skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good reason to push for more space telescopes.

I believe some day (probably after we start having regular interplanetary travel) we'll have robotic light recorders in space recording every bit of incoming extraterrestrial light, especially on the planetary plane. Then we'll be able to back up to view where objects like these entered the system, not just after they are detected. And perhaps just detect them when the are entering the system to give us as much lead time as possible.
We don't suspect that interstellar asteroids are particularly rare. The best course of action would be to beef up the Earth-based telescope observation network so that we can discover future ones further out. As a side effect we'd get much better forewarning of potentially life-endangering near-Earth adteorids as well.

Once you have better lead time on an asteroid, and catch it coming rather than going, it's easier to intercept.
> The only people that should be able to leave reviews for a product are people that have purchased it from that listing.

That might make sense for electronics and other items, though even here sellers have found ways to get around it by offering to reimburse their shills who bought the product just for a 5-star shill review.

However, Amazon's introduction of the Verified Purchase tag on reviews and recent changes that make non-VP reviews difficult to view, has had a deleterious effect on reviews for books, films and music. There were a lot of great well-written and insightful reviews written by people who got the media in question from the library (or a filesharing community). For books and films, that reviewing culture lives on at Goodreads and IMDB, but both are now owned by Amazon and who knows how long those reviews might last. There is however no analogue for reviews of music (Allmusic has strict character count limits and few ever go there, Discogs reviews seem mainly meant for vinyl enthusiasts).

Yes, in retrospect it was silly for fans of music, books and films to create a rather non-commercial community of enthusiasts on the basis of a site whose sole aim is to make lots of money, but I still regret what has been lost.
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P/E is not a meaningful metric. The 10x rule of thumb doesn’t work for all companies. For one, not all companies have the same level of infrastructure—Amazon has a lot of warehouse and distribution infrastructure, not to mention all those AWS servers they own, etc. you should properly subtract that out before doing the calculation.

Even still Amazon has a crazy high valuation, just not insanely high. Not sure I’d bet against it though.
Control VoIP server clusters with Python's asyncio
Thanks for that first link. I watched the first video and that is so approachable. It's basically ELI5!
My friend does lego brick art works, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/oxfordbrickart/lego-mosaics/, I prefer his R2' but over all the greyscale ones seem better, particularly Holly Golightly[1] and the Cyberman (separate pictures!).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ENEj33t4M construction video
I’m glad I’m not alone in enjoying the marked down pricing of a breakfast triple. There is nearly a fight to the death on the sandwiches here if they are in short supply.
When they get their product to market, their might not be a market, at least in 3D cinema.

3D still exists, some are required to shoot in it or have it converted in post, but it seems more a strategy to capture more profit from non-American markets than to actually punch forward any sort of cinematic innovation. If 70% of your blockbuster's money is going to come from overseas, might as well mine it for all it's worth.

I helped convert a ton of movies to stereo from 2011-2013 in the height of all this. It was a nice pay day but the companies involved had to keep moving to different tax-efficient locales and using cheaper labor to actually make money. Unless you were able to get a director shoot in 3D, a much more complex task, then you get stuck with the labor-intensive conversions to add your $5-10 to a ticket price.

But hey, maybe it will work out. I'll be happy not to pay for it.
Insanely hard to get a job there without Canadian education or experience. Way tougher for people from India and China, since Canadian recruiters have no idea of the quality of Universities in these places.
How large do you think the blockchain is?

Let's find out: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=current+bitcoin+blockchain+size

Looks like the current full blockchain (required for a full node) is over 100GB. So bringing a node online could be blocked as it resembles a bittorrent stream pulling from peer nodes.

According to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/43o74m/my_bitcoin_...

It contributes quite a lot to traffic. And as usage increases... Sure, it's MBs a minute, but it's also constant.
That is not 20 lines, that's 300+!
Here is terrain rendered in 30 lines, with no textures either.
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lslBz7
"With the high approach speed a hyper-velocity impactor to produce a gas 'puff' to sample with a mass spectrometer could be the serious option to get in-situ data."

This seems to assume it could never be an artificially made object.
Indeed, I did. Thank you for linking to it, I was in a hurry when I posted.
XYZ (or Yuv) is also simple, since it is a single 3x3 matrix conversion away from RGB and it is relevant to huuman perception rather than display capability. In some cases people may not notice, but it others RGB-NN is clearly not the best... so why not try a bit harder, when it's a few lines of code and opcodes.
The Problem Solver
I don't understand your point. I agree that compensation is due. I'm saying that calculation of the losses needs to be as objective as possible, that your market-driven approach is flawed, and that therefore it is reasonable to consider scientific methods that try to come up with as objective an answer as possible.
Duplicate, see the original thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15769273
No that is a fundamental misunderstanding of British law and Parliamentary tradition. Entities could not use courts and EU law to overturn acts of parliaments. The most they could do is tell parliament that they are in breach of EU law and so must decide what to do but it is impossible for a court to overturn an act of parliament. The UK parliament is and always has been completely sovereign. Even UK courts can't overturn an act of parliament. The UK isn't like the US where we have a written constitution where all laws need to conform to it. The times that the EU could affect UK law was when parliament had specifically legislated for the EU to have those powers. Even in those cases though it was an act of parliament that gave those powers.

