skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's almost like the "uncanny valley" of pop stars. For all of the skills and tools that have to "make" her a star, she doesn't have that something that, say Rihanna or Katy Perry have, and it seems apparent that she doesn't within seconds of the video playing. Certainly, Katy Perry has a bigger budget behind her, but, I think there is an undefinable something else. The industry would love to be able to create a Katy Perry on demand, because Katy Perry commands significant money and has much more control over her career than a new artist.

I'm not suggesting Katy Perry or Rihanna are better, musically, than the next skinny hot teenager that comes along. But, evidence indicates they are better at being the face of the musical machine than the dozens of others that have come along with the same producers, same studios, same music execs, etc. backing them.

So, it's simplistic to suggest anybody hot could be a star like Katy Perry, because I don't think it's actually true. Anybody could sing on key, because there's a plugin for that. But, that's not all there is. I feel like this video (which I've watched before, and had the same sort of reaction to it) wants to present a story of the masses being bamboozled by these "made" artists. I think plenty of people want a manufactured product. Just like people don't buy laptops made in a garage, and instead choose a laptop designed and manufactured by thousands of people.

I don't like it (I'm a musician myself, and a huge music snob with a huge music collection), but I can't help but acknowledge that it is so. I want to listen to art, but many people just want an escapist product; the same could be said of film, television, etc.
Less valuable currencies produce bigger numbers, but they don't yield more precise specification of value. Even though it is severely inflated, the smallest active denomination of BYR is only a little smaller than a US cent, and any real-world scenario involving large quantities (larger than the entire supply of BYR!) will easily tolerate rounding to that precision.
I think he's referring to the people distributing malware though ad networks.
This is the kind of topic that unfortunately often devolves into a flame war because each side simply doesn't understand the other. But there's something important that neither Silberman nor the mass media has caught onto yet: that the collection of discrete diseases referred to as "autism" has a nexus, and it's in the cerebellum.

There are a large number of recent (2013-2015 range) medical journal articles in respected publications such as Cell that confirm this. Autism is largely about the cerebellum: what happens when cerebellar cells aren't present at all (severe disability, as in Dandy-Walker Variant, aka "autism"), and what happens when they're present but not wired up properly (unusual personalities, aka the condition formerly known as "Asperger Syndrome"). It's not really that simple of course but those are both real conditions that we don't bother distinguishing right now.

This is what should be in the newspaper: that autism is really a collection of things that should be called Cerebellar Dysmorphic Disorder. Everything else is clearer when people aren't just arguing about abstract terms with no morphological basis. (Wonder why some people with autism are able to have intense debates while others can't talk at all? If you have an arbitrarily-shaped Dandy-Walker cyst that has displaced 30% your cerebellum, it's unlikely anyone else will have the exact same symptoms, but you might not be able to do a lot of things.)

The upshot is that anyone with severe deficits and an autism diagnosis should get an MRI of their brain to image the cerebellum.

This is a topic I take really seriously. E-mail me at greenspan at post.harvard.edu with any questions. I'm not a doctor but these views have been run by many MDs and MD/PhDs and I'm happy to point people to journal research if helpful.
Show HN: Replay Edits – Visualize the edits in a Wikipedia article
This is a tool I built that visualizes the edits in a wikipedia article as a playback. I built it as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IEG program.

Project Page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits
Source Code: https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikireplay
the debates for it have been going on for weeks. They announced the vote at the beginning of the week.

Concretely, nothing could have prevented this outcome, because the Prime Minister's party has such a huge majority. There have been massive protests for a while now too, but that didn't seem to sway things as much.

A silver lining is that there seems to be a renewed interest in the constitution itself, It is a product of the American occupation, originally written in English, by US lawyers.

Though that might not change the good/badness of it's contents, it does smell a bit of colonialism.
This is so true. Random forest should be the default choice for most problem sets.

Now we have The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests and The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks. We just need The Unreasonable Effectiveness of XGBoost (for winning Kaggle competitions) and we'll have the whole set.

[1] http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
A memo to unicorn companies
And before that, they gave up on amending the constitution and settled for reinterpreting it because that would be less work. They basically hacked this into law. Why so desperate? And would the Obama administration really endorse this? Because that is what many "experts" are speculating. Basically no one knows, but it all just non-consensually moves forward. Isn't there a word for this? Tyranny? Definitely not democracy.
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I'm sorry, but I feel like all these "Just use Rust!" comments are written by idealistic college students.

Yes, maybe Rust is better, and maybe if we could push a button and make everyone use it the world would be a better place.

