skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should still be able to do this with a cheap RTL-SDR dongle (<$20) and a laptop, though you will probably look pretty conspicuous to the flight attendants
I agree completely, but that is the state of things.
Yup and music / hollywood content library. It's a match made in heaven but Mr Cook is going to spend 1 trillion on paper stock before he does anything else...
Nah what you do is tell them it's 2 weeks.

Then pull them out after 2-4 years instead.
Many texts formerly considered lost since Antiquity, and some that were unknown, have been recovered in the last decades. It's a steady flow, not a sudden outburst.

My personal favorite would be to recover all of the texts by pre-Socratics.
Hats off for making use of the AAA instruction. That's a very clever sequence converting up/down/left/right to -320/+320/-1/+1.
Try mentoring someone yourself, now that you have some knowledge to share (presumably). You will probably enjoy the relationship just as much as the original one.
Just because you're in the finance division of a bicycle company doesn't mean you can't drive a car to work.
Again, there is a ZERO chance a Japanese company would allow an American company to take it over for cultural reasons. That won't happen.
This white noise generator on the web on the "speech blocker" setting works pretty well for me:

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
Would you know if there’s an effort to backfill Arxiv with post review publications (superseding the previously published drafts)?
Has any part of the dossier been proven false? Not so far as I know. Has any part of the dossier been proven true? Yes.
This thing has the potential to get put of control. Not a red scare, but like the red scare it has the potential to sweep up unintended victims.

What happens to foreign PACs, can they buy ads? Can the UK, Israel, Saudi, Mexico, China, etc, now be barred from trying to influence US politics in ways which were previously allowed? What about political ads in foreign language channels, will those be monitored for foreign influence?
They did up until a month ago....
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While the page does mention alternatives (Flink, Storm, Samza, Spark Streaming) it does not compare Faust to those alternatives. And it does not answer the most important question for a prospective user: why would I use this instead?

Ex ante Python seems like a poor choice for a large distributed system where network and CPU efficiency are important. Existing solutions have good performance, are easy to use, and thanks to broad adoption and community support, are very well maintained.
the reason why some ppl cannot run well is due to lactic acid buildup and VO2 max level. This means some people will cramp up and get exhausted no matter how hard they train or even if they lose weight. Similarly, with regard to writing, some people are simply not smart enough. If you didn't get a near-perfect score on the verbal part of the SAT, maybe fiction writing is not for you (but non-fiction is always a possibly).
> Totally irrelevant. Why should the number of employees in the company have any bearing on the size or cost of the product? Ford has 5x as many employees as Tesla. Should their cars be 5x as big or 5x more expensive?

If the cost or the size wasn't a constraint, for sure Ford would build a car 5x as big or 5x as expensive.

The website size isn't a constraint here, if it was, they would works on it and make it smaller. It's only a constraint for highly technical people here. Currently at my job I'm optimizing some queries that takes way too long. It has been like that for years but we hit a wall recently, our SQL Server can't take it anymore. I always found it stupid that it took so long to optimize it... but at the end of the day, the clients just didn't care that it took 3 seconds to load the page. I could be working on more features right now, something that the client actually care about.

What makes the number of employees relevant to the size? Well if you were the only one building that website, you would know everything about it right? You would always use the exact same component, reuse everything you can, you already know every single part of the code. Add a second employee, now you don't know exactly what he does, you do know some of it but some time you forget and you may duplicate something or do it badly or whatever. At one point, something is just too big to be understood by a any single employee and you get code badly reused, stuff that serve no direct purpose too but make maintenance easier, etc... You never decrease the size simply because it's never worth it to but each and every single one of the employee add stuff to it.
In countries like Venezuela people don't want cryptocurrencies, they want US dollars.
"I was poor but then I pulled myself up by the bootstraps by getting access to my trust fund again"
The IPv4 address space transfer market: 2018 mid-year report
It's hard to find a suitable analogy (see my advert at end of last post) for almost-literate. I think i would be better saying something like ::

it does not matter if one is born in china or UK or korea - children are given huuuuge amounts of training to become literate. We don't dumb down the writing system, and we don't dumb down the literature written in the system, we spend more on training the kids.

Similarly with programming - we should not look for some uber click and go system that makes it easier - we just have to work harder.

Fridge magnets are just a placeholder for "trying to make reading and writing easier without actually learning to be literate". I mean if someone writes in korean no one suggests they are not literate because it's easier. but if someone can only communicate by drawing, like some ultra-fast pictionary competitor, it's hard to say they are literate.
NT Vs.Unix: Is One Substantially Better (1998)
I use the QC35 every day and it can do ANC without anything playing as well, in fact it is impossible to have the power on without ANC active, just like the QC35 II. IIRC the only difference between the I and the II is the Google assistant button.

