skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, voice doesn't work well for shopping. I love Alexa/Echo and I have a dozen devices mainly for home automation and general questions (weather, lookup). But for shopping, I want to find the best product and look up the cheapest price before buying. I'm afraid of what might happen if I said "Alexa buy a 128GB microsd card" because they range from $8 to $50 and I don't know which one Amazon would pick. The items mentioned in the article as common voice repeat purchases I already have set up as subscriptions (e.g. pool chemicals, shampoo).
Cell culture studies provide a valuable complement to in vivo experiments which allow for more controlled manipulation of cellular functions and processes. For decades, cell lines have played a vital role in the development of scientific advancement, researchers have become more cautious while interpreting data generated by cell lines, and factors such as misidentification and contaminated cell lines have spurred new interest in primary cells.

Another disadvantage of cell lines is that they are usually genetically and phenotypically different from the tissue from which they are derived. In contrast, primary cells maintain many important markers and functions that are visible in the body. For example, the 3,4-endothelial cell line is lack of various functional markers, while primary endothelial cells retain these key features.
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This guy lied about mass shootings and encouraged the bullies to physically torment the parents of the victims. But sure, let's treat him as an equal. Twitter is a cesspool.
Being a mother in Japan can be miserable. You must give up everything you ever loved and confine yourself to a small apartment and a local park. You're no longer allowed to be an intellectual being or a participant in public life. Women don't want it, because women are people, human beings who want to live a full life. If having a child is the end of your life, it's not a good bargain for many women.

The US is deeply imperfect -- but no one will tell you that having had a child you can never, ever go back to your profession.
The Culture of Primary Cells
In spite of the multiple advantages primay cells involved, it is still a difficult process to obtain a pure primary cell population. Comparing to cell lines, primary cells are very sensitive and require additional nutrients that are not included in the classical medium. In order to optimize the survival and growth of primary cells, they performed best in a specific medium tailored to each cell type. Such as, endothelial cells have very different nutritional needs than epithelial cells or neurons and therefore require a seperate culture medium.

Traditional cell culture media rely on serum to provide growth factors, hormones, lipids and other undefined components to support cell growth. However, for primary cells, high serum levels can result in differentiation or promote the growth of contaminating cells such as fibroblasts. In addition, the use of serum will also lead to the increase of cost and variations in different variations. These problems can be avoided through the application of a special formulation medium with little or no serum, while achieving greater customization to promote the growth of a single primary cell type. Other practices, such as inoculation of primary cells on more physiologically relevant substrates rather than synthetic polymers, can significantly improve cell attachment, growth and purity.
If you know 'Asians' you'll know that WeChat is primarily a mainland Chinese thing, and different Asian countries have different chat apps that are dominant.
Kind of reminds you of the score changing going on at universities here in the US (in the news lately) for the goal of favoring some applicants over others?
The fact Snapchat still runs like shit on Android probably does not help them.
The Analysis of Gene Expression
Gene expression analysis is critical for understanding the transcriptome profiles of primary cells and how they directly affect the function of cells. Traditional reporter gene assays and cDNA microarrays typically require transfection of foreign materials or large amounts of high quality RNA. However, it is well known that primary cells are difficult to transfect and the efficiency between cell types differs a lot. In addition, primary cells have a limited life span and limited amplification capabilities, making it difficult to obtain high yields of RNA.

All of which problems can be overcome using quantitative PCR (qPCR) arrays that have been validated and optimized using primary cell cDNA. qPCR arrays enable researchers to directly measure protein expression patterns in primary cells, stem cells, tissues and cell lines. Because of the high sensitivity and specificity of these assays, it is even possible to analyze genes with very low abundance.
From the FAQ about why you wouldn't just use TypeScript:

> Why add transpilation and a tool chain, and change your code, and add a whole bunch of assumptions, when you can write a rudimentary type system in JS in a couple hundred lines.

1) Transpilation isn't a tool chain. It's just one link. It's not a big deal and doesn't even require changing an existing project's structure.

2) TypeScript doesn't require changing your code at all. This library does.

3) TypeScript is zero extra lines of code in production.
The future application
Gene expression analysis of primary cells will enable researchers to better understand biological pathways and disease processes such as cell cycle regulation, stem cell biology, cancer development, and neurological diseases. Primary cells are a primier tool which can be applied to the future scientific breakthroughs and disease treatments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Usually has the news that matters to me on it, also more international.
Every time I see an article condemning Facebook, there's always a Facebook share button visible.
Here's a good piece on why.

