skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the zero width area starting at 3/8, non-inclusive.

So yeah, is that just the interval (3/8, 3/8), i.e. the empty set, or what? If it were inclusive, you'd have [3/8, 3/8], which means the same thing as {3/8} -- it's the set that contains just the value 3/8.

> Is it meaningful to talk about rounding reals to the nearest rational? If not, why not?

It is not. The reason is, there is no nearest rational (if it's not already rational). Suppose x is an irrational number, and p is some rational number. Then p != x. That means |x-p| > 0. That means there's some integer n such that 1/n < |x-p|. If p > x, then x < (p - 1/n) < p. If p < x, then p < (p + 1/n) < x. In each case we've constructed a rational number (p-1/n or p+1/n) that is closer to x than p was.

In general, between any two irrational numbers, there's infinitely many rational numbers, and between any two rational numbers, there's (uncountably) infinitely many irrational numbers.
The Liars' Paradox and the Alteration of Reality
The best way to think about them is that they "filter out" sourness, which you perceptually register as increased sweetness. It doesn't do much of anything to bitterness. Lemons and fresh tomatoes are two things that taste very different on miracle berries.
Guide for small server operators is to put a bullet in the server. Buy O365/Google/etc.

I ran a smallish email system for a year and a largish email operation for several years. It's a lot of work to do things right and the benefits are really small. The security related issues presented are very niche -- if you are concerned about data leakage for confidential discussions leaving your datacenter perimeter, you probably need to look at alternate solutions anyway.
Exactly. Almost seems like cheating, but in a good way.

You want your tools to feel like that.
Patrick, best of luck to you. With the success of Appointment Reminder (and consulting, and BCC . . .) I was very surprised to see you launching into something new. But your most recent "annual report" (which felt much more personal and vulnerable than usual) makes me glad you're trying to find something that makes you happy and motivated. I'm skeptical about Starfighter, with so many others trying to gamify and "reinvent" hiring, but you folks have the talent and audience to succeed, like Joel Spolsky with Stack Overflow. Thank you for all you've contributed to us programmers (which I still call myself :-)---it has made a tremendous difference in my life and in many others. I hope Starfighter achieves everything you are dreaming for it.
We're also not an information source for employers; they can't "query" us for all their candidates to get scores. Anything we ever share is opt-in. We expect most of our participants not to opt-in.
Then it can be compared to Gentoo. Which is actually another Linux distro.

(but I no longer use it)
My father told me that my grand parent used to cut Coke with carbonated water when it first appeared in Argentina because of two reasons 1- it was very sweet and the people wasn't used to that. 2- because it was very expensive.

He said that the 750ml bottle was enough for the 4 member family, one glass per person. When the 1L bottle came out, it was a problem they didn't know how to hand out the remaining, so they decide to have another child, my uncle.
You can't make insulin from bacteria that easily. It's a two chain protein, and stitching together the two chains kinetically competes with precipitation of one of the chains. One chain insulins are typically ineffective (well someone did once engineer a working single chain insulin - Michael Weiss at Cass Western) because signalling requires insulin to unfold, which down not happen when the chains are attached to each other.

If you try to design an insulin analog yourself be careful. Insulin cross reacts with the igf-i pathway; igf, like most growth factors, is oncogenic, so you'll have to be vigilant about getting cancer down the line.
This is an especially weird snark to offer on this particular thread, as I have a single semester of liberal arts, and Erin is an audio engineer; only Patrick has a CS degree, and it isn't from Stanford.
Data protection is the top mobile security issue
Playstation Vue Doesn't Work on Playstation TV
Assuming it is direct spoofed traffic and not a reflection, naming and shaming will accomplish nothing. Names of the big ISPs allowing this are not a secret.
This is cool! I couldn't quite tell from the article, but do you see this as an alternative to Prime and, if so, how is it different?

EDIT: One more question: the article says you've reached 200 hospitals already. That's impressive. Are those signed contracts? Or verbal commitments? Can you say a little about how you achieved that?

