skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention it wouldn't be able to point at the star without some actuators.
It is a PID loop, which I guess may not be considered to be actual reinforcement learning.
I did my thesis on the argument from design post-Darwin.

A lot of interesting discussion centers on how to reconcile the generalized principle of mediocrity with the apparently low probability of a life-supporting universe existing (in terms of how fine-tuned basic constants have to be for it to happen). Some people try to end-run around this with anthropic arguments (which better writers than myself have pointed out are fallacious when applied this way); others try to build on QM and a many-worlds approach to posit that a universe like ours is possible and thus must exist (and in fact a large number of them, similar but each slightly different, must exist). And some turn not to the Judeo-Christian literal-biblical-reading everything-created-in-six-days idea of "God", but to the general idea that our universe might be the product of intelligence.

And a lot of that work focuses on simulation arguments, which solve the seemingly-improbable "tuning" of our universe's physical constants by saying that they were in fact tuned by some intelligence for a particular purpose. That purpose need not be to produce us, or anything resembling us (perhaps we are simply a side effect of a set of constants that produce some other result that's actually of interest to the simulators), and might be as banal as "to see what happens when you plug in these values for the constants", but the purpose would nonetheless exist.

There's also a line of reasoning which comes out of that and says that once such a capability exists, suddenly our own universe does not appear so unlikely. All it takes is one universe, somewhere, with constants providing the ability to simulate other universes (which is more general and thus more likely than constants providing the specific configuration of our own universe), and you get to add not just simulations running in that universe, but simulations running in simulations running in simulations... and so on all the way down. At which point the number of universes which exist and support intelligent life grows dramatically, possibly even rivaling the number of universes which exist and do not support intelligent life.

Though on a completely different tack there are people who've run with the idea that singularities fire off big bangs of their own, producing new universes not visible from ours, and posited a kind of natural selection principle based on that: universes which give rise to singularities will have more "offspring", so universes which give rise to singularities should be more common than universes which don't. And since one easy way to get singularities is through organized clumping of matter which can then undergo gravitational collapse, and that same thing is what allows us to exist, it's not so unlikely to see our universe.
Don't see any mentioning of speciation in that article. From the looks of it it's adaptation we're looking at, correct me if I'm wrong.

To my knowledge, to date, the established experimental cases of achieving reproductive isolation (none achieving complete isolation btw)- no experiments demonstrated morphological differences between the "species" they produced.
https://mailparser.io/ ?
Poorly written title/article (if you can call it that). At least it contains a link to ieee.org with more content [1]. See also arstechnica [2][3] for some earlier coverage.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/se...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/breakthrough-starshot...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/could-breakthrough-st...
To paraphrase a line from Aeon Flux, human cloning is trading in excess. At least given the state of humanity at present.
Rescinded comment

Link to original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117521
Well, selling for $10 (plus a 10-20% markup, you do need to make some profit), would have the effect of putting many of your competitors out of business, and at the same time increase the volume of your orders far beyond your ability to fulfil (and far beyond your ability to expand capacity as well), leading to a long waiting list of back-orders. Quality would likely fall as well as you scramble to meet demand.

Some second-order effects of the scarcity would be hoarding, scalping, etc.

OTOH, selling for $90 (at first) pushes your competitors to cut their own profit margins to match your price (or else gradually abandon the lower end of the market, a classic Christensen disruption) and lets you pocket a lot more money which you can invest aggressively in capacity as you gradually continue to lower your price (always keeping it just below the 2nd lowest price) and increase demand (growing the market) and your market share.

In fact, the increase in market size under those circumstances will lull your competitors into ignoring your increased market share for a while as the pie gets bigger and bigger.

BTW, the latter is exactly what Amazon is doing with AWS pricing. Imagine how that would have played out if they had launched in 2007 with prices 80% lower (their rumored profit margin) than anyone else.
What was the dataset you guys used? Was it open-sourced or closed source?
After further research, I stand corrected. The federal minimum wage is a minimum wage that is applicable to workers throughout the United States, not just employees of the federal government. Constitutionally, I'm not sure how that works, but I'm sure it's not unlike other blatant abuses of Constitutional structures. I'd bet there's a case I could look up somewhere, but don't have the time or inclination right now.

