skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>forced immigration, cultural erasure, and overburdening of welfare states, which are conducive to increased conflict rather than increased cooperation.

We have had all of those things for over a century in the US. You don't even have to be a citizen to be able to immigrate to any state in the union from any other state. "Cultural erasure" is even more nonsensical than "cultural appropriation". Overburdening of welfare states has been fine for the entire history of the US. These things made the US the most powerful nation in the world.

The EU is less than half the size of the US. The problems you are describing are ridiculous and irrelevant.

edit: not to mention, the EU takes in even fewer legal immigrants than the US does, per capita. "Cultural erasure" doesn't mean tearing down maypoles and shit, it just means a kebab place opens up down the street. Who could possibly give a shit about that? NOBODY. except racists, obviously.
Gotta be careful with this type of heresy! You won't get hired at a trendy VC-backed company if you're harshing the buzzwords. ;)
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The wife of Thomas Carlyle... the early sociologist who is now revered by neoreactionary bloggers of the Dark Enlightenment... the movement that both presaged, and can be considered the intellectual counterpart of, the alt-right?

Nietzsche and Ayn Rand had difficult personal lives too, one notes.
The modern European welfare state - until robots take over - is all about carving out a local optimum in a sea of scarcity. How do you propose to have cradle-to-grave welfare within a system that encourages labor in developed countries to bitterly compete with desparate people in developing countries?
1. What do you call the the person who graduated from SEAL training at the bottom of their class? A SEAL. I get the joke, but part of the point is that top and bottom of the class are only relevant for those who actually graduate, and who is capable of graduating can be entirely different based on the goals of the institution. From "everyone can, with work" as in High School, to "only those who are good enough" as (hopefully) in medical school.

2. Humanity, where we've institutionalized pettiness, and not just once, but throughout history. :/
There's no point being upset by this kind of idiocy.... its endemic to humanity as a whole. It is frankly, the tip of a giant iceberg which is in the process of sinking us.

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." (Einstein, 1945)
Currently at #1 and #3 respectively:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915865
More fake news.

China was closed from roughly 1950 - 1972. In 1920 they'd just overthrown the last dynasty and were trying to establish a democracy, so, it makes sense they'd be in contact with the US at that time. Unfortunately there were some assassinations and their multi-party system never got off the ground.

There are probably tons of optimistic articles about US-Chinese relationships in the mid-1970s, as well as critical ones.

As it turns out, trade helped boost the economies of both Taiwan and China, and people don't call them the third world anymore. Is it perfect? No. But we still talk to them and do trade.

Rockefeller never advocated genocide. Doing business with or speaking positively of a certain leader doesn't mean you approve of everything they do, nor does speaking negatively mean you disagree with everything they do. What you said above is fake news.
highly recommended. its nice to know the history behind some of the biggest names you hear everyday
I think it's less about universities and more about grant agencies and publications.

The last sentence of the abstract points to the broader problems in academics, of which this is a part:

"Intellectual, social, and re- source barriers all impede entry, with outsiders only entering subfields that offer a less hostile landscape for the support and acceptance of “foreign” ideas."

The issue is access. It's not enough to do research, or even write the paper, you have to publish it or get the grant, and that means the approval of peers. That often increases the quality of the publication or grant, because it has to run the gauntlet of criticism, but it also means that if peers don't understand something or aren't open to it, it dies before it sees the light of day. It's sort of like "if a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound"? If research is conducted, but isn't allowed to appear in a peer-reviewed journal, did it happen?

What's really necessary in academics is something closer to what happens in comp sci, where people post to blogs regularly, and peer review is left for the hard work of proofs and whatnot, to force detailed scrutiny. Grants also need to be restructured dramatically, so that indirect cost requests are eliminated or minimized, and that grants are given by lottery or something for grants above a certain score, and that grant review panels are more randomized, to reduce nepotism within grant-panel agencies.
As a grad student in the field, I 100% agree with the idea of research debt. Arxiv is great, but it has only exacerbated the problem. There's far too many papers adding some small fluorish on an already complex architecture in order to push an accuracy score a couple of percentage points higher, and not that many with insightful examination of some more basic question, even if it's considered a detail.
Thank you for the recommendation about Hba1c and also the "Good luck".

