skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad I'm not the only one. All I could picture was Gavin Belson on stage at TC Disrupt while I was reading this...
After putting some documents in word2vec, it gives you a vector representation of each word (1). Words that are close to each other in this space might be similar, for example. Famously, it's possible to do neat computations, e.g. king - man might result in a vector that's close to the one for queen.

(1) This representation is learned, essentially, by trying to predict words from the surrounding words in a sentence or the other word around.
That the lifestyle difference is irrelevant since any study that measures the impact of a food in health should control for it.
There are so many assumption that were hammered into me in high school (and below) that I find hold back my thinking, rather than help me. I kind of feel like the education I received was full of hacks to get me past whatever test was coming up, rather than truly teaching me. I've spent years playing what feels like catch up to actually truly learn the things I thought I knew – a lot of high school mathematics included.
We may not need AI to automate software development. If genetic programming techniques started making serious advances it might be possible to evolve software. Call it "test only development"--write the tests and then grow a program that satisfies them.

GP doesn't seem to get much attention so we are far from this method being practical. Actually, I'm puzzled why GP is so unpopular compared to say, type system research, since it could have a vastly greater impact if it were to make progress.
This has now been unlinked from the original submission (https://medium.com/the-mission/wow-its-official-the-subscrip...), which contained this gem:

Personally, I couldn’t count how many Medium articles have changed my life, but a conservative estimate would be hovering around 50.

I think perhaps the disconnect between this extraordinary statement [1] and the reality of people who might actually pay to read things on Medium is perhaps indicative of why this might not be the great success they're hoping it will be.

[1] I have read plenty of articles on Medium and I'm not sure even a dozen of them have had me thinking about them five minutes later, never mind "changed my life".
On the other hand there's no misinterpretation involved in recognising Mohammed as being a murderous war-lord who condoned rape and pillage; and also being the Islamic model of a perfect person.
Give me a way to top up my balance with physical gift cards (Starbucks, Subway etc.), pretty please?
The app is impressive.
What does that have to do with anything I said? I'm pointing out the difference between "understanding" and "getting used to".
Memristors?
Yea, I agree. Cows also live about 20 years, so even not breeding cows wouldn't solve this problem. The morality of eating butter is kind of a moot point when all the production mechanisms are already in place and they aren't flexible.

A possible solution would be methane fixing bacteria (methanotrophs) in the guts of cows or in the ocean where
> 75% of the current concentration atmospheric methane originates. The ocean also contains a significant amount in solid form that gets released as temps rise. [0]

[0]http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/12/09/warmer-pacific-oce...
I've stopped eating oil, and it's helped me significantly. So here are a few articles about no oil diets:

http://www.nomeatathlete.com/oil/

http://engine2diet.com/the-daily-beet/no-oil/

http://www.theglowingfridge.com/top-3-reasons-to-reduce-or-e...

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/oil-free-plant-base...
Do you worry about this with app store purchases? In app purchases I get it, but I've never been unfairly charged (or found it difficult to cancel) purchases that go through apple or google
Yes, you are right - I was a little abentminded.
But nobody else would be so reckless to build nuclear power plants on the ring of fire, or in major hurricane areas.
Only Japan and the USA do. (Diablo, Fukushima, South Texas - even a crazy experimental one with overlarge vessels)
One reason is to mix AMD and NVIDIA GPUs – I experimented with running X on the integrated Radeon device, while running CUDA on a Linux guest with GPU-passthrough. Trying to have CUDA on the host system led to library conflicts.
Good project managers can communicate with people so I doubt there will be issues with AI. Plus the majority of problems the AI could code don't necessarily have to be large endeavors, simply start with the simple stuff and you eliminate the need for quite a bit of coding.

Design is so much more important than code, knowing what you want and knowing what you need is more than half the battle. Finally don't over look that an AI will be 24x7 and no person can have that output
Ah Kerrygold, the tastiest butter on the planet.

It's not just that the cows are grass-fed, it's to do with the lushness of the grass they eat.

Super green (why? because it rains soooo much!), which introduces more carotene into the cows diet.

Compare the color of Kerrygold to regular butter, it's WAAAAY more yellow.
That's for contempt of court. If a judge thinks (effectively in his sole discretion) that you're in contempt of court, they can sentence you to whatever they'd like for as long as they'd like. It's purposely vague and powerful because it's meant to be used to punish the most heinous of acts: those against the court.
It seems a lose-lose situation to get readers to pay to consume content. The most valuable part of Medium is that it has a large audience that writers want to reach. Surely a better monetization strategy would be to allow promoted posts so that even the individual creator can pay to reach more readers.
I bet people wouldn't pay $5 for a pumpkin spice latte that they can drink in 30 days time.

