skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About assessing the risk of not taking statins: As I said, the exam you're about to take is only able to give you positive answer (yes, your carotid is sclerotic), not negative (won't say: no, your coronaries or the rest of your arteries are not sclerotic), so it's sort of useless.

What I'm still wondering is how a familial hypercholesterolemy would have been missed during earlier blood tests? It's a pretty standard test here, and 7.8 and 10.3 are extremely high for a fit person.
Where is this magical place where I can find free hardware?
In light of your comment, it is interesting to see that Swift team just agreed to remove C style for loop.

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution-announce/2...
I note that the package namespace is under com.yahoo.research. So this is probably from Yahoo Research.
I agree the Wired headline is misleading, which is why I changed it to better reflect what the article is about.

Thanks for posting to clarify the change.
> Turns out HN strips a bunch of them, so my smilies and a bunch of others didn't make the cut!

Which is exactly why I'd be wary of such clever password schemes on any account I cared about.
Yes, it reduces complexity considerably, but nearly all big systems are already built this way and are still very complex. You cannot use this approach to eliminate complexity, i.e. make the cost linear with the system size.

Some domains where software is used to yield a tremendous economic impact are so complex that even with all complexity-management approaches at our disposal, the cost of creating them still grows super-linearly with their size.

If there are n abstract features to the system, all dependent on almost all others, you have an order of n^2 interactions. Whether you make every function its own simple communicating process, or bundle a few of them together (shifting complexity into a process) the abstract complexity of the system is still n^2.
I disagree completely. After time the color filter will start to associate various concepts and feelings add images with various colors. This association is what starts making the colors themselves have meaning even if they can't see the colors the same way that you and I can. There's no way to prove that we all see colors the same way anyway. But that doesn't mean that we don't believe that were conscious. I think I see that you're saying we cannot make any claims about others perhaps but only can talk about how we feel. But I feel like the room example is actually misleading in this respect. Another way of thinking about it is our brain starts to associate things and if those clusters of associations that give those things meaning. The experience of experience and color is only important because experience and color has a web of other associated experiences that those colors remind us of. So extending the room experiment to the experience of a baby who throughout the entire life sees colors or the filter image version of these colors at various moments to associate with various things. In this example we can imagine that the baby will in fact associate let's say blue with I don't know this great unknown half of our outside ceiling that we see during the day. And then that will take on something more to it but it is difficult admittedly to explain.
The requirement to inform is easily met with a nice sign posted at every doorway saying, "smile, you're on camera (facial recognition)". It will easily be accepted by the masses who simply want to get in, buy their stuff, and get out.
Searle makes two assertions:

1) Syntax without semantics is not understanding.
2) Simulation is not duplication.

Claim 1 is a criticism of old-style Symbolic AI that was in fashion when he first formulated his argument. This is obviously right, but we're already moving past this. For example, word2vec or the recent progress in generating image descriptions with neural nets. The semantic associations are not nearly as complex as those of a human child, but we're past the point of just manipulating empty symbols.

Claim 2 is an assertion about the hard problem of consciousness. In other words, about what kinds of information processing systems would have subjective conscious experiences. No one actually has an answer for this yet, just intuitions. I can't really see why a physical instantiation of a certain process in meat should be different from a mathematically equivalent instantiation on a Turing machine. He has a different intuition. But neither one of us can prove anything, so there's nothing else to say.
Well, you can't admit that to a reporter/the public...
If you're selling something, there's VAT on it.
This is clearly a play by the plastic surgery lobby to get people to have work done so they look less like known criminals.
How does the current AMD driver fare in linux land?

Two years ago I was working on a large GL project, and basically the only workable drivers were either intel, or nvidia. With nvidia being far better off pretty much anything, from driver quality to debugging tools.

I'm using an HD4400 on my primary laptop, mostly to have a low-end system for performance tuning. While everybody says that intel should be one of the best supported OSS drivers (if not the only), the i915 driver constantly breaks with a million of little issues which are fixed in one release of the driver and broken again on the next. In the end, all these issues pop up in the wild, where I cannot even restrict users to a single driver version (because many times issues are chipset-specific).

Despite whatever I read here, over and over again, the nvidia driver has always been rock-solid for me, with intel being at least on par, and AMD being not even remotely comparable.

I had generally harder times with intel even, due to unpredictable gpu stalls. Even when it comes to power management, the latest i915 driver fails to come back from suspend.

I really want to switch to something higher quality and OSS, so I'm hoping AMD steps up the game.

