skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

First of all, we're not selling any data, nor do we ever plan to. We do make money by offering a pro subscription--this new design is one of the features, along with things like custom domains and access to our Healthkit app. We've already gotten a few dozen upgrades today, which is really exciting and lets me confidently say things like "we will never sell your data".

We believe that sharing of this data is an important part of the experience for most people. Of course you don't have to, but for many people that is the first thing they want to do. Perhaps only with your family or a few close friends, and not the whole world, but a single-player experience that only exists on your device would be missing many of the experiences that we think are core to Gyroscope.

A small percent of users have made their profiles public, and many of those have set up a custom domain name and are very excited about sharing it and having a personal website that reflects who they are. Having the data in the cloud makes that use-case possible, though of course doesn't require it.

Our new mobile apps are also taking a slightly different approach, where all of the source data is private but allows for curation and customization, and you can export individual images with aspects that you want people to be able to see. I think that will be the right balance of privacy and control for most people, while still allowing sharing of things they want to highlight.

Making my account completely public has been an interesting experiment. When I first did it last year, I wasn't sure what to expect. Overall it has been very positive experience, and my current opinion is that more transparency is generally good. The location data is probably the most sensitive out of all the things we track. For other people, weight or age have been concerns, and we've added settings to fully hide those.

There are things I consider very private and wouldn't want anyone else to see — like my messages, emails, finances, etc. — but I am personally happy to release the data on the site, like what my heart rate is or how much I slept yesterday. That balance will vary for everyone, which is why I have been experimenting mostly on myself before recommending things to others.

The location data is probably the most sensitive, and we've been playing around with other themes that show different combinations of data and keep more of that private.

We might add other login options in the future, but currently we've found Facebook to be a great experience because we can boot up your basic account info (timezone, name, cover photo, age, etc.) without needing all that to be manually entered. It would be a terrible experience if the first 5 minutes on Gyroscope were just spent typing in basic facts about yourself. One of our big challenges with Gyroscope is how to passively power all this stuff without creating any more work for the user. Our goal has been to go through the whole experience without ever needing to use your keyboard to type anything, maybe with the exception of setting your username.
Slack seems like a great product but here are some interesting facts:

- Atlassian has more than 10x the revenue of Slack[1]

- JIRA and Confluence account for substantial amount of Atlassian's revenue. Two products that don't even compete with Slack[2].

I think Slack is a current silicon valley darling so people love to make this comparison but it doesn't directly compete with Atlassian's core business. It also has an order of magnitude less revenue.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/slack-expects-30-million-reve...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000155837015...
Ok, so this tool isn't for you. That's fine. It's not for me, either, so I closed the tab and moved on. Maybe you don't see the point but obviously it scratches an itch for the author.
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I also take issue with the worship of the billionaire. When someone has money they are eccentric and admired as if they have found some secret answer to happiness. When they don't they are simply crazy.

He says "“I asked him to come live with my family and I for a month…". I wonder the impact of having this stranger live with them to learn these arbitrary secrets (and to what end exactly we aren't talking about trying to stop smoking or learn to walk when you are crippled, right?) on his family and how they felt about it.
Seems like all the more reason to avoid damaging them unnecessarily.
I live about 50 miles from work (~2 hour commute each way) and my monthly housing cost is around $2000. It's totally do-able. 2 hours is a little on the high end for a commute, but it's not the end of the world.
> One topic that was not mentioned in the article that I have found fascinating is that your gut microbiome can actually affect your cravings

It's worth noting that the study[1] does not suggest that. It says that there has been some "circumstantial evidence for a connection between cravings and the composition of gut microbiota" and notes that there would be evolutionary pressure on microbes to be able to influence cravings, but gives no evidence on this point.

The thing the study was actually researching was ways microbes could influence cravings, not whether or not any of them actually were.

Meanwhile, it does appear you can noticeably change the expression of your microbiome by long term changes in your diet, but the effects we've actually found are still fairly subtle (at least in terms of metabolic outputs), and I've found no studies that indicate you can change cravings due to those changes. For example, in [2], "chocolate desiring" subjects had noticeably different microbiomes than "chocolate indifferent" subjects, but that difference was significant even when on the exact same diet (which was necessary for the study's methods).

You have to be careful not to extrapolate from actual data to "what makes sense". Spurlock's stuff appeals at a gut instinct level, but that's often the most dangerous kind of thing for science since our brains desperately want to make patterns out of data even when there isn't one.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201400071/fu...

