skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should be changed to http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-b...
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Undoubtedly x86, but it doesn't have to be an either/or thing, you know. Once you've got one ISA under your belt, it's pretty easy to pick up others.
Or go here - http://snip.ly/5Wwo
A sort of reverse kickstarter with combinations.

Instead of just makers saying what they can do it would be based more on what people say they want, and attach a value to say they'd pay a certain amount for it. You could also declare that given x, y and z you could do a, b or c and thus giant chains could be resolved.

All a bit GOSPLAN like though.

I've also considered Tinder crossed with auctions: bid according to how hot you think they are, with highest bids getting to meet (and pay!)
Ah sorry, good point. I had other requirements in mind that made me think I would end up with a larger device (battery life, un-tablety to hopefully run GNU as a base), and forgot about those when writing my comment.

Not that I really want something that won't fit in my pocket, so thanks for your suggestions of things to look into :>

Although a device with a baseband (but antenna removed) could even be a decent starting point. Lacking a network channel, it would be basically equivalent security to a desktop CPU (that's an uncomfortable truth).
Oh, damn. I've been drooling over an oculus for a while, but I didn't know it needed a beefy pc. Isn't it just full HD? That's the same resolution as my screen. Why would it need more power than driving just the screen?
Indeed, I had a very strong feeling that the quote came from the book and waited until I had a chance to log into amazon and search for the text within the book.

In pages 56-57 of this NYTimes best seller you will find this gem. I remember wincing when I read it, repelled by the idea that I "[have] no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true."

I picked up the book with an open mind but was turned off by citation after citation of what felt like were probably very weak experiments.

The worst part is that this type of book, which must have sold millions (?) of copies, perpetuates possibly mistaken ideas and overstates the strength of the "effects" studied.
Semantic UI: UI is the vocabulary of the web.

http://semantic-ui.com/
In the book we talk more about offline channel tracking, but basically you can tie them to online activity (e.g. discount codes, unique URLs, etc.) or via the "how did you hear about us?" questions.

For beating chicken and egg problem, generally you want to figure out which side is more difficult to get (demand or supply side) and then think about what traction channels work to acquire people on that side of the C&E problem. Happy to chat more over email if you'd like specific help.
They've also unfairly appropriated the name "Markdown" and declared it "Standard", which Gruber is (rightly) not too happy with.[0][1]

[0] https://twitter.com/justin/status/507304506007515136

[1] https://twitter.com/markdown/status/507341395137658880
I find the teams I work with generally end up transmitting secrets over untrusted centralized chat protocols. I'm glad to see folks stepping into this space and popularizing and simplifying this sort of security!

For environment-based configuration values and multi-member teams, I wrote conf_conf [1].

[1] https://github.com/jkassemi/conf_conf
Why? Nation of Islam may have the word "Islam" in it, but they're definitely not Muslim.
It appears the new TLDs are in a period called Controlled Interruption[1] where DNS queries get a response of 127.0.53.53 .

ICANN has made a "Guide to Name Collision Identification
and Mitigation for IT Professionals"[2]

Here's a list of their Name Collision resources: [3]

[1]: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-it-pros...

[2]: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/name-collision-m...

[3]: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-2013-12...
Ugh. When did TC start autoplaying videos? The pause button is also completely broken for me so I have no choice but to listen to the whole thing if I want to read the article.
I'm not aware of much like this besides mechanical turk. In any case, no one is forcing people to work, it's just an option they otherwise wouldn't have. You can argue their lives won't be any better with it, but I can't see how they would be worse. You make it sound like they are going to be rounded up by slave drivers, and otherwise would be pretty well off.

The worst case would be existing industries that are currently bound by minimum wage and working laws, that then find ways around the regulations. But new industries that didn't exist before mostly add new jobs, not replace existing ones with worse ones.
Would be great to hear if anyone has any experience using this.

edit: did find this off the main page: http://chrisichris.wordpress.com/category/yeti/
Previous HN discussion (~10 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751710
And have a giant ad thrown at your face first thing? No thanks, webcache is fine.
>A VP at Goldman is, I think, the third lowest ranking front-office position.

So what? Let's just stick with the letter of the law, otherwise we're just choosing the letter or the spirit, whichever is more advantageous for the higher-status party. I have no doubt that, had he lost on a technicality rather than this bullshit, the inverse of your post would be the top comment instead (though I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have the same author, I hope).
AirBnB existed before AirBnB as well. People just called it Homeaway or VRBO. AirBnB did a few key things much better. I think there's the same opportunity in self-storage (although not sure what makes this model finally take off).
From the original Markdown doc: "HTML is a publishing format; Markdown is a writing format. Thus, Markdown’s formatting syntax only addresses issues that can be conveyed in plain text." The lack of support for complex or exact layout was intentional.

