skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what the article is all about. It's temperature management. Smaller warm-blooded animals have less mass to generate heat and higher surface area to volume ratio to dissipate it faster. They need a much higher metabolic rate to maintain body temperature, especially when the environment is very cold. They would freeze if they had the same rate as the elephant.

Large warm-blooded animals have more mass generating more heat and less surface area to dissipate it. They need a much lower rate or they would overheat. Not to mention the objectively huge amount of food and air circulation that would be required to maintain that rate.

If either animal had the other's metabolic rate, it would be dead within hours, if not minutes.
I'm arguing for diversity of gender, skin color, cultural or sub-cultural background and identity. Diversity of viewpoint should already be a given.

In order to promote tolerance you have to shut down and remove the people who support intolerance. Firing this guy is clearly in line with that mission and improving productivity.

We learn this in grade school, are you all foreigners or something? Or has American education really been gutted...
Woosh. Your comment went way over my head sorry. Care to clarify?
Thanks for sharing. I'm going to try it out as I do need a quick way to get a newsletter going.
Thats amazing!
Male dogs very funny...
Yes, and exacerbating the problem is that the original memo, even with its citations included, was sloppy and not rigorous, and should have been like shooting fish in a barrel for all the media covering it.

But instead most of the media coverage seemed to be coming from a frame of, "don't validate fringe viewpoints by actually addressing their arguments", rather just ignore their arguments and use other tactics to undermine them. That strategy may have worked in the pre-Internet age, but in the Internet age it risks putting you on the wrong side of "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.". In the Internet age the correct strategy for dealing with the fringe is directly addressing and discrediting their reasoning early, before they can create an echo chamber feedback loop.

But traditional media seems slow in general to realize that, in the Internet age, the fringe eventually defines the center unless stopped early. This episode appears to have been another manifestation of that.
It reminds me of how viral images are referred to as memes, often by people who are ignorant of the original and fuller meaning of the term as a viral idea (as opposed to and deliberately reminiscent of the view of a gene being a viral biological entity, as in "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, who coined the term "meme" itself).

Of course, the term "viral" is itself used metaphorically here, and is also used as an analogy to a biological entity. But in this case, I think more people are aware of the existence of viruses than they are of the original meaning of the term "meme", though they might not make the conscious connection between a "viral" idea, video, or image and that of a biological virus or how it spreads "virally".
>> Cruise does distinguish itself by driving mostly on busy downtown SF streets, a challenging environment, and they've released impressive videos showing off their capabilities.

I don't doubt that it's a challenging environment, but there are many, many different kinds of challenges that are not even present in that city.
This is really great. It reminds me of NSOperationQueue on iOS. I think a cool next step would be to add dependencies -- ie have Futures wait to execute until dependent Futures have completed/succeeded.
Ya it seems like just another deep learning course.

I can vouch for fast.ai though. They're the best if you're just starting.
He missed all the history of ZFS too. Sun had actual customers with bit rot. Even though they were running systems with the highest types of server hardware Sun provided, they had invisible data errors which were only noticed when the files were used and analysis showed ECC passing bit errors.

ZFS was created to solve actual business problems.
Google Employees: ‘Senior Leaders Focus on Diversity First and Technology Second’
I like the simplicity of your app, however I think it lacks some design. Looks like it's pulled straight from a bootstrap kinda thingy, without putting your own 'Riker' sauce over it.
Very cool. I wonder if picoprocesses could be extended to support something like coLinux, where the real Linux kernel runs as a timeslice alongside the Windows kernel.

Also it would be good to hear more about the progress on OpenSSH and PS remoting over SSH, the github project is getting updates but it doesn't seem very productised.
Does that social network still exist, and can you share its name please?
I'm not coming from "this is bad" (even more because lots of times I don't think it is). Just from "this is a social imposition".

Utility has a shared meaning among a population, ontology is meaningless over a group.
Thank you for the superlative spelunking, that was a great trip down memory lane! :)
And what you described is one of the more "legitimate" ICOs. Many of them are outright scams. This one at least tries to do some token work while pocketing the massive amount of raised money.
Luckily, WG21 seems to agree!
> Many respected lawyers and lawmakers, as well as the SEC, say many ICOs look like securities.

Yes, this is the crux of everything I've said, primarily that "many" has nothing to do with whats possible. Whether a future token sale chooses to register as a security or is completely exempt from securities frameworks because it is a product.
Exactly.

Scientists: Listen people! We have created models that explain why stuff does what it does! They are so complicated almost nobody can understand them. They involve 4 dimensions, a zoo of particles, randomness in everything and no reality independent of the observer. And they conflict. But at least they explain why stuff does what it does!

World: But they make the wrong predictions. Stuff does not behave like that.

