skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hidden relationship mining has taken a few different paths from TDA to LDA graphical modelling (Michael Jordan, David Blei) to Vector Space driven (Berkeley Lab). Extracting hidden relationships in datasets and using these to form new hypothesis and enable or even make new discoveries is certainly the future...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory vector space for hidden relationships:
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2008/07/09/berkeley-...

A Search Engine that Thinks
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2005/03/31/a-searc...

Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span - Blei DM1, Franks K, Jordan MI, Mian IS. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533868
To bypass the paywall you can search for the title in Google, or click here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Hot+Startup+Theranos+Has+Struggled+With...
Another painful part was that companies sought to obtain legal clarification on how it impacted their operations. The industry essentially split in 2006 into firms willing to take the risk that poker was legal, and those who didn't want to take that risk.

I believe people in government took advantage of this ambiguity to allow business to continue so they could later confiscate funds from payment processors to boost their careers and budgets. I permanently lost money in at least two instances where payment processors were shut down.

I also think there should not only be a clear communication of how much is raked, but there should be a mandatory minimum % that is returned back into the pool (or a cap on the rake) so that it can be demonstrated as in fact a game of skill.

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Not really sure about formatting options but you can get at it here: https://www.23andme.com/you/download/
1.) No he hasn't: https://twitter.com/ianbetteridge
2.) You seem to be a moderator here(?) and in your comment history you often call out comments that don't advance the discourse on HN but then you go and make a comment like this. What gives?
...golf ball sized sounds closer to my preference.
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> Winning the War on Climate Change

It's not a war, it's not a contest. There are no "sides" and there's nothing to "win".

It's just adapt or die.

And there are many ways to adapt, it can mean changing ourselves just as it can mean changing our environment.
You'd have to filter for 'trendy' ones though. Something like cocktail bars based out of shipping containers on top of abandoned multi-storey car parks or cocktail bars with the same names as businesses at the same address that used to be shoe shops. :-) Something like that...
But I haven't seen (and you haven't shown) any real evidence of governments promoting these vices. I do get your point, there's clearly a conflict of interest here, and I too would prefer people to stop smoking rather than countries making money from it.

I reckon that actually the only real limiting factors involved are that if government taxes something like cigarettes too much, then the black market steps in and more people buy untaxed products, cutting the tax revenues. In fact I suspect that's already happening in some countries (black market cigarettes are big in the UK, for instance. There are occasional busts of lorries packed full of untold millions of them, and anecdotally, most people seem to know of someone who sells them).

Perhaps (speculation time) this actually keeps governments from even considering promoting vices like smoking? The current balance of taxes and government controls on advertising vs the black market means that there's marginal benefits to increasing demand, and current taxations are 'optimal' ?
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Here is the actual paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151014/ncomms9581/full/nco...

Coming from medicine I think the title of "medical breakthrough" is too generous. It's a great proof of concept but all this says is that in rats, high Bp in thoracic spinal cord injuries was associated with worse outcomes. Id like to see a follow up on human data from perioperative Bp recordings next. If it still holds true, then you can research whether an intervention in Bp control makes a difference. I'm not a neurosurgeon but I'm sure the correlation btw Bp and sci outcomes has been looked at before
> The IRS is just a collection of people, and if you make an honest effort, the person on the other end isn't out to ruin you.

Yes, they are people, but if what happens to you depends on people, the end results can be rather unpredictable.
It seems like it can hover over land pretty well on take off. I wonder if he sticks to water primarily for the softer landing if things malfunction.
it's plausible that gov't can become addicted to vice taxes. However, on the cig. tax, there is no evidence of that this is the norm. In fact, in both US and Canada, smoking rate has gone down significantly so something is working and therefore, we shouldn't be too concern with this gov't addiction red herring.
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Is Obama Deliberately Trying to Start World War III?
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> A person's national identity was directly tied to one's national religion.

A point I often bring up when people discuss things done "in the name of religion" that seem either counter to the themes of said religion or just odd under that justification.

And I say this as a non-religious person under the common usage of "religious".

For a lot of people, and possibly to a greater extent in different places and different times than the modern, western world, there is little distinction between "creed" and national/cultural identity. Religion wasn't just where you went to church or temple on Saturday or Sunday but rather it's another term for the distinct identity of a group. Ideas of divine laws and rules of behavior mix with the shared cultural, ethnic, and historically geographical identity of your tribe or nation.

