skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm wondering why there's such a large difference in certain areas between weekday rush hour and late night though (for instance, clicking on 68th St Hunter College and changing between weekday rush hour and weekday late night is making 59th street go from 2 mins away to 12 mins away).

Fewer 6 trains, I'm guessing - they come roughly every 3 minutes during rush hour (and the trains are still crowded) but that wait time goes way up late at night (that delay goes all the way uptown on local stops past 59th st).

What I'm not certain about is why the delay isn't nearly as different between local stops below 59th st.
Possibly because I just finished reading "player piano" last night, but it's like someone took the main ideology of the engineers and managers in that book and said: "but what if we pretended it was a blueprint rather than dystopian satire...?"
Still the same situation, even for CS majors from less known schools. Somebody has to take a chance, few people want to take a risk on you.
But what's the point anyway to be in Japan? If your startup targets the Japanese market you are better off working with local Japanese in the first place and share the risk with them. If you don't target Japan, there is close to no good incentive to being based there for business (apart if you just like living there).
Conflating Nazis with pornography wasn't really my intention - I just meant that a site founded due to Patreon no-platforming people might also be a destination of NSFW creators when Patreon starts cracking down on them.

As for the audience of Hatreon, I guess I was just taking their about page [0] and community guidelines [1] at face value.

"Hate speech is protected speech. Hatreon exists in reaction to politically motivated no-platforming at sites like Patreon. Always consider your local, state, and national laws, but the site stands for free speech absolutism and will protect creators’ interests against sovereign and corporate threats. Do not abuse this protection."

In other words, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - which is a sentiment I can get behind.

[0] https://hatreon.net/about/
[1] https://hatreon.net/guidelines/
The steps would basically be:

- Containerize the DL platform

- Create a k8s manifest (similar to our CRD if necessary)

- Create a service endpoint

- integrate all that into the JH deployment

This is less hard than it sounds, but we'd love help! We only started with TF because that's what we know.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow
Nice. Lawyers love ex parte and amicus curveballs.

Wasn’t there some kind of prior art project set up to coordinate a large part of work like this? I seem to recall a big splash about crowdsourcing citations of prior art a few years ago, and now I’m wondering how this process and that are related. Was someone filing to challenge patents once enough people claimed prior art through that system or something?

Seems strange to make it so expensive to call bullshit, particularly since it sounds like the examiner erred on something so basic as the presence of an inductor.
You're right, it turns out what I was thinking of was just the Name Mangling convention, which looks like it isn't standardized either.
By LCHF, just how low a C do you mean?

I had great success with what I considered low C, but what would be considered high C by the Atkins, paleo, and keto folks. I aimed for 40% of less of calories from carbs--low by the standards of the average American.

I was not even trying to cut calories. I just wanted to lower blood sugar, and was trying to see how much changing carbs affected that. However, I found that because the food was now more satisfying, I ended up cutting calories as a side effect.

I picked 40% because (1) it is significantly lower than what I was doing before, and (2) it is really easy to check on a nutrition label--take total calories, divide by 10, and if that number is larger not larger than the number of grams of carbs, the item is 40% or under calories from carbs.

If I wanted to eat something that was over 40%, I would fix it by adding fat or protein. For example, suppose I wanted a ham sandwich. Before I would have ordered that with cheese, assorted veggies, and mustard. No mayo to try to keep the calories down.

On the "40% or under" diet, I would order that ham sandwich as before, but would go ahead and add mayo (full fat mayo...none of that lite crap) and/or order it with double meat. That would raise the calories by about 50%, but it would bring the carb percentage down from about 45% to about 30%.

Not all foods could be tweaked easily to bring them under 40%, but if I ate such a food I would try to pair it with other foods that were enough under 40% to bring the total for the meal under 40%, and if a meal was a little off I'd fix it in the next meal.