This blog post on Hyperlipid

https://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2007/10/physiologica...

kind of relates to what you write: Hab1c is a more accurate indicator of diabetes than fasting glucose for someone on any form of carbohydrate restriction, which is me.

edit: s/that/than
I think Apple could leverage it's supply chain in this market very well. The product is small, intimate, and needs to work well with a minimalist interface. With the right sort of eye tracking, it could optimize CPU/GPU time only where the user is actually looking.
The case against write barriers is pretty simple: the slowness of the GC can be workarounded, while memory barriers cannot. If they are needed, no other way to copy pointer values (which are quite pervasive in system programming).
YC Research's (and longtime HNer!) michael_nielsen wrote an announcement here: http://blog.ycombinator.com/distill-an-interactive-visual-jo.... Hopefully he'll participate in the discussion too.
I'm really not convinced, especially when you add the role of environment; the epigenetic factors.
Very well said. I see no upside to globalism, only the exertion of control over our way of life by people whom we utterly despise. Why should, for example, some leader of a failed state such as Robert Mugabe, or even the head of a contemporary such as Angela Merkel, have any right to decide anything about our lives? They don't.
> they need driverless cars. That's ten years away

Honestly even that seems way overly optimistic in my opinion, if we're talking about R&D + regulatory acceptance & general adoption.
The Google WiFi is a powerful mesh system, but it lacks some advanced settings
> If anyone has advice for effectively blowing one's standards out of the water and publishing more smaller general pieces, I'd love to hear that.

Stop measuring whatever it is you're using to define "rockstar" v. "intermezzo" for one. If you're not advertising and you're not trying to grow an email list, there's probably little use in Google Analytics or similar.
Free as in freedom, free as in beer, but not free to develop. Someone's paying for the development of those works.
Imagining the competing school insuring themselves against the loss in prestige/recruiting that would come from that loss
Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue for Mac: https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-mac/

My coworkers make fun of me for it, but it really helps my posture and wrist issues to have a split keyboard. I thought it would take me a long time to adjust, but within five minutes I was good to go! I've heard some complain about the placement of page up and page down right next to the arrow keys, but it doesn't bother me. I really appreciate the one-button cut, copy, paste functions.
In NYC, that's exactly how it works, just pass a simple test and do some paperwork, and you can drive a cab. Medallions only restrict cabs that are permitted to take street hails in lower manhattan -- as long as you don't do that, there's no limitation on numbers of cars.

Uber and related apps are a bit overrated in terms of their "innovation."

You see, Uber-like "radio dispatch" services have existed in the NYC area for decades, but they used regular phone voice calls, not apps, which was slightly less convenient, I guess, but barely. It was not really qualitatively different IMHO (you waited about the same amount of time, and have about the same amount of certainty about the fare and whether they'll show up.). In fact, it could arguably be easier, as you didn't have to sign up for an account, download an app, set up payment method ahead of time, you just dialed a phone number

The only real innovation ridesharing apps have brought IMHO, are carpooling options like UberPOOL, Via, etc. This was not as practical to do before apps that could automate the dispatching and matching involved
No financial info apparent on the site, and the FAQ is a link to PDF -- yields "Decompression error" on Android. I'd be wary.
I've never thought about the Ship of Theseus in those terms.

I always thought it was more of a "Are you still you even though all the cells in your body eventually get replaced; so except for many of your brain and nerve cells, you have little to none of what you were born with." or "Is it still that computer I build in 2005 even though I've literally replaced everything in it and the case, except for this old DVD drive?"
The CRISPR Economy: 7 Private Startups Pursuing the New Frontier in Biotech
I've found parsers simple to make with a parser combinator library, like Bennu[0]. It matches how I thought parsing should work, and as a bonus the parsers made with it automatically support incremental parsing. Just for fun, I implemented a full JSON parser[1] with it.

I assume a hand-written a recursive descent parser would run faster, but it definitely doesn't strike me as flexible or quick to write or modify, and anything extra like incremental support or good error messages is just a lot of one-off manual effort.

[0] http://bennu-js.com/

[1] https://github.com/AgentME/bennu-json
I'm not sure about that. Unlike GMO crops, you (probably) can't patent the dodo… so after a company spends a large amount of money upfront on genetic engineering, as soon as the first batch of birds goes out, anyone can start breeding them and undercut them on price.

Maybe they could find something in their specific breed of not-actually-a-dodo that's patentable.

Or they could only distribute one sex of bird to the public, at least initially.
There does seem to be an RSS feed: http://distill.pub/rss.xml
Although it is not advertised on the website (I did view-source to find it).

Should you plug that in to IFTTT, Zapier, or something to that extent, you hopefully then have a weekly feed.

Though I do agree, an option to signup to updates directly on the website would be much better ;)
Because making it possible for ethnically/racially/culturally diverse groups to live happily together is and has historically been a major challenge. So a country that has immigration policies that promote homogeneity will avoid many of those challenges. It's certainly not the only factor...but I can't imagine that it doesn't play a major role.
Absolutely agree. Since Uber and friends, congestion has become worse in NYC.

However, a simple toll would be fairer, as it would treat all cars equally, regardless of whether they are or are not taxis
Ask HN: How do you take money for side project without forming a company
Non US developers how do you charge money for your side project (saas/app/web) without creating a company.
When humanity eventually goes extinct, there will most likely be a reemergence of life and growth (if we don't take them out with us).
He probably wasn't too far from the disgusting coup against Salvador Allende on the 9/11/1973, organized by the CIA.

