skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just from the implementation side of things, you have a few problems:

- The majority of people will never seek out settings like this, so the engineering effort you spend on these sorts of classifiers is only going to benefit a minority. Facebook has a lot of engineers to throw at these problems, so that's not the end of the world, but all else equal they'll prefer improvements that have a better chance of helping the whole userbase.

- Trying to coax people to look at settings is tricky. Users have very limited patience for interruptions, and a lot of it is already taken up with important flows like "hey did you know your password is terrible?"

- Exposing settings like this kind of ties down some of the details of your system. Say you start with 6 different categories, and I choose 3 of them. Fast forward a couple of years, and now there are 30 categories. If I haven't changed anything, do I still have only 3, or do I now have 15? That's gonna depend on the details, of course, but one problem is that not everyone will interpret the old-categories-new-categories relationship in the same way, and some users are going to end up confused or disappointed.

- Users don't necessarily know what they want, especially looking farther into the future. Maybe it's an election year, and I get tired of politics, and I say "no political news for me please." A year later, maybe I'd be interested in some of the political news that's happening, but there's nothing prompting me to go back and change that setting. Trying to put a time-limit on these filters, or prompting users to change them, adds more and more to the clutter.
Can federal law add restrictions beyond those in the Constitution for eligibility to Congress? I didn't think it could.
Dropping out of law school. Up until that point, my life was heading smoothly in a pre-established, perfectly reasonable, albeit somewhat boring direction. I was doing everything "right" and thus my future was bright.

But things went south quickly after my first semester of law school. I realized how little I had actually examined what I wanted out of life. I started questioning more, resisting more. I got severely depressed. I slogged through spring of 1L and a summer internship, and then I just never went back for 2L.

This was the first moment I exercised real autonomy. It spurred an enormous period of growth and reflection, that I'm still in today (and believe will never end, really).
You got the first equation right, in expressing time-taken in terms of b and w.

Now you need the second equation, which expresses b in terms of w (or vice-versa). Hard to describe it here over text, but I believe using the following set of equations, it should be possible to express b in terms of w.

------------------

Yb = vertical-distance from start-point to water (constant)

Yw = vertical-distance from water to end-point (constant)

Xb = horizontal-distance between start and point-of-contact with water

Xw = horizontal-distance between end and point-of-contact with water

X = horizontal-distance between start/end points (constant)

Ob = angle taken when running towards the water

Ow = angle taken when swimming towards the end point

=>

X = Xb + Xw

cos(Ob) = Yb / b

sin(Ob) = Xb / b

cos(Ow) = Yw / w

sin(Ow) = Xw / w
After apartment hunting for months last year, I came to the conclusion that... a lot of the new apartments being built are tragically boring. Many units are alike -- cave-like, and give the impression that construction was rushed while passing off the design as "urban".

So I found "fancier" places alluring, but in reality they are just apartments with a bit more than the bare minimum design. I sometimes wonder if there is a business scheme behind this contrast but I try not to feed into my paranoia.
I never claimed to be conducting an experiment. This whole thread is opinion-based, so I'm not sure why you are holding me to any kind of scientific standard.

I was simply asserting that I could perceive no difference in my abilities between times that I smoked and the periods of time where I didn't. At least not enough where I could make a statement similar to the OP where he detected a significant improvement in cognitive functioning after quitting.
> If most of Europe and China got together and signed an agreement to all put sanctions on any country that didn't meet a per-capita carbon emissions target, that would be the end of it.

Which would be the beginning of world government. Agreed upon rules with clear consequences for breaking them. Right now there are consequences for doing what the major players do not like, but the rules are not written down beforehand.
Not all programming jobs are the same, and not all software companies have the same culture. There are a lot of jobs outside the startup bubble, and outside the US.

Europe has a much better workplace culture in general , and there is some loyalty between the worker and the workplace.
>The bottom line is simple: if Bitcoin wants to be taken seriously it probably should be this easy or legal to manipulate the markets.

wat
833 requests per second per server (though it's not likely that the load is perfectly distributed like that).

I'm ... not very impressed.
I started doing this yesterday. I kind of like it and I think I'm getting distracted less with grayscale. I'll unlock my phone and won't forget why I unlocked.