I think the problem is the immediate reward and anticipation of the reward.
I think it's the physicality that's especially appealing to us. It's worth comparing the experience to buying a paper magazine. I am also more inclined to do buy a magazine without overthinking the purchase than I am to subscribe digitally to the same magazine. I know the content is worth something, but a physical item feels more valuable somehow. The same with buying DVDs or CDs. Although the content is the same, it feels more real when you can hold it.
How does the Fifth Amendment apply here?
20 or 30 years ago we were only 5 years from computers doing the work of programmers also.

It's just not gonna happen on a large scale. Nothing beyond simple CRUD if that.
I can never work out if people who make this analogy are trying to guilt people into buying from them or just lack understanding of human psychology.

I'm willing to pay $5 for a Pumpkin Spice Latte because I know what I'm going to get. I'm going to get a tasty coffee and possible use of space and WiFi for a few hours if I want it. I have no idea what I'm going to get for an app. I may get something that is going to give me a few minutes of mindshare every day, or I may end up getting something which is completely useless. I have no way of knowing.

Starbucks also has no free alternatives. If I want to get a coffee when I'm in town I know I'm going to have to pay a certain price. There's no one handing out free coffee - or coffee that is free if I agree to read a few ads. That's not true of apps. Many apps have perfectly good free alternatives. The fact is, most of what Medium offers, I can get elsewhere. If what this amounts to is asking me to pay for Wait But Why, The Awl or the Ringer - I can get better elsewhere for free. There may be a price I'll pay for fuzzy thinkpieces that talk about how 'problematic' everything is, but it isn't very high.

If you want to get into non-free, $9.99 a month gets me either the entire history of recorded music, a selection of essential 'water-cooler' TV watching that I am going to be able to talk to other people about, or access to the entire archive of the Washington Post. I happily pay those and would probably pay 50% as much again, but it does mean that the bar for a glorified blog is very very high. I also have to say as far as Yipgo goes, then it had better be a damn good to-do list.
Did it make you drive faster ? I can sense a backfiring psychological aspect.

I'm eager to try that, and still curious why the industry didn't push for a one-click solution here.
"Published data suggest that all fatty acids with a double bond in the trans configuration raise the ratio of plasma LDL to HDL cholesterol."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830458/
Agreed but when you look at the Dutch diet, it really is not good. I mean sprinkles on toast really is not food. However the assumption is that, you as a child, will get to school by walking or cycling and you will get around for most of your childhood independently by bicycle.

The Dutch are unusually active in general, and this may well be down to their environment encouraging being active from birth.

I'm not saying diet is not a factor (1 in 10 are obese), but, the UK is currently at 27% (1 in 4), the worst in Europe heading for 35% (1 in 3) obese by 2030 with a similar diet profile to the Dutch, indicating about 25% of obesity will be down to environment. The US is even worse. Both the US and UK have an extremely car dependent design philosophy. One that the US is rapidly tackling through road diets. However planning is still a step behind at the moment.

I'm not disputing diet is vital, but if you have to get into a car to do a 0-5 mile journey because the "roads are too dangerous to cycle" or you won't let your kids walk/cycle to school 2 miles away you end up with an obesity problem no matter how good the population's diet.
Since the masses are also zero, the gravity is actually NaN.
I don't know the astrophysics domain at all but shouldn't there be more arguments for Go?

* Safer than C

* Almost as fast as C

* Good concurrency support

* High productivity due to simple abstractions and good tooling

Is the downside of a GC language really relevant? Does astrophysics suffer from "stop the world interrupts" or is it just because of the performance? The Go GC is already really fast.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Public Feud with Auto Workers Union
What was going on May 2016? Reservoir elevation at 891 feet.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/jspplot/jspPlotServlet.jsp?sensor_n...
Raspberry Pi 4: Google Adding AI Tools into Raspberry Pi
> How do you tell the AI what to code? Any language specific and accurate enough to tell the AI what to code, is in itself a programming language. Someone needs to write in that language, and that person is a programmer. All the AI does is make for a better compiler.

The problem is this is never how the transition would happen.

Today how does it work? Go far enough back. You'll have a user with problem X. Someone translates this problem into requirements to have others implement. You would never take the requirements and give them to a general AI because, as you said, you'd have to ensure it understood them.

What would actually happen is you'll tell your general AI that you need to solve X and it'll figure out the best way to do it and just do it. They wouldn't write software in the sense we have it today. They wouldn't produce an app. They would, instead, solve problems.

Here's an example. Today you think "I'm really hungry. It would be great to have an app that could show me what's around me then have someone pick it up for it after I make a selection". You have some basic requirements in your head, you write some software, you test it out. Maybe your app calls an API to place an order for pizza then calls an Uber to pick up your pizza and then bring it to your current location.

