skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why run electrical current through your brain (which seems like a bad idea on general principle)? Audio waves are demonstrably effective - not just for stimulation / focus, but adjustable for other cogntitive states, like relaxation and sleep.
See [Brain.FM](https://brain.fm).
Ask HN: Games that will teach me new ways of thinking / skills
I have a piece of paper from an academic institution that tells me I'm a smart guy with a huge enjoyment of learning new things. But experience suggests I can exclusively learn new things by actually doing them.

This means I can either struggle through turning technical documentation, textbooks, lectures, and so on, and then go and teach myself how to actually do the things afterwards -- which is hard -- or I can find learning resources that are setup for my style of learning, which is immediately rewarding.

From another thread here on HN, I recently found Human Resource Machine, which I love, and which (sort of) teaches you the basics of interacting with a simple chip. Some of the harder exercises there have caused me to write a little DSL which pretends to be an assembler so that I can solve the problems in an IDE. This has in turn probably piqued my interest enough to actually write some real assembly language.

I want more games that will teach me ways of thinking while having fun. I would rather whatever it teaches me expands my mind a little. I love both Civ and Simcity, but all I'm really learning while playing each is the algebra behind the respective game engines. I'm also not that interested in games that might give me a very shallow snapshot of history -- I'd rather watching a film!

On my short-list so far, from some quick searching:

- Rocksmith 2014 - teaches you guitar

- Dragonbox - apparently has an adult-version of teaching you more algebra

- MS Flight Simulator

- Kerbal Space program - orbital physics

- Duolingo, maybe

Any other recommenations?
Could TransferWise you the $3.35USD. That work?
I've been taking melatonin most nights for about ten years. I haven't noticed any negative effects, other than I'm not sure if it really helps me anymore. I started early in college when I realized my high school sleep schedule (less than 5 hours on week nights) wasn't going to work with more demanding academics. It quickly "solved" my sleep issues, but I've continued to take it most nights. My sleep schedule now is pretty regular and great, and I forget to take melatonin every so often and never really notice a difference. So it could be that I have tolerance, but it just doesn't matter since my routine is effective at maintaining good sleep.

I agree with exercise helping immensely, but I don't drink any caffeine so I can't comment on that.
Don't know why you're being downvoted, because that exact thing has happened to many of my former lab mates. Giving a green card to anyone with a graduate degree in STEM fields would be the most sensible thing to do if the US wanted to avoid the reverse brain drain of foreign graduates educated mostly on the US taxpayer's money.

The vast majority of those grads would be very happy to stay in the US.
Not that long ago, everyone did 1-3 all the time.

Until ~20 years ago "screen time" was at least mostly limited to a (by modern standards) tiny CRT TV on the other side of the room for most people. Glowing screens filling a big part of one's FOV such a large percentage of the day is a fairly recent thing.
Canberra also.
I think you're overthinking the meaning here. I'm sure that "cup of joe" is used simply to vary the vocabulary used in the article, rather than the specify a cup of black coffee.
The Juno spacecraft's first results on Jupiter
They can of course see the individual packets and their exact timings. This can be trivially correlated with egress traffic from your VPN gateway to other ISP affiliated networks or web properties. And since it's your private gateway, there is no other traffic mixed in.

Traffic analysis is a term of art in cryptanalysis and SIGINT, in case you were not familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis
You are still bound to the 65,000 visa cap of H1B. Nothing to do with skills (sadly).

For any non immigration visa you have to prove you will leave the country after you finish school (= visa expires). If she is here illegally that's hard to prove. You also have to prove you can financially sustain yourself here.
What luck that this was the 12th person to attempt 11 shots at once.
Thank you for the reply. Having lurked on HN for a while, I'm used to some negativity, or at least very critical, comments. So when most of the comments for this piece appeared positive something seemed off.

Anyway, I appreciate the environment on HN and the steps users like you take to preserve it.
As of iOS 9 (I think) the native Facebook login opens a safari view inside the app. Signing in once will remember you for any other apps. They got rid of the app switch.
When crawling online articles such as news, blogs, etc. I want to save them in markdown files but not databases.
For instance, I can download my wordpress blogs as markdown files with requests and tomd in a single python script without configering another language environment.
Again, I was assuming this is talking about deep learning. I understand that hating on deep learning is popular, but the current AI boom, including AlphaGo (which triggered the Chinese interest in AI according to this article) is driven by deep learning.
Posted three times as well. :- P
Dupe from my other reply, but the general sentiment is the same:

Again, I was assuming this is talking about deep learning. I understand that hating on deep learning is popular, but the current AI boom, including AlphaGo (which triggered the Chinese interest in AI according to this article) is driven by deep learning.
Use pink noise instead of white noise, if you can. It's less "sharp". Personally, I can't stand more than few moments of white noise, while I can listen to pink noise for hours (it reminds me of sea waves crashing into the shore).
6-12 months of self directed learning & self promotion (blog posts, talks at local user groups, open source contributions, etc) can get you in that industry if you're already a semi-competent programmer.
You have to prove malicious intent to bring criminal charges, but not to decide whether a given car is road-worthy.
Two posts in violation of a policy regularly broken makes it so if I complain about this bad behavior someone else is using against me, such complaints are not relevant, but I may be banned from your website.

