skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your awe at the Vatican map gallery. Two stories high, floor to ceiling, 400 hundred year old hand painted maps, for the entire length of a football field. And it’s not just the size, it’s the detail and joy put into maps of little places that no one outside has ever heard of.

I’ve never found photos online that half show how awesome the map gallery is. If I ever get back to the Vatican, I plan on spending 90 of my time there.
Roll roofing in places like New Mexico is white.
Liquidity premium on having your nominal dollar already in crypto for trading; liquidity premium of being able to send stable nominal dollars via crypto mechanisms.

Consider, why do some bonds trade at negative interest rates?
What about Feynman or Leonardo Devinci?

Besides science and math build and progress slowly. Sometimes there's a new discovery and suddenly there's a whole explosion of progress. Think calculus or the even the computer. Which we're living in right now. But look at quantum mechanics and computing, that's been progressing for the last the century or so but it's progressing through continued and shared effort built upon previous generations work.
Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first four months of 2018
Yea I bet if you measure by in-app hours instead of frequency, Google Maps would come out on top even though it's not installed out of the box, and even though all map actions on an iPhone will invoke Apple Maps by default.
Why is thang nuts? Tech industry is peanuts.
I think that what you’re saying about people getting together online to share delusions is a factor, but I don’t think it’s because they used to have a sense that they were deluded.

It's hard to phrase these things. I wouldn't say people were less confident in the delusional beliefs. Rather, an isolated delusional person has less general confidence - the world is "against them" and their relative weakness relative to the world is fairly evident.

Overall, success at doing horrible things requires some of the same mix that success at doing constructive things needs; confidence, support, plans and ideas. The process you describe and we all can see helps in all those things.
I live in Florida. My AC unit in my office is out. That’s on the second floor of my home. A beach towel sarong and no underwear. Modesty and cool.
I also want you to do that. Then I want you to do an incredibly in-depth video series walking through how you did the whole thing.
The U.S. Navy has apparently bought 8,000 Tomahawk missiles overall and we've shot 2193 of them - but I genuinely don't know when Raytheon's volume discounts kick in.
This is an incredibly shaky argument. The Halo Effect is real, and those who vape or have tattoos don't benefit from it.

Is the benefit of driving away people who understand the Halo Effect greater than the detriment of not being able to capitalize on the Halo Effect oneself? Incredibly doubtful IMO.
Good, less privacy data for Google !

For emails, iCloud is already there, no GMail needed.

Now, dear Apple, make an Apple search engine and all my data will be in hands of privacy conscious company, not interested in selling it for Ads.
The antivaccination weirdos never got to see my grandmother (in NZ, a western country) walk in a leg brace her entire life, they are dangerous, we don't shame them enough
Or you could save the ice and just get an air conditioner. Most normal people don’t have bags of ice ready to go to dump into a bathtub.
Harlan Ellison, Iconic Sci-Fi Writer, Passes Away at 84
The clever bit seems to be that, being a macro, it can accept an undefined constant as if it was an argument, and then define that constant. Neat.
I smoked ten spliffs a day for more than five years. I switched to vaping (JUUL) and CBD oil tincture and I was miraculously relieved of my marijuana addiction.

Try CBD oil dude. You might find, like I did, that you smoke weed despite the THC, not because of it. You might be smoking purely for the CBD — why not isolate the variable and try CBD oil tincture under the tongue ?

FWIW I use an olive oil tincture that I purchase from the dispensary with a 20:1 CBD-to-THC ratio. I find that it gives me all the positive effects of weed (relaxation, anxiety/depression relief) and none of the negative ones (paranoia, weed hangover, irritability whenever I wasn't high). It's also cheaper by an unbelievable degree. The amount of THC in the tincture is not nearly enough to get me high, it's only there to help the CBD work its magic.

Try it dude. Ya might like it :)
I thought OnTrac was bad, but then Amazon somehow figured out how to provide even worse service.

