skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buy better keyboard/mechanical keyboard and learn touch typing from site like these

https://thetypingcat.com
https://www.typingclub.com

And just keep typing so you gain the muscle memory of it.
An anecdote: My father broke his collarbone (in a real bike) and I got him a peloton to be a safer replacement. After about an hour of introduction to the product he now uses it every day and so does my mother, who has never biked in her life. I don't get the appeal necessarily but any new product that can hook someone in their generation is positive signal IMO.
It doesn’t take much study of history to see how cults form or the power of publishing anything you want as fact. Social media put the tools to do that in the hands of everyone.

I won’t make a moral judgement on that decision but it is dangerously naive to think all technology has only positive externalities. The criticism of the current state of software engineering is that we don’t consider those externalities.

“It’s new and we didn’t know what would happen” is a really shitty excuse to hear from an aerospace engineer after an airline crash.
This is fantastic and there is great potential, but would be better with better accuracy on driving time, and also public transportation times worldwide. Also an important input is commute start times for each entered address (in case spouses start their work day different times).
The above are all acailable through the Google Maps API.

I would happily pay $10 or more for an accurate customized commute map. The rational value is likely way higher for families looking for an area to buy in which good commute times for all.
I'm stupid when it comes to this stuff.

But how would that work if the traders making the profits withdrew their profits? You can't claw it back after the money leaves your accounts... right?
I agree... its absurd to continually just grow grow grow without looking back to see if we're losing what makes us humans in the process.

We're getting so stuffed in the USA that national parks are starting to limit visitors and close gates at capacity - that for me alone is signal that a) we should take a serious look at our population b) we should do more to preserve and open more public lands for this growing population.
Just like with BPA free plastics that often have even higher levels of BPS, BPF, etc. or related compounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuMGc0EswTc
(exploration of literature and the plastic industry's move away from BPA -- as always with Nutrition Facts, Dr. Gregor is totally calm and uses no scare tactics)
It's relatively hard to sanitize PET because tiny defects hold contaminants really well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate#PET... Also I would guess that the defects add up over time and you'd need a way to test each bottle's integrity before shipping it out again.
Doesn't make gyms $4 billion businesses.
That's ignoring trasportation costs and time
That's what I thought as well. When I took a biology class in college we asked why hand sanitizer that kills 99.9 percent of germs is fine, but excessive use of antibiotics breeds super germs. The professor told us that it just destroys it at a molecular level, so there's nothing to resist, it'd be like trying to develop a resistance to being torn apart by a black hole.
Some of my colleagues got one of those connected treadmills in California.

Seriously, why would you not go on a REAL bike ride instead of using an indoor bike? Everyday is a beautiful day outdoor.

I'm all for tech, but in sport and fitness I think that sticking to the basics that work well is a pretty good idea.

To me it looks like an attempt to capitalize on the crowd of geeks//nerds that wouldn't do fitness otherwise by gamifying the product.
I've had one for a bit over a year now and I really love it. You're exactly right about the hook for this product. Before using the bike I've just stuck with the same training I did in high school football because I've always needed structure and a way to track progress. The bike classes are kind of addicting since the instructors keep the tempo up (depending on the class) and you have leader board showing with a live ranking. Even if you aren't at the top it's still fun because you'll get used to seeing the same names around your rank (if you're doing the live classes) and it'll push you to compete with them. It's a lot like having a running group except you'll always have someone that is around your skill level to compete with.
I think this was the inspiration behind the esp based basicengine console on FP yesterday. A nice synchronicity.
What do Go users think of Scala? Seems like the alpha language
Non pay walled: http://sci-hub.tw/http://emboj.embopress.org/content/early/2...

highlight:

A549 CDDP-resistant cancer
cells showed reduced tumor growth and
longer survival in response to periodic fasting
cycles (24 hours of water only twice a
week). In contrast, CDDP-sensitive tumors
were not affected by these 24-hour fasting
cycles. Because previous results indicated
that 2–3 consecutive days of fasting were
effective against a wide range of cancers,
particularly in combination with chemotherapy
(Lee et al, 2012; Bianchi et al, 2015), it
would be important to test these longer fasting
periods on A549 and other CDDP-resistant
cancer
The question still stands because agda handles classical mathematics just fine too. You need to postulate lem, which blocks computation, but that is a non-issue for proof checking.
I think you inferred a whole lot that isn't there on some pretty trite grounds.

It plainly advocates for a peer-review process. It's not advocating for the researched themselves to become a hardcore utilitarian over their work.