Good luck at demo day too!
I can say the same about David Cuartielles, who's I'm sort of a colleague with at Malmö University. Rarely see him, but he's a great guy.
Easy. Just privatize all drinkable water so that people have to buy it. That way drinking water will provide the same economic benefits of drinking soda.
Information Leakage from Optical Emanations [pdf]
Those employers aren't going to be our clients.
If he owns property or stock - watch his accounts closely. It could be a sophisticated attack paired with identity theft. Location doesn't matter to crooks.

I think "rich" could be the case.
> Similarly, Noyes’ team, surveying 183 egg-freezing patients on why they were delaying childbirth, found that just 24 percent cited professional reasons, while 88 percent cited lack of a partner.

Are they more likely to find a partner as they get older? That bet could be as large as a bet on the viability of the frozen eggs. Finding a partner and raising a child on one's own both become harder as time goes on. My bet is that most eggs frozen will by younger women for themselves later in life will not be used.
Capture the Hackathon
Congrats on the verdict!
We agree. We don't think many people would play a game like that. What we're doing doesn't work that way. Employers can't "query" us to get scores for players. If you share something, it's because you want to.
Everyone has a responsibility to the world around them.

It may not be coded into law, but it is still a true statement.
I created the airbnb for businesses, in Brazil
That's too bad, because the Matasano hiring process is actually not at all CTF-focused, and is very web-dev centric. If you're ever looking again, you should reach out to them.
If they're a non profit, then maybe this is exactly what their mission is. They can sit back and rack up a huge aws bill, then Amazon has to decide whether to collect. If they do collect, then that was what the money was for anyway. I'm guessing that giving in to bullying from the Chinese government is against their core principles here.
I've found that dealers will trade cars with other dealers to the get what is wanted, but they'll try push back on the buyer to avoid having to do that. If it's out of stock in the region - then you have a harder situation...
BrightRoll and Hackbright Academy team up to launch program for women engineers
I think this would not be intended. The page is DDoSed from China and supposed to be reachable from China at the same time.
This only works if you still have a reference to the root of the structure everywhere. Which is why something like Huet's zipper works. If you did not build such a structure, then you are likely out of luck.

A better example would be

SomeLargeTreeThing foo

bar = sanitizeTreeThing(foo);

//Now, make extra sure nobody uses foo.
//Not even accidentally in the future.

Now, this can be solved with more types and more layers. So, yes, it is bad code. But, "write less crappy code" is far less sexy than "immutability prevents errors!"
Sometimes horribly bad. And by bad I mean ignoring the thing causing my stress. Way not recommended. But I usually get over it fairly quick.

For positive recommendations, when I push past the stupidity of ignoring the situation (or hopefully avoid doing that). I will physically work out more to help deal with the stress, talk to people to make sure I am heading the right direction and I am an obsessive organizer the more I get stressed. The organization helps me deal with unknowns, or at least let me feel like I am.
"When it comes to pop, I usually stick to cola..."

As someone not from the Northeastern USA what does that even mean?

Pop, cola, soda and more regularly "coke" (the word not the brand) are all used to refer to soft drinks in general.
Send emails showing them how much they owe + interest. If you didn't specify an interest rate then use the statutory rate from your jurisdiction.

Next time have them pay you a retainer.
Yes! I'm going to try to grow some this spring. I've just sent off for the seeds.

I read somewhere an idea that people might formulate their food for a flavor that was complimentary to the effect of the miracle berry (Synsepalum dulcificum). I don't know how well that would work in practice, but it's an idea. I just want them because they're neat.
The cable industry has competition in the form of YouTube, Hulu, NetFlix, etc., a ton of other online video companies, over-the-air broadcasts (yes, those still exist) and just plain not watching TV.

