skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its a much better store of value (because of the lack of influence from banks) than a medium of exchange. It's very slow, has high fees (currently) and to buy the vast majority of goods you will eventually need to change it back into your own country's currency which will require your bank anyway. Unless I'm missing something...

"This medium of exchange aspect is very important because it makes banks no longer special since its possible in time to make payments without a banking system."

Most people don't want to have the whole of their wealth reliant on a hash they could lose though. They want to be able to talk to "customer service" if they need to.
What's stopping a government agency from "saving up" their hashing power so they could get majority control over Bitcoin if they needed to? Seriously, if you were the NSA, wouldn't this be a sensible thing to spend a few million dollars on? And they could use their mining hardware now, hidden through pools, so it would almost pay for itself. (Yes, I know I'm getting into tinfoil hat territory.)
Qualitative probabilistic programming with RankPL
>2) use DDT and kill off birds + danger to mammals

No danger to mammals, kill some birds (the hawk/eagle shell thinning was a lie[1], does kill some songbirds in high doses but I guess so does Teflon stoves), kills far less helpful insects.

It's the only one out of the three options where you don't risk killing hundreds of millions of people with disease and/or famine.

[1]http://www.jpands.org/vol9no3/edwards.pdf
Same is true for Pepto Bismol.

Someone I knew took some extra strength Pepto Bismol to treat an upset stomach and diarrhea. Her stool ended up turning black, which I advised is a sign of intestinal bleeding.

She went to the emergency room and learned that bismuth, the active ingredient in Pepto Bismol, can temporarily turn stool black. [0]

[0] https://www.pepto-bismol.com/en-us/faq/black-stool-black-ton...
Are you able to completely offset the sensor costs against the loss avoidance?

Do actually observe a different risk profile in the type of customer willing to pay for a proactive service?
I certainly would not consider it a personal attack.

And it wasn't for asking questions. It was for asking stupid questions. Important distinction.
You've just hit the nail on the head yourself: bandwidth.

Sampling the entire CMOS sensor at once is not really possible when you stop to consider the sheer magnitude of bits required to represent a single still image. The CMOS sensor only has a finite number of pins connecting it to the logic board responsible for polling its state, so it makes sense to use an addressing system to read the sensor data. This addressing system uses a small number of addressing bits (each pin is usually just one bit) to move a sliding window over a much larger amount of data. Regular computer memory works the same way. This enables that data to be passed through to the camera in small pieces. While this can be made rather fast with good engineering, it is not instant, and the non-instantaneous nature produces the rolling shutter effect.

It's the physical limitation on the number of pins that creates the need for the rolling shutter in modern CMOS design. Creating speedier memory access routines can reduce the effect of the shutter, but not eliminate it.

A possible alternative approach would be to build some memory into the image sensor, so that you can ask it to "lock" all the bits in place, and then read those bits out at your logic board's leisure. That should effectively eliminate the rolling shutter effect, (More or less, assuming your "freeze" signal arrives at all the pixels more or less at the same time) at the engineering expense of needing to add per-pixel memory to your image sensor, and additional electronics to perform the lock. I'm no expert on the subject, but I would not be surprised if more modern image sensors have some feature for this purpose, especially those used in high speed cameras.
The Birdman-esque cinematography was pretty cool!
> ...but native bees will preferentially eat from native plants.

Do you have a source for how significant this factor is? I would like to believe it, but it sounds a lot like wishful thinking.
80% of US population is burdened with debt and anxious about job security
Cell phone cameras can produce 12-megapixel images, and the data from the sensor is uncompressed. It's very large. Sampling all pixels at once would require much larger internal memories in the image processors, which would make the chips more expensive and draw more power.

Only a few use cases would benefit, so the there's no economic incentive to change how it works.
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Do you know, or know where to research, a tool that would allow private tagging of Facebook users? Say you were developing a product and wanted handy way to flag people as likely (or unlikely) future customers to based on your personal impression, rather than FB's approach of selecting characteristics and having your ad served to a list of users.
Ridiculous. Time for a union. The game industry is fun, but it is not worth your health, especially just to line someone else's pocket.
What % of the native plants are edible?
Except in the stock market, you get equity in a real business with real assets, and other perks that go along with ownership.
I created a pull request, "Remove jQuery dependency and cache DOM selectors.", https://github.com/stevenbraham/javascript-calculator/pull/1
"deprecated" means "this is inferior garbage that's going away for that reason".

It's a black stain on any code which uses it, old or new.

A neutral word for "going away" is "obsolescent".
Who cares? We all have our own agendas. It's a well-sourced page and hence why I linked it.

