skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me this feels like a... difference between depression and sadness.

Personally I tend to think of depression as draining; it takes out your energy, your willingness to live your life and push through. Like you said, emptiness.

Sadness feels... sad, it brings you down, but it doesn't necessarily affect you in the same 'draining' way.
And, if they did hang out at Radio Shack, they would have come across the venerable Minimus-7 - one of the first examples ever of a high-performing micro speaker with a sealed-enclosure design, that still stands up to the test of time.

http://www.retrothing.com/2011/06/minimus-speaker.html
And I can only second this.
Irrational? The problem isn't replacing "engineered via slow selection" corn vs "efficiently GMO'ed corn".

The problem is replacing over 300 unique varieties of corn, and over 40,000 unique varieties of rice with 3 or 4 patented, flavourless, often less nutritious varieties.

Stop pretending all opponents of GMO food are scientifically illiterate new-age types. I owe my life to GMO (cancer immune therapy)... hell, I am GMO. But there is nothing inherently good about progress. Nuclear technology can be used to provide clean, cheap energy to entire cities... or it can be used to eradicate an entire town in a matter of seconds and bring decades of unimaginable human suffering.

Using GMO to help third world countries grow foods they otherwise couldn't? Great. But that's not the full story, is it.

Where is the great progress in getting the same bland, flavourless, overly-sweet two or three varieties of rice, corn, and potatoes in every friggen store? Is driving Indian farmers to suicide and suing small farmers who accidentally grow your crop because the wind blew progress?
Is destroying thousands of years of man-driven biodiversity progress?

Coming from a country where real vegetables are sold, it's depressing. Everything tastes the same in North America. Every salad, every sauce. Same shit.

People don't oppose Monsanto because they hate science, they oppose monsanto because it's the Enola Gay of GMO.
> Those things are very, very difficult to properly automate (though many companies try, with varying degrees of success).

Case in point is the fluctuations in Warren Buffett's fund whenever Anne Hathaway is in the news.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com//2011/03/28/528481/for-the-bots-a...
That is a residency problem that immigration and canadian income tax has systems to deal with that. And if they somehow get around all of those controls, it would only apply to one house, so it would limit the financial scope of it.
Agreed, it will be very interesting to see if "Apple Scale" [1] thinking works in automotive design[2] and manufacturing. Apple can buy 10,000 CNC machines for an iPhone frame, but there are a couple thousand parts at least that size in a car.

The difference in physical scale between a phone and a car should not be dismissed... but I'm very interested to see what comes out of the process.

1. https://blog.bolt.io/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjcm-ru-9iI (this talk is good, but incredibly frustrating because the slides aren't shown)
The title of this post doesn't reflect the article.
You want proof of a claim that only you have made. That doesn't seem like a terribly fair criticism of the OP.
> fermented foods are another area people are currently anti-science with respect to food

I think people eat it because they heard it's good for you and it tastes amazing. They're not necessarily 'anti-science'.
Please read the article.
Alternatively, it could be the case that introducing even minor bugs into the programming of your first Von Neumann probe can be a civilization-ending event.

So maybe we haven't seen any probes because they first disassembled their creators for building resources, then became too busy disassembling each other to get very far.
Or maybe malware is yet another way to cover up government censorship.
Putin has made it clear that his goal is to turn Russia into an authoritarian police state (a goal he has largely accomplished) and regain all the territory that the old USSR controlled, including Eastern Europe. Is that what you really want? Do you really think that would make the world a better place?
The funny thing is how prevalent this is in music.

The best example I can draw is James Hetfield. In the early Metallica days, his writing was amazing. Dark, depressing, powerful. Then he decided to get sober and nearly overnight he's creativity dried up and we got "St. Anger". The albums since his sobriety have been mediocre at best and lampooned by critics.

I have other examples, but this is probably the one that really jumps out at me.
Of course communism can probably never be implemented successfully, as long as humans are involved, and certainly not on a national scale.

For a small commune, or village scale, perhaps. Perhaps also once technology has advanced far enough for humans to cede leadership to a benevolent AI. Then the humans can be equal, deferring to the AI?
Chess is rational, following a easily understood set of rules, and both players have perfect information. The big problem has always been analysing all future possibilities.

The stock markets are very far from a rational, perfect information game with simple rules.
and then foreign investors will buy up those units instead and people will make up more excuses.
I've thought a lot about this and don't think that full autonomy is necessary for Apple's car to be successful. I don't even think they need to be anywhere near as good as Tesla. In fact, they probably can't because Tesla Autopilot gets better through the experience of the cars, and that kind of software data expertise is not in Apple's wheelhouse.

