skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, in China, everyone uses WeChat. It is the ONE IM app you described.
Is there a specific term for this? This implies that 'How likely is this particular organism to survive in this particular environment?' is not precisely the same as 'How well will this genome persist over evolutionary time as the environment changes?', but they seem to both go under the term 'fitness', even though one is more 'meta-' than the other.

This isn't quite the same, but this is related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolutio...
Yeah, for the most part library stuff is quick. Some tools let you pattern place the pins and plop them all down at once. High pin count parts like FPGAs and connectors with weird footprints are the big time sinks.
Freenode has also been getting a DDoS today. Related?
"Upvote" should mean more than "I liked it". It's too easy to get likes. Something that says "I used this footprint to make a board, and the part soldered into place OK" would be helpful.
I think one reason (some) physicists are so bad at philosophy is that philosophy concerns matters that are of interest to everyone, but that the human mind is not well designed to deal with. In fact, the fact that we can do it at all seems to be an accidental side-effect of mental and linguistic abilities that were produced by evolution to solve very different sorts of problems. That is why, of the thousands of cultures that have existed, only one happened to develop what Feser is refering to as philosophy.

As a result of this mismatch between aspirations and mental abilities, even brilliant philosophers such as Plato have made many mistakes that took centuries to straighten out. This means if you are going to do philosophy well you have to spend years studying it, including learning about all the common mistakes and how to avoid them. The physicists in question, unfortunately, seem to have not done this.
True, but they could reduce damage even more by putting a picture of a stained glass window and giant letters "HIGHLY FRAGILE DELICATE STAINED GLASS WINDOW! HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE!!" on it. That would certainly reduce damages further.

The problem is that it isn't one (a TV). Why would someone feel mortified if they accidentally drop a packaged bicycle from 2-3 feet (typical carrying height) when a fully assembled bike can be dropped from 2-3 feet, and this is packaged, so it should be even safer. On the other hand no one would feel free to drop a packaged LCD TV from even half a foot because people know it includes a giant pane of essentially glass, and they know that there are limits to what packaging can do.

So, yeah, by failing to meet expectations when it comes to packaging a bicycle, they can reduce damages by writing on it that it's a TV instead. All right.

But isn't this still them not meeting expectations exactly? If they write on it that it's a delicate stained-glass window, that would still be not meeting expectations. If the handler is the one with unreasonable expectations or behavior (if 2-3 feet isn't a reasonable drop height and should be considered a failure), then maybe educate the handler with some writing or warnings on the packaging.

isn't the real issue here that handler's expectations of bike packaging does not meet bike packaging's characteristics? so, you could tackle it head-one by writing care instructions.

alternatively, the article says only 70-80% reduction in damages was achieved. Maybe by lying and saying it is delicate stained-glass, handle with extreme care, they could up that to 95% reducted. I guess I've just saved them 15% of their former damages (even higher percentage of their remaining damages) with this one neat trick.
They can also be deleted.
Funnily enough, "have a job, must work for a living" is Marx's definition of 'working class'. The people who had no income in the pre-welfare days tended to be short-lived.
Potentially amazing news

Here's the direct Link minus the weird reblog of press release

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paralyzed-man-regain...
If you're talking about property taxes, you might want to read up about Prop 13(1978) and how it fundamentally altered the tax base of California.

There are some good points that we are still fighting the after effects of this policy to this day. A good example would be how business owners encapsulate their properties to not trigger the re-assessment of the property to current values. It explains a number of the remaining low cost/slum-lord apartments still around.
Language strongly associated with violence, threats, and insults isn't part of the normal language system?
I didn't say they necessarily were all fulfilled by humans. My point is that they are not necessarily all fulfilled by one human. Apropos of the comment I made in response to the "architecture astronauts", the complexity of most software projects is such that the design, from a technical standpoint, is a pretty small portion of the total effort required. In that case it makes sense for the technician to be the designer as well, which is something that often happens in the trades on simple jobs.

That does not mean that there can't or shouldn't be a distinction between the engineer and the technician on sufficiently complex projects. That is, they don't need to be filled by people who could perform either role, as the original comment I was replying to implied. That point was either miscommunicated in my original post or rubbed some people the wrong way.
I would never ever read finnegan's wake. Honestly, I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would except perhaps literary scientists. But to put finnegan's wake on the stereo or headphones while working out or doing a fanstatic hike or sailing or whatever is an incredible experience that I have always been grateful for. I encourage everyone to do it. HG wells, however, on the other hand is something you'd want to sit down and read because he kills his darlings with the idea that his readers will sit down and read it. Not just let it waft over them and permeate their subconscious. Finnegan's wake is wonderful mental music.

