skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does one get Audience Insights? The FAQ says: In order to protect the privacy of users, we only show this data when it exceeds a minimum size.

Does anyone know what the minimum size is?

https://fabric.io/kits/android/answers
I have an economics degree and know precisely what the word means, and have never read Peter Thiel's book and am not familiar with his usage of the word, and still the concept as applied in the letter made perfect sense to me.

All monopoly is contextual.
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And the 5MM valuation refers to the cap?
I usually dress in all black, hoodie, beanie, jeans with holes. I had a mohawk. I also had Delta's highest status.

One of the small pleasures in life was watching other first-class passengers give me a "WTF" look. One time, when a gate was crowded, I had to tap this guy in a blazer on the shoulder and say "excuse me, I need to board" and he said "They're only boarding first class," to which I replied "yeah, I know. That's me."

The look on his face? Priceless.
The "stupid determination of novelty" as you correctly mentioned is just one factor of what is sick about the patent system. The fact that in many cases damages due to infringement are ridiculously larger than the harm caused to patentees by the infringement, that the resources required just to prove no infringement was actually made can take an innocent company out of business and the fact that there is no penalty on wrongful infringement claims are just a few more.

I expect changes will be slow, as with any system where there are entities that have a lot to lose by making things right.
Exactly; defendants in an infringement suit can easily come up with the argument that all they did was write software for a programmable, general-purpose computer, and therefore their work can only violate a software patent, and no such thing can be valid in the land.
Yep. This guy was actually pretty lucky, as he could have gotten a tranquilizer shot and wouldn't have been able to argue his point for a while. With the hospital happily charging $10k/day :)
>Tell them what is wrong with you, so they'll give you the right treatment

Yeaaah about that, am I the only one concerned about the state of medicine, i.e. diagnosis? There always seems to be a myriad of symptoms that are common between various diseases/conditions. I honestly don't see how to blindly trust doctors.

inb4 edit: I am not saying we shouldn't trust doctors.
I don't really see a compelling case for this method. The empirical convergence rates are clearly polynomial, while subspace iteration (e.g., Krylov) are "in theory" exponential and in practice pretty good. There is a bit of hand-waving about why Kyrlov methods are not as good (the theory is supposedly not robust to noise), but the techniques for robustifying Krylov-type subspace iterations, such as restarts, are pretty mature.

More than that, the method actually appears to be an iterative "prox" method. These things are very well studied in the convex analysis literature. I wouldn't be surprised if this already appears as a special case of an algorithm in the literature somewhere.
I haven't heard multiple cases of women who don't want to sit next to men so strongly that they're prepared to delay an international flight in order to rearrange the seats.
I take it sexp parsers are technically dfa?
I never got this either. Then, once I had a first-class upgrade. I'm kinda tall, so I'm usually pretty cramped in seats.

When I woke up at my destination, significantly less jetlagged and actually rested, I said "now I understand."

I still don't pay for it, but it's certainly worth something.
Considering how much blood they have on their hands, it's ironic how little they know about the substance.
<It is true that the Apollo 10 astronauts did hear something they could not quite explain cutting through the crackle in their headsets when they were on the far side of the moon. It is true too that they called it “music"...>

OK, but why does the author open with the canard about a cassette recorder?
I have none of these issues. Fonts are nice and smooth (I'm using Consolas 10pt). Copy-paste works seamlessly. Limited size? In what regard? I can expand the window as I want vertically and horizontally and I have as much scrollback as I want (you configure it). ConEmu handles the splitting and/or tabs which works wonderfully.

Guess we're in opinion-mode at this point.

Can you provide an example of what you feel is a beautifully designed.. terminal container? We're still talking about the border of a shell are we not?

I must be missing something here.
Managed VM is still beta, I think only brave one could try beta for production.
The author is actually a woman.
Patents also don't protect an idea.

Patents protect the novel and unique features of an invention in return for disclosure.
Do you have more background on that? As far as I know, burntsushi is entirely correct, NFAs take a constant amount of space to run, and a linear amount of time (all in relation to the length of the input text).

Of course, backreferences and other stuff take you out of the realm of regular languages. Avoid these.
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Are you sure the issue was with the tool and not the language/grammar?
Hmm, sounds way too much like an IBM designer I nearly wound up working with on a project for a customer.

If you're going to bother doing something, do it right, don't half-ass it. Or as my deceased and decidedly non-PC grandfather would say, "Do it man-fashioned!"
"When I was 15 or so, I remember asking a distinguished physicist whether electrons could actually be black holes."

Honestly, what's the point of that comment? Just as much information could have been conveyed sans ego by saying "I remember one time when I asked a distinguished physicist whether electrons could actually be black holes."
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That's one weird thing about the theranos thing: Won't a good lab-on-a-chip device to replace medical labs be profitable enough ? risky enough ?

