skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulation tends to enforce responsible behavior, which is actually a long term benefit to an organization.

In other words, it tends to put a brake on the most egregious of the self-serving greed that turns into scandals and damages that destroy businesses. When it is effectively written and enforced.

People talk about costs -- often like every cost is bad.

Having worked in accounting for a while, I can say that it was sometimes an uphill battle to get people to do things right. Having rules -- internal and external -- helped in that regard.

A resulting benefit? Management actually knew the real state of the books, and could operate accordingly on that basis.

And, those precious banks were less likely to get ripped off by mis-representations.

Regulation's not bad. Crap regulation -- laws and rules and enforcement -- is.
Chinese Bitcoin mining company may have made as much money as Nvidia last year
I know that. My point is that the antiquated terminology's survival seems to be a symptom of a culture that values the wrong things: like pointless historical names instead of clear modernized ones.

(Monads and props are definitely not better. You won't find me defending them! 'Promise' is a much better name, though.)
Nice! What's the link/name?
One can jog while being with the children via a sturdy wheeled stroller.
You can make your own chocolate.
Get some raw cacao beans, roast it in the oven, break the shells, grind it to a paste, adding as much sugar as you like. Not the same as a bar, texture-wise, but pretty damn good.

The first time I tried it was in Mexico at a chocolate workshop. The instructor got freshly roasted beans, ground it on a stone along with other ingredients that I got to pick - Sugar (common), pepper (uncommon), Star Anise (uncommon) and eat the buttery thick paste.

These guys seem to know what they are talking about : http://chocolatealchemy.com/how-to-make-chocolate-the-comple...
Isn't this ultimately what Dmitry Sklyarov got busted for?
New eyedrops could repair corneas, make glasses unneccessary
I think they're saying, "No joke, the street is really called that!".
Cool! I haven't tried out Processing, but I have tried out the JavaScript port of it (processing.js), initially created by John Resig, who also created JQuery.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing.js

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
Yup. Highly effective and widely prescribed.
I blame school PE for giving me a distaste for exercise that took years to get past as an adult.

(edit: if you find yourself in this situation, possible solutions include unusual sports, or in my case getting a heart rate monitor and going for a run without putting yourself too close to your max heart rate. The bad things about school sports are the competitiveness, the uniforms, the lack of choice, the weather, and the lack of adaptation to your own ability)
UE4 is under a proprietary license where you can’t distribute your fork. It’s source is available, but it’s not “open source” in the copyleft/freedom sense that the phrase is usually used in.

As for closed-source competitors: game engines have always provided their source under proprietary licenses to people who paid enough, so the only real difference now is that you can get access to it (but with limited rights) without paying anything. But besides a few big names (Unity, Unreal and CryEngine/Lumberyard) there are quite a few closed-source competitors in use that don’t have generally available source code, although many of these are used only within a publishers development studios (idTech usually got open sourced after some time but until then the code wasn’t available to the public, Game Maker Studio, Frostbite etc)
But if everything were open-source, anything new that's closed-source would get negative-brownie points cause it's not free.

That's the thing about open-source though, it's a race to the bottom for market share. We saw it with React and Vue.

I also get that open-source is a maintenance liability with issue and requests, but I also see plenty of open-source software that do well "provided as-is".
No, I wouldn't remove the name.

I don't think anybody would ever call a current employer, that'd be so stupid on so many levels. Moreover, if they really want, they can probably find who you work for anyway, no?
We're currently teaching it at the undergraduate level at the University of Maryland, so there's no online sign-up. You can, of course, follow along with our weekly slides (and videos, which we'll be posting soon).
This happened at my first startup job. After I started, a new round of funding was announced. After that, my grant was finally approved at a board meeting. At double the strike price.

When I raised it, I was told that's the way it works. "Grants are not finalized until the board meeting." End of story. I was a junior employee at the time and had no leverage because I had already been in the seat for weeks.