[2] http://pic.plover.com/chocolate.pdf
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No, it's currently just a plugin. I am planning to make a standalone PyCharm-style IDE so it's easier to install for people unfamiliar with Java, but that didn't make it in time for the 1.0, sadly. It's quite a bit of work but still less than something like Android Studio - it's pretty much the community edition of IntelliJ shipped with Cursive installed and sane defaults for Clojure.
Not yet. We plan on launching in Miami in the near future.
I was literally giddy with excitement the other day when my first ever open source contribution was merged in to the OmniSharp generators project.

(which I think is unrelated to this, but maybe run by the same people. I can't tell if OmniSharp is its own standalone company staffed entirely with MS people, or what - or is it just a "club" of really smart MS people?)

Nothing more than a few lines but they were the difference between being able to see a webpage a 500 error on the default templates so maybe a little worthwhile.

It was so very enjoyable and fulfilling to be working on a project that will be used by so many people. And the nature of giving back to the community really was its own reward.

I'm looking forward to this new world of .NET where it is so much more open and average joe developers can throw in fixes for weird things they find in real time, rather than waiting on bottlenecks at the company.
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I have a Core2 Quad 2.4GHz that I use as a small-ish home server. About half a year ago, the power supply died, and when I replaced it, I left the chassis open and noticed the CPU fan was no longer rotating.

At first, I was really scared, but the machine is running well to this day. On a hot day, the system log will show many messages about the CPU reducing its clock speed to prevent overheating, but that seems to work well enough. (The system, to be fair, mainly runs as a file and DNS server, so it is not exactly super-busy, but still. It might also help that the fan sits on top of a huge heatsink.)
Why is this shocking? This is more effective than advertising and costs less to the manufacturer.
Some reporting indicates that Bergdahl's unit was riddled with this kind of problem: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-pris...
Has anyone here ever built an Open Compute box, or is it only the kind of thing that makes sense by the rackful? I guess there is nowhere to buy 1 or 2 cases?

I would like a high end server box at home, with GPUs, and it would be nice to have a configuration known to work, down to the Linux distro and drivers. Though I'm guessing they are louder than I would want, because they don't care about noise as much with server hardware.
Interesting analysis, but would have also loved to see a breakdown of salary by years of experience. "Average salary" doesn't tell me much about how much I can reasonably expect to be making in those cities - how many of those data points were senior vs junior people?
"If you want mass adoption, don't build apps with a max penetration of 1% of the global population" seems pretty obvious. Other variations: "If you want mass adoption, don't build apps only usable on Blackberry".
I'm running Debian with KDE. The GNU tools are installed but by weight they're nowhere near the majority of the code on the system, to say nothing of the components I actually use. So calling that machine "GNU/Linux" instead of "KDE/X.org/Linux", given the relative importance of the individual components, would be stupid.

Fortunately, we have the nearly universally understood "Linux" instead, and weird specializations like Android can be called something else.
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You would think AI would be bigger than VR.

Edit: going with GPUs makes sense now, but it doesn't indicate a big bet on Facebook's part. I don't think opensourcing a server cabinet is that interesting, but I'm a hardware engineer.

In 10 years I think more people will touch AI than VR but I don't know how that translates to investment.
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I didn't mean to imply causation. What I meant is that most people I've seen adopting these tools just don't correct their behavior in the long run.

They do marginal changes to their diet, go run for a couple more weeks and then end up going back to their former self. Same as the New Year's resolutions athletes who are gonna hit the gym in January and gone by end of February.
I just wish one government would say to VW - 'sorry folks, those cars do not meet emission standards, they are destroying the health of the general public to an extent that our health services do not want so please take those cars off the road today.'

Thereafter the police being instructed to stop any offending VW found on the roads and tow it to the yard, to be released once VW fixed it, with yard storage charges applied at market rates for the locality. The police have automatic number plate recognition, this talks to the licensing authority and a few lines of code could be added to flag up the emission-spewing diesels. Simple.

This would also be an experiment in air quality. If overnight a sizeable percentage of cars were no longer on the roads, would there be a noticeable increase in air quality?

This would also be handled by market forces, I am sure my VW driving friends would sort out alternative rides or find garages that could add some fancy exhaust pipe that makes them compliant.

Draconian? It depends on whether air quality matters or not. That is a fairly black and white thing - either it matters or it doesn't.

The 'rule breaking' culture in VW is all very interesting but neither VW or our elected governments have done a thing to take those polluting machines off the road until they are fixed. It is this culture of complacency that bothers me more because it is happening now. The 'rule breaking' culture continues.

