skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this tool is useful, but it could be even more useful if the extra manual steps were automated as part of the tool. I can see myself constantly looking for examples to perform each step, rather than just using an intuitive tool.
Same could go for lawn care.
I tend to group biotech and nanotech together. Because essentially, what is life made of if not nanotechnology that is not ours, and we don't yet know how to control? The simplest way to build our own nanomachines is to start with tweaking the ones we already have around us.
When will video backgrounds go out of fashion for the same reasons?
Interesting! I'm using this open implementation for this type of addressing: http://www.mapcode.com/
That's a really great blog post. Thanks for sharing it. I encourage everyone to read it - it's not long and may open your mind about net neutrality a bit.
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Yes, I know. Don't know anyone who has one. You've completely missed the point
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its just popped up :-)
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The thing is, the problem of net neutrality has a pretty clear solution. You force companies to carry all traffic equally, give no special treatment, etc. It's not perfect, but it works.

What's the solution to the problem of a lack of competition?
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It's really not: https://www.google.com/finance?q=GBPUSD
I hoover the moldings but use a dry Swiffer for the walls. Much faster and less scratching. Highly recommended.
Ask HN: What do you believe in? Calculus or Statistics
To quote Peter Thiel via "The hard thing about hard things" by Ben Horowitz:

"There are several different frameworks one could use to get a handle on the indeterminate vs. determinate question. The math version is calculus vs. statistics. In a determinate world, calculus dominates. You can calculate specific things precisely and deterministically. When you send a rocket to the moon, you have to calculate precisely where it is at all times. It’s not like some iterative startup where you launch the rocket and figure things out step by step. Do you make it to the moon? To Jupiter? Do you just get lost in space? There were lots of companies in the ’90s that had launch parties but no landing parties.
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.
With calculus, you can calculate things far into the future. You can even calculate planetary locations years or decades from now. But there are no specifics in probability and statistics—only distributions. In these domains, all you can know about the future is that you can’t know it. You cannot dominate the future; antitheories dominate instead. The Larry Summers line about the economy was something like, “I don’t know what’s going to happen, but anyone who says he knows what will happen doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” Today, all prophets are false prophets. That can only be true if people take a statistical view of the future."

— Peter Thiel
Your second link does not work. Would be interesting.
One man's hubris is another's refusal to keep being bullied by nature. I don't see anything bad with wanting to live longer. I don't see anything bad with fighting the "natural state of things" to achieve it. It's sad that throughout history, most humans are just willing to lie down and die.

Preventing it from turning into dystopia is another matter though, well worth of discussing.
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Langton's ant has no halting state. It can't halt. But you're right, that description doesn't leave any room for programs that run in a specific loop forever instead of making a highway. So that doesn't seem to be Turing-complete.
It saddens me that this government design body think that using HTML emails, with headers and footers, is somehow more official looking than plain text. If they want to reassure citizens that emails are from the government and therefore "real", then why not sign the emails with PGP? More people should be using PGP and for the government to do so, could increase its usage across the population (I have never bought into the idea PGP is too difficult to general usage).
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I'd like a low-speed dog-and-kid-friendly mowing bot. A sort of solar-powered turtle that just chews the grass down, wandering around all its life inside an electric fence.
Why not just get off the planet? The resources available above our heads are vast.
this amused me, because I remembered this: http://www.slideshare.net/danmckinley/design-for-continuous-...
Slide 42 onwards talks about etsy a/b testing "improvements" in speed and the effect on sales: "Meh" is the conclusion.
As a member of the tl;dr culture, who is too lazy to Google for them himself, I want to ask if you could link the ones you find most interesting/relevant?
3. Self cleaning coffee-machine is on my list. I don't quite enjoy drinking coffee that comes out of a capsule.
How can something so high vacuum properly under the furniture?

Is that an obvious flaw, or am i mistaken?
I just adore the "government is trying to destroy the free market" rhetoric when it applies to the internet. Do these people not know anything about the history of the internet, or do they merely choose to ignore it?
Seems like dedicated lines would be more secure. More expensive, too, but sometimes security should trump expense.

or

How stupid do you have to be to trust core financial information to public communication methods?
He's not shocked, he's upset something is calling itself "Standard Markdown" yet he, the creator of Markdown, did not have any involvement.

