skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the names of them, but a lot of Indian sweets are sugar-based (or milk- and sugar-based), with only a bit of flour and some mild spices/flavours added. It isn't necessarily that Indian sweets are "too sweet", it's that they taste like sugar ("Duh, that's why they're called sweets"). They often use much larger sugar crystals, which greatly reduces the sweetness (its a surface area thing) and use unrefined sugar or cane-juice to emphasize the other flavours of sugar. At the extreme, there's pea-sized sugar crystals (and sugar clusters held together by I-don't-know-what) that you get from Tamil Nadu temples: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dh7AQ9EPWJ4/VV-E-0p17LI/AAAAAAAAS...

Western sweets by comparison almost always focus on a different flavour like chocolate, vanilla, nuts, fruits, mint, cinnamon, maple, etc (think of all the flavours of ice cream). Even Nerds, which are pretty much pure sugar, have malic acid to mimic the sour taste of fruit. There are western foods like marshmallows that are pretty flavourless though.
Perfect -- thank you!
Different investigation
> Nobody is forcing you to.

The economic/social situation of people force them into these jobs. Just ignoring this and accepting it as reality is ridiculous. This can be said of any of such social behaviours. In some cultures, the violence on women is countered by the logic that they were wearing certain kind of dress and nobody is forcing them to do this etc ..

There are certain values in society that we should try to fight for. They may seem idealistic in current perspective, but nevertheless we should strive for them to make progress inch by inch. Brushing them off under the pretext of "nobody forced them" is not right.
We've completed startup school alongside with a local accelerator program (https://kworks.ku.edu.tr/en/). As a co-founder, I have to admit that the YC network was really helpful. We've really benefited from the internal discussions and the local meetups really helped us a lot. Our mentor, Chris, kept giving us valuable insights and overall we had a great time participating.

Building a company requires a lot of time and dedication. And the biggest lesson we've learned so far from YC:SS is to keep iterating no matter what. The whole YC philosophy of having one key KPI and trying to improve it WoW no matter what is really important. It brings clarity to your decisions and helps you focus on the important stuff.

As an entrepreneur, I'm glad that our company had the opportunity to participate in this program and internalized such an important philosophy.

Here's our presentation:
https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/447

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Codela is a cloud-based platform for automating the technical screening of software developers using online knowledge measurements.

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If you think most people who pirate are aware of region restrictions or notice the quality difference, I think you're mistaken. That's a rationale that some idealists use, but most people would just rather not pay.

Streaming video piracy sites are becoming more popular than downloading, and that's usually poorer quality and worse interfaces than the official sources.
> It's a nice theory, but there's nothing to substantively back up any of these points

Of course there is.

1. All of physics is computable, and dualistic theories of mind are far more problematic than monistic ones. Also, computational minds are consistent with all of our scientific knowledge, and require no further ontological commitments; not true of other theories of mind.

2. That evolution favours less computation, all else being equal, follows trivially from natural selection. Using more computation than is needed requires more food, which would not compete well against mutations that are more efficient.

3. Finding a fundamental frequency is adaptive for identification of predators, prey and allies.

4. Well defined frequency separation does make the problem of separating frequencies easier. It's practically tautological.

5. This is the only thing requiring additional empirical support.
All planets orbit the centre of mass of themselves and the local star, modulo interactions with other planets. The position of the centre of mass relative to the surface of the star is completely immaterial.

NB for smaller bodies, Jupiter is involved in perturbing or capturing their orbits to a great extent -- but we could conceivably have several very large planets contributing to that dynamic. Yes, Jupiter is the largest planet.
They are the two most massive, so that is tautologically true...
#BreakUpAmazon – We're more than a little concerned about this merger
I'd go for a one way trip. I'd be a guinea pig. I've had a good life and contributed to society here. I don't care if I die at this point, and dying on a trip to Mars would be a worthwhile way to go
Same here. Paris did some amazing marketing if this is how so many people will read.
I have a feeling that attitude of Linus will age badly, to the point that in 2038 it will be taught in schools as an example of how not to behave.
When I worked at Facebook, an intern had never had a profile before. She made one for work, and kept commenting that she was the only person who was seeing the features Facebook advertises heavily to the low-friendcount users.