But the reality is that there are very few code bases written in Rust and an uncountable amount written in C++ - there are decades of work behind C++ and decades of work will still be done in C++. I need to earn a living TODAY and work in the current reality, and I need tools to help me be more productive. I can't wait 5 years for some brand new language to take over.
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Unlikely. Maybe under the US general. But who am I to know ?

Koreans have not even allowed the Japanese to help them with the Sewol ferry even if they were within the reach.
Also gathered constitutional experts, tasked them to research whether this would be constitutional (expecting them to say it was). When they concluded it wasn't, the gvt apologized for hiring the wrong folks, and moved on.
Yeah, exactly the same impression here. And it's not the case that there are no other software implementations - for example GCC supports _Decimal32/64/128 since 4.3 (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Decimal-float-library-...).
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Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions
The designer is Douglas Crockford, I doubt he doesn't understand NaN.
How Playing the Long Game Made Elizabeth Holmes a Billionaire
It makes sense to call them that on a superficial view, since they were culturally at opposite ends of the universe: Beckett was avoid-success-at-all-costs highbrow and Keaton was vaudeville, slapstick and a (formerly) huge popular star. On a closer view, though, or even a second glance, the affinity is obvious.
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The article mentions that "The main drawback of Random Forests is the model size. You could easily end up with a forest that takes hundreds of megabytes of memory and is slow to evaluate."

A cool trick for speeding up trained random forests/gradient boosted decision trees is to dump the tree to C/ASM, compile it, and dlopen it as a function pointer. Depending on the model and the architecture, you can get an 8x speedup relative to an optimized C implementation that walks the tree.

There's an implementation for scikit-learn with benchmarks at https://github.com/ajtulloch/sklearn-compiledtrees if you're interested in this technique.
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What about people that use tor/VPNs? What about people using the free wifi in various cafes and restaurants? What about website that don't want to make money (this forum)? There are too many corner cases. This would result in a huge amount of regulation.
I think you're misinterpreting what pcwalton said. Sure, seeing "use Rust" in every possible place is quite annoying, but what pcwalton described is why "compiles to C++" and "has 2 decades of libraries" don't work for new languages. He didn't say to use Rust, he was just pointing out that your two ideas aren't viable.
I disagree. I use an adblocker to take some control over what code executes on my computer. There have been numerous attacks contained in ads in recent years and I regard my blocker (and no script) as one essential part of my security process.
Not an expert in the region but I'm pretty convinced SK has no real want to bomb Japan. And inversely, Japan wouldn't take action against the DPRK without it being a coordinated SK/US/JP effort.
You might like http://felix-lang.org in particular if you have a taste for the ML family of languages. It fits your description to a T. No, really, dead serious and I don't have any dog in this fight. Has had coroutines and fibres from the start. Certainly not a new language. Its relationship to C++ is much like F#'s relationship to C# or Scala's to Java

OTOH if you are really after C++ but done right then that would be D http://dlang.org

If you wish something like this for C then I would likely point to Nim.
The internet being bad is done on purpose. They don't have to make it shit with the traffic analysis, since internal traffic has traffic analysis too. They do it to keep china's internet an internal, more easily controllable intranet.
Yes, dynamic languages are... dynamic...

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/CSD-94-812.p...
I just mostly avoid sites with crappy ads. If I go to a site with a non skippable video ad I just close the tab. It wasn't that important to begin with. That includes YouTube sometimes. Same with other types of annoying ads. No need for an ad blocker for me so far.
Reading these articles about light and quantum theory is always a frustrating experience for me. They are all invariably hand-wavy and never seem to explain things from first-principles. Does anyone have a good reference for a book that does justice to the subject?

On a related note, Simon Singh's book on the Big Bang Theory (http://www.amazon.com/Big-Bang-Universe-Simon-Singh/dp/00071...) was the first book I read that explored the Big Bang in great detail without being hand wavy. I wish he'd write a book dealing with quantum theory!
According to the US code, "The term 'commodity' means wheat, cotton, rice, (...) and all services, rights, and interests in which contracts for future delivery are presently or in the future dealt in."

As soon as Bitcoin derivatives and futures started to be traded, the definition was met. I don't see the abuse by the Commission here.
Which famous entrepreneur said "From a million dollars, everything is your passion"?
There is a german audio play "Tophit leichtgemacht" http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/389813234X based on this book. It's rather hilarious but one has to admit that there is some catchyness to the tune they end up producing.
I like this idea for in the sense it makes life easier, like garbage collection for example.

