skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue Kotlin is a lot more fun than Java. As for the Fragment lifecycle, it still sucks, but no one forces you to use it. Lots of apps never even use one fragment. Google simply made fragments hoping everyone would make their UIs into reusable components which work better on tablets.
This account doesn't post a lot, but it does post a lot of comments that violate the guidelines. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sounds like the city fell asleep at the wheel, or rolled the dice and didn't want to pay for proper drainage. Now the citizens get to pay.

Sounds like the Judge is preparing the country for the fact that nothing will still be done about it.
Interesting, I for one find the iOS app very snappy and the web version often unusably slow. And the iOS app does work offline too. Have you upgraded recently?
"Human neutral" is the new term.
> Where did I write that there's no legitimate use cases for AR? I find games the LEAST PLAUSIBLE use case because holding your phone and moving around a virtual plane is a nice demo, sucks for extended game sessions.

AR with an HMD (like HoloLens) changes that a bit. I don't see technically why phone based AR couldn't use something similar to current phone-holder VR HMDs, though a camera accessory with a more optimal position for AR use than a phone camera in a horizontal holder would have might be useful to that.
https://futurism.com/mit-researchers-have-discovered-a-way-t... gives better summary under reasonable title:

MIT Researchers Have Discovered a Way to Increase Nuclear Fusion’s Energy Output
I understand your argument, but you can't compare floods to the birthday problem. Unlike randomly-sampled people's birthdays, floods in US cities are not independent random variables.

For instance, chances of 500-year floods in two Texas cities is not 1 out of 500*500 in a year. If they're geographically similar and physically close, it should be closer to 1 out of 500.
It's headline news when the law is not only ridiculous, but protectionist, and inconsistently followed.

It's pretty obvious that the EU is only doing this because Google is a US company.

I am quite sure that google considered simply pulling entirely out of Europe. It wouldn't affect them as much as you think - it's the internet, you can run a website from anywhere.

And it's not like the EU would prevent their citizens from buying ads from Google, so their revenues would not be affected all that much. Their EU sales force could be through a third party (so that Google would not have any assets in the EU).

All that Google would lose is EU employees.

The bare fact this this plan I am outlining is even worth considering rather than bow to the EU demands tells you a lot.
I've been quite skeptical of the anti-ORM sentiments, since I always found the ORM handy, not a problem etc.

Two things recently started to change my mind

One is, after profiling some views in our Django app I found that a significant portion of the time in list views (i.e. returning many objects) was spent instantiating ORM model objects. Not on fetching them from the db, but turning them into objects whose imminent destiny is to get turned back into dicts for serializing to JSON.

So we switched to values() queries which return plain dicts, but then the ORM is just a query engine.

The second was, in a large app, finding that many of the tables start to require a degree of care to only perform 'safe' queries, i.e. ones supported by appropriate indexes. The integration of the ORM into the framework provides many conveniences, but this tends to involve a lack of awareness/control over exactly which queries get made. Most of the patterns that are 'idiomatic' to the framework also tend to involve a lot of ORM querying logic pushed down in the view layer... while our need to perform only a restricted set of 'safe' queries pushed us in the other direction, towards a repository layer with carefully curated query code.

I'm seriously considering exploring ORM-less development in future
Does anyone have experience as a student there? How did you fare in the job market afterwards?

I almost went there but chose not to.
> with an automated machine gun

Yeah, how exactly can that be automated?
Just a note, seems like all of these algorithms are for classification. It doesn't mention the simple linear regression which is considered data mining, so having that at the top and more emphasized would be helpful.

Either way, it's a good list to take a peek at and read quick information if you're working on a classification problem.
Same,
I'm 28 now and sometime in the last two years I just started needing to sleep a lot.

At 25 I was out drinking multiple shots and beers in a sequential nights till 3am. Sometime between now and then If i did the same I'm basically a zombie for a week
Users vouched for it and then we updated the URL, and to my knowledge it hasn't died since then.
The editorial you site is from 2005, while the other paper is from 2014. The latter looks like a large and well designed study. Here is a quote from the conclusion:

"What are the implications of our findings? Our main finding is that it is important that young children are being read to. This is an early-life intervention that seems to be beneficial for the rest of their lives. We show that there is an important role for parents in the educational performance of their children. The evidence strongly suggests that parental reading to children gives them a head-start in life."

