skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your metabolic rates at birth, adolescence, or your teen years are probably drastically different than your rate now if you're past 30. Is your average body temperature way less than 98.7 now?
Whoever downvoted you, has probably never heard of the axiom: "Nothing can ever be proven true, because that means you would have to consider every possibility. The best that we can hope for is to prove something is not true by finding exceptions. After many failures at finding exceptions, we just state that some things are true until an exception is found."
You are confusing the internet with the World Wide Web, Apple does not support Flash do you want to claim that a flash plugin is a human rights issue? Because I can guarantee that the amount of content you cannot access due to lack of flash is orders of magnitude greater than what you cannot access due to lackluster HTML5 support.

In fact I can't think of any HTML5 content which you would not be able to view, it might not be formatted properly but it will be accessible.
One thing FTA that I don't understand is when they say the electron passing through the MoS2 is heavier than an electron in silicon, aiding in controllability. As I understand, an electron is an electron is an electron in any substance, the only variable being the number of which are able to move as is determined by the valence ring. If someone with a better understanding than I could comment on this, I'd be grateful.
easy, hacker news should block IPs originating from Russia and China. they're mostly just state sponsored posters anyways
This has an interesting parallel to having a spectrum of gender pronouns.
Ritalin has a different mode of action on dopamine and noradrenaline, and tends to "wear off" a lot faster for many patients. I understand there are higher rates of side effects with Ritalin as well. My own "anecdata" supports that: I became an anger-ball when I came down from Ritalin. I remember some studies that suggested it can cause schizophrenia.

Desoxyn? I didn't realize it was still prescribed, given the profoundly negative effect it has when used recreationally (esp when homemade). Meth terrifies me, honestly, because it has such a wide-reaching range of effects on the body compared to amphetamine.

I never got the "easier" part. My understanding is that it's not difficult to get a prescription for Adderall if one "studies" for the appointment, and it's certainly a lot cheaper. And less likely to ruin one's life.
May the odds be ever in their favor!
The conversion into a classical check bit sounds kind of trivial, since the bank has to do the verification of the check. Just add some EPR pairs to the token and use them for teleportation. The measurement results of the teleportation are the classical check.

Edit: Ah, you can verify the signature without the bank. Instead of teleporting you sign a message like "I give this token to Bob. Bank please generate a replacement token for him because signing this message destroyed mine.".
(OP): To be more clear, it's not FizzBuzz per se but the general idea. In reality it's always more complex than the original FizzBuzz problem (I've never actually seen something that simple.) It usually goes "solve this puzzle". "OK, now can you do it faster?" "I see you have a syntax error, what is it?" (Two minutes later, oh crap I forgot a semi-colon.) And then repeat all of that with three other people, each with their own puzzle.

It's easy, for me at least, to freeze up at any time in that process and stop being able to do anything at all, even if in a normal work setting it wouldn't be a problem. It seems rather ridiculous, or at least frustrating, that the job hinges on that process.
That was nicely done (though I suspect I might get more out of it if I actually read Japanese).
I could make the image provided I had both a 5 1/4 floppy drive and an actual 5 1/4 floppy. I don't have either of those for my new computers.

It's like trying to write a DVD with no burner. Where do you have a computer that still has a DVD drive burner? Same problem I'm having.
There is no downside to keeping the overall memory arena size down: better cache locality, fewer stop the world collections. Node programmers have been asking for this behavior for years.
This is particularly odd because multi-word last names aren't exactly obscure in the US. Here are some famous people: van der Waals, von Neumann, de Soto, van Gogh, da Vinci...

We have a sizable Italian community domestically, too, plus lots of history of Dutch and German settlement.

And then we have lots of Mexicans, who, intuitively enough, use the Spanish system of double surnames. But somehow they all get shoehorned into hyphenation.
I've had glowing references for candidates that turned out to be utterly and irredeemably unsuitable. References don't mean a darned thing unless you have at least some familiarity with the qualifications and motives of the people giving the reference _and_ are willing to talk to them in depth long enough to get the whole picture about the candidate.
Poland Unveils Glow-In-The-Dark Bicycle Path That Is Charged by the Sun
If your definition of speed is methamphetamine, that is available by prescription for therapeutic use under the name Desoxyn.

As somebody who also takes legally prescribed Adderall myself (begrudgingly...I've been on a years-long hunt for practical counseling/coaching help w/ focus), I think it's important not to kid ourselves - we are consuming amphetamines. Uppers. Speed. Greenies. Apart from the assurance of purity, the drug isn't magically safe or without other pleasurable/terrible effects because prescribed by a doctor.