It's good to understand what's going on behind the scenes, how memory is allocated and managed, and the floating point quirks and their binary nature, but for many general applications It'd be nice to have peace of mind that (0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3) returns true.
No I'm saying that your statistics are flawed/selective. The OPs clearly don't apply to the UK at all.
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I find it worrying that there is a known term 'defeat device' for these things. Until yesterday, I didn't know that any vehicle manufacturer had done this. Now, it's apparently common enough that the form of cheating has a recognised name...
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Neither desktop Chrome nor desktop Firefox are pushing their own, competing method of distributing content that can't be adblocked and that they take a 30% cut on. Also, Firefox at least didn't intentionally add support for adblocking, they just had a powerful add-on system and didn't deliberately stop it.

Apple is deliberately adding support for it on the web whilst pushing people to distribution channels they control that they don't allow adblocking on, and that they get a cut of the revenue from.
Two or three of the best designers that I would never hesitate to recommend all know how to code. They know exactly what's possible in which browser, and they organise their assets, mockups, designs, documentation so beautifully that as a developer I actually look forward to bringing their designs to life.

More often than not I'll shy away from doing front-end precisely because a lack of understanding from a designers part on what's possible or what needs to be hacked together using ludicrous amounts of JS/CSS workarounds; especially since these very designs or ideas is what the client or PM okays / is expecting.

Just my $0.02 - as a dev I'd love you quite a lot of you knew what I do and help me by taking the limitations into account :)
The majority of the drag affecting a modern HPV racer is caused by the wheel aperture. Perfectly fitting the fairing to the tyre isn't practical, due to flex in the wheel and the tyre casing. Managing airflow around this gap is a largely unsolved problem.

Some improvements could be made by reducing the rolling resistance of the tyres or the efficiency of the drivetrain, but this will have only a relatively small impact; this drag increases linearly with speed, whereas aerodynamic drag increases geometrically.
This is soon to be a non-issue thanks to automated cars. I hate parking companies like Impark, and I can't wait until 10 years passes to see them die a quick death when their services are no longer needed. It will free up a lot of space that I guess will be turned into more commercial buildings.
Sure, but the cost rather depends on physics.

Concorde wasn't $400 more than an equivalent flight. It was >$11,000 more than a similar comfort premium economy class seat, and that's after the British government had underwritten the losses from the design program (around $2000 per passenger per flight in today's money)
I'm a little surprised nobody has mentioned the opaque fairing, visibility, or the camera.

At first I thought it might be to keep the weight down, as there are plenty of composite materials that are lighter than (even thin) plexiglass. But then there's the weight/complexity of the camera, display, and battery.

Then I thought, well, the rider in in such an odd position, maybe he wouldn't be able to see very much even if there was a window.

But apparently the actual reason is that the rider produces so much heat that a window would fog up, and it would be too difficult/unsafe for the rider to wipe it. Given the white coloring, I suspect they're also trying to avoid cooking their human power source.

Here's part of a Q&A where they discuss visibility:

https://youtu.be/mscVAb1VZJw?t=271
Wow. Thanks for that link.

I'm not sure where the balance is. Too many is certainly bad for a city as well. LA has seen a big increase in strip club billboards. Not sure why that popped in my head.

I actually enjoy the ads on trains in Tokyo and learn about all kinds of stuff from them from products to events at museums. I noticed the lack of ads in the Paris subway (in the cars themselves) left me kind of bored. It doesn't help there's no mobile signals in the subways.
and also socket.io?
in germany you don't need a fingerprint even for new id's.
not yet and not in the near future. it's up to you if your id will include them.
1978: Apple, Atari, Commodore, and Tandy are all solving the same problems.

Competition is what drives technology forward. The only thing that may have changed is that hardware developments now spread faster to other companies because a lot of it is outsourced.

Software knowledge still spreads through diffusion through the movement of employees between companies, but also is sped up a bit because lots of scientific ideas are distributed through the Internet.
It's an escalation, not sure how that's good.
You do for a passport though, right?

(I thought also for the ID, but I was more confident about the passport.)
Relative to matter? Photons are massless, so light doesn't get slowed down by interacting with remote particles as it travels.

Relative to humans? Humans are made of matter, and in addition to that, they are immensely complex bio-chemical mechanisms and depend a lot on slow stochastic processes such as diffusion, so a lot of other processes will appear fast to them.
Thinking in Graphs
Since CSS2/3 I never touched design programs again to design websites and web apps. It's so easy to trow a basic interface together and then use CSS to give it nice looks. So this became my way of work:

* Build a simple HTML template as interaction design
* Add some basic design (style, color, fonts)
* With the customer fine tune the design
* Add code to the templates to make it all work (or hand it over to development)

