skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is itself a "legacy joke"; I would say it was the 80s-90s when door to door double glazing salesmen were rife. The only real objection was the sheer cost of retrofitting it, plus a bit of stiff upper lip about not caring about being cold.

A friend of mine lives in a single-glazed 13-storey 1960s apartment block. It can be quite drafty. There's no way it will ever be refitted and I'd give it a couple of decades until its demolition.

The UK's housing stock is very old on average and some of it is in very poor condition.
Naw, straight into the deep end is to start with reading the Homotopy Type Theory book... https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
Uber president quits after just 6 months on the job
Well, perpetual motion is not impossible, obtaining energy from it impossible
Apple doesn't pay the GST on the sales, that is paid for by the consumers. (Yes I know that is a gross simplification but that is the general idea of GST - it is a consumption tax).
I fall into the longer-term category as a front end data visualization person who would like to learn more ML. Please reach out to me if you're looking for JS volunteer to help with code review, visualization polish, or implementing new visualizations.
Luxury Eco Hotel Is Breathtaking in Cornwall
Common Lisp via slime has quite good autocomplete because it extracts the information from a running system and doesn't have to infer it from the source code.
The closest thing video games are to what is normally accepted as art is theatre; specifically, interactive theatre[1].

There's many components to what makes good art, but if I could sum it up in one word, it would be broadband: not a thin narrow channel of effect, but impacting the observer on multiple levels. Emotion, reason, the senses - being hit all at once, or in waves.

Games are still a bit lopsided, due to being marketed mostly to not particularly introspective young people and frequently focusing on visuals over everything else. I think things could change, but it may require different market expectations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_theatre
Recovered in the financial sense- they recently fired a quarter of their staff:

https://technical.ly/brooklyn/2017/03/16/genius-layoffs-verg...

I do agree that their product is the best by far; they're my go to site for lyrics.
TLDR; Batteries store electrical energies by using materials with different potentials. The paper in question does not indicate materials with different potentials, at least as far as others in the battery field can see.

1. unlikely - the paper is a complete fraud

2. Some sort of measurement error has occurred (possible)

3. The method of action is different from what is described in the paper

4. The method of action is novel
True in fact the very disks that are used to distribute this data have printed warning that its misuse is a felony offense.
> my objection is that his definition of art appears in no part of this essay. I don't need it to be "mathematical", I just need it to exist.

Yes, you need everything you read to be structured like a mathematical argument, so you can pick it apart. So you need a definition followed by proofs. You're annoyed that every article doesn't have this structure, especially argumentative articles like this one. You are acting as a natural language proof checker, not a person.

> Do you actually think priorities are exclusive like that? May I not both reason and appreciate?

I think if you bail out after a few minutes on an article for failing to supply you with the structure you demand, then yes, your priorities are basically exclusive. Now, I don't have a proof in hand for that, which I'm sure you'll fixate on.

> The argument you make against my response to the article could be equally applied to the article itself, yet you take the author's side, which seems dishonest to me.

I value articles over comments, especially obnoxious, entitled comments. I am not here to merely compile text and type check it. The accusation of "dishonesty" only reinforces that you are more interested in the structure of what is being said than what the words are saying. The accusation itself, what a preposterous idea, that there are some rigid rules about what I read and how I choose to respond to it which you can apply to me and constrain me with. Do you think you could berate me into agreeing with you?
Isn't it strange good enough sells better than the best?
Please see the comment above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13917089.
How does this provide IF ratings? Probably irrelevant for industry, but publishing in academia is all about IF, no matter how bad and corrupt one might think it is.

And what about long-term stability/presence. Most top journals and their publishing houses (NPG, Elsevier, Springer) are likely to hang around for another decade (or two...), while I don't feel so sure about that for a product like GitHub. Maybe Distill is/will be officially backed (financially) by the industry names supporting it?

That being said, I'd love seeing this succeed, but there seems much to be done to get this really "off the ground" beyond being a (much?!) nicer GitXiv.
> Due to the unfortunate C ABI, a fast copying collector is not really doable. One cannot track all the internal and external pointers. Well, one could, but has to pessimize the locals on every external pointer reference.

Note that a GC does not have to be copying in order to be fast. What makes or breaks performance for most GCs is whether they are generational [1]. A non-generational copying GC will generally not have impressive performance, either.

A copying GC allows you to have a bump allocator, but a non-copying generational GC can still have a pool allocator. Using a pool allocator does not share all of the benefits of a bump allocator (such as good memory locality for successive allocations), but still allows for very fast allocations for small objects.

