skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a slight correction: the musimones is the inverse sexual partnering - a male sheep and a female goat (as specified in the text you quote). The offspring of the hybrids referred to here as 'umbri' were also written about by Wallace in his book, on the Theory of Natural Selection (expanding on ideas he had at the same time Darwin was coming up with his theory of evolution):

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"It has been long known to shepherds, though questioned by naturalists, that the progeny of the cross between the sheep and goat is fertile. Breeds of this mixed race are numerous in the north of Europe." Nothing appears to be known of such hybrids either in Scandinavia or in Italy; but Professor Giglioli of Florence has kindly given me some useful references to works in which they are described. The following extract from his letter is very interesting: "I need not tell you that there being such hybrids is now generally accepted as a fact. Buffon (Supplements, tom. iii. p. 7, 1756) obtained one such hybrid in 1751 and eight in 1752. Sanson (La Culture, vol. vi. p. 372, 1865) mentions a case observed in the Vosges, France. Geoff. St. Hilaire (Hist. Nat. Gén. des reg. org., vol. iii. p. 163) was the first to mention, I believe, that in different parts of South America the ram is more usually crossed with the she-goat than the sheep with the he-goat. The well-known 'pellones' of Chile are produced by the second and third generation of such hybrids (Gay, 'Hist, de Chile,' vol. i. p. 466, Agriculture, 1862). Hybrids bred from goat and sheep are called 'chabin' in French, and 'cabruno' in Spanish. In Chile such hybrids are called 'carneros lanudos'; their breeding inter se appears to be not always successful, and often the original cross has to be recommenced to obtain the proportion of three-eighths of he-goat and five-eighths of sheep, or of three-eighths of ram and five-eighths of she-goat; such being the reputed best hybrids.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Darwinism_by_Alfred_Walla...
"How much is your car worth?" on the main page: I have no idea. Isn't that the point of your service, to tell me how much I can get for my car?
That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. We've done genetic studies on humans and apes, and we share some huge fraction of our genome with them (99%+, right?).

It's quite telling that in this era of abundant genetic data, this guy bases all of his arguments on anatomical similarities and says nothing about genetics. It's all but impossible that a link like what he's suggesting would have been overlooked if pigs had made any significant contribution to the human genome. (Just for example, we've got all sorts of estimates of species divergence dates among primates based on genetic data that should have given nonsensical results if there had been massive influxes of pig DNA in the middle of that history.)
The installs you get from mobile affiliate are usually shit in terms of performance fwiw. The install flows are things like ads that say [get the app now] then link directly to a random app in the app store, so there is very little intent.
An interesting way to get some morning exercise to start your day.

I believe each person has to find what works for them in terms of getting a healthy amount of exercise. For some that involves a gym membership, fitness classes or team sports.

Myself, I mostly run and enjoy training for a marathon once or twice a year. I am thankful that I usually do not have to start work before 9 AM, which usually allows me to get a morning workout in without waking at a ridiculously early time.

I find this energizes me for the rest of day, provided I did not stay up past midnight the night before and also gives me some alone time to think about anything: Work, problems, or just plain day-dreaming.

Some people hate running for a variety of reasons and I can understand that. You're much less likely to stick with an exercise routine if it feels like yet another chore in life's long list of chores. Experiment and find some activity you can do regularly that offers more than just physical benefits.
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> Hybrids between species of horses and cats are common

Yes, they're called "hats" or "corses".
Yes, I have tried it specifically with F#. In fact, I contributed some minor patches to the SGen GC so it'd work correctly on FreeBSD, just so I could run F# on FreeBSD using Mono/SGen. SGen is a significant improvement over the older GC for any program running on Mono, but especially for F# programs.
Yes sorry, it is $2.3 trillion.

In domestic politics the recipients of the democracy get to vote on the govt. if it is doing a good job. Aid recipients don't have any say, they just get whatever comes and the feedback that makes markets work is missing. The suppliers and recipients are disconnected, and there's possibly a corrupt tyrant in between to make things worse. There's no accountability. The Western donors (we taxpayers) are told "something is being done" and we see news with grain being unloaded and given to hungry people with pots in their hands.

Good source material would be William Easterly's "The White Man's Burden".

If you think Climate Change is where the focus should be, you're going to have to persuade a billion Indians and a billion Chinese that they don't need fossil fuels and access to plentiful energy supplies in the near future.

Telling an Indian he can't have air conditioning from while you are sat in an air conditioned office is going to be a bit one sided.
That. I'm placing my bet on "Make X more" winner of the A/B testing.
Almost all our meetings are set up over email, IM or text. And the vast majority of communication is online too.
So requiring a phone is a sign that the old way of doing things is not gone, and it will make it harder to get traction, especially from the HN crowd and people with poorer English.
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Sorry but I don't want to play the guessing game with random commenter any more than I want to with Google.

