skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never spent more than ~30 seconds actually being screened. The delay, if there is one, is waiting to get to the front of the line to be screened. This is an embarrassingly parallel problem and security at every airport could be trivially brought down to 60 seconds maximum by operating more lanes.
> We still don’t know exactly what these bright spots are, but the cracks may be a clue. We know there’s lots of water ice inside Ceres, and these spots might be ice that has been squeezed out. The water may in fact be salty; if the ice on the surface sublimated (turned into a gas) due to sunlight hitting it, then the salt would be a residue, like getting salt crystals on you when seawater evaporates after you swim in the ocean.

Future tourist attraction of the inner solar system? A kilometers-wide field of salt crystals glittering under the vacuum-hard sunlight, with no atmosphere to soften their brilliance, would be quite a sight in person.
It seems clear that if we hadn't inherited a bunch of irreproducible languages and/or instruction sets from the 20th century, no one would bother creating a new one. There are certainly some ways to get optimization advantages from underspecified computation, but especially in a networked world this win is outweighed by the problems it causes.

When you use irreproducible floating-point, you're essentially treating your CPU as an analog computer. For a subset of very specialized numerical applications, this is probably okay. For any kind of integration with interesting, non-numerical system software (let alone scientific publishing!), it's a disaster.

I always recommend this link on FP determinism: http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/flo...
> The public discourse on this sort of thing is controlled by media companies, most of whom make the majority of their money from ad revenue.

Almost anyone who produces content and puts it on the internet makes money from ads. It's not just limited to "big media companies".

People can't seem to accept the fact that ad blockers are hurting the entire internet, not just "big media". All that free content you consume every day? Yeah, it's subsidized by ads.
You mean the guy that had the audacity to include a web browser with an operating system? Good thing we shut that sort of thinking down, no telling how much the tech industry would have been hurt if we hadn't prevented that sort of practice.
I've been trying to think of a solution like this, but I'm not sure how to actually implement it. Do you know of any guides to do this?
I'm not calling names. I'm classifying the act of deliberately circumventing the method of revenue generation baked into the presentation of content by publishers.

It boggles my mind that people cannot understand this. Of course time is your to do with as you see fit. If you want to download the ads and bypass them after the content is presented, in the spirit of TiVo, by all means do, but don't selectively choose to download what you want.
Instead you should just not visit the site.

Alternatively if you'd like to install an extension (if one were to exist) that warns you that ads are attempting to load before you are given a chance to consume the content and then gives you an option to return to where you came from, that is fine too.

But to deliberately reject the advertising adjacent to content is an act of thievery.
Also, the rstanarm[1] R package (disclaimer: that I co-wrote) will be released this month, which does not require the user to write any code in the Stan language. Instead, you specify the likelihood of the data (for a few popular regression-type models) using conventional R syntax and utilize Stan's algorithms and optional priors on the parameters to draw from the posterior distribution. In the demos/ directory of [1], we have replicated most of the first half of Gelman & Hill's textbook and are starting on the second half, which heavily utilizes our stan_glmer() function that is compatible with the syntax of the glmer() function in the lme4 R package.

[1] https://github.com/stan-dev/rstanarm/
> Which works perfectly well up to exactly the point where the person distributing the software delivers it on hardware (my VCS server) that does require VCS keys and doesn't allow the user/owner to use their own keys.

You distribute your software by conveying the VCS server hardware to the customer?

> ...and by the person purchasing the product that has the GPL software in it, by choosing to buy that product.

All GPL licensees have the rights the license grants them, not just the ones who buy or don't buy specific hardware. What good is the license at all if distributors can just say "I'm not doing that part, if you don't like it buy from somebody else"? And what if they all do that, or nobody else makes equivalent hardware?
I've been fortunate enough to have access to non-GFWed bandwidth to play with on several occasions, and my experience would seem to suggest this is accurate. I can easily sustain 60mbps to the US when not subject to the GFW, but when using normal non-exempt bandwidth from the same (domestic) provider, could only sustain 5-10mbps. China's network architecture in Tier-1 cities is largely fine, and it's really the GFW that throws a wrench in things internationally.

Data localisation regulations are certainly one reason for foreign companies to set up local infra, but IMHO the real reason is that it's the only way to provide an even remotely tolerable user experience to users in mainland China. Aliyun is basically AWS for China and is very easy to get up and running, and getting an ICP license wasn't nearly as hard as everyone makes it out to be (got one in ~2 weeks from application).
I was factoring the time spent waiting in line to get screened into my nostalgia.
the name of the brand is 'aurora salmon'
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As far as international air travel, I've never seen a flight from the US to Europe for less than $1,000. That's a damn expensive airport meal.