Why exactly is government price fixing necessary in this instance? Shouldn't the free market be able to correct any price imbalances on its own?
You're the only person who has mentioned that paragraph. Clearly the thought police are asleep today.
The order of operations is strict, when you specify you want something you grab it. In contrast Haskells evaluation order does not match the definition order necessarily.
Oh, I certainly agree. And really... this is my point. Misused immutability is just as garbage heavy as misused mutability. It does not, ipso facto, prevent bugs or make threaded code easy to do.
And in this case political activism = human rights.
I don't know if Linux/Open Source/Free Software disproves the theory, or actually proves it.

The argument would be: Microsoft and Apple feel that existing IP protections on software would not sufficiently prevent competitors or consumers from 'stealing' the results of their work. So, they don't release the source code. Because they don't release the source code, there's a duplication of effort between Microsoft, Apple, and any other kernel-writers.

If there existed extremely strong IP protection laws for software, that required release of source (like a patent, basically), then Apple and Microsoft might release source, duplicate less effort, and their disadvantage to Linux would be reduced.

Open Source is what happens when you have a system that encourages these secrets to be shared. The only difference is, Linux manages to get R&D effort without the benefit of a monopoly-grant, or indeed, without any direct profit motivation.
BTW my grand parent is 87 today and is very healthy.
>artificial sweeteners stimulate appetite and promote weight gain

Just like all studies seeking to link artificial sweeteners to weight gain, it's a correlational argument that is not specific to artificial sweeteners. The "neurobiology of food reward" is the exact same for sugar and artificial sweeteners unless you happen to be purposefully depriving yourself of calories, in which case the sweetener cannot be blamed.

The heart of the problem is psychosocial, not biochemical. Overweight people are more likely to choose reduced calorie foods than people who are not overweight.

There is also such a thing as cognitive bias. People who are overweight and/or trying to lose weight will often end up using their exercise and calorie reductions as "credits" toward food choices (e.g., 'Since I'm having a Diet Soda, it's OK if I get the Extra Large fries because the calories cancel out') and don't actually end up burning more calories than they take in.

If you could demonstrate in controlled conditions that (ideally more than 13[1]) people who eat and exercise in moderation suddenly start gaining weight when artificial sweeteners are added to their diet (or losing weight when they are removed), it might be an interesting finding.

>Aspartame and depression

[1] - "Despite the small n" ... possibly the understatement of the century.

>SURVEY OF ASPARTAME STUDIES

If anyone has actual evidence of failure to disclose a conflict of interest in a published study, then it should be reported to the relevant institutions, not used as a platform to denounce all research on a topic.
Herbivore men in Japanese is not "soshoku danshi", it's "soshoku KEI danshi". Just sayin'.
If you're in need of cheap test strips- get the Wal-Mart brand meter and strips. The strips are something like $9 for 50, instead of the $1 per strip I'm used to paying even when I was on insurance.

I'm a type 1 and I use them, and they read pretty accurately with the CGM that I do shell out for.
If we make it for long enough we will face a time when growth based economics fail. The funny thing is that if you think quality of life is related to GDP per capita then one way to improve quality of life is to allow GDP to stagnate while you decrease the population.

We desperately need to find alternatives to US style consumer economies because they are simply unsustainable and don't really lead to happiness or fulfilment. It amuses me that this article seems to suggest that it is not technological innovations that may save Japan but their longstanding cultural habits and priorities.
I have one question. It is often said that in Erlang, one can have a large number of threads. However, doesn't that cause problems with the memory hierarchy (cache)?
You figured us out; the other problem domain besides security in Starfighter is sci-fi porn.
Hey @buckbova, Akido actually isn't dependent on the EHR vendor. Nonetheless, here's a short list on our hospital page:

https://www.akidolabs.com/hospitals

Akido handles all aspects of integration for you -- we essentially offload the whole process! We can accept data from just about any interface - HL7 feed, CSV over SFTP, CCD, etc.

Please feel free to shoot me a note at jared@akidolabs.com to set up a time to chat!!
> SpaceX may end up with quite a large number of rockets, which they'll have to fly to establish costs/risks/etc.

