skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just perfect, lab-like conditions. It's a different set of rules. The International Association of Athletics Federations sets standards of what constitutes a marathon. Nike's event didn't follow those rules, so results in the two can't be directly compared. It's apples and oranges.

The most undeniable difference between the Breaking2 event and what would be allowed in an record-eligible marathon is the pacers used. In Breaking2, they swapped in different groups of 6 people to run in a carefully-engineered triangle formation directly in front of the main runners. In a real race, the winner cannot draft behind others the whole way. Because at some point obviously the winner must pull ahead, and the rules disallow drafting behind anyone who isn't running the same race. So the rules specifically forbid exactly what Nike did with pacers.

When you change the rules in a way that you know has a quantifiable effect on the outcome (and I'm sure Nike can tell you the numbers since they used computational fluid dynamics and wind tunnels to select the best pacer formation), it's not comparable anymore.

Now personally I don't have any problem with Nike's event. It was a fun exhibition thing that inspired and challenged people. Probably some good research even came out of it. But it's still fair to point out how the results on this don't really count.
Offer a cant-say-no discount to one customer in exchange for a press release. Then get some industry specific blog/magazine to publish it, or interview you about it, etc.
"intentionally attempting to engineer social behaviors" is the history of civilisation, surely?
I don’t know about others, but I’m interested in the large cogs that move the world.

Maybe it’s because I’m looking for problems, or wondering how the status quo came to be.

For example, why does it cost $30 for a wire transfer? And why is it only processed on business days. That led to me wonder how banking and ACHs work.
MIT – The Great AI Paradox
> Perhaps in your case, a little introspection will reveal an "us" vs "them" attitude which you already hold.

Sure, it's self referential to an extent, but it's literally impossible to criticize someones behavior without defining two categories. The point as I see it is, a large minority of libertarians/conservatives in tech are arguing for "live and let live", but the dominate left won't give up forcing their ideology on the industry.

"Live and let live" at it's core tries to eliminate the "us vs them" mentality, but there is still always a "them". In this case it's the people who don't "live and let live"...

Edit:

Self referential seems wrong... I think I meant it's a paradox? Even in acknowledging the category "us vs them believer" as existing, makes you an "us vs them" practitioner.
From yesterday: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenni...
(for the curious, he's referring to Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect, for which he won his Nobel Prize. Some consider that paper "more interesting" than general relativity, and the paper is considered an essential step in the progress from classicial to quantum physics. While very important, it bears little importance to the question of whether cell phone usage causes cancer).
I'm not totally up on this (since I'm English and my wife is French, so Europe is easy for us) but a friend of mine (also English) married an American and I remember it took quite a bit of effort for her to become a dual British citizen and gain full residency. Basically, I'm not 100% sure the fact your wife could gain Italian citizenship will automatically give you full residency/rights too.

I might be talking crap but worth checking out. In any case, it's definitely do-able and you should give it a go! Europe's awesome (and v. kid friendly)
I know there is a class of people in SV unaffected by this directly, but eventually it MUST start to affect them in that they will be unable to get employees to come to the area? I guess this is probably a self correcting problem with more people/companies going to Seattle, RTP, Austin, Boston and elsewhere.
Prop 13 highly encourages this behavior. If one is leaving the Bay Area and ever wishes to return, keeping ownership of a property with a low assessed value could save one or two thousand dollars a month in property tax when you return.
It could be mandatory service in something more like the Peace Corp than the Marine Corp.
> That said the smarter thing you can do is copy the job posting, attach it to the end of your resume. I usually do it in micro print and white, as it's just for the machines.

That's an interesting hack. And I suppose if I discovered an applicant was trying to game the system in this way, my distaste would be outweighed by my admiration.
...except CDPH advised against those as well[1]:

> Don’t rely on a “radiation shield” or other products claiming to block RF energy, electromagnetic fields, or radiation from cell phones. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, products that interfere with the phone’s signal may force it to work harder and emit more RF energy in order to stay connected, possibly increasing your exposure.