Not sharing for sympathy, just to highlight the reality: this can happen, and unless you get both the number of options and strike in writing -- or a commitment to make them equivalent -- there's a decent chance you will be screwed out of what you're promised.
Several good mentions here already.

Recently been getting into High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard.

His podcasts deliver good food-for-thought > https://brendon.com/books/
The fact that it's possible to charge this much for certain food & drink is both embarrassing and fascinating to me.

On one hand, anyone who's spent the time to cultivate a preference can tell some bit of difference between "crappy" beer/wine/coffee/chocolate/etc. and "the good stuff". On the other hand, taste & smell in particular are so adjusted by expectation, visual presentation, and of course stories of bespoke products from old-world artisans.

But even if you're aware of all that, I'm the first to admit it's easy to get enveloped in the more "objective" ways to put food & drink on a magical pedestal (especially those with psychoactive properties like alcohol, caffeine, & other drugs). Learn how different hop varietals contribute different alpha-acid concentrations that affect the taste and smell of beer, or the flavor profile of coffee roasts, or the THC/CBD ratio of marijuana strains...

It's not that it's all bullshit, there's some truth there for sure, it's just interesting to me when I find myself geeking out about these things. I don't (think) I fall for stories behind products, but there are many ways humans essentially get lost in, for lack of a better word, the "magic" properties of substances we ingest.

I see it as a kind of glitch of the human mind that's both life-enriching and, sometimes, to the detriment of our wallets.
I have a feeling the billionaire problem will only get worse with time.
This is directly related to the way American cities are designed. It’s a car centric culture where big houses are far away from each other. That means driving everywhere. That means long commutes. That means TV over communal activity. That means big grocery runs with shelf stable food.

Then pile on hyper sweet drinks and nutritional misinformation campaigns, and of course Americans are going to be overweight. The worst part is it’s becoming culturally acceptable for children to be overweight. I do not advocate for fat shaming—but there is a limit to my tolerance. Children should not consume anywhere near the amounts of sugar that they do and the pervasive attitude of “just one [soda, ice cream, pop tart, pie slice, muffin, cupcake, cookie] won’t hurt!” is incredibly damaging. Five grams of refined sugar a day. That’s it. That is less than one tenth of a “personal” (16oz / 500ml) bottle of Coca Cola.

We’re poisoning our kids.
Current e-voting systems don't seem to offer privacy, and security.. (are they even open source ?)

But yes a distributed e-voting system based on blockchain or whatever could work and maybe much cheaper as it would only take a few minutes online to vote. The result could be that more referendums would be held more often.
I have a 2015 Tesla S 70D with Autopilot and I use the lane changing feature. It works rather better than I expected when the lane markings are clear.

Perhaps the fact that I did not expect it to be good and therefore went into using it rather carefully and sceptically helped me use it safely. The feature I was specifically interested when I specified the car was normal traffic aware cruise control.

I always look in my mirrors and so on before triggering the lane change and when the markings are not clear I pay even more attention. I use it more on British motorways than Norwegian ones because the British ones have much clearer lane markings and both I and the car can see them better.

The display of lane markings in the dash makes it very clear when the system is confident about the information it has and I bear that in mind when I trigger the lane change. I treat this feature as just another feature of the car, like anti-lock brakes, etc., good when used properly, dangerous when pushed beyond its limits.

I remember when anti-lock brakes were introduced that some motoring commentators worried that people might allow themselves to get into more challenging situations than they would do without ABS and thus be at risk of going beyond what the automation could handle and lose control. It seems they worried unduly.