And you're focused on "programmers". This is about computer science research. You're speaking more to nerds that hide in their basement, not academics figuring out more refined AI algorithms, which is mostly math.

You're being too stubborn, for my tastes anyway.
Excited to see that finally someone has written an imperative language in a functional runtime. Normally it's the other way around - countless Lisp implementations running in C, because those are trivial to write.

The most important feature of Eden IMHO is the copy-on-write semantics for collection that it inherited from Clojure. I hope this extends to nested structures like JSON data (it should). This opens the door to not having to distinguish between passing by value and passing by reference, although atom() is still available for mimicking references if needed. This opens the door for content-addressable memories and rapid application development where the user can focus on business logic, with less time wasted on the more mundane aspects of programming like resource management.

I've written about all this stuff countless times in previous comments so kudus to Eden for being one of the first languages I've seen to start getting this stuff right!
>The reason Vanguard mutual funds are unique in this respect is that they hold a patent allowed assets to be comingled between their ETF and mutual fund share classes, so the superior tax efficiency aspects of the ETF can be shared with the mutual fund (and vice versa).

Wait, what? What does this actually look like for you on your taxes? This sounds like something that would be out of your hands/tax responsibility.
"Decades of research substantiate the devastating effects of social isolation. Loneliness is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day and increases the risk of death by 26-45%, which is on par with risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity, and lack of exercise."
Mozilla launches an open-source voice assistant for Firefox
Instead of "with", please use "containing" in the title.
I don't have the time to read through the article, but I would bet that there are no active controls used. In other words, yes, blood pressure after a sauna bathing session is probably lower, but that is probably true for a variety of leisure activities, so what's the point of stating the obvious?

The more interesting research question is under what circumstances would a sauna bath be recommended over other interventions?

I don't mean to knock this paper in particular, the lack of active controls is endemic to academic research in health.
> Since it is impossible to force all inputs to be well-constructed, text acts as the more predictable interface.

Disagree. If the program decides to change its output formatting even by a small amount (like going from a GNU version of the program to the BSD version, where such things can happen), e.g. changing the column order of two items, whoops, your script is broken. When you deal with object versus textual output the textual representation of a program can change all day long and you're not affected. The only breaking change is a change to the output object format (like renaming or deleting properties).

Writing scripts that rely on text being output in a specific order with a specific format is very brittle in my opinion.
But this is equivalent to humans evolving to drink lava isn't it?
I'm 37. I made an idiotic decision several years ago and got some crippling debt.

Now I have a stable relationship and I'd love to have children... but I can't, because 70% of my income goes to debt payment. My country has no US-style bankruptcy (if I stop paying I'm a pariah for life).

Absolutely agree about universal healthcare, that's something my country does well, and would improve the life of Americans.

Education... well, I'm more on the fence. I think current college prices in the U.S. are too high, but there's so much amazing free education... but yes, some basic level should be free. Maybe UBI would enable self-taught or other alternatives (I know there are some YC startups focused on alternatives).

Edit: no idea why I was downvoted :(
So... at $550MM in funding. Just to simply get the $550MM BACK from selling the bike and getting users, that means youwould have to sell 183,000 NEW bikes AND have them maintain 2 years of paid membership fees (24 months at $40/mo)

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So, then you assume some attrition of those users, which means you will need to upsell the remaining users on some new products and continue to get new buyers of these bikes and services.

You'll have to spend a fair bit on marketing, development and the general maintenance of paying your existing costs/overhead etc...

I can't even come up with any fictitiously optimistic napkin math that would make this work.

So, what do the Peloton people know that we dont know that allowed them to get $550 MILLION dollars in funding? All theories welcome.

Heck, whomever it was that was able to get VCs to invest in this should be selling their services to a ton of startups...
Personally, I find a collection of anecdotal data (ideally from a wide variety of people) is worth much more to me than these studies that just report average results that apply to the average person/animal/cell in their sample.

The average person/animal/cell doesn't exist, and focusing on that has been a huge mistake in my opinion.
Let's talk password hashing (2016)
Agreed. I tried Cython but decided against using it. I now proof test in Python and rewrite in C.
> It would probably help if there were less insane hype about art prices in the culture generally

One theory is that it's not just due irrational hype, but also how art can be useful for money-laundering schemes.
That's (probably) because you had your phone set to optimize storage and store them on the cloud. You can fix this by going to the Settings app, going to Photos, and selecting "Download and Keep Originals" instead of "Optimize iPhone Storage."

This isn't lock-in, this is helping you by allowing you to take more photos.
> What’s the negative impact of the recent discovery of a non-quantum recommendation algorithm on the field of quantum computing? Should the young researcher have spent time considering and detailing that?

