skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually (taken from erf/error based on sample size), something grows proportional to the square root of the sample size. If using raw sample sizes, you can apply a square root to that sample size before using it (meters its impact).

Also, perhaps you could do something like establish an overall average and standard deviation "percentage interested" in each topic, then compare the percentage in a given location with the expected. The farther the percentage from the expected (in either direction), the more that location gets pulled up or down. For example, maybe every location is equally good if you're interested in "breathing air", but then maybe one has a slightly higher concentration, making it more relevant.

Also, as you are combining several interests, you are trying to maximize coverage and uniqueness (maximum number of interests present in the maximum amount, with stronger interests given more weight (though you don't ask anyone to rank interests), such that locations having them getting a boost). That is, one location shouldn't dominate the rankings due to a much higher likelihood of having one interest, while having the other interests being "averagely represented" or worse.

That is, maybe the proper way to combine the standard deviations for each place is through multiplication (take the absolute value, then "multiply in" if standard deviation is positive or "divide in" if standard deviation is negative). This will ensure that below average "satisfaction of interests" divide/lower the ranking score and that positive "SOIs" multiply/increase it.

Also, it's good to pull the ranking score from a mean/center/expectation with each "interest score", rather than just blindly averaging/kludging them in. The standard deviation approach achieves this, but I'm mentioning it explicitly such that you can consider it in the event something other than standard deviations are used.

There could also be something done to boost a city with meetups for a rare interest (the smaller the overall percentage, the more weight a location gets). For example, if 2% overall are interested in Cricket and 20% in design, then a city with an overall percentage of 3% cricket should be boosted more than a city with an overall percentage of 30% design, even though the proportion "above the norm" is the same, as Cricket is "hard to find" or a rarity.

Also, if you could factor in the area of a city, then that could enhance the scores further (5k out of 5 million people in New York means something entirely different than 5k out of 5 million in a sprawling suburbia, as population density makes it more likely the 5K in New York will be accessible).

See what I'm getting at?
I disable all JS in the browser and selectively re-enable. Just read the transcript. It was faster than listening.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alisoncoleman/2016/08/30/why-thi...
The reality constructed in our brains is not substantially different from actual reality. Our mental model of reality is just much lower fidelity. At no point has physics demonstrated "wow, humans are totally wrong about the world".

>Different sensors would have a different result

All of our experience with robotics suggests otherwise.
You can find extensive discussion on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12370100
Huawei Plots to Seize Another Tech Industry
I am still reading it, but already I see it unnecessarily engages in a postmodernist-like confusion of map and territory.

> Yet you know sure as you were born that there's a broader world outside ... [you know a bunch of other things about reality] ... At this instant, reading by yourself, where do these realities reside? Inside your mind. Memory in a very real sense is reality.

Bloom is absolutely right that memory is central to all this. But it's a category error to say that just because your knowledge of reality is through memory, that memory is the only realitiy.

Ok, it's logically possible there is no external reality, and all that exists is just my (Ratnapala's) memory. But even then the distinction remains. Then, the lying medium (memory) is real, but the content of those memories is not a reality.
> OTOH, there's another story to why equity returns are higher than GDP returns: equity investors are being compensated for the higher risk.

This gets mentioned very often in such debates, but the implied causal connection is wrong: There is no guarantee that higher risk leads to higher returns. It's not like the stock market says "We should keep up increasing stock prices so that equity investors are being compensated for their risk."

Over long timespans, stock prices are coupled to the performance of the underlying companies (mostly their income streams), not to risk. So far, there has been a correlation, but there has never been a guaranteed causal relation between risk and stock returns.
I read Tensorflow to be the "nuclear heated" part.
they had

1) one of the best pool of popular articles in a day - readability.com/topreads
2) best kindle send to
3) best reading mode for a browser

i feel very mildly traumatized losing readability.com/topreads. redef+longform dont quite cover everything topreads did.

for people who dont know what it was - https://web.archive.org/web/20150415110937/https://readabili...
What Happened When I Moved My Company to a 5-Hour Workday
Depends on the heat shield. The Space Shuttle's heat shield was designed for reuse (though in practice the tiles were so fragile that they needed extensive checks and occasional replacement before each reentry).

I notice that Spacex have designed their ablative heat shield to which can withstand hundreds of reentries to Earth without any replacement or refurbishment. Still technically a consumable, but I really doubt anyone is happy with re-packing and re-using the same reentry parachutes hundreds of times.

And that's reentries to Earth, where the entry velocity is 17,000mph and the atmosphere is 100 times thicker. Such a heatsheild can probably withstand thousands of Mars reentries at just 7000mph before replacement.
https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive
>I understand that your primary goal is avoiding economic competition with people vastly poorer than you, but lets not lose sight of the fact that the economy as a whole suffers when valuable work doesn't get done.

