up in you being canned? I thought the entire point of the hazing was to prevent false positives? I'd like to know how many Google candidates don't make it past 3 months for "performance reasons".
And if he really truly honestly forgot his password...then what? You go to jail for your entire life because you can't recall a series of cryptic letters and numbers that will be used to convict you? This is no longer America. Innocent until PROVEN guilty is a lie.
> and if A < 1 we do the following:
> Produce a random number \chi from 0 to 1
> Calculate m=A + \chi
> Accept the move if m >= 1, otherwise reject

I'm guessing people have their own ways of doing this step, but by doing the math here, seems to me the second move can be omitted and the third replaced with "Accept the move if A >= /chi, otherwise reject".

EDIT: I see in the actual code all of this is summarized as A + chi >= 1, i.e. not a big deal (but still an addition more than needed ;)
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Long time lurker, first time poster. I wrote and published a completely original puzzle game for android, got featured on google play a number of times.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wp.wordbox
>Sold at >50% premium to Tuesday's close of its publicly-traded stock price.

And for less than half of what disney paid for pixar, despite having made more movies.

>And the human assets remain very much a key part of the company's value and values.

Illumination, who is taking the reigns, is the costco of animation. In the entire United States Illumination has 35 employees.

If you don't think there is a bloodbath coming, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Yes, in 1 day. Not necessary 1-2 hours, but under 4 hours.

TLDR> Hiring is critical. Most teams waste too much time in the interviewing/decision process. Video Interviewing has made it take longer IMO not made it faster, because companies/teams feel it has no real cost to it.

Most teams and people spend way too long on the hiring process. Yes you should care about hiring as it is critical, and yes, you should be cautious because hiring bad is worse then not hiring at all, most times. However, that doesn't mean you go into analysis paralysis waiting for just that one special person to show up.

There is an art to hiring as much as there is a science behind it. This is one of those times that hours doing the job matter, but that doesn't mean you need 10 years of experience hiring, it means you need to time talking to and evaluating people. It may sound obvious, but hiring is all about your ability to evaluate a person, their intentions, what they are saying as well as what they are not saying. And yes, you get fooled and learn from it.

This whole taking 3-4-5 weeks or 5-6 rounds of interviews is insane and honestly a drain on valuable resources that doesn't pay you back. It does not need to be this way to have an efficient and selective hiring process. IMO people let fear and uncertainty cause 80% of the reason it takes so long now.

I have built numerous teams, and I always started with recruiting a selective and tight core of people first, 2-6 people usually. Then they will help find other like people to round out the team. I have never spent more then about 3 months to recruit that core team in total, and many times I have done it in far less time. Part of that comes from knowing a lot of people, but a better part of it is evaluating someones capacity to learn and do good work. This means not getting hung up on whether they know how to write the most efficient X, or they know a certain framework or whatever brain teaser someone thinks is relevant.

I also think the fact that companies do more video interviews today versus flying candidates to them first has actually caused a longer delay instead of making the process faster. This is because companies can talk to a lot more people, so they will have 2-3 good candidates, but be holding out for someone better because they feel it costs them nothing but a little time. In reality it is costing them a ton of lost productivity for the hiring staff and for the work that could be getting done.

When you are not Google/Facebook et al you have to recruit and jump on good people faster then your competitors do. So teams that move fast in the process win the better candidates many times even if their hiring offer is less than what the candidate might get by waiting through 3-4-5 rounds of interviews with another company.
Bingo. 1984 is here.
Like, what are the things which it does?

:-) I 100% know where you are coming from in this post. All I ever see are ads oriented at PHB types, shown in PHB-type venues (airport corridors, tennis tournaments).
Well, they were 'smart' enough to reject any variant of 'example.com' as the email domain. Either way, it really does seem to be the site owner's mailing list sign up form, since it goes to a confirmation form.
I agree with this, game theory shows they have everything to gain by protecting and fostering Bitcoin development.
Hey, at least you're coming back :-)
Similar - couldn't make it past the phone screen. Got killed by a DP problem which in hindsight was quite approachable but my CS fundamentals weren't very fresh in my mind at the time.
In terms of some of the cancer stuff, this can explain it way better than I can.

