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> There's currently no "other country" willing to take it.

They just aren't offering them enough money.
I've been programming for a long time and had to learn R a few years back for a series of projects. The documentation and community seemed to me, as a newcomer, to be very focused on how to solve particular statistical and modeling problems, and I was almost always able to do what needed to be done relatively quickly. (Python documentation and communities, in contrast, span all kinds of applications that can be difficult even for an experienced programmer learning Python to sort through and evaluate. I can also imagine the migration to 3.x has been a challenge for newcomers.)

Although I enjoyed learning and using R, as a CS person I was bothered that I understood how to do X in R, but I had no clue about what was happening when I did X. I found this paper to be particularly useful in describing R from a CS perspective: http://www.lirmm.fr/~ducour/Doc-objets/ECOOP2012/ECOOP/ecoop...
Good question! I did a final buff with the steel cone brush and a drill, so I’m hoping any sandpaper cancer glue was stripped away.
Consumers have less power to reduce resource usage than companies. When companies put the burden on consumers it's a bit of a farce. There's only so much power the average consumer has to choose brands that are more ecologically friendly.
Openlayers Cesium provides a globe view for map tiles (or other data), it's it not to much work to transition to a flat projection at a high zoom.

https://openlayers.org/ol-cesium/examples/sidebyside.html
Google is named a leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Storage
So long HN karma...

Proprietary hardware, constantly pissing off developers and customers... Great company /s

I dont know why Apple gets a pass for being so anti-competitive.

I remember the annoyance of buying music on itunes and being forced to burn it to CD just to play on my mp3 player.

Today, its a multi thousand dollar event to publish an app on Apple's store, vs the insignificant cost of publishing on Android and Web.

(If anyone has an idea how to reduce the cost of compiling my React Native app and publishing on Apple, I'm all ears, but I'm constantly being told to spend 2k+.)
There are no good deals in a swollen economy. Sitting on cash is what you do until there's a downturn.
Why should there be any? Advanced neural networks can easily take in such ambiguous inputs. Heck, even contradictory, explaining a few illusions in the process.
Also posting as a throwaway for similar reasons.

This comment brings up a valid point. When I was working in academia, a lab from $large_and_famous_west_coast_university copied some code from a set of open source scripts from another lab in my field on Github, erased the Git history, and then created a new repo with a footnote in passing that they had been "inspired" by the original scripts- pretty much a textbook case of plagiarism. No one involved was Chinese (most were actually white male Europeans).

In general, high profile researchers take incredibly morally repugnant / unethical actions to get ahead.
Are there numpy/pandas/matplotlib equivalents in golang?
For those interested, in the outdoors industry (where fluorinated compounds are pervasive in waterproof coatings), there are a couple companies doing good:

Patagonia has switched to shorter-chain PFCs for many of its coatings (C6 instead of C8). They are also actively investing in research for alternative chemicals with adequate performance.

Nikwax, which sells re-waterproofing products, never uses fluorinated compounds and is a good brand to look for at the store.
Cool idea, but it's quoting 15 minutes to get from Brooklyn, NY to New Jersey cross-town via Manhattan, while the time quoted via Google Maps including traffic conditions is approximately 1hr, which sounds more reasonable. Would be good to integrate some kind of traffic awareness to get more accurate estimates. Excited to see how this develops.
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Something like this, perhaps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230460/
Oh, I tried that, but you know what? Out of almost a 1000 photos I have on my iPhone only 97 showed up, ready to be copied - the ones that I took with the iPhone camera. Those uploaded with iTunes were inaccessible.

That’s when I decided to never buy an iDevice again.
I was looking at it more from a point of supplementing the oxygen already in the atmosphere and, importantly, scrubbing my apartment air of some of these other molecules. I don’t think that “you’ll never have a fully functioning biosphere so this is dumb” is a legit counter argument.
Thanks. I thought it was a "browser thing". My desktop firefox shows flat maps only.

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> Adaptability depends on having enough generations to adapt.

Just going to be a pedantic nerd and add that population size is the other major factor in adaptability. Larger populations generate more variation per generation.
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Oh man! And you think anyone is bad when it comes to intrusive cookies just look at the crap Reddit keeps on you!
Great to hear that you also went through this and that Standups.io will hopefully help you on this.
This way scientists can create a road map for ethically challenged CEOs and VCs. So, that they can get the most profit out of the technology.
Dubai is an emirate. The country is United Arab Emirates
I doubt it'll be a problem. The only people who care about the DRM are on the software side, and they also control the hardware side (there is no non-microsoft device that can run xbox one software for example).

