skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use OnTopReplica for doing this system wide. Got great deal of options like enabling click-thrus, transparency and the like. Very handy.

https://ontopreplica.codeplex.com/
The thing to recreate would, in my opinion, not be Xerox PARC, but the SRI bootstrapping idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agdPQuFr0yg
It is really sad that they dropped the ball on this game. The levels it come with are completed within half an hour and the user interface for finding great content is abysmal.

The developers really failed to do anything more than a cursory rating system. The thing that jar's me the most is the filter by region. Why would a care if a map creator was from Japan or New Zealand?

It just feels like they didn't employ a data scientist, but just relied on programmers to create a system for finding the best content.
This means drivers have more empathy for people not in cars.

The point you make is extremely important. In my dreams:

People caught not yielding to pedestrians are sentenced to walking 3 miles a day for a month on busy city streets. I do this every day (4 miles), and I can tell you, there is not a day that goes by that I see the most horrible behavior from drivers. I can only assume, since I don't believe it's because they are all horrible people, they just have no empathy for pedestrians and can't imagine the consequences of their behavior.

Like the mom-looking lady that turned left with me in her path in the cross walk. She saw me. Turned anyway. Stopped in the lane with oncoming traffic and pushed into the cross walk (directly toward me) and looked exasperated as to why I was in her way. Does anyone thing, if a car was about to ram her that she wouldn't sacrifice me? I don't.
Certainly a valid point, but I decided against pointing it out, since because of market demands, pretty much anyone with a brain can get a job in tech, currently.

That a particularly skilled and experienced candidate was being rejected so frequently either pointed to an innate bias, more selective criteria, or inflexibility in pay. Maybe all three.
You can talk about red and blue balls all you want, but what matters is the real world. It's not inconceivable that like there are physical differences between the races, that there can be other differences as well. Refusing to see this isn't reasonable.
Delphi and pascal are memory safe? That's news to me. I have created my fair share of buffer overruns and memory corruption in both of them (they were my first languages I programmed in)
>This statement is not true, because balls can roll down a hill faster than cubes.

Yeah but that's because ability to roll down is directly caused by the observable geometry. They are just different properties of the same trait. Skin tone or facial structure cannot cause someone to be intelligent. If you flattened the sides of the round balls, they'd be just as slow. But imagine there's some new way to painlessly crush people's faces into different racial-typical shapes and change the color of their skin to some racial-typical tone. Would this cause their intelligence to change? Obviously not. So how is this different than people with different physical characteristics from birth?

Race categorizations are made by humans according to how people look. From wikipedia's definition "Race, as a social construct, is a group of people who share similar and distinct physical characteristics." You're saying that these physical characteristics somehow also indicate how people behave (outside of social conditioning). There is really no reason to conclude that.

I think this wiki section on race along with the sources mentioned are useful here.

>There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined.[22][23][24][25][26][27] Nonetheless, some scholars argue that racial categories obviously correlate with biological traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree, and that certain genetic markers have varying frequencies among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason, there is no current consensus about whether racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)#Co...
Interesting, thanks! Probably not as cool, but you could also just get the output of the regular top, parse it and generate HTML from it (a bit like http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/)
A new heart rate monitor app
Hi all, I am here to promote my new Heart Rate Monitor app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supersimpleapps.heart_rate_monitor_newui
Feature List: []Read your heart rate using the camera of your phone accurate and instantly
[]suggest your fitness level based on your heart rate
[]If you are in exercising, it suggest your workout intensity level by your heart rate
[]record and display your heart rate history nicely with list and graphs.
It is based on my previous heart rate monitor application which has now 10K - 50k of downloads. Thanks to the comment and helps from redditors, I made a new application with the user interface redesigned.
This heart rate monitor are suitable for people who are care a lot of their health condition or in need to monitor their heart rate regularly. It can suggests you fitness level information. Recent studies shows a higher heart beat rate in rest mode may be link to a higher risk of heart diseases e.g heart attack. And the better shape you are, the slower your heart beat rate (but not extremely low) will be in rest mode.
It is also very suitable for people would like to measure their workout intensity. It is perfect for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). HR Monitor shows your exercise intensity level calculated based on your personalized maximum heart rate zone. And shows you which heart rate zone you are in - "Recovery Zone", "Fat-Burning Zone", "Target Heart Rate Zone" and the "High Intensity Zone".
This application out - performs other application for it's capability to provide accurate reading throughout the highly diversified or fragmented android phones. Please try.
Here is the video to the comparison of the application vs actual pulse meter. You can see that the heart beat rate taken of both device is almost the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9bNTd3ImE
The most telling aspect of this is not the 10% power drop but the massive torque drop at lower RPMs. That indicates that VW is limiting turbo boost at low RPMs while in this mode. That makes sense, as increasing turbo boost increases pressure, which increases combustion temps, which increases NOx production.
> Strictly speaking, Finland is not a mono-culture.

