skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are in a survival situation and need to know if something is edible, use the Universal Edibility Test: http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/MILITARY/united_states_army...

(Do not repeat do not eat unknown fungi even using this test)

1 Test only one part of a potential food plant at a time.

2 Separate the plant into its basic components -leaves, stems, roots, buds, and
flowers.

3 Smell the food for strong or acid odors. Remember, smell alone does not indicate
a plant is edible or inedible.

4 Do not eat for 8 hours before starting the test.

S During the 8 hours you abstain from eating, test for contact poisoning by
placing a piece of the plant part you are testing on the inside of your elbow or
wrist. Usually 15 minutes is enough time to allow for a reaction.

6 During the test period, take nothing by mouth except purified water and the
plant part you are testing.

7 Select a small portion of a single part and prepare it the way you plan to eat it.
a Before placing the prepared plant part in your mouth, touch a small portion
(a pinch) to the outer surface of your lip to test for buming or itching.

9 If after 3 minutes there is no reaction on your lip, place the plant part on your
tongue, holding it there for 15 minutes.

10 If there is no reaction, thoroughly chew a pinch and hold it in your mouth for
15 minutes. Do not swallow.

11 If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging, or other irritation occurs during the
15 minutes. swallow the food.

12 Wait 8 hours. If any ill effects occur during this period. induce vomiting and
drink a lot of water.

13 If no ill effects occur, eat 0.25 cup of the same plant part prepared the same
way. Wait another 8 hours. If no ill effects occur, the plant part as prepared is
safe for eating.

WARNING

Do not eat mushrooms in a survival situation! The only way to tell if a
mushroom is edible is by positive identification. There is no room for
experimentation. Symptoms of the most dangerous mushrooms affecting
the central nervous system may show up after several days
have passed when it is too late to reverse their effects.
Are you seriously trying to argue that Bitcoin is not a representation of value, or are you merely suggesting that there might be more ambiguous cases?
Well, I started off by saying "no, food expenditures are not a sunk cost, they are directly related to the amount of work you do". The idea here is that doing x extra work leads to eating x' extra food, where x' is some constant multiple of x (and "food" is measured in energy).

Your response, as far as I can see, says that because Americans already run a caloric surplus, x extra work should only lead to x' - k extra food intake, where the missing k energy is made up by the existing caloric surplus. I responded then and respond again now that this perspective makes no sense; the extra work is an ongoing expenditure and must be exactly balanced by an ongoing intake. For the supposed caloric surplus to be offset against the extra work of extra walking, the person would need to be experiencing constant weight gain beforehand. Nobody[1] is.

You may think that Americans weigh too much, but that's irrelevant; a change in weight is a nearly-pure one-time effect with no influence on dietary requirements. They are eating exactly the amount they already use for the activities they already do.

Am I missing something about your point?

[1] Actually, people with Prader-Willi syndrome will eat if it is possible to eat, no matter how full they are. They will experience constant weight gain if not subject to external control. But they have a serious genetic defect.
DHH: Let’s drop the unrealistic expectation of total transparency in open source
This isn't banks acting like cartels, it's banks defining industry standards.
OT: If/As Facebook Notes adoption because more of a place where people post (or hell, even just wall posts), would it be possible to make facebook.com one of the domains in which subdomains e.g. someguy.github.io for github.io, research.facebook.com for facebook.com...though looking at the Algolia search results, it looks like the majority of facebook.com posts are user content: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook.com&sort=byPopularity...
Airbnb could prominently feature an "unverified" notice on the site if they wanted to. They don't because, for every case like this, there are probably hundreds of unverified renters who work out just fine.

While featuring an unverified notice (and doing other background check stuff) would make the interaction between owner and renter safer, it would probably eliminate a non-trivial percentage of those "unverified but it worked" cases. And that means less profit/growth for Airbnb.
Best wishes! It would be very neat to see how this proceeds!
Yes and no. A regular renter is better UNLESS the owner wants to use the property when desired, or as in the present story, or the property will be vacant for a short amount if time.
I understand. That was the time of the star gate chasm, with those secrets de-classified, the location of the translerion will be revealed, and the wrong candidate will be elected president.
> a public address apparently in a country restricted

I think apparently is the key word here. For example if you're running a company in restricted country X and it's known/advertised that this address is associated with your company, it would match.
Andrew Chen (Growth  UBER) Announced to Speak at StartCon 2016
I wish caching patterns are something IDEs would predict :D
Apple does not provide developers with access to the NFC hardware and they also do not provide direct access to Bluetooth either. Using these is limited to being able to make use of IOS services which make use of these hardware capabilities such as Apple Pay, Bluetooth audio outputs, etc...
How many Ethiopian restaurants, improv theaters, and dueling piano bars did you pass? A lot of niche interests can't sustain themselves at all with only a small fraction of a small population.
Which is why you can't beat it. You need to offer something in better to win, you can't just offer the same service.
Au contraire; it's a rule of thumb distilling 20+ years of industry experiences and observations into a simple bit of advice. If I'd followed this advice throughout my career, I'd be happier and considerably wealthier today. Chasing the big stock payout has always been the wrong choice for me.

