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Combines Find Their Price Floorhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a7a1975eb464ab1ab8b40aad2fb01&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.agriculture.com%2Fmachinery%2Fharvesting%2Fcombines-find-their-price-floor&c=2632234485281534621&mkt=en-usPrices at dealer and auction lots were as strong over the summer as they have been in six years. Many who bought combines when commodity prices slumped in 2014 are looking for replacements. In 1982 ...Sep 19, 2020 7:42 AM
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Combinatorial Chemistry: Extending Nature’s Structure Inventoryhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8966850fe441d1bd3dac9de7200c08&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcen.acs.org%2Farticles%2F91%2Fi51%2FCombinatorial-Chemistry-Extending-Natures-Structure.html&c=3598808501332604903&mkt=en-usTen years ago, Stuart L. Schreiber of Harvard University and coworkers reported a technique for making natural-product-like compound collections that featured an unprecedented diversity of structures.Sep 16, 2020 5:00 PM
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These anime manhole covers in Tokorozawa light up after darkhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aaacc5fff4ae5b6cf1a4e566e52c0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeout.com%2Ftokyo%2Fnews%2Fthese-anime-manhole-covers-in-tokorozawa-light-up-after-dark-090820&c=12334545585481980728&mkt=en-usUnlikely as it may sound, manhole covers are a big deal in Japan as most of them have been turned into works of art. The designs on these artistic drain covers often feature illustrations of the ...Sep 7, 2020 9:26 AM
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Ask HN: Can signal processing experts contribute to sustainable food production?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24386530From the outside I've always seen the field of sustainable food and artificial meat production as extremely important but am not aware of any ways someone with my skills can contribute to it. My training is as a communications engineer. I've thought about information theory, signal processing and statistics. Is there any demand for these skills in that sector?ThanksSep 5, 2020 8:12 PM
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What to Do with Spreadsheets in an Organizationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318471I work for a midsized public agency with some very smart but non-technical colleagues(housing, environmental health etc.) I was recently hired to improve our "data infrastructure".I am currently talking to departments to understand the landscape by asking them a few key questions: 1) What data sets have they used in the past year 2) Where and how do they source it (census website, internal databases etc) 3) How frequently do they refresh it and reuse it.I am starting to see a pattern where some datasets are sourced from internal systems with their own backing databases. It's a bit of a clutter but I can bring these different datasets to a centralized warehouse/datalake like environment that has discovery and querying capability.However, there is another consistent thread expressed by departmental analysts - "I get this other data from another agency via an excel spreadsheet as an email attachment" which I am struggling to understand what to do with. At this point I am not seeking a tooAug 29, 2020 6:47 PM
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WATCH: Reese Witherspoon and More Open Their Homes for an Organization Overhaul in New Showhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89804b56524cdba1a23ae249870461&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fhome%2Fsee-reese-witherspoon-khloe-kardashian-and-more-get-organized-in-the-trailer-for-netflixs-latest-home-series%2F&c=17916448753347524238&mkt=en-usGet Organized with The Home Edit premieres on Netflix Sept. 9 Netflix has released the first trailer for its celeb-studded home improvement show — Get Organized with The Home Edit. The new series, ...Aug 27, 2020 7:34 AM
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How Self-Punishment Impacts You — and Why Self-Love Is More Effectivehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89d049c21f4412805ebe28b58caee2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthline.com%2Fhealth%2Fmental-health%2Fself-punishment&c=16400095964760008282&mkt=en-usYou’ve done something that hurt someone else, perhaps even yourself. You regret it, but you can’t take it back, so you wait for someone to notice and provide some sort of correction to relieve your ...Aug 27, 2020 2:13 AM
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Newsletters could be the next (and only) hope to save the mediahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ac5add0154303a78b4726951ac5ad&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fnewsletters-subscription-substack-journalism%2F&c=16788197614483366371&mkt=en-usIn late March as the UK was preparing to enter lockdown, food writer Jonathan Nunn decided to start a newsletter. Nunn was about to be furloughed from his day job at the London-based tea company ...Aug 25, 2020 6:00 PM
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Manhole covers in Japan’s Tokorozawa get glow in the dark anime makeoverhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aaacc5fff4ae5b6cf1a4e566e52c0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fit-s-viral%2Fmanhole-covers-in-japan-s-tokorozawa-get-glow-in-the-dark-anime-makeover%2Fstory-Sk4vZ6qqg28wMQyHZB3ohJ.html&c=17419716084518444413&mkt=en-usA set of manhole covers in Japan’s Tokorozawa city, north of Tokyo, has been decorated with anime characters that glow in the dark, to the delight of locals and city officials. A passerby stands next ...Aug 20, 2020 2:19 AM
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Manholes get glowing anime makeover in Japan's Tokorozawahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aaacc5fff4ae5b6cf1a4e566e52c0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fmanholes-glowing-anime-makeover-japans-124215983.html&c=12292392629423431274&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A passerby stands next to an illuminated manhole cover with designs of popular animation character from 'The Melancholy of Haruhi ...Aug 19, 2020 5:42 AM