Also, mostly copying GCs are still an option even if you scan roots conservatively. See Joel Bartlett's mostly copying GC from the late 1980s.

[1] Not counting non-tracing approaches, such as deferred reference counting, which achieve similar goals through other means.
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> It's funny, Ebert said that games aren't art because they give you choices... and in a way, Shadow of the Colossus gives you none.

I think his outsider perspective made it difficult for him to appreciate that these things, examples of what he wanted, already existed. Myst is another (sort of) example, where the number of choices are actually more limited than it immediately appeared. I'm not really certain that they'd actually be great art, but they're demonstrations that the medium is capable of it. Which he later admits, though I think his timeline for when it will happen (if it hasn't happened yet) was way off.
How exactly do you perform this price comparison? In my experience you only find out what the ride cost after it's over. Or do you regularly travel the same routes often enough that you can run a personal A/B test?
In our code, we have a closed interface type with many variants, not unlike an AST. We frequently add new variants to that interface. It is nice to have a tool tell us which parts of the code need updating to account for the new variant. This tool does that. It trivially reduces bugs and saves development time.

If you think people like me "don't get stuff done," then please, take a stroll through my Github. ;-)
I mean "recover" in the financial sense, they've recently laid off a quarter of their staff:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14924238/rap-genius-web-an...
I can't believe no one has mentioned Journey. To me this is closest to Art you can find in a video game.
Mark Forster stuff is interesting, but he never stuck with this, he ended up doing version, have version after version of this... and is still coming up with new versions to this day.

I almost feel bad for him, because it seems he is obsessed with finding the perfect system, but despite dedicating a huge amount of his life hasn't been able to do so.

From his blog it seems he has been very ill recently, due to cancer and he is still trying to find a system and still trying to find something that works. Every system he publishes has worked for a few days or a few weeks, but then he moves onto something different.

I think although his insights are helpful, I think he is the perfect example of what happens when you focus on productivity as an end result too much rather than the real world.
It seems like the meaning of the word "globalization" has been hijacked. It really seems, in the minds of some people at least, to indicate a bundle of very negative outcomes - which in no way I would support.

Shifting the center of this discussion would take too long. I'm not here to write a dissertation about the evolution of human society. I think I've hinted at how things could possibly unfold, if we make a consistent effort to better the future of the Earth. Read what I've said and that should provide some indication - unless your mind is set on "winning" a contest of punditry, in which case I wish you good luck.

TLDR: I think the best of all possible futures could be achieved through some measure of unity on a global scale, at a higher order of magnitude compared to what we have now. Inequality is one of the many obstacles on the way there. Narrow-minded nationalism is another. It would require massive changes on multiple levels, and it will not happen in a day or two. Call the end result whatever you like. But anything that could bring that future closer is a good cause to support.
Very interesting. I remember how many entries to the LITECAR challenge essentially said "Use graphene!" as the innovation, which, frankly speaking, is fundamentally useless. As in, it doesn't really exist as a viable notion right now, or for the foreseeable future in consumer application.

I like how the article notes one of the primary benefits is related to cost, which always is a concern of mine when reading about innovations and developments and discoveries like this.

All that said, I'd really like to see what a catastrophic failure looks like, because if they're going to be on the road eventually, let's see what we're in for in some worst-case-scenario testing.
A rapid introduction to NoSQL databases (Martin Fowler, GOTO 2012)
It would make a difference - an appliance that would last 15 years would be $X more expensive, but buying 5 appliances that each last 3 years would cost 5*$X. If $X is meaningfully large, it becomes a strong motivation to prefer things that last longer.
It really should be zero or at least no higher than 20%. You're double taxing corps. You tax the consumer's paycheck, then tax the corp when it sells.
rockefeller is one of the families that created,control, own the federal reserve

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-the-...

this cartel is behind many wars, false flags to make the government need more money for weapons, so they would borrow it from the federal reserve.
Everyone correctly predicted the "New Economy" would change business forever, about 10 years early. Venture capitalists frantically rushed to fund ".com" ideas with billions of collective dollars. To get their money back, the VCs hired investment banks to sell their shares to the public. Those same investment banks had for many years made "buy/sell/hold" recommendations reliably on established companies. Thus, when those investment banks inevitably gave the same .com's they were selling "buy" ratings, the public trusted those ratings. The public was also overcome with daily reports of the hyperbolic growth in the value of these public stocks. These reports fueled the interest in such stocks which caused investors to drive the prices for the stocks higher in a vicious cycle. However, despite such growth in the price of the stocks, and the "buy" recommendations of the investment banks, many of the stocks had business models that could not even theoretically operate at a profit. No matter how many widgets they sold, they lost more money. Another group of these businesses were aimed at providing services TO the "New Economy", ".com" companies.