You can pretty easily keep a running total of how you are doing, by on a food by food basis keeping track of how many grams over or under you are. So if I had something that was 300 calories and 20 grams of carbs, I'd mentally think "300/10 = 30 grams of carbs to be 40%. 20 grams is 10 under, so add -10g to my running total".

If at the end of the day the running total is not positive, I've met my 40% goal for the day.

To reduce the risk of getting to the last meal or snack of the day and being too far over to correct, I put in some effort to make sure breakfast put me a fair amount under 40%.

A nice thing about this approach is that 40% (I actually ended up at around 35% once I found a diet soda that I actually started to like, and so cut full-sugar Pepsi out) can be done without giving up most fast food restaurants. You might have to give up some items on their menus, but a lot of their main items can be brought under 40% by tweaks like I did for my sandwiches. E.g., if you want a burger and fries, you might be able to get the combo down to 40% of you go for the double burger and extra cheese and mayo. Pizza can be gotten under 40% with enough meat and cheese.

That makes it much easier to stick to it compared to diets where you have to plan ahead for all your meals away from home.

Result: over about 18 months, I lost 140 lbs, and then mostly leveled off. A1C went from 8.1 on 4 different diabetes medicines to 4.8 on no diabetes medicines. Also got completely off cholesterol medicines.
I’m no investor, but one reason I could think as to why it wouldn’t work is once a crash starts, demand would suddenly dry up at the prices you specified and you’d suddenly find yourself with a bunch of orders that can’t be filled.
It's the best option if your alternative is mailing to a PO Box. Also I like this company August which makes a similar product. I'd rather just let the delivery person in remotely each time. I read August is also making a robot to deliver your groceries to your refrigerator.

And I know Snap has been trying to do Snap2Store. Their head hardware guy made the Ring doorbell hardware. He also made some thermal imaging system. I'd probably give Snap a key to my house with Snapdrones surveilling. (Automonous social ephemerality to highlight my life?)
How the Kremlin Tried to Rig the Olympics, and Failed
Thank you! We still love Google Cloud ML engine - it's perfect for those who want to run in the cloud and want a layer of abstraction. This is for people who want portable stacks and a bit more control; and/or want to use their Kubernetes deployments (particularly on-premise or multi-purpose).

Does that help?

Disclosure: I work at Googlr on Kubeflow
It's really not hard at all these days, and Tokyo rent is wayyy cheaper than NYC or SF.
A static blog compiler in emacs
1) People reading comments where people complain about the title get an indication that it was changed, so there's less "The title looks fine to me", "oh, they changed it already" comments that do't add to the discussion in any way.

2) If only the changed portion of the title is colored, there's an indication of whether it was a subtle changing to better fit the article content (even if the title was the same as the article previously) or an entire rewrite because it wasn't descriptive enough or was just plain misleading or flame-bait.

3) It may help you recognize it from the main page if you see it later, knowing it previously had a different title.

4) This is something separate from what I asked about before, but if all comments from HN staff noting changes followed the format Changed the title from $OLD" to "$NEW" because $REASON I think that it would cut down on the fluff comments about whether it changed (as in #1) and also cut down on the comments that opine about HN's editorializing of titles which seems to occur fairly commonly when the title changes on submissions of sufficient activity.

#4 would probably help the most, but even an orange asterisk after the title in a span with a title tag with the original title would be good. I'm just against loss of information in general, and would like to know what the original submitted title was in some cases, and it's not always obvious. Maybe I'm just weird.
Watsi.org: Dealing with donation fraud
This is pure exoticization.

Japan is fairly safe in certain ways - you’re not at risk of getting shot like in the US, sure.

But the police and justice system is very dysfunctional, with crime statistics being under reported, and many murder cases being tossed aside as “suicides” or “heart attacks”.

Even without taking this into account, crime rates in Japan are comparable to those of safe European countries.

And this is not even touching the HUGE pervasive problem that Japan has with sexual assault. If you’re a woman living in Tokyo, you most likely have been sexually assaulted in your life, likely more than once, and likely by a coworker or in public transportation.

