skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious, I'll be interested to hear what the root cause is if they publish that information.

I played around with 'ultrasonic projection' for a bit, which involved two ultrasonic emitters that were emitting the same carrier wave, then the phase of one gets modulated by an audio signal. At the point where the two beams can be heard at the same time, you get the classic mixing effect where the interference between the two beams is the audible input signal. That "projected" the sound (or transmitted depending on your definition) to a remote location without the intervening folks hearing it. Of course to make it work you need pretty strong carriers and that has the effect of deafening you even if you can't hear it.

Thinking about that experiment though I wonder if you shot a high power beam at a window if you could use the resonance to pull off audio without having a tell tale laser bouncing off of the window. (mix the reflected ultrasonic signal with the echo to extract any modulation from the window).

And all of that has me wondering if it would be useful to create an inaudible sound detector / meter to let you know there was a sound around you that you couldn't hear.
>“I was talking to a vanilla purveyor recently and he offered me tonka bean paste,” says Raquel. “I was like ‘If I want to use tonka bean, I’ll use tonka bean.’”

One of my biggest issues with mislabeling foods. Sell me vanilla at the market price, sell me tonka at the market price, but don't sell my vanilla that is actually tonka at vanilla market prices. Same with scallops and stingray, crab and surimi, calamari and pork, chocolate and flavored vegetable oil.
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Electric car will be new smart phone. Without adding new features, electric car price can be reduce dramatically. A electric motor drive and tons of investment in battery tech can reduce entry level car price to four digit. But that is not at all wanted by industry. So automotive industry will keep adding automation and smart configurable suspension and other such nonsense to keep the price high. Good news for software industry nonetheless.
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I'm not sure what that quote means. Can you explain it?
Well it doesn't transit from our point of view, so yes, I think he can say that as the observer.

"In astronomy, a transit or astronomical transit is the phenomenon of at least one celestial body appearing to move across the face of another celestial body, hiding a small part of it, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point."[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(astronomy)
The Upper East Side of Manhattan (one of the wealthiest and most desirable neighborhoods in the world) has over 200,000 residents. The UES doesn't have much office space though, which would be needed. But you could probably have a little bit bigger footprint than that, and certainly many more much taller buildings. So, I don't really know, but maybe 100,000 to 400,000 residents?
I read this as "I don't write code all day." I did write code all day, and when I worked in that exact environment, I could not do it. Too many audio distractions and distractions in my peripherals. And I was supposed to be doing difficult programming work? I have always gotten my best work done at home, alone, while you "not a code monkey" types chit chat in the office.
14khz here :)
How do you account for charging at home?
Could the title be updated to indicate whether we are talking about smoking, or other means of ingestion? Smoke inhalation was already known to be bad, regardless of what the smoke was made from.
Rather:

-Encrypt web content with a hash of the current time

-Tell Ad provider that hashing method and have them serve that decryption key with each ad

-Embed a HTML renderer inside wasm which decrypts the web content and renders directly to canvas, ads included

-If Ad provider is domain blocked, mine bitcoins to pay equivalent cost of an ad click, trading the bitcoins for the decryption key

It's the end of ad block and userscripts.
You could have a highly efficient ICE that powers a DC bus in your home, that is also connected to your Solar array, that provides clean / efficient power to all our devices.

With recent advancements in electronics, DC power seems to be a good bet, especially when considering the ubiquity of solar systems.
First thing that caught me is, pocket doesn't auto-categorize as a free feature
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I'm not offended. I encourage more studies to be done! 1200 is a large number of people, but not large relative to the number of people who consume regularly.

What I'm railing against is "news" articles that don't contextualize or think critically about the studies that are being performed, and try to generate clicks through buzz-word filled headlines.
Raise when you don't need it. VCs are desperate to part with cash ("use it or lose it"), and Coinbase probably has the best chance (after perhaps Stripe and Braintree) of becoming the de facto home for the crypto payment/trading industry.
Those are some pretty big caveats...
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Whenever I do full-stack development
Then the problem is not with the creators of the trials, but those who are reporting them with insufficient characterizing information.
I agree on your second point. 1200 people is a substantial population. However, we'd also need to read more about the details of the study to see how it was conducted and how controls were controlled and then, naturally, someone would have to reproduce the results using the same methodology.

There are plenty of questions to be asked of this study, but blithely dismissing the sample size while attacking the government (and the recommendation that they do more to protect the populace) are not the first two holes to poke at this study.
Same here, we encountered one in Tokyo and I had to run away. My (younger) friends all thought I was crazy until I sent them the link to the device months later.
For comparison, there were approx. 168,000 gas stations in the US in 2004 [1] and that number had been steadily decreasing during the decade before (202,000 in 1994).