(The browser is latest firefox/iceweasel on Debian testing)
Great analysis here. Really shows our double standard and mob mentality.

I'm not against people boycotting Mozilla (because that's their choice) but the whole things is just a big hotheaded mobfest (like all the other mobfest in the past).
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Vick Strizheus’ absolute love in helping others succeed is how High Traffic Academy came to be. His passion to make everyone create the life they only dreamed about makes High Traffic Academy simply a cut above the rest of other online traffic generating programs.
Google is still only 16 years old; Intel is 46. Yes, you can hire people mid-career, but only one of these two companies has really had enough time to grow a full crop of wizened engineers.

As we all know, older folks tend to vote more conservative.
I wonder if this will lead to showrooming of groceries, like Amazon's done with books. The only thing preventing this is the wifi requirement, but of course one can already do this with their phone. Though it does make it even easier.
Thanks, that is helpful.

I found the story of how haveged came to be, which was a surprise: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=31111

I also found this. The answer for most part speaks to havege instead of haveged. The last part of the answer speaks to haveged.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/8083/quality-of-r...
I should clarify: substantive differences within this context. I don't deny that there are differences.
True. I guess my point was:

1) They have an interface to usenet so an interface via Wave wasn't (strictly speaking) necessary.

2) Such an interface could have been added later via gadgets and bots, rather than one singular hardcoded method.
Why would they make a device rather than an app to do this? Seems pretty awesome as a service though...if Amazon Fresh was available here.
He supported it in the 90s, then was "undecided" again for a while, then flat-out against it, then changed his mind again in early 2012 and is now in support of it.

Interestingly, as FiveThirtyEight showed at the time, he waited until there was more than 50% support among Democratic voters before finally coming out in support of it this most recent time. (That tipping point happened a couple of months before he announced the "evolution" of his believes.)
Well then it's a good thing Eclipse isn't necessary for Android development, isn't it?
videos not showing for me either, only the audio..
Wishing nerdy stuff like this would get more upvotes.. :)
"Dash ... works directly with your AmazonFresh account"

Which means it is only available in three locations (SoCal/SF/Seattle).
Why was a separate physical device needed for this? It seems like a simple smartphone application would work just as well, if not better as I would assume virtually all of the target audience for this service already have a smartphone.
> So requiring a phone is a sign that the old way of doing things is not gone

It isn't gone. You are in the minority.

But that being said, maybe there is an argument that the OP needs to cater to the new things.
Opportunity and wait cost is annoying high if you're trying to save a few bucks by going to the supermarket, scanning all the items there, and ordering from Amazon.

If anything I'd imagine rolling into recommended food subscriptions.
The video won't play at all in my browser. FF24 on Gentoo.
Ultimately, I want to know how much I could sell my car for before bothering to sign up.

Asking for a phone number made me close the page. People use the web because they want to do things on their time and not to have to deal with people calling them.

To be honest, the phone number made it seem like one of the millions of lead generation services (e.g. limos.com) where your information is forwarded to a bunch of companies who then all spam you and call you for weeks to come. Email should be enough.
I was raised by a single mother, and had no problem finding male role models, I fail to see how this would be different to a child raised by two men or two women
How does this differ from people using the mobile app? Mainly for Amazon Fresh integration?
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hmm, I used it, and didn't have the problem. I was only contacted by the dealers I requested, and one I told them I was interested in a different car, they left me alone.

also, when selecting your dealers it was pretty obvious that they were going to be contacting you, no?
I see absolutely no reason why this couldn't have been a mobile app with a bar code scanner and voice recognition...
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While it's true that retail flow has no information, it's also true that a broker will obtain better executions if it does not sell order flow to HFTs.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?t=245029

https://institutions.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1...
We're happy to hear that we can't wait! As far as legislation goes, we expect some pushback but we are ready to fight it head on. Thanks for the comment, we really appreciate it.
I think the way they choose to introduce him in the blurb below the video is funny: "inventor of Paxos and developer of LaTeX." But Leslie Lamport has a Turing Award!
Very nicely put. Yes it's a bit hilarious.

The HFT folks seem to be saying "you don't have a right to add up all the total amount of asks at a certain price across all the exchanges and expect to get execution at that price" and with a bit of thought I might agree with them. But it is very counter-intuitive. If you see 10,000 shares for sale across 10 exchanges at $54.00 your VERY next thought probably isn't "oh that's actually 1,000 shares, but advertised on all the exchanges so it only LOOKS like 10,000" Once you understand how things works, sure fine.

