skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One species having binocular sight does not significantly effect the evolutionary advantage of binocular sight in other species.

And define what you mean by "high probability", I would agree that intelligence (as defined as building radio communications) does not have a high probability of evolving compared to binocular sight.

What I am getting it, is I would not be surprised if intelligence (building radio communications) was like a race. A race only has one winner. Just because a race may have a thousand contestants, does not mean that the probability of there being a winner if 1/1000. Rather the probability of there being a winner goes to 1 as the duration of the race increases.

Or its like concluding that because life only appeared once on this planet, its very unlikely that life could have appeared at all. Another hypothesis is that once life appears, it makes it very difficult for new life to appear by preventing the conditions that lead to abiogenesis. For example maybe chemical evolution can not occur, because in all places where it would the are living organisms that interrupt the process because those chemicals are useful to the organism.

Similarly, I Humans have an unprecedented degree of control over the evolutionary trajectories other organisms. Maybe other apes, if left alone for hundreds of millions of years would evolve into a species that develops radio communications. But organsim's need evolutionary pressure to evolve, and humans really, really like preserving species. If a species of apes start dying off due to some evolutionary pressure, rather than let nature take its course and let the apes which can survive that pressure out compete the others, humans will intervene to keep them around, and as a result they will remain stagnant evolutionary.
In Brazil, it is usual for Visa and Mastercard to charge the retailer amounts as high as 6%. I don't know why nobody screams.
Confirmed; just tested on my machine (Firefox, i7-3632QM @ 2.2GHz) by mashing on the keyboard. CPU spikes to 100% on one core and results in stalling.

In contrast the React+Redux app I'm working on uses the local Controller/Component state method and mashing on the keyboard there gave ~20% CPU.

I never would have imagined that Redux Form would lag on a desktop/laptop. I was more concerned that mobile performance would suffer. It's kind of impressive that a simple form can lag a desktop browser...
3 months ago traffic was about 3 million page views per day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315525
What exactly do you believe people should be doing?
I've used nlp-compromise.js for building an ecommerce shopping assistant bot. It's a bit rough around the edges but works most of the time.

Demo: http://nlp-compromise.github.io/website/

Github: https://github.com/nlp-compromise/nlp_compromise
I made it about a minute and couldn't take the reporter anymore - if you're going to do video, try to hire someone with more life than a dead carpet to do the speaking part.

While she may be a fine writer, clearly, she isn't a presenter for video.
And thunks for async get even sweeter with async/await/await*!
I agree with this. I've tried redux-form and just manually handling it with Redux but letting the form data live in the form's component state felt the most clean to me.
It would be massively helpful if SO provided this context for people who arrive from Google searching, which it doesn't.
I have always used lined note pads at work, for meeting notes and task lists.

At home, I've always used large, letter-sized books of drawing paper. I have about 10 of these filled with diagrams and notes, mostly for 3D engines and games I've worked on in the last 15 years.
A game, presumably.
The OP creates tickets with titles like "Clojure.Set Does the Wrong Thing" and then calls people out for poor communication?
We will be releasing an import/export in the next 2 weeks
Woes for ITT, a For-Profit School, Bode Worse for Its Students
terrible movie, same old plot, bad guy, good guy, bad guy loses to good guy. i played warcraft and warcraft2, but not a lot of wow so perhaps i'm missing something.

i would say in china, the fascination was more about the hype, most people probably never played any of the blizzard games that went to see the movie
A lot of states in 2000 had more votes for third parties than the gap between the two major candidates. I happened to vote in one, although it went for Gore anyway.

A decent number of people had the idea that they should vote for who they liked rather than voting for the least bad major candidate. And the result of this idea was a major disaster for the country.

I agree, the president should be the candidate most people believe is best. Voters should be able to cast their vote in good conscience without tactical considerations. Third parties should be more than a joke.

But so what? A bunch of shoulds and $5 will get you a Starbucks latte. The system is built such that third parties are not viable. You can either use this knowledge to cast your vote productively, or you can ignore it and waste your time. I'd be all for electoral reform that gives third parties a chance by eliminating the ridiculous first-past-the-post system we have now, but that's a separate question. Casting a pointless vote for a third party does nothing to change the system. Indeed, it basically takes you and your views out of play for the major parties. If people who think that we need electoral reform reliably vote for third parties, then the people who actually wield power will know that they can ignore electoral reform as an issue, because that demographic is unavailable to them regardless.

