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Welcome! I find that the HN community is generally very nice to people showcasing stuff they're worked on. Occasionally the community can be harsh, but in my experience this is usually because 1) there are some serious issues with a project (so harsh, but true), or 2) the creator of said project gets defensive or combative when presented with feedback.

I definitely hope you stick around and keep posting interesting stuff you're working on. It's one of the main reasons I'm a regular visitor, and it inspires me to keep tinkering with my own projects!

> Regarding the ML series: aren't there already quite a few introductory series into the topic, which can be referred to?

I agree with the earlier poster that upon seeing what you did I kind of expected a tutorial explaining how to get there. I don't think you'd have to provide such a tutorial, of course, but I think setting expectations and ideally even linking to good 'introductory series into the topic' would be very much appreciated.

Personally I like to be presented with some end result that might take quite a bit of work to recreate. Being frustrated upon realizing that there's quite a bit of work ahead works well for me. But I especially love it when I'm given some gentle pointers towards next steps, so for me at least adding such pointers would make your article/demo even better.

For example: I had been interested in this 'lisp' thing for a while. I'd read a few short articles explaining the basics and why lisp is cool and so on, but I never dove in.

Then, one day, I read an article that presented some (relatively) idiomatic code in js/python/ruby/I don't remember, and a much shorter equivalent in, iirc, Clojure. The latter made no sense to me, but I was so curious about what was going on, that I continued reading the rather long article.

After finally vaguely understanding what the Clojure code was doing, I was so excited that I immediately went on and spent a few weeks tinkering with Clojure. Somehow, for me, it took a `look at what you'll eventually be able to do` type article to tickle me in the right way to actually sit down and bother learning clojure.
Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
As I said in my answer, literature study is the place where it would be acceptable, but it wouldn't be appropriate in a science class where the point is not analysing the language.
A constant is a lot more constrained (existing in a specific context) than a class of matter that can't be observed, which is used as a hand wave to any measurement that is unexpected because not only is it not observed, it's not fully understood/constrained.
Regarding dead reckoning - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10833087/MoD-crea... seems very interesting.

If anyone has any up to date information or papers on this approach, I'd be very interested.

(It seems to be also known as a quantum compass)
EMH and random walk theory are intrinsically linked; you can't have one without the other...

Or are you saying that movements aren't actually random, and only appear to be?
I wouldn't agree with that post - the probabilities and number of clusters imply we'd expect a bullet cluster. In fact, we observe other similar lower-mass systems.

As an astronomer in the field of clusters, I don't know anyone who takes MOND-like theories seriously. Any non dark matter explanation for the bullet cluster would have to be extremely contrived.
Relevant: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
You wonder what reason? I've never been to BH, but warehouse people almost always have a different bathroom to use than customers or even retail employees. Mostly because of location to said bathroom. And to say a bathroom is unsanitary in a warehouse, yeah that's pretty common and has nothing to do with race. It has almost everything to do with how people take care of it.

Was this worker able to speak english well? Could s/he articulate that the bathroom needs to be fixed or cleaned regularly? Was there an employee tasked with that particular bathroom and did they not do their job, were they instead slacking or not informed of that.

Curious also what is the demeanor and look to these employees? Were they scummy warehouse workers who would be a poor showing to BH customers. Perhaps they were breaking company rules of their own by showing up to work looking and smelling like garbage. Maybe their behavior is offputting to customers because they don't have politeness training that the other retail employees are trained or have naturally.
I think the author missed the most important point (maybe they haven't gotten this far yet): marketing and especially market-fit.

If you just want to release an ebook or even in paper, you can do that easily. If you want to release an ebook and have it be a success, that's really hard. It's hard even for traditional publishers, and it's certainly not any easier for self-published authors.

Anecdote: I helped my grandmother release her first book (here: http://carolynnslaughter.com/book/). The technical aspects are frankly not that hard. For anyone with halfway reasonable technical skills, launching a book is simply a matter of following various instructions online.

How much did we sell? Pretty close to rounding error of zero. Honestly, we were never expecting much success, because the book is fairly academic.