I haven't studied either enough to say for sure, but it appears the the 2014 paper is trying to measure the marginal benefit of reading, while the Levitt study was looking at larger correlations. The Levitt study suggests that smart parents end up with smart kids, reading or not. What is more interesting to me at least, is what can I do to help my kids succeed? The 2014 paper comes closer to answering this question, and suggests reading to them helps.
Mac Mini i7 (2012) makes an awesome VMWare ESXi box - I run a few VMs on mine (cheaper than cloud for a test environment)
There is one additional thing to note. Soil has a certain sponge like quality to absorb water. So a runoff curve number was created to "predict runoff or infiltration"

The tables on the wiki pages shows "curve numbers" for different types of soils. These numbers are based on experimental data which is then used to model runoff. (Or used to be. Its been 20 years since I've done runoff modeling, so maybe things have changed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runoff_curve_number
Curious as well. I went to Makersquare / Hack Reactor and it seems the experience depends hugely on which bootcamp you actually went to, based on my conversations at meetups.
"gracias"
That was my first thought - but while it's a clever response to a problem, it's more sad that it's necessary and that it works.
The problem is that investors are too easy when it comes to giving second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth chances... And they absolutely suck at giving first chances to the right people.

Investors just sit there and assume that the right people will find them, but they don't. The right people are too busy working to be chasing down investors 24/7.

The first-timers who end up getting funded over and over again are usually the ones who network 24/7 and their only real talent is seducing investors who confuse their well-rehearsed talk for passion and intelligence.
Do you think someone can survive without getting "complete protein" (aka all essential amino acids)?
JD Power Initial Quality Survey, Consumer Reports, etc.

He's correct that Dodge and Nissan have low scores in these studies/surveys, but Hyundai and Kia [0] have improved their vehicle quality SIGNIFICANTLY in the last few years, and score at or near the top of these studies now.

However, Kia still has a reputation for terrible dealership experience. I don't have a link that shows this, so take that with a large grain of salt.

0. Hyundai owns 34% of Kia, but they have a strong internal rivalry

Disclaimer - I work for GM
This, 1,000x this.

From your comment I assume you're already familiar with the Mises Institute and the Austrian Business Cycle Theory?
> "A main source of these temporary surges is the carbon dioxide that is constantly released as the brain breaks

> down sugar to generate energy, which subsequently turns into acid."

The "Ketosis" / "Ketogenic diets" are helping in this case?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet
Fair, with negative ints they're different. They have the same behavior on positive ints, though.
Right. Tesla's round 1 "autopilot" used Mobileye's car recognizer for obstacle detection. If it didn't look like a car, it didn't get recognized as an obstacle.

I wrote a previous YC posting on this, on why you need to use geometry first, then object recognition.
Wrong. X has remote capabilities BY DEFAULT. Wayland will eventually have an option to render remote applications, but as it will be only an option it won't work 'equally well'..
Birthday paradox relies on non-independent events. I'd assume floods should be relatively independent between different cities, meaning that the number of 500-year flood events in the U.S. would follow a binomial distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution).

p = 1/500 years = 0.002

For 100 cities, the probability of at least one city having a 500-year flood is 18.14%.

For a 3-year run:

p = (1/500)^3 = 8e-9

For 100 cities, the probability is 8e-7 of at least one success. For 1000 cities, the probability is still only 8e-6.

Wolfram alpha helps in calculating PDFs and CDFs: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binomial+distribution+n...
To people who agree with Google that this was the wrong ruling, or disagree with the law in general, this kind of announcement might be real news to them.

For instance, if a marijuana company sliced that it would be shutting it's doors to comply with US federal law, I'd very much want to know about it.
That may be true, but I don't think it's accurate to say that this particular article was about Burning Man.
It's called janteloven in Nordic countries, I suspect other parts of the EU have a similar idea.
> 2) There are certain books that I really enjoy reading aloud and others that I don't. And its not the content, but just the feel of the words coming off my tongue.

I've read a bunch of novels to my young kids, and some I wouldn't have thought would work were great, while others that I liked when I'd read them before were just awful. Examples: To the Lighthouse. Probably a clunky read-aloud book, right? Nope, excellent. You have to stay alert due to the complex, meandering language, but it works well. Lost Horizon. Simple language, nothing tricky, should be good. Nope, tripped over the language left and right.
> I think there's a wide gulf of moral culpability between pink signs worth a buck and antitrust infringements worth billions.

There may be a wide gulf depending on the details, but there doesn't necessarily have to be. They are being punished for antitrust practices proven on a legal basis. Without bringing specifics into it, there's no way to tell wither it's moral or not, the same way you can't assume someone on the sex offender registry committed a morally repugnant crime instead of just peeing in public.[1] Don't confuse legal for moral, and if you think the facts of this case support your point, then use those facts to make that point.

1: http://www.menshealth.com/guy-wisdom/you-might-be-sex-offend...
“Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?”
It's also because Apple makes their devices.