The closest argument you could make is that if the UK still didn't want to follow EU law when it was in breach then it'd have to make a decision of paying fines (because it'd legislated to give the EU to right to fine it) or leave the EU.
he misses many points, including the meaning of the phrase "long-term greedy". It is not about "everyone else in the market was short-term greedy and, as a result, we took all their money. Since traders like money, this was inspiring.", but a philosophy of enlightened self-interest, which I suspect would resonate with the class and professor more. Yet he subtly uses this as an anecdote about how MBAs are dumb and the classes "herd mentality". What aarogance!
In a sense, being productive is the meaning and purpose of life.

First one must determine what goals, tasks, and activities are the most worthwhile and broadly beneficial to pursue. Then pursuing and being productive in moving towards those things brings happiness, contentment, meaning, and fulfillment.

Easy to type, harder to do, but worth pursuing.
I too am disappointed about this. Elon Musk is a scrappy bootstrapper by comparison. Blue Origin could be reaching so much further than they currently are...
There are two parts to the analysis though; this chain sounds like it is comparing death from radiation to completely normal life.

The comparison in the article is death from radiation vs death from evacuation. Being compulsorily and unexpectedly evacuated from your home is catastrophic. My memory of Fukashima is that experience of living as an evacuee looked very woeful.

If people lose 12 months to stress and whatnot from an evacuation, is losing 9 months to cancer really that much worse? I've lost a relative to cancer, the quality of his life was actually quite high until the last month. I've seen chronic depression do much more damage. I'm not advocating either, but if there is a choice to be made I don't think it is clear.
That was mindblowing at the time. We thought we were being cool with our "Comanche engine using ripped Comanche terrain" on Heartquake https://youtu.be/LLsRBbFOa3k?t=1m39s but Mars was amazing.

p.s. yeah we edited the terrain to hide the signature pyramid :)
Radiation cloud from Russia still a mystery
Amazon making the next step to chase Alibaba with AR for Black Friday 2017
Many kinds of protowings are useful and currently exist.

Feathers for example provide great insulation.

Flying squirrels demonstrate another example. Important to note with flying squirrel vs bats is being even slightly better at flying is useful for squirrels. From their being slightly better at falling to flight is a steady improvement. Even normal squirrels splay their hips sideways to catch air and glide somewhat: http://feedingnature.com/how-high-can-a-squirrel-jump-off-th... Even their tails get into the act.

Flying fish similarly benefit from jumping out of the water, as part of a continuum of other fish that jump slightly further than normal out of the water etc.

Even seemingly useless stubby wings provide for threat displays like a Cobra's hood. Aka, I can make my self look bigger without needing to grow big.

Evolution is often just as much about removing things as adding. So, intermediate form may look clunky and then get cleaned up at a local optimum.

PS: Insects provide some great examples of wings with various amounts of utility.
How was the wait and see approach supposed to drive a spike in unemployment? They're waiting not moving so jobs aren't moving yet. As for a decline in investment we are seeing that and you'd expect the resulting decline in the economy to lag behind that.

Unless you want to argue that the recent economic signs are positive?
> But their operational semantics are isomorphic. That means there's something problematic in the denotation.

Are we still talking about models other than functional here? Because I'm surprised to hear you say that if so.

> Not really, and that's the point. With functional denotation you have bubble-sort and mergesort with the same denotation, yet two implementations of mergesort with different, incomparable, ones (well, you can convert some monadic expressions back into ordinary functions by interpreting them, but there is no way to transform an ordinary function into a monadic form). This is not a universal property of all systems for expressing computation. In some, if two computations do "essentially" the same thing, there will be a transformation between them.

You can use 4 to denote 5 by passing it to a function that adds 1 before using it. You can use f(x) = -x to denote multiplication by 2 if you only use it in a mod 3 context. There will be a transformation, sure, but there's a transformation in the examples you've given as well. I mean fundamentally, whatever your example was supposed to show, you didn't actually use the monadicity of the state monad at all, so your conclusions apply just as much to non-monad values.
Especially on the JVM where most exceptions need to be explicitly handled and the ones that aren't can be handled in a way that doesn't impact users.
As long as there is a profit interest to game the reviews people will try. At least with Goodreads there is some, but less, interest.
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Having recently been diagnosed with coeliac, one of the things I’m really missing is being able to grab a tasty sandwich for lunch. Sometimes there are gluten free alternatives, but generally the texture is terrible.
If you did that you would likely be fired. And for good reason.