It was easy to pick on the USPS when people could only compare them to UPS or FedEx. But these days complaints about the USPS fall flat as its more obvious how much value they provide. I'll happily keep shoveling junkmail into the recycle bin if that's the cost of Priority Mail.
Man I hate those connectors. I don't have a problem soldering most things down to 0.4mm pitch & 0402 components without magnification, but these connectors love to bridge. Either lay down a (thin!) bead of solder paste, or try drag soldering (I prefer this).

With LVDS, make sure to keep tracks short,have some impedance control (doesn't need to be super strict), and match trace lengths. One issue I had before was a clock (90Mhz I think) that wasn't quite in sync. Ended up ordering a new board with a 8 channel inverter, and snaking the clock through a few of the the gates to get a slight delay.
Zeno's Paradox was solved like 300 years ago. Its just calculus.
Japan has, like, the lowest murder rate. So yeah you're gonna have a hard time tying the crime to "society" except in the most pseudoscientific way.
That is no longer done.
So which app is better?
Maybe you can see it mirrored in civil vs. common law? My working theory is that peoples used to Napoleon’s style of law are much more comfortable handing over authority to a centralized organ rather than a book. It may also have to do with carholicism (central organ) vs. evangelicism (book). Personally as a (catholically raised) Swiss I do prefer the former (even with Swiss culture being rather anti-authoritarian historically) as it has more failsaves against the bad parts of unchangeable books - I rather trust that people can be talked to when necessary than someone having come up with the perfect set of rules in advance.
Another fad that will be gone leaving little to no meaningful change like all the other fads before it.
What does this all mean?

The first should be obvious: you can’t build businesses around a company as unreliable and poorly run as Facebook. Only a year ago, when I would talk to big money players in the digital media world, there was a consistent refrain: social video on Facebook, that’s the whole game. That struck me as crazy at the time, given everything we were seeing in the industry. And it was crazy. There’s no news publisher entitlement to Facebook traffic. And Facebook is a highly unreliable company. We’ve seen this pattern repeat itself a number of times over the course of company’s history: its scale allows it to create whole industries around it depending on its latest plan or product or gambit. But again and again, with little warning it abandons and destroys those businesses.
Naturalistic fallacy
I was about to respond to the GP asking for details because where I am and as mainly a pedestrian and cyclist OSM is really the only decent solution (unless you like walking 30minutes in a large circle rather than 5).
One sensible plan would be to make Apple Map available on Android so they could capture twice as much data and user feedback than they can today. I hardly can see Apple winning that big data game vs Google. What's next? Fixing Siri and launching a better search engine? What a waste of talent time.
Especially since it loses the extra “O”. At least that’s how I remember the correct spelling.
How humans might outlive Earth, the sun and even the universe (2017)
Good question. (I am a lawyer but this is not legal advice.)

As recently as 2014, the Supreme Court held that “a plaintiff satisfies the injury-in-fact requirement where he alleges ‘an intention to engage in a course of conduct arguably affected with a constitutional interest, but proscribed by a statute, and there exists a credible threat of prosecution thereunder.’” Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, 573 U.S. __ (citing Babbitt v. Farm Workers, 442 U. S. 289, 298 (1979)).

This is but the latest in a consistent thread of case law holding that an actual criminal indictment need not be made against a plaintiff for them to have standing. As long as there’s a credible threat of enforcement and they can show intent to commit the proscribed act, that’s sufficient to satisfy the standing requirement.
I think you’re missing a few things here. Kraken is the only exchange that has a USD-tether pair. It is not trivial to be an active trader on Kraken who can freely move in an out of tether and USD. Most of the holders of Tether don’t have access to a market to exchange for dollars.

So you’ve exchanged 10m tethers for Bitcoins to users who can’t sell them back for dollars, which will greatly diminish selling pressure.

If you are wash trading, you are not giving up valuable dollars for questionable tethers, that’s the whole point of wash trading! Kraken could can just provide heavy discounts to the wash trader to minimize slippage to trading fees (which I think they do).