I'll bet we'll see a huge export of "consoles" that are just the hardware, expecting companies to create the software and rebrand them.
Of course, the definitive pale blue dot image was not taken by a satellite, but rather a spacecraft on a hyperbolic trajectory.... ;).
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Right, the only country that receives less rain is Antarctica. Most of the country receives less than 24" of rain in a non-drought year (of which, the last 11 have been).

Many places average 4" of rain a year.

Water supply is a ... challenge.
Easy to answer your question:

Look at everyone else on the first page of Google for your question/keyword and make notes about all the things they're missing.

Even if all you do is combine their ideas into 1 'ultimate' article, that's still valuable.
That is, until a bubble bursts.

Maybe 1T dollar companies exist, but given the massive infrastructure of auto companies and their valuation being less than 100B, I'm skeptical that Trillion dollar companies are a real thing.
> There is plenty of competition. If you don't want what Apple sells at the price it sells it at, you buy an Android or Windows device - like most of the world does.

Google just got hit with a massive fine in the EU for how they forced companies making Google Certified Android devices to only make Google Certified devices.

They got punished for being more open than Apple, but not open enough.

There is this weird legal area where if your ecosystem is completely closed, and you are completely vertically integrated, you can do whatever you want, but as soon as you open up a little bit, you have to open up a lot or get in legal trouble.
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Thank you Alex! Will try this out! :)
Yes. Everyone knows that Facebook makes money from advertising. I’m sure most people know that they make money by targeting advertising based on your expressed interest and the profile you create. But how many people know that FB follows you around the web?
PTFE is not harmless in the body - the body cannot break it down - and there is no independent study showing it as such.

"PTFE is so safe that it is frequently used in the medical profession to coat pacemakers and the tiny tubes made to replace arteries" was written by a 3M corp comms flunky.
That sounds like deliriant hallucinations as opposed to psychedelic hallucinations. Deliriant drugs (such as Nutmeg, DPH, Datura, etc.) produce a completely different hallucination experience compared to psychedelics. Often times after taking these people do not even realize they are hallucinating everything that is happening (conversations, other people, going places) until they suddenly realize they have been simply walking around their bedroom for hours. I imagine these work in completely different ways on your brain.
Got damn, why is my country in the top :(
Agreed.

Here’s a personal example from about 10 years ago. Imagine that you spend several years inventing something new. You put in the sweat equity and take on opportunity costs. Then, your product seems to be ready. You’re very excited, so you decide to release it to the public at a popular trade show.

On the first day, you meet lots of interested people. Some are American, some European. Oh, and several large gatherings of Chinese people also approach your booth. They admire your invention, too. But, look, and they brought along cameras, video recorders, a few people taking notes. Your heart sinks a bit. Are they really blatantly stealing your idea with no shame? You don’t know. Then, a few months later an (inferior) but visually identical product enters the market. Then a couple more appear. They’re all priced at a fraction of the price of yours...

That was the reality a decade or two ago. Maybe it has gotten better. But, things like that have a tendency to make long impressions on the memory.

My question is: does this happen in China? Do Chinese companies steal from other Chinese companies? Is it normal for Chinese people to steal from their friends, family, neighbors? Or, is this behavior only directed at the West?
Control what you can, don't worry about the rest.
Your explanation is worse, since it doesn't allow to distinguish different infinities.
Your set of choices is limited & reflective of a certain narrative.

First, many (including Russia) contend that petroleum is not old plant matter, but made from a geological process. We also have plenty of Coal & Natural Gas; never mind Solar energy.

There's also weather modification (e.g. Stratospheric aerosol injection). There's also other forms of energy.

There's also Electrogravitics, which contends that Gravity & Electricity are related. The Electrogravitic model provides a unified model that is simpler than String Theory.

If Electrogravitics is an accurate model, then we are living on a massive engine (planet Earth) & can, as Nikola Tesla has demonstrated, harvest the energy generated by this engine.
This is why I dont consider Bitcoin a risky investment anymore.

I can see the inflation around me. Historically and currently countries have an economic crisis where the government has hyperinflation.