You don't need an app for android to do this system-wide (tho I could see why whitelisting would be nice). Just go to developer options-> Simulate color space-> Monochromacy
Bitcoin topped out as soon as the futures went live. Massive contango on a regulated futures market may have been a factor in "reeling in" price. The spot market is so thin that it didn't seem to take much open interest in the futs to whip the underlying.

It's conceivable that some spot exchanges are or were still from 2017 to now, either malicious and/or incompetent, which would facilitate the continuation of such behavior, likely by more players than one or two.
Depends on what you define as civilization (are America and Brazil part of the same Civiilization)?

But entire continents (S. America and Africa) would be entirely untouched by direct attacks.

The only risk of total collapse is deep and long nuclear winter. Even in that event (which I don't really think is realistic) coastal areas would fare better.
MapboxJS was, but MapboxGLJS is new tech.

It was however also made by the creator of Leaflet, who works for Mapbox.
There's a Wiley paywall past the abstract.

Would be curious how they separate out the impact on Mexican cartels from cheap fentanyl from Asia.

US opiate overdoses were already high, and they went up 21% last year, largely driven by synthetics. They're not joking about it being an epidemic.

More on the economics of fentanyl vs heroin: https://news.vice.com/article/americas-new-deadliest-drug-fe...
Seeing (google.com) in the title definitely influenced my click.
It has to be dynamically generated because I don't control the content. Also, having the markdown makes it easier to edit and update.

Maybe I should look into serving both the markdown AND the HTML.
Thanks for sharing. This one looks interesting: "Designing for Respect - UX Ethics for the Digital Age"
> she is instructed NOT to [...]

Wait, she’s what now?
Err you deal with a sensitive hr/ir issue like firing by talking too a random informal group or peers - this is screamingly unprofessional.

You should have proper training for this issue or at least consulted with hr or an employment lawyer.
A new version of Perseus will be launching in two months. I have been working on it with my team at Eldarion. It will open sourced as well.
People do not realize how manipulated the traditional financial markets are otherwise known as Wall Street. Cryptocurrency is less manipulated as it's run by a different culture of people.
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Yeah TechCrunch has really passed it's heydey.
I think it's more than just wear-and-tear... There are a lot of legal protections that make it hard to displace existing renters. Presumably most of these unoccupied homes are owned as rainy day assets, to either be sold or occupied in an emergency, and renters would limit this ability.

(It's hard to find data on how prevalent this is... From one article, it looks like a Palo Alto realtor estimated in 2015 that about 20% of home sales were to Chinese investors, with about half of these leaving the house unoccupied: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/28/realtors-printin... )
The little server that runs fiddle.skia.org is probably overloaded.
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probably a typo for "should not be"
For the dog optimising when to jump in the water, I think it's fairly easy to see how it does it. It's constantly optimising as it runs. It doesn't "choose" the path and then run it.

It's just repeating the same question as it moves, "is it worth running along the shore a bit more or should I just jump in now?"
I love Leaflet. We are currently using it for some applications at my work. It's super simple and easy to extend
yeah, it seems like the author missed a couple letters there.
Or cities, or elevated roads.

Tall buildings can occlude GPS satellites. And current driving software decides I’ve gotten on the freeway, with no onramp, going the wrong way mind you, when I’m actually under it
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Who needs copy editors in the age of new media?
More important is, are PPC or ARM competitive at the amount of computation per watt, and amount of computation per dollar. Power 8 and 9 are pretty good at number-crunching but also pretty expensive, and I don't know about power efficiency. ARMs used to be pretty power-efficient, but likely cannot offer very high single-threaded performance (must still be great for IO-heavy applications that are hit hardest on Intel).
This is overly simplifying the issue. I work for an org that requires exactly this type of 'build your own manager' idea that is mentioned in the article. Sure, it's dysfunctional and has a lot of legacy problems (like most large public sector orgs), but the work is what compells me... irrespective of how good/bad my manager is.

Basically: In some cases where you work and what you are working on trumps who you are working for and how much you are paid.
To state that as if it were incontrovertible fact, with no evidence given, seems a bit presumptuous.
I was born in "the Eastern bloc" and Pepsi (Pepsi-Cola, Mirinda) was present in stores in my region. One could buy Coke too but its availability was limited.
I think of intersectionality as being the examination of different experiences from specific segments of the population. Multiple traits co-exist to contribute to a particular experience.