That makes it a bad example of what I was talking about, but it's now a good example of how the foundational principles of the Union have been selectively permeated for political convenience. That's sad, IMO, and not something we should seek to replicate in further employment legislation.
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You can change the default search engine to any site that uses OpenSearch technology.
In Microsoft Edge, first go to the website of the search engine you want.
Then, select More actions (...) > Settings, scroll down, select View advanced settings, scroll down again, and then select Change search engine.
Select your search engine's website in the list, and then select Set as default.
If you don't see your search engine in the list, make sure that you've visited the search engine's website in Microsoft Edge, and that your search engine uses OpenSearch technology.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/instantanswers/390c87f8-...
I don't see how it's a disguised theological idea, yet you're turning it into one and then arguing against that. It's an argument for a process being treated as an agent even if it's blind. The disagreement there is more philosophical (I currently don't know why most people seem to believe that blind agency is not valid, I imagine it's related to beliefs in free will at some level) and not at all theological, at least, from my perspective.

If anything, gods were likely created to make various observed processes more understandable by giving them agency without going through a bunch of philosophical hoops. I would say that's very reasonable. A lot more reasonable than pretending that the process does nothing and poises no danger.
Honestly the Pebble is perfect because it's so stripped down. It does exactly what I want it to do which is show me notifications, the time, track my sleep, let me set timers and press next in spotify without pulling my phone out of my pocket. It does all of this with a battery that I charge once a week. I'm very sad Pebble is gone.
I did in an earlier thread[1], but that's the last book I read on the subject (more technical books in the last while). Its a broad set of beliefs that get classified in the same bucket and the US is a big area. I personally identify more with a writer from rural Missouri than one from New York City. I'm not a big Ann Coulter fan, but I would guess many on the left aren't big Bill Maher fans either, and I would put the two of them in the same category.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12239123#12239625
55 Gallon of Lube
Deep learning to identify available space in kit from images! We are dead proud of it !

Trad learning for many applicatons : fault detection, risk management for installations, job allocation, incident detection (early warning of big things), content recommendation, media purchase advice, others....

Probabilistic learning for inventory repair - but this is not yet to impact, the results are great but the advice has not yet been ratified and productionised.
And yet this article points out that these other notions are equivalent to saying god made it. It's OK for elon musk to think we are a simulation created by someone, but not on to say "religion". I found Musk's idea equally stupid for that very reason. May as well say the universe is on a turtles back. But what's that turtle standing on? It's turtles all the way down.
I work with Polymer quite a lot, it is my favorite platform both professionally and for personal projects.

What I like about it most is that it lets me program for the web like I would normally code for software projects without UI. You can completely deconstruct your application into components and encapsulate logic and responsibility, giving you all the tools you need for great architecture. I am traditionally more of a backend guy, but Polymer makes building frontend projects fun for me, because the most interesting thing about programming to me is software architecture, creating powerful abstractions and designing interaction and APIs.

I have been working with Polymer since the first beta release (before 0.1) and completed multiple projects, both at work and during my free time. It has not been without it's problems. I have to say that it takes quite a while before it really 'clicked', because you have to learn quite a few patterns to make things work. If you started early on, it was very unpolished (despite that, we have a fairly large Polymer 0.5 application running in production, and it's still chugging along nicely), and the upgrade process is extremely painful (hence aforementioned application still running 0.5). It can also be dangerous, because if you don't know what you're doing, it is easy to end up with some frankenstein contraption that performs terribly, and is a horror to maintain. My advice to anyone looking to get into Polymer is to get advice from more seasoned developers, the Slack channel[1] is a great resource for that. Learn from existing projects and applications as much as possible to see how they solve the issues you will run into, and get a feeling for how the general architectural patterns work.

The good part is that all the techniques you learn are almost directly applicable to the future native Web Platform, as one of the core concepts of Polymer is that it tries to emulate what the future Web Platform will look like, and allow you to use that platform today. Quite a large part of the platform is already natively supported on most of the evergreen browsers, and I find that I use less and less Polymer code these days and use more and more plain native code. One day we may no longer use Polymer at all, but your newly learned skills will still apply.

A recent side project of mine has been an exploration of what future Web Applications might look like, and to test what is possible on the platform today. I built it completely from scratch, with no libraries or dependencies other than Polymer:

- https://overwebs.ruph.in (warning: sound and relatively high bandwidth. Works best in Chrome, other browsers untested)

[1] https://polymer-slack.herokuapp.com/
You have the option to self declare to be not a US resident.
Servers are closed source, will open source in 2017.
Yup. Comments moved to that thread. You might want to post your second paragraph as a new comment there too.
Open source Arduino compatible board has WiFi, Bluetooth, RF
If you didn't care for Cryptonomicon, you're probably right to stop. I've read four of his novels and that's the only one that didn't fit the pattern of [promising first 1/3], [2/3 section is bad but I'm holding on that it'll go somewhere], [3/3 goes off the rails entirely, no payoff for suffering through the middle third]. Cryptonomicon was consistently OK, at least.