Short-haul commuter flights are a different thing entirely.
This is backwards. More of humanity is empowered to go into business and compete today than ever in history.

There are forces that level the playing field: Open source; Utility-Grade Internet services (where Google and Amazon compete head-to-head); cheap, ubiquitous connected computers; billions of Internet-connected customers...

It has never been easier for a couple of people to build and launch an app or online business and sell to the entire planet. If you consider anyone who has done this a 'business' I am skeptical that there are in fact fewer businesses being created.
“Engineered by Amazon” vs. “Designed by Apple”
Psychology is not a science in the same way that Newtonian physics is a science. The best way to understand human psychology is to have lots of life experience, to share experiences over beers with others, and to read good books that have the experiences of other people, past and present. My claim about the nature of anger fits the observations that I have made myself and observations that I have heard about second hand. In my posts here http://devinhelton.com/2015/03/23/standing-up-to-offense-bul... and here https://devinhelton.com/2015/04/02/offense-bullying-ii-the-b... I present lots of examples from the real world that are in line with my theory. If your life experiences are counter to my theory, that would be interesting new evidence to hear about.

For example, one observation I have seen dozens of times, is that teenagers get much more angry with their parents for slights that are far more minor than slights suffered at the hands of friends and peers. Why? Teenagers know they can get angry at their parents, and suffer no consequence. If they unleashed the same obnoxious outrage upon friends, they would soon be friendless. The different responses are not conscious – knowledge of the power relationship is internalized, and the anger arises from subconscious calculations.

If you want something scientific though, the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins has some excellent sections about how tendencies in animals to fight or to retreat, or in animal children to cry for food or to be silent, are best explained by the game theory of what will have the highest probability of passing on genes.
As usual Eric Meyer presents a reasoned, well thought out view on things.

It hasn't been talked about much here (that I've seen) but he's right - the blocking of JS and Fonts (I guess CSS too but that seems less useful/likely) means those who insist that a webapp must be a 5mb SPA to be "useful" are going have some interesting conversations with clients (or less clients)..
Amusing to see you're catching up with the New York Times. We were talking about it here on HN at least 5 years ago because of a NYT article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604583 and the oldest comment I found about it was from 2009, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782767#up_783224 .

10 years ago is when Shoup's book 'The High Cost of Free Parking' came out, and it's unlikely that what you remember from Reason is older than that.

Indeed, searching the Reason archive, the oldest reference I found was from 2009, at https://reason.com/archives/2009/02/27/a-better-new-new-deal... , in reference to Shoup's book. Shoup wrote on op-ed in in the NYT in 2007 (see http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/opinion/29shoup.html?_r=0) and a search finds Shoup talking about it in the NYT in 1980, at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03E0D81038E... .

So it doesn't sounds like Reason was significantly ahead of the times enough to be snarky about.
So how long until we see a dedicated Ghostery content-blocker app for iOS??

I know they have a 'browser' already, but lets face it I want the other Safari features too.
It was written before we realized that we needed a stronger Japan in Asia after the Korean War I think.
Rosette – A solver-aided programming language
Living with Bullshit
I use Waterfox, which is the 64bit version of Firefox. I always use the builtin search located in the upper-right corner of the browser which allows me to choose which search engine to use on the fly. I use all of the most popular search engines depending on what I'm looking for. I find when I'm looking for services and products, Google seems to work best. The default I use is the Storm search engine which seems to return results that avoid commercially driven items. I would have to recommend that everyone not fall in love with a single source for web searching.
Interactive Constitution by the National Constitution Center
Then manipulate them to not be manipulated. :)
The old soviet space religion, that's one thing that should've been preserved from the USSR.
I read the linked article, watched the video, then followed the link to the New York Times article. For some reason, the CSS and/or JavaScript didn't load, so not only did I not get any ads, I got completely unstyled content. That was somewhat ironic too.
It's not "nominal"; losing private keys is a major security concern. No, "TLS is useless" does not follow from that - we have things like forward secrecy which are security models specifically designed to give some protection in the case of private key compromise.

(edit: e.g. see https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2015/sep/popular-chinese-ios-a... just out today)

Especially in the case of a library developer, they hold the keys to many websites, so there is extra incentive for an attacker to break that rather than "some random guy's website". The more third-party signers you trust, the more holes you (and your users) have.

