skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very interesting and I think it has a great potential for various usages.

I think it opens up the ability to study density in real time, not just based on where people live but where they go during the day and during certain times of the year.

Potential for a lot of start ups to use this data too as it grows. An idea that comes to my head immediately is a vacation finding website.

E.g. Somebody wants to go on vacation to a certain kind of area at a certain time but they'd like to go somewhere that is least busy. With this sort of data, you could find the optimal time and place for them based on their density requirements.

Or maybe if data about the kind of apps being used was also included, where to best try and market a new product.
All of which would be perfectly reasonable if humans were completely rational actors. But we all know we're not. We're semi-rational at best. Yes we try to maximize utility, but we're not Commander Data, calculating equations in our heads down the the 999999 points of precision, and coldly make decisions based on purely financial measures.

This is even more true for some things than others... few people are going to say "Hey, deflation is on, let me wait until next week to eat" when they're hungry today.

I'm not saying deflation is good or anything, but an awful lot of economic theory is rooted in some pretty shaky foundations.
The stylus is interesting in that it's a total about-face for Apple. So far as I can tell, no Apple store has ever stocked an iPhone- or iPad-compatible stylus -- not the cheap capacitive ones nor even the iPad-exclusive pressure-sensitive Wacom stylus for artists, despite stocking Wacom tablets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY3MSaUqMg
Not very power efficient, though.
The most impressive part is how she blogs with her vintage 1880s web browser.
> it has simply been true that even as many tasks have been automated away, there have been multiplicatively more tasks that haven't yet.

In part this is the denial I talked about. Many of the multiplicatively tasks we have are the result of not finding how to solve obvious problems with pragmatic solutions. Let me explain:

Everytime we came up with new programming environments and languages we repeat the same cycles. It is very rare to have a real breakthrough. For example, once NodeJS become popular we are happy when someone introduce libraries that already existed in another language instead of automating the production of these libraries. All this work can be reduced to some software to generate stuff for multiple languages. Surely you can't apply this for different paradigms but there are few programming paradigms being used in production.

If you follow this approach you will only need a proportion of the people that is working now.

Another example: big corporations. I don't talk about Google or Facebook, I talk about the typical big corporation. If you walk around you can find that replacing a lot of IT employees is relatively easy with good organization. In a way we are protecting our own work not thinking very hard about how to replace people.
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Yes, that's pretty reasonable. That's my point. Why do famous US universities need to spend 10x as much? Who benefits, over what time scale?
iPad has always had 4:3. And it's still quite a difference between the two, 3:2 still feels very strange when you hold it in portrait. Holding A4 paper in portrait makes this even more obvious.
You will be able to save some amount of data to NSUserDefaults.
I got a Surface Pro 3 almost exclusively for using OneNote on it. It's pretty great for that, but having Windows in the way was sometimes annoying. The Surface is capable of a lot more than I do with it, but I have my MacBook for everything that isn't handwriting. The iPad Pro is exactly what I wanted - a device for writing down notes, sketching designs, and doing so seamlessly without the "bloat" of a full OS in the way.
Perhaps you're not aware that there are "small" nuclear weapons? These are only a few kilotons in yield but can be very portable for battlefield use. Think of a nuclear mortar that shoots a few miles out with a half mile blast radius. This is the kind of thing that would keep people up at night if they went missing. It probably keeps someone up just making sure they don't go missing.
Out of the box, a Surface Pro 3 definitely does not spin up the fan just checking email, unless you're checking email with Chrome. Gmail on Chrome ended up being more resource intensive than Office or Visual Studio on my SP3.
Moral authority doesn't come from one's station in society. It comes from approaching the question rationally and being able to prove your case.

Indeed, the author has no moral authority.
In a "Beyond Good and Evil" sort of way, if you can get all those advantages without the exploitation, there's nothing morally wrong with enjoying them.
I feel like the Victorian era already gets enough hate for being less "enlightened" than our own. (No doubt they would feel the same about us.)

Much like the 1950s, I feel like it's an era which gets a bad rap because of the way the people immediately following it reacted against it and then proceeded to write all the history books about how much better their own era was than the one that preceded it.

In any case it gets rather tedious when one can't admire something like Victorian architecture and fashion without someone butting in to tell you that the Victorians were less morally enlightened than us.
Former cognitive neuroscientist here.

This article is supposed to be talking about psychological research, but it starts with an anecdote about a bank teller's UFO prank? Psych research has had a checkered history, for sure, but this straw man doesn't help the author's case. How does this reflect on academic research standards?

