skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Slight analogy: What we have with the genome is the compiled code of the program, the sum over all epigenetic marks somewhat is the state at run time.

Now you're talking. That's a brilliant analogy, I'm stealing it for the next time I explain CS to biologists, thanks!

>The (idealistic) idea there is rather to take a virus that performs the modification in the body in all cells. But that is still somewhat in the future as you have to make sure the virus does not spread to other persons, the changes are lasting etc.

Indeed, I forgot about viruses. To sum up, to get to changing adult DNA we need a) more knowledge of the "runtime"/epigenetics to know what to change, b) ways to handle viruses if we go with them. That sounds reassuring, actually, at least we might not get stuck in Gattaca like future for too long.
Those might not all be NES/SNES games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHepjitYJmM&feature=youtu.be...
IE and Edge never actually "passed" Acid3 either; as I recall they typically got to scores of 100 but would lag on two numbers, I want to say they were 25 and 69, whereas the test explicitly says that the animation needs to be fluid.
> You don't own information just because it happens to be about you.

The lawsuits that force google to blur faces and some houses in Germany seem to indicate otherwise. Those are privacy related problems, but I think they still show that your blanket statement needs more nuance.
Nope, you're incorrect. Here's an article that covers it: http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/more...

That just covers the basics of placement though. Companies will pay to have their products placed at the beginning of aisles, in "special offer" areas, etc etc. There's a whole "science" of supermarket layout.
Constellations of separate apps are better for users who only want certain parts without ceding unnecessary permissions and space.

EDIT: 'is' to 'are'
Given there is no such thing as "poor taste", the non clickbait title should be : "Your music taste is affected by your upbringing"
Does that really correspond to usage in mathematics? I think that can be where the confusion comes from.

Let's say: "Here we define a function f(x,y) of two arguments x and y.."
But I thought I made it clear that I am not looking to do research. I'm not even looking for state of the art performance. I am looking for that 30% of the skills which allow me to do 70% of the tasks. Like RMS. Because outside of Google/Microsoft/Amazon et al, domain knowledge beats superior math skills 10 out of 10 times.
The article isn't about the developer's marketing strategy. The article is about other businesses coming up with a marketing strategy.

Nintendo did rather well releasing the game. Given the press, their marketing department is probably satisfied with their strategy and effort.
> The concentration of power in controlling what news people see is one of the huge problems of modern times.

Not that the traditional news media is any better. Brexit would never have happened without News International. And in Italy Berlusconi was his own media support.
Monica: Avoid repeating commands by defining a structured config file
Veneer – A simple library for building attributed strings, for a civilized age
It seems to be missing some critical features of the original.

- Can't start a game and have the game loading screen distorted until the 7-8th attempt.

- Can't blow in the cartridge until it whistles before playing

- Can't stick 2 games in on top of each other

Getting the game to work was half of the fun.
> As much as a '56 Strat or a '59 Les Paul is in demand today, I bet there were a lot of dogs among the ones made back then.

Most of them are awful - construction-wise. (But to some, that's the lure.) I would much rather own an electric guitar or a tube amp made in the last 15 years than one from 1974.
9 out of 10 of the "kids" playing phone games have been 20 or older in my experience with Ingress and Pokemon Go.

So far Go lets you search for pokemon, power them up, and "battle" with them. Trading is coming. Isn't that pretty much everything the previous umpteen Pokemon games let you do?
It does not seem like things will change until the masses (especially those with money and influence) reject such low standards and demand something better. Any ideas? I'm thinking something along the lines of intellectuals and entertainers forming a coalition along some hard-to-define shared interests.

Those interests are so hard to define because success in the modern era depends on such sensationalism.
The Wii Classic Controller is wired. The port on the front of this console is the same port on the bottom of a Wii Remote, which makes it pseudo-wireless in a way, but there's no Wii Remote in this case so it is just wired.
"They" is a widely accepted gender-neutral (or unknown) pronoun, none of those things you typed are.
Every cloud provider is essentially providing a remote vm. Been working great for me for the past 10 years.
No. Tecmo Super Bowl (also for NES) is the one with Bo. First to have licensing to support it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecmo_Super_Bowl

Shame they used Tecmo Bowl - is far inferior to Super Bowl.
I agree, but...

We have a world with far too much stuff. For every business meeting a need there are 50 cheap copies and 20 not so cheap desperately trying to get noticed.

Every trend will get latched on to an ever increasing degree. Most trends come from commercial intent anyway and the latching on is just turning on the "monetisation strategy". No one wants to sell a thing any more, but a recurring licence.