From the guardian :

"But the very name of Allende was anathema to the extreme Right in Chile, to certain powerful corporations (notably ITT, Pepsi Cola and the Chase Manhattan Bank) which did business in Chile and the United States, and to the CIA." [0]

"He [David Rockerfeller] was both chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan from 1969 to 1980 and remained chairman until 1981." [1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/24/pinochet.booke...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller
The "true" Fourier transform is to write the function as an infinite sum of e^(2 pi i n x) with complex coefficients and n an integer. (This is the "true" Fourier transform because of a connection between periodic functions and circles, and because the representation theory of the circle group says that these are the so-called irreducible representations. This is extremely abridged -- the point is just to mention relevant words.)

Due to Euler's formula, there is a correspondence between a linear combination of e^(2 pi i n x) and e^(-2 pi i n x) and a linear combination of cos(2 pi n x) and sin(2 pi n x). In other words, both pairs of functions span the same subspace (with complex coefficients).

We need all of the exponentials to represent a periodic function, with positive and negative n, and so we need both cos and sin. If you leave out cos, you can only represent odd functions, and leaving out sin, even functions.

But: if your question is just why not just use sin(x) and sin(x-pi/2) instead of sin(x) and cos(x), well, it's the same thing. Just because you write cos(x) like sin(x-pi/2) doesn't mean it's not still cos(x)!

(Fun fact: cosine means "complementary sine," the sine of the complementary angle in the triangle.)
I agree that there are examples, such as the ones you propose, of games that are widely regarded as "A Really Good Game" while clearly being a long stretch from "Sublime Art".

What I intended to get across was that there are other examples that I do not find so clear cut. Such as the 4 examples I gave. I can't tell if I would propose these as examples of "Games As Sublime Art" because they possess qualities deserving of that title or if they are simply tricking me by being very good games.
>i agree that globalization would reduce the risk of global conflict - there would only be one side. thus, if the wrong people were in power there would be no way to fight them. that's scary.

That's not scary, that's the US. The Federal government functions more successfully than state governments in every way. In the Fed we have Trump vs. in states we have literal coups and gerrymandering. The US is better as a federation than individual states in every way. A state is not more able to fight "the wrong people being in charge", but they are significantly more vulnerable to it.
I think we really are at the beginning of video games as a medium, though I hope some of us will be alive long enough to see a real masterpiece. People watch movies made 60 years ago and appreciate them on their own merit; they rarely watch movies made 100 years ago, though, except to comment on their impact. The technology underlying games is still progressing rapidly, and hasn't hit the relative plateau that film did. A movie shot in 1975 may use different technology behind the lens, but its similar enough in form (colors, scenes cutting between each other, sound) that we can appreciate it even if we've grown up with the films of today, whereas when watching a jerky black-and-white silent film from 1923 we simply can't get into it.

No matter how good Ocarina of Time is, anyone playing it today can feel the lack of depth and poor graphics putting up a wall between themselves and enjoyment. Most games are still improving on a couple of simple models, and the only games that people really seem to revisit are ones so simple they can't be improved on (Tetris is a perfect game, if not a particularly deep piece of art) or truly different in a way that hasn't been met since (people are still getting into Portal a decade later.) The design of most video games means that more depth, points of interest, and complexity make the game more fun, which means more processing power will always improve the game. If nothing else, this is because most video games are simulations of reality, and reality is always more complex than the computer. I fully enjoyed the most recent Hitman, but still ran up against points where the game logic interfered with my intuition about how the world works, and the next iteration with better tech will inevitably improve on it. Not until gaming hardware and basic principles of game design reach a slower level of development will we see an enduring masterpiece.
How do you view PBNs in 2017? Would you ever consider purchasing a site that is ranking with a PBN or is it just too risky? I've read conflicting opinions, some saying that if it is done is a silo'd way and the content is not terrible, its not such a big deal.
But you're describing some kind of theoretical ideal world. We don't live in that world. No one has found a good mechanism for controlling inequality within their own borders and/or ethnic group that scales to anything beyond the size of a village.

Yea domination by elites and globalization don't theoretically have to occur together. But looking at history and the current state of the world... what do you think is more likely?
Yeah, I forgot about the Henry and George. A good choice if you're in the UK (made in UK). Hotels and office cleaners use them a lot - which is a sure mark of reliability.