I do not need another half-assed driver like i915.
cool! we should interoperate :) (we being https://matrix.org)

ps. your https://actor.im/platform page 404s
The parent was talking about the statistics involved. Quoting lookup times is meaningless if those lookups aren't accurate. I could implement a system which always returns the first DB entry; lookups would take much less than 8 seconds, and by storing all other entries in /dev/null it has constant space usage ;)
"The expanding platform and fund to support it have at least two big benefits for Slack. The first is that the company will be able to see in real time which new applications built on top of Slack are most popular, likely shaping its own product roadmap through acquisitions and feature additions."

So...making a popular app for slack is either a job application, or a path to bankruptcy. Sounds good.
This app lets you create mobile AR and VR content without writing any code
>#3 is now irrelevant because people don't write with pens. They type on their phones or, when at work, on their laptops.

First of all, this isn't true. Every convenience store in China sells pens. Billions of pens are sold per year in China. Even at the tech company where I worked in China, everyone had a pen or pencil and some wrote notes with them. People often used markers and wrote things on whiteboards, too. It was pretty much the same in that sense as English speaking places.

Secondly, the main point in #3 wasn't about writing. It was about learning. If you see a few taquerias in Mexico with "Taqueria" written in the sign, you'll learn a new word and how to pronounce it. You might later realize you've been hearing the word "taqueria" in a radio commercial and suddenly understand more of it. In China, you could enter a post office, see 郵局 written on it and hear the word 郵局 in conversation every day for a month and still not understand what it is people are saying. That is why the writing system slows learners down, even if comprehension is their goal.
I think that all the author was trying to say is that the cost of a single software system grows super-linearly with its size.
Some really interesting data in here. All the review counts for entire categories in iOS and Android. Average star ratings for both App Store and Google Play. Total publishers for both stores and so on.
Apples and oranges.

Pure hardware is a lot easier to make compatible consistently than hardware+software.
The Economist argues that it makes sense to tax charitable donations: http://www.economist.com/node/21556570
How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could Be Automated?
Is that really a step forward? When combined with the false positives issue, there could be a lot of harassment of innocents who accidentally fit a profile.
Open AI
The problem of false positives can and will simply be farmed out to a mechanical turk type of process ... a farm of low-cost workers will simply review hits, and if there's any possibility that it's a match, it will be escalated up several levels until action is taken.
>Would they? Wouldn't they blame their bulb first?

Considering how many people get mad at individuals who are named Isis, as if they have any relation to the IS, I wouldn't doubt some of them blaming Philips.
I bet Apollo is a fairly commonly used name. As one example, Amazon's internal deployment system is named Apollo: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2014/11/apollo-amazon-de...

It's probably a stretch to say that Amazon's Apollo has a bigger "market share", because it's not on the market. AWS CodeDeploy may be similar--haven't checked it out. Nevertheless, the Amazon Apollo's user base is probably way bigger than ActiveMQ's or Spotify's Apollo :)

Also, it seems the Greeks have stolen the name for one of their gods too.
For me it's been the same usage for several years: I only really listen to them on long drives. I don't take long drives very often but when I do, podcasts are by far my preferred thing to listen to.

During the week I have a short commute to work (maybe 15-20 minutes each way) and for 3/4 of the year, when it's not too cold, I ride a motorcycle so listening to anything isn't really an option.

When I'm at work, I've got too much going on and much of it requires me to listen to something else (editing video, etc.) so podcasts or music are again not an option.

But when I have to drive somewhere that takes over an hour? Radio shows like This American Life are the best way to pass the time. Many podcasts follow a similar format where there's a narrative to get lost in and you don't need to deal with radio signals getting weak or hoping it's time for the show you want to hear. About once a year I take a ~9 hour drive to an event out of state and the only thing that keeps me sane is a phone or mp3 player full of podcasts.

Like reading a novel or watching a serial TV show, I can get caught up in the story or discussion and before I know it, another hour has gone by and I'm closer to my destination. Music just becomes background but podcasts give me something to focus on beside the fact that I still have hundreds of miles yet to drive.
Yeah gotta love the intellisense, I plan on continuing doing so until there's a better alternative.
Not sure why people are screaming "boycott". Philips never advertised their system as being compatible with third-party lights. The fact that they use an open protocol to communicate with their own lights doesn't change this.

It's like connecting to your office chat with an IRC client because you figured out that's what they are using under the hood. Why would you scream bloody murder when one day your IRC client stops being compatible with it? They never advertised this to begin with!