She doesn't seem to have used it since leaving.
"All Stars"
Finally someone who sways me. I agree.

I do advocate at least modicum of empiricism and caution, an approach of testing ideas on city level before country.
Why would your opening line include Instagram? We are X for Y is always red flag number one.
Good question. I'm the author of that library and I can say I just borrowed the word list from another project.

Luckily, that library only cares that you get the first three letters of each word correct, so we can update the word to 'tonsil' or 'tongue' without breaking compatibility.
I'd gladly accept small amounts of cryptocurrency to take pictures of stuff IRL to help train ML/CV algorithms or populate Google Maps.

I was in a Lyft and the drivers use Waze which has the option for them to take a picture of the address if they don't have one yet. But they're not well incentivized to do it.

Just pair this idea with a Pokemon Go/Ingress mechanic or game where I get a tiny bit of Ether or ${cryptocurrency} you've ICO'ed on and I would be more interested.

Mechanical Turk pays shit money, but if your fake money could grow into much more value over time and I am rewarded for being an early adopter then I am potentially more interested.
Strangely, "lokum" is a Danish synonym for toilet, deriving from the Latin "locus" (place). No other language have this meaning for the word that I know of -- it makes this discussion rather amusing.
No. This take is completely wrong, and is quite tone deaf.
No. I tried to say that if he wants to avoid things to stop supporting Amazon, then he will have a hard time. A similar case would be Nestle, since they own so many products.
*Drawing to human-textured photo generator. That was the most disturbing snow-capped mountain I've even drawn/seen.
This is surprisingly accurate: http://imgur.com/a/IBTxX (NSFW - your boss might think you are looking at abstract phallic art)

I wouldn't call it a "Drawing to photo generator" though; it's more like a drawing to human portrait photo generator (see the hair at the top of my example image).
Security is hard. But it's impossible when you are idiotic. Only an idiot would think tying someone's personal account to their work account (where their work is counter terrorism) is a good idea!
If all stars are born in pairs where is our suns sister sun and earths sibling planet?
I guess you are speaking about juniors/graduates?
Senior engineers in my experience in two different European countries have always contracts with unpaid overtime exactly as management contracts.
Just decline payment then, if you're under one of those clauses?
No it's set before birth. A future person's finger print could perhaps be modified, but it seems like we don't know all the genetic components behind fingerprints, and there are probably environmental factors as well.

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/fingerprints
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-ones-fingerpr...
Actually, you're right. Most of my shirts were on sale, and ended up being about $100 after alterations.
Well, C.S Lewis was a Christian theologian whose other written works are overtly Christian apologia. Tolkien, on the other hand, was a professor of languages who was fascinated with ancient and constructed languages from a young age.

Knowing that, reading the various books it's hard not to believe that the Narnia Chronicles were written partly to promote Christianity, and the Middle-Earth works were written partly to explore fictional languages.
Why would you want it to be so small? How do you do the printing? Why not just use a literal diary?
https://ontologicalblog.com/spacemacs-cheat-sheet-1/
>It is designed to stop studios from exploiting people desperate to work in the industry.

Would you say that it works?

My understanding is that these unions make it more difficult for new people "desperate to work in the industry" to actually break into the industry.
We decided to not give our employees life preservers even though they are sailors. We didn't know they were going to drown!
no i mean you are not making sense to me, mostly because i dont know what it is about rhythm you are explaining.
Isn't Glassdoor, Glassdoor for Software Engineers? Why even make the comparison?
In terms of satellite tracking, even 10 meter resolution is enough to vastly reduce the search space. This can then be further refined though various means. Further, the search space is generally limited to how far they can travel from the last known location and they are not that fast.