"But it can take weeks to identify drugs targeting cancer-causing mutations. Watson can do it in minutes and has in its database the findings of scientific papers and clinical trials on particular cancers and potential therapies."

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer...
Interesting, presumably BWB have a team of inbound screeners that make a decision on how to route each book?

I've only dealy with them as a customer, they're not good at packaging books for posting but if most of their stock is old penny-books then presumably they're trying to make margin on the Amazon postal charge.
How would your reflexes have helped in my scenario, when you are T-boned (i.e., hit from the side) by a speeding motorist running a light?

Maybe you have extraordinary reflexes and could have accelerated out of the way, or slammed on the brakes, but the average driver? I think not. I'd like to have some serious steel and crumple zone between me and that motorist under those circumstances, and the tiny little electric buggy is probably not going to have the same amount of protection as a large SUV.
I don't follow. How does it differ from planting drugs?
It's satire. That's all.
Bitcoin Users Would Face Jail Under Russian Cryptocurrencies Law
Such a small place, this universe.

Interesting POV.
Lucky you -- where I live, gas is currently $5.48/gal and that's on the cheap end.
In the Pragmatic Programmer book [1], to help make the point that if you keep your code clean, it is more likely to stay that way, the authors cite the "broken windows" theory [2]. They mention a case where police observed an abandoned car lying untouched on a dark street for days, but once a window was smashed, vandals destroyed the car within hours [3]. I don't know much beyond that, but the theory rings true to me and I try to do my bit to stop it, in code and in real life.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4099.The_Pragmatic_Progr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

[3] http://www.artima.com/intv/fixit2.html
A neural network on a USB stick: Movidius announces the Fathom
Might be useful to focus on products within a certain niche and/or people of certain profile (e.g. comic book enthusiasts or specific genre of art). Otherwise, there are already so many gift/shopping suggestions services with big user communities and large product directories. I wouldn't be inclined to use a new service unless it demonstrably found me items that others didn't.
I used to work in the antimalware industry and personally encountered ransomware samples from Randazza Legal Group representing Corbin Fisher.
Okay, here's two, then I gotta get off this thread and get back to work:

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer...

https://www.mskcc.org/about/innovative-collaborations/watson...
The intrinsic important of MCMC is clear. What kinds of applications would be of excitement to startup-oriented readers here on YCombinator?

Also why is this called Quantum MCMC rather than just normal Markov Chain Monte Carlo?

By coincidence there is a Coursera Cousrse that just started on Statistical Mechanics and Algorithms, and the first exercise is to approximate pi.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics
I think the "orders of magnitude" phrase was a misunderstanding of exactly how large an order of magnitude is. Probably meant "an order of magnitude."

I could see gas jumping to $20/gal pretty quickly if things go wrong in the right way.
this year's founders' letter: brought to you mainly by a non-founder.

little boys afraid to lead.
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It's what Netflix does, so your dismissal seems badly placed.
Larger vehicles have larger crumple zones and more steel all around. Are you saying larger vehicles are no safer than smaller ones? This runs counter to decades of conventional wisdom based on thousands of crash tests. See Edmunds, Consumer Reports, and other reputable organizations for corroboration of this.
Quite a lot of scientists did/still do this. Heck, there's even a trope about it on TV Tropes:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProfessorGuineaPi...

But I suspect it's slightly rarer for CEOs of science based companies to try this stuff out of themselves. Could be interesting to see what happens.
Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist
AFAICT, it really is "profitable". The Google/Alphabet split is really for investors' benefit; the only folks who care about corporate structure are Wall Street and the government, so the corporate structure is such that it pleases Wall Street, which lets the people actually working at Alphabet focus on their respective businesses.
That's a world which robs people and businesses of their property rights, without very careful thought.
That unwillingness kind of invalidates a lot of peoples complaints though.
I don't know about London libraries but the Bodleian in Oxford offers associate membership. It's about the same rate as other university libraries in the UK

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/using/getting-a-readers-card/ch...
If they're using BitPay to handle bitcoin, they're not testing anything, just accepting the same currency they always have.
Nice sentiment but reading the story I was more concerned about his mental health.
Hi Stevekemp,

Both watches which will be supported by the app have at least 3 axis accelerometers and 3 axis gyroscope, meaning the watch understands various plans on motion in relation to is position on earth and can track those movements very accurately.