You aren't wrong. But one does wonder why technical professions must be maximally subjected to "competition with people poorer than them" while lawyers, doctors, teachers and government workers seem to exempt from such competition.
This problem has been noted for some time. Past articles on the subject have shown how the various requirements for passwords come about through a combination of limitations imposed by the system they're being used on, or through misguided attempts at making things easier for users.

I wonder if there has ever been an attempt through a forum like RFCs or ISO to define a worldwide (or at least latin char set) standard for password requirements. Based on what i've seen in forums like this, there seems to be fairly broad acceptance that allowing a large number of characters from a character set with as few limitations as possible bests serves the interest of security. The thorniest issue would likely be about balancing requirements for increased complexity (eg capitals and lowercase, numbers, etc) with ease of use.
Yup. Just submitted it to http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
Males bear the burden of a lot of aggresivity hormones. That and the fact males are stronger would explain men commit more violent crimes, hurt women more often than the other way around and also suicide more often.

I don't think men are treated as less important. The "women and children first" is more of a societal compensation for the fact that men can go first because we're, on average, stronger and more aggresive.
It's not a bad book, but imo it starts off very strong and then quickly goes downhill throughout. This was the general (and unsolicited) criticism from most everyone I've shared it with. The stuff from prehistory, up to the agricultural revolution, seems to cover a lot of recent discoveries and is both fascinating and informative. The rest is, as the parent comment states, a very simplified summary of the author's favorite topics, a few paragraphs spent on each one, and clearly showing certain cultural biases (it honestly felt optimized for appeal to a TED audience). A good assigned read for early high schoolers, less useful to many beyond that point.

By the time you're at part four, on the current era and emerging technologies, it literally reads like a bunch of newspaper clippings from the Science section of the NYT. While I'm hoping his new book will fix those (perceived) problems, it seems unlikely to contain better or more profound commentary regarding trends in changing humanity and emerging technology than books like Superintelligence, Age of Em, etc. At best perhaps a "lite" version of the same concepts sanitized for a broader audience. Of course I look forward to, upon publication, hopefully having been mistaken about it.
No, it's because of the narrative that nothing that happens in the humanities matters.

> Is anything valuable coming out of the humanities these days?

You know, back in the late 19th century things were the other way around. The sciences had to argue for their value while the humanities held sway over the mind-share in academia. Google the debates of Huxley and Arnold -- many people think the culture clash only goes back to the C.P.Snow era, as if.

A part of the problem with the humanities is its amnesia. The humanities sprang from humanism. The humanities is academic humanism. Secular humanism is what has given us the idea of the separation of Church and State, among many other society-altering changes. Academic humanism has been a great moderating influence on the world, and continues to be. The smartest people I meet in academia are in the humanities, not the sciences. It is only relatively recently the the notion that the sciences are pre-eminent came to be. Since the time of their birth in the Renaissance the humanities grew in the shadow of the theological scholastics, and then brought about the Enlightenment. Which was nice.

You've bought into a narrative. The humanities teaches us about how narratives and ideologies shape our minds, so your comment dismays me.

edit: I don't blame you though. I was in the humanities for nearly 10 years before I bothered to look into the history and philosophy of humanism and the humanities.
The Cannae Drive is another implementation of the same idea. They say they'll launch a cubesat in a couple of years to demonstrate the drive. Their website doesn't have much information about it but here are some links:

1. http://cannae.com/cannae-is-developing-a-cubesat-thruster/

2. http://cannae.com/press-release-from-cannae/

3. http://cannae.com/cubesat/
> You’re free to think about computation as acting on bits… but for those bits to do us any good, they have to actually represent something (e.g., data structures).

I suspect this is a case of confusing epistemology with ontology.

Galaxies are ontologically composite in that they're the highest holonym in the supervenience hierarchy [0]. Atoms are ontologically fundamental in that they're the the lowest meronym in the supervenience heirarchy.

Galaxies are epistemically abstract in that the notion of galaxy is far removed from everyday experience. Atoms are also epistemically abstract in that the notion of atoms are also far removed from everyday experience. What's epistemically fundamental are the immediate objects of our everyday experience, like chairs and food. (My impression of Zen is that it advises to focus more on things like chairs and food [1].)

https://www.xkcd.com/435/

In the xkcd, which is more "fundamental", Math or Economics? Well, it depends. Likewise, what's more "fundamental", bits or ADT's? Well, it depends.

[0] powers of 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

[1] http://www.itsokblog.com/2011/01/wash-your-bowl-zen-of-mothe...
There was extensive discussion on this topic here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12394679

Now it seems like the CEO faked his past work experience as well.
WoSign is included as a root certificate. When they first started, they weren't in all browser stores, so StartCom cross-signed their root certificate.

