skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely, just providing the citation.
Resources constrains. Unnecessary details are pruned.

(depression is probably adaptive).
the key distinction not stated in the article is that CJD (like CWD, or like "Mad Cow" disease in animals) is a prion disease and therefore conventional heat-sterilization procedures do nothing to stop it.
The "dress like Steve Jobs" thing is starting to feel kind of messed up, am I right?

(I read somewhere that she claimed that she hadn't considered that Steve Jobs used to wear black turtlenecks, that she was more inspired by Sharon Stone... which is really hard to believe)
Mhm. You might say that the barometer shipments are a good...barometer of Apple's performance. More seriously, I'm actually interested because I'm on a mission to crowdsource atmospheric pressure data from at least 1 billion barometers, so the more Apple ships the better. Projects like PressureNet[1] and Sunshine[2] are only currently accessing a tiny portion of what's now available for weather forecasting.

[1] Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...

[2] iPhone: https://thesunshine.co/
$400 million down the drain. Great job VCs.

"She's a Stanford dropout with an idea!!!" Is not due diligence.
I cannot navigate this page. 4 adsense ads at the top. scrolling broken, and a photo of the car in the middle.

I wonder how forbes test their stuff.
would greed be wiping out their competitors or keeping their large margins...?
Thank you very much guys! This is one of the first times that my work is so well received, and woh, what a great feeling! :D

I take into account your comments and suggestions. I will work on this strange behavior on Mac too. Thank you again.
Yeah, but how would they fund the development of their self-driving electric car that will only turn left?

(because, you know, it's going to be opinionated. I can just see the the Jony Ive ad now: "We rethought everything, took everything away that absolutely didn't need to be there. What we were left with was just that: left")
I feel bringing concurrency to Ruby (what Rubinius is trying to do) is going to be harder than bringing Ruby to concurrency (what Elixir is trying to do). Adding Ruby-like syntax on top of fundamentals like functional programming, immutability, etc (which are naturally suited for concurrency) sounds like a better approach to me. Would love to hear others' opinion.
Mindmaze!
> aren't the companies employing wireless trackers in store

Yes. Lookup "beacons"
"The process is called original equipment manufacturing; Akom is one of many OEM studios in its nation."

Ha ha I think that's very clearly the wrong meaning of that abbreviation.
You probably have better funding rounds if you dress like Steve Jobs. /sarcasm
hundreds of millions.
Apple earns 92% of all smartphone profits. There is no competition to wipe out.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-share-of-smartphone-indus...
> ITP is well worth serious consideration and testing, but I have my doubts. First, how could a more accurate perception of reality not be adaptive?

It's like the author has never listened to anyone speak about politics. If you see distorted reality, you have access to some high-quality college-aged twits as mates. (Or at church, depending on your political preferences.)

There are too many absurd beliefs to list that, if you can talk yourself into them, open up large new social circles and the reproductive opportunities that go with that.
Except that's exactly how their competitors think, yet their competitors haven't wiped out the market by lowering their prices.

A large part of the success of the iPhone is the 40% margin for many reasons.
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I am surprised that it hasn't been mentioned yet: Elon Musk, who has some experience in this field and we can also assume has done the math, says that hydrogen cars are a dead end

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/02/12/3621136/tesla-el...

http://www.wired.com/2013/10/elon-musk-hydrogen/

http://insideevs.com/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-hydrogen-fuel-cell-...

Does Honda think otherwise, and if so, why?
What is the best way to learn JavaScript?
Senate passes cybersecurity bill CISA by a vote of 74-21
As a practical matter? You censor yourself. And/or practice the great art of Ketman [1].

Criminalizing points of view is harder to implement, as a practical matter, than criminalizing behavior that most people today see as actual, victimful crimes. There's no equivalent of "grass mud horse" [2] for terrorism, childporn, etc. As the Chinese government is very aware, even a well-censored network is way more dangerous to them than no network at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketman

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
>> Are they tracking the CEOs of companies in which they invest, or what?

> No ...

How could you know that? I doubt anyone would reveal it, and I don't see why they wouldn't - for the unscrupulous (there are plenty of them), it could be very valuable. Remember the story about Uber tracking journalists, for example.
> In my personal experience (and I suspect yours given you're on this site) my entire livelihood is dependent on my knowledge.

So does mine. And almost everything I know about tech, and about the science and the world came from avoiding learning in school and reading books instead, or playing computer games for 8 hours straight to the point I learned English, and then decided to make my own, and then bye bye homework (and grades) and listening to the teachers because I have programming books to read (I ended up having bad math grades for a while, but I caught up - getting into game development tends to make you very good at school-level math very quickly, sans the bullshit they usually teach you instead of actual understanding).

