skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its always fun to drive up to a gas station that closes early. You'll find that the various maps applications are really low data for rural areas.

When I was young and a bit stupid 73 miles could be done in 45 minutes, but I've also had nights where 73 miles was a 3 hour drive.
This makes me invest in crypto even harder. It is the natural extension of this rule. Crypto is more risky than stocks but the greater yields vs. stocks more than make up for it. You can say "you could lose it all in crypto" but that's what the bond people say about stocks and the math is showing that to be completely backwards. Opportunity cost is the real killer.
Impraise (YC S14) Is Hiring DevOps Engineers in Lisbon
Even British people don't use BTU
No, but independent third party verification is a cornerstone of science.

I read many many deep learning papers and very often there are cherry picked results OR poor validation methods. For example, it's common for naive/inexperienced people to predict on the same data that the network is trained on : because it gives much better results due to overfitting.

I'm not saying that's what this paper has done. But if you are indeed going to publish, then your experiment needs to be reproducible, this means including the source code and the data.
Just in case you haven't run into yet, we also have a specific page on Glitch to highlight "learn to code" projects:

https://glitch.com/learn-to-code
There are dozens of battery companies creating storage units, but Tesla are always superb with their marketing efforts to brand...in this case, batteries as 'powerwalls'.

This is the 'Hoover' logic of making a generic device synonymous with a brand name.
I don't know about the EU, but straight pipes are somewhat common in the US, and de-baffled exhausts are almost ubiquitous.
Which is an interesting point as I've wondered what final effects people from community/family oriented societies (like Shame/Honor cultures) will have on independent/self-centered western culture and vis-versa.
Here's some additional resources

Web Apps:
- freecodecamp
- codeacademy

That's all I really got for now :)
I don't think it's an old phenomenon for Western cultures either. Kafka's novels and stories, for example, are all about the outcasts being pushed away and ostracised from society.
Well, that's not true, and any user of f.lux/Redshift/Twilight will probably agree with me on that one.

Or, any user of audio equalizer set to a genre preset.

While I understand what you mean (having the screen properly calibrated out of the box would sure be nice), you might be using too strong words to express it :)
Also it didn’t have native file locking which makes it a no-go for any non-text often changing content. I’m not sure if this has been addressed, or whether some plugin has become the de-facto standard to solve this?
People sometimes confuse the Jevons Paradox with rebound effects in general. Reminder: "The Jevons paradox occurs when the rebound effect is greater than 100%, exceeding the original efficiency gains."

"People save on electricity by replacing incandescent lights with LED lights, and also make their living rooms 25% brighter at the same time" is an example of a rebound effect. Some of the efficiency gain on the input side is offset by increased output consumption. But it's not an example of the Jevons Paradox. If you replace light sources with ones that are 5x as efficient, you'd have to also use more than 5x as much lighting as before to qualify as a Jevons Paradox.

The Jevons Paradox is a specific, fairly narrow, empirically observable phenomenon. Fatalistic notions that technological efficiency improvements can't reduce per-capita energy consumption, "because of Jevons Paradox," are not empirically supported. Energy rebound effects are common, but when the rebound is less than 100% (as it usually is) then there are real net energy savings and it's not a Jevons Paradox.
To finish the story with some original thought, lets ask why this tactic works.

Perhaps it works because of the expense of determining which patent claims could realistically survive a motion to dismiss, i.e., the hourly rate of the patent lawyers hired to do this analysis and the number of hours they take to do it.
The larger the stack of potentially assertable claims that need to be considered, the greater the cost. Quantity not quality.

If that process of determination, separating wheat from chaff, filtering out all the nonassertable (junk) claims, was less expensive than simply paying for a licenseFN1, then perhaps this tactic would not work.

FN1. Use imagination if believe this is impossible to achieve.
I'm a Harley enthusiast.

Well, older Harleys, and a few of their modern models--the Fat Boy comes to mind.