MS was mandating IE being included alongside Windows to other companies.
The crazy thing is that in product search (which is what the lawsuit was all about), they're even larger than Google.
Can it be used with sparkjava, pippo, or springfw?
You echo my feeling on reading aloud.
Shark. Jumped.
Cummins Beats Tesla to the Punch, Unveiling Heavy Duty Electric Truck
This has been posted a bunch before and one should be fairly skeptical that of Wildbergers interpretation of Babylonian tablets that happens to coincide with his quirky method of doing trigonometry that he came up with because he doesn't like real numbers.
What's the point in the Army developing its own, parallel autonomous vehicle technology? Why not just have DARPA funnel funds to Google or someone and piggyback off their research?
I'm staring at Brian starting at it...
Future of warfare is going to something more like Command And Conquer game, where operators will direct autonomous machine with a click of a mouse and warfare will be mostly done at a distance....

Probably with less casualties overall...
So wait. Is LinkedIn the turd or is my career / background the turd?
People are using it for a lot more than speculation, including skirting capital controls imposed by crony bureacrats, buying goods and services that are "morally unacceptable" to puritanical politicians, and as a means of savings in countries where confiscating bank deposits is matter of course.
Don’t Fall for Babylonian Trigonometry Hype
Get some exercise. Go find some people to play ultimate frisbee with. Or, if that isn't your cup of tea, go for a walk at lunch. This not only gives you exercise, it also gives you time to look at the trees and sky - to put your mind on the physical world around you instead of on the code you're trying to build.
Or alter your schema in the client. Quite easy to right-click and 'Add New Column' or ADD COLUMN or whatnot. I'm trying this with a new project and it is resulting in a data model that feels cleaner and hand-built.

One can simply capture the schema when they've found a good structure, and then use that as the starting point for a migration system (like ActiveRecord).
> lerping

I learnt a new slang today, thanks!

Yes, linear interpolation is a possibility. Another could be to use a quadratic (or nth-order) function f that approximates atan2(x) when x is within the range you need, so that you get a really good approximation with a quick and dirty computing.

In particular, if your equation uses powers of 2 and 4, the power operation perhaps can be done by bit shifting which is blazingly fasssssssssst.
Unsurprising. As far as I can see Solaris is pretty much retreating into being in the same position as zOS (MVS): something Oracle ship with the integrated hardware stacks.
It is a trade-off between short-term and long-term usefulness. If Google is using its market power to protect its own services from competition, that leads to less consumer choice and less usefulness in the long run, as fewer competitors will survive.
MouseAge.Org: Artificial intelligence for photographic biomarkers in mice
Roamer: A Plain-Text File Manager
This seems like an obvious step - why put a soldier or soldiers at risk to scout around the corner or breech a building when you can send in an armored quad?

Or have I been reading too much SciFi?
You would solve this in a RDBMS the same way: de-normalize when you're saving the invoice (example: a line items table with snap shot of current item price, description, etc.)
> I thought it was primarily to remove the implicit assumption that free software was necessarily non-commercial.

I've heard Bruce Perens talk about it a few times, and even on the OSI website (https://opensource.org/history) they state...

"The conferees believed the pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape to release their code illustrated a valuable way to engage with potential software users and developers, and convince them to create and improve source code by participating in an engaged community. The conferees also believed that it would be useful to have a single label that identified this approach and distinguished it from the philosophically- and politically-focused label "free software." Brainstorming for this new label eventually converged on the term "open source", originally suggested by Christine Peterson."

You could be right though and some may have seen the non-commercial aspects of the word free as a tertiary benefit, but the primary stated goal was to distance itself from the ideals and politics of free software.

I agree with you though on the last part. Even as someone who uses the term free software, I often use the term open source while using search engines because searching free software brings up sites with freeware/adware/shareware and stuff I don't want. I also think using loan words like "libre" are a stretch for your general public. At work I tend to use "Free and Open Source Software".
Mobile Messenger Kik Raises $50M Ahead of $75M ICO
Most people don't use Redis and Lucene as general-purpose data stores; they're normally used for specific purposes.
Books in the Mathematical Sciences
Thyroid could be more likely than cancer (less critical to catch immediately, of course).
I don't think that the eu has considered the question of whether Amazon is a monopoly. Ironically this decision pretty much ensures that they will be, at least in the eu.
"Default settings" and "DBA with production responsibilities" should never coexist in the same post. Since >50% of the complaints are about "default settings", you know the rest.
None of that actually seems to solve the issue of developing updates and pushing them to users, though.
A currency which has gone from not existing 10 years ago to potentially being a world reserve currency is alway going to be ridiculously volatile as that transformation occurs.