Japan is great in certain ways, and still very backwards in many others. But it is not some magical country where there is magically no crime and people are the most honest in the world because of some mysterious Japan only gene. On many metrics, Japan is aligned with the most developed Western European countries (including the famously quoted “fertility rate”, which is actually the same as Austria or Germany). If anything, it is the US that is an anomaly in many ways (crime rate, financial inequality, drug use, etc).
Shinsei was extremely easy to get a back account with. I applied online and sent in a few documents and was all setup.
I use Shortkeys to customize Firefox shortcuts.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortkeys-cus...

https://github.com/pmalecka/chrome-shortkeys

Working fine for my use case, YMMV.
I was diagnosed with type 2 about 4 years ago. I was 245 pounds. My daily fasting number was around 180. I was put on Metformin. Now, I am off the Metformin and down to about 180 pounds. Diet and exercise were key. I dont check my blood sugar anymore because my medical insurance doesn't cover the supplies. If I checked my sugar just twice a day it would run me almost $400 a month in supplies. $400 buys all of my food for the month.

But my dr mentioned to me that I might be leaking protein into my urine stream and that I need to lose even more weight and make my diet even more strict. If I continue to leak protein into my urine stream then I need to have my kidney and liver looked at. I already just eat vegetables and meat 90% of the time. I watch my sugar intake and I turn away anything with more than 1-2g of sugar per serving. I don't eat any treats except maybe an RxBar is I crave something sweet.

Can anyone explain if I could develop type 1 diabetes still?
Are you thinking of Ask Patents? https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/09/20/askpatents-com-a-stack...
SVMs have better generalization possibilities than NNs, so this is neat.
> and I hope you’ve been practicing your kanji

Shinsei bank offer applications in English

> or foreign transfers until you’ve got a few years in your business

Fortunately there are options to transfer JPY funds overseas using companies like Transferwise.
>...and brain-machine interfaces are going to happen

> Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075.

No way.

Disseroth is on a fast-trak to win a solo(!) Nobel for opto-genetics and Clarity, sure, but we are at least a century away from a wet-ware interface, if they are possible at all. The BRAIN initiative was effectively a failure (many reasons here) and the Connectome projects are essentially coming up with 'brains be different, yo'. Hell, we just discovered that the immune system is in the brain at all, like 3 years ago. We have not idea how many astrocytes and glia are in your brain (50% or 90%?) or how they are regulating synapses (maybe they are the primary regulators). What the hell are vestigial cilia even doing in the brain anyways? The list continues for miles of .pdfs.

Repair of neurons would be a necessary step for wet-ware, and still we have a damnable time trying to get people to dump ice-water on their heads as their father is dying. We are decades away from a cursory understanding of a wet-ware interface that won't just glia-up in a year or put you on drugs for life and at a 10,000x risk for strokes. We know electrodes don't work in the brain and the drug cocktails don't either.

Opto-genetics is a great discovery (use light, not electrodes) for interfacing, but the damn Abbe' diffraction limit (a huge physics limitation) screws you. ~125,000 um^2 of light at the focus versus a 25 um^2 neuron's soma. Maybe, yeah, for peripheral nerves where you can 'multiplex' along the length of a long fiber bundle, you can get away with a wet-ware interface. But cortical? Not gonna happen. You can use STED techniques, but you'll cook the brain to get the resolution down first. Opto is good only for applications where you aren't limited by Abbe', that's not the cortical areas.