For those who don't know, modern research standards (i.e., the last 40 years) require all research to be approved by an Institutional Review Board, which is mostly staffed by non-psychologists. They have to justify the possible knowledge gained, the methodology used, and if there is any deception involved, all participants get a mandatory debriefing, where the purpose was explained to them. The research shows that debriefings are very effective, and the vast majority of participants do not leave the lab feeling violated; most are happy to contribute to scientific knowledge (or just collect their cash/course credit).

I have personally witnessed labs temporarily shut down for violating IRB rules. And without IRB approval, no legitimate journal will publish your research.

While Milgram and Asch's experiments were deceptive, I think their results reveal harsh, necessary truths about ourselves. Zimbardo is a different case, in that the Prison experiment was methodologically unsound. It's highly unlikely he'd get IRB approval today. CIA collaboration (like Gottlieb's dosing unsuspecting civilians with LSD) existed entirely outside academic influence, and while shameful, don't reflect academic standards. (Gottlieb wasn't even a psychologist, he was a chemist.)

As for the very basic assumption under question, the difficulty is that many people will not act normally when they know what the researcher is looking for. Most people are decent, and will want to help the researcher. Some will react in the opposite way and seek to mess with the research. The most ethical way to compensate for temporary deception is a complete "fessing up" right after, and most participants agree.
> Right, Apple decided it wasn't important so that means it isn't important?

I was referring to all Mail Apps, I don't even use Apple Mail, I use Gmail.
Yes Apple decides what's important in their App, Google decides what's important in theirs, Everyone else decides...

> Being on an e-mail thread where someone says "hey, can you e-mail over that spreadsheet?" is hardly rare.

You can still send spreadsheet attachments, open said Spread sheet, hit share attachment, Done. Go back to playing games.

> iPad has not been a huge success as a productivity tool.

So catering for a smaller class of enterprise and power users should be the holy metric Apple should be catering for?
Apple has OSX for power users, iOS for everyone else. That strategy seems to be working quite well for them.
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Now go back another 150 years earlier before the era of carding/spinning machines or industrial looms, and you get even dramatically more time spent on clothing. Making cloth by hand out of raw wool or cotton is an unbelievably time-intensive process, which is why most people only had a couple sets of clothes.
What happens when one has 10 different ways of handling async IO? Massive ecosystem fragmentation.

Ruby has EventMachine, the standard lib, and Celluloid. None of these are interoperable.

Python has the standard lib, Twisted, and a number of other projects. All have the same problems.

C++ has Boost, Asio, a few others. This is more along the lines of where Rust is headed.

C has /countless/ options. None of them are standard, and it's totally understood in such an old language.

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Go has goroutines: it's a harmonious, unified ecosystem. I greatly dislike go, but this is one thing they do absolutely correctly.

Erlang has fully-preemptive multitasking (which the entire ecosystem is built upon).

Haskell has incredible parallelization and concurrency primitives built right into the stdlib.

Certain things belong in the stdlib. Async IO is definitely one of them. If not an implementation, a defined, common interface of some nature, to help prevent some of the fragmentation.

async/await, if I am not mistaken, will require compiler and borrow-checker support. This would be a good start.
Broadwell slipped by several months meaning that Apple couldn't do their traditional pre Holiday refresh in 2014. I believe the Skylake chipsets that would allow Apple to switch to using USB-C for the Pros aren't available until next quarter meaning it's possible that Apple could miss another fall refresh.

Given that the holiday quarter is Apples best season you can probably make bets that they are at least exploring their options.
It's a bit of a weird one, because anyone in the Victorian era who could afford that much stuff could also afford servants.
Ask HN: What is science?
I was talking with a coworker about psychology and what is classified as science. He was saying that taking a hypothesis and performing a test on it to find answers is science.

I was under the impression for something to be considered scientific that it has to be repeatable and verifiable no matter where the test was done or who performs the test. Where as psychology based tests deviate from that.

This just raised the though of... what is science exactly? I'm curious what all of you consider science.
Better than not having an ice box.
> so I'm not convinced that this will be a problem in practice.

Historically, it's been a massive problem. See my other post. Rust is already seeing IO-related fragmentation.

C, C++, Ruby, Python, etc. are all massively-fragmented ecosystems regarding IO, concurrency, (safe) parallelism. I don't think we need to soil a great language (Rust) with these same mistakes.
That ratio is also influenced by the shift away from full-time tenure-track positions. Contract teaching has been rising.
I am continuously amused at how the startup tech crowd can't see how innovative Apple products are... and yet they inevitably chase the markets Apple creates a few years later.

For most of you, I would suggest that the innovation in the web and mobile spaces were the development of the platforms, and your web/mobile app does not constitute innovation. In other words, you have no idea what innovation looks like.
You can see a replica Greek Fire flame thrower in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pSr8fQa9mA
His gay marriage example is instructive of the weakness of this type of argument. Marriage is purely a social institution, so what does science have to say on the subject, anyway? Well, he appeals to equality. If we have these laws, they should be applied equally. Ok then, what's the scientific argument for equality? He takes these things as axiomatic, which, presumably, means that these are the types of things he should most militantly be examining.

