skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creativity does spawn from constrained environments, as any game developer can tell you. Most of the beauty in hacks or interesting ways of getting around things is the context of limited resources.

I think people who are consistently creative can frequently either find an environment that constrains them (a writer taking a retreat to the woods, for instance), or tackles problems with existing constraints.

If everything in your life is going well and there's not boredom, there's not a whole lot of purpose to creativity - you are however free to create constrained environments. Burning man for instance creates a lot of opportunity for creativity because its out in the desert, temporary, and must be packed up or burned afterwards. Same with living out in the country with few social connections. Its easy however to just get dragged down by depression or just the dreariness of boredom when living out in the country for me at least - there's a reason a lot of people turn to drugs in rural areas (in the US at least).
There's an inversion at ca.$1000/night where the connectivity becomes as good as the personal chef.
Today, corn is corn

That's because many see domesticated crops as a different thing than GMO crops... and of course, use the assumed bad behavior of one company, as a detriment to the science behind crop enhancement.
> We're almost certainly going to discover less palatable differences between races -- e.g. around intelligence.

So whenever that is, I'll be eager to discover which phenotypic traits represent themselves on the spectrum of intelligence. I also wonder what concentration of melanin correlates with laziness and also about the particular hair texture and eye shape that can indicate poor driving skills. We can also demystify the relationship between nose size and financial proficiency (after factoring out penis size, of course).
A more accurate conclusion would be that London's bad hotels are a popular option.

During my tour around Europe, I quickly realized that all the hotels in the City of London (other than extremely expensive ones) are very cheap but also awful.
So is Hillary a less unique threat to democracy?

Or, has anyone mapped out how each of our previous presidents have harmed democracy? That could be _very_ educational.
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received—hatred. The great creators—the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors—stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won." -Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
I think DTCC has some freely available live CDS data but I forget where and don't know how the APIs are.
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Event Bus often get abused, I made this framework for Android so that the framework can scale as you have more and more features and developers working on it: https://github.com/edisonw/PennStation
Just make the entity that plants the IP responsible for replacing any seed it contaminates.

That doesn't protect against global seed contamination, but we aren't teetering on that precipice.
You can imagine my dismay at reading that book after I started this company, lol. ;) Good thing it's all about execution.
Human brains are also very inefficient at computation (per unit energy, time, mass, volume, or some combination of the four), unless it's a problem they were tuned for over a really long evolutionary time (e.g. facial recognition, bipedal locomotion, etc).

Sure, if you find a problem that a NN algorithm is really good at, then mapping the hardware to the NN algorithm will get an efficiency speedup, but that's because of the application-specific hardware, not because the vNA is a bad general computation model in terms of what we can physically instantiate.
That's how Lua works. It would be prudent, but difficult to change.
In the UK, farmers are not required to give antibiotics to reduce salmonella. However, most buyers require "Lion Mark" certified eggs, which requires vaccination (not antibiotics!) against salmonella. Because of this program British eggs are widely considered the safest in the world. I will happily eat Lion Mark eggs raw.

I'm surprised that free market enthusiasts rarely talk about the Lion Mark, because it's great example of entirely private business (except for the government trademark enforcement) improving standards for consumers.

See: https://www.egginfo.co.uk/british-lion-eggs/about/british-li...
Cool quote and article. To be honest, not summing a serie on the fly, I found the problem ridiculously simple.

I'm very curious about his love for algebra.

ps: Fr/De https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9pL_3tTW2c
Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTS9O0CoVng
> I actually like Hillary – a lot – and I think she has been given a bad rap she doesn’t deserve.

I think Michael Moore missed everything Comey had to say as well as the new DNC emails that were leaked, or he's ignoring all this.
>The difference between teosinte and maize is about 5 genes. We've been genetically modifying corn for nearly 10,000 years, but we've just done so really inefficiently.

Given that the food industry has a long history of using whatever crap they can find if they can get away with it, and producing all kinds of addictive or harmful monstrosities if they can help them make a bigger buck (not very unlike the tobacco industry making their cigarettes more addictive with all kinds of crap), yeah, I'm suspicious. Very suspicious.

If it weren't for laws and regulations, they'd be adding lead in children's milk if it was cheaper to produce.
#1,2,3,4 are all pretty straightforward to build. I've done that more than a few times. There's a bunch of parameters that tend to increase complexity(how many ordered streams do you need, additional data associated with an endpoint, etc) that makes me think a one-size fits-all would be hard to do.

