skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pff, amateur. The only safe way to read pdfs is by getting a bunch of smartphones by dumpster diving and then discarding them once you've read the pdf once.
Causality is extremely difficult to prove in all sorts of reasonable circumstances, much less the Rube Goldberg mess of horrible chemistry that is the human corpus.

(See also for example Judea Pearl's work http://causality.cs.ucla.edu/blog/ )
many lower-income creative types are flocking to LA from SF and NY.
Up until now, the company members are the only contributors, hence the reason for the tag.

You'd still learn how to submit a patch.

If you disagree with it, please post directly to the github issue and someone will pull the tag. The team reads the issues and has a history of submiting to community opinion.
Ask HN: As a hacker and “math person”, how do I learn about finance?
I'm not exactly looking for textbooks, but more along the lines of information-heavy material to learn what "derivatives" and "options" and the like are.
> rents are set by wages as you have to pay them out of your wages.

Are you implying that there's some sort of grand-scale collusion on rent prices? If most rent takers think "hey, the median salary is X so I'll just charge X * 0.33" then what's stopping another rent taker from drastically undercutting that price?
How expensive was it to buy vs. to have continued the lease?
The effect seems to be caused by a metabolite of aspartame, called PHE. So you could check whether stevia or erythritol produces the same metabolite.
In case anyone with pull at Intel is reading, let me say this:

It strikes me as insane that you are not making it easier for Agner to get early access to your hardware. He's writing fabulous manuals for free that fill the gaps in the official sources. His work helps more programmers to get the most out of your hardware than just about anything else available. You should be throwing money at him to keep him doing this, or at least showering him offers of free pre-release hardware. But instead you are depending on his generosity and leaving it to chance whether he eventually finds a machine to test on.

Why?
For what it's worth - Four of the eleven Supervisors (in San Francisco) were just up for re-election. Some of the candidates were much better than the others.

Marjan Philhour, a pro-housing candidate in District 1, lost by 1000 votes. If she won, pro-housing SF Supervisors would have had a 6-5 majority on the board. We were 1000 votes away from a much better housing situation in SF.

If you live in SF, the way we change this is by electing better Supervisors and kicking off the NIMBY's. Sandra Lee Fewer (the "progressive" candidate who wants zero new housing) had volunteers on every Geary street corner the day of the election. Get involved in your local races, donate money, volunteer to call people. Also, call/write your Supervisor when they try to pull crap like this: http://missionlocal.org/2016/11/in-stunner-city-strikes-down...
Surprisingly, everyone sees in this data exactly what they thought before looking at it.
Finding insights about laundry habits
> From Zagreb head to neighbor country Slovenia. The country is only inhabitated by about 4 Mio. people (one of them used to be the US First Lady Melania Trump). Stop by Slovenia’s plitvice lakes if you can.

Croatia has 4,5 million people, Slovenia has 2 million. Melania Trump is from there, Plitvice lakes are in Croatia.
Thank you for considering my comment to be constructive! It was intended that way, and I really appreciate your response.
And other people are going to pay for it...
That's the title, yet the first paragraph:

"homeless or about to become homeless"

So which is it? And why?

Unless that detail can be provided, I'm not impressed by this reporting...
Heh - around 11 - my brother and I went off over to the local colleges computer center and messed around on the terminals - pretty sure it was some PDP flavor - circa '76. (A friend's mom worked for the college so they had kids drop by now and again.). Didn't know anything but was was neat.
My last experience with the Raspberry Pi's built-in analog audio output was with the model B+ in late 2014, and it left a lot to be desired. It had noticeable background noise, and relatively weak maximum volume. Is this still the case with the latest model? If so, can anyone recommend another ARM-based board with a good audio DAC?
JSON in Postgres is so fast... it's definitely not used widely enough.

I'm not even sure why people would use something like Django Rest Framework, when Postgres outputs JSON directly from a query.
I've heard of "hacker house" type places in the Bay Area which sound exactly like this. I think the rate was something like $30/day or so.