You can't exactly demand functionality that you were never sold.
My left arm also swings more and I attribute this to carrying a backpack for a long time on my right shoulder and holding the backpack with right hand.
I agree with you.

What I see (in this article and many other similar statements) is the rationalization of being part of evil and then the next logical step, the rationalization of doing it without feeling guilty or bad. "I have to do evil because I need to eat" and then "I have to forgive myself for this, otherwise life's unbearable". There are people - me included - actively applying strategies to don't feel bad about being part of evil. So, we know this, and we're spending time thinking about this; how do we channel the energy to revert instead of keeping the system as is?
Good move on their part. At the end of the day, it seems like a win-win. I've never even considered buying a Hue, and didn't know it was even possible to integrate with 3rd-party stuff. Now I do, and I have the perception that Philips is responsive to customer opinion!
There is remarkably little information on the website. I don't really want to download it without at least some indication that it's going to be worth my time. Is it just a modified fvwm running in Debian?
I got a couple of the OSRAM RGB bulbs a while back, and while they're not quite as good as the Hue ones at half the price they were definitely the right choice. The only really issue I have is that their colours don't match the Hue ones, so it can be a bit hit and miss getting what you're looking for.
My right shoulder hangs a bit lower, due to the years I spent carrying a heavy bag full of newspapers as a kid doing a paper route.
That's what I would call analogy madness.
Why is every person focused on a guy in the pics? There's one woman in a pic with 4 guys and she's looking down working. A guy is in front smiling.

Do women not work in tech in Europe?
tl;dr: it's a Debian derivative. (I could be wrong. The wikipedia page is very mangled, and the website is entirely content free.)

It looks like it mainly exists as a platform for Mezzo, a desktop environment. I skimmed the design document; it's painfully opinionated, and keeps repeating the tired old cliché that users can't handle configuration options and we should make their lives easier but not letting them change anything...
I read the transcript but at the end I wished they had touched upon some comparisons of Swift with C# and the open sourcing of the .NET platform by Microsoft. Craig's/Apple's comments on that would be interesting now that C# and .NET are also becoming truly cross platform (unlike the Mono platform that lagged behind), which is something Swift also aims to be, although we don't know what frameworks and libraries from Apple would or could become cross platform.

Also, C# and .NET have had longer than a decade to become what they are today. It would've been interesting to hear more details on what lessons and developments from the last decade and a half helped accelerate the development of Swift (not just from C#.NET, but also other languages and programming paradigms).

Chris Lattner's page [0] just mentions a one liner saying "...it also greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list."

A geeky interview with Chris Lattner might be the next thing to look forward to on this topic. :)

[0]: http://nondot.org/sabre/
I work with the maintainer of Symphony and it is still "alive".
Yes, I started learning a bit of Mandarin this year. Interesting, but tedious. Imagine they constructed their numeral system the way they constructed the (non)alphabet. Instead of 0-9, and all numbers constructed from those, there would be a million characters for counting to one million.
I am the sole developer/maintainer of SymphonyOS these days and it showing up on HN today is a bit of a suprise since it's been several months since a public release.

Development is progressing albeit slowly since my day job takes up most of my time. I am currently in the middle of a rewrite of the desktop environment making changes like moving from FVWM to openbox and rewriting some Perl code that has been around in one form or another since 2004 in Ruby. I am hoping to have a new release out in January :)
Thanks, I'll need it! The chances are low, but hey, why not? I've been planning this for 15 years.
“Ensuring that individuals don’t receive direct marketing messages any more can only be done if the marketer can retain data in a suppression file,” said Sébastien Houzé, secretary general of the Federation of European Directive and Interactive Marketing.

Isn't that a pretty little md5(lie)?
I really wish you didn't think of basic reasoning skills as "non-math."
In case you don't get any input here (not sure HN is much of a filmmaker community), you should check out reddit. There are lots of sub-reddits around indie filmmaking:

https://www.reddit.com/r/filmmakers

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieFilm

https://www.reddit.com/r/Webseries/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShortFilm/

https://www.reddit.com/r/videography/
> Many of them probably ended up committing suicide or switching careers.

If you honestly think about committing suicide even for a moment (as in, seriously consider it) because you didn't get a Big 4 CS job, you have serious mental health issues and should probably be under constant supervision.
Wonder what they're packing? KGB assassins and recon agents are known to carry the PSS, with an almost completely silent report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSS_silent_pistol
>I find it hard to believe there are many people who can't connect the dots.

