skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The overseas tomatoes don't ship or grow any better, and consumers are demonstrably unwilling to pay for them. The point of this research is that by doing the expensive rare difficult phenotyping & genotyping of flavor of all the varieties they used (domestic commercial, heirloom, even wild), you can get a polygenic score which predicts flavor without having to grow & feed to a taste panel; and with this polygenic score, you can then do molecular breeding piggybacking on top of normal breeding, to neutralize the damage. For the most part, there's no inherent biological reason that a robust fast-growing tomato has to taste bad because the taste chemicals represent such a physically minute part of the tomatoes; it's just that with zero selection for taste, the taste gradually suffers over generations.
Current mean cost to US domestic consumers of $0.12 kW/h, says Google.

TPD Specs:
GTX 1050 75W
GTX 1080 180W
Titan 250W

Triple these numbers for the overall machine's PSU spec.

So even the Titan costs $0.03 per hour to run, or maybe $0.10 if the rest of the machine is flat-out.

edit: $0.19 kWh for San Francisco residents. Domestic rates.
No need to go that far. I grow amazing tasting heirloom tomatoes in my backyard in Pennsylvania, the Bonnie Best variety from 1908. I grew them for the first time last year and got 115lbs from 5 plants - I was giving bags away to my neighbors and co-workers, got rave reviews!
I don't know why Iron sky returning ~50% is not considered a success, but it is a pretty funny movie. Also if budgets are what we go buy, the Blair Witch project, which grossed nearly a 1/4 billion at a budget of 60k.
So the grey code itself has a graph analog (cycle in hypercube) and as the 1st picture would leave one to believe there's also some tree structure going on. Graphs on multiple levels!
> Except whenever you change employers your green-card application resets.

The green card application has to be redone again, but the place in line will be intact in most cases.

Still, you are right that the backlog can take over a decade.
Well, there were accusations during the trial that the seeds weren't even wind-blown and that the farmer trespassed on the property once he saw that the Round-Up wasn't killing the crops. Monsanto argued that they spaced a buffer around their farm to prevent wind-blowing and that they routinely mixed up the perimeter soil to prevent any growth from occurring. Even if we were to be liberal with the probabilities and assume that the seeds could have blown onto his land, the concentration of Round-Up resistant plants on the farmer's land was so unnaturally high that it was easy to prove it was intentional and willful infringement.
Fair enough. I forgot about the malpractice of putting credentials and personal information in the code itself. Companies doing that would have a hard time open sourcing the code. Others whose build system doesnt cleanly separate 3rd party or internal stuff might also have trouble. Patents I already handled by saying they simply don't release third party stuff that's proprietary. Patent-encumbered code or tech is one such thing.

So, yeah, I'll take those corrections.
No, I'm saying that what you're preoccupied with is not ultimately the biggest problem. And I don't think they are as deeply linked as you do.

That's fine though; ultimately, you will be able to blame RethinkDB's death on this non-problem and you'll have a clean conscience. It's easier to point to this as the cause of death than the much harder problem of getting people interested in the product in the state it's currently in. I think this is like blaming a cancer death on a lack of handwashing. Sure, washing your hands is important. But it won't cure cancer.
I also did not like the font, hard to say why. It definitely is not designed with being legible in mind. Feels very unbalanced. I think the biggest issue is with the distracting curves, and varying ways of drawing the various curves.

Kerning is also messed up, the distance between the letters is too large in comparison to the distance between the words.
I agree on the dosages sold being too high. I'm a terrible sleeper that wakes up all through the night. I've found taking a fraction, between an eighth and quarter, of the 3mg pills is enough for me to sleep and wake up refreshed.

Also I've found sleeping at least 7-8 hours is necessary while taking it. Any less and I feel groggy all morning.
Organic foods can still use "chemicals", you just can't use synthetically created additives (ferts, pesticides, etc.)

AFAIK they could spray the crops with arsenic and it could still be "organic".
> I regularly use this as my go-to example whenever I'm talking with someone about why you can't directly map the physical world to binary state.

Just like the classic genies, "be careful what you wish for"! This is also called hysteresis filtering for anyone wondering.
My biggest concern is a group of people who will be unimpacted are dictating terms to the rest of us. I feel there is a strong comparison between private gated communities and strong borders (not necessarily walls).
>> The probability of an event depends on your knowledge

That's true insofar as by "probability" you mean your belief about the outcome of the event- in other words, your expectation of the outcome.

The actual outcome of an event does not depend on your expectation.

Stated in another way, the process that produces an observation and the process that produces your expectation of the observation are independent.

Else: magick.
Wikipedia actually has a fairly good overview of the idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioned_taste_aversion

You can find more info on Google Scholar for specific studies and papers.
> Ive always struggled to understand Sartre's popularity even among other philosophers I respect.