For example, many people make generalizations by simply splitting an observation by male and female. Men do this. Women do that.

When in reality it could easily be the case that a woman of x ethnicity observes particular observation in that realm versus a man of y ethnicity.

Or a homosexual man of a visible minority has a much different experience than a heterosexual woman of an ethnic majority.
People who think AMP is a solution and not just another problem need to take this effect into account. Google isn’t just acting like a CDN here, they’re being intentionally misleading.
No, but you did essentially shoot down someone else's statement about what led to their growth. You can't have it both ways. You can't shoot them down and assert they are wrong because your experience disagrees with it, then say it is all just opinion, man. Either respect their opinion about their own life experience or defend your assertion that they are wrong with something stronger than personal opinion.
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related,
"Optimal colors to improve readability for people with dyslexia" [1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/text-customization/r11
Kids name not matching is a much smaller deal than changing your name.

Because it doesn't affect anything in practice what their name versus parents name is, a name is an identifier of a person.

Changing a name on the other hand gives practical problems such as for any copyrights, email address, source code, publications, etc...
You can accept an valid signed transaction with low risk even if it hasn't confirmed yet because in a blockchain w/o regular massive backlogs the chances that it doesn't confirm are very low. So for smaller every day transactions there isn't a need to wait for an actual confirmation.

In a situation as exists with Bitcoin currently it's anyone's guess whether a transaction will ever confirm because there are HUGE backlogs that haven't cleared for several months. A transaction has a high chance of being dropped regardless of the fee being paid because the backlog and fee level required to get confirmed at all is unpredictable. Bitcoin Core also has what they call RBF which increases the chance that a dishonest person can double spend an unconfirmed transaction exponentially. Makes 0-conf transactions unusable on Bitcoin Core.
What is this "Oak" app you mentioned? There are a lot of Android Apps with Oak in their name. Thanks.
Exploring the project structure of Gatsby
Amen. I rented in Boston, Somerville, and Medford after college, and it's amazing the number of landlords who are just random people who happen to have an extra property, or bought a house with an extra unit, and decide to rent it out. They print a template lease, we sign, and they hand over the keys.

Two landlords in particular didn't know about things like escrow account and interest laws for security deposits, contact information posting for vacant landlords, who's responsible for things like snow removal and smoke detector maintenance. I left those units in good condition (thankfully for them!) but nearly sued twice and, in one case, received triple damages on my security deposit.

One landlord said "To keep costs low, tenants generally organize snow shoveling" I said "Oh, sorry, I didn't realize we were breaking the law here."

There are some states with very few tenant rights where landlords can get away with a lot. California and Massachusetts are not those states. It's a very serious part time job that requires a lot more than just owning a property.
... and that doesn't even consider the existential risk you take on by working for a place that will push you out / fire you if you get sick or otherwise can't work for more than a few months vs a place that will give you comprehensive health benefits, etc.
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yeah! we include the instructions on the website to go gray natively :). The app will have the features listed on the page.
Depending on the certification institution it pretty much does.

Naturally, I can't talk for the whole world, but in Switzerland, depending on the certificate there absolutely are minimum requirements (space,environment, movement, air, etc) that must be fulfilled in order to get certified.

I see your point and don't necessarily disagree. But it really depends on the certification organisation and - process.
Why is this news? Back in the early stages of Bitcoin this was the reason people bail on bitcoin.
Parklife!
took the words right from my mouth haha (or should i say a reader) :P https://blog.gogray.today/content/posts/calm.html
This is not quite human-level question-answering in the everyday sense of those words. The ZDNet headline is too clickbaity for my taste.

The answer to every question in the test is a preexisting snippet of text, or "span," from a corresponding reading passage shown to the model. The model has only to select which span in the reading passage gives the best answer -- i.e., which sequence of words already in the text best answers the question.[a]

Actual current results:

https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/

Paper describing the dataset and test:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05250

[a] If this explanation isn't entirely clear to you, it might help to think of the problem as a challenging classification task in which the number of possible classes for each question is equal to the number of possible spans in the corresponding reading passage.
Curious how they're planning on technically building the "whitelist apps" and "set grayscale times" features.