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-musk-vs-short-s...
Even if this happens after Windows 10, it will still be a problem since you still need upgrades and access to latest applications. I hope PC manufacturers start pushing Ubuntu extremely hard
> Having lived in both deeply red and deeply blue states in the US, I think most people aren't as crazy or as far apart as they think they are

A good article along those lines:

https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/complicating-t...

" Intractable conflicts feed upon themselves. The more we try to stop the conflict, the worse it gets. These feuds “seem to have a power of their own that is inexplicable and total, driving people and groups to act in ways that go against their best interests and sow the seeds of their ruin,” Coleman writes. “We often think we understand these conflicts and can choose how to react to them, that we have options. We are usually mistaken, however.” "

" Once we get drawn in, the conflict takes control. Complexity collapses, and the us-versus-them narrative sucks the oxygen from the room. “Over time, people grow increasingly certain of the obvious rightness of their views and increasingly baffled by what seems like unreasonable, malicious, extreme or crazy beliefs and actions of others,” according to training literature from Resetting the Table, an organization that helps people talk across profound differences in the Middle East and the U.S. "

If you're looking for it, you'll see this behavior everywhere online, including HN, and it's getting worse.
From the prevalence of SUVs where compacts would do, it’s clear that people are not particularly motivated by gas mileage.

Even if you are, 50mpg vs 35mpg is just not that compelling when it costs so much in terms of money, mechanical complexity, and driving dynamics.

(Unfortunately, automakers seem to be making hybrids less fun, rather than more, until you get to the very high end).
I am pretty sure 250 million+ people in my country India are still not on SO CALLED social network, they are not even on internet yet. So , we are far away from Peak Social.
no, this isn't about snaps on linux
40 hour weeks, 45 minutes to midtown one way. $20 pre tax pay, $15 post tax pay, roughly $2600 a month with even some shitty health benefits thrown in there.

Monthly expenses:
$1,000 on rent (splitting with girlfriend)
$300 on train tickets
$500 on food, phone, internet, entertainment

I try to save about $1,000 every month, which is not very good. I could never dream to support a family or a mortgage like this, but at least I'm not struggling to make rent or going into debt.

I live in an area that would be described as "tough", but statistically, I think we have one robbery every week and one murder every season. By NYC standards, that's very safe :)
Outside of the HN bubble python is the only one of those that got off the ground so far.
God that's horrid. Not to mention the slew of taxes one pays by being a 1099 contractor. And it's not like the clients one attracts on Upwork are particularly good.
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This isn't my area per se but have you considered Lisp/Haskell (even Ruby) or one of the other languages with good metaprogramming/DSL creation facilities?

Or perhaps making a small extension to one of the above, I know many languages have the ability to be extended through modules added at compile (meaning when you compile the interpreter/compiler/runtime itself, not the program) time, or used as a target for a preprocessor. That makes it so it's at least a little easier to get a userbase going, maybe some existing libraries can work with your language.

If that's not possible, I'd be curious to learn what makes it not feasible. Fresh approaches to data processing are really desirable right now, since so many of us are working with data that is different from what language designers intended.
My off-the-shelf $1k drone can fly fine in heavy wind and light rain. With minor mods, it could probably handle heavier rain too. Any wind it can't handle is going to discourage birds too.
It's a good thing dang is here to tell us that talking about Musk is off topic in a thread about an article about Musk. What a tolerant, open-minded approach!
Use regular C, but write the code in literate programming files which can be rendered into a portable design document describing the implementation and interaction of every subsystem in the codebase. 'Standard written English' is the best language available for modeling abstractions.
In which case, I'm thinking people in those countries know enough to set a password.
Where did you teach? I ask because I'm curious if that perspective is accurate at all types of post-secondary institutions, or if there is a difference between for-profits, private schools, community colleges, state schools, Ivy League, etc.
We have a group sort of like that in Australia, Getup (not bribing but lobbying). The current sitting party is trying to get it deemed as a political party as it consistently lobbies against government policy (policy which is consistently against the will and interests of the public).
You don't think they'd just pass the taxes on to the customer in fees and then blame the local govt?

Personally I'm for banning cars altogether from city centers. Many cities are implementing that too, and not nearly soon enough.
definitely interested in the transfer learning question & if so how the initial architecture to base model on is selected? Would also be keen to know about other factors relevant to iterating over models e.g. how early stopping is dealt with?
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but you should just need to move the player in the opposite direction of the world's desired movement? No game system I'm aware does it the other way around, as it requires changing all the other models transforms.

