skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article, but I couldn't help feeling that non of the hypothesis we're actually correct, and Levine and co are observing are correlations rather than causation's.

My immediate rationale for faster walking pace in denser cities is that there is far more to do in a big city, particularly one with high population. In addition things like trains and buses also get overcrowded and filled, causing unplanned delays to your journey. The reality of living in a city means that there are lots of risks to your schedule when 'taking your time' so the population does what's most logical, and tries to move as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
> Nice, I loved Freespace and Freespace 2 - but haven't looked at the mods.

Do check out FreeSpace Source Code Project[0]. They've upgraded the code and assets to make the game look great on current machines. AFAIK it still requires the original game for the Single Player campaign (easy to obtain through GOG).

As for mods changing things, I highly recommend Battlestar Galactica: Diaspora Mod[1]. It's even better than it looks on the promo[2], and you can do most (all?) of the tricks Vipers did on the show. And you can fly a Raptor too. Single Player storyline is well made, with great voiceovers, and doesn't break continuity with the show.

Oh, and I totally second 'Fjolsvith - FS/FS2 is the best space combat game ever!

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[0] - http://scp.indiegames.us/

[1] - http://diaspora.hard-light.net/

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/embed/DWt2m1xtJbw
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The healthcare situation in the US is horrible enough for this. Mind, I'm from Brazil and even though we're a shitty third world piece of crap sometimes, we still got free universal health care and great 100% free public universities. It baffles me that a country as wealthy as the US does not provide such basic things to its citizens. I guess it's a matter of the mindset on priorities? War > Health? I went to Cuba once, where people are objectively very poor, and still I had no issues being seen by a doctor at a local clinic for free when I had an eye emergency even though I was just a tourist. I live in Europe now, where general quality of life is much better than where I lived in Brazil and it terrifies me that other Brazilians often look to the US as something to strive for rather than Europe in our next developments. I've heard of multiple cases before of people with bad health who simply had to flee the US and move somewhere else more social so they wouldn't die or because they had already gone bankrupt paying for health services. It's a shame, really, the US definitely has enough money and would be able to provide their citizens more humane care, but this is not an unsurprising story. :(
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> Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that a civilization capable of building a Dyson structure

A solid Dyson sphere is a habitat for beings such as ourselves. I am going to suggest that a civilisation capable of building a Dyson structure might be more comfortable with living off-planet, in zero G and/or vacuum and won't need something resembling a planet. If we're assuming cosmic time-scales and super-science, then civil engineering isn't the only science. Engineering the inhabitants to fit the habitat is also possible. Or a post-AI post-biological civilisation.

We have no idea what's even likely at that level, but our best guesses have changed a lot since Dyson structures where proposed in 1960. Which is, in the context of this discussion, a mere instant ago.
> I wonder how many companies would do hackatons if they have to pay their devs overtime rates for their participation

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I think they've tried this before but recently re-launched.
Stripe has been one of my favourite startups in the last decade, you took a problem that was painful and solved it.

On top of that every single thing I've seen stripe do publicly has been well executed and gives the overall impression of competence, solidity and good service.

I guess that part is intentional, if you are handling money that's exactly what you'd want people to think.
Not many, I spent a long period freelancing on short jobs, more than 250 customers and I could count on one hand the number I would want to work for full time.
> I'm not sure what you mean by trusting Google. I trust Google to get the technical side of things right.

Yes, that's what I mean. They are less likely to get hacked.
Long "crunch" work hours with little or no enforced break, laissez-faire approaches to lunch and break room snacks, occasional encouragement to drink alcohol, lengthy car commutes to office parks, heavy preference towards in-person over remote. These are just some of the things workplaces do to lifestyle that are too small to be a topic for regulation but big enough to impact lives.
Also the amount of poor/broken English on that form and the dialogs makes me suspect outsourcing.
> That matters for things like running on mobile/embedded devices.

Ding ding ding. This is where the money is at, good yet cheap sensors that sense human level actions are needed for IoT to be impactful.
Scrith is a fictional "unobtanium".