As I read it, if you want your Markdown documents to be rendered a specific way, you choose/configure/write a Markdown parser that renders it that way (possibly with the assistance of an additional stylesheet). If you need a particular extension for a task (tables, syntax-highlighted code blocks) you can use an parser that supports them. And if you need specific HTML elements, you can use them inline.

The way I read it, Markdown is intended as an _input format for markup tools_, designed to be both legible and meaningful as plain text. Any meaning that can't be explicitly encoded in the ASCII format, including the specific HTML tags used to render a given construct, is outside Markdown's scope and should probably be stored in a more structured format.
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All well said and done. But there will be another celeb who gets hacked and God knows what will be released.
No. This requires you to be in full control of the photons illuminating the image so you can properly entangle and detect them.
Already exists as well (more or less)

http://www.paywithcover.com/ New York

http://www.tabbedout.com/ Austin

Open table is also doing it in select markets.
I have been looking for a Python solution like this that does not encrypt the entire file, only the actual password entries. I stumbled upon Jaeger a while back which is written in Go. https://github.com/jyap808/jaeger

By encrypting only the password entries, version control systems can still track plain text configuration changes without showing secrets.

Does anyone know if something like Jaeger is around but written in Python?
I was very "anti" Assembly until I was forced to use it in college. It was fun, it forces you to change your way of thinking and be creative on how you code!
What's interesting is that a big driver for this is social media. I was at a conference once & the CEO of Perdue listed this as a top driver behind this movement. He justified it this way: imagine that it costs an extra $0.01 per pound to create chicken meat that is antibiotic free. If the profit margin was $0.05 per pound that would cut profits by 20%. Today, negative PR on Facebook or Twitter can quickly spread to erode the value of a brand far more than $0.01 per pound of cost savings. He said that the reason for the switch is driven by consumers, who are now empowered by social media.

From a nutrition tech standpoint there are a number of products including probiotics, beta glucans & others that help to protect the birds by boosting immune system activity rather than by killing bacteria. When used in combination with vaccines they can be very effective, albeit slightly more expensive. However, these ingredients add cost & come at a metabolic cost to the animal (i.e. it takes more food to produce 1 pound of meat if more of that energy is directed towards a functioning immune system & away from weight gain).

Animal nutrition science is in many ways more advanced than human nutrition due to the ability to conduct controlled studies and access to large amounts of data. However, the goals are very different.

Animals account for ~80% of antibiotic usage in the U.S. and MRSA now kills more people in the U.S. than HIV. It's an interesting topic.
Agreed 100% perception is a "big issue". At my engineering program we had the "ITLL" (Integrated Technology Learning Lab) which had a cross-discipline set of tools and laboratories (Machine shop, 3d Printers, Fluids Lab, Electronic workbenches, etc.)

Pretty much the only thing it lacked that I thought it should have had was a bio-engineering and/or chemistry laboratory, but there were those in the specific programs.

Even doing Computer Science, the exposure to using an a lathe and a 3D printer, was very eye-opening, and fortunately for the engineers, and imop one of the most useful learning tools at the entire major university.

It was the first time I actually felt like my engineering degree (or any 4-year degree from my University) was actually touching the real-world. It's a shame only a small subset of disciplines in engineering spent any real time there (and it was mostly introductory classes)
Color me naieve here.....

Some signed some kind of agreement with amazon, has tens of thousands of items in their warehouses, and is running a business where amazon is basically responsible for everything.

Amazon decides to drop them.

The reasoning sounds unfair, but this business is unable or unwilling to pay for lawyers, and didn't consider what would happen in the event the relationship ended and there was still stock in the warehouse?

That sounds like a failure on the part of the seller to me.
It sounds like you're describing a credit union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union
Oh Wegmans...they're a great family company and all and treat their employees well (from experience) but there is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u99T_xb9NTs

It's a bit heavy handed but they weren't always leading fight against humane and responsible farming / livestock.
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Yes, being here in Hong Kong now, I'm going to try to find an opportunity to spent some more time in Shenzhen and def. want to look into some of these exploratory incubators!
So then your parent's question degenerates to, why does spending more money correlate with winning more cases? Which is a much more interesting question.
Recently, I planned to use a JS interactive chart library in my blog posts instead of prerendrting the graphics using R/ggplot2, but I decided against it. I realized something: what's the point of an interactive chart on a blog post, which uses only static, unchanging data?