I've also heard of operators of these places who will sign a regular rental contract with a landlord, "convert" the place to such a high density dorm, milk it until the landlord finds out, and when the landlord does, apologize, end the contract, then find another rental to rinse and repeat.
And you'd appreciate that?

Why not provide some facts rather than snarky anecdotes?
I haven't done the maths, but I strongly suspect the number of celebraties dying would have to be absurd before it became statistically significant. They've all gotta die some time.
Taxes are also public
Woah, I knew about things being bad in the USA, but I didn't know living conditions are going towards third-world standards :/ Where I live (The Netherlands) there are laws that even protect foreign workers (i.e. from Poland) from all being stuffed in a single room.

At this point it's starting to look like even jail cells have more room and privacy.
You can actually adjust the font size on Android now, and it affects pretty much all apps.
I actually found several YouTube videos that covered some of the more complex things I had questions about.
> Yes, but in principle the computing for the fracking could have been done with the computers 40+ years old

Doubtful. The size of the meshes needed for good-enough solutions to the PDEs is immense (and there's a reason the oil and gas industry has been buying supercomputers since the early days).
Low status is stressful. And so is high status.
> As Assar Lindbeck put it, "next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities."

Doesn't seem to have had much success in destroying Swiss cities. Maybe the neutrality helps prevent bombing-like effects?

https://sites.tufts.edu/uep284chsustainabilities/files/2015/... for some discussion...
"Public" does not imply members of the public can use these structures as they wish, a structure not provided for sleeping on, should not be slept on.
This looks like a short term dip while the market adsorbs new units. Am I missing something?
BMW Valvetronic does away with the throttle body - it adjusts valve lift instead.
You could argue that home prices are tied to wages and rent is tied to home prices.
> We treat animals better than human beings.

Animals can be owned, people are responsible for themselves.

Tell me how well animals do in the wild.
The FedEx you're probably thinking of is the Express division. It's the original service oriented around high-priority packages getting places quickly via plane.

This part of the company uses purple/orange colors, and is staffed by FedEx employees.

The FedEx Ground (business) and FedEx Home (residential) operation is an entirely separate transportation network, formerly called RPS before they were aquired. They don't share long haul trucks or delivery trucks. And they're staffed by contractors, not by FedEx employees. The Home Delivery part of the operation operates Tuesday - Saturday.
This is in one of the most expensive areas in the US. I wouldn't call this third world status. In most areas you can easily find a 1BR apartment for that much.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12672827
can I ask why this redditor in particular matters?
Most of the article seems to be "port compatibility between Apple laptops and Google phones", and doesn't work for those with Apple phones.
Irvine, CA has this occurring. 2014 numbers reported that 80% of single family homes in the area were bought by Chinese families (random first google hit article on it: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-30/80-all-new-home-buy...). A lot of the Irvine Company apartments top-level units are effectively birthing centers on the down low, but nobody really seems to take much issue with it.

There is also a significant rich foreign Saudi presence in Irvine and that's definitely more of a culture clash due to the misogynistic nature of mother/son relationships. Super spoiled kids, "slavery" scandals, etc but the money "donated" to Irvine company for things like renovating the spectrum mall is massive. Considering Irvine company owns ~90% of Irvine, I think this foreign interest can't be overlooked in lieu of the more public Chinese impact.
Because then the businesses would just stop doing business in the US. The govt will do anything it can to keep them there. The current situation is actually optimal for the current corporate oligarchy.
The Mitt: digital synthesizer explores the fine motor skills of the human hand
A spectrum of increasing respect for those ellipses:

https://github.com/debugger22/github-audio

https://github.com/Thomasb81/Midi_SynthFpga

http://overtone.github.io/

https://github.com/maximecb/Turing-Tunes
Yeah. Simply make it difficult to do business in the US. That'll work!
>I don't know how you think that school systems, especially in the west, place more emphasis on "how" than "why".