The counter to that, though, is that the HFT folks don't have any right to have access to order flow. If market participants want to route their orders to a particular dark pool or exchange they have every right to. The "markets are always right" sword cuts both ways.
Hey everyone! I wrote the robot integration here, but not the AI core, which was https://twitter.com/waltdestler . He's going to write up a piece on his AI stuff at some point soon. I'm actually not super familiar with it, despite hooking into it, so I can't speak too much about it.

The physical integration is pretty simple. I'm using libimobiledevice to get a screenshot over the cable: http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ . Recognizing the board isn't very hard.

An Arduino and Adafruit motor shield are controlling two stepper motors with cardboard/tinfoil arms. Stepper motors are important because they won't drift over time.

The AI gets 3k tiles ~30% of its games, and 6k tiles ~3% of the time. These are simulated games--currently the robot is streaming its 5th complete game.
How was the study poorly designed?
You don't have to agree with Michael Lewis' views or buy into the story line 100% in order to enjoy the book. The fact is that this is a well-written book that is full of mini-stories and anecdotes that present very realistic descriptions of how electronic markets and Wall Street in general work. Statements like "the market is rigged" are obviously over the top but that doesn't mean that the book on average is not true to reality. Most books about electronic trading suffer from extreme sensationalism, poor writing, and the inability of the authors to understand the subject matter that they are writing about. Michael Lewis does a better job than everyone else. He is a great writer and he is a smart guy who has some financial background and has a pretty good understanding of financial markets. Yes, there is some sensationalism here (he has to sell a good story after all) and there are many errors in the book, and, yes, the author's biases are quite evident, he's picked a side and he's sticking to his story. On aggregate, though, this is probably the best book about the world of electronic trading that I've read.

(Some people mentioned "Dark Pools" by Scott Patterson. Although also interesting, that books was often quite painful to read because it was quite clear that the author did not understand basic financial and programming concepts. "Flash Boys" is much better, in my opinion. Although if you are really interested in the subject, you should read both.)
The recommendation of 95% significance level is quite common across A/B testing resources. The main goal here is to be able to say which variant will consistently perform best (in this case, 95% of the time).

I agree that it would be useful to be able to change the confidence level based on a site's specific needs - this is a feature I am looking to implement in Confidence.js soon.
Maybe the open source remote learning tool http://bigbluebutton.org would be helpful
Have you considered doing a (YC) startup...? :)
> If we continue

So we should have been more tolerant to those who supported segregation and let them just keep on keeping on?

I think recent history is pretty clear, making certain social and political views have consequences has largely been for the greater good. There are no doubt many anecdotes of the opposite. My little "sacrifice" for having been "Un-American" or a "Sadam Lover" a decade ago is nothing compared to what those of another color or sexual preference have gone through in my lifetime.

At some point, people have to pick sides and accept the consequences.
Truecar.com used to charge dealers between 400$ and 500$ for every deal that would close (sale). Since then, I believe that they changed it into a monthly subscription, or a combination of the two.
The problem is that Truecar is yet another middleman, and yes, it's much better to sign up with a new email address because you will get all the spam in the world.

It is much better to get "certificates" on Truecar with a fake name/email, then go to the dealer and say: give me this car for 500$ less, or I'll walk away.

I didn't buy a car yet, but I got two real offers from dealers just like that.

Truecar is a middleman... Middlemen tend to go away. I am not optimistic about their future.
Nice post, and interesting timing, just published a post on how to do SSE with Java: http://eranmedan.com/server-side-events-sse-in-java and... I must admit the Node.js version is clearly more concise and elegant :) but still this is one of the simplest ways to do server side "push", if only IE supported it... though you can always use a polyfill:
https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource/

(though that polifill didn't work for me for that example, but I didn't spend much time trying to figure out why)
Given a moral framework, the third statement is an empirical statement. Given a traditional Christian moral framework, as an example, the third statement is true. If you believe that a traditional Christian moral framework is necessary for Western civilization to continue, then that justifies the first two statements. For the United States, then, the major task is to argue that a traditional Christian moral framework isn't necessary for Western civilization to survive.
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Probably because nobody wants to use mobile apps with bar code scanners.

Related: http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
I see one - convenience. It takes much longer to unlock phone, open app, than scan instead of just scanning. Also probably easier to use by multiple users (kids might not have smartphones)
It was especially disappointing when he dismissed the front running as always having been there.
I'm still seeing this on the car-description part.
I won't cry over breaking this vs my $600 smartphone in the kitchen. I had to clean my wife's phone off just a day ago, as she was using it while baking and it was covered in flour.
Thanks a lot, very valuable. I'm going to interview a few people that have a background in these companies, good to have a realistic base line.
I'm in the process of buying a used car and wrote a note to my business partner about how I wish a service like this existed.