Volatility is reducing however. As the scale increases and the exact role that a currency will end up playing in the world becomes clear, so does its market cap. Amazon or google will never rapidly grow 100x in a few years again, and whichever crypto becomes the world reserve will have the same reduction in volatility as it scales.
it surely beats Tesla by releasing a few months before, but let's wait and see what Tesla will release. They have a tendency to surprise (to say the least...)
Sounds like we're only a couple steps away from companies paying their employees in scrip.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
Posted 4/5 days ago.

An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry[0] (sciencemag.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15095237

[0] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/ancient-babylonian-ta...
This may be an opportunity to grow, and discover why you don't like it, so that you can read more to your kids?
good man! thank you for your efforts. I've begun a self-studying path to higher level of mathematics and so this will definitely help.
Is this like when reporters say, "Trump won. We now think that Clinton's lead wasn't as strong as previously reported."
I remember learning (years ago in university) that hard drive failures follow a bathtub curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

In other words it either fails early or it will last for a while.

Can you plot the time to failure distribution for various models to confirm/deny this rule of thumb? I think it'll be a good addition to list of current charts you have since it's a bit more meaningful that overall failure rate.
And it's not like Houston is the only city having 100 year+ floods regularly.
First, I should clear up some terms. I say speculation as a contrast to investing. Investing is when you have an understanding of something underlying value (or expected value) based on some financial fact (e.g. past profits). Speculation is when you purchase something and hope for it to go up in value.

I see cryptocurrency prices largely driven by speculation. There is no underlying value that justifies the price. This means that the people purchasing cryptocurrencies today are relying on someone else purchasing it at a higher price tomorrow in order to make a profit. I might have used the term MLM incorrectly when what I meant was pyramid scheme.
I agree, and am more optimistic about AR being more than just a fad, but a new type of interface that evolves over different hardware mediums.

AR isn't just a new interface with the user, but also a new interface with the visual environment around the user. This has many more degrees of usefulness than an accelerometer.
Hey downvoters, show me the place where these documents say something to the effect that the right to start and own a company exists only so that they can provide a benefit for all of society or even that an EU member state, not to speak of an EU institution, can grant or revoke such rights.

[1]: https://www.bundestag.de/grundgesetz
The text of the German consitution law

[2]: https://europa.eu/european-union/law/treaties_en
The text of the EU treaties
Immersive/interactive documentary on homelessness in NZ
>Python can't pick correct function based on type and number of arguments.

What? Numpy does this.

>Doing this in Julia is far superior to doing it in python.

Then, quite simply, you're doing it wrong in python. Show me an example of this system code that's nice in julia and clunky in python and I'll show you a superior implementation in python.
Well actually, in that case, Google would be forced to show relevant results and stop discriminating rival sites in favor of its own shopping search service.
I'm currently using honeysql in clojure projects at work, it's definitely my favourite option for interfacing with mysql (although would of course rather use datomic, but then what patriotic clojure fan wouldn't?).

In case anyone needs it for mysql, the following adds basic support for "on duplicate key update" clauses:

(defmethod sql-format/format-clause :upsert [[_ updates] _]
(let [parts (for [[column value] updates]
(str (sql-format/to-sql column) "=" (sql-format/to-sql value)))]
(str "ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE " (string/join "," parts))))

(sql-helpers/defhelper upsert [m [updates]]
(assoc m :upsert updates))
If you don't know Auckland, try pretending you are in Point Chevalier which used to be a pretty classic kiwi 1/4 acre suburb several km's from the city centre.
How much does it cost to make a mobile app?
While the extra quality is lost on listeners, from experience I've found that super-HQ source material can change your results (for the better) when fed through distortion/compression/warming effects processors
There's no single technology that's perfect for all situations. An ORM is really useful for a lot of very common tasks. Most apps include a lot of reading/writing of single rows and basic list queries for which ORMs are a superior way of working.

But for anything involving complex querying, I typically just go straight to SQL. Most ORMs provide plenty of ways to handling different levels of query need from full ORM queries, to queries into entity objects, to queries into flat dictionaries.

I don't think ORM-less development is the answer to the wisdom that an ORM isn't a complete and sufficient interface to the database. That's just throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The other thing I would be extremely keen to hear from is SSD failure stats. But I don't know who would run a large enough park of SSDs to have meaningful stats.
Orwell 1984
Weird that they chose to make it harder for themselves and do it in 16-bit code.
The only thing I find to be less valuable than popular media news stories about scientific research results is popular media editorials interpreting research results.

Worse yet is such an editorial reporting conclusions from public data, without details of the analytical methodology.
Meh, obviously you're not the "we" I'm referring to... We appreciate your dedication to not propagating yourself, enjoy the rest of your time.