You do whatever you like. If this stuff is interesting, go learn about it! There's nothing wrong with that. But all I've discovered, the more I've learned about the world of VC and options and equity compensation, is that it's a rich man's game and I've been wasting my time trying to play.
Did I miss something? As far as I can tell, the renter was a sex worker, who happened to forget to shut off the faucet.

This whole "nightmare" just seems to me like the homeowner is judging this girls' lifestyle, doesn't agree with it, and thinks that means that somehow "Vera" is some kind of criminal. It's actually kinda gross how slut shamey this whole thing comes across.

"that I have no idea who they are, and what they are capable of." - does getting paid to use dildo's on a camera suddenly thrust you into a realm of criminality and questionable character? HOLY SHIT, she wears high heels in a city with big hills!!! dont you know that you girls wearing high heels in SF will Stab you when your back is turned?

Ew. I got no sympathy for this lady.
That final paragraph is great

Some theorists agree. Talk of disappointment is “crazy talk,” Arkani-Hamed said. “It’s actually nature! We’re learning the answer! These 6,000 people are busting their butts and you’re pouting like a little kid because you didn’t get the lollipop you wanted?”
If you want to buy a block of BTC above market price, there are several brokers who would be happy to help you at any time; you don't need to wait for a government auction to do that.
I can swear someone got a copy in 1945, changed the cover to disguise it using some title like "Modern management", and since then it has been used as inspiration tho many management books and guides.

It's incredible how those "tips" from the end of the article resemble some public/private companies that I've worked on.
This was pretty neat and works on my Nexus 6:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dtSWS
Does money have Miranda rights? If money cannot afford an attorney can it get a public defender?
Learning the statistics of language is not going to tell the ML model anything about the underlying stuff to which the language actually refers. It will need actual "sense-data" to do that. For instance, to get a model that generates image captions, you need to train it with actual images.

If the much-vaunted "general intelligence" consists in both vague and precise causal reasoning and optimal control with respect to objects in the real world, then no, it obviously cannot be done with mere language. At least one sensor and one effector will be needed to train an ML/AI model to perform those tasks.
<DISCLAIMER> I have never written a templating engine. Anything posted here by someone who has probably takes precedence over what I say here. </DISCLAIMER>

A thing can only be fast relative to another thing. If ego were the only templating solution available to software developers it would be meaningless to describe it as "fast".
I have never used ego and do not know how much faster it is than the alternatives (if at all).

However, ego templates are compiled to go source which ends up as machine code in your program that just writes out the strings. I believe most alternative templating libraries parse your template into a data structure at run time and then need to walk that data structure every time you want to render the template in a new context.

So, consider a template like
"<div> <h1> {{title}} </h1> <p> {{description}} </p> </div>"

Using the ego strategy the code that has to execute to render it amounts more or less to a linear series of 5 calls to a method that appends strings into a buffer.

Using an interpreted-template strategy, i don't know exactly what that machine code is going to look like but it necessarily involves a lot of consulting the parsed template to see what the next step is, and maybe even a lot of lookups of strings in hash tables.

Aside: In the Java world, the fastest template rendering engines probably compile a template into JVM bytecode which can then be loaded and executed in the current process, yielding what could reasonably be considered the best of both worlds.
I enjoy taking care of my lawn. It is a chance to "turn off" and just do physical labor.
> Can you set range headers from javascript?

Yes, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15561508/xmlhttprequest-2...

> Can you set them from random video player SDKs?

Good point, probably not.
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What does the experiment prove? Of course dictionaries are circular. But that doesn't mean they don't contain huge amounts of information about the world, and about language. Information an AI could infer without any interaction with the outside world at all.
Yeah, why not just sell on a market like any regular person would do.
Yes you missed something.

1. The renter lied to her. (What she lied about doesn't matter, the fact she did does.)

2. Airbnb did not verify their identity AND made no effort to draw any attention whatsoever to this fact.

3. Combine 1. and 2. and it is quite likely that the renter also lied about her identity, which would make getting redress for the damage done tricky.
This brings up another question...