Stictly speaking, maybe, but, c'mon, compared to the United States it is.
Mars Ice House: A 3D-Printed Igloo Bags First Prize in NASA Mars Habitat Contest
Population.io – The World Population Project
Not sure why you think this server was written to integrate into apps. If you can't think of a use for it, that's fine. But lots of other people do have uses for simple static web servers. Including people who don't have the knowledge, time, or patience to hand code a 20 line Go program every time they want to use one.
Translating your site with Django 1.8
Okay, for that stuff probability theory is too abstract. For basic basics, Edward Tufte has a $2 ebook that's pretty good: Data Analysis For Politics And Policy[1] and for terminology in causality, Rubin has a short open access paper[2]. For a freshman-stats level treatment, OpenStax college's book looks legitimate but I haven't actually read it carefully[3].

[1]: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ebooks
[2]: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1223908042
[3]: http://cnx.org/contents/30189442-6998-4686-ac05-ed152b91b9de
It's very hard to believe that this redefinition of the word racism was done innocently. On its face racism is act of distinguishing people by race for favor or disfavor. When it is redefined as it has been in the humanities it leaves a vacuum. There's no longer a word for the concept that racism originally referred to.
one button mouse strikes again, all 3D Touch does is try to work around bad hardware interface instead of introducing good hw interface (2 physical buttons maybe?)
Show HN: My heart rate monitor app
Hi all, I am here to promote my new Heart Rate Monitor app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supersimpleapps.heart_rate_monitor_newui
Feature List: []Read your heart rate using the camera of your phone accurate and instantly
[]suggest your fitness level based on your heart rate
[]If you are in exercising, it suggest your workout intensity level by your heart rate
[]record and display your heart rate history nicely with list and graphs.
It is based on my previous heart rate monitor application which has now 10K - 50k of downloads. Thanks to the comment and helps from redditors, I made a new application with the user interface redesigned.
This heart rate monitor are suitable for people who are care a lot of their health condition or in need to monitor their heart rate regularly. It can suggests you fitness level information. Recent studies shows a higher heart beat rate in rest mode may be link to a higher risk of heart diseases e.g heart attack. And the better shape you are, the slower your heart beat rate (but not extremely low) will be in rest mode.
It is also very suitable for people would like to measure their workout intensity. It is perfect for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). HR Monitor shows your exercise intensity level calculated based on your personalized maximum heart rate zone. And shows you which heart rate zone you are in - "Recovery Zone", "Fat-Burning Zone", "Target Heart Rate Zone" and the "High Intensity Zone".
This application out - performs other application for it's capability to provide accurate reading throughout the highly diversified or fragmented android phones. Please try.
Here is the video to the comparison of the application vs actual pulse meter. You can see that the heart beat rate taken of both device is almost the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9bNTd3ImE
It's about equality of opportunities, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that everyone regardless of race has the same shot at being an NBA player, though not necessarily that at the end of the day there is perfect proportional representation of whites, asians, blacks, etc.
>> Why is a rich person with no debt and huge amount of assets more of a risk than an undischarged bankrupt?

Good point and as mseebach points out absence of information is a signal and these type of no-debt cases are very rare that is hard to build a model around.

At our start-up SimplyCredit, we look at things holistically, not just your credit score and that should help with your concern. However, it is harder to do this effectively without proper data at scale. I wish the govt. made different types of data about the borrower available to lenders (with permission from the borrower of course) -- for example, it will be nice to know electronically someone paid for mortgage outright or their income statements, etc. Right now people attempting to use this information have to resort to approaches that Mint uses (scraping, partnership with banks to not block them, etc.).

