skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So have we dialed back from "Inside Out's psych theories are monstrous corporate brainwashing lies" to "Inside Out's psych theories are mildly controversial"?

I get that you didn't like the movie, and that's okay, and it's certainly reasonable to not like Disney in general; but I don't think you have any grounds to extrapolate that to the movie's message being actively and specifically harmful.
Is there anything you're trying to accomplish? I love myself a good rant, and most of us love to be righteous ... but ...

What's the state of the world that you want? Does being this angry help you get it there?
This is a terrible reply to the above comment!

Your analysis was shallow, lacked any detailed references, and did not engage with the overall gestalt that OP tried to bring across!
I was just lamenting that I could never afford Bloomberg's terminal, and then I found this, and now I'm signed up. Thanks! I am not looking to trade, but merely to educate myself, and I am just learning how to manage real time data or time series. Perfect.
@intenscia - what information is 'dangerous'? Just curious.
> As for willingness to pay, you seem to be projecting your own selfish behavior onto others.

I believe this is what you're doing with your comments. A few counter examples are great but we already have billions of people online constantly generating data and plenty of experiments that have shown that donations do not work.

> Also, why do you think everything has to work "at scale"?

Because the internet is at scale. I'm not talking about a specific site but rather the donation model in general. Very few actually donate and thus it cannot sustain the quality and quantity of content that is available today. A few site/podcasts/shows/whatever might be able to work with this but it will not work for the internet as we know it today.

Value is subjective, just because it might not be worth direct payment doesn't mean it's worthless (ie: Facebook). As a common example take a look at adblocking: if you don't like the ads on a site, then you should stop visiting the site. By using adblocker and continuing to go to the site, your actions show that you find value in the content but do not care to let the publisher be compensated. This is just one of many manifestations of the human behavior I've described where donations by the few does not support content for the many.
You're assuming that the monopoly on IP is necessary to get a good return on a film like this. It's also arguable that copyright law made this film more expensive than it otherwise would have been - I don't think your $200 million figure includes the cost of buying the franchise in the first place.
The original Tomkins model had dissmell in place of contempt, but it's similar. I think it's limited because it's based on facial expressions and doesn't account for things like shame and guilt and compassion.
A friend of mine works for Dandelion under the person who handles sourcing their chocolate - we've talked once or twice about this in particular. I can't assure you it's the real deal, but I would buy their chocolate with a very high confidence that it's what it proclaims to be.
More broadly--to what extent are entertainment creators responsible for what stupid people do after watching/reading/listening/playing? I do think children's media has more responsibility than adult media, but how far does that responsibility go?
Also maybe of interest, the Techreport The SSD Endurance Experiment. Their assorted drives lasted about 2,000 - 10,000 whole disk writes.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim...
Funny that you say that. These last days I've been contemplating either:

* Getting a 9.6" or larger tablet for reading "free" technical ebooks (in PDF -- I can't stand the formatting of eBooks for technical stuff).

versus

* Buying used copies of the physical books themselves.

So, based on the recommendation of a HN reader, I bought an old Nook HD+ (9" screen with 250+ ppi) and I tried yesterday. The definition is OK for reading PDFs, but the interface of the PDF reading apps is atrocious. I'm giving the Nook to someone else and I'm spending $300+ on used copies of the technical books I want to read (mostly programming / reference manuals).

eBooks for technical reference are atrocious in several counts, first of all: typography (it's very common to find an orphan heading at the end of the page with the paragraph on the next page. This drives me nuts). Next, equations and diagrams. Terrible. Lastly, navigation.

To be satisfied, I estimate I need a 12"+ screen with around 300ppi. I think the iPad Pro can deliver this, but it's a rather expensive proposition.
So you're telling me you don't like young, billionaires who are female?
This sounds like the schedule that I follow.

Wake, shower, exercise vigorously for 30mins whilst listening to podcasts / checking mail, then start working.

At the end of the day I exercise vigorously for 90 minutes then eat and put my kids to bed.

In 2 weeks time I'll be doing this whilst sleeping 2-6 hours a night.

Of course most of my exercise is cycling to work, with three-five visits to the gym during the week.

Baby :)
Not much. Here's how our (modern) ad network works:

New user seen, gets assigned random UUID like ABC12345. Show an ad based on what we know about site context.

Show ad, track that ABC12345 has seen this ad. Next time, we check your history and know to show you a different ad. If you click on anything, we see that as a signal that you perhaps like that category of ads.

Eventually we have a list of ads you've seen (to keep the frequency of those ads in check) and what categories you seem interested in (based on your clicks). Combine this with the context of the site and we can give you better ads. We DO NOT magically get your name, address, birthday, or any other personally identifiable information.