Lane keeping, lane changing, etc., are features that any sensible driver can use to advantage when it is safe to do so. If the driver is not sensible then I'm not sure that they will be any better or worse when using or not using the feature.
That's the point. Regulation > No regulation. We're just arguing the amount of said regulation.
When it is your job to hide your financial activities, then no not really.
They are still in closed beta, see https://www.velafoods.com/, they are US based. I've seen their whole product evolution up close and decided that I believe as much in the founders as I believe in the product which made investing in them a relatively easy decision.
I guess Marco really really LOVES assholes. His whole career revolves around Apple/iOS, a company legendary for it's frivolous patents & history of enforcing them vindictively when the competition's execution poses a threat.

How are copyrights or trademarks ANY different? Together, they constitute essential tools in the knowledge/service economy. Demonizing patents but favoring the other two is ignorance on Marco's behalf - no one wants frivolous patents clogging the patent office, courts or legal departments of companies.

Apt advice would be to carefully research recent verdicts and legislation around patents, and only apply for ones that merit the designation (yes - this is very subjective).
Someone mentioned the archive.org/wayback API. You could check the oldest archive.org/wayback snapshot is over a certain age.
that's a nice link but the excerpt you quote is kind of misleading; the word vectors in this case are not one-hot encodings. They are learned, continuous representations. But one-hot representations are also a kind of word vector.

word vectors are vector representations of each word in the vocabulary. Here they are learned by a neural net. the length of the vector is the # of features. Just for intuition, one feature of a word the NN could learn is the gender of a word, and so on.
I think you misunderstood what I meant by station keeping. The sail is used to return the platform to it's orbit after launch. You probably want something else for normal station keeping.

Anyway, I was wrong about the square root thing. It's 1:1. A 1km2 sail represents 7m/s/s for 1 kg of stuff. Normally the sail eats into that and you quickly get far from the sun, but that's not the case here. Fire a 100kg object at 20,000 m/s and a 10km/10km sail can return the station to orbit in around 50 minutes.

Granted if you are in earth orbit it's a little more complex. But you probably want to be in a fairly high orbit anyway to maximize delta v.
Woah, I've been reading hackers news for years and never noticed that.

I would suggest it be an expanded list by default. It would really cut down on dupes and encourage everybody to build on the old conversation instead of rehashing it.
Yeah, I'm currently trying to switch my workouts to the morning, which has been giving me some difficulty because I'm too used to my schedule. Thanks for the info, I'll be a little stricter with shifting my schedule now.
This is such a joke. The fact that he can waste our government’s money and time on bs like this is infuriating. He’s just a wealthy person who has nothing to do with his time other than yell at people to get off his lawn. I’m just glad the CA Supreme Court declined to hear the case, here’s to hoping the US Supreme Court does the same.
Your lack of responses is due to your posing of the question. Answers to this necessitate length and dependencies. Many earn volumes in the theoretical canon. Go have a look. Otherwise, Q&A is a two-way street.
Will there ever be Chinese support?
Methinks that if 70% of you population is affected, something is effecting them.

It's not just "low will power" even if that explanation makes 30% of people smug.
> Excellent! It used to be that the tech community was the most vocal against any scheme to increase the use of tech in voting. That consensus seems to have weakened.

What is excellent about this? Paper ballots, with multi-party observers are incredibly secure, auditable, and transparently fair ways of running an election.

Yes, you can have shitty ballot designs, and insane voting machines (Florida, 2000), and your entire electoral process may be infiltrated by Reptilians, who take the ballot boxes out into the woods, to use for kindling, but the same can be said for electronic devices. The UX, and security procedures for the Canadian elctions I have voted in was very simple.

Shade in the circle by the name of the candidate you want to vote for. Fold your ballot. Drop it in a box. At the end of the night, the box is opened, and the ballots get counted. There are eyes on the ballot box, for the entire duration of the process.

Adding a closed-source, opaque electronic voting machine to this process solves a non-problem that nobody has.
Holy shit, this is the scary part to me:

* Percent of adolescents aged 12-19 years with obesity: 20.6% (2013-2014)

* Percent of children aged 6-11 years with obesity: 17.4% (2013-2014)

* Percent of children aged 2-5 years with obesity: 9.4% (2013-2014)
The biggest problem, related to the NIH or not, is that other language ecosystems every month race ahead with new libraries, features, and compelling reasons to use them. The best arguments for lisp are 12 years old, in comparison.