There's a marked but subtle difference between having the headphones on and off, which can be confirmed by having the headphones on and turning the power on and off without removing them. The difference is not huge, and the headphones will block noise much better if you play music or white noise to cover up ambient noise.

The headphones take forever to power up and down because of the voice prompts, and this will be faster if you turn off voice prompts and use beep mode instead. The comparison is easier this way.
How do you ensure that the central bank stays full of thoughtful economists, across spans of decades or centuries?

While a few countries seem to be doing ok, the overall track record of central banks around the world seems to be pretty poor.
Because the height difference that matters is the difference between the water level in the lake and the turbines.

If your pumping station inlet is 20m below the turbines, then any energy used pumping water upto the height of the turbines is wasted, because it can't be recovered when the water comes back down.
I made a HTML5 version based on the DOS spacewar.exe as an exercise at https://spacewar.pro
> No they aren't. See: Proof of stake, Lightning network.

LN doesn't really solve the energy problem because the incentive for miners to compete is still dominated by the mining reward rather than transaction costs. As long as there is competitive mining, the resources used for mining will approach the block reward.

Proof of stake is interesting but I don't think it's been used at scale yet has it?
But why does the title focus on the person's age, instead of their skill? This should just read "Grad student finds classical alternative to quantum recommendation algorithm". Sure, he's young, but that's also 100% irrelevant to the actual work presented.
"Items such as depreciation or lease payments, maintenance and repairs, tires, gasoline (including all taxes thereon), oil, insurance, and license and registration fees are included in fixed and variable costs for [the business standard mileage rate]." https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-10-51.pdf

I'm guessing 35 cents is a bottom-up estimate that is just the marginal cost of gasoline (and maybe maintenance).

That said, if self-driving cars actually produce the expected reduction in collisions, then I would expect (self-)insurance and repair costs to go way down for self-driving cars versus human-driven cars.
> To pay in cash, yes. To pay digitally? You're paying high credit card fees. So, no, not really.

I wonder what high credit card fees you are talking about. As a consumer, I pay none of them. In fact, I get money back every time I purchase something with my credit card (in addition to getting a bunch of other benefits, like purchase protection, extended insurance/warranty, ability to charge back, etc).

As far as I know, none of this is available in the cryptocurrency world, and more importantly, all of the cryptocurrencies that I know of do charge a transaction fee, which cannot compete with $0 flat (not to mention cash back).

Crypto currencies have interesting features, but low transaction fees vs CC isn't one of them.
How are their costs significant? Web hosting is extremely cheap. As far as I can see their only really cost is staff to arrange reviews (which is surely a very low paid job).

Everything else they might do - collating papers into a physical journal, complaining about bibliography formats, etc. is superfluous nonsense that nobody really cares about.

Look at arxiv - the only thing it's missing that journals have is reviews.
It certainly did, as that is what many of the kids were enrolled in...
> They wanted mania, and used tactics that would contribute towards a Clinton loss, even if the chances of it were remote.

It's at least plausible that, at least originally, defeating Clinton wasn't a goal, weakening and dividing the US as a whole and the expected next President’s public and Congressional support might have been the whole goal. Actually causing her defeat may be a happy accident from the Russian POV (or a bit of a unhappy one that required escalating efforts to promote disunity, because in the short-term, even if the administration produced was not particularly popular, there was the risk of accidental strength from executive-legislative partisan alignment.)
Right, because if you use Excel you're probably not firing up Pages to do the quarterly report.
Apple Music is growing its user base substantially faster than Spotify is, and according to some reports, already has more paid subscribers in the US.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/07/05/apple-music-spot...

Also, Apple Music has a much higher percentage of paid subscribers (90–95%) than Spotify (just over 50%), by virtue of not having a free tier. That probably means that Apple's music service isn't losing them money, unlike Spotify (or at least, isn't losing money as fast) -- Spotify's advertising revenue is only about 10% of their total.

So, I can't see a really good business case for that.
My Dell laptop that I got when I was hired cost $1500
I haven't been prescribed medication for fear of flying but the most common options are the families

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

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

both of which are rather fast-acting and very effective for many cases of acute anxiety and other stress responses. Most mental health professionals and primary care physicians should be familiar with these uses. They may recommend trying out the medication before your trip so that you're familiar with its effects.

The benzodiazepines (such as Valium, which someone else in this thread suggested) can be addictive with frequent use, so it may be preferable to get small-quantity prescriptions occasionally rather than stocking up.
Make Facebook Twitter Google et al liable for daft garbage netizens post online
Restricted collections are always amazing to browse. In the Bay Area, for example, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley is a fantastic resource for browsing extremely old and rare books. I believe it's open to the public but you have to register[0], and you have to specifically request the items from circulation.