--

Just for more detail: Facebook and Google are different. They are the biggest adtech players and own about 80% of the market not only because of their size but because of how much they know about you. Most people willingly tell both companies everything about their lives so they have a distinct advantage. They also know your identity across devices because of logins. These massive companies are a much much bigger privacy issue than any independent adtech company simply because independent players do not have access to all this detailed 1st party information (or it's provided through rough aggregated/statistical means).
Peer pressure does lead to dishonesty, but the diversity of social experience compensates.

There are several details from the final paragraph which are apparently an admonition. Specifically:

Working around the clock is probably a sign that you are incapable of delegating, not that you are an invincible hero.

Frenetic multi-tasking—surfing the web while watching TV while listening to music—is a formula for distraction, rather than good management.

There is some interesting neurology literature about whether or not certain behavioral disorders are actually selective advantages in the right environment. In this context, the conditions of Mania or Attention Deficit Disorder may respectively provide a more strident work ethic or vigilant attention span. The common thread here is that people who treat themselves healthfully are able to use those abnormal cognitive traits to ensure a selective advantage.

The conclusion is that overexertion is still problematic, but exercise and punctuality are highly beneficial. This is progressive thinking for companies that have started to track employee health measures. People have less incentive to lie when the stakes are lowered.
Obviously not as much as much as those in the mass media who have been promoting her as the next Steve Jobs.
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>> It's not in my self interest to isolate myself or to treat others poorly.

This is how I see it too. It is in my self interest to be caring of others and do it some times at a loss for myself. While there are many times I haven't bothered if I stood to gain from an activity that caused loss to someone else. That was the game I was playing.
Can we please not turn this into a meme? That would be both stupid and terrible.
I'm not familiar with the Marmer model, and also don't see how it is really different from the Customer Development Model, with the exception that it puts timeframes to each stage.

I think the Funding Stages model is completely wrong. How many people are able to raise a round of funding without proving product market fit. I see it more as Financing Model might follow Customer Centric or Marmer.
Considerably worse thing with Russia and Stalin, because of the sorry state of modern Russia people are filled with ressentiment and even more susceptible to that kind of second thoughts. Much more polarising.
An iPad mini 2 running iOS 9.2 is similarly unhappy scrolling text against the animated badkground.
Not able to view the articles. Anti adblocker?
There's kind of two ways of going about this, right?

One is to think of it as "I have a functioning N64, how to I hack it into a handheld solution?".

This is a little rough, because it'll be hard fitting the guts of a system into a handheld controller (see https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Nintendo_64).

If you were to go this route, you're also going to have to figure out how to replace the power supply with a battery (probably some pile of lithium-polymer batteries and maybe some converters), and also some kind of display to pretend to be a TV (something like http://www.amazon.com/LCD-Display-Composite-input-Raspberry/... ).

The other is "How do I run N64 ROMs in a handheld solution?"

In this case, look at an emulator (say, https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6761&p=40...) and then build the hardware around it. However, you have a bit more flexibility in terms of what you can pull off. You'll still have to solve the display problem though.
The root comment was one warning readers that the article contained information that they may consider spoilers. At least if they're the type of person who actively avoids reviews, trailers, and opinions.

If someone wants to go to great lengths to avoid everything then that's fine. If people want to warn their fellow "blackout" fans that's fine too. If someone wants to say something isn't spoilers and it's just an action movie then, uh, ok then, I guess.
I don't disagree, however if you're going after a very well funded and entrenched opponent (BigMed/BigPharma) then playing your cards close to the vest is warranted. That said, when you're back is up against the wall you need to walk the walk. Medical testing is probably not a business where you can "Fake it 'til you make it."
Yes, Fortune has been updating their json to attack ad blockers.
I'm automating distributed dialectics software and it appears to be working.
> they draw all their eyes the same, big, colorful, inviting, with nice clear whites; their bodies are soft, squeezable, like big babies, with fuzzy or gleaming hair, to exploit humanistic reactions.

Do you also hate the Muppets? Or are you just trolling now?
> Try zsh with a decent dotfile setup ...

I'd have to guess what exactly that means and entails, but you're talking about customization to your favourite shell and comparing that to the stock shell without anything on another OS. Don't you think that's a bit unfair?
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Why do we cars about India again?
At some point, you have to stop considering any discussion of a movie as spoiler.

The term "spoiler" should be reserved for a reveal that actually spoils the movie; where some crucial element of the movies emotional impact can be taken away by knowing some fact in advance that is held secret through the movie.

The discussion in the first paragraph here pretty much just covers the exposition in the credits, and the material you learn very early on about one of the main characters.