There's often a ton of communication between me and sellers to determine things like:

- mileage

- automatic / manual transmission

- whether car has been in any serious accidents

- whether there's any major upcoming maintenance

- whether the driver smoked

- whether the title is Clean

Then I need to get the VIN and run a CarProof (Canadian equiv. of CarFax).

Then, assuming it checks out, schedule a test drive.

Then, assuming the drive is good, get a mechanic's inspection done.

Then, pay and sign papers.

It's a royal pain, compounded by the fact that CL and Autotrader individual sellers seem to be a generally sketchy or uncommunicative lot: no email replies, missed appointments, lying about the title, etc. are all common.

Car buying won't be done like it currently is in 10 years from now; glad to see you're doing something to improve the experience.
It sounds like they are gunning for it to be an "appliance" of sorts. The same way very few people actually use cell phones as TV remotes, even though the software is out there.
Number of steps to scan grocery by phone:

1. Find your phone

2. Unlock

3. Swipe left to home page three or maybe four

4. Visually scan for the AmazonFresh icon and tap

5. Wait for loading

6. Start scanning action

7. Confirm and pay

Number of steps to scan grocery by Dash:

1. Get device from drawer or pantry

2. Press one button and scan

3. Confirm and pay

For the target demo (30+, married, households with children), option 2 wins hands down. Because you will easily be distracted and stop using option 1 and not complete checkout.

Amazon knows CPG and commerce better than you do.
Major point: "{vegetarians} appeared to carry elevated risks of cancer, allergies and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety". Maybe its not causal - those things could drive a person to try a different diet.
>when shopping for a new car and instantly got spammy, sleazy emails and phone calls from dealers

As a dev who works for company in the same vertical, this is the modus operandi of every dealership in the country. Their online strategy is "Get email addresses from boomers, then spam their inboxes into submission!" As if boilerplate ridden automated emails and $5 off your next dealership tune-up could influence buyers on a once-in-a-decade purchase.

[1]http://www.arcleu.com/how_not_to_advertise_your_websites_liv...
Until they can address the problem with building certain NPM modules on windows (ie `node-gyp` related ones), this is a bit of a non-starter.

Sadly the only reason I keep my windows based desktop around these days is PC gaming is still very much windows based.
This is as insightful comment and the points you raise may be important for a startup, SAAS or software product company to consider. A lot of organizations use and develop software but aren't software companies.

"A fully heterogenous system with a sole vendor mediating your access" is a good thing for these companies.

I do a lot of contract work for state and local governments. They are already fully invested in SQL Server, IIS and Active Directory. For both these organizations and myself as a contractor to them I see the increased openness of Microsoft as only a good thing.
It takes 5 seconds to fix the problem.
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Thanks a lot! any war stories to tell about those license agreements?
I guess it’s easier to scan with a dedicated device than with a mobile phone (“scan, scan, scan” vs. “open the app, take a picture, let it scan, take another picture, let it scan, etc”), plus you only need one device at home everybody can use without having to take your/their phone.
What? This is an attempt to sell Visual Studio by making it relevant to what developers are using!
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Because they don't start out with well-designed systems (that costs money), and they don't want to upgrade their systems to be good (that costs money).

It's very simple, but it's only obvious after you've seen it happen too many times.
In my experience, the camera takes too long to focus to really be practical for scanning many items. Also, it's marketed as a multi-user device, which a smartphone is not.
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Monte Carlo is an method to solving problems that uses random inputs to examine a problem. This method has a wide variety of applications from problems too complex to solve analytically to estimating amount of time a task will take in FogBugz. Pi approximation is a simple problem that illustrates an idea of how Monte Carlo method works.
Microsoft is not doing massive layoffs these days like it did in 2009. And apparently if they lay off certain number of people they don't have to report it.

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-layoff-2009-n...
I think it has to do with the mental model. The Amazon Dash could be the first thing you think about when needing something, instead of your normal grocer, because its right there in your home. On a phone this would be just an application, which is easily forgotten and since its not special purpose hardware it's always more tedious to use then a device that has just this one purpose and those buttons.
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I'm not sure that would help them. Amazon Fresh doesn't have a great record for beating grocery store pricing. See http://www.cnet.com/news/amazonfresh-vs-supermarket-a-hands-... which matches my personal experience when I've compared baskets of products my family commonly purchases.

I will say when we used it, the produce quality was very good which was one of my concerns. Seems like they went above and beyond to address the fear of not picking your own apple.

I can't see ever paying the $299 special prime membership they are requiring in some markets though.
Given the news around bitcoin one could imagine that stealing 'google.bit' out of the google wallet[1] would be a pretty lucrative target.

[1] No I don't really think Google would let that happen but Bob's Bakery Buns might and it could cost him his business.