The system sucks, but it's what we have. Pretending it doesn't work the way it does is not the same as reforming it.
Yeah I took a look at api.ai but the reason I ultimately went down the wit.ai path is because of Facebook backing them. Seems like a nice wallet + data set to help.
> I think people watching this will certainly need to have a understanding of the lore, names, and landscapes presented to really enjoy the movie, however.

That is an interesting remark. Usually film adaptions go the other way and frustrate those familiar with the books/games/whatever by spending a bunch of time explaining the setting, presumably on the assumption that most of the audience is coming in knowing nothing.
Hi Kylo,

Pretty impressive to teach yourself anything in a week.
A newsletter will help reinforce your understanding of react, so I would do it if for nothing else but that reason.

And regarding the worth of "spending the money", I could be of some help with that. I'm a co-founder at https://volleyy.com and email newsletters is what we do. You could email me at noddy@volleyy.com to get you a demo and setup.
Anyone happen to know why this took so long to become official?

EDIT: Looks like it's mentioned a few paragraphs into the article:

Walgreens leaders decided to end the partnership after regulators disclosed problems at Theranos in late January, but held off on finalizing the separation because the company feared Theranos might sue, said people familiar with the matter.
Thoughts on Orlando
RIP David and thanks for the great book...
>This was all uncovered, after all, because of certain unusual choices made by Bollea that reduced the potential size of his award but increased the chances of destroying Gawker.

I find this objection to be bizarre. I am aware of no ethical or legal rules that require the wronged to structure the suit filed for the well-being or convenience of the wrongdoer. If Thiel and Bollea made an agreement to arrange the claims in a particular way in exchange for funding of the suit, I fail to see any problem there.
For the downvoter, you don't find single character changes overly verbose in the redux devtools monitor?
Show HN: Note-taking program, open, runs locally on any OS, has a simple design
I think DNA breakdown makes it much less likely to find viable DNA, but not that it's impossible to find. I'm no expert though.
Shame they didn't go with Indiegogo, so they'd be able to keep whatever was pledged and try to work out a way to meet the gap.
on the contrary. you give references for people who have the deepest understanding of how you work - how you excel and how you fail.

the whole system works much better when everyone is as well informed as possible.
What would an equivalent "litmus test" be for appropriate free speech in this day and age? The often quoted example in the school textbooks is the Oliver Wendell Holmes decision regarding "falsely shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theater" example
How many of us could name the current or former Walgreens CEO?

I've seen a certain mentality in people, including managers in the more "boring" companies in our economy. Silicon Valey companies are glamorous. There's a certain star mentality about it. Silicon Valley is in the news, the founders are rock stars.

I think the management of "boring" companies is as star struck as the rest of us are. They shouldn't be- they run huge companies employing many people, doing complex things and making profits. In this case, the star power blinded them and they'll pay a large price.
It's difficult to just stand by and watch when as a human being one knows we are better than this. This is also a prime example that money does not change shit. In fact, if obsessed on, which is primarily how all this crap came to be, it makes things worse. My suggestion is to bail out some more bankers. That will fix everything.
These are the sorts of buildings that I don't think anybody likes looking at. Take, for example, a building on my University's campus:

http://media.jrn.com/images/940333_4397240_ver1.0_640_480.jp...

The man who built it was Bruce McCarty, not sure what he was thinking when he designed this.
My intent (this is my article) with the Luddites was to show that technological change also drives social change. In the case of the Luddites, they accurately recognised that automation will eventually kill "jobs" (at least as we understand them). It's fairly logical that new governance emerges as conditions in society change.
The number of Western Films allowed in China is limited, and they all tend to do well. It's a soft power Beijing has learned to wield deftly that has led to some marked changes in the film industry.
Starbucks has more customer money on cards than many banks have in deposits
Sony of all companies did the same thing with their Walkman cellphone! Drove me up the wall but I loved that phone.
I remember this - I'd often try this with most CD-based games, PlayStation ones in particular used CD audio for game soundtracks.
> The gotcha is that the moment you leave the country your TN is kaput, so you're effectively trapped in the USA until the green card process is complete.

Not quite true. Once you've filed for adjustment of status (which you can only do once your priority date is current), you can also file an I-131 for advanced parole, and after receiving this, you can leave and re-enter the US with it. Technically you're not on a TN anymore though.
To help get my thoughts organized, I made a note-taking program.
I know that there are a lot of such programs, and I've looked at most of them, but I couldn't find one that met this criteria:
1) runs as a local program, not on the internet, but displays in a browser.
2) uses a relatively simple design, without overly-complicated features.
3) shows a grid-like display, with style options for individual cells.
4) is free, and open source.
5) runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, but is light-weight and portable.
The program, named note_space, is available at www.kylla.info.
If you have an interest in this, please take a look.
Thanks.
>The Theranos leadership belongs in jail

Let's ensure that actual crimes have been committed before we go throwing people in jail.
Walgreens managers also grew increasingly frustrated in recent weeks with Theranos as they sought information about the extent of test reports it had corrected or voided.