For example, look at the interactive chart used in Jawbone's Earthquake blog post: https://jawbone.com/blog/napa-earthquake-effect-on-sleep/

Does it gain any benefit from being interactive as opposed to just using an image? Yes, you can mouse over each point for exact times/percentages, but that should already be implied by properly-defined chart axes, and it doesn't help enhance the meaning of the chart (e.g. the spike)

Additionally, from my own testing, each charting library has its own quirks in both construction and mobile usage (e.g. if chart implements a zoom feature, you can't scroll it on mobile) so every chart I make would require additional QA to make sure it works as expected, and it would slow down blog post creation to a halt.

If I was creating an application with dynamic, unpredictable data, then interactive charts would be valuable, but otherwise interactive charts with normal data seems like a gimmick.

Also, one very important caveat with SVG chart libraries: you can't easily convert the chart to an image, with makes going viral harder. (Canvas-libraies are not affected, though. Highcharts has an export module too, albeit it's not very convenient.)
The fixed position form on the left hand side lays over the content unless your browser is really wide. Basically makes the content unreadable on mobile.
This is utterly bogus.

According to the article he really did sell a counterfeit item.

Presumably accidentally, and perhaps the punishment does not fit the crime, but he can't claim complete innocence here.

And this demonstrates that he doesn't understand how amazon works:

> When we sent out all of our items to the FBA program, they all went to 2 different Amazon warehouses. Now that I’m receiving them back, guess what? So far, the new sealed product has arrived back from 9 different warehouses. Yep, they’re sending back someone else’s new sealed items to me.

NO! Amazon has a program where they internally distribute items to warehouses all over the US to increase shipping speed. It does not mean they are shipping someone else's items back to you.
Foundation is extremely useful, and feels professional. It does less of the styling for you (think less default css themes), but overall stands toe to toe with Bootstrap. If you've ever found yourself fighting with Bootstrap (like the resizing height responsive menus), Foundation is a great alternative.

Would definitely recommend Foundation in a heartbeat.
Ouch! He's defintely not happy, but I think there needs to be some more structure around the format. I love using Markdown, but it's annoying finding out what quirks work on different parsers. For example, GitHub supports hyperlinked images, but Designer New's comments don't. I think the spec has too many open ends and needs wrangling. I'm just not sure if this was the best way to go about doing it.
Url changed from http://www.fbamastery.com/the-worst-amazon-horror-story-i-ha..., which copied this one. Post buried as duplicate. Thanks iancarroll and mileswu.
Given that it'll have StackOverflow, GitHub and Reddit behind it, that's definitely a large enough boost (or at least a large united front) to have this flavour be dominant. What does that Venn Diagram look like, I wonder: SO, GH, Reddit inside the whole online Markdown community.

Gruber seems to be a bit of a dick about it. Maybe he got surprised and it hit him harder than expected today. No surprise though, he's now about to be usurped. He sat on his hands for years. In the release today (and forever) they give him large amounts of due credit. The Talk Show crowd (I'm a listener) will grumble, and fanboys on Twitter will support him and jeer Atwood personally, but oh welp. There's one party actually advancing technology, the other resting on laurels.

He kind of mentioned being a benevolent dictator on the [podcast 88 discussion](https://overcast.fm/podcasts/episode/344902019595#t=4527), but what important decisions has he actually made lately? It seems to me he just points back to his implemention perl script. Genuine question. He hasn't made a spec because (loosely) "why have a spec; just do whatever you want, take a look over here".

So it's a variant of his perl script. Great, that sounds exactly as he mused everyone should do. I can see how it rubs him the wrong way with "Standard Markdown".

Also: by doing this, the group will be forcing his hand. They've released it magnanimously, invited him to be a part of the process for years. He didn't respond in kind, labeling it "Atwood's crusade".

He may not like the name "Standard" enough to do something about it. He can choose to pursue legal options. I doubt he wants to spend any money on that. You've got to assume GH, SO, and Reddit went over the Markdown license on DaringFireball.

He can choose to be grumpy about it, but this is happening. Those 3 entities have massive persuasive force with their user bases; enough to become standard.
Well, there's also the part where comingling may have made them out to be the seller of someone else's counterfeit product.

But yeah, you can't run a real business if you can't pay for things like lawyers.
Are any registrars offering registration of .prod's yet?
>Why did someone down vote me for asking a question? Don't be so goddam sensitive.

It's getting to the point now where people are downvoting on HN not just bad or off-topic posts, or posts they disagree with (which is already pretty close to ridiculous), but even just posts they don't think they themselves would have taken the time to write out. I'm pretty sure this post will be downvoted to a very light grey, for example.

It's gotten to the point where if I see a greyed-out post I just automatically give it an upvote. The environment around here has gotten so toxic that it is more often the case that such posts are better than average anyway.
I don't disagree. I think they shouldn't have called it "Standard Markdown", though, as that's appropriating it. "Community-flavoured Markdown" or something would be far better.
"Twenty-five years after the world wide web was created, it is now caught in the greatest controversy of its existence: surveillance.