Given the exercises you're using in your example, squat and over-head press, the wrist will travel through a specific plane of movement (when done properly) for each exercise respectively.

For example, Stand up and put your hands up as if your holding the barbell on your back, as you would in a squat and perform a proper squat....straight up and down.... Now tilt forward to curve your back as you describe in your comment and do a squat... Did you notice that you've now changed the plane of movement your wrist traveled between the proper squat and "bad form" squat?

This is how the app would work and though that may seem like subtle difference in the wrist to you and I, to these motion sensing technologies, its a major difference that can be detected.

Thanks for the great question and hopefully this helps!!
It's not a conspiracy theory to think that laws are propagandized by tickling authoritarian tendencies. Planes hit birds because they intersect with flocks of birds, because birds have nearly 100% overlap in altitude with all phases of operation of airliners, over land and over water, and because there are hundreds of billions of birds.

To calculate the odds of hitting a drone, you have to divide the odds of a bird strike by population, altitude overlap and by spatial density when a flock of birds vs a single drone is encountered. This is why betting on a drone strike is, currently, a sucker-bet. Anyone who thinks a report of a drone strike is real is way way too credulous and/or biased.
All Mobile Phones Must Have “Panic Button” Beginning in 2017
> Bitcoin has the capability to be the great equalizer, not just across economic bands but also across country borders.

That's backwards. Bitcoin is directly controlled by the owners of property (miners), in proportion to how much they own.
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But it still hurts when you kick a rock.

The article is trite hand waving. Of course we parse the world through symbols, but the symbols are shorthand for consistent, predictable experiences.

Does it matter if the physical experiences are created by physical objects in the Newtonian sense, or by quantum fields?

Not at all. Because if you drive a car into a wall fast enough you're still going to die. And so is everyone else who drives the same kind of car into the same kind of wall at the same speed.

If it turned out that the knowledge that your experience of reality is symbolic gave you the power to shape quantum fields directly, that would be an interesting thing.

Most humans don't experience reality in that way. (Writers of New Age books try to say otherwise, but there's no evidence they're right.)

The casual arrow of symbolic perception goes in one direction, from outside to in. So unless you have some way to hack the symbols and the experience they create, this kind of "explanation" is irrelevant.
Argh. I read the first half, came back and upvoted the submission, then discovered the second half of the article is a fundraising pitch for Mother Jones.
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It reminds me of my own kinda similar story. When I was about 7, my parents decided it was time for me to get a bike. Of course we didn't have enough money for a proper bike, so my father picked up some second-hand bike at a flea market or something for a few dollars.

It was terrible, threw chains and all kinds of other issues. We tossed it and bought another and then another. All terrible for different reasons, one of which caused me to have a fairly serious accident.

Finally, they went to Sears and bought me a proper youth bike, which lasted until my early teens with nothing more than a couple replacement tubes.

The whole thing cost twice as much as just getting me a decent bike to start with.

It's almost like being poor is some kind of weird edge case our software doesn't handle well and the result is a constant series of poor decisions.
A quick scroll through the comments here revealed that most of you missed the point.

He's not saying we are quantum hand-waving. He's describing a BIV situation[1]. He's saying that things look weird when we look closely because reality isn't there.

We're neural networks. We always have been. Reality is a layer, one that appears to me to be designed to constrain growth through resource limitations and "garbage collection" (death).

Hello, World!

1. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-content-externa...
Artificial intelligence now fits inside a USB stick
Sounds like the wiki sections of questions and topic FAQs of Quora. There are also other sites (including Wikipedia itself, albeit not set up in question format) with similar info-organization purpose around. How would this differ?
I remember it unfortunately being timed around the same time an exploit string would cause one of the AV packages to drop connections.