I've actually got a Neato robot vac now. I'm not sure if moving chairs and rugs etc to prepare the way for the robot takes more time than actually non-robot vacuuming. It's calming to see it go around on its own though.
>Unless they're purposely cutting lines or just rebadging stuff

This is exactly what they're doing. Your example, GE, actually sold off it's appliance division to Haier. They had also been relabeling LG appliances for years prior to the sale of the entire division. The article for this thread also made note of the fact that "Kenmore" is nothing but an umbrella label under which includes products from almost every manufacturer. The only difference between my Kenmore refrigerator and the LG equivalent is the label on the door and the far lower number of reviews on the Kenmore due to its limited distribution. Unfortunately, the LG was widely known to be junk but since the Kenmore was exclusive to Sears, there was no information available to make this connection until I had it disassembled in my home and I began to look up part numbers to fix it.

Source 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/business/dealbook/haier-g...

Source 2: http://www.appliance411.com/purchase/make.shtml
An insightful article from a few years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/us/marine-battalion-veter...
> The original motivation was to offload the most painful part of memory management work from the coder, but it somehow morphed into, "Takes care of everything to do with memory management."

I don't understand the difference. GC was invented for Lisp. Lisp was fully automatically memory managed, just as GC'd languages are today. John McCarthy never conceived of Lisp as a language with malloc and free.

> To this end, GC should be optimized by default for latency -- as this is the most likely optimization for a better development environment.

I don't see how that follows. Throughput is just as important as latency in most scenarios, development included. There's nothing about development that makes latency more desirable than throughput—if anything, I would think the opposite would be true, as running batch testing jobs usually demands good throughput.
> whether video games are capable of the same level and kind of intellectual or emotional stimulus as traditional works of art

And on what possible basis could anyone ever answer that question?

BTW, that is emphatically not the question Ebert was addressing. Ebert wrote:

"... I [do] indeed consider video games inherently inferior to film and literature. There is a structural reason for that: Video games by their nature require player choices, which is the opposite of the strategy of serious film and literature, which requires authorial control.”

So his reasoning has nothing to do with whether or not video games "are capable of the same level and kind of intellectual or emotional stimulus as traditional works of art." He is simply saying, with absolutely no foundation or justification whatsoever other than his authority as a Great Film Critic, that games can't be art because they are interactive.

Phooey.

(BTW, I'm not a big fan of video games. I hardly ever play them. But to my mind, Myst, Riven and Monument Valley have at least as much claim to being art as that stupid Northcote painting.)
This is so I don't see why people ignore. I bet you can go buy high end appliances that will last 50 years. But would anyone want to be using it in 50 years?
Notice the following:

> sin(pi)

-3.73566e-20

> sin(2*pi)

7.47132e-20

> sin(3*pi)

-1.1207e-19

> sin(4*pi)

1.49426e-19

So

abs(sin(n*pi))

is proportional to n, and

sin(n*pi)

alternates in sign. This is because your "pi" is really a floating-point number which is slightly more than pi...

Is there a way around this without doing all computation symbolically?
Comrade, I think you spend too much time on the internet. Get some fresh air and exercise. I wish you well.
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In this concrete case, how do you do transfer learning? what is the domain you have experience to transfer to the energy of energy? Also, Bayes's naive algorithm can be used in spam detection and usually it gives good results, is RL such a great tool in spam filtering when there is moderate data?
As the paper notes, this is a different perspective on generative adversarial networks:

Goodfellow et al. (2014) proposed generative adversarial nets
(GANs). GANs, while independently invented, are essentially
based on the same idea as Turing Learning.
I think it does. Spam has to be done in bulk.
What is the best solution for a compound geospatial and full text search query?
Since Numi <https://numi.io/> has become slow to launch – and I find Soulver <http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/> overkill for quick calculations – I've been looking for a replacement. Here's how to set insect up to run "as" a Mac app.

https://gist.github.com/msutherl/b2ab6d5ae7454ea1a987ee85385...
palrewire, it would be great to have the notebook hosted on http://notebooks.azure.com so people can run it. thx.
I think the primary reason for this (graphics/wireless support, or lack thereof) with regard to FreeBSD is that a large number of the developers -- possibly even a majority, if what I've seen at conferences is any indicator -- don't run FreeBSD as their desktop OS. Instead, they seem to overwhelmingly run macOS. A larger percentage of OpenBSD developers do seem to run OpenBSD on their laptops, however.

FWIW, I do recall hearing about some fairly extensive progress being made recently WRT both graphics and wireless support on both of the BSDs recently, so expect the situation to improve quite a bit in the near future if it hasn't already.
Whether or not humbling themselves into a mere taxi firm with unsubsidized rates would be competitive, I doubt the investors would allow that.

There's an awful lot of other people's money in Uber. There's an Ayn Rand joke here, but I'll skip it.
Thanks for sharing. The layout of her posts on the homepage is really nice. I got to see Julia Evans give a great talk at PyCon a few years ago, and I really like her style and approach, so it's great to see she has a blog too.