[1] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/quizzes/answerQuiz16.shtml
It's like they all use the same name generator for their companies that goes [Color related qualifier] [Food related noun].

Some of the rejected candidates before they settled on Blue Apron: "Orange Orange", "Sky Aubergine", "Yellow Spatula", "The-color-of-a-lawnchair-that's-been-out-in-the-rain-too-long Cucumber".
And brilliant. Terrifyingly brilliant.
Here’s how we’ll measure Internet health
This 17-year-old hacked the Air Force
I've been tossing around the idea of what a bookmarking solution would look like that would save a cache of the current page and possibly surrounding pages. Maybe even have the ability to highlight or make notes on the page directly. The use case would be bookmarking a page that is later updated and I was never really sure why I bookmarked it in the first place. Or possibly bookmarking pages behind a login screen.
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Only to create. They'll be public and available for anyone (user or not user). My target market for collections is Pinterest users.
Another strange one is the (old) Visual Studio syntax with its :i (actually often quite helpful) and $1 instead of \1 (even in the new syntax).

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2k3te2cs(v=vs.110)....
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2047487317723212
PDF: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2047487317723212

"95% confidence interval: 1.20–9.79"
Citroen C3 Pluriel: http://www.convertiblecarmagazine.com/buyers_guide/citroen-c...

Similar to the concept, but if anything with an even more refined design. I had one (long-time Citroen fan) and absolutely loved it. It was essentially a 2CV for the modern age: a small family hatchback which did double service as pickup, convertible and coupe.

It lasted a few years in Citroen's lineup but was never a big seller, thanks partly to worries about water ingress and various other mechanical eccentricities. But I still think it's one of the purest designs this design-led car company has ever produced: a profile that reduced to two simple curves, concealing a design that was all about utility and never about performance.
That's what NVMe SSDs use.
Every company is a tech company now
One thing I have with Intel is the virtual certainty the machine will work flawlessly with Linux. Atom, Celeron, Pentium, Core, and Xeon E3 have built-in GPUs that are very well supported.

Before jumping to AMD gear, I'd like to know if I'd have the same "just works" experience. I'm well past the age I liked to waste time debugging setups.
Does the new car market need to offer EVs for less than $10,000 if the used market already is? I purchased my 2013 Nissan Leaf SV for $11k in 2015.
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Ohh yes. I can imagine a tuk-tuk, vehicles that transport millions in third world countries, converted to electric vehicles.

- No AC
- No Heaters
- Light weight
- Ample amount of luggage space
- Not much range required
The more important part of article is the raise in price for Lithium Carbonate, from $4000 to $14000, how does that help reduce cost of batteries. We already have cheap oil, it may not be forever, but lets assume adoption of EVs improves drastically the would make OIL dead cheap, and most of the oil would be diverted to power generation or to other countries that do not have Electric Infrastructure etc. The point is the article is full of linear thinking and no room for second order effects and most optimistic projections.
In my high school, very strong peer pressure was applied to anyone who tried this as it was generally considered excessively annoying.

For my part, I used a Morse code ringtone that happened to sound similar to the howling noise the radiators made, which everyone had learned to simply tune out.
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>calamari and pork

I think that's an urban legend
Repeat after me:

"Correlation is not causation."
Give or take a century? So you're saying that the range could be 50-250 years?
The other cool thing is, (given that these will end up in a lot of servers) - instead of graphics card, read CUDA card.
You are right - for specific tasks. E.g. in computer vision they are able to surpass humans for static image recognition. For image segmentation they are getting close already. For generating art they IMO have surpassed some "artists" already ;-)

If you think about it, even with 90% accuracy they are worth it as they could almost automate some cognitively-difficult tasks and for those instances that they can't do it properly, a human can intervene. So instead of 10 humans watching over something you end up with a single one. It would take some time until all we have in the research is in production and that will change a lot of things. After that there might be another AI winter (who knows if we can do general intelligence?), but with current pipeline it might take a while to reach plateau.
I'd still prefer a turbine, for many of the same reasons as an electric motor. Fewer moving parts, more fuel efficient.

As a point of their reliability, most of the old pumpjacks you've seen about (if you're my age) are powered by turbines. Turned on, and left running for years without stopping.
The subsidies you bring up to justify your argument do exist. But they also exist in greater numbers for the gas/car manufacturers, so your argument that market forces would make electric cars untenable is very questionable.

https://electrek.co/2016/10/10/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-challenge...
It's not science at all.

It's a suspect statistical correlation with poor controls.

Aka bullshit.

