skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, calculating the odds for this sort of occurrence would be tricky. You aren't looking for the odds that a random person has parkinsons (which, as you said, would be 0.3%), but instead you are looking for the odds of a person having UNDIAGNOSED parkinsons (since this was the control group of people who were supposed to NOT have parkinsons). Finding out the percentage of people who fall into that category is probably trickier... what is the odds of a person who hasn't yet been diagnosed with parkinsons being diagnosed at some point in their lifetime? Within the next 6 months?
Or you're just seeing a temporary hangover in consumer behavior from the days when there were big leaps from year to year. Once people get used to the idea that next year's phone will be more or less the same as this year's, they'll be less inclined to upgrade for upgrading's sake.
Not that I know of. As a regular employee you probably don't even have access to enough information to do the calculation yourself.
The history section is really cool (edit: OK, maybe not!), but I find the conclusion horribly opinionated. Alright, making sounds on a computer might not be as fun as playing with real Legos and getting your hands dirty. So if what you want is fun, then yes, analog can make a lot of sense. But this article, reflecting some general opinion, I believe, goes a lot further...

"Today there are “analog modeling” digital synths that are good enough at mimicking the character of old-school imperfection the average ear probably can’t discern the origin of the sound."

That should be "the honest ear can't discern". Digital synth programmers have recently been going to great lengths to emulate the sound of analog (lengths that I personally find ridiculous, but that's beside the point), to such an extent that claiming to be able to recognize analog emulation is, in my opinion, delusional.

I can't blame purists for thinking that way, though. More generally, our brain modifies the sound that we perceive based on what we know about it, and understanding this is important to becoming a good sound designer - accepting that even you can't escape it, no matter how experienced or knowledgeable you are (quite the contrary). Unfortunately, most people don't accept it, and the idea that digital synthesis inevitably yields repetitive and boring sounds is ingrained in people's minds (especially the author's mind, it seems).

And then there's the idea that digital restricts your creativity because of... presets? In the 80's, maybe. But today? I suppose there are some people who pick a popular preset and don't even bother tweaking it, but these people would make shitty music whatsoever. Creative people will create creative sounds, and they will have a lot more creative freedom and unexplored territory on digital media. But go ahead and spread the idea that analog synths make sound with magically better properties - I'll be working on the actual unexplored territory in the meantime.
Consider the potential uses against dissidents, too.
One can easily work a few years in the Valley and buy a nice house in much of the country...and likely get an opportunity to work remotely if he/she has worked at the company a few years.

The raw numbers are nothing to sniff at, and you don't get that buying power in much of the country.
No. I did a project on Urbit for an OS course. It is deliberately obfuscated. For example, take the specification of Nock, the lisp-like "assembly code":

https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/1-noc...

The symbol evaluation is designed to take whoever is trying to program in Nock in circles around the specification. It makes even the most basic operations unnecessarily verbose and hard to memorize. To increment a number, you must put it adjacent to the expression [4 0 1]. So 42 [4 0 1] evaluates to 43, after several steps. There is no reason that an "assembly code" should have a decrement operator that must be evaluated more than once in order to get to the final expression.

Hoon, the "high-level" langauge is worse. A function to decrement an input by one is specified by the expression:

(a=. =+(b=0 |-(?:(=(a +(b)) b $(b +(b))))))

Like a postmodernist artists asks "what makes art?" and answers that there can be no objective answer, Urbit asks the question "What makes good software engineering?" Unfortunately there are many objectively bad design decisions you can make in software engineering. Forcing even the most basic operations to be incredibly verbose and unintelligible is one of them.
Yeah, I actually wrote that query just as an example to show what Cypher looks like and some fun around the openCypher announcement. Wasn't expecting it to end up on HN, let alone have Marko convert it to Gremlin...
You know you have a real hit when people use your product in ways that you never ever envisioned when you designed it.
This wouldn't explain why she noticed a change in her husband's scent. I would assume he was using the same deodorant before and after the change.
Pick up this book. It's fantastic.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-model...
Is it a fair assumption that the world owes you an emotional state you want?
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The browser detection doesn't seem to work properly.

You're on Safari.
Please press cmd+c now.

Actually using Firefox on Linux.
Looks like you never knew anyone that had a terminal illness.

And regardless while there isn't a cure per-say for Parkinson's there are treatments which can delay it's progression and the earlier you get them the more time you have.
Element owner here, thanks for the link. Really interesting to see some of the market research behind the vehicle.
It breaks the HN guidelines to editorialize the titles of stories like this, so please don't.

