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I experience this phenomenon powerfully reading scientific articles. You read a bunch of articles when you are trying to wrap your head around some topic, but if you then go back and read them again after you've worked on it for a while, you'll find all kinds of things that now are very meaningful while they previously didn't seem important to you.
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naive nonsense
I believe you're thinking of "graphite". Although they should make a lightweight version of their framework called "graphene" haha.
They're supposed to look hastily-made to reflect the imprecision in the estimates.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph...
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Ha. So true.
The interview should be a two-way conversation, meaning that you as a candidate should fully interview the potential boss. You'll want to develop your own scorecard and questions.

Suggest that you probe for his People Builder Skills, Communication Style, Conflict Management, Business Acumen, Ethics & Values.

If you have any doubts after the first interview, it's acceptable to ask for a follow up meeting for more discussion. Sometimes a change of venue away from the office is preferable. Suggest meeting at a coffee shop or lunch place for more open dialog.
Again, the market does a terrible job of making such considerations visible because not enough consumers care. It's not like online travel agencies don't want to distinguish themselves or airlines don't want people to know they're operating A380s

There shouldn't be any difficulty in adding an "A380" filter to a search engine (even for third parties, it's a field in the schedules datasets), but the set of people searching for flights mostly by aircraft type, on routes where A380s actually operate isn't necessarily larger than the set of people who will check the A380 box out of curiosity, be surprised at how few options they get and then book on a different site.

It's perhaps telling that SeatGuru, with its excellent and unique rich data on airline seating, comes with a pretty bog standard search tool.
Do the researchers themselves even own the patents -- or will the company/university they work for own the patents?

You should see what happens when they realize they aren't ever going to become filthy rich someday from their discoveries... just like everybody else.
I'm not sure if I'm making my point in a way that it is clear enough, so let me re-try.

Mosquitoes and chestnuts notwithstanding, the fact that there are species that we can miss does not automatically extend to 'we can miss all species except those that we can domesticate'. Ecosystems are complex, not very well understood and messing with them typically has disastrous and unforeseen consequences.

Because of this species going extinct should worry you because one day a species might go extinct that you directly depend on without knowing it. It's like playing Russian roulette, only you don't know how many holes there nor how many bullets.

So far nature has been able to patch the holes in an admirable way, life tends to re-inforce. But there is a critical point at which that re-inforcement no longer holds. Of course sticking your head in the ground and singing 'lalala' will not make the problem go away but it at least affords you the luxury of ignoring it. This is a very large problem and it is sad that clever people like you won't lose sleep over either a lack of bio diversity or the destruction of old books. Resilience is a good thing to have, not a liability. Our dependence on nature is as large as it possibly could be and our knowledge of nature is surprisingly limited, especially of the intricate interplay between species.

A single species so obscure as to be unknown to us could very well be crucial to our survival. Let's hope that such species become known before we find out they were crucial after all.

This is not a game of single datapoints invalidating theories, this is gambling on a scale that we can't even begin to afford until we've moved off-planet and have multiple, completely independent biospheres capable of supporting complex life forms. And once that's established we could try to reduce the biodiversity in one of them on purpose to see how far that envelope could be reduced.
Can you say more about why you believe this is true?
http://www.imperialinnovations.co.uk/
i suspect you are aware of this, but if not...
The mind is a sophisticated algorithm with a shit database. So why not replace that database by taking notes?
Huh? Why not just use two wires and connect one wire to the other with each bulb.

Like this: http://www.planetchristmas.com/Images/MinisA.gif

I think the real answer is that if you did it this way (in traditional pre-transformer light sets), each bulb would have to be rated for 120v, or whatever your local line voltage is, which would make them both more expensive, and more dangerous.
> The Thévenoud Law would require all drivers who chauffeur paying passengers to have a license, obtainable after 250 hours of training, and to have appropriate insurance, just as with normal taxis.

250 hours!!! What in the world do they need that kind of training for? To operate a car? Are they doing The Knowledge like in London?
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Most of the time the food came in that very plastic. I mostly sous-vide meat that came frozen and is already vacuum sealed. One less step.

You're generally heating it to 140 F or so. I don't know if that's sufficient to trigger leaching of some sort, but the plastic isn't deformed in any way and there's no aftertaste.

Any experts care to weigh in?
Thank you for all your responses, this post got a really good attention which shows the power of hackernews and the community in here, which i follow on daily basis like most of you guys do, this has been a very tiring day and a very tiring week, this time could've been spent on a productive things from both parties, but sometimes foolish reactions and actions make people lose track of the most valuable yet illusional asset which is time.