What if self-described militant atheists like Krauss took their atheism seriously and considered fundamental values, whether they come from a sincere belief in a deity or not, to be essentially the same, since they basically are if there's in fact no God? They would have to look closer at values and see if there was perhaps a social or personal utility to having certain types of values. Study them, and figure out what makes certain values work well and which ones implode. Create some kind of explanatory model of values. If you will, come up with a "scientific" way of analyzing values. One might even put some effort into examining value systems for consistency, figure out if they have side-effects or study what types of outcomes they optimize for, and make a good one for the outcome you desire. Just don't tell Krauss that this is what philosophy does, because he thinks philosophy is dumb and a waste of time.
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Your not the first one I have heard say that but the screenshots I've seen of Windows 10 makes me think it is still pretty usuable.
Invented by Alan Kay, Dynabook, 1968. Only achieved recently, by this model and its predecessors. Ask Alan.
Interesting. I didn't know that.

What is the correct term for taking something that isn't yours?
True. So I'd have to make at least two mistakes: let a live wire make contact with the case, and disconnect the ground connection to the case.
The NATS philosophy on guaranteed delivery is that delivery isn't what you care about, its the action taken as a result of delivery. If the far end system receives your request but crashes before processing it, was it really received? The business logic of most applications requires end-to-end acknowledgement of transactions, so NATS considers that an application problem.

(Disclaimer: I work for Apcera)
An interesting discussion on this very topic):

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39637&sid=b6a11...
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I am sympathetic to your argument, but would take it farther.

A person has no obliation to others, whatsoever, period.

Anyone who disagrees would have to overcome the burden of proof.

(Which you can't, by the way, since I know things that would contradict a positive argument for obligation to others as it is generally conceived.)

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Practically everybody makes moral assumptions purely based on emotions, possibly with some post-hoc rationalizations.

But our emotions didn't have to be what they were---they vary between time periods, cultures, and individuals. Emotions are the product of premises that one has accepted, rationally or (for the most part today) irrationally.
I'm just curious and want to know how it works.
And science, et al.

These aren't exactly small things, these are the things of eon defining boundaries. Human beings may be fundamentally made of the same things, our physical and emotional machinery may be largely unchanged. But how we live is hugely different.
> It's really surprising that turtle ships and detonating fire ships weren't more commonly used.

I can't speak for the turtle ships, but the cost of the gunpowder used in a hellburner can't be overstated. I know that in the 18th century British navy, accurate gunners were at a premium because the government would not supply powder and shot for target practice, and only a wealthy captain could afford to purchase enough for really good training. The military cost of widespread incompetence at gunnery was deemed less than the financial cost of those training supplies--and that was more than two centuries of development after the Antwerp hellburner.
how does this relate to chromium's gn project (https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/gn-de...)
A stylus is a bad idea as the primary input method on a small pocket device.

A 12.9 inch iPad Pro is not a "small pocket device".
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The primitives to build a Rust/OTP aren't there (specifically: blessed green threads or some kind of blessed event system + reactor, for better or worse)

Without those, we're going to see a hundred different solutions crop up, none of them being interoperable.
I believe the U.S. agencies use ABBYY FineReader, which does a pretty good job with OCR and text resolution. The U.S. Senate used it when releasing the CIA torture docs awhile ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/cia-tort...
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I agree, but my criticism was directed at those who write about "the old days" bashing today's society as "empty", "out of touch", "vane", "mindless", "hostile", etc.

Victorian and post-1945 were both incredible times and I have devoted so much time reading about them! But they weren't some kind of "golden days" either. My grandmother ate country rats to survive in the 40s, and only on lucky days...
No mention of Motorola's 6809.
I guess just contemplating out loud whether this is a play to try to "rescue" "TV as a commonly utilized device in the household", or if I truly am an anomaly, and that TV is still trending well among all the new devices everyone may choose to use these days as an alternative.

I should've thought this through though, realizing that this is a new Apple device on a heavily "pro-apple" forum :)
In theory, everything you write is correct.

In practice, none of it matter in this case. The leakage of rectangular window is ~30dB at a distance of 30 bins, and they aggregate more than 30 adjacent bins together ("re-bin"), making the leakage no more than 1 bin. To make things worse, the dynamic range of their receiver barely scrapes 40dB (peak) or 30dB (SFDR/SINR) - rendering the use of a more sophisticated window a moot point.
*Edit: Fixed my issue trying to get the latest download, I had to clear the software update catalogue as so: `sudo softwareupdate –clear-catalog`

Still waiting for Apple to approve my new developer account, A direct link to the download would be appreciated.

