skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, I believe social media is the best source of news; usually it is a first person account.

I was referring to a internal system which reporters and producers share which doesn't have a public feed.

If you watch some news reports, you'll notice a bunch of people at their desks with a small screen next to their larger monitors. That smaller screen is something like an IRC chat which is used to coordinate assets between reporters and producers.

http://radio.foxnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/FNCNewsr...

This is from fox news - notice those small monitors that look out of place.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8018/7405270916_7cd37ba78f_b.j...

This is from CNN, notice that most monitors have CNN as their screen saver while some, with no one sitting next to them, have block boxes.
Can you explain what you mean by that?
Underlining also represents the thing you often do with a pen on printed text. It's perfectly OK and useful type of formatting online.
I switched to Lyft after having a verbally abusive driver. Uber support kept giving me canned responses. Finally I got a human over email and asked if I and my wife could be blocked from the driver. They said no, just cancel the ride if I see him again. I don't know what my wife is supposed to do. Lyft has a noticeably higher quality driver base. I highly recommend Lyft.
As a (not yet suicidal) founder, I'd love to see some numbers if you have access to any.
This article talks about that. I think it was posted on HN before. http://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-g...

"check this box if you want to see close family members in this search program." It's your choice whether or not you do. If you can't handle the truth, if you're going to use that truth and act on it and ruin your life with it; that's your prerogative.

Can't blame them for telling you what you asked for.
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I don't remember 100% clearly but I think photos published of the event were carefully framed to make it look like a huge crowd of Iraqis and few if any Americans
0.05 significance has a 1 in 20 chance of being randomly occurring (1 / 0.05 = 20) and a result of statistical noise rather than evidence of a pattern. This is why reproducibility is important in science - future trials and tests will fail to reproduce the exact pattern of events needed to produce the statistical noise and so the null hypothesis will be accepted instead.
I should have put a disclaimer that I'm not a doctor or expert in pharmaceutical research by any means but unfortunately have had to learn a fair bit about fungal infections the hard way due to a loved one having been affected. Antifungal treatments for internal infections are long (of the order of years), can be difficult to administer (some of them can only be done via IV) of uncertain efficacy
and can have serious side effects. And this is for organs that don't have to overcome the BBB.

Nonetheless, if some anti-fungal treatments do prove to be effective against alzheimer's it'll be an amazing advance in medicine. Probably at the level of a Noble prize for the researchers. I'd love to see that happen.
How is that not super awesome? All of those employees had market wages well before the IPO.
Seems like this study really sucked for whoever wrote the paper. They tried pretty hard to find a correlation but couldn't.
It is no badge of shame to test a hypothesis and find no evidence for it. We should encourage the publishing of such lack of findings.
Comparing old vs new is how it's done in cancer research. It's inhumane to prescribe placebo to someone in serious pain. You give them the old or the new, and they report how they felt.

In this case, since there is no concept of old or new, it's an entirely new class of treatment. So you give the current best-practice treatment without anti-fungal, and you give the same with anti-fungal.

Anyone in the study is agreeing at the onset that they have a 50/50 chance they will either get the current best practice, or the exact same thing but also the anti-fungal. These are volunteers who are helping move the anti-fungal research forward for everyone, in exchange for a chance of getting early access. They can also leave the study at any time after starting, but if they are in the anti-fungal group they would lose access to it if they did.

If that's not enough, there are cases (e.g. in cancer research) of de-blinding the study when there's a clear/strong positive effect and providing early access to all enrolled if it becomes obvious the new treatment is widely beneficial.

So I think we have the theory behind the ethics fairly well wrapped on how to roll out these drugs. I don't think in practice it works so well, the studies are often poorly run and poorly administered making them extremely more costly than they should be.
Interesting, thank you very much for that link.

I gotta say, though... Back in the day, I was really interested in skeptic culture, which at that point was focused on debunking UFO sightings. Often, airline pilots were the ones who reported UFOs. And the pilots' drone reports in that newspaper article really feel familiar to the old UFO reports in their vagueness and impossibility to confirm, without useful radar information or photographs. This one in particular set off screaming alarm bells for me:

"In the first incident on May 29, the pilot of a commercial airliner descending toward LaGuardia Airport saw what appeared to be a black drone with a 10-to-15-foot wingspan about 5,500 feet above Lower Manhattan, according to a previously undisclosed report filed with the Federal Aviation Administration."

10-to-15 foot wingspan? 5,500 feet up? Really? And nobody could track down this enormous mystery aircraft operating high above one of the most tightly controlled airspaces in the world and almost colliding with an airliner?