With a general AI you'll feel hungry and the AI will know you're in the mood for pizza from Dave's Pizzeria 3 blocks down. It'll dispatch an automated vehicle to pick up the pizza from a likely automated kitchen and bring it straight to you. You wouldn't even need conscious thought into it if we have a way to perfectly connect the AI and our brain.
Blogging to Microblogging
2 weeks back I created a curated list of web apps and dedicated a heroku app (http://webapphunt.co) to it. But soon after releasing it I started feeling that there is no way to monetize it without ads (I hate ads) and I had to bare with atleast 25$ per month to run a decent website. I dont have much content to it so thought of using twitter for my purpose and it just suits the purpose.

And now http://webapphunt.co is transferred to https://twitter.com/webapphunt
Yeah but why not just use HTML tables? It simpler and easier and more correct.
Really cool and simple! Love it.
I purchased a mat 14 years ago that goes under the baby and detects movement as subtle as their breathing. I searched Babies R Us and found them under the category "Movement Monitors". It was a little un-nerving the first few times it went off as a false alarm when he would roll off the sensitive area, but it otherwise gave me a lot of peace knowing it was there.
Moving the list to twitter to cut down costs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634626
It really depends. Not so long ago the humble bundle forced 2FA on me and I had the choice of forfeit my 100 games library or set 2FA. I don't care at all that steam gives them heat about how some steam keys are used, and I care enough about my phone number not to give it away.

Then there was the time when I was traveling and verification SMS would not reach me because my carrier plan does not include receiving SMS internationally.

Then there was a few other times and cases where not using your phone (provided you have one and carrier plan) but a public text service instead.

To me phone based 2FA is mostly a scheme to collect users' phone numbers as there were in the past to collect email addresses. It introduces a pretty serious point of failure by relying on mobile number (no battery, no signal, no phone, changed number, prepaid card, etc.) while only being helpful in fringe cases such as when my password has been stolen.

Moreover it promotes bad security practices instead of fixing security issues, just slap some 2FA on top of whatever exists and now it is secure.

Then there is the question of how do I change my associated number when I change phone number, then what prevents a social engineering pro from changing the number too ?

I'm not sure using a publicly readable text service is so wrong, it mitigates the relying on phone point of failure, protects your privacy better, someone else reading the code may not be a problem as the code alone is useless.

As usual this really depends on what is the threat model you trying to protect from. Neither option will be able to protect you from a nation state targeted attack.
Yes I completely agree. People aren't told what to code, they're told what products to build. To go between those two things surely requires an almost general AI.

Btw, very tangentially, did you used to work in a startup with a certain zap to its name? I recognise your handle :)
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Stuff I find linked from other places (HN/Reddit) generally tends to be interesting too. I have had a Medium account in the past and setup their daily emails with interesting stories and it was awful. Just seems like good content is few and far between which isn't great for a subscription service.

Edit: This is the one Medium article I can remember really enjoying. [1]

[1] https://medium.com/@fernnews/imagining-the-post-antibiotics-...
No, its not typically a concern with non-subscription services. And, yes, it is a concern with subscription services purchased through the Apple App Store (don't use Google). I still have to google how to do it. For reference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 I'd be impressed if anyone could figure those steps out without visiting that guide first.
Letting employees know they're getting laid off before they read about it somewhere else isn't really one of the great mysteries of life, and doesn't take decades of CEO/executive experience to figure out. It's sort of a basic human decency thing. It shouldn't be that hard to be a decent human being.
So what don't you get? Are you implying there is something more to complex numbers?
Also, 3 XOR gates allows a wire crossing in 2D (where you cannot make a wire crossing with a bridge as that would be 3D)
"We live in a world where digital products are inherently undervalued relative to other products..."

Thank you for the notification. I can't believe someone with business experience can make this really naive statement. This is an issue in almost every digital business. Last week there was a related thread about value creation here: http://continuations.com/post/156889798325/value-creation
Can You Identify These Cities from Their Light Signatures?
Also when you buy a coffee you dont just download a bytewise clone of a coffee from some repo.

An hourly paid person must manually prepare fresh coffee using distributed physical goods multiple times a day and brew the cup full at every brick and mortar location.

This is not a very good analogy at all. Free market and competition have already decided the price of quality apps and quality coffee. The only way you can prove this wrong is by actually disrupting the market.
i think more about economic side of the things, how can be profitable for all parties (producer, transport company and supermarket chain is bare minimum) to sell me 2l bottle of soda for 0.19€, it's taking quite a lot space weighing 2kg, producer is about 150km away, yet all three parties make profit on this product? the letter itself (flavored soda) has probably lower value than packaging is packaging, transportation and storing in supermarket taking space of other products.

is there product which would take more space and weight more while being extremely cheap as soda drink? i can't think of anything as large and cheap as bottle of soda
>Now you can't use the GPU anymore, the module was assigned by KVM and you can't - for instance - run a CUDA simulation in the Linux host.