Just as now we might talk about the things you must believe and practice to be considered a true Christian or a true Muslim, there were things you had to accept and behaviors you had to practice in order to be a "real" Roman or a "real" Hebrew. I think this was more of an identifying factor than our modern concept of nations and religions.

So when you wonder how someone could do a thing because of their religion, and so many people do different things based on the same religion, I often think about it in terms of how people act differently even though their motivation may fall under the scope of "because I'm an American" (or any other nationality). "Nationalism" almost serves the same purpose as "religion" when transposing between secular and sacred frameworks.

I'm admittedly not an expert on this but it's something that interests me in terms of history and anthropology.
>Yes, and people who have broken legs should just start running marathons. Shame on them for not taking 'personal responsibility' for being unable to run a marathon.

There is overwhelming evidence that stress causes depression and anxiety, and that psychological interventions can help. I'm not aware of any evidence that psychological treatments can cure a broken leg.

>Fuck off.

You might want to read the rules here. Anyway, thanks for proving my point.
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That's what happens when you don't have a government, though. It's been shown time and again. Power abhors a vacuum.
Shame? How about anger, or rage, or wrath? How about an inflexible demand to stop war crimes.

No one wants to conduct a meaningful opposition because the American system will destroy them. We are ruled by fear.
To me this just mirrors what people would write about drinking in the prohibition era[1].

There are some people for whom gambling is a profitable profession (I was one such person), some for whom gambling is a reasonable recreational activity, some for whom it is a life-crushing addiction, and there are many shades in between.

And prohibition only makes things worse for all the actors. Professionals and amateurs alike have to play on sketchy sites that fund criminals to make their living, and people end up being exploited by the lack of regulation similar to how you might die of alcohol poisoning from moonshine you drank in a speak-easy in the 20s[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_can...

[2] Here's one example where a poker site stole millions of dollars from its players. There were many such cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereus_Poker_Network
My father was heavily affected by this. He went from making thousands of dollars a month from online poker to making about fifty bucks a month on average in the online poker memberships (playing almost as much as he used to, but not quite). He follows the sloooow news of getting it legalized again on a state basis, which for the past several years a few states have been on the verge of doing (a couple might have already as far as I know).

He went from a staunch Republican to anti-Congress pretty much overnight with the passage of this bill, and I've probably heard him complain about fifteen times about how Congress is so corrupt and a lobbyist representing Harrah's casino apparently "bought" a senator to get him to slip this into the SAFE Port Act (which in the aftermath of 911 was guaranteed to pass) for only $50,000.
Got your email.

Will just briefly note that one modern therapy for CF is inhaled salt water mist and it was developed because people with CF who dive/surf/etc have better prognoses. I moved to the coast for a time to have consistent, free access to the ocean. The ocean has a lot more minerals in it than just salt. Some brands of sea salt also have a mix of those other minerals. When you dump salt, as with CF, it is going to drag other things out with it. Replenishing both the salt and the other associated minerals was important in getting myself healthier. This is largely overlooked by everyone. Everyone thinks "salt is salt" and that is true if you mean NaCl is NaCl. But products labeled "salt" almost never are just NaCl.

Good talking to you. Have a great day.
how else are you supposed to work on it remotely? /s
I'm not saying it's cheap, just stating what I learned about being dropped from Uber as a driver.
Proposed a feasibility study for the UK to UK Innovate Energy Catalyst competition last year these days and was rebuked with a "no market justification for this". Missed opportunity but vindicated, in the end.
With regard to LLVM, the concept of emitting code for a "virtual machine" that is then translated to code for any of several target machines is ancient.
One example is the Pascal-P environment from the 1970s. The compiler emitted "P-code" that was then translated to machine language. Oddly enough, P-code was so close to the machine language of the PDP-11 that the translator was trivial!
What's at the core of U. Wisconsin's suit against Apple?
A prototype is not a product.

A prototype is an idealised example that demonstrates a concept or a set of concepts.

A product is a real instance of these concepts packaged up as something that a customer will use and pay for.

It is perfectly fine to provide prototypes as part of the development process as proof of concept. You can show them to your customers or test audience as demonstrations of what you expect your final product to look like and that you've correctly understood their needs.