This post is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10430367.
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What? There's absolutely no connection between bitcoin and anything in that article, especially not with ECC.
Here [0] is the link to discussion on this article from few hours earlier.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10430367
Yes, I should have added the context about the scalar reward, but I'm not sure why that changes anything.

This may seem like a naive question, but it's sincere: What makes a scalar reward less effective at modifying a Q function than a scalar error that's used in backprop and assigned to a neural network's coefficients?
The FBI planes circle cities for hours and hours, equipped with Stingrays and FLIR cameras. This has no place in a free society, period. The "orwelianness" is pretty dead-on-balls fucking accurate.
> Did you think it would be well received in a forum where conversation tends to be more serious and informative?

Yes, I guess I thought my light-hearted comment might be received the way it was intended. Even in a serious/informative setting it's OK to inject a little humor here or there. I really don't think HN is on the brink of devolving into pun threads if that's your concern. If people think a comment is an unwelcome addition to the conversation, downvotes will certainly get that point across.

> Are you aware of the rules and just don't care?

Yes, I'm familiar with the comment guidelines (which certainly don't ban humor) and I'm aware of the "unwritten" rule that HN will usually tolerate only a small amount of levity in comments.
My response was directed to the immediate parent comment.

As to the original question, riots don't just appear from nowhere. In your objection, you limited the time and space to just the time period around the riot, in which case your statement is completely valid.

The start of my statement observes the longer span of time, and the frustrations and insecurities that put people to not be in the mood to "thoughtfully consider" something other than a riot. Your same point holds on that time scale as well, though it would be applied to a different group of people, and different but no less important feelings of endangerment and insecurity.
And seeing a website as a first-time visitor to make sure the color of non-visited links is OK
How long before the black market would be obsolete (enough data to scaffold any desired feature), though? Doesn't seem so bad.
Is your project online anywhere?
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I don't understand what the purpose of autopilot is. If you are supposed to keep your hands on the steering wheel and keep watching the road.
Wow, link for that?
No, no. The FBI planes have "Stringray" devices on board and pick up people's private calls and their IMSI IDs. They also have FLIR/high-res cameras. This shit is not "public" when they pretend to be a cell-tower to MiTM your phone.
Good advice m
You may want to revisit your stats, since there's no "math tricks" here. Even if you assume she knew that some sizable portion of the shirts came from AD patients, the p-val is quite low. If you assume every shirt was independent, so there's no knowledge to gained by knowing how many other shirts she classified as AD, the p-val is ludicrously low. And if you go Bayesian, no matter how you slice the prior probabilities, it's still low.
A major benefit of Gremlin is portability to e.g. Google's Cayley. If I was specializing in Neo4J I would specialize in Cypher too.
But is this true relative to the reward? It of course depends greatly on the individual. A senior SE who walks away from an offer at Google or Netflix to work for a startup could be forgoing as much as 100k a year in salary. Five years in that dev might have banked a half mil.

Yes the founders are giving up a lot too bit the equity they receive may be vastly higher.

It all depends on the numbers but adjusted for reward and equity? Yeah by that measurement I'd say its certainly possible that an early engineer is taking on the worst risk to reward ratio.

Lastly keep in mind that a founder who does not have strong tech skills may not be giving up as much in potential salary even if he or she works for "free". Again this all depends on the individual.
So, you're against states' rights, except when you agree with the particular policy the state is following in defiance of the federal government.

That's not a criticism of states' rights; that's a criticism of not agreeing with you. Join the club :-p
It's not about oversight. They don't need to be spying on citizens whom are neither suspected of a crime nor have a warrant against them. I don't give a fuck it it solves crimes; I'd rather the criminals get away with it if this is the cost. It needs to stop.
One interesting thing he brought up is that as a developer, you can't develop as if everyone is using a 3D Touch device, because they aren't so you just add some enhancements to your product for the 6S(+) users.

This means among other things, it will be easier for Apple to abandon the idea if it ends up not being worth it, since it is such a small part of the UX of the devices, or even replace it with some other mode of interaction.
SWIR/MWIR footage was captured for two subsequent experiments:

* Crowd detection: algorithmic detection of clusters containing greater than five person objects
* Automatic backtrace: designate a cluster and see the paths its members took to arrive at the location (including linking people to vehicles travelled in to the scene)
Bitcoin uses P-256 that the NSA just deprecated.
I like the focus on vector space.
Courts sorting it out is not without consequence. It greatly harms the credibility of both the organization whose decision is struck down, and the people who voted for that decision. So when an organization says, "we will make the decision and let the courts sort it out", they aren't doing it as a power grab, but rather because they are genuinely unsure if it is a legal decision.