Eventually, the money from these funding rounds dried up. One-by-one the flawed business models were revealed, and companies began to go bankrupt. As businesses with even viable models relied heavily on the "New Economy" .com's as a customer base, they, too were driven to bankruptcy. Some period after the stocks were sold to the public, investment banks were also allowed to change their ratings, and often did, to "sell". News reports of the ".com" crash began, and sent the public running for the exits. All of these factors combined for another vicious cycle in the value of ".com" stocks in the opposite direction.
Is dance an art? Is jazz? Is improv? How do they differ from a game like chess or basketball?
Interestingly, Deepmind's Ben Laurie has been working on certificate transparency-like tech to permit a verifiable audit log of access to data like this, precisely for this purpose: https://qz.com/929833/googles-goog-deepmind-is-using-blockch...

If you want to take a look at the underlying technology, take a look at https://github.com/google/trillian
States already pay for corporations to relocate hoping to make it up by increased employement and ancillary busineses. I don't imagine that in many cases, local governments have basically given money to the corporation with the expecting proceeds not materializing.

Corporations with the advent of the WTO and other globalization efforts have essentially made it impossible for nations to actually tax them.

How does this change and if such taxation doesn't hold, will the states also eventually become antiquated?
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Maybe it's not exercise you hate, but the gym. I tried the gym once and dropped it because I hated it. A few years later I found running and loved it; then I found cycling and loved it even more.

Exercise is tiring enough as it is (that's the point). You should at least find something you enjoy, otherwise it's even more likely that you won't do it.
That definitely doesn't fit the criteria of not taking pieces of other people's productivity to fund roads and schools that the parent post mentioned. I'd be interested in hearing of an alternative model to taxes that's actually worked out. Every other example I've seen has fallen to the tragedy of the Commons rather than businesses stepping up and handling common goods well
How many years until we get the headline, "A hot bath doesn't have benefits similar to exercise"? I predict five.
> So all in all, you still probably consume ~2000 calories, which is enough to lose weight, but also enough not to feel hungry by timing the consumption correctly. Small-framed women, for example would gain weight with the same diet.

Correct. I ate very little in high school and college because I was wrestling however this is the least I've eaten on a regular basis since leaving college. I would rather my family eat like this then two - three large meals every day with snacks in between.
I've heard it as a "skewer", because you're penetrating every necessary layer.
I still manage to make it away from time to time, but they are a significant ball and chain. We do seasonal production at the moment (though as we grow, we'll move to more of a year round production schedule), so we have about 2 months of downtime in the winter with fairly minimal work on a day-to-day basis. I usually get an employee or family to check in twice a day, feed, and make sure nothing's dramatically wrong.
The issue with this is that there are so many "grey" areas for different people. Google themselves don't really want you building links manually, they think that if you have good content, you will get links naturally and all will be right in the world.

At one point years ago I got half way through finishing an eBook/info product that was an SEO checklist. But half way through I felt that some people would find link building "spammy" no matter what. At that time, I was manually building large Web 2.0 networks with good quality content, and having it all funnel up to my main site. Even this can be seen as "grey hat" at the very least to some.
@hawkice

Sure, selecting localStorage as main storage would be a good option. StandardFile provides security and encryption, that's all :)

Thanks for the feedback!
I'm 24 and single currently. When in relationships this tends to fluctuate a bit but mostly its just a dinner a couple times a week.

I could imagine with kids this would be difficult.
> it engages some kind of emergency-brake and that spinner grinds to a halt in a fraction of a second.

On an HE model if it braked that fast I think the whole washer body would spin around.
Just use Lazy K: https://tromp.github.io/cl/lazy-k.html
> Would you consider buying a NEW Volvo?

Yes - sorry I forgot to add that bit :)
My brain doesn't want to move my body around. If my body enjoys it, it certainly has never told me it does. Quite the opposite.
There are lots of quantifiable facts. Here are some quantifiable facts for you.

https://euobserver.com/institutional/136630

> Secret EU law making reached a high in 2016 that has only been matched once before, according to figures obtained by EUobserver ... according to figures provided by the parliament, not a single bill ended up in a second reading agreement in 2016, only the second time this has happened since EU parliament record keeping began in 2004

If you dig into that story you will find people (Brits) raising the trend towards secret law making as a problem way back in 2005. The EU said it'd improve, it didn't, it got worse. Only one other legislature in the world makes law in secret: North Korea.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/eu-faces-brexit-c...