You couldn't sell Harleys fast enough in the nineties. It got to the point, only rich white guys with money could afford one.

The rich white guys did what they do best, they just ruined the whole Harley mistique. They put on a bunch of cheap chrome, bought rediculious biker outfits, drove the cost of the bikes, and the fun was gone.

Harley enthusiasts like the look of older Harleys. They liked the sound, the fact that it's made in USA, the bad boy image, and historical record of Harley Davidisons.

That said, I know Harley bikers that took stock bikes, and grunged them up. They essentially turned a shiny bike into a Rat Motorcycle. I belive they did/are doing this because they are just disgusted with society, and their bike was their way of showing their disdain. Disdain for putting money before family/friends, and authority figures that abuse power. That's were I'm at. I'm not into the whole gang thing.

That said, I've given up on Harley. I don't like the attention they bring anymore. They are half the price they were in the nineties though, or at least on the used market.

My next bike will be made by me, with the best motor, and trans I can scrounge up. It will have no company name on it.

So Harley demographics has changed greatly. They are in a weird place right now. They just closed a factory down in the Midwest.

Their demographics are guys who are now in their fifties, and those guys are selling their bikes on the used market.

When I looked at the electric bike, I just didn't like the bike in the picture. I didn't like the top speed of 93 mph either.

So--I believe Harley still has some thinking out of the box ahead of them. If I was in Harley white board meeting. My recommendation would be sell a big bored generic bare bones bike.

A bike that only only had the primer on it. A simple bike. Keep the big V-twin. A bike that could be customed by the owner. And keep the cost of the bare boned model down. If they got their price point down to $5500, I think they could
make a comeback.

Plus, the though of having a $25,000 motorcycle stolen is on everyone's mind.

I do wish the company luck.
I was expecting this and started with the comments :)
Oh, now I understand what you're saying. I got thrown off when you said "the address of the variable n [...] moves a bit for each loop". This isn't quite right; it's not the address of the variable n itself that changes, it's the address of the allocated object that it points to.
On the highway, that's fine, on busy streets, that's fine. I get it. On quiet residential streets, at night, it's being a selfish prick. Normal bikers accelerate and are heard but aren't overly noisy. These other people on the other hand intentionally want to be annoyingly overly loud.

The sequence is, slow for a stop sign or intersection, full throttle, then heavy breaking for the next block, full throttle, mind you, modified, again. It's infuriatingly annoying.
It was the fed that did the wf thing
I've heard Repl is becoming popular with teenagers, and it's free. http://repl.it
IDK. But it is possible to have nuance in politics, to support most of someone's views and actions but not 100%.

I hope what little nonpartisanship we may find will not be too surprising to us.
Self-driving cars with “remote” drivers could test on roads in April
Taught programming to high school students for twenty years....

I liked using a bunch of projects with increasing difficulty that students could move through at their own pace. The difference in coding aptitude is really quite astonishing.

I wrote a blog post explaining how I used to teach beginners in tremendous detail: https://grahammitchell.com/writings/how-i-teach-beginners.ht...

I'm not a big fan of CodeCademy; it's seductive but the kids end up not knowing how to do very much at the end.

Khan Academy has a decent HTML/CSS/JavaScript curriculum. I never personally used it with students because I wasn't teaching Web Development anymore once they rolled it out. However, I think it looks pretty good. Might be a little fast for some kids.

Anyway, hope that helps.
They're not running the air conditioners directly from the solar. They're using solar power to offset the energy cost of the AC.
Israeli Satellite Reveals Russia's New Stealth Fighter Jets in Syria
As a high school student, I've heard great things about Hack Club[1]. It's a full HS coding curriculum with a community of high school students behind it. I believe HN user zachlatta could be able to help you (he runs the program).

[1]: https://hackclub.com/
Interesting & Quite useful
> As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums?