Recently I've tested all the auto-sensing, autopilot, and what not features of the latest generation of cars. I've gone on dozens of test drives and I think that something around as good as Honda Sensing will be sufficient for the next car cycle (5-7 years). If they can make iterative improvments that will be even better, but I don't think we are as close to the kind of car Apple would want to sell in the autonomy field. Well understood driving cities like NYC and SF are just not a big enough splash for Apple.

Why Apple will be very successful: Recently they've started to revamp and expand their retail Flagship stores all over the world have recently been remodeled, all to be much larger. I think this footprint of stores, larger than Teslas, will be huge in getting people to buy the cars, thereby circumventing the dealership model. Tesla was the pioneer here, and Apple will ride on their coattails. Apple has incredibly supply chain leverage and capability. In the last 5 years, the cost of batteries has gone down significantly. Yet all the hybrid cars utilizing batteries are still very expensive. The brand new Volvo XC90 is $20k more expensive for a 9kWh pack. With Apple's supply chain and margin control capabilities, they should be able to comfortably source Li-Ion batteries in the $200-$300 range per kWh. Apple also crushes every single other computer and phone manufacturer when it comes to their onboarding experience. This and their experience in UI/UX will be key. The knob-less experience in cars is total dogshit. No one does a good job of realizing that the user experience should not be a monolithic touchscreen for things that are NOT media related. Sure make all Media touchscreen enabled/driven. But not the AC/Heat, and in my mind the volume for the AV system at the lest. If apple can solve that, and make it easy to pair a phone with the infotainment system, then with their competitive pricing and superior experience they will destroy the competition. All the legacy manufacturers are still stuck in the wrong paradigm. Only Tesla is positioned to compete with Apple, it's a shame they didn't buy Tesla earlier and let Musk run both companies. Tim is great don't get me wrong, but with Musk at the helm they would have been totally unstoppable. Tim is a genius at what he does, but he's not the kind of visionary CEO that can launch the car like an Elon or Steve could.
But that's the thing - I don't want to program things precisely! Most people don't. I want to tell my computer what I want in plain English, and I want it to understand me, translate my wish into actions, and perform those actions. Just like a human servant would do. That's the future of programming (or so we should hope, at least).
CouchDB != Couchbase

https://github.com/apache?query=couchdb
Given the scenario in question, that only helps you at layer one of the surveillance process and only for a very brief time. You're now a suspect to be watched intricately.

At layer two, they begin digging into your life, tapping everything they can, following you, and most likely eventually getting a warrant or equivalent to enter your home and seize your property. There's no scenario under which you don't break some arbitrary law, given enough time, at which point you're done.
You can buy ethernet-thunderport adapter, it works. I don't need ethernet port and I'm happy that I don't have to "pay" for it (with money or size or weight).
Somewhat related, but in On Writing, Stephen King talks about the cliched link between great artists and substance abuse. Basically he says in his opinion it's bunk and a really damaging belief because it leads to substance abuse and not necessarily great art.
The Phonix Project
Good to hear, I stopped using quantopian because of lack of intraday details.
People may also be interested in the Framingham Heart Study[1] which among other things generated the following calculator:

http://cvdrisk.nhlbi.nih.gov/calculator.asp

[1]: http://www.framinghamheartstudy.org/
They said: “Everything points to continuous evolution in China from H. erectus to modern human.”

Unless you're saying that two identical homo sapiens groups evolved in parallel in Africa and Asia, they're saying homo sapiens came from Asia.
Random idea, but what if you could combine market data with news articles, and (obviously only for the past few years) data from blogs/reddit/hn/twitter/etc.? Sometimes there is fascinating insight to be learned in obscure places on the Internet (hn itself being a great example); I imagine a system that would collect and analyze that kind of information would be quite interesting, despite the huge amount of noise. Such a hypothetical system reminds me of this story: https://www.facebook.com/notes/robin-sloan/julie-rubicon/985...
The problem with self driving cars is they aren't. Too many asterisks and fine prints. You cannot jump across pit in two jumps. And that is exactly what they are trying to do now.

The car is self-driving until the moment it isn't. And being aware of your surroundings but not driving is extremely exhausting. And you have just a second or two to react.
Isn't that what they did with the smartphone market? The big difference is that the iPhone is a computer running OS X -- all things Apple has huge experience with. A car is something they have no experience with.
How about no. You're entering a field where professionals working full time struggle to beat the market, what's saying that you, a folder of 10-k's, and a copy of Ben Graham are going to beat them? You could probably spend a lifetime studying investing and still come up short, because you don't have the resources or mentoring that the pros have.
Red clover actually has a lot of protein. The folks who survived the Irish potato famine were the ones who never abandoned the traditional Celtic practice of eating clover in favor of potatoes.
Parmentier convinced a suspicious French public of the benefits of potatoes by surrounding them by armed guards.

http://www.factfiend.com/man-convinced-everyone-potatoes-val...
No, the problem is with you.
Your kind of arguments were also made about how Apple was going to disrupt the watch industry, the TV industry, and maybe a few more industries. Watches and TVs are closer to Apple's expertise than cars. Apple still hasn't been able to do anything meaningful in those industries.