I've taught people at college level, and have seen way too many cases of people knowing how to perform the steps to, say, solve an equation, find a derivative or take an integral without understanding what the operations actually mean, or why bother with all this stuff in the first place.

It's not the students' fault; the concerns I am trying to voice have been articulated by many over the recent years, and are best summed up here: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
the title we've been given and the abstract you just quoted fits with my prior that the sugar industry pays for such studies. after all it's obvious that someone who drinks diet sodas isn't getting more Calories than on the packaging, whereas if they drank sugared drinks it would be a huge source.

maybe water would be better as far as "expected weight loss" but it's obviously false that diet soda can prevent weight loss. (unless it takes away a person's will to exercise and takes away a person's ability to make correct calorie-related choices.) If someone is active and eating less than they're using, or exercising heavily and especially building muscle, it's obvious that drinking any amount of diet soda won't inhibit these processes, since people do it all the time.

since you've read and quoted the abstract, could you suggest a title for the mods that's even vaguely true?
Youtube, reddit/r/options, http://www.cboe.com/, etc . Plenty of resources online.
Jiles Reckless Talks Jenna Marbles
2008 – Successful internet censorship protests in Melbourne
Indie Startups: The Ingredients of Success
I, for one, am incredibly saddened by this. Not against CaH directly, per se, but at the psychology of people's propensity to spend money.

Over the past 3 years, I have created about 4 or 5 web apps, and sunk my own money into them to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. In most cases, it was a struggle to get people to pay even $3/month for one of them, and I ended up shuttering some of them.

The feeling I get from this is that hundreds and hundred of hours of blood, sweat and tears from me, (which includes 50 years of knowledge, and personal sacrifices that I and my family have had to make) is, at the end of the day, worth less than a hole in the earth.

Excuse me while I go sit in a darkened room and ruminate about this over a glass of wine.
Most high end games are developed in C++ for both iOS and Android with Java and Objective-C wrappers for things such as IAP's and Game Kit/Play Games integration.
The argument from the parliament and the commission has always been that if the UK wants the single market it gets the other bits too, with freedom of movement being the biggest issue.

Obviously britons would still be able to get into the EU via some sort of visa system, and it's profoundly unclear if that is what Guy has suggested or exactly how many extra rights come with it. It is unlikely for instance that this EU fee would affect things like the ease moving between benefits systems because that would probably be handled by bilateral treaties.
6 Online Marketing Tactics Your Customers HATE
Subway Assholes – Determining the cost through simulation
When Obama (with the help of Eric Schmidt) does it, it's 'brilliant':

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-30/googles-er...

When Trump does the exact same thing, we have an article disparaging his win and accusing him of 'voter suppression'.

If this is the new definition of 'voter suppression', I think every politician is guilty of it. I just wish we would stop changing the definitions of everything in an attempt to win an argument or sway public opinion. This is the definition of propaganda.

Clinton paid people to spam public forums with anti-Trump propaganda, but nobody discusses it or even cares about it. The 'rigged' system Trump talked about before the election is still in full force.

http://theantimedia.org/hillary-clintons-internet-troll-army...
I get the chain effect, but because of the scarcity of land zoned that way, the buildings that are currently the bottom end up torn down rather than rented for less, and the land re-used because the base value of the land doesn't allow the rent to drop.

So you see drops across most of the market, except at the bottom.

This market effect is actually good! It keeps land cycling to be productively used and everyone gets to live in a nicer place.

The problem is we need to rezone land to drop the value of highly dense land, so those low end apartments drop a bit, rather than being repurposed. (At least, until cities are rebalanced a bit.)
Yes, I have the 2014 version of the 13 inch macbook pro. The increased sharpness is very noticable to me, particularly where the underside vents are now placed, creating that knife-like feel when you pick it up.
Agreed.