Scientist: Oh, no problem. Just imagine there is an invisible force out there that moves stuff around. Imagine most of our universe is made of that invisible stuff. Now back to our awesome models!
Very encouraging to see this level of interest in investing in African startups from SV investors and not just from traditional impact investors.

There is an incredible amount of opportunity to build mobile digital services targeted at markets where offline functionality is a must and low-end Android devices are the norm. Hopefully the interest and investment in fintech will also mean that payments infrastructure will continue to improve and get relatively cheaper over time.
How are you handling animations here?
Virtual Reality Is It Worth It? (Game Development)
The SEC guidance galvanized us on not offering tokens. Instead, we are going to offer shares directly in the company, even if they are mostly issued via an ERC20 contract. If we are going to get heat from the SEC, might as well go all out and issue proper shares.

Plus tokens don't even make sense most of the time. You can't buy a Tesla car with TSLA and you do not get dividends/trading with a car. And no one outside kids at Chuck E Cheese want to use venue-specific currency.
Any one even remotely thinks that the memo was right should read this : https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
There are some good points in the memo - like having training and support for men, but it was largely an exercise in casting doubt on the ability of certain subset of your co-workers to do their job.
Might be a naive question, but how does this compare to existing Promise libraries that have cancellation (like bluebird)?

http://bluebirdjs.com/docs/api/cancellation.html
I believe it's a "luxury/enthusiast" strategy.
I believe the auto market will play out something like the watch market did with the introduction of the quartz watch. Most people just want to tell the time, so they buy a quartZ. Similarly most people just want to get from A to B, so will buy an electric (automated) car.

Some people enjoy the mechanics of the thing. So they buy a nice mechanical watch. These watches went from being simple utility pieces to works of art.

Similarly I expect that car companies will continue to sell a set of "enthusiasts" models for a long time. They might revert back to manual gearboxes, and become more and more outrageous works of art - turned polished engine bays (Think Perlée, etc).

When all your actual needs can be met by a self driving electric car, why do you own a physical mechanical car? For the enjoyment of it.
The fast.ai course does what it says on the tin: it's a practical approach to deep learning. I know I'm being lame by copying their tagline, but it really does just that: it has a no-frills approach to _applying_ deep learning. What you'll see:

* How to build and train a convnet

* What transfer learning entails

* How to build and train an LSTM

* How to build and train a 'vanilla' neural net

What you won't be covering:

* The difference between ADAM and EVE optimizers

* The mathematics behind backpropagation

* The mathematical 'theory' behind 'exploding gradients'

In brief: fast.ai is all about having coders get started with deep learning ASAP. If you have theoretical questions, the answer will usually be a one-liner, along with "but that's out of scope for this class".

I loved it to pieces, I think it's fantastic and a must-do if you've got any Python affinity. You would not believe what you, a run-off-the-mill programmer, have as a power when it comes to getting ConvNets/Nnets/LSTMs do. You can really build powerful, (almost) Google service level stuff.

But it's not very detailed on theory.
Corrolary: Instagram usage makes you depressed!
Like many, I also took the advice of solving my own problem. I have a hard time remembering all the details of everyone I talk to. When I realized that the key to startup success is to develop relationships with folks and the way to do this is to actually remember them, I built Orchestra [http://orchestrahq.com].
Germany has the VAT, they just require that vendors hide it from the consumer.
I've read all of your comments in this thread and you have a huge gap in your factual understanding. You should really just stop commenting as you're spreading outright falsehoods in some cases.

Varoufakis didn't have the final say on if Greece left the Euro. It has been quite public that he disagrees with a lot about what unfolded, including the decision to remain given the outcome of negotiations.

The idea that people were clueless about what would happen to Greece if Greece left the Euro is also ridiculous. Plenty of economists, in addition to him, opined on this matter. No one has argued that Greece would be instantly more well-off, but that they would be better off over the long run given their set of problems.

There have been efforts to try to use Varoufakis as a scapegoat for what happened, even though the crisis existed before he came into power, and Greece's situation is too complex for one person to take the blame.

Tsipras received support from the people during the 2015 referendum on the bailout. People overwhelmingly rejected the bailout. Tsipras balked and didn't follow through even though he could argue a public mandate.
Another data point: I'm a post-Katrina (2011) transplant to New Orleans, raising a kid, and I love it here.
I was fortunate enough (as a philosophy major) to land a software developer job (CS minor) coming out of college. I made way more money than I needed, so I started investigating charities to donate to. I found the whole process of getting involved in philanthropy kind of frustrating. That led to me creating Sublime Fund[1] with some friends. It's pretty bare bones right now, but it's something that feels meaningful to me, and I'm happy to invest time into making it better.

[1] https://sublimefund.org
If people within a group can't empathize and find common ground, then any hard stance by either side will just further the conflict. I recall reading quotes from a famous peace talk mediator that this is the primary reason why long war continues, and war rarely ends until people by both sides start to recognize that there is more common held opinions than inflammatory ones.