The Diamond Age was the most frustrating of them, because it starts off so good, but by the end it's a total mess. There's a whole scene in the last third that exists just to have one character tell you what another's motivation has been since a few chapters in, since it's entirely obscure to the reader. Not in a big reveal kind of way, but in a "uh oh, I let some friends read a draft and they are really confused by this major character, better fix it, but, like, without working very hard" way. I mean, at least he bothers to tell us, but wow.

Like you, I enjoyed Neuromancer quite a bit (and I read it after Stephenson—only last year, in fact). The other two in that trilogy are somewhere on my mental to-read list.
Would you all consider a Fitbit to be a smartwatch?

I would, which is why I wear a Garmin now despite having backed two Pebble Kickstarters. AFAIK, a FitBit does everything the original Pebble did, which was mainly put notifications on your wrist. I know my Garmin does everything that the original Pebble did (mainly notifications), and I can use it when I go running without having to bring my phone.

So, yeah, in comparison the original Pebble, FitBit is a smartwatch as defined by the smartwatch market in its current state. That doesn't mean that I don't think it's early days, just as you with your laptop comparison.
>The monochrome screen is also less attractive though IMO bearable.

The (colour-screen) Pebble Time and Time Steel have been on the market for about 1.5-2 years now, and also included a microphone for relaying voice commands to your phone. The Pebble 2 would've included all of this, plus a larger screen. It managed to preserve a battery life of (easily) the better part of a week.

RE your question: the FitBit isn't a smartwatch. It's designed around a single function (fitness monitoring).
You stated completely incorrect info on the average profit of a US based McDonalds. Sorry to point that out to you.
While you downplay my mention as "political sloganeering", it's a core assumption of contemporary political philosophy. A specific designation ("chattel") is only required for distinguishing between different classes of people, when only one class is treated as property. Totalitarianism implicitly asserts all people are its to control, and thus needs no formal designation.
Gotcha. I am seeking a vendor that handles this for us somehow (even if that means we must pay for dedicated resources managed by the vendor). CircleCI has spoiled me so that I'll never maintain a Jenkins or other build server again if I can avoid it. CircleCI has hinted that their v2 (which is in alpha) will address layer caching.
Finally! This is excellent news.
Wealth flows the other way (private->public) constantly, by governmental mandate. It's called "tax".
Thank you everyone very much for the great feedback! :) I'm going to take the game offline for a couple days to fix some of the issues. I'll post here when it's back up.

Thanks again!
That's awesome and it just goes to show how simple something can be that would otherwise involve a certain degree of concurrent (and distributed) programming.

GenStage has a lot of uses at scale. Even more so is going to be GenStage Flow (https://hexdocs.pm/gen_stage/Experimental.Flow.html). It will be a game changer for a lot of developers.
STV type systems seem to be gradually catching on. Oregon's Benton County recently passed a rancked choice voting thing. I think it's a 'bottom up' type of reform.
Read further down in the comments. This is already being discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161516
While you could, I doubt hotels would want the reputation of being "The Homeless Hotel". Then there are other issues like drug use, untreated mental illness, etc that the homeless are more prone to.
I really enjoyed reading Midshipman Easy and other similar books as a kid. That particular series by Marryat was good too.
Loved the detox. Decided to extend it to the rest of the year!
I know a few companies riding the ml/nn train. Any chance you are based in NYC?
Fair Use Is Essential to a Free Press
I really wish more SV companies felt this way, instead of just hiring the cheapest fresh grads they can find.
I commenting on one book anigbrowl and not at all about the naming of others. It is a pretty common practice on political and business books of all stripes to go for the most provocative title.

In fact, I am commenting on the contents, not the title.

I have not read Victoria (2014) by William S. Lind, so I have no comment on that.
I'm using some of the pre-built libraries to find/fix low hanging fruit of data quality issues for https://www.findlectures.com, for instance finding speaker names.

The first pass is usually a regex to find names, then for what's left run a natural language tool to find candidate names, and then manual entry.
Do you mean something like Kiva or Zidisha? They're quite popular, but there's a very real chance that the borrower can default on your investment. Not a huge deal though, because if you're micro-lending then this is expected. I don't think the interest rates are good either.

Doing it for charitable reasons is fine, but it's not a great way to make money IMO.
"the answer is almost always nothing"

That's just not true. The whole area of Christian Apologetics attempts to answer many of the questions that are raised.
Aussie Bank to Unseat R3 and Hyperledger in Blockchain Development Race
>> But I think it's worth stressing that the primary force that drives evolution is still very clearly natural selection.

what makes you so sure of that?
This essentially happend in the linguistics field. The Elsevier journal "Lingua" has been abandoned in favour of Glossa. However it took the Lingua editorial board resigning en masse to really make this happen.