It's no wonder adblocking is growing like topsy
Manslaughter is a likely situation that needs to be addressed in the next Tesla OTA update.
I've lost track of how many antitrust charges the EU has tacked onto Google. They probably think Google is going to roll over to their whims. I foresee a protracted legal battle lasting years in the courts and amounting to very little in the end.
What would happen if we fired all nuclear missiles on earth at the sun?
DIY home security is definitely a large market. Every house in America has some form of subscription-based home security system mostly consisting of door sensors and a monitoring service. If home security startups can make a good-enough product that lets users monitor their own homes, they can charge a much smaller fee and still be more useful than companies like ADT.
It must unknowingly be embedded-specific terminology, because I knew exactly what he was talking about.
I have a 2-year-old son. When his mother's not around we listen to AC/DC, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Live, Metallica, Pearl Jam and others of similar genre and era.

When I sit down at the computer he runs in repeating, "guitar, guitar, guitar". When I ask him who is the best guitarist, he's conditioned to answer "Angus".

I'm seriously hoping to influence his musical tastes, because when he turns teenager, I don't want to be stuck listening to crap.
After protest, Canada’s health science funder reverses course on peer review
When writing reasonable person, I mean legal term that I linked. I'm aware that corporate lawyers are writing strongly worded letters to common folk. I'd just want to see them convince the court that reasonable person would think common people efforts affect them in any way.
No Pepsi just tastes better. The whole people prefer coke when drinking a whole can comes from Blink where a Pepsi scientist throws out three or four different reasons why kiosk testing might not reflected by consumer purchasing. It ends with both the scientist and gladwell saying "brands are powerful".
You can try it out yourself and have your own feed up and running quickly using the example code in the article.
While this isn't new it always makes me laugh.
Wait, don't we have an arguments object in JavaScript that ["is an Array-like object corresponding to the arguments passed to a function."](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...)
Interesting question. Would it perhaps make sense to consider good music to be the music that those people like who are knowledgeable about and skilled in music themselves?
Jesus, I hope that's false. Cyberspace isn't real. It's absolutely insane to suggest that one ought to have control over some abstract data just because there exists a vague correspondence between some part of that data and some piece of land they own in the real world. Should photographs of buildings be illegal? After all, it's just a virtual representation of the real property. In fact, it's a much closer representation than just "these fake coordinates vaguely resemble these real coordinates".
The (jokey) title of the article is somewhat unfortunate as it confers a value to "musical taste". Anyway.

> “This pretty convincingly rules out that the preferences are things we’re born with,” McDermott argues.

The word "nurture" may lead some to believe that tastes are fixed. Thankfully, they're not.

Immersion in new forms of music is one of the great pleasures, and given enough time, all forms start making sense. The brain eventually recognizes patterns and finds pleasure.
Our pay depends on your location. So if you're currently charging an SF rate without the expenses of living there you're better off.
The biggest issue is it doesn't really have any mechanics beyond "catch pokemon". There's not really gameplay, short of the laughable gym battles. You can realize this after about a half hour of playing. Nintendo is sitting on top of a big giant pile of money, but I get the feeling they want to gimp Go in favor of their mainstream games.

Seriously, all they need to do is add a basic pokemon PVP with the same battle mechanics from the mainstream, and maybe random events, and they could keep it going for a good while longer.

Also, the always-on-gps is a huge issue with it. They need to find some way to lessen it.
It seems to me that it should be possible to mount an actual camera in the gun now and have the system simply compare what it sees on the gun camera vs. what it is displaying on the screen. We have the computer power to do stuff like that now.

It won't work for retro-gaming, but it's a possible path forward for gun games on modern consoles.
One also finds the terms "formal parameter" (for what is called a "parameter" in the article) and "actual parameter" (for what is called the "argument" in the article).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_(computer_programmin...
They seem to be different Unicode codepoints: FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER
I like to phrase it like this: “A parameter is a local variable that's initialized by passing an argument”. That works for functions and C++ templates. It also works in languages like ML, where you can initialize multiple parameters from a single argument (via pattern matching).

Consequently, speaking of “passing a parameter” is dead wrong most of the time, except maybe when you're writing a function that “defines” other functions, where a parameter of the function to be defined is an argument of the definer function. But I will stop here before it gets complicated.
Enabling Secure HTTP for BBC Online
Do you think such a decision would apply to "cyberspaces" like this one:

-75,40,28

That's a (chosen) coordinate pair and an (invented) observation about something at the coordinate pair. Will the property owner be able to force me to delete my 28?
You should get some musical instruments in the home if you don't already. This goes a long way!
I would not underestimate it. My immediate thought is "security moms" -- suburban mothers whose overarching priority is security (they came out pretty strongly for Bush in 2004, IIRC, which is when the name was coined). A similar demographic makes up a substantial segment of the SUV market.