But if that doesn't incentivize to include people, what about deconstructing the inflammatory opinion? If we are talking about a person making a comment about skin color and crime, could we not start by agreeing that the average social economical status is not identical for all groups that people in a nation can be sorted into? Some groups will have more wealth in average, and others will have less. Can we also not conclude that social economic status today effects many areas, such as education and crime rate? From that we could conclude that what would be a inflammatory opinion would just be the logical extension of the current average social economical status, and we could politely respond to such opinion with facts that the underlying issue has nothing to do with race or skin color but is a simple result of historical social economical problems which society has been and is continuing working to improve. We can even empathize that this relation between social economical status and crime is universal, so anyone including those in the group that the person holding the inflammatory opinion are part of should receive support in the case of low social economical status. By this we find common ground.
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah - it's definitely a bootstrap design. The website is functional, but it's the mobile app that is best to use (has Apple Watch integration and offline mode).
> a Tesla uses about 300 Watts a mile @ 55 Mph

This is nonsense. The dimensions are wrong. Watts are instantaneous power. To be meaningful, you would have to give either kWh/h or kWh per mile or km.

Besides that 300 W is only 0.4 hp. Sorry, but that is just not credible.
Referral links are a form of advertisement. Quartz should have a disclaimer attached to the article since they mix their content with advertising.
Yes, but that ran actually a hypervisor (Hyper-V based) on your phone. It was noticeable because when you gained command line access in an Android app you could find Hyper-V references. Also, when the phone had just booted, the Android VM was not ready yet, so if you tried to run an Android app a message was shown stating to retry it later.
President of USA, Trump issues threat to North Korea
Ignorant "ELI5" question from a non-astrophysics major: Couldn't all this unobservable matter be just normal but so-far unobservable matter? Little planets and rocks all over the place that we just can't see yet because our telescopes aren't good enough? Why do we think it has to be some other "exotic" form of matter?
I used to agree regarding pin vs sign, until reading on here today how much slower European systems seem to be.
That's to measure error, not acceleration ;)
my unpopular personal opinion (strictly as a casual observer): self-driving will only be commercially viable as an augmented safety technology in single-owner vehicles (collision avoidance, lane keeping etc.) for ~20 years before we come close to reaching full-autonomy.

What we have currently; maybe four or five 9s of reliability in perfect conditions is not nearly good enough for autonomous car sharing. If the car breaks down or is in a collision what is the passenger going to do? drive it themselves to the shoulder and get out? How far are we from autonomous systems harmoniously and safely coexisting with the most erratic human drivers/bikers/pedestrians? How far from adverse weather conditions? How will we finance 100 million $80,000 autonomous vehicles.

Automated collision mitigation is already in many new cars and the data on accident rates is just materializing. Toyota preemptively put it's radar/camera based system in ALL of their cars for 2017. Its rumored that the NHTSA will mandate it for all manufacturers in the near future. The gradual progression of these developments is that these systems will add features incrementally and gain economies-of-scale until one day in the far far future driver input will be minimal. Only then will autonomous ride sharing become viable.
The units in the linked thread are slightly wrong, which was corrected later in the thread. 300 Wh/mi * 55 mph = 16.5 kW.

The most powerful generator I see on Honda's site is 10 kW for $5400.
Has anybody successfully incorporated relativity into pilot wave theory? For example, how does the Dirac equation emerge from pilot-wave theory?
Looks like there are some recordings by Sergei Rachmaninoff himself [1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?sort=&and[]=subject%...
Here's an example: in Bluebird, cancelation doesn't
propagate upstream. After registering onCancel in a
promise constructor, you have to call .cancel() on
that exact promise object. Calling .cancel() in any
child promise created with .then() or .catch() will
not abort the work, rendering the feature useless for
the most common use case!

True cancelation must propagate upstream, prevent
all pending work, and immediately free resources and memory.

From the README
If you read the Securities Act of 1933 there are TONS of ways to get around SEC rules. And as such I think your intrastate offering idea is a red herring, but I'll entertain you:

Did you know that anything that is super obviously a security can be completely exempt if it matures or expires in less than 270 days? Its written right there. Turns out there is a huge market called "commercial paper" that takes advantage of this specifically. I personally had no idea about it until I read the law itself.

And there are lots of exemptions. Most of them are completely impractical for most of us.
It would need to be very low latency if the cars can not take sufficient action fast enough to be safe. But if the cars get to a point where they are safe enough but where that safety comes at the expense of being overly cautious in some instances (refusing to drive through a sheet of water and deciding to stop) that may be acceptable. E.g. in the given example, the car only needs input to say pretty much "safe to proceed at low speed until past obstacle, then reassess".
I don't buy the wikipedia argument either, but I do believe the homogenous charge mixture will burn at a lower temperature for a given compression ratio than the equivalent stratified charge.