But the real problem is more basic. They are very high value targets an can be taken out for vastly less money than they cost to produce.
Here’s What Amazon’s Acquisition of Whole Foods Means for Instacart
Your point about grocery logistics being difficult is a good one. However, Amazon is not new to this.

- Amazon has been shipping tens of thousands of non-perishable grocery SKUs from their main site for about 10 years. They've had to deal with expiration dates, chocolate that can melt, bundling multiples, highly variable shipping cost vs margin, etc. That organic cereal you buy at WFM is available on Amazon too.

- They have relationships with all the large packaged-goods companies.

- They've been operating a small-scale local grocery business (Amazon Fresh) for about 10 years, now in 14 cities.

- A lot of this direct-to-consumer business is complementary to Whole Foods' experience.

Whole Foods is stable as a company and (afaict) has higher operating margin's than Amazon's retail business. So they could largely leave them alone but still gain a more-or-less national perishable foods supply chain that lets them open Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go in many more cities much faster than if they had to do it from scratch.
If they have a laptop with a microphone, they still have the ability to make a much, much more impressive presentation than nearly any of the ones I watched.

Why spend hundreds of hours building your product if you spent 10 minutes writing a script you're going to read out to your webcam in a dimly lit room?
Angular2 and Truffle Starter; write, compile and deploy smart contracts for Ethereum
WF has been struggling because they helped paved the way for mainstreaming of organic, sustainable, etc. They couldn't pivot really and everyone else was undercutting their high prices and they've been unable to increase profitable foot-traffic to stay alive. Amazon could basically use WF as a laboratory for deploying Amazon Go without having to build grocery logistics from scratch. Hope it works out.
I discovered this series through the 1984 Commodore 64 game only a couple months ago [0]. Fairly advanced for its time, it let you choose your race, gender and age, gave you a large set of commands, and combined adventure, RPG and platforming mechanics [1].

The books depict a very imaginative world setting, with an interesting take on pacifism (where violence and malice seem to have the same taboo as sex does in some cultures in our world.)

The game is also unique in that its story was written by the author of the books herself, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, and serves as an official continuation of the book trilogy. I think it's a underrated series that deserves more recognition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_the_Root_(video_game)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdUBefQ1cT4
They should bring back shark dick.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-every-gadget-...
I'm okay with bulkier, replacable batteries which are reasonably cheap. Most people I know would like it too. Are we not a part of "the market" ?

As a kid I would confidently open up any electronic device without worrying too much about breaking it. A radio, tv, toys, remote controlled devices, speakers, headphones, laptops, disk drives, etc. These days I do not find myself opening up electronic devices as much. More from them fear of breaking them or the hoops that I have to go through to do it.

That exploration really taught me valuable things.

I don't have kids yet, but if and when I do, I'd want them to open up anything that they are not sure how it works internally, under the shiny box. I am not sure if they will be as confident about opening up common device of their time be it a mac or an iPhone or a tablet or any such "tightly locked" device.

I hope I can build, nurture and keep their curiosity alive.
I agree. I wish the comment section hadn't been flooded, I'd much prefer to have actual discussion than post after post of "What a great experience, watch our presentation!!!"
I thought I was reading an overtuned ELI5 machine translation for a minute. This is awful and significantly more difficult to read than even the KJV, which isn't exactly friendly for modern readers.
From the article:

Based on this model, the Sun's sibling most likely escaped and mixed with all the other stars in our region of the Milky Way galaxy, never to be seen again.
After reading through this entire thread, this is by far the most polished, and impressive project on here. Especially for a solo developer. Well done.
A.I. will create more jobs that can’t be filled, Eric Schmidt says
Environment score 0
Omg. He sounds a little like trump and he also 'sounds' like trump. Great share
Therein lies your problem, I've been telling anyone who'll listen that data movement, even on chip is our energy hog, not computation or even reading from the memory banks. How does analog hardware deal with that?
A tool to notify you whenever a software uses your webcam
Make me an offer! :-)
I don't disagree but I would say this is half the story. Music theory is a way to describe the patterns that have emerged over centuries of musical developments. As you say, you can't generate "good music" through rote use of these formulas. But the formulas provide a context both to explain what's there and ALSO to create new music within that context. Musical interest comes mostly from using and abusing these rules.
For example, I can predict ahead of time that if I use a V-I progression there is going to be a sense of tension and then release in the music. There is (probably) no scientific reason for this. But scores of other composers have adhered to this principle and so we all understand this concept. And by recognizing this I have a tool with which to control the level of tension in a musical passage.
Then again, you probably learned how to sort a list in Python, before you heard about TimSort. Going the other way around is commendable, but not necessary.

If a student wants to learn how to play the guitar, you show them 3 chords so they can play Bob Marley or Oasis.

You don't require them to first study consonance, dissonance, rhythm, melody, timbre, dynamics, articulation, texture, form, expression, notation, song writing, Schenkerian analysis, harmonic identity, semiotics, and musical set theory.

Someone who can play the guitar with a passion, can be taught to learn musical notation. The other way around is not guaranteed.

Your suggestion is not necessarily bad: It's good to learn the maths about the Wasserstein metric if you are using GAN's. But for effective teaching your suggestion is archaic, and part of the mindset that makes student's eyes glaze over when being taught mathematics. Can you point to a success story of a student to neural network researcher that did not start with a practical application?
After years of being successfully self employed in IT, I do my Fachinformatiker-Exam this year for the fun of doing it AND to have the right papers to be part of the gang. In the rare occadions I got asked what I had done before, people looked a bit weired when I told them I was a car salesman a decade ago.
The problem is a six month delay pushes everybody's launch back six months. So if you had an interplanetary probe scheduled for the next Mars launch window in April of 2018, a six month delay starting today would mean your probe doesn't get launched until the next window in July of 2020 unless you have enough clout to bump other launches.
Do Apple and similar companies have rights to the design of cases like this (and the full size version) as well as products like the original Mac? Or do those expire?
Also thick doesn't really need to be heavy. My Thinkpad x230 weights less than a pound more than a current macbook pro. Everything is easily accessible and replaceable, and it has a bevy of ports. It cost me about $250 bucks to upgrade it to contain 2 256gb ssds and 16gb of ram. -- edit -- just checked, current x260 actually is lighter than the current macbook pro.
Well for starters, a Japanese speaker can tell the differences between God "kami" and paper "kami"...

A monotonal, monotempo sound would not be able to make that difference audible

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent
> because then a generic requirement will propagate through the whole framework.

And? Why is this a bad thing? Are you trying to maintain compatibility with .NET 1.0 for some reason?

> And some polymorphism/patterns simply won't be possible. Trust me, I've encountered this problem several times

Which patterns? Please demonstrate the problem.
Just an FYI that Koch-owned Georgia-Pacific papermills release tons of cancer-causing pollutants including PCBs, hydrogen sulfide, cyanide, formaldehyde, dioxin, acetaldehyde and chloroform into neighboring communities.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1007148

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/04/29/crossett-arkansas-georgia...
> Many stars have companions

Most stars.

Many years ago, i downloaded a copy of the Gliese star catalogue, and set about generating some star charts of nearby space in VRML (which should give you some idea of just how many years ago that was). Multiple stars are listed as multiple entries in the catalogue, and i realised that if i drew markers for each one, they'd overlap and look terrible. Never mind, i thought, there will only be a few of them, and that's alright for a first version.

Not so! The majority of stars were in multiple systems (although the majority of systems are not multiple), and the chart looked even more shonky than i had anticipated. I had to go back and tweak my generator to merge multiple stars into single entries.
I don't know, I think transferring it was the reasonable thing to do, rather than leaving it in the compromised wallet.