Want to see a Mark Twain manuscript, or an original Dürer print? You will be able to "check" these items out in a time-box, and browse them on-site. It's amazing how available these resources can be, and not many non-academic researchers assume you can see these items with adequate permission.

Having been to many rare book conventions, I've seen the librarians from the Bancroft Library purchasing items often upwards of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. The rare book world is very fascinating.

[0] http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/plan-...
That all seems reasonable. I do think my contention that a cautious driver could probably beat the safety of an airplane is plausible but it could also be untrue.

A quick look at the stats show that most fatalities involve distracted driving, speeding, drunk driving, bad weather, not using seatbelts, etc. And there's even more variables like vehicle type, speed, urban vs rural, etc.

Another major factor is averaging short flights with long flights because the biggest danger for planes is in take-off and landing. 10x200 mile flights is far more dangerous than 1x2000 mile flight.

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

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...
Freckle is hiring a Product Manager to empower teachers to reach every student
Yeah, some of these roads are "semi-cleared suggestions for directions of travel", not really "roads".
Selling it on the website is an additional can of worms, that requires more manpower to handle. Processing and accounting for CC/paypal/whatever payments, returns, disputes, etc. won't do by itself.
IIRC, as the story goes the folks who designed IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture) went out of their way in order to come up with a whole new set of technical jargon for that. I don't remember why, though.

BTW, I've been around long enough to have had conversations like the following:

Them: "I want to run Lotus 1-2-3." (This was the near-universal spreadsheet standard before Microsoft Excel came along.)

Me: "OK, then first we're going to have to get you a PC."

Them: "What's a PC?"

Then I would have to explain that this was a "Personal Computer". And not just any personal computer, either, but rather an "IBM" PC, in order to distinguish it from an Apple or Commodore or TRS-80 or TI-99/4A or Atari or whatever. And they might respond that they didn't even know that IBM made personal computers. (Which they don't any longer, of course.)
what would be stupid about them sending someone a copy of their article for free?
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programming should be for everyone. The UK has gone from IT skills for kids ("using Word and excel") to actual coding classes - it's a long way from good, and we need to see "coding"'alongside maths and geography. Sooner rather than later.

no it's it for the elite. see me for examples.
I’d want them to encourage more people to write that story they’ve been thinking about on the train. Can you imagine if JK Rowling heard this and just thought, “she’s right, my story probably sucks, better to just focus on my day job.”

The fact ppl keep using her as an example of persistence paying off, if evidence of how rare it is.It's good to have realistic expectations.
I always enjoy the 5% stock drops every time they miss on iPhone sales (they missed Eleventy-Billions by 100K units!).
> Ex ante Python seems like a poor choice for a large distributed system where network and CPU efficiency are important

Not every component in a distributed system needs to be "efficient". There is a broad class of software solving real problems that can benefit from Python having a stream processor on top of robust infrastructure.
Even a simple limit would probably help a lot, e.g. “at most one alternate domain” (your main CDN, and not sketchy-analytics.com or unnecessary-ad-malware.net).
I meant that you’d think everything that comes out of Apple—including their finance division—would go through a central design and branding department, which would apply one central toolset to all inputs, regardless of what tools the originating division used.

This is certainly true in other companies that try their utmost to achieve a certain aesthetic at all times, e.g. Disney, IKEA, etc. The same companies that put their invoices, their products’ warranty cards, and probably the UX of their ERP system through their design process.
Re: taxpayer dollars, note that in the US the NIH is the latest source of public funding for research and requires open access publishing these days. The NSF (which does not require open access) is considerably smaller, as are all other funding sources.
The U.S.'s 2.5 billion pounds of surplus meat, visualized
Just by looking at the first example you can actually "be more than 18.76 miles from a road" if you don't limit your radius by park boundaries. Probably 20-somthingish just eyeballing the first map without looking at other examples where (maybe) multiple parks share borders.
Similarly, you could also read about the physics of flight. I've been reading "Understanding Flight" (http://a.co/dSqr2dS) and enjoying it.

Imagine I asked you "Here's a 100 kg object, and it can produce 10 kg of thrust. Can it fly?" It seems miraculous that the answer is yes. I had always known this, but thinking about it anew was amazing to me.
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How would someone without access to a milling machine go about making custom aluminum parts like these?

I've had a couple projects that would benefit from aluminum milled parts, but I haven't been able to figure out how to go about making 1 or 2 parts without spending hundreds on setup or tooling costs.
This is kind of a disingenuous story. Coins were not particularly burdensome, relative to paper. Gold is light. Anyway, people always used credit mostly.