BTW, Joyce wrote portrait of an artist as a young man, which is a really great read and a must for anyone with a literary / artistic bent.
Been there. It's worse with condos too where they often refuse to deliver unless you're there, they won't even take a signed note. Really annoying when you have a textbook delivery and an upcoming assignment.
That doesn't answer the dark pattern concern at all and you're just dodging the issue. When people hear trial they think "free time to make my decision" not "10 days for $300" which is what this will be for anyone who forgets to cancel (hint: any EE on a deadline but I guess you know that). This is just predatory.
Any Joyce or Wells lovers here may like Jupiter, an app my team built. We are clearly biased, but we think that Jupiter is the best way to read the classics.

It allows you to highlight your favorite parts, and share magic links like this one to a great line from Dubliners:
https://jupiter.ai/books/Q9bx/?hl=Oze

As expected, the reading experience is great in the iPhone app and necessarily not great in the browser.

Here's the app store link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jupiter-read-highlight-class...
They are Oracles legal agents, and therefore are acting on Oracle's behalf.

If they win, Oracle gets the rewards. If they lose, Oracle gets the penalties. If they screw up, Oracle gets the fines.
Obligatory Orwell on class in England: http://www.bradford-delong.com/2010/12/george-orwell-on-belo...
Somebody failed statistics...
I didn't send my first text until 2008, but once I did, voice calls were dead to me.
This is analogous to Batesian mimicry [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batesian_mimicry
Your concern can be addressed by printing a photo of a TV with a bicycle show on TV. Then, the recipient will also not be confused.
> I think is not totally honest, unless they also have a history of not paying up.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. So: Does their agreement say that the bike company will accurately represent their product on their packaging? If the bike company's holding up their end of whatever agreement they have, then there's nothing the least bit questionable about what they're doing.
I am not sure how excited I am ... I readily accept this to be faster than ag -- but ag already scans 5M lines in a second for a string literal on my machine. Not having to switch tools when I need a recursive regexp is win enough to tolerate a potential .4s vs .32s second everyday search.
... and no one dares to claim independent taxi operators are employees. They are service providers - they own the equipment and work on their own hours, subject to regulated price. The same goes to Uber, all they did was to change dispatch.
spotify does this.
Amazing virtual reality experiences for relaxation and meditation
But Uber drivers are not rotated. They are free to work when and where they wish.
Oukitel k10000. Acquired taste but it has excellent battery life.
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exactly. It also reminded me of Thomas Kuhn's idea of paradigm shifts - if nothing else, Joyce definitely represented a new paradigm, so representatives of the old would have scorned/ not understood him. Does not make his work better or worse, but explains why radically new approaches often meet with scepticism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
> I doubt that multi-millionaire think that they are 'middle class'.

Perhaps, but low digit millionaires do think that they're middle class because they've earned their money across the past 50 years. In that same 50 year span they've seen the actual 'rich' earn about billions instead.

Let me give a character construction.

You are an engineer. Salary $120k at age 38. Your spouse is also an engineer. Salary $100k at age 38. You both are the inheritors of your parent's estate which includes a pair of $200k pensions, and 2 houses valued at $800k a piece thanks to 20 years of land values rising in your near DC hometown.

Now your net worth is 2.0 million and rising.

Yet you don't feel like you are 'rich'. Maybe you have kids, can't take 5 vacations a year, and end up comparing yourself to your friends with no kids and greater discretionary income. Maybe because your windfall is from inheritance, you don't think of it as 'yours'.

It's a psychological motif, even if its not the economic reality.
Ah that makes sense. Graduates sounds to me like people who just graduated, but of course that's not what it technically means.
Thanks, the online pdf seems to be very good.
I'm glad you got that out of your system.

I was just sharing a similar experience to the one mentioned in the parent comment.
Pynchon is really great for listening to while exercising / cleaning / whatever as well.
If Men Don't Work Because of Video Games, What Explains Women Not Working?
It seems like they live in an echo chamber sometimes or they are more fixated on solving their own problems instead of their users. Google more than any other company seems to have a bias in that if a problem can't be solved by an algorithm and brute force human labor is required, they just don't want to do it and will find every excuse to avoid it.

In this case, it really feels like they "have this great idea to clean up the comments" problem that "doesn't require Google to do any work". It feels like they were willing to buy into the hype around Gamification of everything to solve their all problems to justify an internal aversion to solving problems the hard way, which would require Google to pay for actual human labor.

It was "win-win" in their echo chamber because it doesn't cost them much in terms of effort or money, while content creators should be happy Google is trying to improve the situation.