I've updated my blog post to include a link to leaders response, i wish them no harm and i have no "beef" with them, i absolutely want nothing financial or logistic from them, the relation that we once had could never be mended sadly, but that doesn't mean i want anything bad to happen to them, i hope my next post on hackernews would be about something useful i've done, it's 12:27 am in Palestine so good morning to you guys and goo night to me.
Why would you need a separate wire for each bulb? Seems to me like you could have a ladder topology: two bus wires running from the outlet, and then the bulbs going between them.
Even more pedantic: The cooker doesn't generate the vacuum. You use an immersion heater to cook the things in the bags.

It's also generally thought you don't really need to bother with actual vacuum for meats anyway.
Some technical challenges we ran into was creating the voice over for the video. It's surprisingly hard to find a completely quiet room without booking a sound studio. We ended up using a closet and our Yeti mic that we use for conference calls.
This makes a lot of sense. However, a machine learning model + data analogy feels more satisfactory (and accurate?) to me. We throw away the data but our model as well as its parameters are retained. The model as well as the parameters get refined with experience and it's possible that the model is recursively made up of multiple models and that combination is governed by parameters which are also governed by experience. Realizing this has always been fascinating to me and it makes it clear that exposing the brain to more data in pretty deliberate ways can yield profound results. The "smarter" you are the less data you need. If you are not so smart/knowledgeable you need more data. The data you need is also specifically of the question-answer form i.e. examples of what it is you are trying to learn. Anyways before i go down the rabbit hole, I think these metaphors are extremely helpful for the purpose of self analysis and improvement.
Since the formal semantic failed to become massively used, everyone is trying to make sense of the Web using scraping. It's something most viable sites should want to get behind, from ecommerce where you can find the best price faster to education. But I suspect if a very good shared scraping system were created we'd see countermeasures pretty fast, from timid content producers, as well as the Googles who want to have exclusive access to this level of information. Yet it's a natural layer for a shared commons, and what can be built on that, when finally get past the mess of arbitrary representations, is very exciting. Anyone know of any standard to create interoperable scrapers? In Javascript, of course. Here's one submission: https://github.com/zotero/translators
The more important question for sous vide: Sear before or after vacuuming? Or both?
Just Say Why Not
Just wanted to let everyone know that life is fucking short and I know we're all working hard on our day to day lives. Startup founders, employees with dope jobs, and those of you who even never want to work a day in your life too. Just make it all worth living. You don't want to regret anything.

Be the YES man and just dive into everything head first. You never know what will happen.

Enjoy this shit. It goes by quickly. You guys are all awesome!
There's a project called "grapehene" which is a nicer ui for a graphite backend. https://github.com/jondot/graphene
Very true, when i write about my bad or good experience i can reflect easily by reading what i wrote and learn faster, i also can know if i am "bullshitting" or saying the truth, if i keep the post and feel that yes i didn't change my mind after a couple of hours i publish it, or i delete it before publishing it.
Yes, I was being obviously unfair here, sorry for this.
I have the SVS and an Anova and I use the SVS much more often. In my experience it holds to temperature better and more uniformly, the heating element spans the entire base so it's easier to cook in bulk (without worrying too much about blocking convection), I didn't have to hack a lid together, and it looks a lot better on my kitchen counter--which is important because it never leaves the counter, I use it five to six times a week.

I'll use the Anova (which I got for free, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise) if I need a very large bulk batch of something that I'm not worried about keeping at a precise temperature, but the SVS fits me a lot better otherwise.
Koush's Mirror app[1] works alright with his Allcast Receiver Chrome app. The interesting thing is that using it actually revealed a (broken) second screen mode in one of the apps I use, didn't know Android had APIs for that. Perhaps it's intended for Chromecast/Miracast and whatever Mirror does looks like that.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdut...
So much for standing on the shoulders of giants for progress. It's more like standing on your own shoulders.
Absolutely, this jumped out at me as well.
Interesting: That would suggest that if you let enough bulbs on a strand go out, you reach a cascading-failure threshold at some point, where the voltage across the remaining filaments is higher than their rating. And then I guess the breaker trips.
"up to".
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Global Services is just a set of people who spend a ton of money on United. It's not only people who have interesting personal security requirements.
One should not forget another important thing: 1GFLOP in CPU is more expensive in terms of power than 1GFLOP in a GPU. So it's not only about chasing GFLOPs, in the mobile and embedded world it's also all about power.
phantomjs is great for rastering svgs (d3.js visualizations)
They do actually own some % of it. They also do actually get filthy rich if the patent is worthwhile. The college I went to actually had two guys that invented most of the multi-touch technology that went into the original iPhone. Apple bought the patents out and the professor and doctoral student that had done the research made a good deal of money.
I'm not really qualified to answer this, but I recently came across a similar question that might shed some light (old post though).