Are these possible given iOS's sandboxing?
What culture would that be?
That's basically it. My PC that keeps up (and can sync a month of updates in about an hour) will typically be thrashing an SSD at 55MB/s while using about 15Mbit/s internet.

On an older PC I can't sync, it keeps falling further and further behind. It's got a slow old spinning rust disk.

As a note, I believe the Geth devs have an update coming where they use more memory caching which saves smashing the disk so hard during sync.
A path! A path!
I understand that the analogy might work for many but I would choose boiled broccoli with olive oil and pepper over any dessert.
I'm really sorry for being pedantic, I'm uusally not like this, but I have seen this frequently on HN. It's making do, not making due.
I don't believe that to be true. Cryptocurrency is very easy to attack. Look at the previous ethereum, bitcoin, etc attacks. Not to mention massive wallet thefts. The complete lack of any insurance. It's very much a wild west market.

Sure the traditional stock market is heavily manipulated but there's enough cross competition there that it balances out.
Well, the article is barely more than a headline and a bunch of mediocre comments itself, although it links to a paper behind a paywall.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecoj.12521/full

I would guess though that meth (a la Breaking Bad) is too easy to make inside the US for import competition, while heroin has been hit by the dual availability of Pharma delivered Oxy and China delivered Fentanyl/Carfentanil... the combination makes for a bad time in the cartel industry. Of course that makes them more desperate to import other things for pay.
It's not technically incorrect to say there is manipulation in the US markets, but comparing bitcoin exchanges to US exchanges is a bit laughable.

The US Federal Reserve has (had) what amount(ed) to a printing press, associated with "working groups" a.k.a. PPT. However, major US exchanges themselves, whether stock, futures, etc., are far more regulated and mature compared to a bitcoin exchange. The manipulation to which you're referring is far more indirect.
You're in the EU and the vulnerability affects PII, so I'd recommend informing your country's Data Protection Authority of the risk.

If you make a public disclosure, you are at risk of being bullied by lawyers at the very least. Handing the issue over to the regulators might be more or less effective than making a public disclosure, but it should offer you some protection against liability and legal threats. As I understand it, most EU member states have some form of legislation to protect whistleblowers against defamation suits.

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/struc...
Explains a lot. A casual review of many coin price histories gives you the sense that something might be "off," although that is just my subjective view.

Another one: coins in general would have been far better off without this current pricing bubble.
Perhaps, but bitcoin futures are advertised like crazy on the the futures exchange, but volume is completely minuscule compared to other commodities (and crypto exchanges for that matter).
The scrolljacking on that site is unconscionable.
It wasn't clear to me from the article. Do we know the mechanism by which light is able to find the path of least time?
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I have a very fast server.
500mb/sec write sustained

What's the benefit of running an Etherum node with complete history?
It's interesting to note how light has become more and more "special" over the past century. It used to be that light was just another entity, similar to sound. That the speed of light was just another constant, like the speed of sound.

But at some point, the speed of light became so special that it became a constant from all reference frames, regardless of how fast the observer herself is traveling. And now we believe that light is so special, that it can be viewed to have agency. That it "decides which is the shortest time, or the extreme one... smell the nearby paths, and check them against each other... and chooses that path"

As someone who's knowledge of physics maxed out at Newton's laws, it's interesting to see how today's perspective of the universe is so different and "light-centric" as compared to centuries past.
Doesn't the spell checker take care of that?
I've heard reports being anywhere between 350 MB to a few gigs. Substantially smaller than the full chain, and faster.
Some products require a great deal of initial investment to even roll one unit out. Not everything is an app or a service.
I think it is bullshit, because black and white slot machine still is a slot machine.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machin...

[2]: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-mak...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphon...

[4]: https://venturebeat.com/2016/04/02/app-makers-its-time-to-st...

[5]: https://medium.com/@anamitra/dopamine-hits-and-product-desig...

Turned on grayscale in macOS(System Prefs - Accessibility - Display) before googling this articles, can confirm that still receiving dopamine hits.
Random reach? Consistent UX?

The UX is the same, just the content is different (just as it is today, I don't get the same feed as you).
I live in the Northeast US and I'd never get a Nest. The risk associated with an additional heating system failure mode in the winter just isn't worth it.