Couldn't you just put them in the global namespace in the package? I also don't see the need for init since this is just parsing / compiling a template one time. Maybe I'm just not a sane dev? I just put all my template and regex "must" statements as global vars in my package close to where they're used.
dysonspheres are cool, real cool, but how does the dyson sphere wikipedia page get to the front page of hacker news?
If she doesn't like that she shouldn't be in the hotel business. It comes with the territory.
This is true of NFC but Bluetooth capabilities are much more open. I've personally used Core Bluetooth to connect and communicate with arbitrary devices and communicate over custom protocols.
further reading 'The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
Unless you know what the banks specifically want changed in the deal, you can't substantiate that assertion. Apple has undoubtedly put a lot of time and money into validating and auditing the security around Apple Pay. It's a solution that doesn't need to be modified for the Australian market: one major Aussie bank has fully adopted Apple Pay already.

There's no way Apple are going to allow that effort to be trashed by a few banks in a small overseas market. (It's also highly probable that the banks want to be able to implement processes that bypass the consumer friendly aspects of Apple Pay, like its strong privacy controls.)
Thousands of Toronto Landlords Have Been Using AI to Screen Tenants
Awesome! The one thing that turns me off a little is `ModTime`. I generally avoid incorporating modification times into my build (generally I force them to 1970), but a hash for the ETag would be very welcome.
a bunch of people thinking "hey, dysonspheres are really cool" -> * upvote *?
The Sinking of FV Antares
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The last five hotels i visited (in two different countries) required me to provide my government id card.
Yup. If you don't want people camming don't rent your place. The only actual damage is accidental tub overflow and that is part of the hotel business.

If you want people to be as careful with your house as you are only let friends stay. Once you take money it's just a transaction.
Someone left the bath running... that's what the overflow drain is for http://www.freediyhomeimprovement.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

The rest is bad on Airbnb though.
AHAHA SUCK MY BALLS LOSERS
Inbox.com announces it will end its free email service
Nah, it's mostly just hierarchical probability models.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24977647
Huh. I don't get it. A star powering a 219-bit counter? What?
If you're renting out a room on Airbnb people are going to have sex in it. Or do sex-related things. If that's a problem for you then Airbnb (or any similar service) is probably not for you.

The whole suspected/fabricated sexual tangent in this post was irrelevant.
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Samsung phones have a secure element, which means your NFC transactions happen a bit outside of the normal app's control. There's some extra information here: http://www.sequent.com/secure-elements-vs-cloud-based-hce-se...

It's true that they provide security, but then again, other banks are happy to use other techniques (commbank's app does nfc payments on pretty much anything with NFC - nexus 5 included)
isnt a dyson ring good enough?
It also completely goes completely opposite from my own experience, which is that on average the Japanese people I know are more literate in their language than the French people I know are literate in theirs (including myself). That sure is anecdata, but it's about as much anecdata as the OP.

Edit: I should mention that I live in a "relatively" small city in Japan (180k inhabitants), that many qualify as "inaka" (countryside), although I wouldn't. So the population of Japanese people I know is not necessarily biased towards highly educated people.
There is nothing magical about "sense data". A video is just a bunch of 1's and 0's, just like text data. A model of video data is not superior in any way to one of text data, they are just different.

The internet is so large and so comprehensive (especially if you include digitized books and papers, e.g. libgen or google books) that I doubt any important information that can be learned through video data, can't be obtained through text data.
Didn't this bath have an overflow?
It really isn't the same.

A May 2015 survey by RF Intelligence Group, called ‘Global Payments Evaluation Study’, based on 32,000 respondents in 16 countries found that 66 per cent of Australians are aware that they own a contactless payment card and 53 per cent have made a contactless transaction. By contrast, just 14 per cent of Americans own a contactless card and only 9 per cent have used one for a payment.

http://www.bpaybanter.com.au/news-views/why-do-australians-l...
There are other more plausible options for these civilizations then building absolutely gigantic structures around suns.

1. Build devices/objects (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bQ7RaOMHb5I/maxresdefault.jpg) that are able to get close to the stars, that would then absorb the emitted energy from the various coronal ejections, magnetic fluxes, etc.

2. There is more energy in the fabric of empty space-time than anywhere else. An advanced civilization would likely be able to harvest this ZPE (zero point energy or field) using rather small devices.
How tired are you after a days of works. Many of us are mentally drained, which we feel as physically drained after work.