This seems to be a common thread in the stories I've read about Theranos, an almost pathological inability to provide basic information upon request. I can only guess that Holmes' notion of open and transparent communication is defined very differently from what most people would consider it to mean.

A big warning sign to me is also the bizarre collection of company reviews on Glassdoor [1]. It's really fascinating to me that anybody would even consider turfing their own company's reviews with this kind of ham fisted, single voice corporate speak nonsense. I wonder who inside the company is responsible for writing all of these? Holmes herself? Regardless, it's a really fascinating look into how Holmes has prioritized things.

1 - https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Theranos-Reviews-E248889.h...
Isnt that the whole point.
Mindless or not the suggestion is the lack of doing nothing.
Have you found any writing or organizational patterns to be useful? When you design a solution, does that look like a flow diagram? When you engineer a solution, do you jot down in natural language what you think you should do?
The tundra is primarily always frozen. As you point out freeze/thaw cycles are terrible for biochemical stability, but at the tundra below the surface (where earth acts as an heat insulator) I believe this effect is minimized

DNA has some remarkable stability properties when it comes to preservation. This is one of the reasons people are so interested in DNA storage technologies.

DNA chemistry allows for information to be preserved for millenia at sub-zero centigrade temperatures.

Robert N. Grass, Reinhard Heckel, Michela Puddu, Daniela Paunescu, Wendelin J. Stark. Robust Chemical Preservation of Digital Information on DNA in Silica with Error-Correcting Codes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201411378
He has redux dev tools enabled, hence the performance issues.
Actually I'd prefer to give a `unreachable!()` hint to reader and compiler, for the `strlen` example.
Most of the time I don't feel like performance is an issue as long as all your components use PureRenderMixin. Unless it takes over 20-30ms to render, the difference is not noticeable.

The problem as others have said is that it pollutes history, and that it is very CPU cycle hungry, bad for anything running on battery.

Nowadays I tend to use onBlur instead. There are two scenarios:

1) The form is the only source of change for the data. In this case just update the global state onBlur.

2) Other things affect the form value, so you need controlled input. In this case, onChange updates the local state. onBlur updates the global state and set the local state to null. Use `<input value={localStateValue !== null ? localStateValue : globalStateValue}/>`
That source includes savings due to the exchange rate, even though wages would be in CAD
A very similar situation there is in Tokyo: young professionals rent microscopic apartments close to work and the downtown founts of intense social life, and only use them as sleeping pads.

In Tokyo, this apartment fits reasonably cleanly in the 1DK category ([1] room, dedicated [d]ining/[k]itchen space). It's bog standard. Prices, even in the most desirable neighborhoods, would be a lot closer to $1k than to $3k, and generally coming from the downside.
That was the worry before even the movie came out. The movie is based off warcraft1, which was literally "orcs came to attack humans" and nothing more. It wasn't until warcraft 3 that they actually tried to describe the motives, but still you can't really change much of what was already made. However, if they manage to make a trilogy, they could utilize the arthras turns to lich king story in warcraft 3, which is much deeper.
There's certainly a lot of research trying to incorporate things like this into recommendations, but it never really made it to mature products (apart from some experiments on last.fm, 8tracks, etc.)

Spotify tries to accommodate this by offering curated playlists based on moods, but knowing a user's mood to make that type of recommendations is hard. (it's a bit intrusive for a music streaming service to ask you how you feel every time you start it up)
Funny you mention that. I lived in a great 1BR apartment in Murray Hill for $2,600 up until about 18 months ago. My unit was relatively large, on the 7th floor of an elevator/doorman building, we had a communal roof deck, laundry in building, and south facing light. The downside was that it was on 34th st so a bit noisy and the unit was probably 30+ years old so appliances were kind of crappy, but everything was well maintained. Basically it was an affordable upper-middle class oasis in a sea of luxury apartments.

The crazy thing is that the building could not be built today. It was 20 stories with about 15 units per floor and according to the recent NYTimes article it is no longer approved for the zoning of that neighborhood.