Another good example is the case of Eli the Computer Guy. He is an interesting content creator because he has actual marketable skills outside content creation and has built his own businesses before. He was a focal point last year during another YouTube controversy which later became known as #WTFU. After getting screwed by "The Algorithm", he announced he was leaving YouTube because the environment was not conducive to building a serious business around. One of the stories he told was he used to have a Google Content Partner, an actual human he could talk to if he had problems. Then shortly after, that person announced she got a promotion and was leaving with no replacement. "But don't worry, we have a great solution for you. You can use our forums if you have questions."

Eli has gone on about how dense they were that they didn't understand that this was a terrible thing and forums were no replacement for an actual person.

It was one of many examples he cited about how out of touch Google is with their own community. Eventually, after this controversy, they managed to keep Eli on YouTube for now, doing the "bare minimum" to keep him, which includes giving him a person to talk to. But there are much bigger YouTube creators who still don't have anybody they can talk to.
There is a certain art to truly inventive swearing. Farming seems to be an exceptionally fertile ground for salty phrasing, colorfully descriptive word-images, obscene suggestions, and disturbing juxtapositions. I think all of my favorites I learned tinkering on broken-down tractors - although the Quebecois loggers and truck drivers added a certain Catholo-Gallic leavening.
At the risk of drawing accusations of using the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, I'd say that most attempts have been trying to force-fit that type of style on projects that don't warrant it. That happens in all areas of engineering, though. The specific problem in software, IMO, is that too many projects are considered software "engineering" that shouldn't be, because they just aren't complex enough.
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If the consumer doesn't want to assemble it himself he can take the package to his local bike shop (or order it through them). They will also give you a "tuning" if you want.

It's sort of like IKEA furniture.
That's the one that caught my attention too.

There have been times where I try to get into a book, and if I even get the hint the writer is filling up pages with overly complex flowery prose; I immediately put the book down.

I always assumed it was just because I wasen't a natural reader. I've actually stayed away from a lot of classical literature, because I just couldn't get into the books.

I have been completely wrong though. I remember reading Nabrakov's Lolita years after I suffered through those English/Lit. courses. I do wish my instructors felt it was safe reading back then, or they weren't afraid of getting fired for assigning this book.

That book really changed my view on lituraure. I remember reading the book, and every sentance, paragraph just flowed.

I remember being shocked at the subject matter, and wondering if that was clouding my judgement, and honestly I'm still not sure.

After that book, I bought all his books, and haven't completely finished one.

I think it's more due to my unnatural reading ability though.

I college, I saved up most of my required English/lit. classes for my last semester year in college--out of fear. I do know I felt traumatized by my English 101 instructor. He would rip apart my writing with that red pen. He would have me read my horrid papers in front of the class, and public speaking was my worst fear. He once, in a round about way, accused me of plagiarism--because he had to ask his wife what an amygdala was, and "How did You come up with that idea for a paper?" In the end, he did give me a B, but I was really affected by that class. I used to enjoy writing before his class. It's funny how one teacher can stifle a young student's enthusiasm.

I had a girlfriend in a different English class, directly across from my classroom, at the same time of day. The doors were always open. I could hear her instructor because he had a loud voice. I would write down what that teacher had to say--stuff like funneling paragraphs, and not being to wordy, etc. I learned more about writing from her teacher than mine.

And as usual, I rambled on to long, but if you don't quite get what's so great about seemingly dry old books, give Lotita a shot.
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This isn't about customers dropping their own boxes, this is about shipping companies dropping boxes.
The iris pro 560 is about as fast as an ultra low end graphics card. It's simply memory starved so it might do ok on some benchmarks, but in the real world it's a ~2010 graphics card.
Re: Style - As a starting point we follow IPC-7351B for footprints and our own internal standard as outlined here: http://snapeda.com/standards. Over time we'd like to allow for more customization to account for different styles and preferences.

Re: Symbol styles - that's really interesting and is an awesome idea. Will think about how we can do this. Definitely have thought about storing user preferences. For example, some people like NC pins on symbols while others like them hidden.

Re: Open Source - Haven't thought about this side yet but will consider it. We have made open our API and maybe we can expand that to include the exporters.

Re: Faster turn - Anything available on the site already is obviously free and instantaneous. I think it's worth exploring with my team if we can do a faster turnaround on InstaPart. We definitely have ideas on how to do this. Our part creation is a mix of automated and manual work. The longest part of the process is verification. But again, hopefully eventually this stuff just all exists readily available without requiring a special request.
That's a shame. Extreme/hyperbolic examples have an important place in discourse. They force you to consider your ideas to their logical ends. In this case it illustrated that a line needs to be drawn somewhere by giving an example of something we all agree is reprehensible.