I don't want to say here that school is pointless - but the best people I know are either ones totally ok with discipline and systematic assignments, or people who ignore all that stuff and learn their own way. Most kids get neither full-in or full-out, so they get all the disadvantages of rote learning with none of the benefits of systematic practice.
Deanonymization technology is very good. Does that still surprise anybody who's technically knowledgeable?
Apple is a premium* brand. They don't make commodity products.

I think there are better articles out there than this one [0], but it was the first search result.

Thinking about their behaviors through that lens is interesting and, to me, clarifies a lot of the strategy behind some of their actions. Fun stuff.

[0]:http://www.cnbc.com/2013/10/15/apple-is-a-luxury-brand-not-a... AUTO PLAY NON-MUTED VIDEO WARNING
Sorry: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
By "version-1" do you mean my Medium post?
Prison: Breaking the Cycle [The Economist] [video]
It would work pretty well underwater.
Nicolas Robidoux has a page on advanced resizing techniques here:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter/nicolas/

Resizing in a sigmoidized colorspace has impressive results with many images. I find it works particularly well with images that should have been saved as vectors, especially when used with eliptical weighted average filters (-distort Resize). It significantly increases sharpness while causing artifacts that are difficult to notice because they don't look like any traditional image processing artifacts.

The same technique is also available in MPV for scaling video.
You are suggesting we sacrifice the 'net neutrality' principle for a short term gain. Once you let this happen, the telco's will continue with their differential pricing policies citing it has been done before.

Thank, but no thanks.

I would prefer we rather stick with the net neutrality principles.
Electrolysis is a fairly inefficient way to produce hydrogen. If you've got enough energy to do electrolysis, then you've got enough energy to run a motor. The only technical reason you'd want to use hydrogen is that you can do combustion and long-term fuel storage. It would be valuable if you were using something like sunlight to produce hydrogen, since sunlight can't really run a car.
I agree. A list of common story structures can be effectively used as a heuristic in synthesizing new stories from these structures, and this list does an extremely terse list of common themes.

It's definitely fatiguing to generate these repetitive stories, and I would argue that there are literary traditions (still alive today on television, in film, in music!) where your surreal, absurd, existentially nihilistic story about giraffes, the Queen of Denmark, and the law-man beating up the wrong guy would fit in nicely!
And to think I was shipping C++ software compiled during the egcs days. Of course, it compiled on IRIX, AIX, HP-UX and a few other compilers - I think some were still based on cfront - so we were using the boring, simple parts of C++ that everyone supported.
The thing is: just by doing those thing - you mark yourself as a target(maybe worthy of deeper probing).

And if everybody do so(hard to believe), the state, since it seem to really value dragnets - would play another move in this probably infinite cat and mouse game.
TorBSD crew releases Tor Browser 5.0.3 for OpenBSD
App makes sense of your data to show you why life looks and feels as it does
Germany and Portugal also have the same situation.
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Ask HN: How will being rejected from YC tomorrow affect you?
How will being rejected from YC tomorrow affect you? How will it affect you individually, as a company, as an employee, etc?
Man, I thought I was an Amiga die hard when I gave up around 16 years ago.
> One thing we would actually want, here, though, is a setup where you can rent out your computer (i.e. as an IaaS provider), without being capable of monitoring the renter.

That would require all hardware to be secure against all attackers. As soon as one attacker breaks one hardware model, they can start extracting and selling private keys that allow anyone to emulate that piece of hardware in software.

I'm also having a hard time seeing the use case. What kind of thing has hard secrecy requirements but demands so much hardware that you can't justify owning it?
So I guess maybe my schools were too easy on the homework - I managed to slip through doing as little as I could, electing for self-driven learning instead (known to me as "whoa, this thing is cool!" when I was a kid), and the end result is that I absolutely can't do bullshit work on a deadline without direct supervision. It makes me feel at the same time both smart and totally unfit for the contemporary workplace.
Venkatesh Rao's description of a "writer/thinker" split is interesting and relevant here too.

I agree with the spirit of pg's essay, but I also agree that there's probably more to it.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-tips-for-advanced-writer...
Best case Fool Cell technology will be as good as battery technology is today.

"Extremely silly" according to Musk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_e7rA4fBAo
Raspberry Pi customised 'mutants' set to spread
Could you be more specific?
Not to much. The problem is that, most species of mesopelagic squids accumulate ammonia in the flesh for buoyancy. Thus, they can rest floating at a desired deep level instead spending precious energy constantly to avoid sinking or surfacing.

The white flesh have a strong odour and, as ammonia is poisonous, they are inedible for humans (unless you find a way to eliminate the excess of ammonia first). I did a quick drawn and take some measures in a piece of paper. After years, this paper still smells a little.

> Is it possible they get stinkier as they get older?