Of course, none of this says that a drone and an airplane couldn't get into a fatal collision at some point -- it's a serious danger we should consider ways to avoid -- but there's just something about these reports that feels terribly off.
I may have gotten a little carried away here. A simpler, less-likely-to-offend way of saying it: Making any given person feel completely at ease and welcome, is a gift that not everyone has. Telling someone without that gift to just "be more inclusive" won't magically give them that gift.

It's possible that collectively stregthening our capacities for empathy will make that gift occur more often. But again, I don't think dividing and sub-dividing each other into classes that effectively merit more or less empathy relative to each other is the way to do it.
Can't believe this made tops lists. Complete waste of time reading.
I think this sort of topic seems more-inviting-than-usual to those without expert knowledge. An average thread here about e.g. the BEAM VM (something I have expertise on) is usually very well-thought-out and fact-based, because enthusiasm to talk about it usually goes up with experience.

In politics, meanwhile, the true experts are more-often-than-not the people who left the room early before the shouting began. ;)
I suspect this is some variant of Parkinson's law combined with Dunning-Kruger effect.
I worked with the second one for ~3 years
This is one of the most lucid explanations of wavelet compression I've been able to find. What I've noticed is that many demosceners have a knack for being able to explain concepts with very simple vocabulary, without having to resort to advanced maths terminology (unlike most descriptions of wavelets I've seen.)
Both YELP and BOX made a lot of people very rich.
Damnit. I read a whole Hanson article and nobody was able to explain what my preference for mecha anime says about my politics.

Even though there's a strong connection.
How difficult is it to predict how different light sources would interact with our atmosphere? In all these photos it just looks like the colors were shifted, but I don't know if that's not how it would look like if it was a more sophisticated method (for all I know it could have been)
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hmmm has anyone else done this with drugs in Asia yet? Personally I haven't seen it and this is really needed
That was my impression, too. It looks like it's just scale and general color. Also what's the source image and why is it so pixelated? Would love to see simulated alternate night skies from other parts of the galaxy.
Original http://www.halcyonmaps.com/sun-replaced-with-other-stars/
One popular is missing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKNC
This is what, the fourth time this has made it to the front page? I'm not complaining, I always like seeing it. Seems to lose more and more pixels every time, though.
Agreed, if the employees negotiated fair cash compensation, a bonus equivalent to a $70K bonus/year for four years in a row is solid. If employees were told that the stock options were a significant portion of their compensation and thus salaries would be lower, it's less great, but probably still not unreasonable.
Or could it be more accurately "the suicide rate among people who wrap their self worth in their financial success".
How do you propose to eliminate poverty directly?
Write a better diff! Make the computer do more work, rather than bending over backwards to fit the whims of your diff.

Try searching for "semantic diff" or "tree-diff" or "syntax-aware diff".

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiff.html
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mef found the original if you want higher quality: http://www.halcyonmaps.com/sun-replaced-with-other-stars/
>one of the ingenious ideas to solve social and infrastructural problems by throwing an app at them

The internet is not an app; the internet is infrastructure.
Can mods edit link to this one? The tumblr has nothing more to offer than the halcyonmaps, and the halcyonmaps has better quality
Basically you're like the people who litter because they pay tax for the government to clean up, only applied to the private sector.
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yeah, I don't think you've had a lot of interactions with Dept Homeland Security.
Nothing has changed at Theranos. They're still the same business they were before. Either they have a valuable product or they don't. The only thing that's changed is public perception, which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with attracting investors.
On the other hand, the author is using the widow's claim (as she was the one who told the WSJ about it) as evidence of doubts about Theranos's technology...there's really no way to introduce that kind of second-hand information without also saying that its source is now dead.
"Go experts still can't write leak-free code"

Big statement, anyone confirm this?
How about making this a weekly coffee get together? Fridays and hosted happy hours or coffee outings with HN in SF
Is there a federal debtors' prison I'm unaware of? A fine from the government (when e.g. the sentence for a crime is a fine)—which you don't pay—turns into credit-score damage, liens and garnished wages; it does not turn into reduced freedom of movement/association.
A valid complaint, but it's bad to stop just there. Could you enlighten us all and share some of your expert knowledge on the topic?
About as feasible as Mother Earth getting sick of "my cat" or "my dog" tweets and shaking things up as a response.
Excel has that functionality, and has had it for a long time. It is used a lot, at least I've seen it used a lot, for internal functions such as workflow MIS (on wall mounted displays no less, that no one knew was Excel as we'd hidden anything Excel-like, like grids and menus / title bars, etc -fantastic to hack a quick solution, for example a visitor was coming, and we'd switch to a one-off sheet "Welcome XXX visitor" for 20 seconds through the day, that hack took 5 minutes, super easy) and general data functions.