> A recent survey by the Pew Research Centre found that only 38 per cent of France had a favourable view of the EU, marking an astonishing negative shift in attitudes towards Brussels since the 2009 financial crisis that has been mirrored to varying degrees all across Europe. A poll last month by Ipsos-MORI found that nearly half of voters in eight European Union countries want to be able to vote on whether to remain members of the bloc, with a third saying they would opt to leave, if given the choice.

That's a pretty large number of people wanting their own exit referendums. However, there appears to be no chance of them getting such a vote. European politicians tend to describe allowing people to vote on the EU as a "contagion", a "mistake", "populism" etc.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/10/is-the-ignorant-l...

> learning more about the EU may be just as likely to lead people to have a negative view of the EU as a positive view ... in 2003 a team of researchers from University of Twente in the Netherlands concluded that, contrary to Inglehart’s thesis, the more voters understand about European democracy the less satisfied they become.

Summary: the idea that people can only disagree with the EU because they don't know the facts is not supported by the EU's own polling and studies.

The quotes and references to events I suppose you can Google for yourself. Are there other things you'd like me to provide data for?

I note that some people seem to think my post says things that are wild/extreme/unsubstantiated. But we're talking about the UK which just voted to leave despite all the warnings about how painful it's going to be. What I wrote above is not really considered an extreme POV in the UK, you can find op-eds with similar lines of reasoning in mainstream newspapers. And many of the things I refer to can be easily checked with a few minutes on a search engine, like the quotes from European politicians.
Hm, it wraps weirdly (mid-word) on narrow screens...
Just a funny coincidence but, did you see "TreeMaker" origami software just below this thread? :-)
1. UK is not in EU. The argument is that such arrangements are commonplace and I am sure one can find other such examples of data sharing in UK.

2. LOL yeah you are so damn clueless that I wont even bother replying. Lets just say there is reading some popular press article about privacy and annonymity. And then there is knowing intricate details of how business/research is conducted.
Where's the explanation of how this was achieved?
For the most part, corporate income tax is dumb. Corporations have a lot more options than individuals, to which corporate profits generally flow eventually, to play games with where they file for different parts of their operations.

That said, I don't really expect major changes. Corporate taxes are a lot less unpopular than individual taxes. So the fact that they're avoided a lot of the time is just how it is.
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That's been my experience too - drivers like Lyft better, and Lyft doesn't seem to be run by assholes. I never actually deleted my Uber account, but I didn't bother to install the app when I bought a new phone; I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
> Why not? Why do people expect the UK to act unilaterally but not EU countries? It's a double-standard.

No, it is not a double standard. The UK is the one that will trigger unilaterally the Article 50 and they want the cake and eat it.

> None of the EU leaders (or foreign press) has contested the UK's accounting of this

Why they should? They are not the ones leaving the EU
Whether the consumer pays the tax on top of the retail price, or the producer raises their prices and pays the tax out of their end, it is all the same.
1. It's a bit difficult to change languages when you already wrote tens of thousands of lines of code for your project in one language.

2. Every language has its downsides. You can't mix and match features.
Curious again, what are the innovative products in AI right now?
I suspect that you have never actually used a phone-dispatch car service in NYC. You have no visibility into their ETA. Call back and ask... the answer is always the same "5 minutes".
Once you realize how little else there was to do for the past 200 years or so of 'civilized society' I think it fits perfectly. There were only so many "high" interests and hobbies. I wonder how large a warehouse I could fill with all my writings and chat logs since 1995. Phew.
I understand the objections. Frankly, I was not consulted about the surgery, so the choice was not in my hands. And I have committed all my available funds to paying the bills. And they are not completely paid at this point, but neither do I expect that others will pay them. Rather, others graciously provided funds to help in paying the bills, unsolicited. There was no "Go Fund Me" or similar internet plea for assistance, not even any request by email or phone or in person.

And frankly, I would have preferred to leave here, but it was not my choice. In fact, I have not dealt with it well at times, and even got drunk a little over a week ago. Shameful to admit, but true.

I have commented further in this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13917089 .
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If products are failing before their owners were "done" with them, then the analysis you describe is inferior to whatever design techniques preceded it, regardless of how sophisticated it is, because, well, products are failing before their owners are done with them.

You can explain this as "planned obsolescence" or poor engineering (or a poor understanding of the market's needs), but not both, really. I think what you say about consumers often wanting a "disposable" version of a product is true for a lot of products but by no means every product. This is all also tied in with the cycle of trendy new electronic gadgets, which seems to drive consumers' desire to replace perfectly good products they already own.