Skeptics of the conspiracy, scam theory about tether basically use as their main argument a variation of yours: the bottom line being the market, as it is, believes Tether is not a scam, or the peg would simply not hold.

The reasons individuals believe one thing or another is inscrutable, but the key to this scam is opacity by the entity that creates the tokens. As long as Bitfinex can maintain the belief that they are backing each tether with a new dollar, there is no way to tell if the 50million new tethers were printed from “thin air” or purchased by millionaires.

Once the house of cards is built up, the holders of these related assets have a strong motivation to maintain the belief that tether is a real dollar backed asset. That really helps keep the peg at unity, until it doesn’t.

One of the most absurd things about this, is that tether says they are under no obligation to redeem tethers for dollars. That alone is as serious red flag.

Right now there seem to be enough suckers who are willing to play this game of “musical chairs” and do whatever they can to keep the music from stopping.
That's a myth. Good Samaritan laws exempt that
I'm surprised this is a surprise to anyone that does business with Asian, African or South American companies. Anyplace that has high levels of corruption has businesses and Govt hand-in-hand. Isn't this the whole point of accumulating Govt power. If there was no way to extract value from it, no one would care about running for office.
It's "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
If you're interested in decoding Teletext, there is libzvbi [1] which can handle both data embedded in the raw "analogue" VBI stream [2] as well as the corresponding data from MPEG TS's used in DVB.

This library also ships with VLC, so at least in most European countries, where Teletext continues to be broadcast inside the MPEG TS, you can use VLC to browse Teletext. This includes transport streams that have been recorded (e.g. on a satellite receiver, see [3] for an example).

[1] http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ZVBI/

[2] https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/uapi/v4l/dev-raw-...

[3] http://streams.videolan.org/streams/ts/Darius-TS_Teletext.mp...
I'll just throw in that I am one of those people who didn't smoke cigarettes but have attempted vaping multiple times. Cigarettes are gross, they stink.

I've always stopped vaping after not too long due to issues with the ejuice tanks or just not feeling like doing it anymore..
but I actually picked up juul a couple days ago because I do enjoy that occasional 'nicotine rush', so trying this again =p

I may be an idiot, but I'm also a stat. =)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420292
That is an absurdly wrong interpretation of both the GPL and how the courts exercise common sense.
Fortunately for you (I already switched to android to get google map car support), apple is planning to support google maps in IOS 12: http://thenewswheel.com/third-party-navigation-apps-like-goo...

Although, if you are willing to check out android and a Google service fan, I highly recommend the pixel 2 or upcoming pixel 3. I tried the HTC one and a Samsung galxy s4 and switched back to Iphone due to shovelware/inevitable slowness in the past. The pixel 2 though is just as fluid though as my iphone 6s and every Google service works better since it is designed by Google through and through. I cannot confirm it won't slow down like my past phones in a few years so take my opinion with a grain of salt but I am super happy with my decision so far.

Also, considering that android is much more open to choosing app options, Apple definitely seems like the predominate shovelwarer company if you prefer Google services since Apple tends to force their own apps onto you in their ecosystem.
You are describing the patent system
Add in qualification of specific hardware inside specific operating conditions.

The "move stuff and break stuff" crowd forgets there's a market for "move slow and rarely break stuff" too.

So if you have qualified hardware w/ a certain driver version, you don't just ship a bunch of code fixes to a customer, you ship the bare minimum change set required to fix any specific issues they experience. Because you're sure as hell not recertifying every part revision with every driver version.
What was this drive?
I liked the boldness of this idea.
But 'something' needs to select the sklearn model, tune its hyper-params - how long can you keep it all hidden away from the user?

The training phase can be considerably long. Have you thought of some kind of an async wrapper that Smart Fruit might provide or will the user be expected to code it up?