Yes but only in the first months of live. Ammonia is a mean to lower the muscle density just upon water density, so there is a limit to the amount of ammonia that a older squid can have per Kg. More ammonia and they will tend to surface.

The problem is that giant squids can not cope well with "hot" water. Their blood cells are tuned to work in cold waters (richer in dissolved oxygen). The models predict that in the sea surface they just can not breath faster enough to fit their needs, will become sluggish and die. They probably migrate to upper levels at night to hunt, but not surfacing. This is great for us because the probability of an Architeuthis stalking and snatching humans swimming in open sea is zero.
I would guess that the majority of Facebook's mobile traffic is through their app.
to be fair, their competition has well-known financials. The size of the existing market for blood tests is already large; any penetration would give you a sizable business.
If the past decade and a half of soaring profits and products that consumers love have taught me anything about Apple, it's that they're doomed.
From an old article on the subject: http://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes/

The tl;dr is that Theranos makes their own machines, which makes every test that they perform technically a "Lab Developed Test" LDT which doesn't have the same oversight that machines which are sold to others. As long as they make their machines and use their machines, they're effectively exploiting a loophole.

From the article:

The backdrop for this dispute is an unusual regulatory structure that does, in fact, confer upon some–though not all–conventional lab tests an extra layer of validation that Theranos’s do not yet have. Most labs, like Quest and Laboratory Corp. of America, perform many of their routine tests using analyzers they buy from medical-device manufacturers, like Siemens, Olympus, and Beckman Coulter. Before those manufacturers can sell such equipment, they must obtain U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the tests those analyzers perform–a process that is in addition to, and more searching than, the audits and proficiency tests required to win CMS certification for the lab itself.

At the same time, for other procedures conventional labs will devise their own lab-developed tests, or LDTs, which they do not have cleared by the FDA. While the FDA takes the position that it could require approval for LDTs, for many years it has said it would forgo that right in the exercise of its “enforcement discretion.”

Theranos, which does not buy any analyzers from third parties, is therefore in a unique position. While it would need FDA approval to sell its own analyzers to other labs, it doesn’t do that. It uses its analyzers only in its own CMS-certified lab. All its tests are therefore LDTs, effectively exempt from FDA oversight.
If I understand this right then these 37 'situations' are to be composed into specific 'plots' by mixing and matching.

This would be in contrast with the '7 basic plots'[1] and would yield much more specific results.

I wonder if they can be combined at random.. almost seems like they can be for pairs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
Donald Trump interviewed about hacking, cyber-warfare and AI
What competition to wipe out? In the flagship phone category Apple beats all. It is why they take all the profits since flagship phones is where profits are made.
go watch season 4 of the The Wire...And given what we're willing to spend...

Ironically, Baltimore spends quite a lot ($15k/student) on schools. Apparently only NYC (among the top 100 districts) spends more.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-21/news/bs-md-ci-ce...

"In spite of what we're willing to spend..." would be a better phrasing.
Well, there's no escaping it. Either a debate solved, forgotten, or rediscovered by another field and clothed in new jargon. It just goes on like this until it transcends it's cycles of scholarship.

The particular expression "interface icon", for instance, might have been equivalent to the word "representation" to 18th century psychologists if they had GUIs.
Certificates, Reputation, and the Blockchain
32% quarterly profit growth, 22% quarterly revenue growth. Good night.

In case you're doing the math at home:

~$24M/hour.

~$500,000/minute.

~$6,500/second.

(And an extra $200B in the bank.) Unbelievable.
http://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actuall...
The way it is handled at large research universities is through rigorous testing. They don't care if you show up to class, they don't care if you do the homework, but the midterm and final are brutally difficult and count for 50-75% of your grade. You learn very quickly how much homework you need to do, or you fail. Personally, I find that approach far better than counting class exercises, participation, or any other subjective assessments.
You sound like you’re assuming that today’s kids get about the same amount of homework which you did. My impression is that the amount of homework has increased enormously since you were a kid.
I actually worked on this part of the exemption. It was granted in two parts. First, fans may now reverse engineer and host servers for games that are no longer hosted online. Metal Gear Solid 4 is a perfect example, but there are plenty of others. This is now legal, and considered fair use. MMO's are exempted, and defined as games where the world is persistent reguardless of number of players connected (IE, is the game played in rounds, or is state reset in the world often... more than once a month, for example). It was a crude way to define the differences, but MMO's were a sticking point, so we have to come back to them later.

Second, museums and archives are now permitted to circumvent copy protection in the pursuit of preservation. This means that huge stores of old games that are otherwise unavailable are now legally preservable by institutions like Stanford, The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, and Archive.org. Of note is the fact that the Atari ST catalog of software was preserved on pirate disks, and we've yet to find any other way to save some of those pieces of software, aside from just preserving the pirate disks. This does not mean these titles can be redistributed, only that they can be modified for the sake of preservation.