Throwing f/a into the mix, the HCCI mode is apparently only active during low-power cruise, so the lean mixture is fine. The Mazda innovation is controlling the changeover from HCCI to SI when more power is demanded.
Yes, Peterson must have read that exact article because the wording he used was almost verbatim. The problem is that he is convinced that this is somehow a new phenomenon in the context of European society going back to Roman times, which is what his lecture was about. The study is about the United States going back to 1970. It is extremely ignorant of Peterson to make that generalization.
Grand Central Dispatch doesn’t count?
Bit of a nitpick, but it's actually [C-137](http://rickandmorty.wikia.com/wiki/Dimension_C-137)
Be careful what you wish for

https://archive.org/details/78_i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-chr...
Anybody knows how come VSC is so more responsive than Atom? Is having parts in C++ a trick that VSC also does, or is it something else?
I believe current regulations require the test driver to have her or his hands on the wheel at all times so that's not a good indication of whether or not the car is driving autonomously.
>I don't understand your point. North Korea has had nuclear bombs for over a decade.

The point is they didn't have them for 60 years after the Korean War and weren't attacked. They've long had enough conventional forces to make war with them a guaranteed disaster for the Korean Peninsula.

The idea that nuclear weapons are what's keeping them from being attacked is simply stupid.
The thing is that we're pretty sure our theories are right, but we're still missing a bunch of stuff. We've named that stuff "dark matter". There's really not much to be skeptical about as far as I know.

I have always been a bit skeptical about it being some elusive magical new particle or somesuch though.
Couldn't properly log in via Spotify :(
http://www.connact.com/~hom/blog/276questions.htm
That guy on TV keeps telling me how awesome owning gold is... it is so awesome he wants to sell me his...
An electric power transmission is hardly hybrid. You just have two extra conversions in your transmission, mechanical to electric and electric back to mechanical.
Is that a GATTACA reference? I think that's a GATTACA reference!

Great movie, well before it's time, worth watching for any hacker.

Especially now that sequencing is 100,000 times cheaper than it was 20 years ago.
They usually do not just fill a hole in a theory but make a ton of new predictions that then can be verified.

Conjecting that the earth is round did not just explain why ships disappear behind the horizon. It also predicted that you can get back to point A by always moving away from it and many other phenomena.
What the fuck are you doing? You cannot possibly not know that what you're doing is theft, and feigning ignorance makes what you're doing even more insidious.
Imagine that applicants were scored between 1 and 100 and anyone with a score over 90 is offered a job. Suppose that being nervous in an interview gives you a -5. A nervous applicant has a higher bar - a 95.

Someone says maybe we aren't hiring enough women because women have been socialized not to be engineers and are therefore nervous when applying. Let's work on a program to help women be less nervous, then we'll hire more.

Now the DM author says "let's apply that program to everyone, not just women, otherwise we'll be lowering the bar for women." And Google immediately fires him. Your observation is that he shouldn't have said "lowering the bar" but it's objectively true.

In this example, the bar for women is 90 + the likelihood of being nervous * 5. If you remove the second term for women and not men, you are lowering the bar for women.
Yeah. I expect the unit being used is 300 Watt-hours. IOW: (300 Wh/mi 55mi/h) =16500 W, or 16.5 kW. Which actually sounds about reasonable, being 22 horsepower.
That name is horribly misleading. This is a Linux Subsystem for Windows Server. I'm guessing they wanted their brand name first, clarity be damned.
Do you have a data and sources on who Google customers are? I bet according to you most of them are Males?
You need to have a premium account- was that the issue or is it something else I should look into?

You can also try the 'click here to retry' button which should do the trick if you do in fact have Spotify premium.
Rotary engines do not "leak oil", they burn oil a modest amount of oil by design.

I was thinking of the seals, which by about 50K seemed to be a common failure point. But, yes, they did burn a bit by design; no argument there. OTOH, a lot of Wankel defenders in this thread mention RX-8s. I'm remembering RX-7s, and the economy cars that used the Wankels. Those economy cars of the 70s are where the Wankel reputation for poor fuel mileage comes from. Cute TV commercials ("piston engine goes 'boing, boing, boing', Mazda engine goes 'hmmmmm'"), not really the best engine choice to go up against Honda and Toyota at the time.
Denialism is the ideology of the day.
This only seems relevant if you think that these examples justify refusing to listen to the rational of those you disagree with.
IIRC scheme and probably common lisp have something like this:

(call-with-dynamic-bind ((var1 val1)(var2 val2)...)
stuff...)

It lets you introduce dynamically scoped variables that work pretty much the way you described.
Dark matter does interaction with matter via gravity. It just doesn't interact via electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, or the strong nuclear force. Our usual observation techniques with electromagnetism can't detect it.