With many concerned that governments and corporations can monitor our every move, Horizon meets the hackers and scientists whose technology is fighting back. It is a controversial technology, and some law enforcement officers believe it is leading to 'risk-free crime' on the 'dark web' - a place where almost anything can be bought, from guns and drugs to credit card details.

Featuring interviews with the inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and the co-founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Horizon delves inside the 'dark web'."

Interviews include Schneier and Assange.

As BBC content is locked to UK IP addresses, those not presently in the UK will likely require a VPN or UK proxy or some other form of redirection.

If your find that you connection isn't fast enough to stream in realtime in acceptable quality, get_iplayer works well (don't forget to route it via a UK IP!) and the command would be:

get_iplayer -g --pid b04grp09
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https://hn.algolia.com/?q=consciousness+as+a+state+of+matter...
Intellectual decay
Faible n (genitive Faibles, plural Faibles)

soft spot, weakness (for something or someone)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Faible
Thanks. I confirmed a Debian package. If I can sync devices I think I'm golden.
The only time someone is paid for the time that went into something directly is when that time is the product. Essentially, when you're paying for someone to apply specialized skills at your direction rather than the result of an application of those skills.

If we both write an app and I take twice as long I don't get to charge twice as much. The only effect adding additional time has on the value is when it creates a better product (maybe the quartet is able to play more demanding pieces and becomes more well-known and prestigious).

Even in the arts when you're selling the application of your skills rather than the end result you charge for time spent. I knew an accompanist. She charged for all her practice and rehearsal time.
That was a censorship attempt that was fat finger'd to cause a leak. We all knew what happened there.
> How do you select f and g? That's the difficulty.
You see no problems because you're happy playing
with your Borel measurable thingies.

Borel measurablility is important work; it sounds
like you have contempt for it. There is no need or
justification for contempt.

We should mention Borel measurability, as I did, if
we are carefully considering the Kolmogorov
foundations, but in practice Borel measurability
means essentially nothing since cooking up a
function, such as f or g in what I wrote, that is
not Borel measurable is so tricky that essentially
any function anyone would select for f or g will be
Borel measurable. The usual example of a function
not Borel or Lebesgue measurable uses the axiom of
choice -- we're talking tricky stuff won't see in
SPSS, SAS, R, Mathematica, Matlab, big data, machine
learning, etc.

For picking f or g, let's see, from our definition
of p above,

p = P( X_i = 0 ) = P( heads )

and

1 - p = P( X_i = 1 )

So, for Bob's case, we can just set

Z = g(X_1, X_2, X_3) = 1 - (1/3) (X_1 + X_2 + X_3)

which is what anyone would guess anyway.

Or, for more, for i = 1, 2, 3,

E[X_i] = 0 P(X_i = 0) + 1 P(X_i = 1)

= 1 - p

so that

E[Z] = E[ 1 - (1/3) (X_1 + X_2 + X_3) ]

= 1 - (1/3) E[ X_1 + X_2 + X_3 ]

= 1 - (1/3) ( 3(1 - p) )

= p

so that our estimator

Z = g(X_1, X_2, X_3) = 1 - (1/3) (X_1 + X_2 + X_3)

is an unbiased estimator of p. We expected something
else? This was difficult?

Here we specified a function g and showed that it
gives an unbiased estimator of p and did this
without mentioning the trial little omega, the
sample space big Omega, or the sigma algebra of
events script F. So, what we did is just an
elementary part of standard junior level
introductory mathematical statistics, and so would
be responses to your other questions.

And, again, we never mentioned frequentism or
Bayesianism. Yet again, when considering the
mathematical foundations of probability, I see no
need to consider either frequentism or Bayesianism.
Again, the Kolmogorov foundations work just fine for
long standard probability, applied probability,
mathematical statistics, and applied statistics. No
worries.

For Alice, a different derivation is required.

My point is that from Kolmogorov we have some rock
solid foundations for probability and, then, do not
have to consider either frequentism or Bayesianism.
So, students struggling over frequentism or
Bayesianism can relax and just f'get about these
two.
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It is phrased poorly. Author should mention that the memory he is talking about is a single variable.

Otherwise I found the article to be very clearly written.
Cheap geothermal and solar power.
No state income tax.
Close proximity to aerospace and defense employees and vendors.
Reasonably close to Tesla.
And, yes, close to major lithium deposits.
The rails along that route (encompassing Donner Pass) are better than raised, they're roofed. It was brutal work, part of the original transcontinental line.