It doesn't surprise me at all. The key to remember is that people are not rational creatures. They work off of emotions and then apply logic to try to rationalize their emotions.
Netflix Is Not Re-Encoding It's Library 'By Hand'
The design document is 11 years old. Symphony has been a solo side project for the last 6-7 years with a release once or twice a year. There are a few more recent updates on the project's facebook page including screenshots of the new build in progress. https://www.facebook.com/SymphonyOS/
This reminds me of an old zen tale:

>There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically. “Maybe,” the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed. “May be,” replied the old man. The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune. “Maybe,” answered the farmer. The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. “Maybe,” said the farmer.

The point being that when you become so upset with being turned down for a certain job you are setting yourself up to be let down by missing the big picture. The reality of the big picture is you have no idea how something that might seem like a great success might lead to great failure, or great failure might lead to great success.
> "check up on the series of judgements that were used to grant them personhood"

Corporate personhood is a centuries old idea, and an important one at that. The idea that it was created recently is false.

http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/alumni/uvalawyer/f11/person...
If this was deployed in the US, I'd be concerned about being shot by the police because I was false-IDed as a violent criminal. Because in the US, it's become protect the police at all costs, including the cost of my life.
Simply put, the earth isn't a closed system, so the laws can't be applied just to earth.
I've worked in tech support for many years, and the vast majority of people would blame the PC manufacturer or the operating system for the problems. I spent many years on the Genius Bar (back in the PowerPC and early Intel days) and, in almost, every interaction, the device was to blame - as far as the customer was concerned. In some cases, they were right, in others it was due to outdated software, buggy third-party drivers or just something they bought that was not Mac compatible. But as far as the customer was concerned, it didn't work so therefore it was a problem with their computer.

What has to be remembered is that the types of people who read Hacker News would understand, in more detail, what might be causing the issue and know troubleshooting is all part of the process. I bet printer companies get many calls a day from people who bought third-party cartridges (sometimes without realising) and complaining that their stupid printer isn't working and that it must be the printer's fault.

The vast majority of consumers who would walk into an Apple Store or Best Buy to purchase something like this, they just think of it as one big ecosystem. If it doesn't work with a bulb they bought off the internet, they will simply assume the product, as a whole, is terrible.
For anyone who has seen played "spot the Fed" at DEFCON, blending in is clearly a challenge. (E.g. Most of the hackers there don't have neck muscles that indicate their owners can bench 300+ pounds)
Or .. "sub-let your landlord's place on Airbnb? The owner expects you to follow the legally binding document you probably signed saying you wouldn't do this"

disclamier: I didn't read beyond the headline because it annoyed me and I couldn't be bothered working around the paywall.
As someone who grew up poor (but not in utter poverty thanks to food stamps and free school lunches) and is now making good money in tech, I'm actually more concerned about the effects of HIGH income on kids' brains.

Unlike the overall negative tone of this study, I feel like poor kids actually have an advantage because they have a natural instinct to try harder to survive. Of course, there will always be those who simply give up because they think their station in life is set. It's probably more likely society and culture that keeps them down, not brain development.

On the other, rich kids have a skewed sense of need versus want, as well as effort versus reward. If everything comes easy, I'd argue rich kids are more developmentally challenged, possess less problem solving skills—especially under pressure—less able to deal with failure and less creative. Hence the "spoiled rich kid" stereotype. Whereas society constantly reminds poor kids all the things they can't do, rich kids are constantly reminded that they can do anything they want. Even well-meaning efforts like the "privilege" comic strip a while back reinforces this meme. I think that's where the real advantage comes from, and why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor.

This is something very top of mind right now as I start to plan to have kids.
The currently available release is Debian based utilizing FVWM along with tint2 and a custom launcher written using HTML5 and WebKit. It's worth trying out in a VM or as a LiveDVD. I am currently in the process of doing a complete rewrite of most of the Desktop environment, replacing some very old Perl pieces with shiny new Ruby ones.
Pretty much all FR systems generate a list of matches, ranked from closest match on down. The size of the list is configurable. It is also industry standard NOT to use the list as an authority. Given a list of high matches (greater than 90%) a human can quickly filter out obvious false positives, and then the remaining are retained for further consideration. It is also industry standard NOT to rely on FR alone; combining FR with other measures reduces the ability for a false positive.

The issue I find with FR is people expecting it to be some super technology, gleaming significant information from a dust spec. Its not like that. And the media is playing it up with unrealistic descriptions. Remember the original DOOM and it's quality of graphics? That is where FR is now. We've got a ways before the journalist hype is close to reality. And the mature technology will not be FR, but a comprehensive multiple biometric measuring system capturing far more than someone's face.