As far as I can tell, though, you're opposed to mentioning racial and sexual violence at all in conversation. What is the point of that kind of self-censorship? Rape will continue to be rape even if you never read or say that word again.
I don't think it's about the monetary value. Your typical bike is more expensive than your typical TV (but your average shipping guy might think all bikes cost like the super-market ones)

I think it's just the perception that bikes are "rough" and that they can take a beating. Which is true, but only when fully assembled and driven on road/terrain, not when you bang at it from the side.
That's because traditionally class is about lifestyle, with income being either a consequence or a cause for that lifestyle depending on the situation
Hubble made the 2013 observations of possible geyser activity on Europa, but there have been no signs of any plumes since. New data confirming active vents on the surface would be thrilling but not necessarily surprising - I wonder what they have found.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-europa-water-vapo...
> Once Kris made the decision to pursue enrollment in the study, dozens of doctors, nurses, rehabilitation specialists and others sprang into action. Because he would need to provide voice confirmation of his desire to participate in the study, Kris had to be able to breathe without a ventilator.

That is an interesting requirement. I don't think it's necessary. morse code via blinking isn't sufficient?
William Barrett, in his classic book on existentialism, Irrational Man, says that existentialism is the attempt to respond to the loss of universal religious faith in the modern era.
I don't remember if it was FedEx or UPS, but whichever it was left a top of the line Apple PowerBook at my front door, despite that shipment being very prominently marked as signature required. My apartment complex had a front office that could accept and sign for packages.

What made it even more annoying was that many times that company would leave packages at the front office when I was home. They would not even try to deliver to my apartment. They would just go straight to the front office.
> The technology is apparently impressive enough that Google, NASA and Lockheed Martin have partnered with D-Wave to test its capabilities

As someone who has actually worked in the research divisions of NASA and Lockheed, I wouldn't assign this form of social proof any value. There is absolutely nothing to infer from fact that NASA and Lockheed bought prototypes. I don't have personal experience with Google, but it is not unlikely that the same effects are at work.
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It's hard to take a poster seriously when they show willful ignorance of the way language serves as a marker of class, ethnicity and race, and instead have to manufacture quibbles to try to discredit an article that might cause slightly less comfort with the notion of the Glorious AI Future™ -- Coming Soon™!
There's a story I like to tell about Amazon shipping.. I often get standard sized boxes with a single air pillow or nothing at all protecting the smaller package inside. The latter is what happened when my friend ordered a phonograph needle and barbell weights. Smash, smash.
How can an article talk about more efficient solar cells and not even mention in passing technology already available such as triple junction gallium arsenide?

I mean the mars rovers are using 30+% efficient cells NOW. The cost are much higher than silicon, but this is working producible technology that we just need to figure out how to lower costs of.
I'm very skeptical of this. It's theoretically possible to send entangled photons, and try to capture them when they bounce, but in open air, with a moving target and against a big background radiation this looks fishy.

The important detail is how much better is this than a normal radar. A 1000% better? 10% better? 0.0001% better? Did you find any number of the improved efficiency in the paper?

(Do they have a working prototype? I'd be happy if they have a laboratory prototype that can measure an object 10 feet apart, in a room with an open window.)
What's wrong with doing pure research as a Startup? Why does pure research have to only be the domain of Universities? I think it was a great experiment that failed, but that probably goes for something like 95% of great experiments.

Lots of pure research goes nowhere. It's not like Geordie is defrauding the old and disabled. He's working with really really really smart people with lots of money.

Honestly, we need more of this and less of SnapChat startups.
All language has rules - there is no language 'without formal rules'
I wonder what sort of damage these bikes are receiving, because they're designed to be ridden by a person... a TV is definitely far more fragile.
Is this really advocating AI blackface?
Will work just as well as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCWqlDK52c4
There was a time where HN front page was 50% philosophical literature and 50% tech news. I miss articles like this.
I don't find this surprising...obviously the 200k person has an easier living compared to the 50k but probably they hand out to the same places, have similar houses and generaly their habits are the same.
On firefox, the graph isn't "real time", it only updates when you stop dragging. Other examples seem to work real time in the gallery though, so I suppose it's just a problem with that page ?

In any case, this is really cool.
All that and he survived living in Bakersfield
Agreed on the verification aspect. And what happens when an error makes it through and your customer has to scrap $xK worth of boards?

I work at a $largeco with dedicated footprints people and a long DFM pipeline, and footprint errors still get through from time to time. When there's tens of thousands of dollars riding on a board turn, you're still going to check it yourself.
On the contrary, it's now cheap and simple to use a mic on a pair of headphones and be completely free of any burden.