I feel like treating this kind of information as a spoiler will just lead you to endless anxiety until you have seen every possible movie that could be "spoiled" for you this way. Why not just relax, accept that people are going to do some light discussion of movies, and reserve your outrage for actual spoilers of surprising plot points, mysteries solved, puzzles spoiled, and the like?
None of that sounds abnormal; it sounds like the discipline you'd expect from extremely busy and motivated people.

I always used to marvel at ex-military personnel that had this level of discipline. They accomplished more than most, all before everyone else arrived in the office.

BTW: The extreme sports isn't anything new either. For example, Robert Noyce was an avid hang glider.
That $100 hamburger reference is completely unrelated.

According to the Wikipedia link you posted, a "$100 hamburger" is an excuse a pilot will make for the opportunity to fly. It has nothing to do with covertly charging for a private flight.
The modern idea of CEOs is basically a cult.

There is a inverse correlation between CEO pay and corporate performance
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572085
Enforced Error Handling
of course the image that the nfl puts forth of strong men fighting battles with what might seem like intelligent strategies plays into the hands of military types. Players get points for shooting. Is this a trap question? Casting shows OTOH are all about mating and increasing the troop strength.
Given how things are looking right now, Elizabeth might want to start preparing a shipment of orange turtlenecks to be delivered to her in the big house.
These are warning signs I look for.
- politically linked / celebrity types

Eg:
https://www.theranos.com/leadership
David Boies
Boies served as Special Trial Counsel for the United States Department of Justice in its antitrust suit against Microsoft

Henry A. Kissinger

Gary Roughead
Gary Roughead is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 29th Chief of Naval Operations.

Seems more like a list of country club members who have dinner parties together.
I've dialed it to "Inside Out is such an effective piece of brainwashing that it can get people to passionately defend it for free on the Internet".
Damn, and you just shut him down.
Here's a great rule of thumb: don't write bad reviews. If a place sucked, oh well. People have bad days. Stop acting like a wannabe gourmet and shitting all over people.

I'll only consider a bad review if you give me food poisoning. Cooking your food thoroughly isn't hard.

... Or if your service personally lost me real money. Then it's a legit "beware."
SSDs are still grossly slower than RAM. The fastest SSD I know of is the Intel 750, which is like ~2.0 GigaBYTES/second (or for what is more typical for storage benchmarks: about 16Gbps or so over PCIe x4).

Main DDR3 RAM is something like 32GigaBYTES per second, and L1 cache is even further.

What I think the poster was talking about, is moving from disk-based databases to SSD-based databases. SSDs are much faster than hard drives.

L1 Cache, L2 Cache, L3 Cache, and main memory are all orders of magnitude faster than even the fastest SSDs today. Thinking about the "CPU prefetcher" when we're talking about SSDs or Hard Drives is almost irrelevant due to the magnitudes of speed difference.
Not to sound too cynical, but didn't we all have similar questions when it came to investment banks and sub prime mortgages and credit instruments a few years ago? Can the greater fool theory coupled with herding behavior help explain some of this?
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Your fallacy fallacy is a horrible comment on the comment about the horrible comment on the somewhat OK article.
It's a lot more complicated than merely a blanket statement of "saturation". The entire industry has changed in some pretty fundamental ways in the last 15 years, and for many if not most of the academics caught up in this, it did so well after they were committed to the endeavor.

The problem is not one of just saturation but exploitation of cheap labor caused by artificially constraining the demand (in this case, tenured professorships). Would you say that the market for software developers after the first dotcom implosion was merely saturated and all the out of work devs had chosen careers poorly, joining a saturated market? The two phenomena are not dissimilar.
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I don’t know if it’s futile. Some things exist purely as symbols of what is tolerable and what isn’t.

Here in Canada, we have the Internet, and with the click of a mouse I can find lots and lots of web sites explaining that the holocaust is a giant conspiracy and didn’t happen.

Nevertheless, it’s against the law for me to print them in a book and sell them in Canada. We know that people can read all that stuff, but there’s a statement being about what is and isn’t legal to publish.

It’s not so much the information that we are trying to block, it’s the signal I would be sending if I opened a bookstore and started selling copies of my book in broad daylight. The meta-signal of selling the book in public is telling people that holocaust denial is no different than any other point of view.

Canadians believe there is value in blocking the meta-signal, even if the signal itself flows somewhat freely across the country’s borders.

Not everyone agrees, of course. I imagine that most Americans regard Canadian hate-crime laws as being a horrible infringement on civil liberties, right up there with gun control and socialized medicine.

I’m not trying to convince anyone to abandon their principles and adopt the Canadian approach, I’m just pointing out that there can be a value in banning the publication of a work even if the work itself is available on the Internet.