There's nothing wrong with making a standard, just don't appropriate the name.
To put this in perspective, there are very few animals that are not bilateral. Look at the outline on the right side here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal

This new species would be in the odd subkingdoms at the top or a new subkingdom there.
Oh. OK, thanks.
How does 1 second ticks stop liquidity and arbitrage? It just stops the faster connections wins.

HFT aren't really adding liquidity since they only buy when they can sell straight away. So there was already a liquid purchase there.

Arbitrage, if something is cheaper elsewhere, the 1 second tick will still bring the price into parity.
I think you're talking about a carousel (showing multiple slides at the same time). This is technically an "image slider" so is designed to only show one slide at a time.
FWIW, the estimates I hear kicked around from Tabb Group and the like are more in the $1-5B range, not $10-50B.

Which is to say, even a tinier drop in the bucket.
Ask HN: Comfortable chair for small space
I'm trying to set up my home working environment to be a bit more ergonomic. I have about 2.5 feet of space between my bed and my desk, I myself am 6'4" and the desk has about 2 feet of clearance under it. Given these space considerations, does anyone have some recommended chairs?
Check what type of audience Khan Academy's Reverse Engineering section has (https://www.khanacademy.org/science/discoveries-projects/Rev...). I believe you have the same audience. But I also believe that videos are much more effective to learn how things work than photos. Maybe you should explore that road. Good luck.
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Markdown is dead. Long live kramdown! :-)
IKEA Channels Apple in a Hilarious Ad for Its New Catalog ‘Bookbook’
I agree in part, however, sustainability requires a complex combinatorial solution as well due to it's association to the human condition related to self-interests (the list goes on of course), science, international distribution policy/policing, philosophical vs. technology GMO issuse etc.

We need to learn more about are species, we need to buy both time and food with something other than money.
Are you saying NodeJS has no concurrency?
Simple answer: think how to colonize desert or build underwater habitats first. It's infinitely easier, and yet still superhard. We'll have to do all of this eventually.

As for resources, we don't need to relocate to get to them, we can bring them down here. There are companies already working on it.
If it kills Connect:Direct, hooray!
This is as fascinating as it is disturbing. Props to Ma for tapping into an excellent market.

I knew someone in high school (Asian) that was the product her parents' obsession with a prestigious education. It was extremely difficult on her. Perfect grades and ACT, yet was rejected from MIT. Ended up at Princeton (gasp!). Her parents were incredibly disappointed. From what I've heard, she seems to be doing well on her own.

My dad (2nd generation Korean) had the same sort of childhood. He always told me I was lucky to spend my summers at camp because he spent his summers as a kid working through the next year's math textbook.

Alternatively, my group of friends in high school all picked good colleges based on personal fit, rather than prestige, despite having exceptional grades and test scores and extracurriculars to boot. Most of us didn't even consider Ivys and didn't have much external pressure from parents in terms of grades or college decisions. I do not envy those that did. I feel that those whose motivation to succeed comes from external pressure rather than internal drive are bound to have a life-crisis one day when they realize that they spent their life working to please others rather than pursue their own dreams.
I don't see what's unfair about ISP's charging Netflix when the ISP's are the ones that spent billions building the networks that made Netflix possible in the first place.

Netflix is particularly unsympathetic in my eyes, because its just a middle man. Almost all the real value (the content, and the wires that deliver the content to consumers) is created by other people.
>many of them are opposed to HFT.

Remind me which of those banks are calling for it to be strictly regulated or prohibited?

I've heard that some banks are now selling "protection" against HFT sharks in the form of dark pools (which is often not really protection at all - see Barclays). Bearing that in mind I can't imagine that it would hurt for them to put out a marketing message that is disdainful of the practice while still quietly engaging in it.
How's the pay for Fortran programmers?

Both Fortran and Cobol are capable, but unexciting, languages. I'd be OK working with either one if the pay was good and the employment guaranteed.
Do you know which image sensors it uses?
I like the Feynman quote a few comments down:

"You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon
you learn something no one has learned before."
I loooked at their pricing page on https://trustly.com/en/pricing/ - not a single price is there. Come on guys...
Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals
Why are these ports open on my iPhone?
You're right of course, but we won't solve our problems by just throwing away this planet and going to another (that, remember, doesn't support life by default, we need to make it do that).

We need to crack sustainability anyway, and it's best to focus on it ASAP.
I think code blocks don't track indentation. A code block is just a bunch of lines beginning with 4 spaces (or blank lines) and the rest (when >4 spaces) are treated as leading spaces.