Anecdotal but relative to this paper equally valid, my step-dad, grandpa, and a number of their buddies all went through prostate cancer treatment and hopped on weed on the side and a decade plus later of smoking for each of them they're all within normal ranges for every thing (I check in since some of them are genetic relations and I'm nearing that age where monitoring becomes vital)

Too much of this "science" fails to control for mental health. Anxiety is a common disorder in our society. Anxiety from illicit illegal drug use could be the cause here.

It's a crap study, probably intended as fodder for politicians and to stoke fears in the public
Are you also a Windows user ? I can't figure out what's wrong as I only got OSX and Linux. Here is the Preact component I use for Input fields; https://gist.github.com/azer/87e6919fc24ad08839e01b1ee3158b4...
A lot of it, because it's illegal, isn't grown in conditions regulated in the same way that other agricultural products are grown.

Take, for example, a report from this week about pesticides in illegal growing spots in California. I can't find the Reuters link that talked about banned pesticides but I found: http://www.newsweek.com/illegal-marijuana-farms-dump-shockin...)

and

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/08/05/pot-laced-with-pestici...

So the question is, do studies on cannabis harmfulness account for this variable, the unknowns and frequently illegal pesticides and other chemicals used to grow it?

I suspect I know the answer...
Hopefully Uber/Lyft start a van/bulk transit service. This would help reduce traffic by combining trips while being more efficient than buses because the server can dynamically route the driver to optimize pickups and departures.

Perhaps even adding discounts for riders willing to trek the last mile on foot.
watson's mistake is to have gone the chat bot route. promising a natural language input for all underlying problems simply discredits everything else...
So I'm late to the digital currency game. What are the regular use cases for digital currency? Who accepts it? Is it mostly for person-to-person trading?
It was a nasty nginx permissions error, thank you so much letting me know so I solved it.
You mean a city like Tokyo?
Sure you can cook the books. It's called forking. The DAO hack never happened after the fork.
Given the current legal environment around marijuana use (I'm not sure what it's like in the UK), I doubt you'd be able to adequately control for other confounding variables in a study like this.

For example, is there a skew in demographics between users and non users? Socio-economic status? Other health indicators? Diet? Pre-existing hypertension? (Were people self-medicating?) Lifestyle? What about delivery? Is this a smoking-in-general related effect or would other forms of consumption also have the same effect?

1200 people is a pretty large study, but from this writeup, it isn't clear that they would be able to completely single out cannabis as the sole factor. I'd have to read the fully paper to know more.

That said -- it is a worrying concern and certainly a good enough reason to continue studying this potential effect. Hopefully they will be able to continue with lab based studies to try and find an underlying mechanism.
AMD claims it, but until I understand the issue better I'm a little skeptical. We'll see as these parts make their way into the hands of consumers who will run these tests.
My comment was saying that you're assuming time-saving is the only value, and was pointing out that's not true. I'm even willing to believe it might be the most important source of value by a long shot -- I wasn't arguing against your conclusion; I was pointing out an assumption made by the argument you stated.

Regarding 1. It's not that the ingredients are less common per se. It's that using BA means that people ended up using some less commonly used ingredients. They were introduced to new things that they hadn't used before and wouldn't have sought out on their own. They liked that.

Regarding 1.5 - obviously, but the thing is there is greater convenience (that some ppl prefer) with not having to select the recipes, get the ingredients, portion them out. For some people that different in convenience makes the difference between whether they do it or not. So treating this issue as if it was purely a matter of whether it was possible or not doesn't make sense.

Regarding 2, I have heard people say they have been able to make high quality meals that they wouldn't usually have made that are better than most takeaway.

3 is most definitely relevant, because it's an example of a non-speed-based kind of value it provides to some people - getting the kind of meal they would only otherwise get at a restaurant but at home. Most takeaway can't do that.
If a planet is too small, it has a hard time retaining an atmosphere (see Mars) and a hard time sustaining the inner dynamo necessary for a magnetosphere (see Venus). For the latter, the fact that Earth is barely larger than Venus suggests that Earth might be very close to the lower bound of habitable terrestrial planet size. Bigger is better than smaller, but too big and you obviously stop being terrestrial, the atmosphere becomes too thick to breathe, the surface temperature gets too hot from pressure, and it might become impractical to escape the surface with standard rocketry due to increased gravity. I think I've read that double Earth's mass is somewhere around the suspected upper bound for reasonable human habitability.
There are. Look for "Pass-by Noise". There are standards on how to conduct these tests, and in Europe there are active regulations on maximum emissions already in place. It's coming to the US soon too. In the case of the supercars, IIRC the maximum noise is somehow tied to HP or engine displacement so that these guys can get away with more noise.