> We will be the first species ever to design our own descendants

Maaaybe. However, what is a 'family' then? Your kids may not look or 'be' anything like you. All the families that will have done so will essentially have adopted a child, as far as the genes go. Plus, that kid will be 'whicked smahrt' if I'm reading this correctly. Not a lot of people do that even today, for many reasons. How will the kids think of their 'dumber' parents? Will they be 'parents' to them, or more like the cat, but with an inheritance? I think the initial forays are key here, and those forays will not be happening in 1st world countries, but much more 'familial' based ones like Korea and China. Places where the distortion of the family will be even more 'cutting' to the societal fabric.
Over the last 15 years I've spent roughly 6 months in Japan, and have never encountered anything other than respect and courtesy, especially if you make an effort to speak the language and respect the cultural customs. I've spent roughly the same amount of time in San Francisco in those years, and I've seen hundreds of cars with shattered windows, dozens of people shitting on the sidewalk, been harassed by crazy people on Market at least 10 times, almost stepped on needles in parks and on sidewalks, etc.
These are people who lost 15 kg or more (33+ pounds). Most likely they were pretty overweight to start with.

And the heavier you are, the easier it is to lose weight because it takes energy to just maintain all that extra body weight.

Point being, there are certainly some people would not lose weight on 2000 calories/day, but I would guess that isn't true for most of the people in this study.
That is indeed what I’m thinking of, but for some reason I thought it was something USPTO did. Looks like it’s just Q&A now, too, sadly.
Do you have any references for the above claims?
While I am also skeptical, there are watermelon-like species native to the southwest, for example calabazilla (Cucurbita foetidissima) that could have been the starting point for selective breeding. Native Americans selectively bred other cucurbits, so it's not entirely unreasonable to think they could have created a watermelon-like fruit. Comparing DNA would give you the answer, but you could also look at morphological characteristics. For example, true watermelon (Citrullus lantanus) has highly lobed leaves, while based on one of the pictures in the article, this "watermelon" species does not. Potential wild relatives in the southwest also don't tend to have lobed leaves, for what it is worth.
I think my point may have not been clear. I was responding to someone who offered a theory that it is legal because it reduces the cost of having trials. The implication is that it was decided at some point that we should allow it.

My point is that because it is implied by freedom of contract, it is by default legal until we decide to make it illegal.
I’m skeptical.
> I just went based on the information given in their blog post, which said "an additional third party processing fee that ranged from 2% – 10%".

that's probably because the average pledge size is probably much closer to $10 than $1

> I'm not exactly sure how to calculate the fees based on the info in their FAQ...

What you're guessing seems spot on. If you pledge $10 under the old system, then Patreon took a 5% cut of $10, and Stripe took 1.9%*$10 plus 30¢. So, the patron paid $10, Patreon got 50¢, Stripe got 49¢, and the creator got the remaining $9.01.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend hustling?
If you are a consultant, freelancer or in any other sense not a full time employee at a megacorp, how much time do you find yourself hustling for new work (i.e., networking with people, trying out new technologies, improving your online profile etc)?
Well, Qt provides a QFile class to do standard file operations. eg create, remove, rename, etc.

It also has the QFileInfo class to retrieve file info, such as creation/last-modified/last-accessed date.

It just seems super weird to not also have the matching functions available to set those dates. Which we really wanted for our client side Qt/C++ GUI, as I'd just finished doing the server side part in Go which does provide those.

And Qt seems to provide pretty much everything else... but this one weird bit which is missing. :/
Wait, I thought that guix (like nix) keep their full configuration in flat nix or lisp files (like https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the... )?

I never really tried guix, but that's how nix works ( https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html ). So how does Apache configuration on upstream (meaning, how it's configured on Windows/Linux/FreeBSD) correlate to how it's configured on nixos/guix?
Sure, I'd be happy to help out. You should be able to figure it out from the code, but my email is on my website if you need help.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160216111400.h...
> And the heavier you are, the easier it is to lose weight because it takes energy to just maintain all that extra body weight

Well, the higher a calorie intake you are likely to be able to maintain and still lose weight, which is very much not the same as “the easier it is to lose weight.”
To address that issue, a better calculation might be to compute possible wait times based on distribution of likely arrival times at the station and return some weighted average.
I have a physically and mentally handicapped son and I have to agree with the author ... he leads a great life but it's different. The reality is that everyone's life is different to some degree (more or less).
Ge famously pays almost no tax, so they might actually get an increase under the proposed laws
It baffles me that people think they shouldn't be protected by default.
While there are a few comments that this is a single meal. This is pretty much how I consume my food each day. The only exception is that I tend to add an Icelandic style yogurt to breakfast and some turkey sausage. Puts me around 1,000 calories.
Yes but why would you ever want to move there to create a startup?

