skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A general comment on a lot of the comments here: You can make anything look good by only considering the positives, you can make anything look bad by only considering the negatives. Rather a lot of the latter going on here. To come to a proper decision about what is better, you need to consider both the negatives and the positives of multiple alternatives.

Before rushing to condemn jury trials, I'd also recommend considering that it is a deliberate creation, and that you ought to consider the forces involved in that creation and where it came from before rushing to condemn it. For instance, many are suggesting we can just leave it to one judge, but if you are, for instance, concerned about systemic racism, why would you leave the entire decision to one possibly-racist judge? Wouldn't you be better off in a process which makes it so that the prosecution has to collect 12 racists onto the jury, procedurally battling the defense all the while, instead?

Part of the reason that the jury system exists is precisely that the mental model of a judge as a disinterested, literally inhuman arbiter of absolute truth was concretely, repeatedly disproved by history. The reason we have a "justice system" at all is precisely that we don't have access to perfect humans. If we did, there would be no problem to solve with "judges" or "juries" or anything else in the first place; we'd just consult the perfect humans! If your "better than a jury" model upon closer examination implicitly contains perfect humans in it, throw it out; your model is already worse than what we have, because at least what we have has the virtue of existing, and yours can't even reach that bar.

Look... at the risk of being a bit harsh... condeming jury trials, then offering as an alternative a system that implicitly contains "perfect humans" in it is frankly being every bit as irrational, unrealistic, and disconnected from reality as the humans that just disappointed you in the jury trial description you just read.

If that sucks... yeah, it sucks! But unfortunately, "it sucks" is not actually a logical argument that "it" can't exist, nor is it any form of evidence that there is anything better than "it". If you're going to produce evidence of a better system, it's going to be a great deal harder than merely saying "this system sucks", unfortunately.
I think you might be confusing crime and race although they happen to be tied closely together. My family decided to moved out of the city when they were followed home one day. Not sure race had anything to do with it but crime definitely did.
From everything I understand about Google culture from current and former Googlers I talk to, Google employees categorically believe data aggregation has no bearing on privacy concerns at all, and that there's fundamentally nothing even bordering on questionable in anything they do with it.

At the very least, Googlers :believe: they're 'doing the right thing', so they :believe: their marketing and their mottos, at least.

It's up to us to convince Google that it's wrong.
Technically yes, but some platforms increases the priority of drivers the longer they've been waiting.

For someone operating on multiple platforms, they'll have to go offline when the other app gets a ping. This resets their priority, and really just results in a multi-operating driver getting 80-90% of their pings in the busiest app.
I'd be interested to know under what circumstances a defense is called in during an indictment hearing. Maybe it depends on the evidence being presented, and whether or not it could be refuted easily (before going to trial?) I dunno. Interesting, thanks for sharing.
"Driving after having a drink is normal."

Uh, no it's not.
My favorite tutorial is located here:

http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/evolved/nnt1.html

It's easy to follow and not too theoretical. It's really down to earth and code/algorithm focused.
He's a role model for this community.
I agree - I still can't understand these pedantics about the name when everyone knows who you mean.

"What's in a name?..."
TDD in a REPL
Do not underestimate credential leaks
“The failure of Verizon to comply with its obligations… to provide fiber optic service throughout the State of New Jersey,”

What causes this obligation?
It's been a while since I was involved in that domain, but when CCHIT was the only game in town in the USA, certification was a joke. I know there is a bit more competition now, but I doubt it's improved much.
This really just looks like a visual interface for what was already possible using Route53 (albeit in a much more convoluted way). It seems AWS is investing in visual alternatives for some of the more complicated aspects of its environment. They just released a similar visual editor for CloudFormation[1] a few weeks ago.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-cloudformation-desi...
It's hosted on Blogger. Do you have problems with any other Blogger sites?
That's precisely why - You don't need 5 hours of electricity to get 5 hours of use on your smartphone, but you do need constant juice for a desktop PC.

A laptop would also give you more time, but not as much as a smartphone.
IMHO, the HL7 specification isn't particularly strong. Different vendors support different message types, some vendors fill in this field, some another. Most of the work I did with HL7 was making sure System A could read the messages we were passing it from System B by "translating" the HL7 messages.

That said, there are open HL7 message "interface engines" and integrating with something like Mirth[0] shouldn't be too difficult.