Also would like to add: the "brain biochemical deficiency" theory has been called into question for ADD (and other mental health diagnoses).

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/11/02/chemical-imbalance-i...
I only looked at the author once I had finished reading the full article and was indeed very surprised. We're often quick to ridicule people in the spotlight but most of them got there on more than just luck.
> What happens in reality, is that my kids (a) don't understand the confusing ways its presented and (b) don't make the connection between the different expressions of the same underlying concept. Its not useful. Its actually immensely frustrating for everyone.

I agree. I remember how I learned: lots rote exercises and word problems. Clearly recall having insights and making discoveries on my own, but those made sense based on how I visualized things. And because of discovering them on my own, they were very memorable and fun.

The funny thing, repetition is how kids learn. They copy and repeat things since day 0 without understanding why or how anything works. Insights and understanding the meaning of things come later. Reversing that process is counter-productive and goes against all the evolutionary mechanisms optimized up to this point. That kind of build-up from first principle will be useful, but that's closer to highschool or college level.
Support costs for shutting down the average user are higher than the costs of bandwidth. Telling someone that their internet was shut off because their device was used in a botnet would lead to very long support calls and escalations.
I don't really have a specific direction I want this post to go in except for 'notes'. Apps people use, organization methods, digital vs paper, all fair game.
Back then a major TV program crue unobstructed marched to the ICBM launch site and had a party there. The country was bankrupt if not for the western help it would have collapsed.
Because it's isolated and there is no DMA really.

There is a reason why the graphics driver is in user mode, and why the memory is virtualized.

The application doesn't have traditional DMA unless you load a privileged kernel which you can't do via a browser.

An application can't access the memory of another application via the display driver this is a solved issue.
What do YOU want? It's totally unclear.
I suggest you read on how modern display drivers are designed, you can't cross boundaries.
I would prefer to work in a private office as well rather than working from home since I like to go into work and hang out with my collages every once in a while. A private office will allow me, as a developer, to choose when "I" want to concentrate, not when the environment just happen to allow me to do my work. Trust me, I will be more productive this way.

However, I can also understand that not every business can afford private offices for their developers. But then again, how difficult is it to create a "quiet" and "busy" area? Any company that has the ability to afford more than 2 or 3 devs should be able to do this right?
I count 84 people listed as permanent staff on the website, which is not something I'd call "exceptionally few". And I'm not criticizing the fact that people are permanently employed; more power to 'em. But as Pica_soO says, things change once it's your paycheck.

Consider the difference between "music" and "music industry" for example. Or the difference between coding on one's personal open source project and coding on somebody else's dime. Consider how many startups compromise their vision to become commercially successful. Or go talk to somebody at an ad-supported site; you can hear them defend things (e.g., auto-play video ads) that they would have previously reviled.

If people don't like how a hobby project is going, they have no problem shutting it down. But once it's one's living, that becomes almost unthinkable. Which in turn means that other things become almost unthinkable.

So my criticism of this article is that it's basically an exercise in refusing to think about the legitimate issues people have with what Burning Man has become.
Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies While Alive
Whoops; corrected. I probably ought to stop trying to write multiple sentences at a time on mobile.
Short answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass_(solid-state_ph...

Long answer: read my previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12660032
It's comical that anyone claims US presidential elections are fair. I'm not picking a political side here, both parties are duping the voters.
Michael Abrash gave a great talk later in the presentation about future directions in VR. He talked about retina tracking in the context of foveated rendering, which he said has a higher accuracy requirement than avatar eye direction. He seemed confident we'll get there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv_eIRv1Vk4
It isn't popular because it's more expensive. Cubicles are cheaper than offices, and desks in a row are cheaper than cubicles.

It's a beancounter mentality, possibly understandable in a startup with limited funds for offices, but a false economy in the long run.
The Elements of Being a Chemist
> I can also understand that not every business can afford private offices for their developer.

I think it's more true that not every business can afford private offices for their developers if they locate their business near the trendiest part of downtown.
I recently hired a couple of people for the first time in my life. It was an eye-opening experience. Resumes are almost worthless. It's so easy to take credit for someone else's work on a resume. Write about all the cool stuff the product did when you actually just implemented some trivial feature. It's pretty easy to figure this out in the interview, but it takes time and sometimes you have to ask pushy questions.

Skill lists are almost meaningless. You wouldn't believe how many people claim to know C++ but start writing Java syntax on the board when you ask them to code something.

Basically, the problem isn't you, it's other people. It doesn't matter how good your open source portfolio is; the only 100% reliable way to judge someone's coding ability is to put them on the spot. There are too many "embellishers" in the world.
>I remember some studies that suggested it can cause schizophrenia.