As well as connections to conventional databases, SharePoint integration is a big thing - have a little macro that does a refresh (and a second one that mimics the movement of a mouse so the mandatory screensaver doesn't turn on).
pg has a good essay on it, "Keep Your Identity Small" [0].

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
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"As NYU law professor Erin Murphy told the New Orleans Advocate regarding the Usry case, gathering DNA information is “a series of totally reasonable steps by law enforcement.” If you’re a cop trying to solve a crime, and you have DNA at your disposal, you’re going to want to use it to further your investigation."

If the police broke into people's houses to snoop through their private effects, that would help solve crimes too, but it doesn't mean it's "totally reasonable" -- why is snooping through private DNA records "totally reasonable"?
I get it now. The context was ambiguous, though, so I don't quite get the downvote.

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I didn't understand a word you just wrote.
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If you've ever taken antibiotics for an extended period and ended up with a fungal infection due to the loss commensal bacteria this is pretty intriguing. There is a lot of new literature proposing links between gut disruption and neurodegenerative disease.
It is putting a lot of effort on PR. I went to https://www.theranos.com/ for curiosity's sake, and was surprised to see that... well, the big center image has absolutely nothing to do with Theranos' technology, it's about "empowering women" (which is of course a laudable effort).

My best guess is this is just 'fake it till you make it'. If they've got a 9 bil valuation, at least they can hire some smart folks who would otherwise be unhappy in proper academia. Maybe they're on to some technology and we will see that pivot soon.
What's unusual is that this project uses PyPy in production. PyPy has been a long time coming. Until recently, Python was defined by CPython, which is a naive interpreter. As this article points out, performance is roughly an order of magnitude better with PyPy. Now PyPy has to be taken as seriously as CPython, if not more seriously. In a few years we may look at CPython as the "toy" implementation.
Bullshit, DARPA/ARPA is as much military as a freaking nuclear warhead. In his speach introducing ARPA, Eisenhower made it extremely clear that its purpose was to cary out research that maintained technological superiority over enemies of the United States ("enemies" is his word). The "Defence" part was only added later for political reasons.

You don't even have to try hard to see the evidence: DARPA is unique among ALL OTHER government agencies because it is military backed and at the cutting edge of defense research.

DARPA has at most 300 employees overlooking a budget of $3 billion (an order of magnitude more "revenue" per employee than Apple) because 90+% of employees are project managers who have a maximum term limit of four years. The only DARPA employee that I know of that worked for the agency twice did so 25 years after his first term. Each of these managers oversees one or more projects worth anywhere between $1 million and $25 million and are advised by an individual scientific board (whose members can stay longer than four years to maintain some continuity).

Dnot get me wrong, I am a firm believer that DARPA is one of the greatest examples of what humans can achieve when they are given the ability to create, rebel, and dream beyond the current capabilities of engineering, but let's not kid ourselves. DARPA primary purpose has always been death and destruction. (Case in point: DARPA's currently most funded project is a scram jet based nuclear warhead that can hit any spot in the world within an hour of launching from the continental United States)

We're just lucky that cooperation is so much more profitable than mutually assured destruction.
It's called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
Not very hard, once you know how to do it.

No idea if it's been done correctly here though.
So it all depends on
- if the stock of the company is liquid = I can sell or buy it easily
- if there is an expiry on stock options

Because if Im fired and my options will expire soon and stock is not easy to sell, then I have to pay to get the stock but not sure I can sell it right away, am I right ?

What is commonly the case in Silicon Valley for instance ? Do companies buy the stock from people who are fired/quit ? What is a common expiration date for stock options ?

Thanks
I think one problem is in the way the author searched for weird behavior. Literally searching for the phrase "my cat is acting weird" is probably not representative of all times that a cat is acting weird at all. Additionally, you will not be getting a lot of results by just searching for those terms, adding to the noise problem in the data. They need to either find a way to train an AI to recognize tweets of weird animal behavior, or at least create a less naïve information retrieval system in general (I'm guessing they just used the twitter search api).

Moreover, they need to test this on multiple earthquakes to get a better idea of what the data is like accounting for all events. There is cool science that could be done here, but this was not comprehensive enough to really say one way or the other that the hypothesis (animals can predict earthquakes) was wrong.
I guess so, but at least you'd have the choice to leave :-)
I just read the whitepaper, and Muse sounds incredibly interesting [1]. Thanks for working on this, I definitely want to spend more time looking at it!