That way, WoSign could create certificates while they waited for browsers to update with their root certificate. It also helps for legacy/embedded systems that don't get updates, since StartCom has existed far longer. Due to the cross-sign, all WoSign certificates are still compatible.
“Live EXPLAIN” for a Postgres query
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er3vu2IVLjc
This article lists 16 methods

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochronology

Some fill,the gap between radio carbon and longer lived isotopes.
Wow, you're awful!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12291707
It is not file cache or local storage the main obstacles for the wide adoption of PWAs, it is the restriction to easily access phone features. Even something as trivial as "take picture + upload" or "get gps data" is currently a pain. Browser and OS vendors argue these restrictions are necessary for user protection yet a gazillion native apps are installed w/out users having the least interest in double-checking what permissions are given to these apps. A gazillion apps, checked and approved by app stores, are already doing whatever the f* they want with user data.
Robert Hazen recent book on Earth assigns a distinctive color to each major geologic era- red, black, blue, green, white ...
Honestly, it doesn't seem that complicated. Just watch this educational video series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxRvEZd3Mw by Google, and you'll be able to do cool stuff with machine learning.
Cannae plan to launch a cubesat in a couple of years to demonstrate their drive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12402915
This is exactly how we are using a raw `receive` in one of our production systems -- multiple asynchronous, but serial within, processes.

Thanks for sharing this. It gives me more confidence in what we have done!
If by code you mean comments...
3. Never levy a punishment greater than the harm of the offense.

Incentivise hard-to-prove offenses that benefit the offender as much as they harm the victim (e.g. theft), because at worst they'll be back where they started...
The Jurassic Park quote in the comments is perfect.
I personally benefited from gifted and talented education in Australia (~1992-1993). Even though all the tests are IQ based, the thrust of this article seems to be "defining giftedness with IQ was always wrong, and also fails to match accepted wisdom in the area". Accepted wisdom, specifically, is that gifted kids have deeper emotional engagement, empathy and moralistic sense. This has no correlation to IQ.
Figured this was coming after Readlists closed down a few months ago. Damn I miss them.
Extremely ancient idea in eastern philosophy. Though they dont assign anatomical causes.
Couple of demos:

(1) example of usage – run a sequence of simple queries and then attach & watch their execution, in runtime https://asciinema.org/a/981bed2lu7r8sx60u5lsjei30

(2) observe what a specified backend is doing, which queries it executes and how, in realtime https://asciinema.org/a/c0jon1i6g92hnb5q4492n1rzn
Biologically impossible
Check out your local Toastmasters, some of which specialize in specific industry domains. They are a collegial, supportive group. You will be thrown in the deep end of the pool and your skills will advance quickly. It is also very affordable and the processes have stood the test of time. I am 3 speech milestones in and by next year will have my competent communicator and competent leader certifications. Maybe even advanced leader certification based on a city-wide/district level (Shanghai) project I am working on. A great org.
This might be the thread you were looking for (with 500+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518
Docker Swarm Visualizer
If anyone is interested to work in the food tech / image processing area, we are an early stage startup[0] building small scale automated food preparation robotics and have an image-processing focused industry-experienced Mechatronics PhD as an advisor. We are based in the most natural / pleasant part of China, Yunnan.

[0] http://8-food.com/
> The reality constructed in our brains is not substantially different from actual reality.

Now you're being facetious. Good joke though.

> > Different sensors would have a different result
> All of our experience with robotics suggests otherwise.

I meant DIFFERENT sensors, not the same version of the same sensor. You are telling me a sensor for microwaves gets the same result as one for different wavelengths? Good god. And that's actually related sensors, then there's touch, smell etc.
I'm not particularly familiar with the relative costs of native vs Electron, but it should be noted that: a) many DAWs are single-platform; b) DAWs don't have backends, which is at least a significant portion (if not the majority) of what a service like Spotify or Slack spends development time on.
Readability shuts down
The morbid and mortal toll of sprawl
It is not dismissive to put death rates into perspective. It is noteworthy that homicide is the number one cause of death for US Black males, 15-34 years old, as per 2013 CDC data. The death rate from homicide for age 20-24 is about 86.6 per 100,000 per year, worse than the Honduras average. This is true for no other demographic group surveyed in the United States.

See page 35 of http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_02.pdf

For White males, 15-24 years, homicide is the #3 cause of death while suicide is #2.