"The tensile strength of scrith is theorized to be similar to the Strong nuclear force" which means "god-level magic involved".

http://larryniven.wikia.com/wiki/Scrith
Glad to know your story and I have been interested with trying them but haven't yet mustered the courage yet. Which languages/frameworks do you think are popular with the clients on Toptal. I am asking this because I am mostly interested in Java/Spring and I am not sure whether that would get me enough gigs? Should I move to Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Javascript, etc?
> We knew from previous feedback and from our research that including the global navigation links on the top navigation bar was superior to hiding them in a hidden hamburger menu.

Is this not at odds with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29835? Regardless, thank goodness they're changing it.
I've had a few recent discussions with various people at post-offices, here in Finland.

The counter staff repeatedly complain that parcels are addressed to "Steve" not "Steven" (which is the name on my official ID.)

It's a very weird situation to be in, as somebody from the UK where such things just don't matter.
>So let me state, for the record, that not wanting to have a 9-5 job is an eminently rational thing to want. Wanting it against reality, however, or without a realistic plan to accomplish it, or settling on stupid ways of getting there, like just quitting without a game plan, is a recipe for pain, not prosperity. You're not dealing from a rational frame, so your outcomes will not be what you want them to be.

Well, we can agree to that, but that's not the exclusive or general case.

I think you color it more by your experience with your roommate, than by what people generally do.

In general, judging from hundreds of millions of McJobs and corporate jobs, most people don't leave their jobs willy nilly.

I'd go as far as to say that wanting to quit your job and start a freelancing or entrepreneurial or small business gig, is not irrational in itself, EVEN if the person fails. If it was guaranteed success, we wouldn't be talking about entrepreneurial risk.

As long as its a calculated risk -- and not crazy optimism, I don't find it irrational.

Now, crazy optimism, "I will succeed no matter what", that is irrational.
I sometimes wonder if a better solution to this is to accept a less demanding job and fill your free time with your creative endeavors.
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You can even monetize your terminal applications!
It's more BBS-like, not really Unix.
"Samy" was the canonical example of that in action:

http://samy.pl/popular/tech.html
64 bit processors (and their OS platforms) will retain backwards compatibility to 32 bit apps for the forseeable future. There are too many situations where 32 bit apps are better for that not to be the case (smaller binary size and better cache performance).
This is the kind of thing that eager prosecutors will turn into a CFAA charge.
Because it allows people to circumvent the paywall and WSJ will complain to Google. And then because Google can take down whatever they want...
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Enpass is a good solution.
I was a little surprised at the headline, since I expected 'outperforms' to mean that it had better end-results, which is of course not the case. GP is just much faster due to it's relative simplicity and the results are close enough to those achieved with NN and deep learning.

> Finally, while generally matching the skill level of
controllers from neuro-evolution/deep learning, the genetic programming solutions evolved here are several orders of magnitude simpler, resulting in real-time operation at a fraction of the cost.

> Moreover, TPG solutions are particularly elegant,
thus supporting real-time operation without specialized hardware

This is the key takeaway and yet another reminder to not make deep learning the hammer for all your fuzzy problems.
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Would be nice if we script those Jenkins pipelines with some other languages besides Apache Groovy. And why are Groovy's functional methods inhibited when used within Jenkins?
As someone who has never used GitLab, it is perhaps interesting to note that I would have literally no idea of the chronology of those images you've linked; if I had to guess, I would say the grey one (1) looks older than the purple one (4), but the other two look almost entirely unrelated.
I actually started a project for something like that a while ago; perhaps it might make sense to resurrect it...
Don't want to pile on, but yes to empty spaces
Would some form of computer-aided tool be able to help the programmer analyze GPs? It sounds like there's some repetitive process when you say 'GPs with a lot of patience'. I was thinking along the line that if such a tool is possible, then it might be possible to let the development and evolution of GPs iterate faster than deep learning. I found this thread really interesting, because of the small size, such implementations can be easily done locally without expensive and huge hardware setup. I'm definitely amazed at what DL has achieved so far. But it looks to me like a brute force way to solve a problem by gathering huge amounts of data, crunching on huge amounts of hardware, to solve a very specific classification problem. Not saying that is not good, just saying it is hard for mass participation at a high production quality level due to lack of hardware and stuffs.
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Not that I condone doing it, Google Bot trick still works for FT.
Or maybe it's laziness on your part not making enough effort to understand what he is trying to tell you ... This is not a maths essay, this is literature. Contradiction is part of it (as it is part of life), or even: contradiction is the whole point of it. On the other hand, there is no contradiction at all.