Not only you have to deal with enterprise related problems such as fiscal instability (rules changes almost every years, see for example how the auto-entrepreneur status changed over time), the URSSAF, a bureaucratic and slow administration but you have also to deal with a lot of issues on a personal level such as insecurity, terrorism, frequent riots and strikes, the administration (yes, again), ...

No really, as a French and as someone who tried a minimal thing with the easiest available status, I don’t understand how my country can be attractive. I would rather deal with the Japanese administration, which asks for ridiculous amount of documents but does its job. And a country with working services (transports, post) is also a big plus.
Tree Style Tabs is used by like half the folks working at Mozilla.

I doubt that's the reason.
I was looking at some of the other bubbles in recent history - NASDAQ in the late 90's, Commodity bubble in 2009 - 2014, etc. The Bitcoin bubble seems to be accelerating much faster and going much higher than either of those. There's a place for Bitcoin for sure, but if you are getting into it now be very very careful.

This guy on Bloomberg Mark Cudmore I think NAILED it. Bitcoin is an experiment in human psychology, not markets. The craze can still go on for much longer, but at some point... it becomes economically infeasible.

Most of the people in Bitcoin are HODLing it, which means the money isn't doing anything to provide economic value. At some point everyone is going to realize this, or the big Bitcoin holders will start taking their profits. When that happens there might be a big turn in the other direction.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-12-07/inside-bitc...
Shinsei was easy to work with (for a business account), have English language online banking and telephone support. Never had an issue with foreign transfers.

Does help to have a Japanese friend who can help when opening the account, etc, and it’s important to find accounting and legal help that speak English.
Nice writeup! I'm going to be decoding a variety of air conditioner remotes in the future so this will be a good reference.

If anyone is interested in the process of reverse engineering an infrared remote from "I have a raspberry pi and some electronics" to "I can decode and encode infrared signals to control my stuff", I have an article on that:

https://blog.bschwind.com/2016/05/29/sending-infrared-comman...

There are better ways to do what I've described there but it's a good start.
Great info thanks! My experience comes from MUFG. Other data points are helpful.
Great read. Is there anyone out there with suggestions on how to go about 'just' building ramps? I would do this all over the place, giving time and labor: but I don't want to also give the time needed for all of the back-and-forth.
There is a grain of truth to the statement though. I’m just leaving Tokyo to come back to the US. I was pretty amazed at many things. People leave their purses on the table as they go to restroom. They leave their bikes parked with no lock. I didn’t see anybody jay walk, even across narrow streets where the crosswalks were spaced several blocks apart. That is not to say there aren’t lots of problems along other dimensions of society. But coming from DC to Tokyo it reminds me a little bit about how I felt coming from South Asia to the US the first time.
Any pointers on methods for reducing the need for glasses and braces?
Coinbase becomes the most downloaded iPhone app in the U.S
Many institutions offers research masters which are not terminal degrees meaning you can go on for a PhD. For example, Stanford CS has the Master of Science with Distinction in Research. Berkeley EECS doesn't and they only relatively recently offered a masters program you can apply to. Previously it was a bailout degree from the PhD program.

https://exploredegrees-nextyear.stanford.edu/schoolofenginee...
Many companies make a good plan of burning $X per month, with a runway of Y months. This is often a worst case scenario with projections of growth from their roadmap.
Exactly, which is why the safer bet is going long on high market cap coins, not small volume coins where pump and dumps can cause liquidation events.
You can't mention something like that without a link! http://why3.lri.fr