Almost certainly, homicide would also be the leading cause of death for young Honduras males, though I don't have that data.
>For example, it's very in-vogue to view the development of intelligent systems as inventions of capitalist who seek power over the people

Uhhh it is? Also, I was not under the impression Harari was some kind of anticapitalist.
Is this just a novelty or does it mean i can hack Enterprise Java apps with ratchet PHP code?
An interactive way of describing the monads (functional programming)
I actually had no idea that the Beaglebone had these guys hiding onboard. A nice alternative to something like a RasPi with an Arduino hat or a USB-connected Arduino.

This is great for projects where you control the whole stack and don't plan to support anything else. I guess the only downside to going down this path is that you're locking in the Beaglebone Black as your sole hardware platform and losing some modularity.

For example it would be great to control a 3D printer by running something like OpenGB (http://opengb.readthedocs.io/) on the main CPU and something like Marlin (https://github.com/MarlinFirmware) on a PRU. But that would require a Beaglebone-centric approach which wouldn't work on other hardware combinations.

That's just an observation though - I'm really impressed that the PRUs are there!
Art Captures How Rockets Feel Forces
URLs – Following the Trail of Associative Thinking
Which model is the fastest to compute? Not a lot of people have TPUs, and when it comes to serving the models I've seen ResNet-16 to be favorable for real-time. Is there a better trade-off?
Meet Project Storm, Facebook’s SWAT team for disaster-proofing data centers
More People Are Using Drones to Catch Their Cheating Partners
It's a matter of time before that thing shuts down.

I'd rather store my files on snapchat.
It is(was) a company and its main product was a SQL client with built-in visualizations and features to save queries (just the query not the RS) in their cloud and share these queries with others peers in your organization.
In my opinion it was a very good product... Sad that they didn't open sourced it. =/
Maximize your communication (talking) with others. Not just for picking up girls. Talk to guys. Talk to girls. Talk to people.

Talk to women without an agenda for a relationship. You are focused on the moment, not some arbitrary goal. If you hit it off, a real conversation will start. If you really hit it off it will be obvious and natural to give your phone number.

Talking without an agenda.
Yup, you can do that with just about any set of languages, right?
Now how about a quine that's valid in PHP and Java?
It's probably more accurate to say people are hiring p.i.'s to use drones to catch their spouses cheating. Also, it would seem that being in a "no-fault" state versus a "fault" state in terms of allowing divorce is also a driver for collecting such evidence.

“One lady hired a private investigator to fly a drone over Central Park to spy on her cheating husband,” he says. “The use of drones for spying may be more prevalent in fault states—although the number of states that consider marital infidelity as a factor in divorce cases is limited. Divorcing spouses may be more inclined to procure evidence of illegal behavior in the backyard of their ex's house.”
Wasabi 2.0
Ain't HN grand?
"But now we'll never know if Schrodinger's computer is running php or java..."

"I hope you die in a fire of a 1000 java compilers."
... and the shoe gazing hobby horse of literally every 150th high school nerd.
When I'm at home or in my car I use speech to write text messages and perform google searches all the time. It's so much more convenient now that the voice recognition is so reliable these days :)
Nobel laureate Roger Tsien dies
Comments are code
That's more of an advertisement than a disclaimer
The Mathematics of Charles Sanders Peirce (2001) [pdf]
Once a Bucknell Professor, Now the Commander of an Ethiopian Rebel Army
How's that (the hiring) going? Are you subcontracting?
Phava is great!

But, quine-relay still wins: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
How many more decades have to elapse before every bullshit software thing, obvious to anybody skilled in the art, is eventually free of these troll's patents.
Samsung shares hit over Galaxy Note delays, battery explosion claims
https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/

This 100-language quine relay passes through both on its way around the clock. :)
What I like best about this is he uploaded his dataset: https://github.com/workpiles/CUCUMBER-9
The transistor was invented in 1925 by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (a FET). The first one built was in 1947 (a BJT).

A metal-oxide (MOS) transistor is a FET. Commonly known as MOSFET.
No, but another one you can do it in is PHP and JavaScript

function isEven($number) {
return $number % 2 == 0;
}

That's actually valid PHP code and JavaScript. But I think you'll need to use eval on that in the PHP vm because it won't have the `<?php`
Air Force orders upgrades for Reaper drone
Want to learn how to make maps in R?
A recent compression discussion I saw involved how do compressors fare on uncompressible input? For example, suppose you wanted to add compression to all your outbound network traffic. What would happen if there was mixed compressible traffic along with the uncomressible kind? A common case would be sending HTML along with JPEG.

Good compressors can't squeeze any more out of a JPEG, but they can back off fast and go faster. Snappy was designed to do this, and even implementations of gzip do it too. It greatly reduces the fear of CPU overhead to always on compression. I wonder how Zstd handles such cases?

*Ignoring security altogether
`git diff -w`
Nvidia and Baidu partner on a ‘top-to-bottom’ platform for self-driving cars