Over time the advantages of lisp have gotten smaller and smaller, assuming they were ever anything more than the rationalizations of happy users. When the options were Python, Ruby, PHP, C++ 03, and Java, this held much more weight.
Because it is broken. It's not broken if you've already learned it and internalized the terminology; it's broken for everyone else because it's needlessly difficult to learn (and actively dissuades people from wanting to learn it, hence all the articles evangelizing Lisp).
Article body completely fails to address the task set forth in the title. Don't waste your time.
Sorry about BizJournals paywall.

Here's TechOperator's website > https://www.techoperators.com/
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Abundantly available extremely cheap food?
A user of NPM that needs to use `sudo npm` simply did not properly install nodejs into the user directory. NPM is packaged with the node version you are running. So if you installed node with a root user or in a directory that requires root user access you will need to sudo to use `npm`. But if you properly install node under your user you will never have an issue. Anyone that does `sudo npm` did not install nodejs under their user. This may be confusing to people because a lot of tutorials tell you to use `sudo npm`. NPM is a piece of software that is consumed by millions of people and different devices. It is crazy to think there will be no side effects to how people use something where it was not designed.
Well let's be clear: a lot of tasks people try to accomplish are just bad ideas. Config management is not about having a magical tool that does everything you want exactly how you want on 50 platforms using one config file. Config management is just managing complexity. It works better the less complex it is.

The example above is two basic operations: mkdir and chown. On top of those operations are policies, rules which need to be applied. And then there are transforms, where the arguments or policies may change depending on some variables.

These are all different things that the above rule is mixing together, and we're supposed to think this is a good thing. We pretend it's less complex, but it's not, it's just obscured. And the end result is a lot of wasted effort to redo the same thing.

The GUI is useful because it can craft the operations, policies, and transforms for you, and output instructions to be interpreted and executed by an agent. You could keep all the complexity, but make it standard among a set of common tools. They really all do the same things - they just don't speak the same language.

Another way to think about this is from an app's perspective. It just wants to write to a log file in a directory, it does not care where. That's somebody else's job to figure out - just tell me where the file is! Wouldn't it be handy if the app had a language to tell a CM tool what it needed? It wouldn't have to say "make me file X in Y dir", it would say "give me a writeable file that I will call 'log_fd'".

Then we wouldn't need to craft an environment for it like parents assembling a nursery. The apps could be more self-sufficient, and the CM tools would just do their bidding. Using a standard language.
How can I write in order with for loop or while loop?
It is a true statement, lisp syntax is wierd.

You spend years learning that 2 + 2 = 4, seeing (+ 2 2) for the first time is a bit of a shock.

The point is overused but its a good point and he doesnt dwell on it. Arguments shouldnt be evaluated just by how interesting they are.
If one of your potential exit strategies is acquisition, patenting your technology makes sense. Even if he's right that a startup can't afford to defend it's patents, if Amazon/Facebook/Google/Apple acquires you your startup is potentially 10x more valuable to them because they can definitely afford to defend the patent.
Speaking as an evolutionary genomicist, you shouldn't read much into this result for the following reasons :

1. The authors only show an association between phenotype (autism) and a rare genetic variant. They do not prove any kind of adaptive function to that variant, or use any method to infer adaptive function of that variant. Thus, this isn't finding positive selection, it is finding an association. Associationed locis effect on phenotype can be positive, negative or completely null. All an association is, is a sign post pointing the way to something interesting. It doesn't mean the associated SNP itself is functional.