Whether that value outweighs the other considerations in play is, of course, a public policy decision.
Look ma, no frameworks
Yes, children have better things to do than watching television shows owned by Disney and OP's article details why.
How long does it take for comments in an HN thread to become closed?
Are quantum computers even possible if A=A?
Eat right, exercise, Live Healthy(tm)... die anyway.
Meh, I don't think it's extreme to get up early every morning and exercise, though I do agree with the gist of the article. My 63yo father wakes up at 5am every morning to get to the gym and into the office by 630 and he is by no means a high-performing CEO.
All the investors, and all the journalists had a simple option that none of them appear to have taken: have your own blood tests done by Theranos.

When they start sticking something into a vein you then know it's more than a finger-stick.

Still, this is a great article, and it clearly shows that Theranos were failing in their duty of candour.
> punishing promo process

you mean the ridiculous and pretty broken process?
Theranos has been the only biotech firm that I've seen mentioned on the news lately.

Is there anything GOOD happening in biotech right now?
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Thnx man! Thing is that I have only found a few sources about these portable home consoles. Mostly they show off the handheld, not how to make it. Checking the prices for some games on ebay, it wouldnt be that bad to just buy them. That would also make it much easier for me. Thanks again!
"I wonder whether there is an imperative language that enforces explicit handling of errors..."

Java does that. If a method can throw an exception, you need to either handle the exception in a 'catch' block or throw it up the call stack for another method to handle. If you do neither, your code won't compile.
Even worse: "You have reached your article limit"
What's notable about the meat of the complaint sent to the FDA is that it's less "this technology actually doesn't work" and more "this company has no culture of experimental integrity".

From the article:

"hadn’t fully assembled the proprietary machines used for the herpes study when the experiments began" ... "company underreported the rate at which the machines broke down during the study" ... "employee also alleged that some crucial parts of the devices ... were modified to improve their accuracy"

FDA is generally skeptical of validation data not generated from "production equivalent" technology, but they get even more skeptical if you tell them something is X and it turns out to be Y down the road. That (rightly) sends them on a fishing expedition.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, could the esteemed hacker(s) just post the source code, so that we can see how it was implemented :) (j/k)
Clever.

I don't get why people can't just label their ads with random letters though?
Is there any evidence those labels aren't a product of linguistics and culture? Two things developed during childhood that Disney is working to profit from? Did those professionals grow up watching Disney movies?
Yeah, there's a couple of interesting sites I would like to follow, but they don't provide RSS feeds, so I don't bother.
Programs made of neural networks
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That online course model would be a good way to finalize the textbook before publication.

There are needed changes to specific verbs which relate to the implementation of lambda calculus. The subject matter scope is sufficient and precise; but the permutation of topics might not be optimal. I think it is wise for the authors to invite collaboration with sincerity.
I call self-reporting bullshit.

Err... no, what I meant to say is that I (super successful CEO) also enjoy a 5-mile run before 6am. I've answered all my underlings emails before they've hit the snooze bar. I cook my children a nutritious breakfast before my VPs have taken off their slouchy pajamas. By the time I roll into the office at 7:30 sharp, the entire company --as well as adjacent buildings-- tremble beneath my superior stamina and efficiency.
Link bait title, but good article
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/roche-wins-fda-approval-n...
Have you seen Elizabeth Holmes' pedigree? Have you looked at who's on her board?

In terms of pattern-matching, her speaking and body language match several uber-engineers I know. Top it off with a photogenic appearance.

Slam dunk. We're animals with 1 square meter x 2 mm of sometimes-rational coiled up in our heads.
The subtext of the Theranos story is that it's easy to mislead the press, and even investors. Silicon Valley still relies largely on optimism and TRUST. When a wolf in turtleneck clothing comes along and takes advantage of that, it risks putting all other companies on the defensive.
Right, so intermediaries can see all content. And knowing your IP address, nothing is anonymous.
Once I fix the iOS client I will try working on the android client ( need to learning android programming for that ) . This was my first stab at a project using objective c . For now I will be closing the Beta , but thanks everyone for signing up , appreciate the feedback . Have fixed a lot of issues , added new features , will be launching soon on the AppStore - |via http://bit.ly/hnbuzz01 |
I agree, but how much of this is biopharma vs. techie cultural mismatch?
It's true, we can make mistakes from time to time.
What search terms have you tried already to find websites with guides to making a portable N64? How much work have you done already?

N64 games, "roms", are very easy to find on the Internet. Watch out for sites that also distribute malware. Once you have the roms you want a "N64 backup unit". These are going to be hard to find. I don't know of anyone providing plans for a DIY backup unit.
What is the cure for hyperthyroidism? I'm wondering if you mean hypothyroidism?
Bill Fink was a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He used to post on the WhatsTheBigIT blog on MSDN. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/whatsthebigit/

Bill was diagnosed with pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer six months ago. He was 46. His brother wrote this obituary.