I agree completely.

It is completely rankling when considering how he is compared to Simone de Beauvoir. Her "Second Sex" is considered a feminist work—and for good reason—but it surpasses any of what Sarte wrote as a philosophical work. While he did build on the backs of others, his ideas remain small compared to his contemporaries.
> wouldn't it make sense to weight it by population, or even population of likely attendees?

You're right, of course.

> the point of your post (and the original post) is just to call out how ridiculous and sad the US's sudden policy swerve is.

Yes, getting visa can be a time-consuming, expensive, even humiliating hassle - I've seen it with

* friends (one friend was planning to visit the USA for the first time this Christmas, was twice denied visa (no reasons provided), so did not go),

* colleagues (a colleague working in Hong Kong could not get permission for his wife to join him there), and

* myself (and I travel on a German passport, which is the best in that regard: 177 countries visa free/visa on arrival).

So, I genuinely think that among the things to consider (among others) when planning an international conference is easy entry for attendees.

However, the sad thing is that it's not a sudden policy swerve. The USA has had a rather restrictive visa policy for decades. It has obviously historically been wide open, but increasing suspicion of economic migrants, and then after 9/11 increasing suspicion of terrorists seems to have made it more and more defensive of the borders.

I personally find US CBP (custom and border protection) among the potentially least pleasant (and I've been to 100+ countries). ("Potentially" because you can be lucky and have a friendly reception and no problems at all, but you sure can have grumpy questions and more serious problems.)

The Recurse Center, a great programming retreat in NY, used to be called Hacker School. With the old name, attendees regularly had trouble with CBP (the dreaded secondary inspection), and I seem to recall that some have been denied entry. I believe that was one of the factors behind the name change.

So, yes, your perceptive observation that this is another index on which the US compares less favourably to the rest of the developed world as sometimes assumed also contributed to the post. Recent events have made it even worse - and I'm glad to see that the resistance is rising :-)
I believe this is an example of hysteresis. Often used to avoid the exact situation you describe of rapid state changes.

You will see it in web page menus, or rather the easier to use web page menus, where when your mouse leaves briefly the menu does not instantly disappear.
people think it's best to ignore Trump's actual words because they are designed to mislead

Trump can say will serve to persuade those who are prejudiced against him.

nothing that Trump can say will serve to persuade those who are prejudiced against him.

Add to these the many conflicting statements Trump has made during the campaign. It's hard to figure out whether to trust that we understand what he means when he speaks, whether we are inclined to believe him or not. Even now, I've read comments from people who support Trump and those who don't expressing "Yes, it's a Muslim ban! Just like he said he'd do!" and "No, it's not a Muslim ban! Look at the Executive Order!"

I'm pretty unsophisticated. I'd like to be able to trust what people say, and that they say what they mean. With Trump I'm left very confused. I want to be able to trust what he says, so I can evaluate that against what actions he takes, and that it allows me to predict what he intends to do.

This is all independent of what's being added by the media.

If I'm left with not being able to trust what he says, where does that leave me? What's my rational response? Trust that his intent is good for American's as a whole (not just those who voted for him)? Given government in general, and the past actions of Trump himself and those he's chosen to govern with him, it's not clear that that's a rational choice.
i'm lifelong republican, I loathe trump, I voted for johnson. But I can promise you that Trump will lock 2020 up if the left continues down this "Trump is hitler, white men are evil" spiral of insanity.
There may not be a fundamental right, but there are some very practical reasons to allow permanent residents and people who already hold valid visas to enter the country. Those documents are very difficult to obtain, often requiring sponsorship by an American corporation that would presumably be hurt by having their workers turned away at the border with no warning. Further these documents represent promises made by the American people to these individuals, who enter into leases, buy property, open gym memberships and generally build lives in the United States because they had been previously granted permission to stay for a time. What does it say about us that a change in leadership might suddenly invalidate promises previously made by the government for no apparent reason? Given such uncertainty why should anyone invest anything into this country?
Do you possibly have an app like MyFitnessPal that aggregates that data? None of the Fitbit devices sync with Google Fit but there are apps that read Fitbit data if you have the Fitbit app installed that and make assumptions of what the values should be.
Fair enough. Yes, I think we are in agreement.
Building a Real Time Event-Driven System Using Docker, Python, Amazon SNS and SQS
Is that substantially different somehow?
Downton Abbey had a pretty formularic script for at least the first 3 seasons though. A season based arc to try to save it, then it get fixed just for a new peril to start the next season.
Web Landmines: Thrash, Nags and Bloat
Something like http://www.easybatch.org/ may provide quite a bit of the infrastructure you're looking for. I'm sure there are equivalents for other languages.
In "Calendar", "ndar" has tighter spacing than "Cale". It looks really off to me.