I think you're right about lists though.
There are a few sub-issues here, which the article touches on briefly.

First, the pay and benefits are awful. This could be fixed with a cultural attitude shift which favors scientific progress enough to actually incentivize people to do it. The entire "STEM! STEM! STEM!" craze has not been accompanied by increased wages, so it rings cynically hollow.

Second, the work-life balance is poor, especially for PhD students and post docs. This could be fixed by reducing expectations and shifting to less of a "publish or perish" mindset when it comes to funding research. Working too many hours is frequently lamented/glorified/humblebragged about. A lot of these people don't have a life outside of the laboratory, and it's depressing to think about them because they choose it.

Third, the political games are fierce, relentless, and necessary in order to move upward. In academic biology, sideways moves aren't really a thing-- you either move upward (which really only happens a couple of times in most careers), or tread water wherever you are. The politics of funding and who to collaborate with are part of the game, and many people get fed up with it very quickly. People are extremely territorial about any kind of resources they have, even if the resources are freely replenishable or effectively infinite. Because so much time must be spent playing politics, leadership figures are frequently uninvolved/unreachable while occupied with political matters such as securing funding, collaborations, or new personnel.

Fourth, I have observed many instances of a poor work environment. There is always far more criticism than praise in the sciences, and it wears people down. It is a common occurrence that a superior will make a tender-hearted subordinate cry from the extensive criticism of a minor mistake. Part of the scientific process is presenting your work to your superiors and peers, and having them attempt to pick it apart. The gaps in your knowledge will be found by questioning in public. The faults of your experiment will be exposed, and discussed. It's humbling, and not in a good way. Science isn't particularly meant to be a feel-good enterprise, but the research culture is too vicious.

On the other hand, when the life of science is good, it's great. Currently I have tons of funding, a good work-life balance, effective leadership, and outrageously interesting research projects. The pay is still awful, and there are still a lot of vicious politics, but there's absolutely nothing like being able to plan an experiment, execute it, analyze the results, and then explain your results to others, thereby actually expanding human knowledge in some small or large way. That sensation is what keeps people in science, putting up with the bullshit-- the bad things just don't seem so heavy if you're one of the people who are electrified by the science.
I would love to help. I have some python and C experience and I can pick up any language pretty quick. I think that this would be a great project to work on, and the result would be fantastic!
I think you're being downvoted because you haven't given any reasons why he's a public menace and specifically in what way he's spreading incorrect facts. You can't just call him names and leave it at that.
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Many of us in the US still use exclusively cash for POS. For us, blasé attitude is to be expected.
But satellite imagery can be several years old.
It doesn't cost gigabytes of RAM, but Android applications do run on a Java virtual machine.

But I'm being massively pedantic.
Yes, I agree that if you threaten to quit, you should be willing/able to follow through. And yes in the USA, the could call your bluff and sack you, but in the EU, they cannot do that. So the equation has changed.
Looks like it is built on Meteor.js. Has anyone used Meteor.js in production? What are some of the cons to watch out for?
Probably because the other services let you have a handle easier to remember than "5767576".

Although the fact I still remember mine, more than a decade after I've last used it, discredits my claim somewhat.
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We need both. We already live long enough to see that if you clocked too many years, either your heart will shut down or you will get cancer and die anyway.

The ability to stop aging process might still end up somewhat limited by cancer, so both goals seem to be tightly connected.
That house is likely going to cost someone much more than 24k.

Look at all the flags: for sale at 1/3 the estimated value, estimated mortgage is 1/10 the estimated rent value, 3 year listing, listing removed at least once, numerous price drops, no cooling, and 94 years old.

That is what we call a fixer-upper with problems.

Not saying it couldn't be fixed and could be a good home for the right person, but let's be realistic about the house.
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Using calculus to predict the future is a special case of statistics where your uncertainty is zero. Statistics is absolutely necessary to do any science or prediction. It provides how confident you are with your prediction, and there's nothing special about having uncertainty in your beliefs (yes I am a Bayesian).
Aerial drone imaging? It would be much more accurate and give you better resolution. Downside is harder to scale.
>This is silly. HFT is a $10-50B/year industry, depending on who's numbers you go with. For comparison, Morgan Stanley alone made $8B in profit in the last quarter [1].