[0] https://www.mirth.com/Products-and-Services/Mirth-Connect
2015 was not the year of HTTPS for news organizations
That's pretty accurate. Google seems to have a huge fascination with collecting data, refuses to let us opt out of most of that data collection (without opting out of those services entirely), and then just expects us to 'trust them' that they aren't using it inappropriately.
And Google and Apple can send a software update that puts their ride-request app on phones across the world. Both also have billions of cash on hand and could easily fund capital expenses with debt.

Given how Apple approaches everything, it's logical that they're going to create an end-to-end experience, meaning they make the tech, they make the cars, and they make the equivalent of Uber.

I'm not sure what Google's move is once they have commercially-viable self-driving tech. Would they license it to another automaker or group of automakers? Would their tech plug into whatever request app they make?

I think the strategy for Uber is to connect with a manufacturer like Tesla, who seem to be advancing competitively with Google and Apple on self-driving tech. Tesla has less access to cash and debt than Apple. Still, I see Uber's value being far less to Tesla than Tesla's value to Uber.
How device-independent approaches change the meaning of Physics
8/16 - 1-9 IM rulez
I just started trying DDG after using Bing for a while. DuckDuckGo is pretty solid, and I find the fact that anyone can submit new 'instant answers' type features to the search engine to be intriguing and novel. Google and Bing only get smarter if Googlers and Microsoft employees write it, but anyone can make DuckDuckGo better. (Though it's not fully open source.)
Oh, I see. It's an element in the empty set, which is indeed very troubling for constructive logic. Well, they're both troubling in different ways. Your example is troubling from a pure mathematical soundness perspective, and mine is from the "physical"[1] applicability of the model.

[1]: The relationship between classical math and computation is in some ways like that of math and physics, except that physics requires empirical corroboration, while computation is a kind of a new "physical" math that incorporates time. In either case the result can be the same: the math could be sound but useless. In physics it may contradict observation; in computation it can allow unbounded (even if not infinite) complexity.
It's not really a cheat, as it produces the MLE (i.e. most likely) estimate under certain assumptions (e.g. errors are normally distributed, which occurs naturally if the errors are large sums of many unrelated measurements errors).
You are so fortunate. I served three times and each was a frustrating and disheartening experience.
We already have fearsome competition: Matlab. We don't need in-fighting within team Free Software.
Go proverbs illustrated with examples from uiprogress, uilive and uitable
"abroad at the moment in Italy"

Here is the basic checklist for something like this:

check your hosts file
ping the website
tracert the website
clear dns cache
check dns server up/down
temporarily disable av/firewall

If all the above indicate normal operation but it still fails, it could be blocked anywhere upstream of you.
Simple FFT in Haskell
Zenefits Tries to Stem Fallout Over Pay Claims
How Diversity Can Be a Company's Competitive Advantage
Yes, I guess it must have been a customer loyalty scheme or something.
I applaud the efforts taken here, more than I've ever done, and it looks good. But wasn't there big talk of Ember's (JavaScript's) poor(er) performance on Android devices recently? It seems like this tech would be prime for Android users. I don't know if the performance is bad from a usability standpoint or just a pure numbers via specs point of view.
GitLab is building a business with 0.1% of paying customers
The speaker starts at 5 min 38 sec into the presentation. This should link to the direct start time: https://youtu.be/iHazsSvn3VA?t=5m38s

Edit: And continues from background ML/Bio to core talk at 11 min 50 sec here: https://youtu.be/iHazsSvn3VA?t=11m50s

Edit: Focus is on design of experiments using bayesian analysis

Edit: Second half is at 32 min 22 sec and is more focused on synthetic biology / information processing in biomolecular systems: https://youtu.be/iHazsSvn3VA?t=32m22s

very cool biomolecular computation info in the last section
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Hailo looks pretty good. I'd never heard of it before.

However, VTC Cab operates "as a nonprofit association with a membership fee" which is pretty sweet. I'd like to see more platforms operate that way-- either as a non-profit, or as a co-op-- in order to avoid the exploitive nature of platforms like this.
Ask HN: First time US employment, does the company pays the taxes or me?
Hi,

I've really don't know how to search for this particular information. I'm basically don't know how the tax system in US is working.

Now I'm going to work for a new US based company and the salary is six figures. Of course there are income and federal state taxes to be paid.

Now my question is, how are these taxes being paid? Is the employer responsible of this? Or do I get all the money and I need to pay the taxes? This is really a basic question for you probably, but I'm really curious how the whole system works.
I think the solution is probably just to teach Logic in schools. It used to be taught as a separate subject in Medieval times :-)
> Currently some companys consider, forging giant conrete containers, sink them out in the ocean, and pump them dry when there is a energy surplus.

Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) is nothing new per se. CAES plants have been operational in Huntorf, Germany, since the late 1970s and in McIntosh, Alabama, since the late 1990s.

The problem with current technology CAES is that it is not energy-efficient (around 30% for the existing installations, though there's room for improvement) and not carbon-neutral. The underlying problem is that compressing air generates heat, which is then dissipated; however, that means that during decompression, the air has to be reheated, usually with natural gas.

There are currently projects underway with both Adiabatic [1] and Isothermal [2] CAES to improve efficiency and make the process carbon-neutral. Google "SustainX" and "ADELE RWE" for examples of current projects.

[1] http://energystorage.org/advanced-adiabatic-compressed-air-e...

[2] http://energystorage.org/energy-storage/technologies/isother...
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Please, re-read my question and think about it a bit. ;)
You've obviously not have spent much time around French taxi drivers and Uber drivers. Not the must sedate group.
How is this article front page HN news??

The GUI Link

People think of gui elements as seperate objects (scrollbar, list, tree, textbox etc), so why is it a bad thing that the software also reasons about them as objects? Author just seems to want to hate OOP but offers no alternative: "There is more proof to the existence of UFO's than to OOP being the best way to do GUI's or any other programming topic." ???

Bait-and-Switch

Author says here that training examples lure people into this idea of a perfect world that can be modeled easily with separate objects, but in real life projects this is not the case. But how is this any different from any language / paradigm we have today? Angular is often berated for example for being easy to get going with, but a PITA once the project becomes too big. It's a good thing examples introduce you to the strengths of the language, and then later you try to to fit the problem to those strengths.

Land of Confusion

"It has almost become like Particle Physics, in which only a small elite group appears to understand it properly, and everybody else needs years of meditation and practice."
This is silly. Everything has a learning curve, but once you understand that everything exists inside an object you are good to go. The rest is just design patterns that are proven to make your life easier!

Not Table-Friendly

"OOP often does not map well to relational databases"

Entity Framework for C# is used by businesses all over and shows this is possible, and easy to do. There are many other solutions to this as well.

Melding Can Be Hazardous

"How many times do different programming languages and systems have to share data? Very often in the real world. Thus, it is usually safer to keep large data pools separate from methods"

What?? This makes no sense. If you need to share your data structures, then serialize your data to a text format and document it, for the next program to read. You could even provide an API.

IDE support

Well I've stopped reading by this point, but the author doesn't mention any advantages gained in the IDE. Specifically by using objects, the computer has more understanding of what I am doing, and can provide me: contextual autocomplete of members, and contextual documentation. Both invaluable for quickly getting up to speed with a new API, and making programming fun.
Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Tricks with Sticks
+1 for paying attention to the privacy policy!

Our daughter and son in law are also similarly careful about our grandkids' use of school systems and the Internet in general.
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Functions with closures are as powerful as OOP and can be used analogously.

Also, singletons aren't portable.
This is a great initiative and I hope entire world adopts to such open standards for patient record management which can be freely transferable to other hospitals/doctors when needed or when approved by patients.
Presumably this pandering is less effective on people that have the sort of education being talked about here. (if not I'm not sure I agree that such education is a worthwhile goal).

So why are you so certain that the problem starts with the media?
Yes, people took the Universal approximation theorem[0] as evidence that they only need 1 layer, but there is zero guarantee of efficiency. A single hidden layer may mean many magnitudes more neurons needed over a n-hidden layer, n > 1 network, which could cause an unrealistic training time. Having multiple layers can reduce this training time with an optimal structure.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
This looks awesome. I'd been considering implementing a DIY comment system in React [1] but this is appears to be much nicer as it keeps the site and comments in the same repo.

I'd be interested in testing this out with GitHub Pages. Just out of curiosity, are there any cloud providers that will host this for free? Heroku's free tier doesn't appear to run 24/7.

[1]: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html
How does an article like this end up here now. Was someone browsing the way back machine?
Well worded. I couldn't agree more.
That would imply a serious breach of privacy.
I've had this problem in most of Philadelphia when I was living there and now most of DC. Their respective city centers are easy places to grab a cab, but they're also not living spaces and I tend to get around to most areas of the city.
These services typically require you to pay for a service plan. Hard to argue you didn't intend to do that.
Using Trello with Clients to Manage Work
This can only be done in developing markets because the health privacy regulations and mandatory screening laws cripple the ability of the Western medical industry to adopt open source solutions.
Have you ever written a container (with an iterator)?
Oh, I'm aware. It's just hard to always justify it and especially hard to do so in historical context.
Dave Chappelle Uses Technology to Keep People Off Their Phones at His Shows
I have served once and would have to agree it was frustrating. Some people on the jury were not willing to even talk about their viewpoint after a few hours into deliberation.
How to handle US and Canadian Sales Tax within your checkout?
I thought this was commonly asked, but maybe it varies by state. In my city in Pennsylvania we get a standardized form that does ask this question. It states, "Would you be more likely to believe the testimony of a police officer or any other law enforcement officer because of his or her job?" [1]

[1]http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/234/chapter6/s632.html
Right, but there's three or four of those and you can only select one. The GP was describing filtering based on driver quality, on car style and model, etc.