I still think that, with cars, Apple will try to do what it did with the Apple TV. Just like they built something that works with existing TVs, they'll try to build something that works with existing cars (or a few car partners). I don't think they'll try to manufacture cars.
> Here are some counter-cases for you all: 1. 1920's era radiation craze. Water energizers, xray shoe fitting etc. 2. Communism 3. Airships

#2 depends very much on what you mean by "Communism". If you mean "Marx's prediction of what would naturally evolve to replace capitalism [0], and what flaws in capitalism would produce the discontents that would provoke that change", then so far it hasn't been particularly wrong, though the developed world has only, so far, progressed in that direction so far as a system which implements a limited form of socialism over a property-rights system which follows that of capitalism in broad outlines, with key exceptions with major effects.

If you mean the program that Marx and various others advocated as the best means to facilitate and realize that transition, making it immediately real (or at least, transitioning fully to its socialist phase) in his time, well, while people advocated for that, the program was never adopted in any of the states where it was advocated, so it can hardly be called a "technology" (to the extent that it was a kind of social technology) that failed, so much as one that no one ever bothered to give a trial to.

If, instead of either of those, you mean the radical rejection of many of the key principles (including both in preconditions and mechanisms) of Marx's Communism represented by Leninist vanguardism and its various derivatives (Stalinism, Maoism, etc.), yeah, that failed rather spectacularly.

[0] the "capitalism" for which the term was coined, the economic system of much of the developed world in the 19th Century, which is very different from the system which exists now that sometimes is called "capitalism".
The startup that own the MacMini: http://www.kidoteca.com

Screenshot of my desktop, with MacMini about screen, and smartctl -a /dev/disk0/

http://imgur.com/a/61brQ

You want my bank account screenshot too? I can tell you how much it has (positive 37.71 BRL, overdraft is disabled)

I honestly doesn't understand why people think I am coming up with lies, I didn't asked for anything, I just shared an anecdote, I am not begging, not trying to guilt-trip people, I was only sharing personal information, the fact that I made a mistake when I decided to follow my passion (programming), when people advised me to instead take a safer profession (construction worker for example) instead.
There was nothing about refrigeration in the article... :|

Classic click-bait.
Also, let's be clear about the type of philosophy I mean. I mean one that affords all people the same basic rights, the position that none of our differences are so large as to justify preferential treatment, the position that our similarities are self-evident and sufficient.
Agile to Waterfall: Demystifying Programming Methodologies
> using all the the "tesla autopilot" safety features

I can't tell if you are being facetious given the short-comings and risks of Tesla's autopilot (frequently discussed here).
Glib answer....

You'd get really mad at Anne Hathaway

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/does-a...

Longer answer, this has been done for 10+ years. Bloomberg will sell you a sentiment annotated news feed for 5 figures a month if you'd like to try.
Back in the 90s, I was doing telecommunications standards and one operator proposed storing all the performance information right on the optical switches. Given that a large amount of performance metrics were being generated every second, the vendors all had looks of horror on their face. Seeing that nobody else from a vendor was going to speak up, I calmly explained just what he was asking for. We could theoretically do it, but the cost would be massive. He promptly dropped the proposal.
Surely illegal activity by the DNC is in the public interest in the same way Snowden's were ?
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To be fair, $500 subsidized was way way way above market and Apple had to cut the price significantly. Without the pricecut, the iphone would have probably been more a premium product instead of the default phone in America. They would have still made a killing, but they would have opened the door for Android to mop up.
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And plenty of it rational. I am against having my nation's food security tied to a monopolist. I am against monocrops which single blight could eradicate with a single supplier of seeds.
My perpetual motion machine works great, except for this flaw in the laws of physics that is keeping it from working.
The supply chain is on the other end of the process from the dealerships.

Supply chain -> Assembly (manufacturing) -> sales (Dealership)
Unfortunately that's the only component shop in town. IIRC I couldn't even find one in SF to my amazement.

Kudos to Al Lasher's though, there's few places like that still around.
Depending on the handset model, you can open one up and physically remove (or disable) the mic, and use it with a wired headset that you plug in when you want to make or receive a call.

Admittedly it is a bit drastic, but low-tech and very effective.
Attend a local Maker Faire - There's such a broad amount of creative energy covering every interest, I'd think it sure to spark/fuel any passions. I'm a bit of an introvert myself, but I can't help but talk to folks there about what they're doing and what challenges/triumphs they've faced.
FireWorks: Python workflow management framework
Most of Apples revenue is outside the US now. But i suspect they will do, what Tesla is planning, a factory in each major market.
How Sponsored Content Is Becoming King in a Facebook World
> Terrorism is perceived as a problem, but it really isn't, in most parts of Europe

Perhaps that's because the security services are doing such a fantastic job. To make sure it's not a problem in all of Europe and make sure no more children die, they can't fight the war with hands behind their backs.