You would not breathe diesel fumes if you could see them.
Well I see at least someone got it...
I started a Swift Cookbook a couple months ago. I've got a section on Strings and Arrays.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift_cookbook.html?topic=arra...

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift_cookbook.html?topic=stri...

I could throw up Dates and Dictionaries over the weekend. There's a Playground switch so you can copy-paste the text as a working Playground:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift_cookbook.html?format=pla...
What's striking about that is the investment costs were €370m. That seems like a tiny expense from the perspective of the EU and US budgets. There doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency in funding fusion research.
It doesn't right now, sadly. IntelliJ is now capable of painting results inline in the editor but I haven't added that for REPL eval yet since results can only be on a single line. I'm discussing this with JetBrains, I'd hoped a fix would make it into v15 but it didn't in the end. Soon, with a bit of luck.

This will only be inline results though, not a full auto-execute instarepl.
> That will change when Chip & Pin are common.

Chip & PIN is not coming to the US. Chip & sign, yes, but no PINs.
You very quickly resort to threats of violence in any gun thread.

What you claim is not what dang called me out on, rather incivility in choice of the language to express my thoughts.
Reminds me of my local library. They have RFID tags in all of the books and library cards, and a reader capable of scanning multiple tags at once embedded in the counter. You can just place a pile of books and your library card on the counter and a receipt prints out to tell you when they're due. No further interaction required.
Responsibility doesn't pay for the high cost of healthcare, taxes or the rent. Sometimes it's important to be practical for survival purposes. Not every business out there operates with other people's money or with such gross profitability that they can just afford to have "responsibility" and "do the right thing".
Thank you.

I've looked at the Dexcom unit. I would like to run with it for 2-3 needles (20-30 days) to get accurate data on things I surmise are good, but yet cannot prove.

I've also worked on guessing the score before I test. Interestingly enough, after about 2 days with the meter, I within +-2 points. That really surprised me.

And a very good point about the exercise after I eat. I have been doing that in the evening, not always after I eat. I'm going to believe you without proof, only because my body knows I need the exercise. I've also heard that HIIT is also great (meter backed results).

If I do worsen, I do have the metformin I can fall back on. I'd rather not make that the first response if diet shows more effect.
> Other thing was bear dye that could be crushed while mounting heat sink.

A friend of mine did that once. Broke off the tiniest bit from the corner of the die while trying to mount the heatsink, but that killed the CPU. He had been saving money for that CPU for months and was understandably unhappy.
my coach makes me do 20-rep squats and also 10x10 with less weight once every 6 weeks or so. that's the closest i've ever come to really giving up in the middle of a set.
Yes, but this isn't one of them. Inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality is a symptomatic of mental illness. I have been in a number of life-or-death situations and absolutely there are times you should just pursue your objective even if you get damaged in the process, or you won't survive. But if you are damaging yourself like that absent any actual danger, you have a different kind of problem.
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it sounds slick, but for the first few hours you'll think that hell is a nicer place than here because the borrow checker won't be there. it takes a while for it to become slick again and only then you really start to appreciate the language. theory vs practive and all that.
A neuroscientist had his brain scanned for a year and a half
I never realised slashdot didn't use the www subdomain. The name makes a lot more sense now.

http-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org
Stripe's design is beautiful and if be happy if more people imitated or copied them :)
Looks great, but on the wrong platform. Is there a Mac version in the works?
Presumably it's more secure as it shouldn't expose your credit card number to the point of sale. Given the number of major hacks in that area in recent years, that should really be the #1 touted feature of such "X Pay" systems.
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I see PlanGrid is aimed squarely at professional constructors. Is there any benefit in using it for small, private projects, or is it too "enterprisey"? Say you're building e.g. a garage. And can you ELI5 what "free for 50 sheets" means?
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Your telling me to shut up about my "rhetoric about how violent [I'm] willing to be" is not telling me to shut up?

"No." ^_^

Especially when you should be thankful it's been reduced to 8 words.
Tech IPO's of any kind always have my interest, but I have a hard time finding out what IPO is happening and when it is happening.

How do some of you track these things?
Yeah, this is the biggest hole in Cursive's functionality right now. It doesn't affect most people much but it's still painful for some, depending on which libraries you're using. Fixing this is my #1 priority in terms of large features.
Only if the columns are stored on-page with the index, which is not guaranteed -- it depends on what other columns exist in the table, etc.
sounds like they are using it wrong. user error.
I'm not able to watch it. Is it this per chance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFfkdKfpgFw
In the case of mr Nissan, if he wins doesn't he get his legal costs back? (I know it's a huge hassle anyway, but better than nothing)
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Yeah, ymmv.