It definitely seems that Open Sans has weaker kerning than the other font used in the web browser in that screenshot.
Before I wrote this I knew it was bad, but one site I checked was: 3118 requests, 10.6MB, XHR: 201, JS: 1238, CSS: 15, Image: 837, Media: 3, Font: 17, Doc: 333, Other: 436, Cookies: 36 domains
Heh, I had the reverse thought—if they let anyone who used the product near it they'd find SOMETHING that works!
That's tough, given a lot of people work 9-5. Easier to time your exercise before or after that.
Solar phone case? No thanks
In the article, it says explicitly.

"""
"The areas of the world that create danger for us, which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible."

Giuliani reiterated that the ban is "not based on religion."
"""

A muslim ban not based in religion sounds nonsensical to me.

As for the conspiracy theory medium article, its easy to do in a world of big data. It's called cherry picking, and its exactly what Info Wars does to create their fear mongering articles. Vague speculation and half truths on the main premises of the paper, and then even the conclusions.

Here's an example from the medium article:
"The aims of crushing various groups — Muslims, Latinos, the black and trans communities, academics, the press — are very much primary aims of the regime"

This is clear hysteria.
Here's what Trump actually said on black communities while campaigning, "We're going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever, ever, ever."

And so far President Trump as been doing pretty closely what he said.
My impression is that, far from being proven correct, it's actually falling out of fashion. Some ideas originating in string theory, such as the AdS/CFT correspondence, are having a heyday though.
Lessons to learn from C
Two different currencies: cost in Euros, returns in dollars.
What was the reason they froze the account?
NFS will, depending on mount options, block forever or start returning errors if the connection is lost. It's not really suitable for non-LAN use for a number of reasons.

It also will let you overwrite or interleave files unless both sides use advisory locking.
100 requests / sec average seems medium traffic to me (and outside the bounds of wordpress live)
But your knowledge of stochastic events depends on the number of observations of the outcomes of those events.

If you know only how well you do in probability tests, you can peg your chances to pass at 50%, but that doesn't tell you anything about the chances of the rest of the class.

I think you're arguing that you're just another observer, however you're not. You're the event and you have some sort of expectation about your outcomes. The observer here is the tutor, who has seen enough of you and others like you to have some more or less justifiable state of belief about the outcomes of the class.

Are you needlessly complicating what amounts to a very simple and reasonable point? You can't know what you don't know until you've seen enough of it to know it.

This goes for both deterministic and probabilistic knowledge. If you observe all possible outcomes of an event, you can deterministically predict its outcomes. If you observe sufficiently many outcomes of a stochastic event, you can probabilistically predict its outcomes. If you don't observe enough outcomes - and an infinite event will never give you enough outcomes - then you're stuck with inaccurate predictions for ever.
Well, maybe we just disagree on this point, but I think it makes more sense to compare apples to apples. To frame in a different way, given that Mithril isn't solely a view library, would you say it makes more sense to compare against a typical Backbone setup including dependencies like jQuery, or just compare against Marionette alone?

The performance numbers are explained in more detailed in the frameworks comparison page (they're dbmonster average render times). There are links to each implementation (they are all naive, using production-mode versions).
Well, with NIFs you can do anything — it's a parallel C universe. I was really referring to Erlang the language.
Assuming this is true, probably due to the fact that most apps using Parse are already in Javascript.
Very thoughtfully designed. I liked it better than Quip. But all our docs are in Google Docs, which sometimes includes spreadsheets, which doesn't appear supported. The very nice UX around collaboration isn't enough to justify the migration pain of moving hundreds of Google Docs and losing some of our gdoc non-text docs.
The backend for running half a million apps doesn't look anything like the backend for running a single app. Open-sourcing the actual Parse stack was not an option, and no one would've put in the effort to actually run the dozens of components involved. I started from scratch because that was the only way.
I think I might rather switch careers. Phones are terrible. They're sort of mostly tolerable when I'm just trying to kill time reading stuff on the web, or type very short messages where correct spelling is unimportant, but try to get any actual work done with a phone and it's an exercise in frustration. In order to fix all the problems with a smartphone that make it such a bad experience, you'd end up with a device that looks pretty much the same as a laptop.
I Ran My First Hackathon, and So Can You
Sounds like sleep apnea[1], which is usually discovered by a sleep partner, would be diagnosed with a sleep study, and can often be treated with a CPAP[2] machine, it keeps your airways open while you sleep, which helps you breathe.

[1] https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/sleepa...
[2] continuous positive airway pressure
Reports of the Death of Religious Art Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
The only studies are from a decade ago using the IE7 UI:

Then:

https://paypal.com Identified by Thawte

Compared to now:

PayPal Inc [US] | https://paypal.com

I'd love to either be able to do this ourselves or for the browsers to test the effectiveness of their own UIs.
> My view on its toxicity comes in part from too many conversations with lawyers over the years: lawyers (like engineers, honestly) are conservative, worst-case thinkers by nature -- and with the AGPL, one needn't much imagination to get to a worst-case that threatens one's entire business.