So in this case, the Democratic FCC members were willing to take a risk because they thought the potential benefit (giving prisoners affordable access to telephones) is worth it. The Republicans did not, because they are, in this scenario, comfortable with the status quo.
Not sure what a furniture moving company has to do with HN.
> Once you lose a master key, blockchain or no blockchain, your identity splits. The person who stole your key can impersonate you perfectly.

I agree that there is a race between you broadcasting your revocation and the attacker using your key. Until all relevant parties receive your revocation, your attacker impersonates you perfectly.

However, using the blockchain as a broadcast medium for revocations places an upper bound on how soon your revocation will received by the rest of the these parties (assuming the blockchain itself remains available during the compromise). This is not the case with existing PKI systems, which make no such provisions at the protocol level beyond a simple (and usually optional) key expiration. Moreover, the fact that blockchains are extremely difficult to convincingly forge means that your well-formed revocation transaction would be hard to censor in a way that you could not detect, so an unavailability attack would not leave you falsely believing that your revocation has been sent.
The station wagon and the minivan are uncool. The SUV is guilt-inducing and retrograde. Hence, the "crossover," which is basically a tall station wagon, a short minivan, or a low SUV, depending on your perspective. In all of these cases it also skirts the marketing risks now apparently associated with using words like "station wagon," "SUV," or "minivan." Sooner or later "crossover" will sound lame (kinda always has, but I digress). They'll call it something new.
How do I know that? I just assume the guy that won was the only guy that played. If we can forget about all the people who ever claimed to smell disease, then we can forget about all the other lotto players.
Nope, by a stroke of luck Bitcoin uses secp256k1 instead, which is not included in Suite B.
Uhhh holy shit this is cool. Tedious as hell, but cool.
A few weeks ago at around midnight I could hear a helicopter hovering over a nearby neighborhood for a long time (10-15 minutes) apparently not moving very much. (The sound didn't change direction much.)

It was loud and obnoxious, but also troubling. Why were they up there? We have lots of helicopter fly-bys around here, but I had never noticed a long-term hover before.
Spam. You can flag it.
Just an FYI there is a pretty neat chrome extension called Click and Clean, it allows you to whitelist cookies and deletes the rest with the click of a button. Good for web development, etc.
Facebook releasing universal search across entire social network
I guess I should have worded it to better indicate that what I gave is a simple, obvious, and uncontroversial example of things that go into causal coupling between parental and child intelligence, but not the only or even remotely the strongest element. There are many reasons why being born to unintelligent or poor parents is incredibly unfair.

It is present, but relatively weakly compared to genetics: http://literacy.rice.edu/thirty-million-word-gap
Well? Are you not entertained?
Iceland Just Jailed Dozens of Corrupt Bankers for 74 Years
How much different is this from metro, traffic, and transportation CCTV systems that we've had for decades?
I always wonder if this is a good idea. While getting a false positive is not really a problem, because you're going to do a follow up experiment, what happens to the things we miss? If you do an experiment that doesn't really have a large enough sample size, or comes from a biased sample (because it's really an offshoot of a different experiment) and you decided that there is no effect, does it stop others from researching that effect? I suppose since we don't tend to publish negative results maybe it doesn't matter, but it's always something that has niggled at me.
Didn't we try this before with Microsoft (MCSE), Cisco (CCNP) and Oracle certifications and failed miserably?
Understanding something doesn't change your nature. I understand eating KFC is bad for me. This does not suppress the desire.

Money is a social construct that is tied to status. We want money because we want status.

You claim not to seek power. But if it was in front of you would you take it? Which door? Be honest.
How the first chain reaction changed science (2012)
I can recommend the documentary, "I Dream of Wires" (on Netflix) about the history of the analog modular synthesizer.
China appears to have forced labor in their prisons. Is that not what a gulag was?

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2014/jun/22/inside-chin...

For that matter, the US has it as well (albeit to a 'cleaner' extent):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
Alternately, you can grab the binary from the .ipa and decompile it. Objective-C/Swift code effectively can't be symbol-stripped; objc_msgSend takes a string selector, and those selectors remain evident in the binary. (This also makes writing cracks/keygens for Obj-C apps very, very easy.)
'Darknet', how quaint - the real players have switched to IPoAC (cf RFC 1149, 2549, 6214).
Suggest adding a reminder that when saying "urbit" as "herb it", you need to not say the "h". Unless you are actually supposed to say the h, of course. Perhaps it's the opposite of a silent letter.
TypeScript supports disjoint unions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/09/16/announ...