[1] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/EHIB/CDPH%20Do...
Building underground is much more expensive than building up.
> Someone on Reddit

Got a link to the thread?
I lived in NYC until very recently and was kinda sorta apartment shopping. One place I looked at had the common areas on the ground floor, the bedrooms on floor -1 (with small windows that looked up to grates through holes in the ground) and then a windowless basement on floor -2.

It was kind of neat actually and pretty cheap (relative to similarly sized places in the neighborhood) due to being on the ground floor and below.
Devil's advocate: but what is wrong with a homogenuous country?

edited: punctuation
That painful exchange between a Trump judicial pick and a GOP senator, annotated
C'mon. You're not even trying, now. This is mere caviling. If you believe that attaching a fallacy to an argument proves it false, that's your lone belief, not something anyone else has signed up for.
Yes but if I invested $1000 and sold 1/2 for ($1000 + any taxes/fees that might apply) some time later, if it crashes to 0 I am not at a net loss.

You can call it a fallacy all you want, it's one I'm more than happy to indulge.
You'll still be able to use AIM if you setup a private server? I need to look into this.
We have a neighbor who rented out her house to 5-6 groups of people (some individuals, some couples). Based on the type of cars her tenants drive — newer German sports cars — I'm guessing she pulls in around 10k per month in total.

She cashes the checks from South America, where she now lives.
> It's right in the main browser settings, under the Privacy and Security section where one would expect settings like this to be

If you asked me "where would you go to change settings to prevent the browser from violating your privacy and infringing on your security?", then, yes, I would go to "Privacy and Security". If, however, you asked me "what would you expect to find under 'Privacy and Security'?", my answer would be that that's where I would go to protect myself from malicious websites, not from malicious browsers.

(I know that 'malicious' is quite, and almost certainly too, strong here, but the point is that I think, and am explicitly encouraged to think, of Mozilla as being on my side against the sites I visit, and I don't think it's natural to expect that I will start thinking of how I need to protect myself from Mozilla to use their products in the way that I, rather than they, intend.)
You can probably measure some of that in terms of how people would have done these tasks previously. Some of those tasks are trivial, like keeping a paper calendar instead of a digital one.

You can also interpret it in terms of jobs eliminated.
No, they would say 10-30, typically. 110 isn't scary.
If you follow homes on Zillow you'll see small two bedroom houses get bought for 1.2-1.5 million and then immediately show up as rentable for $5500/month.

If you actually live here and want to buy it's very difficult and extremely risky. I don't mind living with roommates, but if you're someone who wants to have a family it's probably not worth it.

I share a 3 bedroom with three other roommates (four total since there's one couple) and the total rent is $6150 (which is a pretty good deal).

I wish there was some hefty tax on people buying houses just to rent them that don't actually live here.
A lot people would like to have their startup funded. I believe that knowing what the investment side is looking for, the things that would make your company attractive to them, is important in a sales pitch. It allows you to focus your pitch and business plan around their business model, which makes it easier to get funded.

It's a small part of it, but understanding what VCs are looking for and their business model is important if you ever want to get funded. It will allow you to foresee certain decisions, and give you more options in response to them.
Even a physicist should accept that the argument made by greglindahl above doesn't hold water, logically speaking. I don't want to make an appeal to authority here as the sole reason you should believe me.
I just bought a $99 phone. Forget the name right now, but it came with a little book. The book was 39 pages of legalese on cell phone radiation. Kinda suprised me.

It said hold the back of the phone at least a 1 cm away from the body--that's a FCC requirement.

Yes, the lawyers are probally being proactive, but in my county, a local doctor who had a running column reluctantly said he just had three young patients with temporal tumors.
The patients were all heavy cell phone users. He told his readers, the science says it's safe, but-----.