Sure. But as an engineer, I can also think of many worst-cases that result for computer users if we commit to only using permissive licenses. In particular, there's no guarantee that a user will ever be given the source code for a product they buy. So there's suddenly a reduced ability for people to become self-taught programmers or to fix their own computers and devices. And the ultimate worst case is that we move to a fully proprietary world built on the ashes of all of these projects trying to be permissive because they "didn't care about making money".

Many new projects are designed around being networked and interacting through networked protocols. It would be facetious to claim that there isn't an issue with the current state of licenses which make no attempt to handle this situation. The AGPL attempts to do so.

And yes, I know you were never a fan of the original GPL, and that you've always been anti-AGPL. But clearly you see the benefits of copyleft because you've spent a majority of your life working on a copyleft codebase (illumos)!

> As further evidence: there are a few projects that have started as AGPL, but moved away from it as they have needed broader adoption[1]

There are also examples of projects which are not that way. Such as ownCloud and NextCloud. Interesting that you fail to mention the success stories of the AGPL. Several ISPs in Europe have started to set up NextCloud servers for their customers and thanks to the AGPL those customers can request the source for the ISPs modified version of NextCloud. That would not be possible under other licenses.
Many people know this, but the sub-text/context is that markets are not efficient.

This is one of the ongoing debates between Schiller and Eugene Fama.

It doesn't follow that we know how to exploit the inefficiency in order to make money, not that anyone here cares about that sort of base mercenary thing.
>> Were those not acquisitions that withered as opposed to Dropbox new product ventures?

This is one of those distinctions without a difference.
IANP, but its seems as if the measurement problem will always cause us to observe, more accurately measure, a 2D projection and maximum entropy; where before the wave collapse a 3D+ universe and perhaps infinite entropy existed.

In the same way that two trains traveling at different speeds are warped to the observer, it would seem to me that we would need to observe the wave in real-time to accurately observe it.

Again, INAP.
Yup. We use NFS at scale at $dayjob (including across continents, which is sometimes exciting) and I'm pretty sure everyone wishes we had something with the simplicity of Dropbox.

I'm curious how Dropbox has made this safe to use for people who don't want to think about things like "close-to-open consistency" or "stale file handle".
Oops, you're right. I was thinking of Down and related disorders, which highly correlate to autism. But the relation doesn't work the other way.
Any ideas as to what might be more appropriate, without being distracting?
The author of the article here - let me know if you have more ideas for how to run a hackathon. This was only my first event, and I know I have lots to learn. Cheers!
Nice jab!
Read the rest of this thread before you transfer there; you'll find that all the posts are by new users and were flagged. I won't say it's brigading, but use your own judgement to decide whether this comment was legit.
Nevertheless, this study will be added to the arsenal of those seeking to end municipal fluoridation.
From what I understand, code signing certificates include special OIDs that flag them as usable for things like Authenticode. SSL/TLS certificates don't usually have these OIDs, so they would not be usable for that purpose.

I don't know for sure whether CertSimple offers code signing certificates as well, but some quick research makes me think they don't
While drinking water is generally extremely safe in the US, especially compared to many other countries of the world. I still install three stage, under the counter filtration systems for any kitchen tap water. Minimal costs, and at the very least prevents the water from tasting like a pool.
That might be modafinil, but again it comes with side effects and probably doesn't address the core issue
That won't stop the conspiracy theorists from having a field day on this one.
> No one is arguing that any creative work is valueless.

>>> Realistically, digital goods should be "free."

> I'm afraid to have to say that your argument is tangential and somewhat misleading.

???
I don't see anything terrible in black-made-white-brainwashed-jetpacking space nazis.
I built a TiddlyWiki site for an RV park circa 2008. It was easy to do and looked great. It was easy for the non-technical owners to update. But Google completely ignored it, and so the park was invisible to most tourists. It folded a few years back, and I partly blame myself, for picking TiddlyWiki.
I don't have specifics like that, but I've noticed drastic improvements in page load time when I moved a site from Apache to NGINX. This post was the motivation:

http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-da...
Nothing is better then Quip! :)
Interesting interpretation, and one that I think you should have included rather than the comment you did. One of the complaints all around right now is that people aren't speaking clearly with one another. Yet, you've really done it again, by alluding to "a few of the links in the article, including another of the author's own..." when to be clear you could have quoted and linked to the source. I know that I personally would have benefitted from the contribution. We should be helping each other understand.

If your intent isn't to discuss these issues substantially, please don't add to the noise with allusions and implications. There's enough stuff to wade through as it is.
I suspect he's referring to following HN and similar communities.