2. The PGC ASD dataset does not have the power to detect associations at genome-wide base-pair resolution. They had 16,000 individuals, but used a genotyping array. This is great work by PGC and an extremely important dataset, but it is best suited to finding larger associations with disease (spanning thousands of bases), not individual associated causitive nucleotides. It is for this reason that I don't trust claims of an adaptive single-nucleotide loci in the absence of any functional studies or adaptive inference.

3. Nobody in genetics takes GO Term enrichment at face value. It is an extremely noisy analysis that often turns up false positives. It sometimes points you in the right direction, but it really isn't a good analysis to hinge your paper on. This is usually interpreted among colleagues as grasping blindly for a meaningful result.

4. The autism-SNPs->intelligence link is just wholly speculative (edited for clarity).
I tested many different batch sizes for the LSTM, so I am pretty confident it's not the reason.
Previous discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8365061
Have you ever seen the film "Idiocracy"?
A loose cannon that wasn't, at heart, as corrupt and greedy a capitalist as anyone might be more effective.

But actually, I think the Trump loose cannon wasn't sent because of anger against capitalism, but rather misplaced anger against things like immigration, diversity, and a move away from traditional religious views. Capitalism is seen as A-OK, it's just that The Liberals have rigged the system against Good Honest People.
FBI has virtually unlimited resources and they really want this guy. So, he only made it easier, no doubt they would have caught that even without the paper trail. FBI had access to his corp returns and to his loan application. Everything he has done is under the microscope and unless he can hand Trump on a silver plate, he's toast. He's almost 70 years old and you're talking about 20 years sentences.

When you deal with Russians crooks and people in those circles, you tend to lower your guard. You think you will not get caught "because in Ukraine they had money in suitcases," or through a gazillion shell companies. The funny thing is that he might have just gotten away, if he wasn't involved in the Trump campaign. Call it greed or money mismanagement, but knowing when to quit may mean life or death (kinda)
Wow, I can have an opinion without having an ulterior motive to do you down in some way!

Your point (I take it that you wrote the linked Quora item then) seemed to be that the language in question was obviously sub-par because it didn't support multi-line lambdas. Which I repeat that I believe to be (a) a false assertion and (b) belligerently expressed.

If you meant something else then it wasn't clear to me and I may have misunderstood, but I'm not 'misrepresenting' you or voting you down or any such thing.

I can tell that you happen to have a (strong) opinion. I happen not to agree with your apparent opinion nor with your way of expressing it.

But you may yet be right and I wrong, for example.
Maybe? In general, the advantage that paper ballots has is the primary threat is an unethical human. The potential for widespread tampering is low but the chances it happens at all is high. Compromising an application is (hopefully) difficult to do, but has huge implications. From what I know now, I prefer the former risk, but I’d be open to being convinced otherwise. I’m pretty skeptical of a global audit process of a mathematical equation working well in real life.
Is there any country where the percentage of overweight population is decreasing?
This definitely concerns me as a dad. I need to keep discipline not just for myself, but to set the right example.
Adopting a more active lifestyle will benefit you in nearly every way possible, mentally and physically, both immediately and in the long term.

We did not spend millions of years evolving to be inactive, sedentary, or slow. We are not sloths, tortoises, plants, or mushrooms. We are an apex predator optimized for frequent mobility and efficient travel over long distances for extended periods of time. Perhaps if we spend a few more million years sitting constantly while over-consuming garbage foods, we will evolve into blobs of fat and cartilage surrounding a central brain.
For a quick calculator I can recommend soulver (mac) or opalcalc (win).

Simply a text file, each row directly showing its result and support for variables.
What do accents have to do with foreign language recognition?
Known Traveler Digital Identity system is a "new model for airport screening and security that uses biometrics, cryptography and distributed ledger technologies."

Blockcerts are for academic credentials, AFAIU.

[EDIT]

Existing blockchains have a limited TPS (transactions per second) for writes; but not for reads. Sharding and layer-2 (sidechains) do not have the same assurances. I'm sure we all remember how cryptokitties congested the txpool during the Bitcoin futures launch.