Made gaming IRC channels utter chaos for weeks.
so... if a prosecutor has evidence has been gathered where a defendant has a drive with +n files that are encrypted. then the prosecutor has their evidence. However, if the files are when decrypted, then they have +n' -n files, which were not gathered during the initial investigation.

I recognize that the contempt is prior to formal charging, and thus "during" evidence gathering. but I feel like this is equivalent to the government saying: "hey, so we have no proof you did anything, but we have these 107374182400 items that might prove something. So, we want you to produce 107374182400 completely different items that might incriminate you because, well.... we cant". seems weird.

this is obviously not the first case that this has happened in[1][2]. each invoking the 5th, but it still seems strange.

[1] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/01/decryp...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Boucher
I never considered myself as a bitcoin enthusiast but I am enthusiastic about digital cryptocurrencies in general for most of the reasons you mentioned. Bitcoin (and all other cryptocurrencies) is not there yet but most of those are problems that cryptocurrencies target to solve.

An example: you could never move money over the wire anonymously before crypto came in. Well, except if you had a fake identity, which is illegal. Now you can. Of course, you need to be a security expert in order to do it but ultimately UX will get there. I wasn't around at the early days of internet but I am pretty sure if my mother could access it back then she would have no idea what to do. And here she is calling me on Skype every other night.

Another example: There are millions of people who cannot afford buying a computer as you already said but possess low-cost mobile phones. There are already a bunch of bitcoin startups targeting that market. Apps and tools will eventually evolve up to the point where they will be accessible, easy-to-use, scam-free, safe. We just need to build them.
iPhones have Wi-Fi iTunes syncing, but that is like AirDrop - works on some devices/access point and on others just fails to connect.
I think it is a good analogy. The line in the Graduate was played for a laugh, but it was frighteningly prescient. Look around, even the wood has plastic coating and veneer.

We'll continue laughing and shaking heads over AI tech, ruing the hype, then in 30 years everything digital will be made out of it.
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Why bother framing you. They can just take you out back and shoot you.
I have a feeling that your true 1rm is higher than you think it is if you can pull it off without acclimating to that weight.

I never said you will for sure get injured, merely the chances increase. And I agree that some people have warm ups that are too intense.
Google is building a new hardware division under former Motorola CEO
There are a number of problems with this approach. It's difficult to standardize so personal biases are more likely to creep in.

I've asked this question in interviews a number of times, but it's primarily to gauge communication skills rather than technical skills. The biggest problem with using it as a technical screen is that candidates are really bad at choosing a project to tell you about. I've had candidates choose as their problem building out some responsive dynamic front end and their entire solution boils down to, I picked Angular and Bootstrap.
Humble Bundle did in the past, but stopped for some reason. GOG never did so far.
Drug possession is not strict liability, child porn is. That means you don't need to have intention; if I email you a file and you open it, then the feds break down your door, you have committed a crime. Or rather, as long as it's on your computer (say a website downloaded it in the background), you're liable. Even if you have 100% solid proof that it wasn't your fault, you're guilty.

With drugs, you can at least sometimes get off with proof that you didn't have intent.
Sadly not as rare as you might think, plenty of cases each day, and few make the press. There are a lot of sick people out there.
I tend to agree, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.
More so in this case, he won a popularity contest. I will recommend people who I believe have the appropriate experience but this guy hardly has any.
Currently the calculations show that for your transaction to be processed first it should have a $.06 fee. Transactions with fees down to about $.01 are basically guaranteed to be processed but may take longer. Many 0 fee transactions are processed but they have no guarantee.

The modern wallet softwares all calculate and offer different fees based on the expediency of the transaction.

"The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 60 satoshis/byte, shown in green at the top.
For the median transaction size of 226 bytes, this results in a fee of 13,560 satoshis (0.06$)."
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> The real solution is to simply spend vastly less money accepting that pain now is better than letting the US become a failed state.

Are you familiar with the Reinhart-Rogoff controversy in economics from a few years ago?
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