Furthermore, you are forcing your users (who actually run this code) to place their trust in these parties too, which is not a great thing (transitive trust) to force upon someone. (This is not the case for e.g. depending on system libraries explicitly installed by the user.)
It's a course on symbolic programming that builds on 6.034 (AI). The lectures aren't open but the same information is all in the suggested reading as you go through the problem sets. Build things like a compiler for a DSL, pattern matching and decision making programs, experimental parallel concurrency through message passing 'actors', most of it is exploratory programming and lot's of SICP/GNU Scheme documentation reading http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/index.html
The number one thing in my opinion is that Stan's algorithm(s) for drawing from a posterior distribution produce samples that have much less dependence among adjacent draws than other simpler MCMC algorithms like Metropolis-Hastings or Gibbs samplers. Since it is often difficult to answer the question "How much dependence is too much in practice?", it is prudent to use the algorithm that yields the least dependence because the effective sample size (from the posterior distribution) per unit of wall time will usually be greater. PyMC3 has started to incorporate some of Stan's algorithms, although their implementations are not as far along.
What is a commodity? Dictionary says it's similar to goods or merchandise.
Interestingly enough I think I tried the same thing when I saw a link from the same site. It is indeed a great workaround to the changing URL's dilemma.
I like this solution.

Essentially qz.com/122345/{anything-here} will redirect to the canonical url allowing for experimentation on the title of articles and urls.
So you plan to stay in the same job for life, turning down any better offers you get?
NYU Engineering Career Fair aka the Google Career Fair
My 2015 Summer Internship at Unbabel
Man that's some crap right there. Science should be in the direct interest of politics, esp. in the case of ecology, environmental studies.

What does it mean to be forbidden to speak, that's a load of shit, if there is someone that's studying the field, allow them to present the facts of what occurs, and whats the best way (saving lives of wildlife, cost effectiveness, etc) to officials.

a load of bullshit its whats holding us back.
That's fascinating, especially since very slow training, where the weights don't change much per cycle, is in fashion. One would think that would result in changes rounding down to zero and nothing happening, but apparently it doesn't.
*word

Muphry's Law, argh.
I was initially planning on writing this comment to retort a number of statements within this article, but there are far too many; additionally, they all seem to indicate a larger concept at work.

Let me first say that I commend this individual for going out and researching his brother's illness on his own. It is truly a dedicated family member to go to such lengths as to attempt to understand things to the level of physicians, and further to attempt to convince physicians of the "correct" answer.

The first and most practical issue I wish I had seen was a GP coordinating the care. In general, the overall goal is to have a single physician be "your" physician, who can coordinate the care among specialists. The general idea is to decrease the amount of repeated and unnecessary interventions by making sure everything is being done in a medically appropriate way; additionally, it provides the patient an opportunity to explain to a single provider his or her desires in seeking treatment, and to make sure that the specialists are informed of such goals as well.

However, he demonstrates a number a poor understanding of physician training and the role of the physician in today's society. First, on the issue of training: he seems to believe that all physicians graduate medical school and start practicing as full-fledged physicians. Rarely is that the case these days, as a residency is required in all or at least most specialties in order to qualify for sitting for the boards (the benefit is not only the additional training, but then insurance companies will actually pay for your work).

Lastly, on the role of physicians: While we've come a long way in the millennia since hippocrates, physicians do not know everything. They don't have every answer to every question, and they don't know the answer to your exact problem either. We still "practice" medicine, because we can't predict with complete certainty the outcome of every single case. At best, we can use intuition from experience and education, and science of the community to make our best assumptions. But medical providers will always be wrong, some percentage of the time.
even the raw data is subject to questions, two of which you point out: (1) is everything being categorized correctly, and (2) are we counting the right thing?
No true communist puts sugar on his porridge?
There is a "read mode" on Firefox for desktop and Android that does this? You can set the font face and size and then every time you open an article, just click the "read mode" button and it will display the article all nice and clean. Safari does this too on desktop and iPhone.
If its exactly what I want, why is it an ad, and not the first result.
Stack overflow does this too:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32672492/python-3-5-start...

Is the same as:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32672492/
What a coincidence? I installed Win 10 through bootcamp just to practice & develope a hobby project in F#. I logged in to Win 10, installed VStudio 2015, F# tools etc. & then checked HN. And found this. So Now I just shut down Win and came back to Mac to Install Atom and then Ionide.
Neither the instruction sets nor floating point are irreproducible at all. What are you talking about?