Id rather have gold than government money.
https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/11/17/fat-is-the-cause-of-ty...

I suppose high sugar consumption could cause it, but it doesn't look like that is the typical mechanism.
That's still not an accurate map. 3D maps don't have projection issues, they can have near perfect representation of the world.
My mother once bought a treadmill. My dad described it as the world’s only $1200 clothes rack.

I guess the hope for Peloton is that people will subscribe and never cancel. Otherwise they’re just another treadmill company and I can’t imagine there’ll be much VC interest in that.

But it’s one thing to spend a few thousand on a treadmill and regret it. It’s another to spend a few thousand and then another $100 a month.
Not happy with the certainty of the headline. A very close friend of mine who died of cancer chose dietary treatment over western medicine, and had a very grueling, unpleasant death in a remote place.
2000 calories of potatoes is like 15 potatoes. You can really eat that many potatoes in a day?
Not to mention, I don't think Samsung dislikes the margins. Apple's phones being more expensive helps push Samsung's device costs up too, so they can make more margin. I doubt they want Apple to fully leave, they are potentially making more money just by getting to sell their phones at a higher cost when they can potentially make them even cheaper than Apple makes the iPhone.
>There are American cities of millions of people (Phoenix, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, etc...) where summer high temperatures never get below 100-110° for months on end.

There are places in Australia that have set records - including this "160 consecutive days above 100F" - note that this isn't talking 'highs', it was above 100 the entire time.
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This GPU is likely "trash" in comparison to say... a GTX 1060 or something. AMD is really good at low to middle ground GPUs, and is good at integrating them to the CPU.

Obviously no "PC Gamer" wants a GPU that can run [Big name game here] at "only 34 fps on low to medium settings". That's not AMDs strong suite (although they do try).
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Might want to put down the bong and do some real studying.
The scientists in the article are trying to get to a 'why'.
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This is a scientifically measured insulin response. It's not somebody's opinion. Note that this is different from blood sugar levels. You'll find the same numbers on every insulin chart.
Involuntary Indefatigability
But in this case (as with the cigarette and oil companies) there was knowledge within the company that these things are dangerous/poisonous.
Holy crap, y'all are still missing my point! Having an employee open a locked cabinet would be AMAZING if it reduces packaging. I don't give a shit about costs, why do you think I care about cost savings? I care about reducing waste to the landfill. If that means someone has to unlock a cabinet for me, so be it.
It looks really pretty, but at least here in the Midatlantic, it ignores traffic by A LOT.
Is it typical for techcrunch to assume the reader is familiar with every odd startup they cover?

I've never heard of this company, have no idea what they do after reading the whole article, and now I'm too frustrated to care.

All I got there was "connected treadmill"... ok?
Millions of people do it everyday, so it seems right to call it daily use: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1018260113814061057...
The Waitress Test
Not using a throwaway but isn't there a difference between forking a public Github repository without attribution and stealing industrial secrets encrypted into photographs?
Closed source dependencies treat programmers as infants. With open source dependencies, private methods are just an organization tool, not an actual limitation on the programmer.
Content on HN has to be interesting. There’s no problem with it referencing illegal activity.
Answers to this question may give people wrong impression if you do not include a cost of living in the bay area. Salaries are very much connected to the local economy and a cost of living.
This is a direct measurement of blood insulin levels. It's not somebody's opinion. Complex carbs are extremely satiating and plenty of people have reversed type 2 diabetes eating high carb diets.
I think it is even worse in its arrogance but not of the programmer but of the would be "ethical reformers" - it thinks the ethics of /theory/ can be determined beforehand, that it can be halted and following these judgements would lead to a positive outcome by holding the whole world back when others may stumble upon the same train of thought later. The fact that there is relatively little resistance between theory and practice does not change that.

Under that framework USSR's suppression of genetics in favor of Lysenkoist bullshit would be justified because an incomplete understanding of genetics could lead to eugenics travesties. It is like King Cnut trying to stop the tides only totally unironically and unsarcastically.
>'Maybe they are baiting, well perhaps this a pathological response to constant lifelong harassment.'