Additionally, this means museums can preserve devices that circumvent copy protection, such as floppy-to-SNES devices, which we have a few of at the MADE. Modded XBoxes can now also be preserved in an institution.

The bits that help museums means a great deal for preservation of digital assets as a whole. This was a lot of work to get done, so a huge thanks goes out to the EFF, Stanford, MIT, Harvard and Archive.org for all their hard work to get this done!
Well, the market has been wiped out. The iPhone in Europe is down to 14% market share, from 17% 2 years ago.
Try to apply that model for desktop/native software to average Joe on the street.
They tend to be pressurized in a storage tank, which will increase the leakage rate.
It's awesome that you can accomplish your goal without compromising to abate criminal possibilities. I'm just saying that that's a compromise that should never be made, at least in the digital sphere.
As others have already mentioned several times, the MIT license requires attribution.
Slightly related, the Phusion guys (who made Passenger) did a keynote at OSCON today on that very topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpyRlaWmZg4
Bootstrapping a Business Around Open Source – Ninh Bui and Hongli Lai
Don't you post your papers on the arxiv? That's basically the same thing. You put the paper in the UC eScholarship repository in addition to publishing it as you normally would. If the publisher complains, then there will be a problem. But they are already dealing with the arxiv without issues.
> We already have a existing electrical infrastructure and the reality is that most people aren't driving 400 miles every single day, so don't need to be constantly refueling.

For the millions of people that rent in high density buildings and work in office buildings, there typically is no charging infrastructure available either at home or work. Sure, the buildings are wired to the grid, but putting enough chargers to support a volume greater than first-adopters is extremely expensive. In the office building I work in (40 stories), there are exactly two chargers to support approximately 1000 parked cars. In the building I live in, there are exactly zero chargers, and there are no wall outlets either. Not an uncommon scenario. I'm not arguing that hydrogen is the solution to this scarcity problem, just that the existing infrastructure isn't adequate either.
> How many innocent lives will be lost if we do nothing?

More innocent lives were lost in Iraq after we intervened than before. So my estimate would be: Fewer.
None of this is responsive. I should've been more explicit that what I described didn't include hosted services, but it doesn't.

There are tons of ways to make money in open source. I just don't think they're selling software that could be torrented. It's really a pretty trivial point, and one I maybe shouldn't have bothered to make--I just got in a pedantry skirmish.
Yes, famously. Google "DirecTV black sunday". DirecTV successfully killed off the (huge) DirecTV piracy community, not just by frying the old hacked cards, but by deploying new cards that have mostly withstood more than a decade of intense analysis.
Note that the project is quite new and has a really active dev base - if you use those features, feel free to submit a PR (or add an issue) and it's pretty sure to get accepted.
There are many things that keeps Nicaragua poor, this is hardly the most important one. Similar low level corruption is found all over Latin America except for perhaps Chile. It disappears once countries have been middle class for a while.
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Apple watch at ~4% in less than a year is amazing. Especially considering that most people are claiming it is an abject failure. Version 2 is typically when an Apple product hits its stride so I expect to see it grow.

The iPad was great when the iPhone was small, but Apple has basically cannibalized iPads with plus size phones. The large iPad Pro will be a wait and see thing.
Apple is doomed. Always has been and will always be. /s
Any employee can grab a crappy phone. Some of the Messenger crowd have 20+ phones on their desks.

Most don't stay with them for too long, though. It does really take an extra push to advance this. I had a Galaxy Young for two days after I cracked my normal phone's screen. It was kind of hellish.
Thanks! Your suggestions are very relevant. The point insertion function is planned for the next update, as well as the ability to change the path code.

The close path function is natively present in SVG. The code ends with the command Z when you want to close the path. The first point is declared using the command M (Move To), so if you want to end the path with a curve, you just have to close it manually with an actual point. :)
> I wrote this story ...

Thanks for joining us here. I'd love to hear more.

That you can get an audience on Hacker News isn't surprising, but how much interest is there from the general public? My very limited experience with non-technical people I talk to is that they don't know anything about it, don't understand the implications, and don't want to bother to figure it out. I'm hoping your much broader experience is more encouraging!

By the way, if you post something to the top level of the discussion identifying yourself, you'll probably get plenty of feedback and interest (unless it's too late for this discussion). Where you posted is buried too deep to be found by most HN readers.
The amount is tiny though. I make my own bread, and you can use just half a teaspoon in a loaf, it's just to get the yeast going, and they probably metabolise most of it. I've also experimented with using part milk so they use the lactose instead, and this also gives a nice consistency to the bread (still working on further improving this though!)
Senate passes major cybersecurity info-sharing bill CISA