This is more of a user experience comment - when the interface is designed to feel as if one is interacting with a DB / ORM the user may come to assume that the outcomes will be deterministic... While the returned results will remain deterministic given the training data, model and hyper-parameters remain the same - it won't feel as deterministic when either of these is updated... I am not sure if I communicated my concern clearly. I am trying to understand who the intended end-user is, of this package...
I found a definition of EDB on http://souffle-lang.org/docs/execute/ :

The Soufflé permits facts to be sourced from tab-separated input files to separate Datalog programs from their data. In Datalog literature the tab-separated input files can be seen as the extensional database (EDB) of the program.

I assume that IDB refers to the intensional database that allows to derive facts from other facts.
Then again, maybe women are too valuable to waste on mere coding.
I'm curious, my uni satellite club is using the same camera for a cubesat, is that the same domain you're using it for?
Are there any readily-available browser plugins (or whatever) that implement (2)?
I like Apple maps and use it instead of google maps for most of my things. Yeah it has its problems and I sometimes need to fallback to google but for most of my uses it’s good enough.

I hope Apple will put a bit more love into maps going forward
Adding NoCs to FPGA SoCs
Scientists use caffeine to control genes–and treat diabetic mice with coffee
Like your throwaway account handle.
Off topic. I really got turned off by the "me@gmail.com" placeholder in the signup form at the bottom of the page. So I decided not to sign up.

Email != Gmail. It's one of the last decentralized systems holding up. Please don't stick one more dagger into it.
>no matter how sane or logical they may be

this presumes all perspectives are equally as sane/logical. that's not the case: any group of people can choose to believe anything they'd like and structure their politics around those beliefs. that doesn't mean they're legitimate beliefs or politics.

i can understand why someone might believe the earth is flat and why that's a value for them, or why climate change isn't real and that's a value. that doesn't mean i'm going to try to compromise with either of these political identities.
I did.
Some of them, I think, would be able to pass these types of data structures test.

I observed 3 characteristics that they had.
(not that I was thinking about this before, but since you posed the question...)

1) They lacked ability to leverage others people work.

(and with that, they lacked the ability to quickly review/search/understand available corpus of knowledge )

2) they were not afraid of complexity in coding, but they seem not be able to 'conceptualize a problem' at level higher than code and technical data structures
So that produced very complicate/fragile system.

That, I would call too 'literal' in interpreting the immediate business needs. Normally business needs/requiremetns are observeable gaps in some existing process, or in a high level intent. And as such -- these requirements are not 'designed'. So literally interpreting them causes the solutiosn to be short-term, that look like small 'projects', rather than products.

Specifically, they were not able to design with 'composability' in mind. Where the flexibility did not just come from 'millions of configurable attributes', but instead would come from composing working, well defined pieces - together (at the level of data models & UIs, associated with each composable element, not just code).

3) When analyzing performance problems -- they tended to solve them by optimizing details, and not looking at problem statement itself.

In other words, in my experience -- there is rather huge difference between being able to 'find solutions' from existing corpus of knowledge -- vs -- 'being quick on ones feet' so to speak, and being able to code on white board, data structure algorithms on the interview.

I normally look for people who can construct& compose from existing pieces (that includes not just code, but also articles, research papers, analogies from solutions in other domains, etc).

So I tend to look for folks who demonstrate that they can parse large corpus of knowledge, learn quickly, and reason pragmatically.

Of course, as the person describes their experience -- I tend to look for clues on what they concentrated on, what they found difficult/easy, how they leverage other's people work and why. Did they contribute to open source/etc.

I am not sure if being able to write a topological sort on an interview, automatically precludes a person from being able to reason about composable abstractions. But I just saw folks who do well on these types of interviews, but then not be able to 'increase the average of my teams', that consisted of folks who could not write those things at the interview.
A thief could try to track the tracker, and remove it or even just leave that hive behind.
The headline shall be like "A Japanese person was killed by mentally unstable person". No more than that.

The killer was infamous for spamming abusive words to anybody on the Hatena Bookmark(an online bookmark service like reddit or HN), among the many abusive words he used, somehow he always use 低能(teinou, low-intelligence) so he was called 低能先生(teinou-sensei).