Disclaimer: I work with acoustics simulation software and am currently involved with simulating these kind of tests.
Yeah, at one point I was doing this many times every day.

rm -rf node_modules && rm package-lock.json && npm install
I agree with you in principle, but any city has to have the ability for delivery services and emergency vehicles to move around.
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>But this "editorial decision" (ahem, "tuning") is in fact a political decision to downgrade results for a site that by any objective measure has a wide, international readership (Alexa global rank, 30-40k).

WSWS has a skewed view of history that is outside of what mainstream historians would accept. For that reason displaying them for neutral historical search queries is dishonest. So it seems reasonable that whatever version of search algorithm they updated to might assign them a lower priority.

>It is also an objective fact that Google has close relations to the state (top federal campaign contributor, regular visitor to the White House, Eric Schmidt book praised by Michael Hayden, etc.)

So? Doesn't mean regulatory bodies are interfering in day-to-day operational decision or in this specific instance.

>So it is a "conspiracy theory" that Google's actions might be motivated by political considerations?

Anything is possible but there's no evidence - so yes, it is a "conspiracy theory", especially considering there's an alternative explanation that is more reasonable and doesn't necessitate invoking sinister shadow governmental actions.
So according to this study, anyone who answered that they ever tried marijuana once is classified as a regular user from that point forwards?

I must be misreading that.
If we wanted it badly enough, we could get to tau Ceti with current technology. The Orion designs are sound, and could carry a population capable of sustaining itself for the 100-odd years it would take to get there.
What is the goal of the march exactly?
Because terrifying the hell out of any potential nuclear opponent is the most stable configuration we've arrived at.

Aside from "no one has large nukes", which was never geo-politically practical once the USSR reached parity w/ the US.
I believe it. Everytime my friend dabbled, his heart raced.

That said, there are so many third variables that are associated with adult chronic usage (no pun intended) of marijuana that covariates may have a hard time removing their influence. What is needed is a mechanism, shown in animal and cellular models with random assignment. I haven't had the chance to read; was one proposed?
Not true. Terminator is still being actively development (albeit somewhat slowly). GTK3 support was completed earlier on in the year and I've personally been using it daily since.
The last place I worked where I got a private office (and probably the last place I ever will) was the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA, a federally-funded R&D corporation. Level AC-5 and above got solo offices, AC-4's had to share.
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Social norms change. You end up messaging a lot w/ people you can physically touch and it's not considered rude to just ignore someone coming up to you if you're concentrating.
Incompetent management is always a problem but in remote teams it's even worse. With onsite teams the manager can at least track attendance and can generally see if people are doing some work. With remote teams your only measure is the output of people and that's very hard to judge if you are not competent.

I think you also need to hire differently for remote. People need to be self-motivated and self-sufficient.
He didn't say "unfair and divisive, and therefore bad for business", he said "unfair, divisive and bad for business". My ellipsis doesn't change the meaning, unless we are, once again, falling back on him presenting his ideas in an ambiguous manner. Which, even if true, makes misinterpretations his responsibility.

In the memo he literally asks for changes to make Google more welcoming for conservatives. He even claims this will be good for business. How do you square this with your contention that any kind of discrimination, even for positive purposes, will lead to negative outcomes due to it being unfair and divisive.

Does it make sense for him to be claiming both these things? I'm not sure that he is even saying that (though it seems tone deaf at the least to present both ideas in the same document).

Also, I'm really not sure that saying women score higher on neuroticism and therefore can't handle stressful jobs as well, or are introverts and so have trouble leading is purely about interest. I'm not sure where this defence about "only talking about interests" comes from, I don't get that from the document. It's certainly not explicitly spelled out.

I'm coming to the conclusion that people aren't just misinterpreting but have actually invented a totally fictitious memo that they find easier to defend than the real one.
Thank you for pointing this out, it seems like it's often forgotten. We're probably about to make all the same mistakes we did when cars first showed up in cities. Of course, if we actually get coordinated driving that allows long-distance 100+ mph runs mere feet apart, the city will expand to cover... well, even more of what little remains of wild habitat. We're already urbanizing an area the size of Britain every year. Why pay high rent to be close to work when you can have a villa in what used to be Big Sur and nap during your hour commute to work?

Pity the motorcyclists, walkers, and cyclists who dare to get in your way.
Makes sense, but I don't love how they handled the whole Bitcoin split.
Small engines like those are also horrendously dirty. A gas-powered lawnmower, for example, produces an order of magnitude more pollution than a car in the same amount of time. Weed whackers, despite being smaller, can be even worse because smallness means less complete combustion.

Lawn equipment is fairly low-hanging fruit for electrification, much easier than cars, and would have a disproportionate impact on air quality.
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So, Google is wrong. There is a difference between the sexes.
I think he's joking