A prototype is also suitable as a totem for team discussions to help develop understanding of an as-yet poorly understood problem domain.

Product is the embodiment of these prototypes, and all the other material such as documentation, packaging, independent certification, quality control, licensing ...

All Minimal Viable Product is is the embodiment of "just enough" of the prototype stuff to be useful to your customer, but all the other stuff is still required.

Prototype is Inspiration (1%), if you like, and Product is Perspiration (99%)*

The paradox of MVP is that you're really just saving on that 1% but the other 99% still has to be done with very little variation in the effort required. What's more if you're building for a single customer MVP is just their requirements and nothing more, if you're building for a set of customers, then MVP as opposed to P is just a case of deciding which customers you don't care about.

(* Maybe it's more like 30/70 or 50/50 but I was echoing the popular trope)
Which kind of bankruptcy? I was just in Vegas and both of those properties looked to be making money.
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Hm. So what stops US from targeted killings in China? Russia? Europe? Only the probable retaliation?
One personal comment... Sometimes on the Internet you'll see someone give very strong and definitive advice. It may be wise to double-check the credentials of that person.

For instance, I would steer away from career advice from a new grad who has exactly 6 months of experience and got laid-off. There may be better advice from people with more experience.

The problem is that you can't tell if the person giving you such strong advice actually knows what they are talking about. Do you want to hear dating tips from a 15-year old? I'm sure they are entertaining to read.
As if they even need this. Having worked at a small construction company for a year, I've seen multiple worker's comp claims denied even when the injury is our fault. Worker's comp in general is flawed, but this scheme shows that the United States really don't care what happens to our nation's laborers as long as the lobbyists are happy.
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Apple’s late entrance into designing and building multi-core processors might put the company at risk of more related patent litigation.

The ubiquity of multi-core processors put microprocessor vendors on a collision course with Wisconsin. Intel already settled a similar lawsuit with Wisconsin in 2009.
That was almost certainly a rewards card that tracks peoples playing for comps. Every slot machine I've ever seen still requires you to insert either cash or a ticket cashed out from another machine.
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This seems to me to be the most premise summary of what likely happened. Startup raises a ton of money for a new model that isn't ready yet.. so they use existing machines to fake it till they figure out how to get the Edison machine to work. Not terribly dissimilar in some way from jet.com just buying goods you ordered off of other sites and paying for the difference, in hopes they can test the market, build a brand and eventually make their model work. Problem is that it isn't obvious that scale helps you reach the ultimate goal here (unless you reason that more money/longer runway = higher likelihood of success). Unfortunately for Theranos, actual lives are at stake here and there is a lot of regulation in the medical space for good reason.
Well yes, all that too. I agree with your statement about lack of opposition/dissent. It is horrible.
I'd guess they're looking for data to include in the next article on the subject.

"$X% of respondents to our poll believe that $Y." or something of the like.
Golf ball seems a bit on the small size, but tennis ball is way too big. Maybe snooker balls? Looks about halfway between one and the other diameter-wise.
Apologies tommyd. We try to prevent ads from intruding on the content like this, but some times things slip through in the QA.

--Mike @GQ
I'm a part of the team and lol, no - that's just Chadd's "demo voice". I think the feeling that the demo was sped up comes because we made those card transitions so fast. If you sign up, you can actually try the demo yourself to see that it really is that quick :-)
Great find with plain evidence. Does HN have an official stance on promotional accounts? (Paging dang?)

Anecdotal experience makes me think this is a problem on any submission-driven site.
Microsoft needs to keep bragging how Windows 10 is "growing", and likely that growth has stalled lately, so they're becoming more aggressive about pushing it.

Also, despite any sort of Windows 10 "growth", PC sales have been down by about 10% for the past two quarters. Maybe it's time for OEMs to look elsewhere.
I haven't done it in a long time (thank heavens), but I used to write a lot of garbage as a way to afford vagabonding around China and generally avoiding real life. I would get paid $10 for 500 words of utter garbage, mostly for SEO purposes. It could be about almost anything, it just had to be well-written (no grammar errors), include a smattering of keywords in very specific locations, and had to meet a length requirement.

Eventually I started outsourcing my writing to stay-at-home moms with English degrees and one of my friends who would trip on acid and pound out three articles an hour.