The two real pain points (among those you mentioned) of TypeScript are bivariant function parameters and structural classes, since they lead to potentially unsound code that compiles.
It is not. It might still be on the school's network, but I did it back in the spring and our department's network admin might have wiped my account since I graduated. Didn't accomplish too much to be honest, as might be hinted at by the frustration underlying my post.
What about other related and close disciplines to CS like electrical or telecommunications engineering? What do you think of these degrees?
It uses Secp256k1 which does not come from NIST.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who was momentarily confused by the fact that Charles Town, WV and Charleston, WV are two different municipalities.
Well, normally, if you want to decrement a, you write (dec a). But yes, if you want to write your own implementation of decrement, you could do it this way. It's just as bad an idea in Urbit as in any other language.

Nock is a functional assembly language, so it's not meant as a human interface. I think you mean "increment" instead of "decrement." Yes, [4 0 1] is an increment formula in Nock; 4 is the increment operator, 0 dereferences a tree address in the subject, 1 is the root of the tree; so [4 0 1] means "increment the subject," where your subject is 42.

If you know Lisp, you can think of Nock as Lisp without symbols or an environment; instead of having this hardcoded key-value store, the environment, you have a subject which is referenced with tree addresses (1 is the root, n2 is the left child, n2 + 1 is the right child).

Is this horribly arcane? It doesn't seem that way to me, but de gustibus non disputandum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game

When given the choice between fair-pie-on-the-floor and unfair-everybody-gets-more-pie, humans reliably choose fair-pie-on-the-floor.
Would allow app-specific battery usage, and an upper limit on how much power an app can use? But you could already do both of those things, I guess.
1) If companies begin blocking numbers on the FCC lists, it would open an opportunity to DoS any number by generating a high number of spoofed calls to generate complaints.

2) Telemarketers are now spoofing Caller ID to come from the same area code and prefix as the called number, with a random four digits at the end. I don't see the database helping prevent these sorts of calls.
Galen relied on sense of smell for diagnosing illnesses. Aristotle wrote about it. Until the late 20th century doctors often used smell for diagnostics.
I originally thought it is a really story about `input` like the one with `printf` - http://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html
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My first impulse is like a lot of people to be fairly skeptical. Then I cast my memories back to when I started, and this is how a lot of big companies got their developers.

You took the IBM Data Processing aptitude test and if you did OK, the company inducted you into a trainee programmer role and you were sent on a course and got your PL/I book. You then spent 6 months working with the senior programmer gaining experience and making small patches and then eventually moved into a journeyman status. Basically it was an apprenticeship for coders.

Some stayed at that level, some quit, others would then do a combined CS with Computer Systems Engineering degree and get honours :-). The point is that it gave people a look in at the ground floor - people who gained value for their company who never would have had the chance in a world where the only way to open the door is a degree.

So despite my initial skepticism, I think there can be a place for things like this. In the end it depends how it is used. If it is to get people to pay money for a worthless course, then that is not great. However, if people can get placements as part of the gig, and they are treated effectively as apprentices, then it opens doors to a little more diverse crew than we are getting at the moment, and that's a good thing.
Is it really that bad? Social media is just noise to me. Checking online may seem tempting, but almost nothing I see adds any real value to my life.
>> It's unfeasible to get the consent of everyone

a.k.a. "I didn't ask because I knew you would say no".
Sorry, this is a ridiculous parochialism on our part. In America, which is where English was invented and is also of course the biggest bestest country in the world with giant atomic bombs and stuff, we don't say the "h."

But apparently there's some little islands or somewhere where they do. Will fix.
Lack of any information about what is going on with this webpage does not make me feel confident about putting my information in there.
No statistics per say. Programmers are a different animal that say a job like tech support or customer service. Stuff they do, code they write, will stick around in your system for a while, and is non-trivial to remove or fix. If a customer service rep does a bad job you can fire them and going forward is a clean slate. But high turn over for software engineers leads to more technical debt. Lower quality programmers lead to exponentially greater technical debt. Also the cost of hiring someone in terms of dollars is not small.

So think about it from Google's point of view. You take a risk, hire a programmer that doesn't pan out. You fire him after 6 months. That's 6 months of salary and benefits. 6 months of bad code sitting in your code base. 6 months of lower productivity for whoever was on that person's team. And probably another 6 months after that of clean up either ripping out bad code, or worse, leaving passable code that turns bad at a later date causing even more work.

It is better to just take no action on a potentially good candidate and let them try again in a year than it is to take even a small risk on someone who might cause things to snowball.
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Below the pencil for note taking have a ? or lightbulb that allows the user to enter a question? Since I think users creating their own cloze tests or prompts would be beneficial. This also lets it be optional.

e.g

http://i.imgur.com/YKrI6Ad.png
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