Javascript has aged up I think!
"A Kosher (or halal) eater will never eat nonkosher (or nonhalal) food , but a nonkosher eater isn’t banned from eating kosher."

I absolutely never buy halal meat and whenever possible try to avoid kosher certified foods. I do try to vote with my wallet and keep religion out of my food as much as physically possible.
That sentiment comes from the Confucianism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism which shaped Korea. I think that sits alongside with the points the article is making.

Similar to the McDonalds in Milan example in the article, Korea has LotteMart everywhere, and people do sometimes eat there instead of a local joint.

Koreans also study English just like other countries. The annual 수능 exam taken by students is considered to be extremely important for college applications. It has a section on English.
> The worst about group project is when one person picks all the interesting tasks and learns, others don't.

The reason this happened is because of a lack of group communication skills. I would blame your instructor for not pre-addressing problems like this before things got started, or not checking in at all.
I don't think it's all that amazing they just used some pretty standard tools/techniqies and available info..some learned about parallax in high school. I ask: how many of them id'd the Tsarnaev brothers??
And for the reason described in the essay: more people have identified either with it or against it.

Once being a JS programmer becomes a thing you are or aren't, people are arguing about themselves.
You can always add an additional transform on top, to provide such warm colors.

But this should be explicit, and the software should know about it.
Another one that I worked with and quite liked is Anyproxy (https://github.com/alibaba/anyproxy)
I think it was Fortran that first used plain "=" for assignment; and C is a descendant of Fortran as much as of Algol. So that might have been a more appropriate reference.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

The (expensive) report from The Information upon which that article was based speculates a little more about chips for training.
I really like this article as it takes something I think a lot of people have an intuitive feel for already and formalizes it.

Unfortunately, one of the interesting things that stuck out to me since this was written is that a lot of our discussion platforms (twitter / facebook / etc) seem to self-select for and encourage visibility of low quality arguments. Maybe this is a problem with society itself though, since at the core of it, it's people upvoting/liking/etc those arguments.
Look, frankly speaking, if you're content with your lot in life, that's great. I'm happy for you.

Telling me to focus on the low-paid service workers is a nice distraction, but that's what it is: there are other groups working to improve their working conditions and working lives. I'm not connected to them, because I'm in the same pretty-well-compensated boat as you.

Maybe you're paid well, maybe you don't think you deserve more. Your employer almost certainly could pay you more, could give you more time off, more say in your job role, more flex time, whatever, but you don't seem to want more.

Again, good for you. Just don't tell the rest of us that none of us should want more pay, time off, autonomy, a voice in how the company is run, or whatever. If you want to hold fast to your own one-man empire of crumbs, go for it.

The rest of us can band together and work for more of that good stuff that comes with working and bargaining together.
Lol. Money isnt everything. I stopped being an IT lawyer and joined the air force. Now im paid to do things that silicon valley hotshots only do in video games. Fancy meals? I just ate a burger while wearing a flightsuit. Tasted better than a thousand billable-hour lunches.
When I was in high school we used BASIC and then Turing to learn basic instructions. With Turing we were able to learn to draw some basic graphics to the screen, etc. I'm not sure how applicable it would be to web app cases, but it was at least a little engaging at the time.

http://tristan.hume.ca/openturing/

To build a full web app for the first time without previous exposure could get messy quickly given the current landscape. Maybe start with a simpler website that includes laying out some HTML, styling it, and adding some basic front-end interactivity.

If there's a pre existing server that they could interact with, maybe that would help with encouraging them by giving them more immediate results without skimming too much of the detail into what they're actually building, rather than just learning too much by rote.

A bit of a search pointed me to Udemy which has a free course covering HTML/CSS laid out already. It wouldn't be too hard to build on something like that to show how Javascript interacts with elements on a web page.

https://www.udemy.com/build-your-first-website-in-1-week/
References a previous post: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/03/ind... - which blames the lingering influence of the "license raj". A problem a lot of ex-colonial countries have is a regulatory system that was set up to prevent efficient local business.