Am I understanding this correctly?
It's not, but you shouldn't take my word on it. For a supposedly science focused crowd, most people here on HN don't know what they're talking about when it comes to diet. Programmers in general tend to be overweight and unhealthy.
> The killer feature of private blockchains is having a smart contract language.

A contract language has nothing to do with blockchains. All you need is a well-defined interpreter, whose interpretation all parties agree represents "the truth", and all that's left is entering into a legally binding contract which states these terms plus the "smart contract" in question.

Ethereum showed very well what happened when people enter into a non-binding (by the legal system) smart contract: they refuse to abide by the decision by retroactively modifying the interpreter to interpret the contract in their favor. And why wouldn't they?
From a formal (legal as well? IANAL) standpoint, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated US territory, and thus not a part of the United States. A territory has to be incorporated to gain that status. They're only considered part of the US for "specific legislation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unincorporated_territories_of_...
THE GREATEST EBOLA DECEPTION IN MEDICAL HISTORY
My local roaster / coffeeshop: http://www.andytownsf.com/ I usually get the Amaro Gayo Ethopian beans (I tend to prefer african beans to south / central american ones, and ethiopian over the rest of africa, but that's not hard-and-fast, the $50 / lb beans were also from andytown, but central american, costa rica IIRC).

Seriously and in all honestly they roast the best beans I've ever had. I've lived on both coasts, had a lot of coffee. It's not super cheap ($10 - $17 for a half-pound) but it is worth it. There may be better coffee, but I imagine it is one of those logarithmic scale things - I'd have to pay 10x for a 10% increase in taste or whatever.
Well, what you're describing falls exactly into the second category of exploration that 'westoncb was outlining. Only one way to find out!
That's a valid argument in theory. In practice though it should be possible to agree on a set of conditions strict enough to be "fair" and loose enough that the regulator has some wiggle room to adjust the tests as they see fit.

And there could be an appeals process whereas when a car fails it can be tested again, and the tests monitored by a 3rd party, etc.
I've tried (I use the coffee popper), and it's very satisfying, but also I'm pretty bad at it. I'm pretty sure I can't get the heat to evenly distribute right - I ended up with some beans way scorched. Still, fun.
I remember playing games like Falcons and Hard Hat Mack on my Apple II+ as a kid. Those two games in particular were cracked copies. As was fairly common in the Apple II warez scene, pressing the reset button during gameplay would dump you into the Monitor prompt. You could access locations $C050 and $C057 to turn fullscreen graphics mode back on, and type G to resume execution from the point of interruption. The details were more complex than my recollection at this late date, but that was the basic idea.

What was cool about this was that you could also alter random values in memory from the Monitor before resuming the game. Of course, without the source code it was tough to say what effects a given change might have. Usually nothing would happen after modifying a few arbitrary memory values, but sometimes I'd get lucky and gameplay would resume in an interesting, undocumented way. Fewer enemies, more powerful weapons, access to an otherwise-unreachable level, wacky graphical effects. Occasionally I'd get really lucky and stumble upon a way to jack up my score to 999,999,999 or whatever. When that happened, I'd hit reset again, reboot, and dump the graphics RAM to my printer for guaranteed bragging rights on the school bus the next day.

Frequently, though, after altering something at random, the game would just crash.

And that seems a lot like what you're doing by running electric current through your brain.
And they are not even wrong to do so; their only problem is that they are more certain of themselves than they should be.

If someone says something that contradicts the information you already have, you should only change your belief proportional to how often they are right and you are wrong. And the only way to estimate the degree of relative correctness is to observe how often they agree with you ...

Now I'm just thinking aloud (awrite?), but maybe a general strategy to convince someone would be to find an authority that they trust more than themselves, or to become such an authority yourself. And the last part is hard, since you can only disagree with them if they will easily change their mind, thus changing their estimate of relative correctness in your favor.
My "observations" from a "few" samples with a lot of data points is that females get very sleepy after quality #3.
here:

https://phys.org/news/2016-07-iii-civilization.html
I haven't met many people who have knowledge beyond watching Friends reruns who actually want to live in Manhattan.