This needs to be fixed on the state level.
My anecdotal evidence shows a dramatic shift of my 20-something and 30-something year old co-workers to Oakland from SF due to affordability. Oakland is close, cheaper (though rising), diverse, and close by BART. This is probably putting a good deal of supply back into the SF market, but putting pressures in the East Bay markets (Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda).
This is an excellent post and I love the interactive demos.

> gradient descent ... ball rolling down a hill

Gradient descent is similar to a ball with no mass falling down a hill. Other methods (heavy-ball and Nesterov acceleration) are similar to a heavier ball rolling down a hill. I've written a post [0] on this with a visualization.

Given a quadratic model (most examples in post) there are some strong theory on convergence rates. Nesterov acceleration has at least linear convergence (which really means exponential). More detail can be found in Noecdal and Wright.

(I'm currently in Steve Wrights Nonlinear Optimization I)

[0]:http://scottsievert.com/blog/2016/01/30/inverse-3/
Not in Orlando.
If You Dare Hackers to Hack You, They'll Hack You Good
I browsed the research on this some time ago. From what I remember the sweet taste is not enough, as some sweeteners were tested and didn't produce the insulin spike. There was only weak evidence for one of the sweeteners causing a similar effect when tested.

If I remember correctly, Aspartame didn't cause the spike. The problem is that with most diet sodas they won't tell you which sweeteners they use exactly, and in which proportions.
> As soon as you start reading serious non-fiction (mathematics, psychology, philosophy) summaries just do not work. The "book about the book" in fact tends to be much longer in length (good examples: anything on Wittgenstein, anything on Galois theory)

Strong concur. Any serious work is a nuanced beast that demands grappling with and considering.
Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See
Telegram set up a second crypto contest in which active attacks were allowed. https://telegram.org/blog/cryptocontest
You might be conflating overall rental demand activity with overall real estate financing activity. Keep in mind that low interest rates create continuous opportunities for financing, bandlimited to the minimal interval between credit knocks for doing so. If Joe Q. Landlord can refinance or purchase property at an assumed valuation of $X, that incorporates an expected inflation subject to interest rate Z%, which yields a median monthly rental fee of $Y.
Wow. That's an achievement.

The key to getting the problem down to a manageable size for verification seems to have been using a large number of passes, so that each pass performs a well-defined transformation on a sequential file.
I'm going to assume it's because Intel don't value the community surrounding their products very well. at least, the ones that append to their work in a way.

a lot of companies tend towards that behavior. a lot of single developers tend towards that behavior. I don't like it because it represents a kind of destructive egotism.

hopefully that's not what it is and it's just Intel not thinking too hard.
In Depth on Udacity's Self Driving Car Curriculum
I think there are two fundamental questions: Is there such thing as right and wrong? And if so, how does one know what is right and what is wrong?

A commenter below says right and wrong are only human constructs, but that raises the question of "which humans?" Arthur Leff calls this the "grand sez who?" Is right and wrong a preference, as I might prefer meat to cheese? If so, then who's to say my preferences are more or less valid than anyone else's?

Most people act as if there is a right and wrong beyond preference. Public discourse is full of criticism of "wrong" behaviors and attitudes. Is it wrong to be racist (for example)? Is it wrong to dislike cheese? Are those two different? Why?

I think they are different, and I'd bet most people do, too. If right and wrong are merely human preferences, then no one's "right" is better than my "right." If right and wrong is a human construct we're just arguing about which cheese tastes better.

But I do believe that right and wrong exist, and I believe that God determines what is right and wrong. My motivation to do right and avoid wrong (not that I do it well) is to please God. I'd like to be the kind of man that pleases God. And that's enough for me.

To answer your original questions - the fundamental moral tenets of all the great world religions are pretty much the same (not to say all religions are the same or equally true, but the moral teachings are the same). Follow them.

Do it because it's right, and you're a person who does the right thing. You're not a loser if you're pleasing God.