If you don't believe me about agendas, see other HN discussions regarding bike helmets, software patents, and housing.
I wouldn't think so. Not sure why you asked though.
Best.Show.Ever. Nuance, layers, intricacies and Macro/Micro views on Baltimore pictures in a realistic and coherent whole. I will never know these microcosm, but for 5 years I felt I was part of them.
Teach a NeuralNet to identify drunk from sober faces with the Trueface.ai API
Hey guys this was my sunday funday project, I used the raw face landmarks to train a simple feed forward nn to identify drunk from sober faces and tested the approach with aws machine learning as well. ~70 % accuracy with less than 200 points in the training set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpku6LW9ow
absolutely no worthy use-case for it, but fun to make
I never thought that, just trying to explain the false psychological hangup. Luna is cool but there have been lots of tools like it that didn't become super popular for programmers.

Just take a screencast of yourself doing programming in Ab Initio for some things that involve little to no textual code input. Then find three or four programmers and ask them if they think you are a good coder/programmer/software engineer. If you get an honest answer they will say you are a good Ab Initio expert but do not believe you are doing programming. I dont think that is correct but I think this dumb perceptual issue where programming is tied to cryptic text is the reason those tools are not more popular for people who call themselves programmers.
Is second hand smoke extremely harmful? Obviously it is, except science proceeded to show it doesn't seem to be.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

Is dietary cholesterol harmful? Obviously it is, except no experiment or even commonly advanced scientific hypothesis ever said it was. The hypothesis was that saturated fat intake raised blood cholesterol levels which in turn lead to more heart disease. But common wisdom was that somehow this meant egg yolks must be deadly. And shrimp.

Oh, and then the saturated fat hypothesis didn't replicate well.

And so forth.

In contrast to your sentiment, I wish we actually based more policy on well replicated science, rather than what is "obvious."
> The vegan diet is a diet of deficiencies

This is, unfortunately for you, completely fabricated. I'd recommend at least checking Google Scholar before making silly claims on HN.

If you'd like to make a claim, cite your source. If you'd like to circlejerk the "vegan is bad, meat is good" fiction, downvote instead.
"In time this will change so you can just make Bitcoin payments from your checking account."

If Bitcoin could displace banks, what incentive do they have to displace themselves?
Merriam-Webster gives these meanings for "deprecate": "to pray against something, such as an evil (archaic)", "to avert", "to play down" (e.g. one's talent), "to express disapproval of, to disparage".
I (and I'm sure many others) feel exactly the same way. But we also need to admit the possibility of something like confirmation bias. So, you've mentioned several cases where we finally got a result which was exactly what we expected all along. Those cases stand out to use because they our brains naturally prefer them to cases where we were wrong. So then I have a couple of questions.

When were we wrong? What are some other cases which didn't turn out like we expected? It may be harder to think of them but they must exist. What would have been the consequence of acting too early on those cases based on our speculation, now that we know we had been wrong?

Do you think we should start to take a more proactive approach to these kinds of problems? I mean, should we look at a problem and assume it's caused by whatever happens to look like the culprit?
Very much so. Notice that none of the "vegans are unhealthy" claims are substantiated by any evidence.
I would prefer a faster way to scroll through the markets. Reducing card size or having a light weight search field would improve it a great deal.

Tags on the "recent startups" that associated it with market/category/region to allow me to scan quicker without having to read the description for each company would be a huge plus.

I would include region on the top menu bar. Once I land on the region page I would like a map that broke it down into zones/continents/ clickable grid. It would help eliminate scroll fatigue.

I would move the email signup and get those "recent start ups" above the fold. I feel like you are more worried about me signing up vs. actually using the site.
I wondered the same! It seems to have to do with Girard's idea that linear logic involves 'additive' and 'multiplicative' 'universes' (all words in quotes because I've only skimmed to try to get an idea—even the editors of TCS apparently found the paper unreferee-able). See logical p. 3 (physical p. 4) of http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~girard/linear.pdf . (How exponentials fit into the picture I don't know.)

Then drdeca (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14684219) 's explanation of why affine logic is so called seems plausible, but I haven't looked into it.
I appreciate the response. Are you commenting from a CE standpoint or software engineering? I took a lot of EE classes thinking I could get a hardware job, but that seems like a lost hope.
We can always just replace bees with robotic replacements as soon as technology allows. What could go wrong?
Selling beer from an ice box works in some places.
Telemundo:+This+Week+On+Dangerous+Affairs+And+Iron+Rose+-+Glamtush
Surely The Sopranos is a contender as well. In my mind those three occupy a tier above all other television dramas.
All that the "Big Bang" refer to is 1) the fact that the (visible) universe was once much hotter and denser than it is now and 2) if we extrapolate back in time, using the theories that we have, there was a point where the density was infinite.