Interestingly, your comment is so much removed from what I read in this essay that the only thing I can recommend you is not worry about it, just set this story aside and try reading it again 25 years from now. It will most probably make a difference.

I'm not sure why this essay was posted to HN, but I'm glad to have read it. Thanks for posting it!
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Just asked someone else this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14795245. Maybe you could also give your perspectives on the same.
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"prepTime": {
"text": "15 minutes",
"iso": "PT15M",
"minutes": 15
}

Why are you triplicating the time periods? I would limit that to just the ISO 8601 value (PT15M) and let the UI choose the proper rendering of the value.
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What bank would allow you 2 chargebacks/week? You'd need 8 bank accounts to reach 1 chargeback/bank/month
well, you can have a quick look at how many commits in the last 3 months vs total number of commits they had so far.

not trying to judge anything as I no longer follow the project, but I think those numbers do tell the story.
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>They are also responsible for the introduction of mass selling of DRM encumbered music.

Are they?

Because at the time, and Job's later letter on DRM is proof for that, it was not Apple's idea, but a demand of the music companies in order to give their catalogues to the (still unmade and with not much leverage) iTunes store.

>Like many cults, Apple provides the relief for the distress it, itself, introduced.

Or, many people can't recognize that Apple accepted DRM (like every other outlet at the time) in order to be able to license major label music, and then came forward and helped abolish it.
> I'd still rather east two double cheeseburgers or two breakfast burritos than 5-6 bananas.

Probably healthier to eat two double cheeseburgers than 5-6 bananas too. Bananas are really really really packed with sugar.

14 grams per 100 calories (banana) versus 7 grams per 440 calories (McDonalds double cheeseburger).

Now whether it's healthy to eat 800 calories for breakfast ... eh, probably not. But that's a different problem. Also depends on what you intend to do all day. Physical labor? Eat away. Sit at desk? Maybe try a quarter of a double cheeseburger instead :D
>On the the contrary, until iTunes, pretty much all music sold legally did not have DRM.

If you mean CDs, then yes. But that's not an argument.
It looks good and seems to work with some arbitrarily picked recipes on the usual large recipe websites, although more obscure links cause some bugs¹. Is the source code on GitHub? Are you handling specific websites such as allrecipes.com with bespoke code?

Technically the project is interesting, but if you want to offer a commercial API you might run into copyright and fair use issues (as with any scraping tool). Not so much a problem for personal use, but expect angry letters from the major recipe websites for violating their terms of use (i.e., this is a threat to their business model).

1: Try this link: https://www.thespruce.com/peking-duck-recipe-694920 . You'll see a lot of garbage HTML and XML entities in the JSON that can be filtered and replaced fairly easily.
"Mission" and "culture" == cue to completely tune out as an employee, because the next 10 minutes will be utterly meaningless drivel.
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Looking at the graphs on github you could say development has slowed down, but i'd like to argue that since there is no commercial incentive anymore the project seems to be much more focussed on stability. And when bugfixing you write less lines while spending the same amount of time.

To me focus on stability is the most important thing in a database so this makes me happy as an ops person, get it stable first and then if needed add more features. though i think rethinkdb is already quite feature complete.
This really seems to be an exercise in 'structuring recipe data' rather than the ins-and-outs of scraping. Seems like a much-needed task; is there anything approaching a 'standard' for recipe data already?