The excellent book The Other Path covers how simplifying the regulatory environment to make it usable brings people into more secure formal arrangements.
Just what I suspected :) Thanks for doing it anyway!
Three worthwhile reads for anyone interested in the new (M)JIT:

https://medium.com/@k0kubun/the-method-jit-compiler-for-ruby...

https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/rubys-new-jit-91a5c864...

https://www.johnhawthorn.com/2018/02/playing-with-ruby-jit-m...
Causal statements. No experiment means you shouldn't make causal statements.

You can have natural experiments, but I don't see any. Did they try kidnapping Congress and forcing them to do a total embargo on China? Seems a no.
Can a small minority push too aggressively and embolden a silent majority (or substantially larger plurality) to unify against them and feel justified in resistance? This feels like one of the major themes of the current political climate in the US and parts of EU.
Absolutely agreed / my 2 cents.

I'm a scientist turned pseudo-programmer, and need to manage a few servers for my team / start up. We are too small & early to be able to afford or justify a dedicated administrator, and our requirements are mostly WordPress based sites and a database server for internal use, etc.

I've tried to use vultr, linode, AWS.

But DO's interface and the wonderful, comprehensive support documents are a huge huge differentiator.

We aren't using too many instances, (just 3, nothing complex, no webapps). And, with their interface and support docs, this is something I've managed to do on my own without any major issues. And I suspect I'm not the only one in such a situation..

I was ok with the older prices; with the new, lower rates, I'm not even going to consider moving, even if the competitors are at 1/2 the cost. It's not worth the little money I might save...
How would they know what a martian looks like, if light pollution ruins telescopy?
The article mentions that, rambling as it is.

Some people refuse to buy halal meat, for various reasons, and that prevents it taking over completely.
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Not exactly. The number of people with unsalaried jobs is large because of the fact that a large number of people (60%) are still employed in agricultural sector.
That's correct; many patent claims are written in long, dense paragraphs, without line breaks, subdivision numbers, or other "signposts" to guide the reader. I'm convinced that often this is often more than just laziness or incompetence by the patent attorney — it's intentional obscurantism, to make it more difficult and expensive for others to determine whether or not they infringe and whether or not the claim is in fact legally patentable. [3]

[3] http://www.oncontracts.com/multi-sentence-claims/ (self-cite)
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The kinds of minority mentioned in the article aren't the vocal kind (that might get hammered down). They are simply a selective pressure.
Nobody has a "right" to work anywhere. Go work in a non-unionized place of employment if you don't want to pay union dues.
50 years of Planet of the Apes: a look back (includes spoilers)
Haven't we seen this story before that you don't need native apps and all you need is the web? Apple said in 2007 and shortly thereafter Palm, RIM, and Microsoft.
Seattle is insanely difficult to interact with people and make friends. My take if you're curious: http://qr.ae/TbSyBG
The plan at Tres Amigas was to use superconducting equipment and short-range superconducting cables on the interconnection site. It's not replacing any long-range transmission with superconducting wire. You can see a diagram in the lower left of this article:

http://www.tresamigasllc.com/docs/HTS-Cable-TA-Energy-Indust...

I say Tres Amigas "was" going to do this because the project seems dead. It lost a major partner in 2015, scaled back a lot, and the project site hasn't posted any updates since 2016.
Dutch equivalents: 'High trees will catch the wind' and 'if you raise your head above the cutting line it will get chopped off'.
> Unless you’re technically sophisticated, you’re unlikely to pursue alternatives which provide a greater degree of security and require a bit of technical know how.

I'm completely pro-privacy, but I need to ask: why would ordinary people's ordinary data need better security? Even if iCloud might be decrypted by the government. If it's data like bills, government issued photos of ID cards, family photos, it will most likely won't matter at all and the security is good enough, just like anything available.