Ofcourse you still need design experience. You are just using other tools.
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Everything is fair in love and war.
Yeah I mean, iTunes Music Store never came into existence to fill the demand. You must be right.
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I love that y'all are talking about these artists on HN! If you're into these guys, I would recommend Fennesz' Endless Summer, or Gas for some great ambient techno. As people have said, there's way more where that came from...so much amazing, uncelebrated music out there from all eras.
It's exactly the same argument Germany uses to send the Bundeswehr to Afghanistan. "Deutschlands Freiheit wird am Hindukusch verteidigt" - "Germany's freedom is defended at the Hindukush."
To be fair, they didn't exactly put the kind of budget into this example that they do into actual pop records. And they went with the first pretty teenage girl they could find. There are plenty of teenage girls in the world who are at least as pretty as that model and have the ability to sing (Auto-Tune is pretty limited--notice that the girl in the clip doesn't seem to effortlessly belt out her song the way Katy Perry can; even if you do have to be Auto-Tuned, it helps if you have some enthusiasm and volume you can pump into it). I don't know if they're as rare as we are led to think (though their market value suggests they are), but it's certain that natural talent isn't an overriding concern.
Yes, certainly not. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSsP-itS8qI

I commuted to work in San Francisco on literbikes, but on weekends I would head south and open them up.
Music is targeted for the masses. Politics is targeted for the masses. Music is manufactured. Can you guess what else is manufactured?
Japan's buying the F35 from the US and also recently started its own fighter jet development program, so whatever their capabilities currently are, they're increasing.
My guess is many people are just like you. Basically, they've already installed ad blockers in their minds. Open article, click x, read article. Or read article, don't look to the left and right. Or see 45 sec countdown video, quit.

That's basically how I browse. The only ads I'm ever interested in turn out to be reminders of things I've looked at, due to how cookies work.
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Oh, I understand. Good point, actually. :)
Doesn't really seem a bad thing.

It seems natural that picking the best performer and the best song writer would give a better result than having the same person do it all.

It's a bit like complaining that in a videogame, the programming, game design and graphics are often done by different people.
> I find it worrying that there is a known term 'defeat device' for these things.

Corporations will often attempt to either circumvent or break the spirit of laws and regulations that reduce their profit margins. They've been doing this for aeons. Keep this in mind the next time a BigCo (or LittleCo with disguised ties to a BigCo) is trying to rally sentiment with the "Too Much Regulation is Killing My Business!" banner. [0]

If the average corporation was a person, it would likely be the worst person I have ever had the displeasure of meeting.

[0] General notice: Please read that sentence very closely before you think about rebutting it. If it caused you to take umbrage, you may be pattern matching on the white noise between the lines.
I think the problem with building houses with nowhere to park is that people will just park on the street.

The purpose of the law is probably to prevent the streets from being overrun with parked cars.
On the contrary, California emission standards held diesel passenger vehicles to the same standards as gasoline/petrol passenger vehicles. Whereas in Europe, diesel emission standards were much more lax compared to their petrol counterparts.

I suppose one could say that being more concerned with the more directly harmful and smog forming emissions(NOx and PM) over CO2 would constitute 'bias' against diesels. But, conversely, there's a rather compelling argument that the more lax European diesel regulations spurred diesel adoption and protect their domestic manufacturers.

https://www3.nd.edu/~jthurk/Papers/MMT.pdf
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No disrespect, but you're using weak arguments together with strong assertions that ends up sounding suspicious.

Medical research has plenty of mistakes, bad science and fraud. It doesn't matter if it's published in Cell, there's a good chance that what you described is going to be considered wrong someday, if anything just because it's so recent (2013-2015).

Don't forget The Lancet was also a respected publication in 1998. The prestige of a journal doesn't imply the research published in it is more correct.
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Java for Unix was distributed as a .sh for a while.
It's not consecutive characters, it's a random set of three. One time it might ask me for the 1st, 6th, and 8th characters. The next time for the 6th, 7th, and 9th. Passwords are required to be at least 8 characters and contain a mix of letters and numbers.

Fishing attacks are difficult because the attacker would have to be able to determine which bank a card was issued by, and present the correct 3D secure interface specific to that issuer. Many issuers also add a customer-personalised image or message to the interface to further reassure customers of authenticity.
> En passant captures are the first move you tend to look at if an opponent has moved their pawn two spaces..

GP is clearly saying that you're not given the information that a pawn has moved two spaces, the trick of the puzzle is to infer from the board's layout that such must be the case.

Seems damned clever to me. From a quick google it appears that such things are known as "retrograde puzzles".
He wrote Listen to the Band, the only Monkees song I ever listen to voluntarily.

Edit: Evidence the Monkees were a seminal garage punk band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3VQIHyq9lA
I haven't played for ages, but I know the meaning of the word bot in Chess and in general.

It was news to me that this word is used outside of Germany. Looking over localized Chess terms they're either German or French. Interesting export.