But yes, I am dealing with the interface, primarily by ignoring it. I'm still trying to get down the right way to organize my code, but it's making sense.
> This is fine if the movement is predictable (as it would be for a trained human). I suspect a drone is going to struggle mightily with a .338's recoil.

I was dismissing the OP at first, but you convinced me it's viable. This one detail (that is really the worst I could find) is the kind of thing where neural nets excel.

One would need to fire a few shots on training, but now I think precise targeting (in there being a small enough motor step) is harder to solve than this.
Time of use metering is an available option in some parts of the US, and I think mandatory in some places as well. I've also seen some tarriffs residences can opt into with a lower base rate, and a much higher peak rate, with some sort of real time indication that a peak will be coming in the next hour or day, depending on the system.

Of course, commercial/institutional energy users have had demand adjustment programs in return for lower base rates for a lot longer.
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I think email is #1. Personally, it's my favorite because I get to pick and choose who sees each post.
You are right, although it's not clear for me if you refer to the old/traditional coal plants or not. If you refer to the coal plants I agree, the 'negative prices are prima facie evidence of' coal plants 'not functioning "well"'.
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A lot of debate about education forgets that roughly half of public university students wash out. Graduation is a real accomplishment that sets you apart from many others who had the same opportunity and access.
and PHEVs are mechanically more complex than ICEVs, often requiring more things that need maintenance and repair.

Not necessarily. At least in a Toyota hybrid you won't find a regular transmission but a much simpler planetary gear set.

Also everything that can be powered by the battery - like power steering, AC, water pump etc. - is, so less fluids, pumps, belts etc.

Lastly there's no starter motor and I think there's no need for a stepper motor since load and thus RPM can be regulated by the motor-generator pair.
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> it takes new users hours or days to join an old blockchain

The main reason for decentralization is to prevent collusion. But the risk of collusion decreases very quickly even with relatively limited amounts of decentralization. E.g. a consortium of even 10 independent banks would be much less likely to steal your money than Wells Fargo alone. So while there will always be some use cases where power users will want to validate the entire chain, in practice I think we can get 99% of the benefits of decentralization with even a handful of nodes. Bitcoin wouldn't be trustworthy under this model since anyone can jump in and mine, but it's possible to create networks that are trustworthy in this way.

In terms of scalability, the three main contenders right now to be the next generation general purpose blockchain are Hashgraph, DFINITY, and RChain, with a couple dozen other dark horse contenders as well (protocol labs, eos, tezos, etc.) We don't know if any of them actually work yet, in the same way we didn't know whether or not Bitcoin was actually secure in 2010. But there is a bunch of stuff that will be launching in the next couple years and then slowly battle tested over the next decade while we figure out what really works.

Most consumer apps are still going to be driven just by Postgres or whatever, with data only validated on the chain when it actually needs to be. E.g. if you're buying a house, it's probably fine to take Zillow's word on the transaction history if you're just casually browsing, but then if you're getting serious about buying you can always hit the button to go directly to the chain explorer or whatever.
They already sell it to Big Pharma.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/dna-testing-delete-your-data...
...And lead to an early retirement!
What fragmentation is being hidden behind Apple's iOS version numbers?
"I see no reason for people not to identify with the major party that best represents them,"

But they have to keep their party accountable. I see it so many times that people complain about something when the other party is in party and as soon as their party has the power it's perfectly fine. Sometimes this reminds me of "Doublethink" in 1984.
FYI: Notabug can't post anonymous comments or chats as of 8/7/18

And there was no way of me telling you this besides here...
It isn't sufficient that people are upset about problems caused by people in a profession/trade. Instead a major source of regulation is the professionals/tradies themselves. "I spent five years at university, so they should too." "I'm a member of the Association of Software Professionals, so they should be too".

Since there's an unhealthy obsession with libertarian small government is software circles, it seems relatively unlikely this will happen any time soon. And we would rightly fear for our jobs if this happened, because I can't imagine the regulation applying to imported code.
Elite institutions mostly filter these students out in the admissions process.
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Why would the battery charging time matter if you had a few batteries for each drone? You just manually swap or automate that process.
Or just a bad redesign
There are still a few ways to do the auditory equivalent of fat-fingering commands with Alexa. It can get frustratingly far (and even more confused) when it is starting the wrong thing and you try to stop it.

As I see it, turning on “purchases” is a sure-fire way to accidentally order stuff every time I make a noise. Turned it all off.
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Watch again. OpenAI picks in game 3 came from the audience and twitch chat. They were purposely making all the bad picks for the OpenAI team.
>If that's not possible, I'd be curious to learn what makes it not feasible. Fresh approaches to data processing are really desirable right now, since so many of us are working with data that is different from what language designers intended.