Once you do have a reason to encrypt something, learning GPG, LUKS, etc. is not that hard or that technical.
It would be amazing for anyone to reach any conclusion in this day and age through solely through their own observations with the infinite access to information we both literally have at our fingertips as I write this and you read it. None of this changes the fact that you seem to have zero interest in any sort of real discussion, preferring instead to shut down my entire perspective because of some ill-defined "propaganda," so I'm going to have to tap out here.
If hot water were free, you couldn't sell it. There is a point at which people don't need more water; they aren't Singularity-minded water maximizers.
And yet, it was the fiscal year of 2017 that has had the historical highest profit margins, not their years of (highly regulated) national monopoly.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/14243906/1/how-at-amp-t-mana...
As someone who's talked to people on the far right in the video game community, the general response is that while they agree with Trump on some things, they heavily disagree in regards to his attitudes about video games, and dislike right wing 'moral guardians' trying to control them.

Their attitude to what causes shootings and other violent crimes is basically the same as the left with one exception; they feel guns generally don't cause the issue whereas mental health issues, politics and poor law enforcement procedures do.

Source: Various people on sites like Gab.
What an overlong and rambling article. Over the years I've found the big trick in writing is to know what to leave out. This is hard to get right but TFA could really do with some editing, it would probably be a stronger article at 1/4 the size that it is.
Asteroid is discovered in deep space heading for Earth. Astronomers watch the asteroid approach Earth. Asteroid hits New York City. Millions die. Astronomers and media report:

"Asteroid from deep space kills millions. Asteroid causes death of millions."

No experiment is possible. Causation is clear.
> the value diverted to coin purchases ultimately has a cost in goods and services

I see what you mean, but that opportunity cost applies to all currencies. Every dollar we hold in currency (be it fiat, PoW or PoS) could have been invested in productive businesses. People tend hold substantial amounts of currency anyway since it's convenient.

If we assume that people are going to hold about $10 trillion in currencies anyway, then it makes sense to ignore that opportunity cost when comparing PoS to PoW.

> Proof of Stake totally aligning the incentives of owners of mining capital (which in the case of PoS is the network coins) with the success of the network.

I agree -- aligning validators' and stakeholders' incentives has some nice benefits. It means we can have validators vote on parameters like minimum transaction fees, and the outcome of the vote should reflect what's best for stakeholders as a whole. In a PoW system that wouldn't work well -- the miners would likely vote for minimum fees that were higher than required for secure validation.
I think we might have a different definition of "Few pros do ... color work.. on Linux". Have you worked at Sony, Company 3, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm, Pixar, or Deluxe?
The main issue is that you cannot just put a voltmeter or other devices/methods near a BH. Not that you can't do it in a Gedankenexperiment way, of course, but in a relativistic way. Because of General & Special Relativity, things like volts and amps, charge and mass, they get 'bent' in this weird non-intuitive way. In our own (slow) world, electro-magnetism is one of those 'weird things' that comes out of special relativity [0] for example. So, trying to take our 'classical' world and apply it to a General Relativistic world is going to have 'weird' results.

There is a TON of work done on BHs and the formulations to try to bend our knowledge of QM and 'classical' physics to them. If you really want to get into the nitty gritty of it start with this [1]. It's a HARD road, but the proofs and knowledge in the field is mindblowingly cool. Go for it!

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_electromagnetism

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Electrodynamics-Third-David...
Simple helper to parse JSON based on independent schema
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Yet Korea has quite a lot of religious diversity.
not in the case of bitcoin. sorry.
Anecdotal:

Here in Toronto, it's been 16˚C this past week. In February. We've had about 2 or 3 real snowfalls that stuck around for a few days before melting.

As somebody who loves ice skating outside, it's really frustrating. And I love the snow.

Every year it seems like the winter gets a little milder...
https://twitter.com/dcposch/status/963305169466224640
Absolutely, the people are the problem. Those are clearly not Harley bikes though.
Wow, this sounds so good. Please someone, more like this.