I'm not sure we need microapartments as much as we need to look at where people can afford to live today and clone that over and over. That's not the recipe for all of NYC, but in a neighborhood like Murray Hill where every other building is huge, why not just build out even more?
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/05/man-is-greater-than-ma... Person beats no-limit bot recently
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/06/suspected-bots-on-poke... Omaha bots winning $1.5 million in the wild.
I assume this (Omaha bot) is quite advanced past what you were dealing with?
That's not free advice. Good luck.
Both very good things to know. Thanks for clearing up.
The hip alternative seems to be "ghazi".
It's a common refrain that films based on other stuff are always worse, but I think it's sampling bias. When a movie is based on a mediocre source, people often just don't realize that the movie isn't original. The fact that a movie is "based on" is more likely to be known if the source is good, and reversion to the mean means that these are likely to have movies that aren't as good.

For one example, Forrest Gump is based on a pretty crappy book. It's mildly entertaining but it's pretty wacky and definitely not the amazing classic that the movie was. For another one that turns up a lot, The Godfather is said to be a lot better than the book, although I haven't read it myself. One more, Pirates of the Caribbean, while not exactly deep and meaningful, is a pretty fun movie based on a pretty mediocre amusement park ride.

I will admit that I can't come up with any good movies based on a video game.

Another source of trouble, I think, is that a movie based on something well known can survive on name recognition, so it doesn't have to be good. A Warcraft movie could be good in theory, but they probably haven't bothered.
DC resident chiming in here. DC is full of brutalist government buildings, and sorry but they're all eyesores.
I use one of these: http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACCT126734/it.A/id.5/.f

My job is half hardware/firmware so I put a lot of meeting notes, specs, and calculations in it.
I don't think that's "our community". It certainly isn't my community. I believe (and hope) that the delusional libertarian wing of the entrepreneurial class, who believe that regulation has no place in a market, is a fringe element.
In the wikipedia page you mentioned it stated:
"Under the assumption of finite computational resources, the simulation of the universe would be performed by dividing the continuum space-time into a discrete set of points."
How will we know if this assumption is correct?
If the beings that run the experiment have higher intelligence, they may successfully hide all the evidence of simulation and we may never find the constraints.

Unless we reduce the simulation hypothesis to "Beings of similar intelligence level as us running similar computer simulations that we do in the late 20th and early 21st century", then it is testable.
Student loans of 100k+ are very atypical for an American graduate. The average undergraduate indebtedness at graduation is closer to 30k.
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Ask Questions, Find Solutions
Both in the classroom and out working part-time jobs, I’ve learned there is one very important action that needs to take place in order to solve problems. Asking questions is a crucial part of finding solutions in the classroom and in the field.

The classroom can be a very fascinating, yet confusing place. It is not always easy to understand new material or fully comprehend what is asked of students by a professor. This is where the formulation of relevant questions comes into play. It is only by asking questions that we can learn information we will need somewhere down the road and also know what is expected of us at that point.

Asking questions is not only necessary in the classroom, but also in all fields of employment. I have only ever worked retail jobs throughout high school and college, which require a lot of customer interaction. With that, I have found the only way to adequately help a customer with whatever he needs is by asking a variety of questions and listening to his answers in order to find the solution. Simply knowing a customer at a sporting goods store needs a new pair of shoes will not help myself or the customer. I need to ask questions to find the perfect fit for the customer. For example, what activities will the shoes be used for and what brand does the customer prefer?

Questioning a person can be intimidating, but it is one of the most important tools in order to be successful in whatever we do.
Scientists confirmed there's a second layer of information hidden in our DNA
Yeah, because the founding document of the U.S. is not the Constitution but the Articles of Confederation: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2013/09/the-c...
This is hilarious

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Theranos-R...

Advice to Management
You are doing a good job. Stay in better touch with the
employees. I think most people do feel appreciated but
there are also some that are disgruntled and unhappy for
other reasons. I see these people spreading negative energy.
You should seek them and try and fix the problem.

Is it common practice among upstart companies to pad their reviews on glassdoor. I've been using those as references for my job search, I know better now.
>light pollution

That's the most cynical name you can give to civilisation. Life in the dark is horrendous no matter how many stars you can see.

This is something to be proud.
guessing china didn't grow up with star wars 4-6 or the disney renaissance but they did with WC so this particular IP naturally did better at the theatres
Can it be considered a one more proof supporting the Panspermia [1] hypothesis?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
>Another more subtle aspect of epicycles, real ones this time, is that they are too powerful and can be used to prove anything.

String theorists talk about how rich and complex the mathematics is, but maybe that just means it has so many possibilities you can always come up with an explanation to overcome newly-discovered difficulties.
Domino’s rolls out upgraded tech-driven offerings such as zero click pizza order