Not only that, but physical activity plus our mental strain screws with our cortisol levels.

Personally, I used to work out a lot. Then I realized I was getting crabby all the time. I think I have cortisol problems, but not sure.

Anybody refer me to research with stress and and physical workouts and not getting enough sleep?
I use word2vec a lot, and things like it, and I've always found it overstated to say that it "learns the relationships between things".

You say, as many people do, that the operation "king - man + woman = queen" indicates that it understands that the relation between "king" and "queen" is the relation between "man" and "woman". But there is something much simpler going on.

What you're asking it for, in particular, is to find the vector represented by "king - man + woman", and find the vector Q with the highest dot product with to this synthetic vector, out of a restricted vocabulary.

The dot product is distributive, so distribute it: you want to find the maximum value of (king * Q) - (man * Q) + (woman * Q).

So you want to find a vector that is like "king" and "woman", and not like "man", and is part of the extremely limited vocabulary that you use for the traditional word2vec analogy evaluation, but not one of the three words you used in the question. (All of these constraints are relevant.) Big surprise, the word that fits the bill is "queen".

(I am not the first to do this analysis, but I've heard it from enough people that I don't know who to credit.)

It's cool that you can use sums of similarities between words to get the right answer to some selected analogy problems. Really, it is. It's a great thing to show to people who wouldn't otherwise understand why we care so much about similarities between words.

But this is not the same thing as "solving analogies" or "understanding relationships". It's a trick where you make a system so good at recognizing similarities that it doesn't have to solve analogies or understand relationships to solve the very easy analogy questions we give it.
So, the smartest thing that can come out of this is a published open standard to allow access and innovation.

You know kind of like how we got SMTP, HTTP, etc.
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Census Attack Not Denial of Service?
The sales pitch for Apple pay is exactly that, you don't have to carry your cards since you will be carrying your phone anyway. If you are used to tapping your cards, then it will be easier to tap your phone as well.
Just bought it on Audible, and apparently it's 37 hours long...
Well you got me on the piano bars but as far as Ethiopian food goes there are dozens in my relatively walkable city and I just spot-checked the first car-choked blasted expanse that came to mind (Phoenix) and there are only five in a much larger metro area.

If I was an Ethiopian restaurant owner would I prefer a restaurant in a dense neighborhood with five families living in apartments right on top of me, or would I prefer to be in a strip mall at the corner of an American suburb with nobody in walking distance and only a few hundred families within a mile? I know which one I'd want.
John Oliver had a great segment on Civil Forfeiture a couple years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Their CEO was on a panel a few months ago, he talked about their Natural Language Processing system. It was pretty far along in March. Could be an UBER play, def a weird industry...
For an evolution of the Dyson sphere in fiction, read (Free online) Charles Stross's Accelerando, a novel of 9 connected Singularity-oriented stories. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

For those who don't know him, he used to be a professional programmer, and he's a very smart writer, lives and his blog is here. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/
Really? I had a discussion with an American about this a while ago and they seemed stunned at how easy and efficient tap'n'go sounded compared to what they had available. I mean, we're fairly behind in most things here, but if you tried to pay for groceries with a cheque, in 99.9% of places you would be (rightly) laughed out of the store.
The argument is that if even just counting through all values of a perfectly energy-efficient 192-bit counter requires the power of an entire star for many years, it's obvious that you'll never have to worry about someone brute-forcing through all keys of something encrypted with 192 bit strength (or better). And even tapping a supernova only gets you 219 bits.
> just checking to be sure, your example is essentially original.filter(...).map(...).sort()

Yes, a method chaining format (such as Ruby and JS, and which can be enabled with a module in Perl) does approximate the control flow I'm referring to, The only different to the feed operator in Perl 6 is that the feed works on a per-item basis, allowing the list to be lazily generated, which also means it's a closer approximation to how you would code it in a for loop, as statements are done in succession on each item.

E.g.

my @source = 1..Inf;
my @elevensies = ( @source ==> map { $_*11 } );
my @odd-elevensies = ( @elevensies ==> grep *%2 );
my @root-of-odd-elevensies = ( @odd-elevensies ==> map *.sqrt );

Although in this case the left feed operator may be clearer.

> which in python would be `sorted([... for x in original if ...], ...)`.

> I'll agree that sometimes the functional/chainable approach is nicer, but often it also isn't necessary

Well, the example I gave was simplistic and to show direction. A more complex example would require a comprehension of a comprehension, which is where I start to have real issues with the format, and which is not represented from that example, which wasn't meant to illustrate that particular problem.
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