"ingredients": [
"600g pineapple, peeled, chopped"
]

This seems like a prime candidate for improvement; something like the following would seem to be more useful:

"ingredients": [{
"ingredient": "pineapple",
"quantity": {
"value": 600
"unit": "g",
},
"preparation": [ "peeled", "chopped" ]
}]

Using this kind of data, I can imagine automated ordering, management of several planned recipes in conjunction, personalised timing estimations, etc. I think the whole field of cooking is ripe for some quality api-based disruption!
If so, did you then just compromise yourself?
why is it so important to scale this up?

how about just being a great dad. having a real impact on a person rather than a very very very diminished one on many?

why is impact important, rather than doing something with much care and quality?

why are numbers important
>Some folks might be on a mobile device with an interface that makes it difficult to switch to another window. Or perhaps they are offline when they're writing it. Or perhaps they have mobility / accessibility issues that makes switching a challenge. Those are off the top of my head.

There's also momentum. They want to go write a quick comment and type their thoughts as they come -- not stop and Google things.
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Agreed; also more useful for internationalisation to keep textual descriptions out of the data, wherever possible.
> Try something like "Type the third and fifth letters of the word elephant into the box below" with instagram filter applied.

That was a common captcha technique a decade ago. It didn't last.

> Basically, I can't think of a way to come up with something ez that defeats it.

You're mistaking your inexperience with the field and its methods for difficulty in solutions.

> Finally, you can make it super annoying to actually find where the image is by converting to svg and messing with html structure/compose image in JS.

This isn't hard to defeat. SVG is really no harder than PNG or JPEG to deal with, and if you are programatically altering it, it's trivial to figure out the purpose of the JS and re-implement it, and pass in whatever randomized variables change it. Or just use node, and scrape it from the page and run it as delivered.

> Now they're going to be forced to run a headless browser, take screenshots of the captcha page and finding the image within the page.

That's trivial. Far more trivial now than it was in the past, actually. There's plenty of systems around to run headless browsers. Some are to ease testing for developers, some are specifically designed for and marketed to people that want to do things just like this. Worst case, you use electron and make your own browser to do it.
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Yep. Good or bad, profitable life lessons or not, this is indeed the definition of selfishness.
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Yeah, sticking with an employer could've been beneficial, and by leaving when I did cost me the opportunity for about $90k income from stock. Not returning could've also been beneficial. Being a rehire lowered their offer by 20-30k base. However, while I'm sure there are some places that do pay more, without jumping to an architect role $200k total comp looked to be pretty typical for a senior ops/SRE gig to me.

There were a number of reasons I chose to return, but among the top were the commute and culture. Which is to say no, I'm not at Google or Facebook and that was a very deliberate choice. Likewise I'm not stuck driving to the middle of San Mateo (or worse) on a daily basis either.
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Whenever I read a recipe online I get this nagging feeling that there should be some widely used open standard for describing recipes that can do all sorts of awesome stuff (like a web crawler such as DuckDuckGo being able to answer "I have a pineapple, cream, and the usual pantry basics, what can I cook?"), but this seems to go directly against the business models of the big recipe sites, so it will not likely see much uptake.
MyFitnessPal has the same issue where the quantity values mixed between different units, but also between volume(cup) vs weight(grams). So its a pain in the neck to know how heavy a cup of pasta is.

I can see the same issue arising with this tool.
While you make a good point, the thing is that in my personal observation only the Chinese students (they were probably the largest group, which probably plays a role TBH) kept to themselves.

The other foreign students would merrily mingle with the locals and other foreign students. Just the Chinese would stay in their bubble.
What I'm missing the most in this context is for how many people those ingredients actually are. That's necessary if you want to scale the recipe to fewer or more people.
Anything taken to the extreme is stupid. What's the point exactly ?
This sounds like a divide & conquer approach (Sorry if this generalization is too lame). If it can work on less capable device than it will create a new wave of innovations in mobile devices.

I am wondering, whether a similar approach is possible with current DL models and will it have any performance improvements over what is existing or whether it will be computationally even more expensive.
I'm hoping that was sarcasm...?