I wish to use instead swift, that hit a sweet spot. Using other lang (like python, that I loved!) make hard to target iOS/Android. This is the main crux of mine. This mean that I need to re-code a lot of stuff across platforms and targets, because nothing is good enough. I also use xamarin/F# and the integration with android/ios is not as good as I imagine (ie: xamarin.forms sucks. And is damm hard to integrate yourself anything (ie: ios/android libraries) outside it).

I also try with nim but is too crude and lack a lot of libraries I will need. I'm also thinking on using pascal, that I also like much, so now is just looking how good could be the use of rust...
Same thing happened when someone noticed a correlation between successful kids and kids who have books at home.

Someone ordered that every household should have books at home while failing to realize that correlation != causation…
I agree, the UI/UX chnages put me off. I haven't use snap in over 6 months.
> They changed to a "real name" policy and now the comments, while much reduced, are also much more thoughtful and tend to stay on-topic.

Real name policies eliminate specific categories of speech.

One of those categories is trolling, which naturally makes everybody very happy. The problem is that some of the other categories are really important.

If you require real names then people with minority views are afraid to present them, even when they can make a major contribution. People won't disclose relevant inside information, including malfeasance, because they face being fired or abused until they quit. People won't say anything against the interests of anyone in a position of power over them.

It's basically a mechanism that gets rid of the Nazis and SJWs by getting rid of anyone critical of the government or existing power structures. The resulting debate is unquestionably a lot more polite, but politeness is not the only consideration.
rumor I heard: Cuban prices are cheap, yes because of good supply, but also because rates are fixed way below market. A doctor is paid some paltry rate; it’s the same amout a teacher or mechanic or anyone else would make, because communism.

can anyone refute this? it sounded a bit too slick to me, but I don’t know enough to say if it’s true/false.
Is there reason to believe that gyrojets could be made practical? I was under the impression that there were fundamental flaws in the concept.

A small-arms-caliber recoilless rifle could work really well on a drone, though.
It says a lot that you consider folks you're having a conversation with "opponents".
> Maybe not consciously, but they absolutely do subconsciously.

This is not how talking works.
Reporters, fisherman, and all sorts of mundane professional applications can get satphones. I’m sure the kind of foreign power that’s interested in our aerospace R&D can as well.
Not seriously, unless you believe Apple is going to start working with cops to kick in doors and inspect homess for non-Apple branded hardware for unsanctioned OS installs.

Even if a judge agreed with Apple's EULA (unlikely, and unlikely to be tested), that's not really enforceable in any practical sense unless you're selling computers with MacOS preinstalled. Then it's a matter of commercial licensing and distribution which they do have an interest in protecting.
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Autonomous vehicles makes owning a car even more convenient. I don't have to worry about parking, it can drop me off at the door, and then go park a mile away (or just circle around). I can get one for my child, so I don't have to drive him to school or let him walk/bike to school (it's dangerous, what with all the cars around).
>encouraged the bullies to physically torment the parents of the victims

Can you cite this? Never heard of that.
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5th generation Intel chips support Direct3D12 and not Vulkan.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
In my experience, it seems people are starting to put more emphasis on real-life activities and less on social media apps.

Personally, I deleted my Facebook account and switched to Instagram to keep track of friends with... that freed up a lot of mornings.
I think it's basically the Blub Paradox for editors: vi(m) is so much better than almost any editor, that its users think 'this, this is truly the best!' When they look at e.g. nano or Notepad++ or Atom, they can easily see how vi(m) is so much better, but when they look at emacs, they simply think, 'nah, I don't need to use that!'

The thing is, just like conditional, symbolic expressions and garbage collection are pretty important for writing expressive programs, so too a power extensible interface to textual information is important for communicating with a computer. vi(m) is a great editor, but emacs is a great editing environment.
I can't find much documentation on it, but it sounds like there's support for the Itanium c++ ABI
I don't think anyone's tried but there can be all sorts of "fun" issues, e.g. directly putting many high-k oxides onto transistors results in fermi level pinning.

EDIT: I did look at this idea some time back and I believe AMD even has a patent on it (though I might be mistaken), it's possible, but might cause unexpected issues.
What's the major impediment to installing new charging stations? My guess would be that tearing up and replacing pavement to run cables is the biggest expense, but maybe the charging electronics or the actual structural components are particularly expensive.