The highest population growth places in the US are places like Dallas, TX and Greenville, SC. That's been the case for a long time. NYC and SFO are treading water and are at risk as their economies have de-diversified over the last 40 years.
the point + line generalized Voronoi diagram is also related to the medial axis, which is used for calculating offsets in CNC applications:

https://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~held/projects/vroni/vroni.html

you need the medial axis for v-carving, to control the CNC like so: https://youtu.be/jJhaDHmXvsY?t=1m15s
That is not true and the reason is obvious - bamboo ceiling in American companies. Think about it - Chinese grads have far higher chance to be promoted to a senior position in companies like BAT and all of them pay you well.
ccc Horatio Alger lives, all hail Ayn Rand
Can we get this renamed to reflect that that is a cryptocurrency bubble and not a "crypto bubble"?

It certainly isn't discussing companies working on cryptographic technologies like I initially assumed.
Not to turn this into a debate on patents, but even the patent itself seems to admit it's an obvious and anticipated improvement made possible by cheaper silicon:

> In an effort to gain the advantages conferred by operating on a floating point basis, some prior art systems have attempted to perform floating point through software emulation

> But as advances in semiconductor and computer technology enable greater processing power and faster speeds; as prices drop;...it has been _discovered_ by the present inventors that it is now practical to implement some portions or even the entire rasterization process by hardware in a floating point format. [emphasis added]

> Hence, due to the improvements in processor speed and other improvements that make it practical to operate on large amounts of data, it is now possible and cost beneficial to utilize the valuable information that can be provided by the frame buffer.

It's a good idea, but obvious - everyone was waiting for this inevitable improvement. Their idea of floating-point-all-the-things is also good, but just a matter of engineering. They don't disclose their exact engineering, anyway; but just patent the general idea.

> Thus, there is a need for a graphical display system which predominately uses floating point throughout the entire geometry, rasterization, and frame buffering processes. The present invention provides one such display system.

I'm surprised it was granted, and I don't think it would upheld in court - but it doesn't need to, it's just another plank in the patent portfolio.
I'm sure people know and like self-driving Teslas
Alexa is quite popular, Snapchat filters (&clones) likewise
Google search and many other popular products (YouTube video captioning) are also driven by AI
I agree with you though - we are not yet there for chatbots!
Talking to someone that understands where you're coming from and what you're feeling I think is helpful.....the feeling of being utterly alone and completely misunderstood in the universe can weigh heavily on the depressed psyche.
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Do you have any good links about Template Haskell? I've heard of it before, but I'm curious what the main drawbacks are :)
Personally, I see no reason why creative machines couldn't be built.

Another thought on the local/less local/global maxima problem: it seems possible that, taking a very abstract view of things, the whole reason we developed the sort of thought which distinguishes humans from other animals is to address the escaping local-maxima problems (summed up by the situation where you're in a maze, but have to go 'backward' in some sense in order to get out). While discursive thought may be worse than analogical thought at this sort of thing, our lower 'animal brain' functionality is even more geared to dealing with local maxima/minima.
It is AGPL; it's dual licensed. You can use it freely under the terms of AGPL, or you can enter into a commercial agreement with Neo Technology and use it without the restrictions imposed by the AGPL.

Here's the license: https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/blob/3.3/enterprise/LICENSE.t...
I think it is not absolute value what defines a bubble.
It should be relative.
E.g. perceived value of an asset compared to it's real value/revenue/growth.
Personal opinion: Metrics do not make you a Master. You either know that you are one, or you don't. It doesn't mean that you never make mistakes, but that you are fluent in it (to borrow a spoken language term).
Real estate sales, as you mention, are already quite expensive. Why would burning off energy, which adds to this cost, make any sense?

Anyone who can get by without intentionally wasting energy, for the purpose of reaching consensus (between whom?), will be able to offer the same service at a lower price.

I just don't see the purpose of employing an algorithm designed for distributed consensus, between a few, well-defined parties (buyer, seller, county appraiser).
>but stricter regulation for vehicles were an additional effect

Surely car manufacturers didn't have a say, which is why US and EU emission standards look like this https://longtailpipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/us-europ... .

>same standard as gasoline ones

Well duh, let's keep diesel cars to petrol standards so that their benefits don't matter and their disadvantages are prohibitive!
Soo just the way it did three times already at different levels.
This is my favorite,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEXlScN9AO0

Had severe insomnia a few years ago. The video is soothing and the self talk helped calm me down, so even if I didn't sleep I experienced less stress (which helped me sleep).
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Making a (really Simple) Game to Learn Rust
I will say two things, I have no idea if it will help:

1. It is possible to be happy, despite a lack of "traditional success" (which often has very little merit beyond material wealth). I can't tell you how to do that, but please keep remembering this as a possibility, and then with enough time you can find the path that works for you - but you must look for it. In the meantime, yes, you are likely suffering from depression, your brain will tell you many things that are simply incorrect. Remember that also, it is very important.