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-is-graphene-only-a...
Shaders already run heavily in parallel. However, you can't write directly to monitor pixels in parallel like that, because you'd then need milions of individual connections to individual pixels, rather than scanning logic.

Along similar lines, consider that CPUs have billions of transistors but only a little over a thousand pins.
It requires 20 inches of wire in both cases. When connected in parallel, each socket acts as a pass-through to connect the hot and grounded wires to the next socket in the set, in addition to providing power to the bulb. Thus, the sockets are in series but the bulbs are in parallel. This is how electrical wall outlets are wired.

The problem is that a parallel connection requires bulbs that can take 120VAC directly. This is not a problem with C7 and C9 light sets (the small Edison base bulbs). The minis, though, can only take a few volts. Thus, they need to be series-connected to get the voltage drops across the individual bulbs to the level a single bulb can handle.
The low-pressure vacuum sealer doesn't do anything for vegetables, but chamber vacuums burst the internal air cells in plants and can significantly change textures to an amazing degree. (This is separate from the actual cooking process, which itself can change things, but not to the degree that occurs for meats.)
According to the link and reasonably assuming that the reference to commercial air travel implied human payloads, none of the technologies above readiness level 2 are suitable due to either lack of payload capacity or gee forces induced or both.

What the table shows is that it might be theoretically possible to develop some other technology, not that such a technology actually will come into existence.
You put your finger on it. He's intentionally leaving out Prigogine as the main thinker behind these ideas. In fact, most of what he is saying is a rehash from the book. The main contribution by England is his idea of replicators as entropy minimizers1 in a closed system. However, his proof for this is a simulation of a simulation. Prigogine came up with the Brusselator, which is essentially the same theoretical model England is proposing for chemical systems. His points about the arrow of time are just the same points Prigogine made, without any attribution. Prigogine's reputation is in tatters now, and England could help rebuild it. Instead, he's going the non-humble path....
For my use cases, I find the SVS Demi (sorry, forgot to note that before) to work well. I use it primarily for cooking for one or two people, on a daily basis, so it does have a home on the counter and all. Setup/teardown (or just having an ugly stockpot on the counter) makes the Anova worse for my use cases, so I only break it out for big, 5-6 gallon batches of stuff, at which point there is something of a temperature gradient at the far end of the bath. I don't think it's a calibration thing, because it does work fine on smaller batches, it's just not very useful to me there.

Also, I bought the SVS Demi on sale for under $300. The Polyscience bath is like $500. (I got the Anova for free.)
I agree with addressing the "too big to fail" pain point, and I think a conceptual map to help with that ought to include:

* industry players & interactions

* political donations

* relationships between corporate executives, K street (lobbyists), congress critters, legislative staffers, interns

* relationships between regulatory agency executives, K street, congress critters, legislative staffers, interns

* former (and potential) primary candidates in the congress critters' districts

* a scatterplot of how a given congress critter voted on various related issues, as well as which of their votes (related or not) are out of sync with the voters in their district

Now that's a useful tool right there. Probably a pipe dream ... ah well.
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Learn a Language in a Custom Tailored VR Experience by Christmas
Favorite line out of them all, “We’re Crushing It!”
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Hey guys (TC here),

As the holidays come up, I'm sure many of you might be around friends or family who don't speak your native language (my girlfriend's entire family speaks Spanish instead of English and it's tough for me to keep up).

If you're in the same boat as me, and want some highly relevant/intensive practice, I will simulate your upcoming situation for you in VR. Provide me some details/photos, and I'll send you a short game where you need to speak your way through the simulation.

Each experience will take me about a day or two to create (I'm using some advanced speech recognition software), so I'm just asking for $5 per experience. Hopefully this is helpful!
But normalizing for power reduces the GPU advantage even more! Haswell for instance achieves about 5.3-5.8 GFLOP/W, compared to 24-28 GFLOP/W of Maxwell. That's less than a 5x theoretical computational gain.
This is the way "peer review" works. It is basically random. I have always found it comforting whenever I had a paper rejected as I would know it was nothing to do with the quality of my work. I would fix any of the typos found by the reviewers (you always get a spelling nazi as one of reviewers) and send it out again unchanged. I only have had one paper rejected twice and it was accepted unchanged on the third attempt.
Thank you all for the replies, they really helped me analyze both sides to finding something new.