Good luck to you!
well his example probably violates more than one regulation the issue being of course, someone has to report it.
Unless you put criminal sites in the filter, I can't see how this will help? And if you do...you it will trigger an alert and then they can hax you...legally.

Lose lose all round now.
Sorry, I misread your comment. I'm curious what a rent vs percentile curve looks like for the area. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find one.
Collectible Card Game to Code Dataset
Very, very spiffy.
They're all bad in different ways, hard to say what is worst. Maybe time I wrote software for company's largest customer, and it crashed every night at 4AM. Operations people on night shift were not happy.

Full story at https://softwareclown.com (it's the first email after you sign up), plus lots more things I've screwed up over the years.
Quick question but are most graphics intensive games written in a single C++ code base for both iOS and Android? For example I use to play sim city on both ios and android and noticed it was virtually the same. Is it just a shim onto OpenGL and everything else is done inside C++ with a custom rendering engine? Or are they using some type of Unity style environment?
Neural Networks to Generate Code for Collectible Card Games
Jiles Reckless Talks PewDiePie
How to Start Learning a Programming Language
lol more freedom to increase wages.
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
seattle has more growth counted in the number of construction cranes than any city in the us. prices of standlone houses seem to be increasing, apartment pricing is less clear, but this article seems to know.
"One significant issue, not just in open source software but in the entire worldwide software industry in general, is a decreased perceived value of software. "

The irony of this statement is that because of the plethora of open source software given away for free for the last decade, there is now a perceived decrease in value.
A few problems with the rather sensationalist headline:

1.) As others have said, mice are not people. Mouse metabolism is quite a bit faster than humans, so let's not get too hasty about conclusions. It might be real, but this is suggestive of further research, no more.

2.) The concentration of aspartame in soda is quite low (aspartame is many fold sweeter than sugar). From the article:

"However, aspartame does not block the enzyme directly. It does so through one of its intestinal breakdown products called phenylalanine."

Phenylalanine is a regular old amino acid. I'd have loved to see whether the same effects are recapitulated when you feed high-phenylalanine foods, an alternative test of the hypothesis.

3.) From the article:

"The amount of sweetener solution given to the normal diet group was equivalent to a human drinking three-and-a-half cans of soda a day. For the high-fat group it amounted to the equivalent of two cans."

"In the end, there were hardly any noticeable differences between the two groups of mice that were fed a normal diet."

They go on to mention that there were some possible glucose sensitivity and inflammation differences, but these are hardly conclusive findings. Again, more research, particularly in humans, is warranted.

They also talk about effects on the high-fat mice, which is fine as far as it goes, but again, see number 1.)

All in all, I think deep breath, some caution, and looking at studies that actually involve humans might be warranted before such strong claims are believed.

Here's a few (some open, some closed) that look at aspartame and human diet:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00319384909...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24595225

And here's a fascinating article on a new human hormone that has been found the old fashioned way (genetic anomaly) in regulating appetite and metabolism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/opinion/sunday/the-thin-ge...
A Hierarchical Approach for Generating Descriptive Image Paragraphs
Http://axoloti.com

Less cpu power than rpi, but designed for audio from the start!
This list... I dig the site layout, but it reads like instructions for how to be a disappointing grandparent.

"Hey Kid, I know you wanted a RoboCop toy, but they had these at the 5 & Dime and I think they look about the same."

http://media.galaxant.com/000/117/275/desktop-1423856901.jpg

You can't pitch a 2012 smartphone as an alternative to an iPhone, you can't pitch a very dated clunky brick of a laptop as an alternative to a MacBook Pro. This is literally how to disappoint the people you give gifts to -- just don't bother giving them gifts, compromise and just be the grandparent that give them $5 and tell them to buy what they want.
tl;dr some repost of a webcam gal in a chair looking coquettish and stroking herself. Set to music. I suggest using a private browser if you don't want it to affect your recommended vids.