If we consider the goal of research to improve society, then yes, I think it's reasonable to expect a researcher to spend some time considering whether what they're doing is going to actually improve society. In biology, most funding agencies require you to take a brief (~8-10 hours of class time) course on the responsible conduct of research, even if you aren't doing any human subjects research.

In the specific case you gave of the non-quantum recommendation algorithm, the negative impacts should be more or less the same as the impacts of the quantum algorithm, but with less of a barrier to entry. And even the person proposing this acknowledges: "We all agree it’s hard and that we’re going to miss tonnes of them, but even if we catch just 1% or 5%, it’s worth it."
> I don't think it would take much for one of the better bike manufacturers to duplicate the "nice bike" part.

No need to duplicate Peleton's nice bike. Quality indoor bikes were around long before Peloton added the connected/remote class angle to one. Example: https://www.keiser.com/fitness-equipment/cardio-training/m3i...
I also have yet to see any evidence that hygiene hypothesis is true or leads to better long-term health outcomes.
Regardless of what the eye sees, the brain perceives three dimensions. This projection happens to be the one that the brain can automatically unpack into an accurate 3D representation. Technically, things near the edges are squished and distorted, but that gets undone in the wetware.
simple answer: there's no water, so unlike your US examples you can't use massive public diversion projects to make these areas fit for habitation.
Transcranial AC stimulation boosts consolidation of long-term memory
If there's a particular paper you're interested in, you can usually email the lead author(s) and just ask for a copy. I've never heard of someone saying no, especially since it's as easy as emailing a PDF.

As for the why -- just DuckDuckGo "why is science behind a paywall" and you'll get a million hits, each author giving a slightly tweaked definition of "it's a holdover from the days of publishing in print journals".
I think there is an number of unfair criticism against the company. I am not here to argue about the valuation, I have not examined anything about the financials of this specific company BUT I do think these companies are hitting a sweet spot in this market. This company is not selling you an exercise bike, they are selling you the community surrounded from the classes. There was an interesting talk by the founder of Peloton regarding religion and community. His argument was that many areas of the country have largely transitioned away from being religious and the one downside is people lack community that religion used to provide. People are replacing this with fitness communities. Look out how people treat SoulCycle or CrossFit as if it was a religion. They don't go there just or the workout but also the community of people.

Companies like Peloton are trying to extend this relationship into the house. SoulCycle classes are expensive, $2k for a spin bike is not terrible, I would be surprised if the margins are not huge on this. So if I were to signup for Peloton I would not blink at the cost of the bike. $40/month for a subscription is also cheap when I compare it to things like SoulCycle. Sure its different but I am also able to workout at home.

I can see the value in these companies. Is $4b too high? Perhaps but I have not examined the marketplace. I think last numbers were 600k subscribers and they have no something like 29 physical retail locations.
To everyone who says that this is dodgy or immoral:

It is not. The majority of the world doesn't function anymore without WiFi, which makes it more of a human necessity than a convenience to pay for. Not offering free WiFi is like not offering passengers free toilets at an airport. Unless you want everyone to piss in a corner you must offer a toilet, especially when you also require passengers to arrive at least two hours prior departure.

In India I wasn't allowed to enter airports without showing them my boarding ticket at the entrance. However I didn't have a boarding ticket because I needed to go to the counter inside, which I wasn't allowed (standard in India). So they demand from tourists to log in their email and show the booking confirmation but don't give you free WiFi. Fuck this shit!

Going to the taxi stand and they ask me for my reservation number. Same story again, no WiFi no luck.

In some countries there is no taxis or taxis are widely considered extremely dangerous (Johannesburg, etc.) and you MUST use Uber. How are you going to do it without WiFi?

Long story short, don't fucking build your entire infrastructure reliant on the internet and then don't give your customers an opportunity to connect to the internet.

WiFi is a necessity, it should be free of charge everywhere.
There is a theory that this was a hedge of a position on another exchange, knowing their losses would be socialized if they bet wrong.
i can confirm that chrome, firefox and IE browsers show the new view with my location as USA only.
Have you tried Neo4j? If so, I'm curious to know what your experience was like between the two that made you pick Dgraph
Meh you are the product spotify is free!
There are cartographically reasonable equal-area or nearly-equal-area projections. Why are we still talking about Gall-Peters?