I could tell he was a man of science, but felt a need to pass antidotal info along.
if you are
- a passive investor and dont want to spend much time thinking about it
- want your money to earn a good return over inflation (5%+)
- dont need the money for ~ 3 to 5 years (its ok not being liquid)

then an sp500 index fund is probably best. not the 10x return you are looking for, otherwise you have to be a lot more speculative
> We don't rely on topsoil, or care. Modern farming, especially since the fifties, is chemistry. The soil is merely a growing medium. We test it and add whatever is needed via petrochemical fertilizers. Better soil is better for the farmer, but far from necessary.

I agree the article is hyperbolic, but there's a wealth of research showing that this approach has long-term negative consequences on soil health and the crops themselves, leading to long-term declines in yields.

Not to mention the contamination of rivers and underground aquifers with nitrogen and potassium leading to widespread algal blooms deoxygenating rivers and leading to mass deaths in (literally) downstream aquatic ecosystems.

One thing the industrial approach ignores entirely is the community of bacteria that live in symbiosis with plants. This includes both nitrogen-fixing bacteria (which presumably we bypass by just adding nitrogen directly).

The better approach is to understand farming as part of greater ecosystem flows, and to work with the soil and not treat it as a barren Petri Dish.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7k1zrh/introdu...
It's also got issues though. Multiline text, undefined number ranges / interpretation for example.
note that being overweight or sedentary is a risk factor for cancer. I don't think it's correct to say it "causes cancer" in the same way that, say, drinking a liter of ethidium bromide would.

Edit: I just had to look up how carcinogenic EB is, and all I have to say is that I'm very disappointed. I should have said radium paint.
Republicans have votes to pass tax plan after Rubio, Corker pledge support
AMD “SSG” API Manual: Using a 2TB Solid State Drive with the AMD SSG GPU [pdf]
> He got the first few wrong. “Kanzi, you got to listen, bud!” said Jared Taglialatela, one of the research directors. “Sometimes we can tell when he’s not really paying attention.”

“Balloon!” the computer said. Kanzi pressed a red symbol that looked like an umbrella missing its handle. Two triumphant tones followed. “Gorilla!” Kanzi pressed on a yellow circle with a long, curling tail. Correct. “Cereal.” Right again.

So he got a few wrong, but that was due to just not paying attention. Then he got 2 in a row correct and that was due to intelligence? I think a lot of the ape intelligence research is very biased by the fact that the researcher wants a certain outcome. Animals can be very good at reading non-verbal clues. These trials have to be double blind, or else the ape may be able to pick up the slight frown or smile on the face of the tester as he is about to push a certain button. In addition, humans are very good at seeing patterns where there is none, and a pattern of randomness does not look like what our intuition tells us.

The communication of these non-human primates may be more the handler communicating than the primate itself.
Good old petrochemical fertilizers. Who cares if we kill off most other life in the ecosystem as long as we have us, corn and cows.
Specialized and Giant already have single-brand stores in many markets. Giant have a handful of stores dedicated to Liv, their women's sub-brand.
@aol.com is popular with the "hipster" / "techbro" crowd here.
Sure, but you'd need thousands of people to get it down to anything reasonable, even with the highly optimistic 1 minute per part inspection estimate.

I'm open to being corrected on this, but no-one has yet posted any evidence that there is any extant procedure for inspecting every part of a 747.
It seems clear to me at this point that the cryptocurrency revolution is now bigger than Bitcoin itself.

Years ago, I saw three long-term outcomes: Bitcoin being king and altcoins dying on the vine, Bitcoin being one of innumerable blockchains in use, and cryptocurrencies in general failing to gain adoption. I'm scratching the first outcome off the list, and my pen is hovering over the last outcome.
You should know your customer. If you start a business to make widgets you need to understand the needs and motivations of widget users.

But unless you can bootstrap it, you need to know the motivations of your lenders and/or investors. Their interests are different from (and rarely aligned well with) yours, much less those of your customers.
This is nothing like existing GMOs, though. The genetic modification per se isn't the issue, it's the nature of the particular modification that matters. This is what scientists have been saying since transformation became practical.