A phoenician ship at a minoan harbor didn't need to buy gold in order to trade purple dyes for bronze ingots and olive oil. They used hardor-credit or something. It was probably "gold backed" too, in the sense that it was denominated in gold or silver even if no metals were present.

Money and credit are intertwined. We can always make money by loaning it to eachother.

I think both the crypto-libertarian sm and Krugman's veiled response to it miss that point. Also, neither have much to do with cryptocurrency's success or lack thereof.
The overwhelming majority of people are capable of running a marathon distance, even if at a slow pace. Not perhaps today, but by working up to it in a very achievable way.

Similarly, the overwhelming majority can produce a book length manuscript, even if it isn't particularly remarkable. Again, they may need to work up to it.

In this, near-perfect verbal SAT is pretty much irrelevant.
> But I don't know if I have a book in me. Because every time I try to write things that could possibly turn into a book I read them and they don't sound very good. I know what I'd have to do to change that, namely write a lot every day for a few years until it clicked. But I don't.

Could you expand on what you mean by this?

problem: you write down something, but it doesn't sound very good

solution: write a lot every day for a few years until it clicked

How is the problem solved by the solution you presented?
Yes, that's one of the take-aways from SMPY. Focus on identifying visuospatial giftedness, as opposed to simply high scores overall, is especially good at predicting scientific accomplishment. (Hence, 'Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth'.)

You might ask, why use only the SAT-M, why not the other subtest, the SAT-V verbal test, since it should be equally difficult? I was surprised to find out that there was in fact a parallel study, 'SVPY', which did just that, but it got canned early on for disappointing results, apparently.
> I wonder what high credit card fees you are talking about. As a consumer, I pay none of them.

That's not how economics works. You are still paying.
How does this math work? Those numbers are for salaried employees at large companies, but most Americans work for smaller companies. The new tax has to make the system work for everyone.
The first one. I am not an expert in this area by any means but from what you said about interested orgs willing to pay, it makes more Sense. Building one product sucks a lot out of you and it's always a good idea to stay focused and get done rather than staying distracted.
That's a thousand dollar for hardware that's years out of date. It's a terrible deal. You're going to be far better off buying a decent Windows laptop.
If half the devs clinging to their 2012-13 rMBP with missing keys and wire-exposed MagSafe cables would just get with the program and upgrade, sales would go thru the roof.
You can get a decent CPU for MacBook Pro but they charge you an arm and a leg. The same with storage. A fully loaded MBP costs $6,699. $3000 too much. I even would have been okey with the price if it wasn't for the touchbar. The touchbar just makes me want to break my laptop in half everytime I try to use an editor like vim that requires pressing escape.

Overall my main problem is that Apple is trying to make MBP a mainstream consumer product. It should be for the developers. Just leave this one be for the developers.
Thoughts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29412010 / http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Just wait until you visit Western Europe.
Further irony: this page weighs over 30MBs, thanks to a huge GIF that is arguably not necessary for the article.
Was really hoping that "No Reservations" was the Anthony Bourdain show rather than the movie. Somehow I don't think so though.
You mean sending you news in a digital letter?
The first entry (Thorofare wilderness) seems wrong. It appears that they incorrectly identified the wilderness complex boundaries as roads.
> LN doesn't really solve the energy problem because the incentive for miners to compete is still dominated by the mining reward rather than transaction costs.

You're right, it doesn't solve the energy problem. LN solves the fee problem. The energy problem is addressed by something like proof of stake.

> Proof of stake is interesting but I don't think it's been used at scale yet has it?

It's been used in a number of non-major cryptocurrencies. Its been analyzed quite a bit though, and there are high-value (in the sense of market cap - i.e. large bounty for someone to exploit it, if it were possible) working implementations out there.
What is the problem with "allowed"? Are they not, in fact, allowed (making it stupid to claim they are?)

Or are they allowed in the sense that they don't require anyone's permission (making it stupid to believe that they do?)
That's not how it works. The 5% or 15% is the cost of risk over the risk free rate that they are getting it at. If there is sufficient interbank competition this is a market determined rate.

A central bank injects the money via the banking system because they cannot give it to arbitrary winners and losers, they are not in a position to price granular risk, and that is the normal function of a working banking system.
How does the shareholder benefit from these metrics when no dividends are paid?
We are at a point where people need scribes to download their data and process it. Software is not writing - it's software and it needs an ecosystem around it. It's why it is just wrong that phones are locked down and you cannot get root or a command line.

Reading and Writing we have sorted. We can write on Facebook ok. what we cannot do is arrange our data so it can be iterated over by our script / agents.