Peters was a charlatan who knew very little geography (he didn't even want to give credit to the geographer who discovered his map), and the Gall-Peters projection is Mercator for old-school hippies who think they can promote equality by making Africa taller.
Some of those are silicones or waxes. But possibly. Check the label.
Hi! are you recruiting for 2019 internships yet? There's no opening up on the site.
Fortnite Boycotts Google Play Store; Teaches Kids to Sideload
I'm vouching this comment. Obviously you created this throwaway for this.

I know what singles day is about. I'm unconvinced by your arguments, but will concede that it's not a good idea to for the US to drive good talent away with shitty immigration policy.

Have you used Alibaba's cloud service? Why is it as clunky as a second rate shared hosting service from 15 years ago? Can you explain that to me?

Also, given the fact that I have to go through insane bureaucracy just to get an account on it, what do the tech kids of China have the option to do except publish miniprograms on WeChat? Is China really going to be a leader based on returning engineers from the US?

Apollo's code looks pretty interesting. Will keep an eye on that. Funny though, I'm having trouble browsing the site. Requests fail half the time. Oh look, it's hosted by Baidu.. no wonder.
Lenders make money on a short squeeze.

The only time you lose money is if you want to sell and can't because you've loaned out your shares. But with a large index fund, that's extremely unlikely: you can easily lend out a small portion of your shares all the time (say 5%) with virtually no chance that too many customers will want to cash out all at the same time.
I'm also interested in the answers to those questions.
https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/issues/1360

clarification welcome
The main use I've found for numba (I'm a theoretical physics/maths undergrad), is avoiding memory allocations in tight loops. There are some cases where I've found it hard to wrangle and arrange my numpy/scipy code such that all the vectorized operations happen in-place without extraneous allocations (in my case the difficulties have been with scipy's sparse arrays, although I can't remember the exact problems).
Roughly a quarter of the valuation is cash, so it's at least that much.
Intercontinental Exchange , the Owner of the NYSE Launching a Bitcoin Market
Thanks for the kind reply.
This reminds me of a short-story called "Blit", involving hacks against the human visual system.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
Thank you for that addition. I was stuck on the gluten-free thing and you are right about the BPA-free thing - another area where manufacturers just switched to a different, bad chemical.
Nessie – Capital One's Hackathon API
Second this. Cython's memory view for numpy array is great.
I cook eggs in nice, thick stainless steel/Aluminum pans and cast iron, and never have issues with it sticking. Ditto for things like grilled cheese. The secret is letting them heat up before using them; not getting them too hot, and using a little oil or butter.

I hate non-stick pans. I can't baby them (I'm not responsible enough) and things just stick endlessly for me. It's just a bad experience. Invest in some nice, non-non-stick pans and you won't have stickage.
I don't think it's about the total eaten but more so the fact that for several hours having no food / drink kills the cancer. So although they may eat more at night the hours during day is enough to starve / kill the cancerous cells.
Is there really risk here? The existence of one's address is pretty public
Sometimes it rains. Sometimes it's really hot. Always, there's a lot of cars around.

I generally agree and love to run outside, but I can easily see the appeal for a lot of people.
My argument wasn't that it's impossible to fully support a human with oxygen from houseplants. The point is that the oxygen output of a single houseplant, or even a dozen of them, is negligible relative to the oxygen consumption of even a single human. That doesn't mean that there aren't good reasons to own a houseplant, it just means that oxygen production isn't one of them.
It’s not (yet). The GDPR is still new and as far as I know there haven’t been many (or perhaps not any) legal processes.
I think it's worth replying to this to reinforce the point that the new mode has technical disadvantages compared to the old mode. Some of my projects involve a great deal of time spent looking at aerial imagery, sometimes for hours a day, and while Google Maps is not the panacea of aerial images it is one of the best single sources in terms of usability and quality of images.

That said, prior to knowing this trick I was stuck with the effectively unmaintained Google Earth instead of the web view primarily because of the web maps insistence on the 3D rendering mode. The attempt to conform buildings and, most annoyingly, trees to the elevation data makes the imagery almost useless at close zoom levels, as all the actual detail disappears into clutter artificially introduced by the edges on the elevation data. It significantly reduces the amount of spatial resolution you can get out of areas where they have very good images.

Earth still has tools that web view doesn't have, but often I'm not even that interested in measurements and just want to be able to carefully inspect the image. This doesn't seem to be something Google wants to support any more!
Research robots sometimes left unsecured on the internet, study finds
how is fidelity making money on this product ?
So much this. No one is writing large production applications without some sort of imported library. Go simply has not been around long enough or had enough users to mature. For all of the pros Go has (not even mentioning the cons) they seem miniscule compared to what we give up switching to it. It has always sounded like the hot new fad and not a stable thing. Especially with daily articles like coaxing people into using it.