That said, credit scores actually work in a manner similar to what you suggest. Credit scores are 'centered' around a value and good things get you +score1 and bad things get you -score2, bad things you didn't do +score3, etc. It is not exactly what you suggest as no-hits don't automatically get neutral rating -- most case those apps will get rejected.
Maybe you should ask the people referred to in the article.
ah, good old HN comments section. Nonsense is not tolerated.
East Africans from/near the Ethiopian plateau, Tibetans and Andean Indians all have large adaptations to living at high altitude. West Eurasians have lactose tolerance persisting into.adulthood. Eskimos/Inuit have altered metabolism of digestion of fats and proteins compared to the rest of the human race. Aboriginal Australians have adaptations to conserve calories by letting their limbs/extremities drop to much lower temperatures than their cores at night. West Africans are more muscular than any other racial/ancestry group with the possible exception of some Polynesians.

That is literally off the top of my head. There's much more in The Ten Thousand Year Explosion, Cochran and Harpending. I regret I haven't read it but the reviews were good. If you're interested in this any good human genetics textbook will do.

As a reality check on human diversity just remember the only species with more diversity in size and morphology are dogs.
The bigger problem for Xerox was that in 1975, about five years after establishing PARC, the DOJ forced them to license their entire patent portfolio to Japanese competitors. That dramatically changed the dynamic at Xerox, which had been able to think big ideas while riding its copier monopoly.

Xerox, AT&T, and to a lesser extent Google are strong examples of competitive markets being bad for innovation. Bell Labs didn't survive the AT&T breakup in the same form, and I doubt Google would be able to screw around with self-driving cars and wearable computing if they didn't have network effects protecting them from competition.
But it isn't novel, either; using Craigslist for this is a well-known writing exercise. See for example http://www.thelmagazine.com/2010/10/ships-that-pass-craigsli...
Not to put down the hard work these people do, but I really think slowing traffic is backwards thinking. Its the same advice that tells us to turn off electrical appliances to save the environment.

That kind of thinking is really about scaling back technological advances. To save something. Really technology should be employed to solve the problem.

Automated cars will solve the problem being reported here. New energy research will solve the power problem. Why do we need to take civilization back 50 years to get a benefit?
I gather that you don't run many apps on a mobile device. The shift toward mobile apps seems to be what's motivating the current trend toward AOT compilation.
I hope their premises are wrong - I come to the internet for tools that improve my life. I try not to live my life via the info streaming to me. And I hope that the trend to do so will subside once the next generation grows up with it being pervasive, and not a novelty.

I think the internet is an amazing communication, organization, and research tool. My future vision for it would be for it to stop also being an entertainment tool, and for us all to re-engage with the natural world and the people around us.

And my technology work tries to follow that - I look for jobs and projects that simplify and streamline one's life, and I reject projects that tie people more to their computers.
I find this comment extremely unhelpful. Where would she be likely to find silver or silver chloride in her house right now in a convenient way to be able to make the electrode? The only silver I have in my house is a spoon my grandmother gave me (I don't get old people's fascination with spoons), so personally I wouldn't be inclined to monkey around with it, if I could get good enough results out of something else. And I assume she wants to use something lying around in the house because if she were to have to order something she might as well just order real electrodes.

Your comment comes off as "this other way that you are not doing is the best way, so you way may as well not even try". This is Hacker News, after all. A hack is, by definition, slapped together from what's available on hand.
They're probably workibg on longevity treatments for a patient base of one: Larry Ellison.
What do you want to build today that is too expensive to try out ?

That, as they say, is the $64,000 dollar question.

I sure don't know. I'm not creative enough. Do you know?

My intuition is that there is about 0.01% of the population that is visionary enough to properly answer that question.
I don't disagree really.

But in this particular case, I'm talking about Lockheed Martin.
Why is the time.sleep(1) needed inside the while loop?
It should probably look a lot like ISO 8601.
Yes I agree with all of this.

Your reference to the integration of the conquered reminds me of James C. Scott's studies of the states of Southeast Asia. As he explains it, the limiting factor on the wealth of kings was the number of subjects they had working the land. So when they went to war, it was primarily to capture more people they could enserf. There was actually a regular intergenerational cycle. Grandparents could have been (the equivalent of) serfs, some of their grandchildren might have had some sort of sub-chief of a sub-village position, others might have been conscripted to fight a war to round up more farm labor, while others yet might have run off to the hills to stay out of reach of the state.
"microphone" qualifies "amplifier", meaning that it's an amplifier designed for processing signal coming from a microphone.

The title is a word play summarizing the fact that the author used such an amp to record biological signals. In context, it doesn't means or even imply that he uses a microphone.

Edit: word play, not pun; Edit2: +s; 3: better still.
They are still saying that talking therapy is effective!