Assholery knows no gender. Don't give it one and pretend you are debating in fair faith.
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Without considering traffic it's not overly useful for me. When I put in my address, some of the places it tells me I could reach in an hour, I'd be lucky to reach in 2 most times of the day.
Lip-reading artificial intelligence could help the deaf–or spies
No mention of what the company does?
Plastic Straw Ban: Degrading Plastics Discovered to Emit Greenhouse Gases
Very cool. However it's not using great circle routes for airline directions, for example ask to go from Calgary to London. It should go well over Greenland, but instead just follows the same path you'd get from drawing a line on a Mercator map.
OMG, you are so disconnected... Chinese big tech (BAT) is much younger with tons of senior engineers coming back from FAANG. Their tech stack is very cutting edge and arguably better, e.g:

- (this is handling double 11 traffic! if you don't know what that means, a few X prime day traffic) https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/open-source-pouch-alibabas-...

- from BAIDU http://apollo.auto/

Wechat is a killer mobile app, no web red herring. look at FB's app, so awkward.

Disclaimer: I worked for one of FAANG and it's not that easy to adopt new things.
Whoops, I meant to say it's not-for-profit because it's owned by its customers. If you buy any of their funds, you also buy a small piece of Vanguard.

To be pedantic, I don't know if you would classify that as not-for-profit or not, but the point is there isn't some external entity trying to make a profit off of you.
Guess we're going to need a multiyear longitudinal study on the health risks of iron pans!
This is pretty insane. I've used the Peloton bike because there's one in my apartment complex. It's a really nice exercise bike ( very stable, smooth, continuous pedalling without locking up ), but the tablet/software they attach to it left quite a lot to be desired. For instance, the UI is very clunky and I couldn't even figure out how to turn off the damn music. It's hard to just set a "free form" type of ride ( instead, you have to use their "classes" -- basically a video of someone telling you whats happening during the ride, whether or not you're in sync with the cadence ). I don't think it would take much for one of the better bike manufacturers to duplicate the "nice bike" part, and the UI should honestly just be a bluetooth to your phone with a mount.
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1. Sparingly.

2. No, it's outdated.

3. Not unless you're making another Ring. This is bad and you should feel bad as an author.

4. It is a common framing device, also used in fantasy.

5. The better horrors take place in a bigger area than just a house. They may have some related scenes like that.

Most importantly, this tells more about the kind of horror movies you're watching.

Common creepy stuff like darkness, contrast and claustrophobia are obviously used. They are generally scary.
You can use a brown lunch bag to microwave your own popcorn, it is maybe a minute more of work and you save money.

Not to mention you can customize the popcorn better if you like to add seasoning.
It's all about wording stuff good.
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Like the other commenters, I had never heard of this either until reading the latest funding round recently. Here's a summary from the WSJ[1] from yesterday:

> Peloton, founded in 2012, makes a $1,995 stationary bicycle. Most customers use the bikes at home, paying about $39 a month to stream live classes that the company produces using its own instructors. The New York-based firm, which has showrooms around the U.S., plans to launch a treadmill this fall.

Part of the soul cycle bubble as well it looks like.

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/pelotons-financing-round-values...
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I’m not sure enough people actually read the article, though. Here’s what the person proposing this change said:

> In my first ever AI class, we learned about how a system had been developed to automate something that had previously been a person’s job. Everyone said, “Isn’t this amazing?” — but I was concerned about who did these jobs. It stuck with me that no one else’s ears perked up at the significant downside to this very cool invention.

Statements like that are frightening to me. It’s incredibly hard to define “negative“ in a reasonable way, and I guarantee you that someone else is going to define it in a way you don’t like.

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?
I'm not sure I'd call these "toys" but demonstration aids.
Why is that unfortunate? What would clicking a downvote button achieve? I appreciate that instead you are taking the time to make a comment.

To your point, life (and by extension, us humans) is simpler than you think, and far simpler than "modern medicine" wants you to think it is. I am confident that in your lifetime, though, you will one day look back and say; "Oh yeah that dude from HN mentioned this a few years ago". And I do not base this solely on my own experiences. I have been around fasting as a healing mechanism for much of my adult life and have seen many many lives transformed and saved as a result.

Don't take my word for it. Let this be a spark that takes you on your own journey to discover how insane it is that fasting is being kept hidden from the general public.
Peloton started with a connected spinning bike. It takes advantage of the Soul Cycle fad ($30/class) and sells people a $2000 bike and a $40/month subscription (for live streams of classes) with the idea that they will save money over time.

More recently they released the treadmill.