On the surface it was good money; writing comes naturally to me and I could easily make $30/hour, which was good money for someone sitting on a train in China. But eventually it starts to wear on you. Especially knowing that you're not providing any real value and your entire purpose is basically to trick an algorithm, it just burns you out very quickly.

It's still not ideal for quality content, but at least now the algorithm we're all trying to trick is a mostly human one. I hate Buzzfeed clickbait as much as the next person, but it's still better than filling up the Internet with endless spam.
I'm from Oklahoma, and I always wonder how much of our social behavior is based on the fact that Oklahoma was, until recently, Indian Territory and land worked by farmers who came around the time of the land runs. If you're struggling to provide enough food for your family in 1889, there's no way you are letting your children not eat all of their food. I'm sure that is self-perpetuating in some way.
Being ‘wasted’ on Facebook may damage your credit score
Yeah I know exactly what you mean, at that point I'm hoping people will research nutrition and exercise enough to find out what is optimal for them.

You are correct, given a person's current health and activity level, their nutrient requirements can vary greatly.
That seems, based solely on how my gut feels, reasonable: they may have effectively saturated the untapped credit card swiper market in the US, which doesn't deal in high-cost items. I would, however, suggest that there's a whole credit card swiper market that exists that can be muscled in on that has much higher values - all grocery stores, for instance.

In any case, I should find the filing and read it. I came up with a similar and much worse idea about 6mo before Square came out, and I've been a total fan of Square ever since.
For lotteries in particular, it's a little unclear. The lottery-playing public seem to love gigantic jackpots (just see all the press when a jackpot grows obscenely large. Why would a small-time player buy more tickets to win $100 million, but not bother to buy a ticket to win $1 million? But still they do...) , and the more lottery companies out there, the more distributed the money becomes, leading to smaller jackpots and thus fewer players. So the difference between licensing one lottery and several might not be much.

(I wonder if any has done studies on this? There must be some 'optimal' (for tax revenue) number of lotteries for a jurisdiction)
>- IMEIs are used to track targets. Can IMEIs be spoofed?

Yes. Relatively trivially.
On the other hand you have things like blood glucose testing, which mid-twentieth century happened only in a doctor's office, when today diabetics do it several times daily. Obviously not all tests are going to be like that, and I haven't looked at the list of tests Theranos is performing, so all, some, or none of their tests might be similar.
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I don't think he has. You've equated regular gambling with losing.

Casino games, against the house, and computerised "slots" are gambling games which can't be beaten long term.

Sports gambling is very different, and can be beaten. There are many, many sports bettors and traders who make steady, serious income from their bets. This is true especially when using betting exchanges, where one is betting against other people, rather than a single bookmaker. Individual bookmakers are notorious for closing winning punters' accounts. On the betting exchange, the house just take their commission from all your winnings. The successful trader factors into their strategies the platform commission.

The key for successful sports betting is the concept of value. The bettor needs to find prices which are incorrect, and over what they believe the true odds should be. If the strategy is correct, continually placing value bets will lead to long term profit.

http://formbet.co.uk/value-betting-101/

http://formbet.co.uk/saturday-review-6k-banked/
That's pretty similar to the current Mercedes E-class, it doesn't work very well at high speeds.

Note that the Tesla reaction video is as low speeds in stop & go traffic, and my car is just as good there.

It would be interesting to test the Tesla in the same conditions as the Hyundai is failing in.
"He could even tell you where Apple store tables are made"

They're made by the German company Dula. The company gave interviews recently. They have restricted window-less rooms with security systems Apple has access to.

Article (original in German)
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
Meh, why not just use code generation for this problem? That's what CPython does.

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2014/06/04/using-asdl-to-descri...

To me this [1] looks way better than a bunch of C++ macros.

[1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Parser/Python.asdl
Yeah. "Only" when the conflict could then escalate and the opponent has nuclear weapons is kind of understating the case.
Is there any chance a grassroots effort could get the rule for clear QAM local channels restored? It seemed like such a reasonable trade-off for giving the cable operator a local monopoly, to provide free and clear HD broadcast channels which my TV could display so nicely without any external boxes. It was so sad watching the channels drop out after they started encrypting them :-(

In South San Jose you need a "pretty big" antenna to receive a decent line-up of OTA channels being broadcast from north San Fran... A smaller powered antenna even up on the roof would not pick them up clearly.
Sorry you feel that way Intermernet.

-- Mike @GQ
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