This is not what I believe, but it is how the argument gets phrased. How do you beat it? Not by extolling the virtues of end-to-end encryption and the importance of your civil liberties, that's for sure.
Windows 10 Update Notice Ruins Drive-Through Experience
>That such technological innovation also created wealth was poor consolation for the workers getting the short end of the stick

That falls flat when you consider that lower middle class people have access to much greater things than upper middle class people and rich people did 50 years ago.
The assumption is that a proper mitigation would result in the script console being in a separate execution context; such that variables that are (re-)declared in the script console would not affect the chat console's context, or its 'RemoveExtraSpaces' function, nor the global context. I should've been more clear.
> and that kind of software data expertise is not in Apple's wheelhouse

I suspect Apple knows just a little about data science given all of the data they collect:
https://www.quora.com/Whats-a-typical-day-like-for-a-data-sc...

Also they just took a major stake in Didi Chuxing which I assume meant they had access to a raft of GPS points to use for training machine/deep learning models.
For the past year I have been trying to learn more about trading, risk management, etc. There are so many stories about how the markets work and how to make money in them. You could spend your lifetime throwing money down a hole trying each one and probably do worse than random. I can't say enough good things about the perspective I have gained from just listening to good interviews of people that trade and manage funds for a living. Take a look at https://chatwithtraders.com/podcast/ and https://realvisiontv.com
Seed licensing is an agricultural practice that was adopted before GMO technology was available, and isn't unique to it either.

I'm all for a healthy skepticism of technology, but layman critics of GMOs routinely confuse standard industry practices (such as licensing and monocultures) with the GMO technology itself.
Depression and sadness are very different emotional states, especially when we are talking about clinical depression.
Some people are critical of Tweets, but this shows Eben Upton acknowledging a new version of the Raspberry Pi A+

The updated version looks to be the same but features 512MB of RAM instead of the original 256MB.
Yes, this is the history of estimates of Earth's age I was referring to.

Hutton, Huxley, and Lyell famously argued for longer periods, but didn't have a solid basis for their argument other tthan general geological principles. Holmes applied radiologicaal methds and got to the right ballpark, 1-3 billion years. By the mid-1950s, currently accepted estimates of 4.5 billion years were given, with high accuracy, based on meteoric samples as well as very old Earth rock from Western Australia. Note too that plate tectonics, also crucial for understanding fossil fuel formation, weren't accepted until that time.

Age estimates were further validated through Lunar and Martian (meteors found on Earth) rock samples.

My point is that early theory, law, and practices of petroleum and other fossil fuel extraction were made with a significantly incorrect understanding of the actual facts of their origin. I'm rather in the middle of trying to figure out how inaccurate those beliefs were, but the time period was distinctly off.
Vancouver has developed a lot of condos actually and has significantly less barriers to developing them than the SF bay area. It has gotten to a point where condo prices have stabilized relatively to SFH prices.

1 big problem with the condos: they don't make family sized ones. I've been trying to convince my parents & siblings to move into a cheaper condo due to housing prices in BC but there aren't many 4+ bedroom 1500sqft+ multifamily units available. There are far more SFH houses that match those conditions. In europe they have that kind of housing and it's frustrating to deal with that lack in BC.
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Millennials: They're Not Game-Changers After All, Study Finds
Is there a Windows API for IntelliSense?
I drive a Tesla daily, its basicly an iPhone on wheels.
So it seems.
Great work! I've always had to build this stuff in every app with hacky solutions and I always just had to guess if it is polyfill'ed or not. Your library allows for much cleaner code and easier application. Definitely gonna use this next time I come across a need to capture input events.
The post doesn't say "don't micromanage", it says that if you provide your 2 cents when shown something and ASKED SPECIFICALLY "What do you think?" (!) that if you answer what you think, it will damage your employee's sense of personal ownership over their work, which is utter bullshit.

You can give the author credit for all sorts of careful nuanced views while excusing all the lousiness in the actual words they wrote, but I'm not going to do that. If the author can't take the time to think more critically and carefully about how to express their advice, they shouldn't be publishing, even on their own little blog.
You are thinking of this in a vacuum and not as part of a political debate. When a politician mentions terrorism, there are coffins and mourning families to point to as victims. That is what I mean be "real" problem. It isn't about risk or pure numbers. It is about concrete effects that are easy to see and understand. What does the politician who is pro-encryption point to as a victim? If the answer is The Constitution or any other abstract ideal, you already lost the hearts and minds of the general population.