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More Idleness would be betterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24168732Idleness. A word that has fallen into disrepute. Idleness, as the proverb warns, is the root of all vice; and more than a few even see in it the worst of all vices: the refusal to perform in a performance-based society.The calls for deceleration, which are becoming louder and louder, have rehabilitated idleness to a certain extent in recent years. In the wellness sector at least it has found a firm place - and in countless magazine articles when it has to do finding oneself or burnout syndrome.Idleness requires free time. This is more than leisure time: it is a time free of constraints, empty time that can be filled with what the moment offers.Caught in the daily hustle and bustle, it is difficult to develop new perspectives. One is so busy mopping up the water that one does not even think of turning off the tap.In order to get a grip on things at any time, your hands should be free. Being idle means to have time to do the right thing at the right moment.(Source: Jupp Hartmann: DepartAug 15, 2020 1:34 PM
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How to Add More Play to Your Grown-Up Life, Even Nowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b10815aa34f038e14500a1f4df284&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F14%2Fsmarter-living%2Fadults-play-work-life-balance.html&c=2147882002915300542&mkt=en-usPlay can feel silly, unproductive and time consuming. And that’s precisely the point. By Kristin Wong See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...Aug 14, 2020 6:22 AM
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This artist turns boring stock market data into gorgeous minimalist arthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8969989c634102b66f1e2f34cff499&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fnews%2Fstock-market-data-tesla-chart-ford-stoxart-minimalist-artwork&c=12350436470691217936&mkt=en-usDepending on who you ask, the stock market is either fascinating or painfully dull — but one artist is turning charts into aesthetic vaporwave prints to bridge the gap. Stoxart is the work of Gladys, ...Aug 14, 2020 4:55 AM
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Is A Bridge Loan Right For You?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8caffbd8124e878b077eb97ca1bb01&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fadvisor%2Fmortgages%2Fbridge-loan%2F&c=10331787575762083751&mkt=en-usKiah Treece is a former attorney, small business owner and personal finance coach with extensive experience in real estate and financing. Her focus is on demystifying debt to help consumers and ...Aug 12, 2020 2:46 AM
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Amazon's Utopia Wasn't Meant to Be So Timely, Which Makes It Even Betterhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8c5d72d5704d2b939d4a8914b5da49&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tvguide.com%2Fnews%2Futopia-amazon-gillian-flynn-john-cusack%2F&c=13492478826078164591&mkt=en-usUtopia, a darkly comic conspiracy thriller series from executive producer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects), is coming to Amazon Prime Video on Sept. 25, and Flynn and the show's stars John ...Aug 6, 2020 1:38 PM
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Are You Analyst Material?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8bdc9876b241ffb2772a654b639186&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Frichardstiennon%2F2020%2F07%2F28%2Fare-you-analyst-material%2F&c=14288485322234092239&mkt=en-usHave you ever considered becoming an industry analyst? What follows is an excerpt from the just released Curmudgeon: How to Succeed as an Industry Analyst. Do you really want to be an industry analyst ...Jul 28, 2020 6:33 PM
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Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series databasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975807Hey everyone, I’m Vlad and I co-founded QuestDB (https://questdb.io) with Nic and Tanc. QuestDB is an open source database for time series, events, and analytical workloads with a primary focus on performance (https://github.com/questdb/questdb).It started in 2012 when an energy trading company hired me to rebuild their real-time vessel tracking system. Management wanted me to use a well-known XML database that they had just bought a license for. This option would have required to take down production for about a week just to ingest the data. And a week downtime was not an option. With no more money to spend on software, I turned to alternatives such as OpenTSDB but they were not a fit for our data model. There was no solution in sight to deliver the project.Then, I stumbled upon Peter Lawrey’s Java Chronicle library [1]. It loaded the same data in 2 minutes instead of a week using memory-mapped files. Besides the performance aspect, I found it fascinating that such a simple method wasJul 28, 2020 1:57 PM
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Our cultural backgrounds influence how we interpret emojis, study findshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89e59f040c4fa0ac230297dc4359e0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedicalxpress.com%2Fnews%2F2020-07-cultural-backgrounds-emojis.html&c=6623643059138654722&mkt=en-usFor University of Toronto Mississauga undergraduate student Boting Gao, emojis are more than just a way to convey a sentiment. She sees them as a tool to examine differences in how emotions are ...Jul 23, 2020 6:37 AM
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Our cultural backgrounds influence how we interpret emojis, study findshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89d8e84e814a8a92e71b5e587327a2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedicalxpress.com%2Fnews%2F2020-07-cultural-backgrounds-emojis.html&c=6623643059138654722&mkt=en-usFor University of Toronto Mississauga undergraduate student Boting Gao, emojis are more than just a way to convey a sentiment. She sees them as a tool to examine differences in how emotions are ...Jul 23, 2020 6:37 AM
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Launch HN: Aquarium (YC S20) – Improve Your ML Dataset Qualityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821502Hi everyone! I’m Peter from Aquarium (https://www.aquariumlearning.com/). We help deep learning developers find problems in their datasets and models, then help fix them by smartly curating their datasets. We want to build the same high-power tooling for data curation that sophisticated ML companies like Cruise, Waymo, and Tesla have and bring it to the masses.ML models are defined by a combination of code and the data that the code trains on. A programmer must think hard about what behavior they want from their model, assemble a dataset of labeled examples of what they want their model to do, and then train their model on that dataset. As they encounter errors in production, they must collect and label data for the model to train on to fix these errors, and verify they're fixed by monitoring the model’s performance on a test set with previous failure cases. See Andrej Karpathy’s Software 2.0 article (https://medium.com/@karpathy/software-2-0-a64152b37c35) for a great description of thJul 13, 2020 3:05 PM