Edit: Less anecdotally: "Ninety percent of your book’s success will be determined by the quality of your book. The other ten percent is distribution, marketing and luck." (From Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/145431)

I understand that as HN readers we gravitate towards technical solutions. But the sibling comment by scandox is on the nose here. The hardest problem by far is writing a book that people will be willing to pay money for. The second hardest problem is marketing it, and all these other technical aspects come somewhere after that.
Why? For example, on Wikipedia you can see

In January 2012, a French intelligence official stated that they believed Chalabi to be an Iranian agent.[8]

There is nothing alternative about saying that Iran and Syria persued aggressive anti-us policy at the expense of the Iraqi and later Syrian people.
Yes, because it's a sample of human racial perceptions, but at any rate "who I know" isn't the sample I quoted, it was "who I know of", and the latter is a larger sample than the former. Further, "who I know of" is a pretty good informal indicator given that I know of mostly Americans (and a particularly diverse group of Americans at that). Perhaps you mean "is this sample statistically significant?", in which case the answer is "No, and I never pretended otherwise".
Isn't that what MOND is doing, to some degree?
It might no be too hard in this case, since you're really testing editing speed not code productivity. You could take a random selection of (small) git commits and time how long it takes people to recreate them. That maybe gives Vim an unfair advantage actually since the IDE features help more while actually composing code, rather than just editing text.

Still I think it could be measured.
I once attended a talk in which the speaker presented a system for inferring the orientation of a mobile device in space. This was before smart phones and the system used accelerometers, some computer vision, and fancy algorithms which were running on a server because the device didn't have enough computing power. One person in the audience asked: Why don't you simply use a compass? The answer was silence.
I think that warning is just based on diminished remaining capacity vs design capacity.
Populism Is Shaking the Edifice of Central Bank Independence
> So what we should be asking the government is if it's a fundamental right, why do we require a license to get married?

You have to ask this question in the context of legal history. In English common law, from which United States law on marriage is derived, marriage was basically a legal contract stripping women of most of their rights and transferring them to the husband: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverture
“Our automated system isn't set up yet. This is a real person texting you.”
> Quadratic probing is used because it's very effective for unsuccessful lookups

IS it really that good?

If you end up having to probe a lot with linear probing, it is likely you have a bad hash function, which is the same reason you give against prime modulus (that they are a stopgap more than a solution).

Second, don't you end up having to jump all over the place, which means cache misses, that are way more expensive that a few probes on consecutive slots?
One trick that helped me to master the numbers in a foreign languages was to mentally make additions in that language. For example, in Japanese, I would ask myself "How much is Ni plus Go?"

At first I would mentally do "well, Ni is 2, Go is 5, 2+5=7, 7 is Nana, so that's the answer" and at some point I was able to do it directly without translating the numbers to my native language.
Sure, and I'm feeling the same.

But a lot of the price pinches are down to currency fluctuation resulting in sellers raising prices in GBP hence our purchasing power is reduced.

The actual economy of the country to date is doing alright.
I can't edit my comment anymore, here's another thing I found: https://bauprojekte.deutschebahn.com/p/vde8

It says Munich<->Berlin will be around 4h in 2017 thanks to new high speed tracks.
The "vde" is supposed to be a Germany unification traffic project. I can't believe this is only happening after 27 years of East+West :-)
wouldnt a metal cutout of a dagger be a dagger?
85% of Ransomware Victims Get Taken Offline for a Week or More
I don't say this is my perspective, but I believe that the authors of the site would point to this short speech by Alan Keyes as a quick explanation... or at least, agree with it. Sorry for bad formatting, I am on my phone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrD8zvCUtWc
Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
If you were the CEO of Twitter, what would you do in 2017 to make Twitter great again?
The hypocrisy of "small government" conservatives in this regard is that they ostensibly want the government to get out of marriage, indeed a socio-religious ceremony, but they don't want the government to stop giving legal and taxational benefits to marriage.

I agree, the government should get out of marriage, but that also necessarily implies that it gets no special legal recognition, and would mean that gay people could also get married.
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I was part of the USU team mentioned in the article. There are a lot of variables to take into account when growing plants in micgrogravity:

Particulates, like soil, are actually considered a hazardous material in space because it can float into and clog up the ventilation.

Capillary action is a dominant force in microgravity and water will coat everything.

Roots are respiratory and will absorb the oxygen in the water around them, but the bubbles of CO2 they create won't naturally rise to the surface. This can cause the roots to suffocate.

Hydroponics are the logical route because regular soil will deplete its nutrient supply, but you still need a root growth substrate. The current "Veggie" system uses vermiculite clay chips contained in a pouch. They had to use the right gauge of particle diameter though: too small and it will saturate with water and suffocate the roots, too big and there won't be enough pressure gradient from the capillary action and the roots will dry out. Also, if you don't have your hydroponic nutrient solution just right, salts will build up in your substrate, so the pouches are typically single use.

Our team developed a method for 3D printing a growth substrate. This eliminates the problem with particulates and it also allows you control the gauge of the holes in the material to get the right air/water ratio. You can even vary the hole sizes so the water is pulled by the capillary action more at the dry end and fills the medium more evenly with water. It's not a perfect solution. The hydrophilic nylon filament we used liked to warp when it was printed. It also doesn't work for root vegetables like potatoes and stuff. However, it is reusable, cleanable, recyclable, scalable, largely passive, and safe. Plus, everyone loves 3D printers.