Pretty much every drug in this class can do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis

The more you take (acutely, not chronically) the closer the probability gets to one that you'll develop psychotic symptoms.

>Desoxyn? I didn't realize it was still prescribed

I've met at least one person in the last two years who had a prescription for it. In their case it was for severe narcoleptic symptoms, they slept 14 hours a day without it.

>I never got the "easier" part. My understanding is that it's not difficult to get a prescription for Adderall if one "studies" for the appointment, and it's certainly a lot cheaper. And less likely to ruin one's life.

If you're a middle class white person, sure. But for people who don't have the advantage of being pretty or well educated or come from a stigmatized minority class, interactions with doctors where pharmaceutical prescriptions are involved generally get written off as drug seeking. (Of course, that's what it is right?)
Under a successful support driven model, engineering costs associated with fixing bugs and quirks in the product are amortized across all clients. Fixing a bug for one user fixes it for another, as well as future users. However, if the paid user base is not sufficient to cover support costs, VC money is effectively subsidizing support.

In the spirit of analyzing your business model, how much of your success has come about because you had access to a subsidized team fixing bugs for you?
It's weird that they chose the English-speaking-world's hand gesture for "stop" as their "agree", especially when there's already "thumbs up" and "ok" out there.
Interesting reading w'r't' DSA from this past week: http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/961
I wasn't an employee, but I worked there for weeks at a time as a contractor. You get your own office and people don't bother you if your door is shut. You are expected to communicate by email or chat. The building is very quiet, and if it's raining outside, which it does often in that area, you can get hours of glorious uninterrupted time to concentrate.
The Lean Coffee hand signals includes a couple others that aren't in this blog post.

http://www.lovelifepractice.com/practice/using-hand-signals-...

Another hand signal I've used in large groups is pointing at a person who has a hand up (wants to say something). It's a useful signal to the person speaking and can avoid people stepping on each other to speak next.
Yep, same. I also independently discovered existing concepts which were way above what we were being taught which really lifted the veil on some things. I'm guessing that these concepts would have also been helpful for other kids to understand, or at least be aware of.
my original comment was " a non-insignificant proportion of hacker news seems to actually work at google and run to their defense at anything somewhat critical of their overlord. ". it isn't paranoia. Like i said i've seen threads where 4/10 comments are defending Google and the commenters openly say they work at Google or one can click on their proifle and see that they openly list they work there. didn't imply shilling.
Can someone comment on how playable this would be for someone with no background in embedded systems or electronics?
Sure, here's a video about how to build one with a Raspberry Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI59iFtDspA
Bullet Physics 2.84: Pybullet and VR Support for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift
> Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

32. People’s names are assigned at birth.
33. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth.
34. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth.
35. Five years?
36. You’re kidding me, right?

I must know what case there is of this, and who exactly was the poor soul to stumble upon it...
Perhaps I just don't understand what "metabolic rate" means. My body is a metabolic zero-sum game, unless I'm gaining or losing weight. What comes in as food goes out as heat or mechanical work. I suppose a higher heat output could be achieved at constant temperature by sweating more. A larger person (more skin) could of course generate more heat, but the energy has to come from eating more food or being less active.

Do you simply mean that I was gaining weight at birth, adolescence, and teen years? I could agree with that.
> Common Core teaches the concept of 'proportionality' [over a period of six years]

It sounds like you're poo-pooing the centrality and depth of notions of proportionality in Mathematics.

Just in case that was your intention: expecting a student's understanding of proportionality to fully mature over 6 years is ridiculously optimistic -- often a big chunk of the first year of a graduate mathematics program is devoted to introducing measure theory.

> Maybe Common Core can teach Proportionality if you sit down with a kid and give them all six years of it over two days

Hell no it can't. How in god's name are you going to teach about fractions and the Riemann integral in two days?

To be clear, proportionality is extremely important in both cases -- I'm not sure what it would even mean to successfully teach either of those things without your students noticing something essential about proportionality.

Obviously, a competent teacher will notice that some analogies and connections could be useful to point out and elucidate, while some are still a decade away from being useful to the student.

> Teach the algorithm. Rote practice. Then teach the concept.

This isn't at all contradictory with Common Core... what makes you think it is?

For me, "State and motivate the concept. Teach the algorithm. Rote practice. Then teach the concept. Rote practice with the concept as opposed to the algorithm." is far more effective, but anyways, the practice and algorithm is still there.

> What happens in reality, is that my kids (a) don't understand the confusing ways its presented

Oh right, shitty execution. I'd be unsurprised if the teacher is as confused as everyone else.