In fact, FP32 is commutative (go ahead, check it out). It's just not associative. If you can't figure out how to reduce sums of FP32 numbers in a deterministic manner, you suck, no that's too weak, you really suck. And your complete lack of numerical analysis has turned a digital computing problem effectively into an analog nightmare you'll never debug. HPC people love to use this excuse for why their parallel code isn't deterministic, but it turns out that making it so is effectively free in an age of fast RDMA and INT64 atomics.

To be fair, there are situations where noisy non-deterministic inputs (cameras, microphones, and other sensors) are part of the deal. However, if given simulated deterministic examples of inputs, your result isn't deterministic, you still suck. That said, I'm willing to relax the constraint to assume reproducibility given the same HW/compiler/toolchain so I think the naysayers are pretty much out of excuses here.

I speak from experience. And the efforts I've made to achieve bitwise reproducibility in HPC algorithms are dismissed as "engineering" by the people who can't do so.

I've decided to take that as a compliment.
> there will be plenty of angels or firms willing to cut a check or, at least, take a meeting.

What would keep them from ditching you and getting the deal without commission/bonus? 'Niceness'/'Decency' doesn't really work in this industry.
Can anyone show some example maps of the proposed zoning? I have trouble envisioning the proposed policy.
What do you have to do to get at the content?
Ask HN: Anyone doing Transcendental Meditation?
I just heard in Tim Ferris' latest podcast that Transcendental Meditation (TM) is part of his daily morning routine. I never tried TM and I would like to know if any of you guys are practicing it:

1 Really daily?

2 Always in the morning?

3 Why?

4 How would you describe the impact on your day?

5 What was the trigger you started doing it?
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So what is the author saying? That some forms of autism might be due to a cyst in the brain that affects the cerebellum and the vermis, and if you remove the cyst in early childhood, the patient would end up leading a mostly normal life, cured of their autism?
> Lots of previously successful, legitimate businesses are finding their income slashed.

This is true, but I posit that those businesses can easily move to a pay model. If they can't, they aren't legitimate businesses.

> It is an argument that THIS model is failing when it once worked, so we need a new model to pay for the things we do value online.

"Worked" is not what I would say about the current state of ads on the internet. It certainly doesn't work for me.

> And if this model fails and no other emerges, then either people work for free, whatever terminology you want to use for that,

Volunteering? Play? Definitely not slavery. If you don't want to labor for free, just don't do it. This isn't a complicated situation, you're smart enough to figure this out.

> or things we value simply disappear, something I have already seen more than enough of over the years -- and compared to many here, I got online relatively recently.

Well, I was on the internet in the 90s, and there was some great content back then. I'll actually posit that the signal-to-noise ratio was much higher then.

Also, funded content disappears all the time. If that's the effect you're concerned about, this isn't the cause you're looking for.
Well, it's not like he hasn't created stuff that's standard fare at UNIX, Linux, businesses, modern OSes, education, etc.

An algorithm being a standard fare at job interviews looks to be on the bottom of such an accomplishment pile.
The issue of determinism for games is interesting with many games trying to compile to javascript to run in the browser. Wouldn't this break multiplayer for those kind of games? You're stuck with double precision optimized floating point when targeting javascript...
I agree that this kind of naive analog computing sounds very attractive with those simple linear operations (linear networks have been exhaustively studied, as you noted you essentially need only resistors and amplifiers). But it's not entirely obvious to me they ought to be better than digital electronics for comparable precision (considering their noise) and power consumption. I think you may get into trouble in the small current regime due to quantum mechanics: while you can do digital electronics with only a few electrons, you may need a large number to be able to maintain good linearity. An then there's the fact you can deal with exponentially larger numbers with roughly linearly (or polynomial) increasing memory, while if you use analog circuits you have to pay a quadratic cost on the exponential, so ~n^k vs ~exp(2n) power consumption doesn't look good from this pov. But who knows, as the article points out the nonlinearities of the network may miraculously make it work even with very poor linearity and poor precision. It remains to be tested.
That's one possible conclusion. More broadly, the morphology of the cerebellum matters a great deal, and minute differences from person to person A) could explain why autism appears to have such a broad array of symptoms and severities; B) have been largely ignored by medicine for decades due to mistaken convention, deep confusion among physicians over medical terminology (mega cisterna magna versus DWV) and a tendency for doctors to throw their hands in the air the minute they hear "autism" because it's simply accepted that it's too complex to diagnose; and C) suggest that brain MRIs may be the most cost-effective cost-preventive diagnostic tool available for those with autism diagnoses--which doctors hardly ever recommend due to (B).