The most generous interpretation of figures in this article is that NNTT for depression and therapy is 5. Meaning one out of every five people treated by therapy will show some improvement due to effects of therapy itself.

We can certainly call this effective in that there is an effect for some people who try therapy. But not for 80% of them.

Therapy is a 10 billion dollar/year industry in the United States, with its practitioners often charging desperately unhappy people high rates (beyond what most of us lucky software devs make), with no advantage to show for their various methodologies beyond what one gets from talking to an untrained stranger.

Financially successful yet largely bogus businesses and industries are never going to put themselves out of business and have little impetus to change the status quo.

Awareness of the current poor options for mental health treatment is important. However uncomfortable or against an established narrative of "help is out there' it is to address these realities, it will be easier to marshall efforts to finding real mental health solutions if we aren't pretending the current paradigms are working when the numbers show otherwise.
Wasn't it Netscape 1.1? Everything looked so modern after that.
Elon Musk’s sleight of hand
Lifestreams were/are a facinating idea but I think Gelernter and Freeman weren't really doers. I've used Lifestrams for about 2 years and it was far from stable and had a lot of bugs under Solaris.

Apple's TimeMachine UI[1] seems somehow "inspired" by Lifetream's[2].

[1] https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

[2] http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/03/17/lifestreams/
I don't see how increasing traffic jams is ever a viable long term solution. Why not consider things like pedestrian overpasses for large 4 lane streets. I guess in north America there's no point of even mentioning the possibility of having a reasonable public transportation system...
"Drivers seldom heed the 25 mph speed limit, and the result is that Livingston has a higher rate of pedestrian crashes than other roads in the same county."

Do you think automated cars will violate the speed limit?
Monkeys? Where did that come from? The idea of "for humans" just means that the UI was developed with an humane approach - as opposed to an undesigned UI, or one designed merely for the simplicity of the implementation, and that doesn't take into consideration things like our need for consistency to make up for a non-perfect memory.

That said, I personally don't think Celery suffers from this problem, but API that was being replaced by the first project to used this moniker - urllib2 - definitively did.
I took it as a wordplay on "microphone amplifier" and "bioamplifier"
> At this time, it is not available for desktop apps, although that is certainly something that could come with a future update. It’s not surprising though, since they really want to move to the new app platform anyway.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'm not investing time and effort into a toolchain that ultimately targets only a single platform, namely Windows 10,
because they don't want me to be able to just xcopy a .exe without touching their store
Nice. Always meant to try and do something similar myself using https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd
How hard could it be to check Boston society page engagement and wedding announcements for 1972 and 1973?
In what way are the results degraded by a different choice of ions?
Or underpasses, as are common in other countries.
Tragic that the US destroyed two more or less functioning nation states and left civil wars in their wake. Iraq would have been better off under Saddam, Libya under Gaddafi.
And "white man" is used here in the context of post-colonial Africa, where the phrase is loaded in a way that's relevant to the study.
Not necessarily. In addition, this kind of program can be really useful for development.

I use "python3 -m http.server" a lot when I'm just testing a bit of HTML/JS and don't want to setup a whole virtual host within Nginx/Apache. It just starts a static file server, on any platform.
IMO, The chance of users discovering your service from a google search is higher than accidentally discovering it in FB. Google ads might convert better.

I know your state of mind. I have been through it. The only thing I could say is to be patient and persistent.
This is nothing new. This relic of the British Empire is found in Silicon Valley today. It connects to misperceptions around genetics. I'm screenshotting this comment btw as proof.
I think the referent for "they" here is "Microsoft", not "desktop apps".
We don't have automated cars yet. We don't have (e.g.) fusion power yet. Why should the possibility of improvements in the future stop us doing things that benefit us overall now?

And ... where does "taking civilization back 50 years" come into this? Isn't that a ridiculously overblown way to describe what's actually a proposal to convert a 4-lane road to a 3-lane road plus bike lane and actually enforce the existing speed limit?
Other groups have stated the same thing [1]. The car already has to detect dyno testing to turn off traction control and other things that are dangerous under these conditions, adding a flag to tweak the mixture the car works with under speed isn't so difficult after that. Trying to detect a pattern would lead to much more complicated logic, especially if you get a tester who decides to do things in a different order.

[1] http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/volkswagen-emissions...
Premium+Products+|+LinkedIn
It has become the Oppression Special Olympics.