2. Consider finding volunteer work, perhaps working with mildly mentally handicapped people, you may find genuine joy in their accomplishments. That is just one idea, but volunteering offers a path to profound happiness for many people.

Best of luck.
Every time industry starts figuring stuff out, bitter academics always show up to explain things to them.
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I'm going to preface this by saying I don't know much about aeronautics engineering but I am familiar with another niche engineering industry, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Another avenue to consider is to find out what the professional society(s) are for the type of engineering that you're interested in. Look on there website for biographies of leaders for the society, example president, committee chairs, etc. You will likely find a few universities that are more representative than the others. That's a good sign people are actually working in the field. Another good place to just get an idea is the US News and World report site. I know filling out all the applications is a pain, but in the long run it's worth it just to see what you get offered and perhaps there will be another school that seems to be a better fit.

A few other good local/ interesting engineering schools you might want to check out: Lehigh University, they were doing some jet engine research there when I was looking at schools. I think Pratt of Pratt and Whitney fame may have been an alumni.

If you're interested in foreign language and globalism, university of Rhode Island has an international engineering program where you double major in a language and an engineering discipline. They also had an international internship component.

Again I don't know if it's a good program but Embry Riddle is always the first school that pops into my head when someone mentions aerospace/aeronautics engineering.

I know good engineers from Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech too.

Good luck, it's really a tough decision to pick a college but really it's a pretty personal one. I think like most things in life there are more than one right way to do things but definitely wrong ways. You seem to at least be on the right track.
This really isn't the case. I have built apps with lots of code reuse on native and web.

Abstract all data logic and you can use the exact same code for both apps. This of course does not include your view layer. If you do it correctly, all you have to do is make a new set of view components. Stateless ones. Because you are injecting the state from your non platform specific components.

It makes it extremely fast to build for other platforms. It just takes a few apps to fully understand how to abstract these things perfectly.
Very often people on the internet have more expertise in things than a physician. Also, physicians are often overkill for minor problems, the system would be overloaded if we went to them for every little thing.
What makes you ordinary?
> where they harvest the beans from civet poop

and typically abuse these poor animals in the process [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/se...
Got reference to back this up? AlphaGo research is done by Deepmind which is London-based. Google, Facebook and Baidu all have labs in various of non-U.S locations, but I would bet the vast majority of research labeled as "deep learning" would be papers originated from the U.S. although if someone would build a tool to do just that...
they really are a great company. when there was an outage in san francisco's schedule reporting system, they had users tag themselves as being on specific buses, and tried to synthesise their own real-time schedule from that.
Ah, so it's not like a published paper in Nature. It's news about research covered by nature.
Tesla's price makes zero economic sense at least where I live where electricity is $0.11/kWh. I guess most people will buy it just to have it as a status symbol.
Your comments tell us more about what's on your mind than what's in the world.
>3) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down.

Or wear strong blue blocking glasses after the Sun goes down.
Reading this article gives me the feeling that new technologies simply cannot get off the ground without central government planning and billions of dollars in taxpayer spending. I guess it's up to the Chinese government to decide whether China wants to keep testing this hypothesis over and over against all odds.
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> But it's also important to remember that suicide prevention is struggling to find effective evidence based interventions, and that some interventions may increase risk of harm.

Do we know that for sure? Is it possible that suicide rates would have exploded without current intervention methods?
It's less about code reuse across a full featured web application and a mobile application. The value comes in that once you master React or React Native, you can easily switch across platforms and be just as efficient. If you learn the ins and outs of Vue and gain depth of best practices / domain knowledge, you are stuck building only for the web.

If you do the same with React, you are then able to take those skills and build VR, Web, iOS, Android, Windows, and soon TVOS ++ many more in the future.

This, along with what has already been stated, is the value of using React vs Vue imo.
Compared to most things in computer science or software engineering, it's just not tremendously powerful. The use case is highly limited, and real-world applications of it are much more expensive than traditional counterparts. As a result, the payoffs are slim for a majority of potential uses, and highly beneficial for an extreme minority.
Interesting reading the different methods for creating the Voronoi tesselation. I've always built the Delaunay triangulation first, I guess I knew there were other approaches, just never bothered to find out what.

If you generate a Voronoi tesselation for a set of points, you can then merge neighboring areas to create isoclines