That could easily balloon to a pretty large number of elements.
Good question. The Ember reference isn't a religious statement in the holy war of frameworks.

It's about targeting contribution and letting potential contributors know what we're using so that they can know and self-select.

Goal #1 of the site currently is recruiting contributors b/c we aren't at a 1.0 release yet. We have it running in several hospitals in the charitable network that I serve, but it's not ready for wider distribution yet.

We want to get there by July 2016. Once we get there, we'll refocus the purpose of the homepage.
I'm not the one making the claim, and I too am dubious about the claim that Android Wear can't keep time.

If the allegation were true, though, it'd be a notable issue/feature in a comparison versus Apple Watch.
Telecoms oftentimes make deals with the government - in exchange for some sort of advantage, they agree to provide a certain level of service. Linked from the article:

Verizon predecessor New Jersey Bell agreed to the statewide broadband buildout in a 1993 agreement with the state. In exchange for a different form of price regulation that would allow the company to make more money, "Verizon agreed to upgrade its network to provide broadband to every Verizon New Jersey business and residential customer, school, and library for 100 percent of its service territory," according to the state's Division of Rate Counsel.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/verizon-led-massi...
mainly white suburbanites who haven't looked at the history.

Many of them are mainly white suburbanites who are uncomfortable with the implications of the history, and choose rather to ignore it or paper it over (with "well, our family was different because...).

Perfectly understandable, of course.
A friend texts me last night "we're ready to finally build a website for our bar"

half hour phone call later and a basic 4-5 page Wordpress website is decided upon.

And after what will be 8-10 hours of work sometime this weekend, I'll be finished with the site, have earned a quick $800 (friend prices) and he'll have something nice and easy to maintain.

PHP is not the devil - it allows a lot of us to earn a living / make some extra cash - backed by an incredibly huge community and is easy to write in.

If I was building the next Facebook - sure, I'd spend time researching languages, frameworks, etc... but day to day programmers don't care about language short-comings or pitfalls - we care about earning a living and whatever it takes to get the job done cost effective. And my friend cares about functionality / cost / ease of updating.

90% of the internet is made up of websites like this - quick and easy websites that serve a small niche population. Not massive scalable multi million dollar spanning websites.

Get off my (PHP) lawn!
> the solution even though people won't like it is to put a tax on fuel

There already is an excise tax on fuel in a lot of places. I can't say what that revenue is specifically allocated towards, but the tax exists nonetheless.
It reasons like this Uncle Bob pisses me off.
Anybody remember Care2x ?
From the Article:
"Verizon predecessor New Jersey Bell committed to a statewide broadband buildout in a 1993 agreement with state authorities in exchange for a price regulation overhaul that the telco requested."

I assume part of the takeover/merger that happened also merged the previous responsibilities.
It depends if relativistic behaviour is emergent or fundamental. The whole point of the "spacetime is quantised" argument isn't just to suggest that spacetime comes in little lumps, but to investigate the possibility that the properties of spacetime - including curvature, relativistic effects, and all the weirdness in quantum theory - emerge from a common fundamental description.

Planck-scale invariance is a red herring - or rather, it's a naive assumption that may not be accurate. There isn't really much useful theory or experimental evidence in Planck-scale physics.

For an overview, see

http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/jw/module6_Planck...
As for "spectacularly well" -- well, the person behind the curtain wiggling the levers retains a lot of influence. Garbage in, garbage out, remember?

I'm reminded of the time Google Translate autodetected "Gesundheit" as Spanish. And Gmail kindly offering to translate "hahaha" from Portuguese, putting an ad for coconuts next to it.

Data science is improving, but you might be surprised how slowly. Especially in the consumer space, because the metrics on effectiveness are so warped.

Voice recognition of numbers only, over a phone connection, can be below 40% accuracy! Much of the perceived success of these systems comes not from the core machine algorithm, but from clever human tweaks around it. Also end-users who are happy with what they get, not quite realizing how goofy it all is if they were to get a glimpse of the raw data.