Clojure is a language that needs a lot of careful thought before being dropped into a Java shop. It's the complete opposite of Java in many respects and at some point that code will need to be maintained.
The significance is absolutely robust. In the early 20th century the measured counts of "<month> 11th" are many standard deviations off.
Decent home made sandwiches is an art that isn’t common in the UK for certain. However they limp simple things have two characteristics that the others don’t have: they will taste no worse after four hours banging around on public transport and they are extremely cheap. To keep yourself in a healthy supply of good sandwiches with variety means that you have to purchase a large variety of expensive things in and expend a lot of time. Time and money are lacking. Ergo the prepackaged ones are a good trade off especially under the “meal deal” banner.

Plus you can now waltz in and out of a supermarket without talking to a single soul here and sit there on your own at lunch being miserable, another British pastime which I throughly enjoy :)
We maybe can’t catch it or probe right now, but it wouldn’t be too hard to target variety of EM transmissions at it
No, no chance Firefox could get back to owning 20% or 30% again.
Just look around you, how many of the people you know made the switch? Most of the people I know gave the new FF a try, concluded that it's fine and got back to Chrome. Right now, there's just no reason to switch.
Also, everybody's going about FF consuming less memory than Chrome, but in my short personal test there was no real difference.
Sounds like they set non trivial challenges. But in the right conditions, the Atlantic is a doddle. Start late November in the Canary Islands. Point your ship at an island in the Caribbean. Sail with the trade winds behind you for twenty five days. I did it two years ago. The only manoeuvre we needed was rounding the top of St Lucia on the way into harbour at the end.
Plenty wants to build a giant indoor farm next to every major city in the world
Probably also due to the reduction in staff canteens as Thatcherism over took the UK
What is interesting about this one is it’s shape, otherwise I don’t think there’s be much interest in such a mission vs waiting for the next one (since there could be as many as 3 a day if our models are correct).

What process other than aliens creates a kilometers long rotating cylinder? It probably IS a natural process, don’t get me wrong, but we haven’t a f$&@ing clue what that might be which makes it really interesting to study.
Hahaha. Wow, I grew up on a farm and I went to college and got an engineering degree to get away from it! I can't even imagine going the other direction.

I still remember bucking hay, mowing the tansy, running the irrigation truck, taking care of the chickens and dozens of other chores I hated. To me, it was not the least bit fun.

I wonder how many of these people romanticize the life style and after a few years will change their minds. I admit, I am probably jaded, but I think they are crazy :)
I agree that this is likely no better than placebo. I'd argue that a systematic method for _self-aware_ triggering of the placebo effect (without having to pay anybody money for it) is fundamentally valuable.
Ohh, that really sounds worse.
Chrome's browser sync can take a password for client-side encryption, so Google isn't selling my data unless they've backdoored that.
Roast beef with potatoes, parsnips and sprouts. In the Napoleonic wars, the French rude nickname for Brits was 'rosbif'.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosbif

Steamed sponge puddings like Spotted Dick

Cornish pasties

Meat pies like steak and kidney. Australians are mad about pies but they were a staple before the Brits took them there.

Shepherd's pie (it's not a pie so gets its own line).

Mustard with a nice kick. Not a meal, but it's very distinctive. It's closer to wasabi than to French mustard.
Asking whether it's too late to buy I think makes no sense... if it were, immediately market forces would drive up the price. If it were too soon, immediately market forces would sell.

You can ask anyone, any individual, of course and they'll have a particular answer which will differ. But I wouldn't be quick to trust a particular answer over the answer of the market (which IS the stock price), unless the particular answer is from a particular person, like a buffett, a domain expert or an alien from the future or someone with insider knowledge.

At least, that's the theory haha. I know it's a shitty answer.
Just started to come in around then before that we had Wimpys as one comedians said we took the idea of American fast food and made it worse.
Didn't have any noticeable effect for me.
Value is subjective, area of land is not.
Bezos is an advocate for basic income, but I question his motives. Is it because he is genuinely concerned for others and society, or does he want to avoid the pitchforks at his doorstep when Amazon gets blamed for mass unemployment? Coupled with the fact that he's the richest man on earth, it's very apparent he will have a target on his back if he doesn't already.

Maybe his motives don't matter. Maybe we just need to focus on getting basic income as jobs are wiped away by Big N.
Said supermarket has also started selling Burgers right next to the sandwiches, the Breakfast Triple has been sorely challenged by the presence of the "Cheese Burger with Bacon" for £2.89.

Happily sometimes those are also discounted down to sub £1.
Are there good spots in Europe? I was in Belgium and wasn't satisfied (too corporate jobs or underpaid jobs) so I moved to the US and now can afford on one salary an apartment near Venice Beach in LA, CA with my wife and two kids whule having a family life. Living on one salary, even just with my wife at the time, was impossible in Belgium.
A typical pattern with genius though is an incredible amount of time spent alone (usually before age 30). Later in life you need to open yourself up and communicate regularly, but this is more an extra bonus than the core of innovation.