Maybe we had different setups, so this wouldn’t apply – I used to unbind the device with the following script, and then load the `nvidia` module; the device was then available on the host:

for dev in "0000:01:00.0" "0000:01:00.1"; do
if [ -e /sys/bus/pci/devices/${dev}/driver ]; then
echo "${dev}" > /sys/bus/pci/devices/${dev}/driver/unbind
fi
done
I was feeling masochistic so I read the "manspreading" article (having first googled "manspreading", a term I hadn't heard before and wish I hadn't now).

Having read this piece, I think the only viable decision Ev Williams can make is to return all the money to the investors and switch the whole thing off, right now.
Gee I wonder why you cannot write a program for an interface that nobody imagined would be possible in 2000, using only a standard described in the late 80s. Must be some kind of conspiracy..
Centralisation and trust in major players is whats damaging.
The UK security services Behavioural Sciences Unit http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38252470 is not just identifying terrorists, its monitoring everyone. Your school reports, your NHS medical records, everything that is centralised is scooped up and used to profile you. If you profile as a criminal then you will be targeted.

This is Minority Report Pre Cog from birth.
Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
In the three-dimensional case, for any practical purpose, use quaternions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati...

(At least if you’re ever needing to compose rotations; to apply a quaternion to a big array of 3-vectors, go ahead and convert it to a 3x3 matrix first, which should end up slightly more efficient.)

3x3 rotation matrices are really hard to keep normalized properly, whereas quaternions are trivial to normalize (just divide by the norm).

If you need to compress a unit quaternion down to 3 numbers, instead of taking the logarithm (which is computationally expensive and a pain to deal with) use the stereographic projection.
The US constitution seems like a peculiar thing to focus on, particularly for a story about a different country.
I think that realtime-first is correct. Websockets is just a protocol that support bidirectional communication. Plain old HTTP requests paired with Server Sent Events over H TTP/2 are technically bidirectional communication over the same connection too.

Google is also working on GRPC for the browser. Tomorrow it could be a completely different protocol, but it's all in the pursuit of making the app more realtime.
I wouldn't recommend that to the service provider, those have very high level of fraud.
The easiest way is probably to buy an old computer from the eighties, but they can be very expensive :0 I don't know much about other homebrew computers, but mine (Calculon/80) could probably be expanded with those things. I haven't tested the expansion port yet, but I will when have some time :-)
Also, if it does not have to be using the Z80 CPU, I would recommend the Motorola 68000 CPU, which I will use in my next project.
Don’t be a digital sharecropper like us
The use case is anything that requires you to provide a number to receive a confirmation text. From registration to a personal data hungry website (facebook, google, etc.) to two factor authentication.

At some point in the past collecting user email addresses became the standard and using disposable email addresses was the answer. More recently the trend seems to have upped to collecting phone numbers to which the answer is those public text services.
Very Nice Video - One of my favourite sub 5 minute explanations is Oliver Humpage's @ Ignite Bristol circa 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHaPyuEkK4A

Hope you enjoy as much as I did.
> Jeff Sessions was involved in prosecution of civil rights activists in Alabama, and is known for his hard anti-drug stance. Both of those are pertinent to civil rights, yet NRA ignored it.

Those are good points. They also concern me. Is there a better organization which fights for second amendment rights that you recommend?
isn't an option if you don't already have a phone

Despite the article's headline, I believe their use-case if for people who have a phone, but don't wish to give their real phone number to any arbitrary website, hence the comparison in the intro with temporary email addresses, and the line "If for some reason you need to receive text messages online from your computer rather than your phone".
Science, isolation and control
No I'm just realistic about what the private sector will do. If you look at the long running trend in house building since the second world war private companies have built roughly 200,000 units a year varying by about 50,000 units a year. Significantly this held true when the government also built 200,000 units a year and also when the government stopped building too. The private sector will only ever build for the top end of the market and never in the quantities actually needed to reduce house prices.

So yes if we opened up the green belt it would be built on but it wouldn't achieve anything to alleviate the housing crisis.

And before you say anything I am a late 20s person living in London without any hope of owning my own house.

Finally sprawl is a massive issue and encouraging sprawl over densification will only make the situation worse.
Well, "pretty good", not perfect :). Or at least we are so good, that most of todays sensors do worse.

Synestesia is not so interesting to me, that is more an involuntary mix of senses, where through association I can have it voluntarily and on demand. Do you have more exapmles of "all the many senses that are conceivable but not present in any known species"? Especially some where one could utilize small sensors?
An nginx.conf for 2017: HTTP/2, IPV6, HTML5 SSE, load balancing and more.
Are there actually any patterns yet in how a stream of updates is being pushed to the frontend? In a way that would be like the frontend subscribing to an event queue through a websocket, I would imagine.