It's like if you find someone's (real) wallet, and you pick it up and contact the owner to ask where to drop it off. Rather than leaving it there and just telling the owner what street corner it's on.
Very cool looking, but this could also be titled "The dangers of model overfitting".

From https://www.dekennisvannu.nl/site/artikel/Help-ons-kunstmati... , this generator appears to only know how to render two particular portraits -- one profile, and one head-on, of a single person on a particular background.

All other drawings seem to be rendered as a really poor approximation of those two portraits. Very neat none-the-less.
Obviously they are both considered immoral by some people, and even a significant portion of people in certain areas (probably in the USA). But that's also true of many things that I wouldn't expect to be brought up in an article that seems to be focused on technology and not any particular religion or moral system, like cursing or homosexuality. I would make similar comments if someone wrote an article about problems with a digital music store (e.g. iTunes) that primarily focused on the fact that the store is inherently immoral because it sells songs with explicit lyrics.
Isn't it the capitalization of the first characters of each word which causes the confusion?

New evidence that all stars are born in pairs

versus

New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs

I've never understood the rationale of capitalizing headlines this way anyway (is it the American way?)
I believe HQ staff was very unhappy about that situation and that (some of?) the warehouses in hotter places have A/C now. (Source: live in Seattle, know a number of Amzn employees.)

I haven't seen any articles about the working conditions at warehouses in years, have you? In the mean time, they've opened dozens more warehouses.

(The latest was the NYT article which was about office jobs and which is a whole discussion in its own right.
Or to use the Apple analogy, Whole Foods is basically the Apple Store. Maybe they'll just call it the Amazon tore?
> I haven't quite decoded exactly what the modern formulation of an `interpretive routine` is.

The example given is probably the closest to evaluating a string as a series of operations on parameters passed to a function. So say evaluate('p0 * p1 + p2', p0, p1, p2). The proper evaluation of arithmetic expressions is quite hard but a recurring theme no matter what language you work with, so it would make sense to abstract that out and do it once and (hopefully) well.

The 'orders' are then the operators.

Keep in mind that this was written well before high level languages were common and that such subroutines were handcrafted pieces of code likely operating on a series of fixed memory locations rather than parameters passed on the stack.

A bit like you would do this in BASIC before structured versions of basic came along, set a bunch of global variables, GOSUB, read back the result from some other global variable.

This sort of arrangement made composition a very interesting and sometimes maddening affair.

Another way to read that fragment is as the beginnings of a high level interpreted language, I think that is given extra weight because of the debug possibilities and the fact that the program 'retains control'.
Jeff Bezos: Request for ideas
I suppose you're right, I updated my comment, hopefully not too many people got fired.
Interesting verdict.

How does this apply to a large group of people posting on someone's FB wall, or DMing them on Twitter, telling them to kill themselves?

Is everyone that sends a message or a post guilty?
I don't disagree. I shoulda waited to see if you were downvoted first before commenting. Meanwhile, I thought my comment was nice. I used to get a lot of support for a slightly less polite version of the same message. But, apparently today a lot of people read it as aggressive, snarky and smug :P

That's the problem when forums have a lot of sarcasm. It becomes even more difficult for anyone to judge your intentions. When people in "witty" forums say mean/dumb things they get surprised by how many readers think they are serious. And, some of them respond with mean/dumb things in seriousness. And, in not-seriousness... Usually there's an indistinguishable mix. And, even when you say something constructive, a lot of people will assume a negative intention and get upset that you are so disparaging.

So, yeah. Every few months I get in the mood to welcome a witty noob. Doesn't always go well :P
Why Amazon Bought Whole Foods
TFA?

I'm getting "The Force Awakens". Or "Teach For America".
Looks like what I imagine the very first draft of React to have been.