I assumed this was the motivator for their satellite internet backbone scheme.
My college educated wife chose to stay home. Some of her friends and family view this as a deliberately provocative anti-feminist choice, and we're in the midwest. I can only imagine those sentiments would be even more common in SV.
Android and TAGHeuer and Intel = Smartest Wearables
This article is horrible. The paper is here: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-22-21-2...

First off, the reason you want light for transmission on chips isn't because it is "faster", it is because it is less susceptible to electromagnetic interference. The speed of light in a medium is the speed electronic signals travel, and the speed light waves travel. However, electronic signals bleed interference, and light waves don't. You also can switch light waves on and off at theoretically higher rates, with less power, so optical signals can break the 4 GhZ barrier we are currently stuck at.

Secondly, they can't bend light without loss. Just with less loss. But the interesting part of the paper is the fact that the turning is selective depending on polarization (one polarization turns, and one doesn't). They are also able to turn light very quickly, compared to the wavelength of the light. So the radius of curvature divided by the wavelength of the light is around 6.4 for this paper.
Is Akido Labs meant to be hired by hospitals to support easier integration with vendors? Or meant to be used by HIT vendors to more easily offer integration with different hospitals?
It means the darker stuff which actually looks like coca-cola.

The use of "coke" as a generic term is itself a regionalism of the southeastern US. "Pop" has the largest geographical coverage

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2012-11-09-Screenshot201211...
>Should a group of people in democratic, Western countries be able to subvert the will of a world superpower with impunity?

Crazy time we live it that this is even possible.
How do they prevent the two investigators from lying about what I said?
Which are the best scripting languages
which blacklist gives you zero reason? there are certainly some rogue blacklists out there, and some blacklists should not be used by companies
If you don't hold human rights over revenue, what's your view on slavery?
I feel like I'm uniquely qualified to comment on this, as I'm going through the IVF process with my wife currently.

> Are they more likely to find a partner as they get older?

Possibly. Maybe not, but you're essentially paying for insurance.

> That bet could be as large as a bet on the viability of the frozen eggs.

Frozen embryos are extremely viable, as long as you were able to observe their cellular division 3-5 days after fertilization. As long as you can confirm they're viable before freezing, you're almost assured they'll be viable when thawed at a later data in the future (this isn't only from my pubmed research, but also from the top fertility doctor in the Chicagoland area we're using).

> Finding a partner and raising a child on one's own both become harder as time goes on.

Disagree. In most cases, you're further advanced in your career when older, giving you more income, thereby more purchasing power. You may not find a partner, but daycare is easier to afford, or a part time nanny. Delaying childbirth most likely affords you opportunities not available to those who cut their career prospects early to have children (or who left their career entirely because they had a partner to rely on).

Also, more resources available to you means you can be more discerning about your partner selection.

> My bet is that most eggs frozen will by younger women for themselves later in life will not be used.

Its possible, but like I said above, its insurance. My wife is 30. Whatever eggs we freeze now that we don't use, they are essentially her eggs at 30, and could be used by her at any date in the future. She even has the option to use those eggs with someone else if we're not together at some point in the future (life is long).

TL;DR Freezing your eggs is an insurance policy against the future.

EDIT: Due to reasons I'd rather not make public beyond what I've shared above, I've contacted institutions who are doing research in coercing stem cells into egg or sperm cells. I expect in the next 10 years for this to be a solved problem, and the egg retrieval process to be deprecated in favor of a quick blood draw and incubation period to coax stem cells to reproductive cells. But unfortunately, this isn't solved yet.
Remote attestation is most certainly anti- Free software.

Bank: "For your security, you may only access our website with an officially supported browser"
But in Windows if I want to ssh somewhere I have to use another program.
As an interesting thought experiment -

What if we taxed land, but the tax rate was based entirely on the size of the parcel, and the total valuation (land + improvements) of all nearby parcels, not including the current one.