I'm not sure what your point is here? There's more to finance than HFT? There are other, bigger rip offs out there?
The EU is great for making member states do the right thing.
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http://matrix.org/blog/2014/09/03/hello-world/

http://matrix.org/docs/spec

http://matrix.org/docs/howtos

http://matrix.org/docs/api
I thought STEM already are the highest-paying industry jobs, so already worthwhile. Or does 'increased wages' mean relative to academia?

And regarding academia and politics, the old saw "The infighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small"
Part of the problem there is in the nature of each sides campaign. The most common way to build an argument is to weigh up the pro's and con's, the upsides and downsides. The "Yes" campaign can promise the world on the upside, say that it'll all be amazing in the future, simply becuase nobody really knows what will happen.

Whereas the "No" campaign can only say the upside is it will be exactly the same as today, just the boring status quo. So they've been kinda forced into negative campaigning just by the nature of the decision to be made.

They could've tried some bribery perhaps, "Hey, we'll invest billions more in Scotland", but that would be really transparent on both sides and probably lose them more than they'd gain.
They don't freeze their ingredients so it all has to be super close by to remain fresh.
I didn't call him a name, I said he is a menace. He could be a otherwise intelligent phd holding user. But right now he is waving a preverbal gun around clueless to the danger he is causing.

Menace isn't an insult.
HFT gives me a minor amount of hope for our regulatory environment: the forces and popular opinion of Big Finance all oppose it, but regulators continue to allow it.

The short answer is that HFT is like Wal-Mart: it's trendy and cool to complain about it, but in terms of providing better and faster inventory to ordinary customers, it works better than everything that came before.

Except Wal-Mart is hated for being (allegedly) bad for poor workers, electronic trading's victims have primarily been the Wall Street old boys' club. Why the public is convinced this is a bad thing is beyond me.
When I last heard this discussion it went like this: Visa to store : "People have been asking us for chip + pin and we're ready! Just pay a one time fee of $199.99 for the upgraded reader and note that C+P cards carry an additional .5% service charge for the more complex handling they do."

Literally using it as a revenue generating opportunity and a way to raise fees. My friend who owns the store declined to participate as they weren't interested in raising their prices just to pay Visa more money. Had Visa come at it the other way, reducing fees due to likely less fraud it would have been a different story.
I think none of these arguments are very good against the idea of one-auction-a-second.

1) Liquidity is good, but remember who it is for. Uninformed traders, who want possession of the asset itself, will not care about a one-second delay because one second is too small an amount of time in human terms. Being able to trade a fraction of a second earlier is of no benefit. Being able to trade quickly on human timescales is the great benefit of algorithmic trading.

Informed traders, such as market makers, even market-making algorithms, also shouldn't care about a one-second delay. Their contribution to the market is the price. If you are a very good market maker, and you can quote prices better than anyone else in the market, your prices will be the better ones anyway, regardless of how the market is structured. And the profits are the market's rewards for quoting good prices, not trading quickly.

I would say the general idea is that liquidity providers and liquidity consumers compete, above all, on the price, and a one-second delay does nothing to hurt their incentives.

2) Again, I think it's quite obvious that on human timescales, on which actual economic decisions are made, there is no benefit to information arriving just a fraction earlier than it would otherwise. If you think of a market's purpose as revealing the price of an asset, it really shouldn't matter if the price is revealed 1ms earlier. What matters is that it is revealed at all, and revealed correctly with as many market participants as possible.

3) Because arbitrage becomes better when it contributes information to the market, not when it contributes information to the market 1ms earlier than another arbitrageur.

I think your points are completely valid arguments for algorithmic trading. Algorithms providing market participants with better prices than humans are indeed better for everyone. But for high-frequency trading, with the emphasis on high-frequency, I don't think this is very convincing.
In 1886, if memory serves, Dmitry Mendeleev, the father of modern chemistry, set limits to growth of Russian big cities to 50 years. Because he saw no solution to the horse poo collection and storage problem. He thought streets in 50 years will be literally covered with horsies whoopsies in a thick way.
He could not predict the transportation revolution.
Same fallacy demonstrated the Rome Club with its Limits to Growth. Seriously, lads, we now have resources abundant as Sun, thorium reactors and cheap water distillation. What really limits mankind is capitalist greed, market anarchy and lack of planning.
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I completely agree, we need to solve for this Earth first. If we continue to ruin this earth, we don't stand a chance and even worse, we'll have a horrible intergalactic reputation.
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