It's clearly marketed to a not-technically-skilled market (the magnet is pretty brilliant - tool-free installation, if you can find a bit of metal) which probably intersects the above market to a certain extend.
How (Not) to Write an iOS SDK
In the world you would like to live in, every product would have over a hundred Chinese knockoffs with the same name, luring patrons away from each other with advertisements featuring big-busted ladies or cute fluffy cartoons, and no one would have any incentive to put effort into making games of sufficient quality that aren't a free-to-play front for milking in-app purchases.

For a preview of such a world, see the App Store and Google Play.
Not the poster, but the creator: if anyone has suggestions on how to package this up for windows, or wants to suggest the best instuctions/test on linux(es) do let me know!

Also keen to hear suggestions for improving the security section of the readme so people understand the risks etc.
Your parents sound like they have quite an eclectic taste in music. I only discovered Philip Glass and Sun Ra ~12-13 years ago (I'm 49). If you are able to you should have a listen to BBC Radio 6's Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone and Freakier Zone programmes. There's probably a lot of stuff you'd like to listen to and discover.
I think the parent means graphical VM.
Two days of observation with zero control does not seem sufficient to make a definitive statement on the product. I've been going on walks with my doggo every night this week; the amount of people I've seen playing pokemon has remained fairly constant during that time frame.

Don't mind me, just trusting my observations...
I used to be a big fan of Nest. I've owned the thermostat, protect, Dropcam Pro, and a Nest Cam. This product announcement leaves me very underwhelmed.

Since Nest took stewardship of the Dropcam products, there has been a noticeable decline in quality. The Nest App is not as fully featured as the Dropcam one was previously, and I seem to be having more and more connectivity issues, despite having improved Internet connectivity.

There isn't anything compelling about this new product that will lead me to "upgrade". One of my cameras is already pointed outdoors and it gets the job done for monitoring my entrances.
How Private Equity Found Power and Profit in State Capitols
I've never understood how these fines are meant to benefit anyone. If no one is affected, then why is there a fine? Who is this money going to for damages to be repaid?

Also, why are you not allowed to use real data for testing purposes?
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An Up-Close and Personal Look at the World's Largest Model Train Railroad
Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
I called that out too. If they wanted to go all click-baity, they could have gone with "Your favorite band sucks, but now we know why you listen to them".
> The magnetic base attachment potentially makes the Nest Cam Outdoor very easy to steal, but Nest claims the screwed-in, permanently attached power cord will prevent people from walking away with your $200 camera.

Nooooooope.
How are AR ads for casino A inside of casino B different from mobile ads that can do the same thing?
Yes! So my privacy rights will finally extend to how my virtual person is represented in virtual space. (i.e. Google's and Facebook's servers)
Saturn Bomberman is where it's at.
Where do we see that tidbit?
It also puts a lot of stress on the stack of machines that may not have much stack to go around.
There's a huge difference in taste between heavily wooded wines (e.g. Many reds and most Chardonnays) and wines made in stainless steel containers (e.g. most Sauvignon blancs) and it would be easy for anyone to tell them apart. But the taste difference between two wooded wines is far subtler.

Red and white wines are both made from red grapes, the difference is that for red wines the juice is steeped in the grape skins which causes it to absorb tannins. If you learn to taste tannins you should be reasonably good at picking red from white, but the flavor from wood in young barrels is similar.
the screen was not appropriate but the hardware was not crap. the controls used very high quality click-joysticks, that you find nowhere on portable consoles.
You do realize that when he turns teenager he will rebel, and only listen to K-Pop right? Then at 20 in college he'll learn to develop a musical taste less attached to social stigma, and maybe reacquaint himself with rock. But perhaps also because of his teenage musical roots the rock will be mostly K-rock ;)
> there doesn't seem to be any means of getting new games onto it

Typical Nintendo "75% right" and "25% how did they screw this up"
"In a right to repair/modify wouldn't a lot of people pay to have the algorithm changed for their car to always favor the people in the car no matter what?"

... which would return us to the "software" that we're all already running.
Which is infuriating when combined with ANSI NULL semantics.

Empty string == empty string, you tool warehouses!
AWS pumps out products and services to accelerate the move to the cloud
While I am hopeful of future updates fleshing out the mechanics in the game and adding features, so far it is lacking much of the detail, content and depth that have allowed Pokemon games to retain their audience's attention.

Unless they flesh out the gameplay (either with new elements or mechanics, or by "porting" over from the existing games in the Pokemon franchise), the success of the game could easily be short lived.
Great to hear that it is helpful. We're hearing reports here and there of new companies adopting part of our handbook.