All high-perf code simply has to be meticulously performance tested; there's no other way to know on modern processors what is fastest.
Actually, GameTap had a Saturn emulator that provided Panzer Dragoon Saga to subscribers a few years ago.
Must be a language thing. I never heard it in Germany and the people I talk to online seem to be too competent to make that mistake.
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> If overnight a sizeable percentage of cars were no longer on the roads, would there be a noticeable increase in air quality?

We've already done this experiment a number of times. C.f. the hospitalization rates during the Atlanta Olympics.
Hilarious. I love generational learning like this (though I feel bad for the entities).

My friend and I one night spent about 2 hours in front of my laptop live-commentating the BreveCreatures screensaver, in which procedurally generated polygonal creatures attempt to walk, and pass on patterns and configurations to the next generation.

"Looks like we've got another flopper here. That might have flown a couple generations ago but you know, we've been seeing some really effective writhing lately."

"I totally agree. The bipedal taildraggers were a force to be reckoned with in season 56, but — oh my god! Look at that one go!"

"Almost got as far as that three-legged galloper we saw just a few minutes back. This is a heck of a race, my friend!"

For hours. We were drunk.
Sounds like your card is about to expire then, anyway.
I think you underestimate how fast evolution happens. Lactose tolerance is a fairly recent, but widespread adaptation.
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curious: do you see change in other OSS communities?
He addressed this at the end of the posted timeline. He was awarded $58k in legal fees, which he calls "less than 2%" of the total cost of the defense (this is where the $3 million cost estimate is calculated from, which is aligned with the expense of similar cases that I'm familiar with).
'Move fast and break the law' might not have been the best slogan to put on the wall....
I really like Slack but I think it will be troubled in the short/long term in the same way Dropbox is now. It is innovative but many others will catch up it soon.
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> the class of all problems solvable by a classical computer is exactly the same as the class of all problems solvable by a quantum computer

I started this sub-thread because I'm pretty sure this statement is true. But the details are tricky.

> the best-known quantum algorithm for factoring integers is asymptotically faster than the best-known classical algorithm for factoring integers

The only reason that current commercial cryptography works is that classical computers can't factor large integers effectively. But quantum speedups to factoring isn't particularly profound, since factoring is just a small part of computing.
Hi my name is Jessica and I am the data scientist at Hired who pulled the numbers for this report.

Hired.com does provide this information. You can use our salary calculator to get more detailed information about what salary you should expect based on your experience, skills, and location: https://hired.com/salary
I am talking about multiple cards. I had at least four in that time.
My only problem with Gyroscope is there is still no alternative logins. I don't use Facebook, and I don't want to make a login for them just to use it.
And an android version, now swift gas gone open source the shackles are off.
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EMV chips more or less solve this problem, though, they just haven't caught on here in the US yet.
Say 10 people all die on the same day, all showing the same unusual markings/indicators, well maybe if they were using this tool the authrorities could get and correlate the data to discover all of them drank a specific coffee that's new on the market which triggers a reaction only when heart rates are highly elevated within a small time frame afterwards and exposed to lots of sunlight - far fetched I know, but only when you have an abundance of such data can you hope to discover such circumstances.

Of course privacy concerns will always be there, but I for one am ok with judicious use of data to further such advancements.
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I bet a lot of the work was performed by academic indentured servants.
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I had intended to use Apple Pay simply because of the Discover double cash back but hardly any retailers around me actually accept it so it's pointless for me.
Not trying to change your way to doing things but why don't try using English for the interface? Spanish is my first language as well and I don't have problem writing in spanish while using english as main language for the UI.
Why would there be a Mac version ? Xcode Playgrounds do that job for you.
Not any more, the opensource vesion is here, runs on ubuntu and fedora (i hae got it compiled on fedora). Enterprising souls are right now working on a windows version.
Pretty cool. One of the more interesting things about fusion research is how the expansion of the ability to do complex fluid dynamics has helped design plasma flows. Such designs were computationally infeasible before. The inter-related requirement of computation and understanding on the delivery of viable fusion solutions has been, in my opinion, the unseen anchor of fusion.
Hmmm, my company has switched over to Wagtail at this point and they've been happy with it. I'll have to look over new Django CMS and see what I think.
That doesn't mean we'll face shortages... Oil will increase in price until we stop using it.