Why add an extra huge risk in the form of finger pricks ? Why did Holmes and investors even began to consider it ?
I don't think that turbine engines are the model of efficiency that you claim. On a BSFC basis, they're significantly worse than piston diesels or marine two-strokes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_specific_fuel_consumptio...

(That's for shaft engines, which a turbojet isn't, but the turboprop examples are jet engines with a gearbox and propellor mounted.) Jet engines are incredibly powerful (per unit of mass) and reliable, but I don't think they're incredibly efficient.
So much for "flat is better than nested"!
Right there's a bunch of reasons. I hate guns myself but feel like the war chant of 'take der guns' is a knee jerk reaction based on absolutely no science.
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Ask HN: Developers: Personal brand, or better products?
In other fields, building a personal brand can be a huge win. There are clear perks in the development space as well. However, is it worth it in the long run? Alternatively, as a developer you could use the time you would spend on personal branding on building new (or better) products.

How can I get the most bang for my buck (and time)?
I'm actually fine with that. For almost all inventions knowing something is possible is enough to be able to figure out a way to replicate the basic idea, it is rare that the patent disclosure really shows something that was thought to be infeasible (they do exist though).

The problem lies in the fact that those few ideas tend to be so valuable that patents by themselves are actually useful, it is in the aggregate and with the amount of abuse of the patent system that it becomes a net negative.

On the whole I believe that the world would be better off without patents but what with the developed world being less and less on the producing side of things copyright, patents and other 'intellectual property' concepts are becoming a mainstay of our economies, so expect them to be here to stay.
It sounds like they're still going to be leasing the building, so the sign is still going to be up.
I'm sure it's possible, but is it straight-forward how you're supposed to do this properly? And is there any way to access the Wolfram kernel from the command-line (like a python executable)?

Update: I guess I owe the Wolfram Language another look.
This reminds of this article, Useless Medical Disclaimers. It's about how medical disclaimers are useless because they don't include probabilities, but they can't because most people don't understand probabilities: http://lesswrong.com/lw/h4/useless_medical_disclaimers/

>innumeracy being so widespread, no one would dare put numbers on that sheet of paper. If "amputation" is listed as a consequence with a probability of 0.0001%, patients will run screaming out of the office, crying, "Not my toe! I don't want to lose my toe!"
and that the neurons are not, if briefly, connected anymore when a chemical acid destructs them.
Outside of web services and food, does anyone rely on trade secrets?
Straight calorie counting, had a fancy spreadsheet I logged everything I ate with calorie counts, it predicted weekly and monthly weight loss plus expected goal weight date etc (I was out by a week, I hit target early as was averaging 1430 a day not 1500).

The prediction based on 3500 calories equally 1lb of weight loss was remarkably accurate for me.

I also took supplements since 1500 a day is considered very borderline for a man and I'm quite big naturally.

Supplemented with cod liver oil, multivitamin, vitamin D and calcium and used dissolvable fibre drinks (one side effect of not eating a lot is unfortunate).

Breakfast was porridge (plain oats, no salt, sugar or honey), lunch was no fat cottage cheese with salad, tea was either pork, chicken or fish with steamed veggies.

Occasionally I'd eat McDonalds if the the junk craving was too strong (because it has accurate calorie counts).

Drank a lot of water as well, probably 5-6 pints a day plus coffee and diet energy drinks for pick me ups.

It was actually pretty easy once I got past the first week.

The hard part since has been eating clean and still getting 2500 calories, it's amazing when you cut out sugar and really high fat stuff how much you have to eat to get 2500 calories, its the equiv of 2.5kg of regular cottage cheese!.

Blood pressure went down, insulin response is normal and I feel better generally than I have done in ten years despite my ongoing medical problems, you truly are what you eat.
The government needs to ban cars AND phones and then force everyone to wear helmets and a full body padded suit while riding our bike. For our own protection.
And in many non-software inventions, even if you build the product and market it, the secret is not obvious: that is to say, the means of producing that product.

For instance, you might come up with, oh, a high yield method for producing some valuable chemical and keep it secret while just selling the chemical. The ability to obtain the patent encourages the disclosure of the recipe for that high yield method, while ensuring that you get compensated by licensing. This protection lasts for some time, and then the knowledge becomes patent free. In the alternative scenario, the secret process might just die with the company. Or, someone else figures it out not long after, does better marketing, and eats the original inventor's lunch. So there is a wager involved. The certainty of so many years of protection, versus the uncertainty of someone figuring out the secret.
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You can always ask your doctor why they think you have X and not Y.

And whenever they recommend treatment it's always good to ask "What happens if we don't do this? What happens if we just watch and wait?"
I recently had a package show as delivered that was nowhere to be found. Amazon was awesome in handling the issue, but my first course of action was to see if I could contact USPS to locate the missing package and I ran in to this...