You know what would be great? If excellent (or even mediocre) mathematicians who know what it takes to learn math well became invested teachers. When that happens, the outcomes are amazing. Pretty much without exception, IME.

I know why I'm not a teacher...

> and (b) don't make the connection between the different expressions of the same underlying concept... Its actually immensely frustrating for everyone.

Well, yeah, learning hard stuff usually is.
As mentioned in the article there is no magic latency, throughput and memory consumption are connected optimizing for one you will sacrifice a bit in the other areas.
Reverse Lookups in the GNU Name System (GNS)
> but they're new so it will take some time for teachers to adjust

It's actually much worse than this, the only math teachers that actually understand how to teach this material are math teacher teachers and their newly graduated students who have gone through their curriculum. It's going to take a literal lifetime to actually meaningfully execute the new methods even if you manage to get the textbooks in every classroom.

I really truly hope the kinds of resources you're developing can help existing teachers transition, because as it currently stands the outlook is bleak.
I get mine thrown in for free and no paperwork when I purchase my ticket or make purchases while away with my black Mastercard (there is same for black Visa).

Coverage includes my spouse/children and has really good terms including no excess on theft. Reviews of the insurance rate it as good as or better than most independent paid for policies. Claims are through one of the big insurance companies in Australia.

It also gives me free lounge access with Priority Pass and a concierge service to buy assorted tickets for entertainment and travel.

Annual card fees are currently $AUD495 dollars, but I get one card fee waived against my house mortgage by my bank, so it is basically free.

I am thinking this arrangement would be hard to beat.

I am in Australia and not affiliated with any insurance company or Mastercard/Visa.
Challenge #3: Image-Based Localization
Is the game open to public? I would like to give it a look, i have done some amount of optimizations as a hobby.
In Canada, there are 3 popular channels:

1) Most full-time employees who have an employee benefit plan have the benefit of travel insurance. Example: http://www.greatwestlife.com/001/Home/Group_Products/Group_B... You're auto-enrolled in this channel... by being a full-time employee.

2) Travel credit cards have these packages - http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/credit-cards/travel-credit-cards... - click Travel/Protection tab for the policy. You're auto-enrolled in this channel... just by holding the credit card

3) Failing that, you can top up on a per-trip basis - pretty cheap - https://travelweb.pac.bluecross.ca/travelweb/default.aspx You pay by credit card, and get a policy straight away...

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Having put in a claim before (doctor visit / prescription), the biggest pain points were:

1) Not sure exactly what the coverage was - I basically called a 1-800 number while in the USA, and they told me the benefits, etc. While it was simple, it wasn't as transparent as I'd like... (i.e. online, brochure, etc.)

2) When I did try to put a claim in, I was diagnosed as having a pre-existing condition...before leaving Canada, and therefore denied coverage... so I was on the hook for the doctor visit / prescription myself.

Hope this helps!
Yes! here's a video that will go over the details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI59iFtDspA

The main parts are a RaspberryPi, some Adafruit stuff, and a motor from pololu. Also, I put all the parts in a package that you can get here:
http://runmyrobot.com/kit
> According to StackOverflow surveys, favorite programming tools currently include Rust, Swift and F#, while those “most dreaded” include Visual Basic, WordPress and Matlab. But Spolsky played down those surveys, saying programmers have “a desire to use the latest, cool new thing” and tend to move on from programming quickly, so that their ranks are filled by “new kids showing up with newfangled things they just invented, usually reinventing the wheel.”

F#? I'm pretty sure that was a joke:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=%22F%23%22
Anecdotal but when I was working at a company where I had a private office I was still getting interrupted by phone calls. Calls that would last 10-20 seconds, that type of conversations in an open space wouldn't be as distracting. The fact that I had to hear the ring pick up the phone to talk made it worse. Oh and the phones had no mute setting you could only set them to a low volume.

So even private offices can be a problem. What I'm trying to say is that the issue is the office culture and communication policy that makes the difference and not the office layout.
Choose a different location and herd where you might earn less but have lower costs and better work life balance.
Completely off-topic, but it's funny you mention this. A few weeks ago, I was looking at one of the stores I buy various odds and ends from that I can't find locally (fairly mainstream food-related shop that's known for selling nuts and dried fruits) and ran into cricket flour [1]. I suppose I shouldn't be overly surprised, but it's certainly unexpected. The allergy warnings are particularly interesting (shellfish).

If you're not sure about buying cricket flour, it appears they now sell orange ginger cookies made with it [2]. One of these days I might buy some. But, again, beware that people with shellfish allergies may react to crickets.

[1] https://nuts.com/cookingbaking/flours/cricket-flour.html

[2] https://nuts.com/snacks/cookies/orange-ginger-cricket-cookie...