Of course, we know that our theoretical model break down before that (since we don't have an experimetally verified theory of gravity compatible with quantum mechanics). Physicist that work in the field (and I used to be one of them) are well aware that we cannot extrapolate past the regions of validity of our theories and no one claim that there was indeed a singular point ("Big Bang") as mentioned in descriptions aimed at a non-expert audience.
It hit during my last final exam of the summer term. We were lucky that our prof let us complete the remainder of our exam under the glow of emergency lighting.
There are a few issues - there are no "chargebacks" with Bitcoin. You get a lot less protections in your capability to return things - its all up to the merchant. Also, the transaction times are too slow right now, esp for small purchases. Finally, there is so much volatility with the value of cryptos - would a merchant want to see the amount you paid him lose 20% value the next day just due to the market?
Largest-ever study shows controversial pesticides _benefit_ bees
"Honey bees" is not usefully descriptive. Please elaborate.
As a native speaker, taking a class is mind-blowing. Sadly I had to move out of town after 3 classes, but I had no idea how sophisticated and well structured the formal language was. The colloquial form we speak at home doesn't do it any justice.
I have a mentor who convinced me to go the computer engineering route. How do I convince him to grease the wheels so to speak and go the nepotism route to help me land a job out of college? It seems he does not want to do this, and I cannot seems to land a job.
Eating kangaroo is relatively common in Australia. We quite often brag that we are the only country that eats its national coat of arms.

It is quite divisive though, some people enjoy the taste, myself included, but others have a strong dislike. It is high in protein so often enjoyed by gym-going types.
What Canadian sensibilities?
It's constant time unless you grow the cube.
Ship product. Ship as much as you can as often as you can. Finish a project by yourself, finish one with a team. And then do another.

Any feeling of inadequacy can disappear if you sit back and think about stuff you've finished. Because it's finished. All the HN comments and soap boxing in the world can't match a finished work.
> "Even assuming that this was true... the logic doesn't even make sense. If you have fewer people in an insurance pool, than the costs of it are higher. Pretty much by definition."

What? That doesn't make any sense and it's surely not by definition.

If you have a set of people, and you create a subset with the healthiest people of the subset (so, what you are doing by removing the obese), of course that the costs per person will be lower for the subset than for the all set.
Whoaaa! see

"Do Neonics Hurt Bees? Researchers and the Media Say Yes. The Data Do Not. " at

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

wherein they state:

"One problem: The data in the paper (and hundreds of pages of supporting data not included but available in background form to reporters) do not support that bold conclusion. No, there is no consensus evidence that neonics are “slowly killing bees.” No, this study did not add to the evidence that neonics are driving bee health problems."

...

"But based on the study’s data, the headline could just as easily have read: “Landmark Study Shows Neonic Pesticides Improve Bee Health”—and it would have been equally correct."
I Quit School for YouTube?+ DESTROYING MY SCHOOL WORK
There is unlikely to be a cultural or generational explanation other than having the benefits of working when there was decent income combined with mostly less violence plus higher civilized behavior standards.

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_piff_does_money_make_you_mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
Milgram's experiment has been replicated several time, even in several cultures. Good to know social psychology researchers are not "worth their salt"

And yeah, actually, your culture and socialization is a big part of what you are. You can blame them, but refusing to try and understand how they became assholes means nothing will change.
I would count both The Sopranos and Breaking Bad as contenders, personally.
I live here in NZ too, and yes we have to be careful the other way - not to ridicule someone else's belief. There are a lot of religious people here, but religion is not something that people take to work.
To add on to the other comments, the two techniques used in gerrymandering are "packing" which sounds similar to what you're describing. Imagine if I have 10 districts and pack all the people who vote one party into one district. I've now ensured that my state will be overwhelmingly represented by the opposite party, The other technique is called "spreading" where I take all the people I would put into that single district, but instead put a few in district 1, a few in district 2, etc, but fewer than the demographics for the opposite party indicate. Not only have I made it so that this group underrepresented in their district, but I've ensured that there has to be overwhelming majority in A BUNCH of districts to get represented at the state and national level. Both are rather insidious and do not provide a fair representation to those voters, especially coupled with the layer of indirection that is the electoral college.
> Bed bugs are practically immune to DDT. I looked into this a few years ago because DDT seemed like a perfect fit for the problem. (Mattresses are indoors, easy to saturate and used for more than a decade.) Turns out the LD50 for DDT is like 100000 ppm.‡ Think about that. Ten. Percent. Of their body weight.