#5 should really be done at the framing layer, otherwise your frame delimiters can also be corrupted. It's also very tied to physical layer and probably better off not being configured in platform agnostic software.

No opinion on #6, I've not deal with it much AFAIK.
It's not in the slightest irrational.

Until you test it, you don't actually know it's safe, you just assume it is.

If years from now everyone eats, that just means they've done enough involuntary human testing that people feel it's safe.

It's the "involuntary" part of the testing that is bothering people right now. You might say "it's safe", but he might reply "you don't know that".
It was just with some colleagues.
There are a lot of speaker designs. To begin with: how much power do you have available? If you need to depend on the power from the phone line, you need a very efficient speaker -- a horn design, most likely. If you have an external power source, you get a better amplifier, and you can use a less efficient dynamic speaker. What do you put it in? You can leave it unsealed; you can port it carefully; you can seal it in a box -- but what size box?

Turns out that the characteristics of the speaker and the size of the box together determine the performance of the speaker.
What's your point? Valve put out multiple AAA games in the same timeframe too, and did a lot of other stuff besides. Sure, GTA5 is a big-ass game, but Valve's games - games plural - haven't exactly been small projects either.
Translating music into visual art
This statement is too general. You could of said the same thing about chess, there are chess Grandmasters who devote their lives to studying the game yet computers play chess at a much higher level than any human.
None of the "blank" games are Valve's IPs but acquisitions which kind of stopped in development or releases after Valve acquisition. Half-Life was their last original IP and even that ended in a complete cliff hanger with Episode 3 or sequel nowhere to be found.

It seems that Valve has serious problems actually pushing their games to completion since they started printing money with Steam and pressure to actually release went away.
Stick a neodymium magnet next to it, joking please don't do that
Thanks for your feedback! It comes out to around $8-$10/month depending on what plan you choose. I hesitate to say this because I don't want to come across as too sales-y, but a customer told us last week that it's "the best money they've spent all year." There's a free trial today if you want to try it.
End-to-end encrypted connections to ur computer from any web browser,any network
Hey are you the Pierre Joye of libgd?? Thank you for all the hard work.
The lock on my door is basically a legal seal: the door itself is often so flimsy, you could probably kick it in, but because there is a lock, you can't then claim you entered by accident or that you assumed it was ok to enter. This is why effectiveness is relatively secondary.

This sort of surveillance, on the other hand, is supposed to be all about effectiveness... But it ain't.
The question is, do we really have that much more actionable data about recently (geologically/evolutionarily speaking) domesticated plant and animal food sources than we do about even more recently introduced GMO food sources?

It's not like most food staples are really more "natural" or "wild" than GMO food courses.
I know of someone (not a developer, in the ad business) who had a 4x offer, but in his case, he won a very prestigious award.

I guess that perceived scarcity plays a huge role in this. I wish I knew how to manufacture such. (this is of course, in addition to competence, which I take as a given).
You definitely have more discipline than I have, I could never consider writing as something as consistent as brushing my teeth! Most of the time I'm just stuck, or feel bored with myself. Did I mention that I don't like journals! I think that I will regret it though, just as I sometimes now wish that I've been less photophobic when I was a teen.
Whether the cars are individually owned or shared, somebody's going to have to build them. Apple could easily sell into a shared pool too, if that's how things are by then. (Although I think you're 3-5x too optimistic for how long it'll take to get there.)
As pointed out in What Musical Notes Can Look Like [1], Music is sound, there can be multiple ways to represent it visually. The link above is such an example.

From the About section:
This artwork is created by a mathematical algorithm that converts an entire piece of music from its natural domain of time and frequency into a domain of space and color, relying on Fourier transforms, graph theory, sparse matrix methods, and force-directed graph visualization, to create visual music.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159224
My best pitch was one slide, three KPIs

1. Cost of Customer Acquisition
2. Lifetime Value
3. Growth Projection

Two facts, one guess. Had existing customers/revenue which made facts easy to get. Projection was a slight acceleration of previous 12mo growth.

Didn't close any paper (and wasn't looking) just needed a good impression to this investor group and continued engagement - worked a treat!
No kidding, my dad actually says "your generations are too lazy"...
There is already some process available to measure this as Canada has tax deductions available specific to your "primary residence". CRA definitely has a way of auditing this. Sharing that information with a provincial level organization may not be possible, though.
>Governments will always wage war on law abiding citizens, taking away freedoms in exchange for securities until the citizens are secure but no longer free.