[1] - https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse/blob/master/whitepaper.m...
That's because it's wholly irrelevant. The software sucks. This is the whole of the message. It's not important why it can be done better if nobody ever does it better.

It's ironic you're complaining about straw men while criticizing a technology project because you don't like the way they talk about technology, completely ignoring the technology itself. It's an unproductive gripe, unlikely to better anyone's situation.
Most node.js code spends barely any time on the v8 thread. The node code merely invokes routines in libuv, which has a thread pool for anything computationally intensive.
They're the skills that allow you to effectively and pleasantly interact with other humans (as opposed to the technical skills that you use for interacting with machines).
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I've been pretty happy with shush[1], which is a similar script that helps with a lot of this--including randomdelays, locking to avoid overlapping runs, e-mailing only on errors (or other criteria as you see fit), and so forth.

[1] http://web.taranis.org/shush/
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I know you can't exactly copyright a color scheme, but it might be a good idea to not so closely copy Daring Fireball.
Neat, though that phrase makes no sense in Russian. It's not even a properly formed sentence.
It started out as a side project to just start writing about something but turned out better than expected so now I'm hoping you'll find it useful.
A friend of mine has a great picture of himself at about that age with Andre's humongous hand on top of his head.

But, I'll be honest, at that age, I thought the guy was a slob and not a good professional wrestler. (And even then, everyone knew it was 'fake'.) I gather when New York rented him out to the territories, he didn't work very hard. There is a great examination of the Giant in "Modern Drunkard Magazine".

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html
That's bizarre. We must travel in very different circles.

I've never seen anybody claim there's nothing that can be done for depression. I've seen people say they've tried all of the standard stuff and nothing helped. That's different though. I'm not doubting you, just expressing surprise. It's also possible that our different experiences are due to us interpreting things differently.

Anyway, I don't frequent those types of forums these days, though I have in a previous life. You're probably much more knowledgeable about what's common in them than I am, at this point.
No impact? What about the SPRINT study ("Will lower blood pressure reduce the risk of heart and kidney diseases, stroke, or age-related declines in memory and thinking?" - 'largest study ever') was discontinued when it 'produced significant results' with the risk of death down by almost a quarter? I presume that blood pressure lowering was effected by drugs. Please clarify your comment because on the face of it (I have no expert knowledge, you may have) it seems to be quite wrong.
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I think SV is even more perverse because there are plenty of cases where people are chasing some nebulous definition of "success" that is not tied to financial success.

If it's just financial success and you're a very sharp, bright person, be a quant trader at a prop trading firm or something similar.
my guess would be that all stars would look about the same but be at different distances because of size (otherwise, no life)?
Or just bring back the TSA air puffer machines (rev. 2), and say you're doing it to keep people safe from known terrorists with fake ID whose DNA you have on file. You'd have a full-population genetic database in no time, matched to identifying information, passport/license numbers, and travel history.
The next two slides have screenshots of issue tracker searches for "goroutine leak".
4 banner ads and an overlay before the content? When is that ever acceptable?

Are you the one reaping the profit?
Is this buffering technique applicable to other areas other than SAP?
In a normal country, yes. In a state capitalism (aka communism as we got to know it) it is either used for military/state applications or is completely discarded.

At least any DARPA/NASA/etc projects had a chance in the private sector...
Because those are presets, and most people start with the meat they want to cook - not what temperature to cook to. You can set an alert to any temperature by dragging the green handle in the middle up. And that's a fish.
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Funny comment.

Precisely what is the incentive? With smartphones coming to the fore as the main platform of computing in recent times?
> I suspect one of the biggest problems with adapting an algorithmic result to the real world is that the resulting system has to be self-sustaining and resilient: you have to provide enough incentive not to change the incentives.

An analogous situation within a different optimizing system: it's pretty easy to create a GMO tweak to improve crop yields for the indivdiual seeds you created. It's a much harder problem to create a tweak that's actually advantageous to the plant, such that will be kept in the next generation and spread to fixation.
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Definitely, but given the relative recency my comment still stands. Ultimately, all libraries in use in a given application must support this as well for it to be truly comprehensive.

As a side note, sometimes you do need that performance gain, without wanting to resort to C or C++. I hope to see Python make some gains there with the addition of the type information.
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Agreed. It's nice to know that we'd still have plenty of liquid water with Aldebaran! Good!