If you're under the impression that there was no legitimate fear of GMOs, then you were mistaken. There are numerous risks, such as the generation of noxious pests (i.e. super weeds), contamination of wild populations, dangerous metabolites, etc. The important realization is that these are tractable concerns that are relatively easy to avoid.

The kinds of commercial transgenes that are at issue are carefully chosen to avoid these potential issues. To wit, glyphosate resistance was chosen because 1) glyphosate is a relatively benign herbicide and 2) the shikimic acid pathway is limited to plants.
You could end up getting fired, though.
Battery exec leaves Dyson two years after $90M buyout
I recently spent a couple of weeks in Swift land to see what it's all about; but from my experience it's still a mine field of exceptions and hoop jumping. I feel that the problem with both Rust and Swift is that they're aiming so hard for perfection that they're missing the point of the exercise; which is to make it easier to write good code, period. Wasting half your energy-budget on spoon feeding the compiler is just as bad as spending it on managing memory manually in C.
Thanks for writing this Sam.

I'd add that contrary to intuition, sometimes bad ideas might be required to get to good ones. Sometimes if you're wrong in an interesting way it opens up somewhere that has been overlooked by the others who sped off in another direction.

Consider that probably a majority of the most influential early scientists thought the world was 6000 years old, that most interesting people in the Middle Ages were deep down the Alchemy rabbit hole.

I distinctly remember a BBC article on a Chinese scientist saying (paraphrased) "Hey, if you eat these animals, if you like them, you should sequence them right away, they should be priority". The pathos of the article implied this was mildly barbaric instead of making complete sense. I remember thinking "Man, you can't even explain why this dude is wrong". Abrupt, yes, wrong, no.

Scott Alexander made an observation on why this happens.

"But I can’t help noticing that eight years ago, New Atheism was really popular, and now it’s really unpopular. Or that eight years ago I was in a place where having Richard Dawkins style hyperrationalism was a useful brand, and now I’m (for some reason) in a place where having James C. Scott style intellectual conservativism is a useful brand. A lot of the “wisdom” I’ve “gained” with age is the kind of wisdom that helps me channel James C. Scott instead of Richard Dawkins; how sure am I that this is the right path?

Sometimes I can almost feel this happening. First I believe something is true, and say so. Then I realize it’s considered low-status and cringeworthy. Then I make a principled decision to avoid saying it – or say it only in a very careful way – in order to protect my reputation and ability to participate in society. Then when other people say it, I start looking down on them for being bad at public relations. Then I start looking down on them just for being low-status or cringeworthy. Finally the idea of “low-status” and “bad and wrong” have merged so fully in my mind that the idea seems terrible and ridiculous to me, and I only remember it’s true if I force myself to explicitly consider the question. And even then, it’s in a condescending way, where I feel like the people who say it’s true deserve low status for not being smart enough to remember not to say it. This is endemic, and I try to quash it when I notice it, but I don’t know how many times it’s slipped my notice all the way to the point where I can no longer remember the truth of the original statement."
ICOs Son Estafas? (ICOs Are Scams?)
Because it could be forced on them.
Or some of the tech companies could be distributed over a larger number of cities. It seems ironic to me that tech companies, of all industries, are placing such a huge premium on physical proximity.
It's simple.

Us vs Them happens when there is competition. Competition happens when there is demand for limited valuable resources and not all that demand can be satisfied.

We bring the people of the world and the people within our nations closer together by eliminating absolute poverty.

Eliminating inequality is neither necessary nor even desirable, but the floor of our economies must be such that those sitting upon it enjoy a certain minimum acceptable level of comfort.
Net Neutrality Was Never Enough
You mean inflation (well really, quantitative easing, we actually have been below target inflation for years), but that would mean housing everywhere has spiked in price. That's not the case, housing in a few markets has far outpaced anything else.
Your argument sounds awfully like a "you're holding it wrong" argument. Demanding that people adapt to newer technology with more restrictions than previous iterations of the technology is a tall order that many will not entertain.