And even then, such a notion of "security" might seem dubious to those who are conscious of having lost said freedoms.
On-Demand Debugging of Go Applications
That's never happened in 12 years, but if it did, one of two things:

(1) I'd notice that I got fewer payment receipts than I expected that day, and go fix it by updating their paid_through date in the database. You'd be able to log in to your payment processing account to see whether the charge went through or not, so there's nothing unrecoverable about this situation.

(2) That customer would notice first, send an e-mail, and I'd have to apologize before fixing it.

Not a very concerning situation.

I'd be much more concerned about, say, vendor lock-in with an external billing provider that could terminate service or change terms on a moment's notice. Like all the "PayPal/Stripe froze our account" horror stories, or when Recurly dramatically increased their prices without grandfathering anyone in early in their history. No such concerns when you own the billing code, and don't store your customer info only with your current payment processor.
There are hundreds of what-ifs that influence which will be a better choice, IMO it's not clear cut that one technology is better enough for all situations that it'll crowd the other one out of the marketplace entirely.
Different vegetables respond differently to refrigeration. Few people refrigerate tomatoes or avocados. Almost everyone refrigerates lettuce.
organize operational risk before you enter your next phase of growth using a system like http://www.predictiveops.com
> If your argument against increased surveillance is based on its ineffectiveness, then there has to be a level of effectiveness where you would agree that that it's acceptable.

Not necessarily. Someone could be try to persuade by offering an argument that he thinks will be appeal to some, but does not represent his full thinking on the subject (e.g. he could also have moral reasons for opposing increased surveillance).
Nice overview. I thought it was a bit odd that they pulled out a stieltjes integral so early on to define the mean and variance (I = Integral x dF(x)). I wouldn't expect most people reading this sort of introductory material to be familiar with it.

Did it trip anyone up?
> Hilarious as it was, I had to cut it because it was immoral.

But you were really doing science!

Take inspiration from Dr Herbert West.

http://www.ourfaircity.com/2012/02/really-doing-science/
And even if they were places of disrepute, there were a lot of them, and people went to them.
Use AI to find ideas for final year projects
Is there a good general solution to making government leaders accurately account for the ephemerality (or danger) of a specific revenue source? Constitutional provisions? Equity stakes for decision makers? Better voters?
Trespassing is a different crime. It's a bother to have a stranger enter your property uninvited. It's a huge invasion to have a stranger enter your house uninvited. The former may be trespassing. The latter is likely breaking and entering (or burglary or some similar law).

You could try to change the names, but it honestly doesn't matter. Many people also don't know the difference between assault and battery. No one really thinks it's okay to threaten others with physical violence even if no blows are dealt, though. Similarly, no one really thinks it's acceptable to enter someone's home without permission even without literally "breaking in". The laws around these are generally reasonable even if the legal names aren't exactly what people expect.
> We've been genetically modifying corn for nearly 10,000 years, but we've just done so really inefficiently.

We've also been doing it massively distributed which means it can adapt and change independent of a single/couple organizations. Yes, it's inefficient but that's also somewhat of a feature in that we don't have a single point of failure.
She was the #20 employee at google. If she had held on to her options they are probably worth close to 100mil.
Obtaining Arbitrary Wildcard SSL Certs from Comodo via Dangling Markup Injection
I'll go ahead an invoke Betteridge's Law here - no, or at least not known at the moment.
Irrational? California is adding glyphosate to its list of known carcinogens.
> Are they going to outsource it to Foxconn like they do with the iPhone, and ship them across the Pacific? Doesn't seem feasible.

I have no idea, but they seem to be pretty good at outsourcing manufacturing where it makes sense to do so. I don't see that as a significant blocker to an Apple automobile.
I like how you're thinking.

> [Suppose] we are enslaved by the
> existence of personal property ...

Okay. All personal property, or would could this be narrowed down to real estate?

> [Maybe we are enslaved] by the
> existence of society, in general.

I hope not. I hope to isolate the problem down to something more specific, and file a bug report.

This topic is a hobby of mine.
> Even if it's not a problem today (in your opinion), then either that trend has to be reversed or it will become a problem at some point.

Just because some number has increased, that doesn't say anything about whether it will increase further, and if so, at which rate. So: How do you know there is a trend in the first place?
Here's a link: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why...