TL;DR
Microgravity creates a lot of problems for growing plants in space, many of which aren't immediately obvious. 3D printed growth mediums might be a solution.
Edge data centers bring processing closer to users
They wanted to use chisel for the whole stack, but that was impossible because of one of their engineers.
Everything you need to build your own Turn Touch smart remote
Too late to edit, but continental -> contiguous. UK is already continental Europe; they're on the same plate.
:( Any plans for an Android version?
Why do you have to find a new vendor? This story has little to no information and you certainly don't have multiple sides to the story. New York is extremely hostile when it comes to collecting settlements and fines of retail establishments. There are stories of restaurants getting railroaded by inspectors to the point where it's clearly a kickback operation.

I'd stick with BH through this. Warehouse bathrooms are notoriously disgusting and race has nothing to do with it. Tribalism of this kind of stuff is pathetic.
To you and my sibling posts: could you both elaborate?

I'm inclined to agree that the UK differs from mainland Europe in a number of ways. I can't judge if this is the case for border control, but it wouldn't surprise. I'd really like to hear both sides elaborate rather than the 'yes', 'but no' comments so far.
Via Krebs, they are suspected of being tied to these hacks:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinoi...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-i...
This really worries me: I own three laptops, use a fourth for work and thus I often have three — and sometimes four — laptops fully-charged at home. What exactly are the parameters under which an unattended laptop may catch fire? Only when the laptop itself is running? Only if running and heat exchange is impeded?

I honestly don't know, and that worries me.
Yeah, something like that would be pretty good. :)
On the contrary, I do use SublimeText...with Vintage Mode / Vintageous for Vim keybindings, because I find them so incredibly useful.
Why do we tie those to sexual relationship status, though?

I understand that this kind of thinking has fallen out of favor but the answer to your question is this, because the primary purpose of marriage is for having and raising children.

Of course, people who will never have children can and do get married. Of course, people who are too old to have children can get married. And now, people for whom it's biologically impossible to reproduce can get married.

Maybe it's time for a whole series of discussions about our society's future plans for marriage.
i just use alt+space in kde plasma 5.
Yeah... I broke it on my first try by drawing 1 shape that they cars just proceeded to run into over and over. Upon refreshing the page, the two cars drove straight towards each other and ended up being stuck driving towards the upper-right corner constantly backing up for a bit and then running back into the corner.
A few aircraft incidents/accidents were caused by batteries.

There is of course the 787 of All Nippon Airway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...

And with battery as a cargo this time, there is a UPS 747: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6

It's funny/terrifying how we deeply need higher capacity batteries, with shorter charging time and greater energy density, but as a same time, it will probably lead to more unstable and more "prone to burst into flames" items...
You answered my question by restating the thing that I'm asking about. Why would you not prefer the far more entertaining version?
Absolutely! I just finished re-writing the app in React Native so it will definitely be coming to Android.
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> any guidance on how to design my career and work life...

You might find of interest this recent book on Designing Your Life by two Stanford professors-

Here's a podcast interview with the authors, to give you a flavor of what it's about >
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-10-03/using-design-th...

Also, NY Times review > https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/fashion/design-thinking-s...

And - Goodreads reviews here > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26046333-designing-your-l...
Interesting. Have you ever written to RMS?
A neatly stacked supply of energy bars will also earn you a complimentary bag unpacking.
Try going to any social media outlets like Instagram or Twitter or Snapchat and suddenly swear words like "fuck" and "crap" will seem normal. These kids have access to social media these days. Innocence was long gone with the advent of open social media. Good luck modern parents.
The first-place Rust program uses this very simple low-security hash function:

impl Hasher for NaiveHasher {
fn write_u64(&mut self, i: u64) {
self.0 = i ^ i >> 7;
}
}

The second-place C program uses the exact same hash function as the Rust program, except it also truncates the result to 32 bits:

#define CUSTOM_HASH_FUNCTION(key) (khint32_t)((key) ^ (key)>>7)

The third-place C++ program uses the identity function as its hash function:

struct hash{
uint64_t operator()(const T& t)const{ return t.data; }
};

Sources:

- Rust: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

- C: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

- C++: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...
DHH's Coding is Googling thread
Even the most dug-in libertarian can't really argue against these kinds of regulations; automobiles affect everyone within their vicinity. Ideally, all automobile manufacturers should be politely told to shut the fuck up and deal with it, but the realist in me thinks Chao's pockets will be lined with their money quite soon.
It's a lithium ion battery. Normal consumer ones have very low but non-zero catastrophic failure rates.
We're still asking the wrong question.