Even after this, Lingua is still going fairly strong. Completely dropping a journal requires some researchers to go against their own interest (publishing in a worse journal or not at all).

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/editors-of-the-journal-lingua-...
Peer-to-peer async message driven microservice
Closely related effect, with scientific references: [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
>The odds of the U.S. changing its voting methodology are so infinitesimal, I'm having trouble conceptualizing it.

You mean how Maine just passed Rank-Choice (Instant Runoff) voting as law? [1]

"On November 8 [2016], Maine voters passed Question 5 and became the first state in the nation to adopt Ranked Choice Voting for state and federal elections. The Yes On 5 campaign was led by the Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, a grassroots, Maine-based organization founded by former independent state senator Dick Woodbury of Yarmouth, and led by Kyle Bailey of Gorham." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

[2] http://www.fairvote.org/maine_voters_adopt_ranked_choice_vot...
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> Is that also wrong?

Possibly, but in a less odious way. Public school has at least two benefits over paying people to have children; 1) it probably doesn't incentivize people to have kids, but it does (probably) benefit the kids that already exist and 2) it might actually have a positive net value to the people being forced to pay for public school but aren't using it. In particular, public schools serve as a form of division of labor, where the adult/child ratio is much lower, freeing up a huge number of parents to remain in the workforce instead of staying home and watching the kids all day. This, I would argue, is most low-quality lower-division public schools' primary function; it's not about the kids learning, it's about freeing the parents' schedules for 8-9 hours a day.
Didn't both of those publications vigorously oppose Trump?

The "conservative intellectual" niche may be the most politically irrelevant group in the country.
I feel like the parties split some axis of what people want, but are both pulled well off center of the population by MONEY.
This works when you're executing code "where the users are", as I conceded in the parent post (it's the language you use when you have to). It doesn't explain why they'd willingly switch away from another server-side language to re-implement the whole thing in server-side JavaScript.
OK, how do I use Google Now in Firefox or Edge on Windows?
I could have used this background when learning about lattice models for protein folding. It was interesting, but I was confused how you could easily count all possible tilings without enumerating them (answer: it's tricky).
Your pattern is commonly stated when describing Stephenson novels. I don't even know what to think of Snow Crash. It reminded me of someone just jotting down everything in their head while sitting at a coffee shop, and then sending it to the printing press.

Thanks for the future warning.
While I very much abhor the practices of Elsevier, one has to be really careful how one acts to push back. Even without getting into the result that not interacting with Elsevier has on careers in the biomedical sciences, it's easy to fall into traps with other publishing firms. For instance, PlosOne is a pay-to-publish "alternative". However, the motivations here are backwards. PlosOne makes money for each accepted publication and thus limits their motivation to do serious peer review. I'm not saying that means PlosOne articles are necessarily bad, the very nature of their publishing model suggests something could be wrong - and it's pretty hard to get recognition for publications through them. I personally prefer when the professional organizations, like APS, handle their own mainstream of publishing. The Phys Rev journals have a strong motivation to promote the best research, because it speaks well of the industry overall, but because they are beholden to their membership, they are less likely to promote the kind of unethical practices used by Elsevier.
Elsevier is a huge player and owns many important journals.

It's still very important where you publish if you want to build a name for yourself...
OK. I find Neuromancer and Snow Crash pretty similar, as raw, high energy cyberpunk books with no attempt at respectability. Gibson was artier and a better writer (in the narrow sense of prose stylist.) It's kind of hard to picture someone liking one and disliking the other.

Now I could see liking those early books and disliking the later output of both authors; they became wordier, softer, more pretentious - while keeping a lot of merit.
Neither of those should cause a sudden power loss. Even if your battery rapidly depletes, the phone will still shut itself down properly before it loses power.
There is only so many hardware people you need, FitBit already has a bunch of different watch models that all seem to do the same thing. They could do with less.

Meanwhile all of the smartwatch companies are desperately looking to move from a commodity hardware model to services with recurring revenue, i.e. software.
Keto was the only diet I could lose weight with. One thing a lot of other diet plans ignore is satiety. If you are hungry or crave food, it is basically an addiction. You will not stop till satieted. Sugars and starches spike glucose levels and thus trigger insulin responses which puts one back in a hungry state.
Please, please, write more, and more details!

To much web developers have that "works on my (fastest possible) desktop or notebook" attitude, and every developer that understands and talks about what's actually going on by most of the users (those using the slower devices) is worth gold.
I run mine on a Raspberry Pi 2 using Arch Linux which has a native package for UniFi [1]. Pretty cheap and hassle-free.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/unifi/