Antibiotics seem to be a part of it, but not the most important factor. The egg naturally has a thin film around it which protects it from contamination by microbes. In the US, the eggs are washed, which removes this film, rendering the egg susceptible to contamination. The eggs then have to be refrigerated to slow bacterial growth. In the rest of the world, the eggs are left unwashed, so the film prevents the egg from being contaminated and no refrigeration is required.
"with no prior training"

is a false statement, the prior training is life and learning to read and having human experiences. For example if all reviews were in english and the human only spoke Mandarin they would need "prior training" before being able to preform the task.
I'm curious what folk's thoughts are on these two platforms:

Interactive brokers offers low fee access to their platform
(https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=13869)

Quantopian (www.quantopian.com) gives you the ability to trade through robinhood with long trades at 0 commission. There has been some skepticism in the Q forums on how well robinhood's execution is (possibly the effect of a "you get what you pay for"-attitude).

Trading real capital with algorithms is more difficult than it sounds. Mentally if you're algorithm is doing stock selection as well as trade execution, you no longer understand what you own. During a period of extended drawdown, you have to be mentally tough enough to believe that your algorithm has what it takes to dig itself out.

In a sense, it is like the start-up game. You have to believe you're doing something well enough that in the end you'll be right (and not bankrupt).
> By 2021, (hopefully) the primary mode of individual transportation in developed cities will be using your phone/watch/R2D2 to call a self-driving electric car to your location.

In 5 years? Unlikely.

> What might Apple's advantage be in that world?

If the world changed that fast, then instead of trying to sell cars, Apple would just create their own car service, and integrate it with iOS/Apple Maps/Siri/etc., and everyone in the Apple ecosystem would seamlessly also be on Apple personal transportation platform. (At least, in the places that service had rolled out, which would probably be chosen in order by the density and likely transport profitability of the existing Apple ecosystem population.)
Sure. But you are legally obligated to keep off the property even if there's a sign in the yard that says "welcome to our home".
> At any company (Microsoft included) where performance-based
> compensation exists, there is a budget for that line item.

I'd like to point out that it's possible to pay bonuses out of profits, rather than a fixed, yearly pre-allocated pool. If employees are only paid a bonus when they add to company profits, there is no competition for bonus funds between employees. So for example, if you have a great idea that saves the company 30% on something, you get half of that saving/profit, or something similar.
Gee, I wonder why people are rude to you?

It is my experience that the people are cold and indifferent, but once they warm up to you, you have a fantastic relationship with them that is above superficial and stands the test of time.
The post-Bezos Post's stories are terrible, but their headlines are worse. There is absolutely no support given in this article for the premise that "humans" in general opposed coffee and refrigeration; so unless they were going for the weakest form of that ambiguous sentence ("at least two humans once opposed coffee and refrigeration"), using this premise as a springboard to diagnose all people against GM foods, AI, and the "gig economy" as falling into a historically predictable cognitive bias is just pop science garbage.

How about this as a headline: Some humans welcomed coffee and refrigeration, some didn't, and during their respective introductions to any particular culture, most people were unaware of the existence of either product or didn't feel like they knew enough about either of them to have an opinion: why all humans don't unanimously agree on everything immediately, or ever.
NEVER trust user input" is an important security
mantra to learn all on its own, like "wipe your
butt/wash your hands" is in another context.

Even the contexts are not so different. DNA is an information carrier, life is an information system, hygine and the immune system are information security mechanisms.

Though I am not sure who the user is in this analogy.
Hello + thank you! It’s something we’re working on tackling programmatically, but right now this is really where our nutrition coaching comes into play. You'll get an email from yours in a few days, and they'll make suggestions for ingredients you’d like to substitute, or can find the best plan that can meet everyone’s needs. Personally, I’d recommend going more restrictive (like our gluten-free, vegetarian plan) and supplementing it if necessary with non-GF pasta and simple meat/poultry/fish in place of veg protein - often everyone finds something to like even with the restrictions, and you don’t have to be a short-order cook :)
I wish so much that you guys were located in NY so I could develop software for you guys :(. This is so similar to what my idea has been for 3 years now! I wish you guys the best of luck! No better way to help busy people than through educating them on the importance of what they eat every day and making it easy/affordable to do so.
In hindsight, opposition to innovations such as mechanical farm equipment or recorded music may seem ludicrous.

How about if the article talked about the problems with the people who rapidly embraced once "nifty and new" ideas like taking x-rays of feet at shoe stores, using Fen-Phen for weight loss, getting on airplanes in the early days of flying, etc.?

What the article ignores completely is the notion of idea survival bias. The article goes through pains to cast reluctance to adopt new ideas as being a defective mode of thinking by not talking about the risk model for the adoption of new ideas.