One recent hire tried to have their department write down more to help with scaling. It was hard to convince the rest of the department so he ended up joining GitLab.
Cheap ransomware takes files 'hostage'
Surprise: Nintendo’s next console is the NES
> add a basic pokemon PVP

I think this is very true, when I was in 5th grade It wasn't wandering around catching pokemon that made me love the game. It was battling my friends, and trading with them.
The goal isn't to make the objectively best violin, it's to clone a Stradivarius. Stradivarius violins are widely considered to be the best, so any deviation from them must make the violin worse. Branding is more important than sound quality.
I think you're missing context here: the GP specifically said he was talking about implications of AR application intersecting with real property.
Same with Ingress then and careless wording on my part. Actually there were quite a few older folks trying Ingress too. But it had very little sticking power.
Interesting is it more of a regional thing then? I've lived in the NE suburbs my whole life and really never ran into that many installations.
I'm a bit confused about your post. Hendrix doesn't need a good instrument but Menhuin or Bell does? Are you saying that Hendrix is not as relatively technically skilled with his instrument as a classical player? Or that there is a fundamental difference in the type of music that does not require a good instrument?
Possibly because of this http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-lo...
I'll tell you how:

SUMMARY: "Reading this will give you shivers."

I mean it's nice to know and heart-warming and all, I just wish the journalist wasn't in-between.
Weird. I thought it was ridiculously high. But I also think $5 per game is crazy high. Especially considering how easy/cheap it is to make something like a retro-pi
> That sounds linear to me

What? Absolutely not. I'm just saying that it sounds reasonable to believe that burns increase with temperature, as opposed to being high in a range of temperatures and lower below and above that range. Figure 4 in your first link agrees with this common-sense guess.
Inventory is the solution, but you can tie-off the wound a bit until it heals
Then it's a good thing it is.
> It makes a lot of sense for mobile messaging apps, though, and that's what both Signal and WhatsApp are. Phone number == username is an implementation detail of Signal (the app) and WhatsApp and not something the protocol dictates. Other implementations could easily handle things differently.

An extensible solution would be to use URNs as usernames, with tel: (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3966) — or maybe sms: (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5724) — URNs, e.g. tel:+1-201-555-0123 or sms:+12015550123. Then anyone who wanted to could also register a client using mailto:jsmith@example.invalid.

Even better would be to use opaque user identifiers (maybe using their own URI scheme …), with all the above used to search for other users.

Combine that with a server-mediated privacy-preserving contact list search scheme, and you'd have a huge end-user benefit: persistent identities across multiple devices, freed of the tiedown to telephones. Heck, it might even form the nucleus of a smart PKI based on SPKI/SDSI, better than either the PGP Web of Trust or XPKI's lunatic trust-all-of-the-CAs-in-the-world-to-certify-everything-in-the-world model …
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Coming from the perspective of knowing central Asian, Arabic, and some African rhythms, arguing that 3/8 is tremendously different than 3/4 is a little silly to me. Virtually all classical music is just square feel, polka feel, waltz feel, or triplet feel. And it's not just the time signature, it's the simplicity of it. Arabic music is mostly 4/4, but is far more rhythmically intricate. Blues is mostly 12/8, but the feel is far different.

It's kind of like arguing a Buick is better than a Chevy to someone driving a Tesla.
It's not like they have 6 generations of pokemon games to draw ideas from. Like you said, even basic battling with wild pokemon/virtual npcs would make this game much more interesting, at the moment it's just incredibly simplistic.
Why don't you provide a Windows build?
Could we include the deepmind atari paper there? Should be interesting to lots of people.
unless I'm misunderstanding the question, I don't think this is going to be an issue.

I have VMs on an external hard drive that are accessible to me via Windows and Ubuntu (fairly sure I've accessed them on my MBP as well, not sure). I'm using VirtualBox, so I set up the initial connectivity stuff, point at the existing vhd, and then I'm running right along by launching the VM.
In this study they did both, they had a long session where the players where asked to rank the instruments based on how they liked them (and rate various characteristics like loudness and timbre), then at the end they had a "new or old" question:

"Next they were presented with a series of violins (one at a time, in random order) and given 30 s to play each one before guessing what kind of instrument it was. If a soloist was unclear about the meaning of the question, he/she was prompted to guess whether the violin was new or old. The series consisted of (i) that player’s favorite old violin; (ii) the player’s favorite new violin; (iii) an old and a new violin the player found unsuitable; (iv) the old violin and the new violin that, in session 1, were most often included in top-four lists and that were on average most highly ranked within those lists; and (v) the old and the new violin that were most often rejected as unsuitable in session 1."