I've decided to stick it out and make the most of it while I look for something more suitable for my skill level. At worst, this position has shown me what I'd like to avoid in the future.
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Thanks guys, this is great info!

(I just tried pdftotext, and it does just what I wanted.)
Peierls and Landau predicted that 2D crystals can't be stable: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110079/why-a-mono...

Either they made assumptions that don't hold, or graphene actually isn't "stable" as such but is stable enough in reality. I don't know much of the history of quantum chemistry simulations of graphene, but I'm fairly sure they existed beforehand and the experiments were a nice confirmation. Quite often it's possible to simulate things which are thermodynamically impractical, with things like an incomplete thermodynamic sampling in MD, or small periodic cell sizes artificially stabilising systems.
Best option: find someone you worked with before

Second best option: friends of friends

Last resort: some random developer who falls in love with your idea. Just don't sign any paperwork until 1-3 months after you start working together (if so, read https://medium.com/@colunchers/founder-vesting-c214e86c59b0).
I imagine lawyers being more upset about that than researchers.
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I think a case can be made that a substantial percentage of profits earned by the financial industry derive from economic "rent seeking" and are not materially contributing to productivity in society.

This is a hugely popular sentiment in the wake of the financial crisis, but do you actually have some examples of rent seeking activity by banks in 2014 that is emblematic of this? Your modern megabank takes in billions of dollars in profits per quarter and I'm just curious where the rent seeking shakes out in all of that.
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When you cook sous vide you buy bags made specifically for the purpose. Bags made of polyethylene or polypropylene are the most common. For more info see http://modernistcuisine.com/2013/03/is-it-safe-cook-plastic/
I agree with your points. Hustle is key. That's where I am at at this point. Putting together a prototype and working towards a MVP. The struggle is not only finding someone who has the skill set, and the drive, but also someone you want to build something with, and match personality wise. It's like a marriage.
It's not like developers are unique in having lower wages outside of cities. Entry-level HR people in your location probably made significantly less than you.
The article mentions "yield management" as the analytical background behind airfares http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management

Do you know of any referential book/article/blog to learn this kind of things?
Hi HN,

I work for OpenCorporates, the team behind this, and we were planning to do a "Show HN" in the next couple of days, once we'd got a few wrinkles sorted out.

In the meantime, I'll be around for a bit and try to answer any questions.
One way to better internalize information/concepts for me has been reading a lot of books on the same topic. For example at different times in my life I have been interested in Finance, Behavioral Finance, Stoic Philosophy, GISes etc.I typically read about 4-5 books on the same topic and it helps me internalize the concepts better.
Nobody I know in research is in it for the money. There are much, much more direct ways for technically gifted people to get rich--look up "quantitative finance".
There is in v2.3, which is the latest on iOS (Settings>Home Airport>select up to 10 nearby airports). We haven't gotten that far on Android yet but should have it in January.
What does "poor quality" mean? There is no absolute standard for quality. "Poor" is something like "less good than usual compared to the recent work in this community". So the top-scoring third-ish of papers sent to the currently-converged-on favourite venue of a community are pretty much by definition not poor. Unless something very weird indeed happens one year. There are usually only very few really excellent papers, though. Most papers are filler in retrospect.

Also, conferences need to accept a decent number of papers so that people will show up and cover the costs of the meeting. Venues are usually booked long before the program is fixed.
I'd actually pay extra for full-time standing on flights less than 4 hours if there were actually sufficient space for me (at 6'1") to stand.

Of course, the only reason this comes up is because airlines have eliminated way too much legroom that used to exist, and so I'm sure if they implemented this in the real world it would involve me standing hunched over the entire flight, which becomes far less appealing.
Phrasing to avoid spoilers for Black Mirror...

I think that the efficiency of technology shown in TV shows and movies shouldn't be assumed to imply something about the world therein, unless it's explicitly called out in the work itself. The writers are much more likely to have gone with something because it sounded cool than because there was a sound technological reason for it. The bit in the matrix where someone refers to someone else as "copper-top" is an example, I think.
University and previous jobs.
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Something similar happened with IEEE[1] - It had accepted approx 120 papers generated by SCIgen[2].
[1] - http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120...
[2] - http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
You have another option: Unreal Engine Blueprints. If you're not comfortable with C++, use Blueprint, that's what it's there for.