Rude people with poor manners is orthogonal to this issue.
Really dude? This is not /r/bitcoin.
Super servants.

In Blade Runner, Replicants were not robots. They were genetically modified human beings designed to make them perfect slaves.

I don't expect perfection, but I expect an attempt at forcibly modifying people to make them healthier and satisfied in an increasingly unhealthier society.

No need to reform society if you can change human nature.
A counter point:

I work with some people in Armenia (which has mandatory conscription) - and from what I've observed that military service made the Us v. Them between Armenians and Azerbaijani stronger than perhaps it would have been without said military service (a drunken encounter between one of said Armenians and an Azerbaijani person outside of Armenia literally came to blows for no real reason I could observe except Us v. Them (well, and alcohol)).
What about it sounds like propaganda? They link to a source that currently shows an $18 fee to have a transaction in the next Bitcoin block, which seems to rule out the sort of transactions they are trying to do.

If Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash are decentralized, why should it matter who supports them? Shouldn't they be judged on technical merits alone?

(I have no holdings in either one)
Sorry, to be clear, the Fulda Gap is one of the places where they still train. It is no longer strategically important territory the way it was during the Cold War but there is a lot of land available there for ground forces to maneuver.

Agree that, if what they are training for were to actually occur in present day real life, it would likely be in the general vicinity of Kaliningrad.
Trump’s suggestive comment about a Michael Flynn pardon, and the pattern behind
When people try to convince me my cellphone is giving me cancer, I ask them to prove to me that using a cellphone for fifteen minutes is worse than going outside in the sun for fifteen minutes (sunlight is objectively more likely to give you cancer).

Cellphones communicate via microwaves, which is just electromagnetic radiation (EMR) of a lower-energy (per photon) wavelength than visible light. Yes, the UV component of sunlight can give you cancer because it's just barely high enough energy to be ionizing. Visible light won't do that, and microwaves are safer still.

Oh, thermal burns can cause cancer too you say, and we use microwave ovens to cook things! Yes. My phone has never cooked me though. A 3.7V, 3700mAh cell phone battery contains about 10 Wh of energy. A typical microwave oven uses around 1000W, so it would drain a cell-phone battery completely in around 36 seconds. Try putting a kilogram of something that's mostly water in a microwave oven for just 36 seconds. It's barely going to warm up. I wouldn't be worried about my cellphone cooking me even if it lasted just 36 seconds on a charge, but mine lasts for many hours.

Can I prove that your phone isn't giving you cancer? No. That's not how science works. I can't prove the theories of gravity or relativity either. When I admit this, some people pounce on that as if this lack of proof is something that must be acted upon. Well, I can't prove a meteor won't crash through your roof and kill you tonight, or that a mega-eruption won't end civilization tomorrow, or that a parasite from some half-cooked beef you ate last week won't spontaneously mutate into a chest-burster like in "Alien". What are you going to do about those smart guy?
Not really after capital gains taxes.

You've got enough to buy a house in SF, put your kids through college, and not have to work again, for let's say 50 years with a decent annual spend, if you put most of it into a retirement account.
I heard about this mysterious "Solid State GPU" around the internet, so I looked around for how to actually use it. Unfortunately, the $7000ish price tag is a bit too high for me to personally invest into, but the entire concept of making files on the GPU directly is intriguing. I'm curious if anyone has done anything with this hardware yet.

The manual is relatively straight forward, it shows 3 vendor-API extensions to OpenCL, OpenGL, and DirectX which allows the programmer to create files on the GPU. AMD markets this GPU as being able to play 8k video or perhaps do some kind of huge memory computation (without ever being bottlenecked by the PCIe bus).

EDIT: There's a second, shorter "device driver" manual which shows how the card works. Apparently, there are 4 NVMe SSDs on board the GPU.

http://pro.radeon.com/_downloads/SSG_Driver_Installer_Guide....