In theory, this adjusts the price of holding the land based on how desirable it is, encouraging either efficient use, or selling, and doesn't encourage trickery where someone tries to keep their appraisal low so as to reduce their tax burden.
The Whirlpool Economy
gandi.net

Note. I'm not affiliated with gandi.net. I'm merely a client, content with their practices, and someone how knows how GoDaddy operates.
Scientists grow mini lungs for study
WPS Office is the solution here.
The example:

(1) x''(t) + y(t) = cos(t)
(2) x(t) = cos(t)

is trivially solvable by differentiating (2) twice and substituting into (1) to give:

-cos(t) + y(t) = cos(t)

or

y(t) = 2 cos(t)

Together with (2) that gives the solution; there is no need to use advanced techniques to solve this particular example.
Now compare that against the hundreds of papers describing the negative impact of sugar consumption.

You're comparing subtle, little understood second order effects to a first order caloric increase due to sugar intake that we know is the leading cause in the modern obesity epidemic. N=40 single studies demonstrating minor differences can't compete with the massive body of evidence against caloric sweeteners.
The vintage car is worth something should you want to sell it, it has some practical value if something happens to your normal car and you use it in a pinch and if you buy correctly a vintage car may rise in value over time. If you buy correctly you might be able to put 10,000 miles on a car and still see a year on year increase in its value( is it the 964RS that is currently hot in America ?)
I had stepped away from my computer (sorry!) - to answer your questions:

YES - it's a real pain to deal with all the different interfaces and techniques required to obtain the data that you need.

However, as part of implementing Akido, we handle all of the integration and maintenance for you (it's our expertise ;) )

We can implement on an on-site Virtual Machine, or as a cloud implementation (our preference, of course).

Our cost structure is flexible at the moment (so we should talk), but it's worth saying that we're a low-cost solution!
What kind of companies would be good to get practical experience in this area? In my experience the bridge between theoretically and actually apply mathematics is very hard to cross. Having started working mathematically recently it seems to me that even though I can propose a solution which isn't the best, they are usually better than what is currently available. Is that a common experience as a working mathematician.

That story about FedEx is hilarious!
Take it up with the author. My point was to dispute the GP poster's assertion that random public persons' concerns are unfounded. The existence of such studies absent a firm conclusion from the studies makes it an open question.
In many cases the partner is a professional himself and $20k don't get you anywhere with that situation.
What's your translation software?
By convincing people who aren't interested in politics to vote, all you would be doing is adding noise to a vote that is already 99% noise and 1% considered intelligent rational opinion.
> is that the empty set

Pretty much. It was not the most accurate first attempt. I was hoping to find a way to fix it.

> no rounding

Well that argument is the obvious answer yes, but it requires a certain framework.

Kind of like arguing that there is no biggest number, but there is ω...

Anyway I accept that with normal semantics you can't define non-point non-overlapping ranges between dense rationals. I was wrong. Thank you for your time.
The problem is that everything on the right is called extreme right at the moment. Saying "I love my country" makes you some kind of fascist.

Patriotism is seen as some kind of wrong thing as it could be taken offensive by immigrants. Unless you are in Asia - then its OK because it is accepted there that when you are a guest, you live by host rules. But for some reason both Europe and America is afraid to say that.

ANY kind of extreme left or right is wrong, but recently I see right parties going to the left slowly.

Saying "I don't like when people do XXX" or "I am unhappy that government pays for XXX" makes you extremist.

Saying this as an immigrant.
My first live project with Meteor framework.Can I get feedback from anyone?
Keera Studios Releases Magic Cookies (Haskell Game) on Google Play
I was aware of clerky, but in all honesty I thought they were not operating any longer. Having clicked the link you posted, I am very impressed with the changes they have made in web design and product presentation/description.
Sukimi – lightweight dynamodb wrapper
The whole thing mostly boils down to: I've been to the nice parts of Tokyo and its awesome.