The frustrating thing is we were doing miles better in the 80s, even though to be evironmentally aware then meant you were thought of as some sort of hippie or anarchist type.

Lots of supermarkets still sold milk in glass bottles as used by milkmen. You returned the empties to the store/milkman and they could be reused indefinitely. Milkmen delivering to door were still common.

A couple of supermarkets had bio-degradeable carrier bags that were just as good as plastic, they just had a slightly different (nicer tbh) texture. They had mysteriously disppeared by the 90s, so presumably cost a fraction more.

Most products had yet to succumb to the insanity of plastic and packaging. Lots of pop (soda) came in glass bottles or cans, just a few preferred plastic. Sealed packs of 3 slices of ham or one apple were still in some dystopian future. Paper, card and greaseproof paper were still common packaging.

A typical family would get nowhere near the amount of waste an average family generates in these "environmentally aware" times.
What's up with kids and swearing?

I remember from being a kid that the etiquette I quickly figured out was that kids don't swear around adults and adults don't swear around kids. Where does this come from? Are there any anthropological studies about this?

Kids around kids can swear as much as they like, same with adults around adults, and they use exactly same swears, maybe adults with more awareness where did the swearwords came from, since they have better understanding of sex.

I swore much worse and much more as a kid than I do as an adult (I curbed my swearing around high-school). I haven't met an adult that swore as much as we did as kids.
And in the US, some states don't allow you to marry certain people, like cousins. In Texas, it's criminal to have even light sexual contact with a cousin.

Marriage should be an n-party agreement with minor legal overhead, like an LLC.
In terms of jumping to the sci-fi dystopian implication, I think it's quite fun to think about and certainly part of being a real technologist...:

After all, doesn't the kind of of digital truth (or digital behaviourism) epitomized by this study threaten to undermine the foundation of ideas like individual emancipation or of the common?

Like let's say you move to a quaint town that the AI found for you. Who moved in and is now a member of that community, you and your wife or your digital doppelgangers? And where did you move? The town or it's statistical analog warehoused in a data-center somewhere.

When a new shop opens up in the town and you find your favorite brand of wine from your previous town on the shelves ... what's going on?
Just curious if there is a manufacturer+model and/or lot number that is still legible on the battery or an old system report output? Have been having some weird overheating and "hard off" power-issues with my 2015 MBP --- and now am pretty concerned about this.

It is a remanufactured from Apple though. So I know the battery was replaced. But still...
Submerged in the Cosmic Kingdom
Nice work, I hope they can commercialize it.

One of the challenges I discovered about plastic recycling is that you can't easily separate plastics and people do a lousy job of it. With aluminum cans (70% recycled[1]) you can use ferrous metal screening to separate and a lot of other impurities burn off when smelting it.

But with plastics if you mix two incompatible types (polypropylene and polyethylene) the result is a crappy plastic that is brittle and weak. And there is no simple way of splitting them apart when they are mixed together. As a result it is really hard to get nice clean recycle plastic of a single 'type' and that limits its uses tremendously.

The ideal solution would be to be able to mix some magic mojo into a plastic and turn it into the finished product (which is what these scientists propose AFAICT).

[1] http://www.aluminum.org/news/study-finds-aluminum-cans-susta...
The warehosue & showroom are in different locations, miles apart.
Random spot check?

Leaving KEF a few weeks ago, my bags were pulled for a random check. But, at least the Icelandic security guy was nice enough to tell me as much...

"Your bag was selected at random for an inspection."
"Now, I'm going to carry it over to that table. Please follow me.
"Now, I'm going to unzip it."
"Now, I'm swabbing for residue."

Quick, professional, and not at all stressful. Unlike similar experiences at IAD and FCO.
If you train yourself to use a static orientation however, you develop a much better "big picture" awareness of the city you drive in, eventually freeing yourself from requiring navigational assistance.

The additional cognitive load is worth it for me.
The money's all being donated. It's a fundraiser.
Its a double edged sword. I'm actually working on building an anonymous posting board for facebook where users can switch between their news feed and the anonymous board. Creating a non hateful, troll filled anonymous environment is a mighty challenge, but I dont believe its impossible and thats part of why im attempting to take this on. There are benefits and detriments to every annotation/commenting system out there. Moderation is a high priority, but i havnt been able to come up with a solution. This article also failed to mention how they imagine moderation fitting in. Is it possible to crowd source moderation, rather than centralize it? And can it be done with anonymity?
The common understanding of continental Europe does exclude the U.K.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe
The advice is for mathematicians who largely don't.
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It could be[0]. It's just not very likely, since you'd have to have very special circumstances, but it's not logically impossible, at least in cosmology.

[0] http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/cosmo/lectures/lec17.html