I have been running the developer and public beta's since they were released, right from beta 1 I found it more stable and 'faster' than Yosemite which my team has had endless problems with beach balls, crashes etc... We were thinking that Apple had given up on OS-X and were almost entirely focusing on iOS development but with our experiences running and developing on El Capitan I truly believe we were wrong - it reminds me of how fast and reliable OS-X 3-4 years ago much to my (our) relief.
Oh, there's still plenty of things beneath that level that can go wrong. Just look at Intel disabling HTM (through microcode, admittedly, but disabling a whole feature isn't fixing it to operate correctly) in Haswell/early Broadwell.
Microsoft tried to make something for that market with their WinRT surface tablets, the market responded with chirping crickets.
I was specifically speaking about the size of Rust's standard library. Python, at least, has a massive standard library, so I'm not sure how that's applicable here. (Or, at the very least, demonstrates that a big standard library isn't sufficient. What matters is what is in the standard library, which is not fundamentally incompatible with a small standard library.)

Also, none of those languages started out with a tool like Cargo.

I made a few other comments about mitigating this as well that should be considered.
How embarrassing! Thanks.
Show HN: Journal – Command line utility that creates a daily journal entry
The problem with that comparison is that the only place I've heard of tactical nuclear weapons being used is Starcraft.
Don't worry about it. The "internet of things" is mostly stuff you don't need anyway. If your toaster has connectivity problems and can't reach the "cloud", and refuses to toast, you probably didn't need it anyway.
Modern agriculture depends on literally all of those things you listed (medicine if you're being liberal with the definition).
I know this was the case historically, but I think it stopped being the case for my carrier (ATT) a couple of years ago. I believe our plan is cheaper by not taking the phone subsidy, and sufficiently cheaper to justify paying for the phone up front.
that's not how it works, it's delivered via the app store
I like to write up my tasks in a journal entry. Thought I would automate the process and have a bash script create my journal for me, open it in vim and let me start writing for the day.
Should I continue to work on it when I have no clear way to make money?

Is it just me or shouldn't the answer to this be self-evident? In what other industry would you ask this question?
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I'm pretty the site of this article has a bunch engineering resources and articles.
Guess that applies to Apple fans quoting "Less space than a Nomad. Lame" as well?
Yeah? So? I didn't get the impression they were extremists. They just like living this way.
Prions are quite difficult to inactivate. Table 2 in this paper:

http://www.shea-online.org/Assets/files/other_papers/Prion.p...

shows data on what seems to work and not. "Standard" autoclave procedures don't.

If the misfolded proteins referred to in the article share the inactivation robustness of prion proteins, it doesn't seem all that remote a possibility that surgical instruments used on Alzheimers patients could spread the illness.

Anybody know if surgical instrument disinfection procedures vary according to the particulars of the patient they were used on?
The most annoying bit related to getting real work done on iOS is how long it takes to switch apps. Switching from one app to the other should be 1 click if you want to get serious work done. This is how windows and the surface work. 1 click. A taskbar at the bottom. It works. The current iOS takes 2 clicks, a swipe, and a tap. Unacceptable for multiasking.

Now that iIOS has multitasking it changes in an important way. I wonder if it can be a productivity device now. But its still not great when it comes to balancing more than 2 apps.
The Innovators Dilemma[1] is a great book for thinking about announcements like this. A "disruptive innovation" does something really well such that some people want it, but it is inferior in many ways to the market leaders. The market leaders can even laugh at the weak alternative and wonder why someone would want it.

Over time, though, the "inferior" solution gradually meets more and more of the needs that were previously served by the market leaders... and eventually it wins (if the stars align and all that... but the examples in the book show how companies can be blind to the disruptors).

Starting with the iPhone in 2007, on the surface Apple was disrupting phones/smartphones. But it was also music players. And then cameras. And, with the iPad, computers. When I first saw the iPad, I thought "someday, this will be the perfect computer for my mom". That time came when they added printing.

Really, what they started disrupting in 2007 was computing in general. With iOS, they're trying to make an interaction model that works better for today's use cases than what we had before. The iPad Pro is one more step along the line of replacing our computers.

Clearly, iOS devices are inferior to Macs for our (Hacker News readers) needs. Today.

All of that said, it's an interesting race to see which model "wins" between Microsoft's "blend the old and new worlds" and Apple's "clean break".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma
No one has ever or will ever use the historical existence of large bombs as a justification for nuclear warfare. You are being absurdly paranoid.
Surface Pro 3, yes.

Surface 3, no.
Neat. Add support for colors and one can recreate the diagrams found in Byrne's edition of Elements: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/byrne.html