He blamed others for no reason. He probably spamming everybody commented on popular articles. So he was suspected to have some mental issues.

Everybody immediately reported him for abusing and Hatena ban his accounts as soon as they found his another accounts.

The victim was a famous blogger. He was an old time "net-watcher"(a person who find funny people on the internet). He mostly deal with those who intentionally cause self-flaming on the internet for pageview or pyramid-scheme.

Once he mentioned about the existence of this infamous abuser, teinou-sensei, on this "net-watching" blog. He also hosted a event on Fukuoka and it so happens that this mentally-unstable killer was lived in Fukuoka.

The connection of his "net-watcher" persona and cyber-security expert part of his life wasn't known beforehand of his death.

You can't get any moral from this incident. It's just there are mentally unstable people in the world and many abusers on the internet are probably those people.
They do have beekeeping gear.
The physics of our lives
I remember somebody who worked with Firefox saying that even the idea of not by default revealing the OS and hardware platform received too much opposition.
He already said he is a criminal, that he knows those criminal acts are 'bad things', and that he will not do them again, and has help to ensure he won't do them again.

I don't know what more you want. He's already prostrated himself as much as we can require.

Disclaimer:

I would not hire him either. Unfortunately, sexual crimes are the sort that incline you to also other lesser pursuits like sexual harassment, and I can't bring that into my workplace. Additionally, no one in society would ever forgive me for hiring him if he does reoffend.

2012 was only 6 years ago. If it was 15 years ago, it would be a different story.
Medical board puts infamous doc on probation for toddler vaccine exemption
https://github.com/llSourcell/Learn_Machine_Learning_in_3_Mo...

This is also a good resource for MachineLearning
Hi Scott,

I am interested in attending graduate school for a PhD in Computer Science and am beginning to think about the areas of research I'd like to get involved in.

Below are a few sporadic questions.

1) I really like mathematics, so what are the foundational areas of mathematics in quantum computing? What areas of mathematics should researchers know very well?

2) Are there any exciting connections between machine learning and quantum computing that you know about?

3) What is a problem that really excites you about the field at this very moment?

4) Can you direct me to good books, papers, or resources for the absolute beginner in quantum computing?
The amount of theft probably hasn't risen to that level yet. It's not so much the trackers, but who is going to track the trackers. They'd have to be on the case fast or risk the thieves removing the trackers.
Couldn’t they just fork OSM? If OSM wants to merge, go for it. Otherwise we have a new opensource map project. Not sure why we care if the original project lives or dies.
Here are just a few:

Beam microwave or laser energy to ship

Launch loop

Sky hook

Launch fountain

Some company is even working on a launch slingshot.

I’d provide Wikipedia links but I’m on my palm pilot. Look them up though. Interesting stuff.
Why Curie’s no Einstein: A subtle gender bias in science
As an avid Google maps user, this is fantastic news. More competition means Google maps will have to keep getting better.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS794US794&biw=1...:

no you liar
On a higher level, this reminds me of Charlie Munger's Inversion mental framework, best described here in a Farnam Street post [0]. A TLDR is to not just think of all things needed to achieve X, but which that could make us NOT achieve X.

[0] - https://fs.blog/2013/10/inversion/
There is Privacy Possum, a Firefox and Chrome extension that works better against fingerprinting than Privacy Badger:

https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
I have thought about the feasibility of an IOT beehive, maybe even with leaving/returning bees etc.

But the main issue would be the low profit of any individual hive. Save for some research projects, it wouldn't make sense economically.
Using contracts, random verification, and formal verification methods to ensure the integrity of software blocks, I believe. There's still dozens of us out there, heh.
I suggest you read the comment I was responding to again. My reply was accurate.

>However, this process does not appear to actually be available to anyone.

Tethers have been redeemed by exchanges and burnt, this is visible on the omni chain explorer. Theres only a handful of actual customers allowed to buy and redeem directly with tether.