Check out the 1962 book “Cradles of Eminence”

Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than 700 Famous Men and Women https://www.amazon.com/dp/091070757X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Bpig...
As a sibling points out it is a justification for developing in space refueling and orbital fuel depots. Then you could just launch something out of the Earth gravity well, fully refuel it, and then send it on such a trajectory.
I predict capsule networks will not nearly have as big of an impact on the ML community as many think it will. Why? Because the main reason they exist is to address performance issues in really advanced, cutting-edge, models. But that is not what drives upvotes here and on reddit. The failure of capsule networks to pick up steam and the continued popularity of GANs, I think, is a signal that the main reason ML is still trendy and in vogue is because the subject, AI, tickles the imagination of engineers, but is still, five years after ML started to become popular, not as big in actual practical engineering systems as what the outside public might think it is.
This may be the source for some of the new NYT information... although not speculation on why it was covered up or political effects:

http://rosatom.ru/en/press-centre/news/nuclear-scientists-ar...

tl;dr likely to be a transportation spill from a reprocessing plant based on the specificity of the element.
I'm a Brit living in Canada and I concur, in general the British are terrible at sandwiches. However, I would say that outside of Subway and arguably Mr. Sub, North Americans aren't a whole world better at making them.

I'm a firm believer that if you ain't putting any love into making the sandwich, it's not worth eating. The only exception where you need simple is butter and salt and vinegar crisps. Everything else requires lettuce, tomato and cucumber, salt and pepper and depending on the meat a proper condiment for that meat - Ham & Mustard; Turkey & Cranberry Sauce; Chicken & Mayonnaise; Beef & Horseradish Sauce.
Yes going to a Proper cafe run by what looks like extras from EastEnders is both cheaper and a better experience.

If you see Coppers (policemen) taking there lunch break there you know its going to be OK
The financial realities of going viral
P/E is a very meaningful metric. It's not that Amazon has infrastructure that matters, it's that they are reinvesting their earnings at a higher rate than other companies. If they returned capital to investors because they didn't have enough potential projects, then the investors would need to decide how to reinvest it.

Your comment about reflecting the infrastructure in valuation would lean toward looking at Price/Book Value instead. Amazon would look quite expensive on this measure as well.
Pairing is a big paint point though AIUI, releasing this toy with the need to pair it first would probably have cost them significant numbers of returns. Not saying it's justified, but ...

Perhaps they could give away an optional tin-foil suit for furbies of owners who have security concerns!
I'm willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt, that he knows his own emotions. I simply assume that I know the inner workings of my own mind better than anybody else can. If somebody tells me that they have a magic window into my mind, I assume that they're trying to manipulate or bullshit me.

It's not just repressed Communists. I work with scientists and engineers, and they also roll their eyes at corporate slogans. In turn, the managers know this.
CTM Chiken Tika Masala Is one though that's a bit of a hybrid.
I think you're wrong.

Look up Justin Rhodes on YouTube or Joel Salatin.

Small holding is profitable once you get over the hump and get customers
Flies carry more dangerous bacteria than previously thought
If you come in with capital assets and marketable tech skills to fall back on, maybe you get to pick and choose which parts of farming you want. I imagine some crops or animals are more enjoyable than others.
I'm a Canadian who was on an H1B working in the valley for the past 6 years working at Director/VP Eng. level for various technology startups.

As you mentioned, the message is quite clear. The US is closing its doors. They no longer want immigrants (skilled or otherwise) working or living in their country. Read the comments in the article. Look at the changes coming from the Trump administration. Even while crossing the border you get a sense that you are not welcome there.

This year, I gave that up and returned to Canada. It feels great to be back, contributing to the booming local tech scene, and I am so thankful to call this amazing country home.
The case that people can be easily conned into believing risks are lower than they are for endeavors that have elements that they don't understand is sensible, but I think that it leaves out an argument of why people would choose a product that they don't understand over a product that they do.

I'd argue that 1) there are more opportunities for graft in more complex products because a cut can be taken at every layer of indirection, so therefore amongst salespeople confusing multiply layered products will crowd out simpler products with fewer levels of commission and kickback, and

2) Making uncommon choices is a sign of expertise, because one has to be somewhat more knowledgeable about a domain to know of the existence of uncommon choices. This makes those choices easier to sell through flattery and/or the appeal of being an insider and getting a special deal. An example of where looking like an expert is an appeal that allows people to be suckered is the fact that the best odds at a craps table are on pass/don't pass, and every other bet is far worse, going from doubling the house edge to nearly multiplying it 10x.

http://www.crapsage.com/craps_payouts.php