Ugh, noted. Thanks for the correction. I am aware of some resistance among specific mosquito species as well, but the residual repellant effect still makes it crazy useful for application on screens, nets, and tents.
> It actually puts compute power in perspective for me quite nicely

Apparently doing it manually is about 0.67 hashes per day http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and... so it's still nearly 200,000x faster than a human with pencil and paper.
Please name one problem with a vegan diet that's solved by meat. Meat is a carcinogen, it's highly correlated with a variety of diseases, and the "vitamin supplements" doesn't hold water seeing as how animals killed for meat have to be given vitamin supplements anyway.

Eating meat is a fantastic last resort if you don't have enough food and your only other option is malnutrition/starvation, but it's terrible for you as anything other than a stopgap until you can eat some plants/fungi.
SF Bay Area voters may be asked to OK toll hikes of up to $3 on all bridges
It is called "le grand k" and is kept in France. Even with these new measurements, they are still just a representation of the original grand k.
SE Michigan here:

We'd just had a long power outage (hours, from the night before) restored around noonish at home. Few hours later... poof - all of Michigan gone due to this. Quite annoying! :)
When the laser force acts for a short enough time and is strong enough, after the impact the orbiting body will acquire non-negligible positive radial velocity while changing its distance from the Earth only negligibly.

In the limit of an instantaneous impact, the body will change its velocity in a jump while not moving from the point of impact at all. Then it will continue to orbit the Earth on a new, elliptic orbit that shares with the old circular orbit the point of impact.

Since at this point the new radial velocity is positive, the body at this point is getting further away from the Earth. This means that before it will approach the point of impact again, it will have to be nearer the Earth. Hence the perigee is nearer the Earth than the point of impact.
3rd edition, page 192... good call, buddy. otherwise, you would have been downvoted to death.
I'm sorry, but what part of this are you disagreeing with?

That Facebook is a media channel?

That it doesn't in fact have 2 billion MUA, as claimed?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/

That some other channel is more significant?

That there is another information channel to which a similar number of people dedicate 50 minutes of attention to daily?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/facebook-bends-t...

"I don't think" is ... a rather weak level of substantiation.
Mocha + Chai along with Sinon (http://sinonjs.org/) for stubbing and mocking.
Both -- depends who is in power at apportionment time.
native species in north america don't comprise much of what people in north america eat.
> Church and Turing already proved there are no general solutions to the Entscheidungsproblem.

I'm skeptical that that is as strongly connected as you seem be implying.

The inability to give a general method to determine whether a program halts / whether the output of a program has some property, does not seem to me to say all that much about the ability to verify images or other sources of information.

You would not say that, because of the lack of general solutions to the Entscheidungsproblem, that you can't verify that some message was signed with the private key corresponding to a particular public key, would you?

If not, then what is it about verifying that a photograph isn't doctored that the Entscheidungsproblem implies a problem for, but which it doesn't imply a problem for checking a cryptographic signature?
Eh, op is right and wrong. You certainly can get everything you need and be very healthy as a vegan, but... if you eat about what a normal person eats except without the meat and cheese? you are, as they say, gonna have a bad time.

As a child, I insisted on being a vegitarian - as long as my parents cooked for me (and were careful to see to it that I had a balanced diet, compete proteins, lots of nutritional yeast, etc... They had spent time as vegetarians themselves, so knew how to do that.) I was quite healthy.

After I moved out? I did very poorly, because I wasn't willing or able to put in the effort to see to it that I had balanced nutrition.

That's the thing; as a meat eater? There are a lot of ways for me to get complete nutrition (and yes, it comes with a lot of other things that I don't need, but at least I get what I do need.) - so even someone who puts minimal effort into eating a balanced diet is not going to suffer from deficiencies very often, if they eat meat in the traditional manner. (Quite the opposite, really.) If you put the same effort in but avoid all meat and animal products? at least in the place and time where I live? You are probably going to make yourself sick.

In a culture where most people eat meat, you need to put in a lot more effort and research in order to avoid deficiencies as a vegetarian.

You could argue that this is a truism and that the same could be said for a meat-eater in a culture that just ate vegetables. Most cultures have evolved a traditional set of foods that won't leave you with severe deficiencies of anything, and so if you cut out certain classes of food from that tradition, you need to pay more attention to what you are consuming in order to see to it that you get enough of the nutrients you need.
this is further evidence that it's quite dangerous to do software crypto on hardware that may be shared with an adversary.

I'd generalise and replace "software crypto" with "anything". Especially with things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
Chinese companies building numerous overseas coal plants
you have to also consider which organic standard. The ones in California and Oregon are much more strict than USDA organic
There are notable examples of vinyl editions being objectively better, for example, Icky Thump by the White Stripes, where it was mastered by a different person (Steve Hoffman), and contained slightly different recordings on some tracks.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Icky_Thump#/section_Promotion_an...