Quite possibly the most draconian, falsely-reassuring password requirements I have ever seen in an account sign up form.
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What you're referring to has existed since the 90s[0].

0: https://www.abbottpointofcare.com/products-services/istat-ha...
Those aren't the fundamentals of CS. The fundamentals of CS are data structures and algorithms, as the Good Book says. Hardware is important, practically, but don't let practicality blind you to the actual core of the field: Practicality has a way of becoming obsolete, and an actual education is for life.
Yea I've been meaning to get down to Chandler and check out Tech Shop for a while. Kind of like the gym lol.
Yeah, I can very much sympathize with your friend. One thing I've learned is that setting an intention is important, and not being reckless with it is important too. There have been a few time where I've come back home after a night out and dove right in with half drunken bravery, and yes infinite thought loops are a thing! There was one time where I quite literally thought I had died and landed in hell and in that moment of time an indescribable suffering was transmitted through my being via some kind of demon which left me in tears for about a half of an hour afterwards. But lest I drive the curious away, whenever I have gone into it with respect I've had experiences that were deeply enlightening and, while always weird, seemingly benign.
Clicked on it thinking it was about Robert Kraft... Oops.

Would have been great to learn that when he's not running the most successful sports franchise of the 2000s and making paper, he's some septuagenarian Batman...
I hope that you see the irony of your argument in this thread :)
Agreed.. I would add that most software patents should not be granted, not that no software patents should... but method/process and software patents should definitely be a much shorter term.
> Neither ideas or disclosure of ideas are in short supply in the computer world today.

Personally, I don't see much innovation in the software industry, mostly just reinvention of the same wheels over and over and over in slightly different contexts. Most of the really innovative stuff is locked away in various data centers and all we get are tantalizing glimpses when their developers deign to publish a paper or a measly blog post.
Sure there is, just buy the seat next to you. Or book a private flight. Or drive.

There's all kinds of things I don't like about commodity-priced airline seats either, but that's the choice we all have; either buy what you actually want or take what you paid for.
The distinction we hold in America is between letting a racist teach children vs teaching racism to children -- it is the act, not the beliefs, that are controlling. Though obviously I understand why European states are more wary in such cases.
That is super impressive. The video of the robot walking around in the snow, and multiple times almost falling over but righting itself, exactly how a human would...
Sure, but most blood tests today aren't done via lab-on-chip, which should be cheaper.
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I signed up for UCP and was contacted by a few guys at Docker to go over the features. It was an hour-long presentation. They wanted something like ~$1,500 per node. I'm still not exactly sure what a `node` entails. The salesman seemed extremely technical and was able to answer all of the questions I asked. Too bad their website isn't able to give me the directions for using UCP without me clicking on the "sign-up" button (which now doesn't work because I've already signed up), or else we might be using it to deploy at Adobe.
My "spare me" could really have been summarized as "1st world problems". Giving stuff away to needy trumps my own personal feelings of "obligated to do something with a gift given to me". Maybe I over-prioritize in my head about this kinda thing, but reading OP post about experiencing stress sounds kinda lame or just words from too young a person.
I upvoted both you and cookiecaper; I agree with you both.
Feynman gets a psychiatric exam:

http://physicshead.blogspot.com/2007/09/feynman-gets-psychia...
Is datastore tied to appengine? some parts of the docs say "datastore is for appengine" and other parts don't mention appengine at all.
See also Gerd Gigerenzer's book "Reckoning with Risk".

https://plus.maths.org/content/reckoning-risk

>The probability that one of these women [asymptomatic, aged 40 to 50, from a particular region, participating in mammography screening] has breast cancer is 0.8 percent. If a woman has breast cancer, the probability is 90 percent that she will have a positive mammogram. If a woman does not have breast cancer, the probability is 7 percent that she will still have a positive mammogram. Imagine a woman who has a positive mammogram. What is the probability that she actually has breast cancer?

> Eight out of every 1,000 women have breast cancer. Of these 8 women with breast cancer, 7 will have a positive mammogram. Of the remaining 992 women who don't have breast cancer, some 70 will still have a positive mammogram. Imagine a sample of women who have positive mammograms in screening. How many of these women actually have breast cancer?

His point is that it's not just patients who don't know the numbers. Doctors and nurse, who use these numbers every day, also don't understand them.
No naturally occurring constant has ever been proven to be normal. It's a really hard property to prove. However It's been calculated to billions of digits and it certainly seems to be. It even passes random number tests perfectly.
Yes, it's equivalent on purpose. Yet in Haskell it's only a couple tokens longer than the pattern-matching original which you called "far more terse". To fairly test a claim, one should change only the variables the claim is about.
This repetition is irrational.

Given all the evidence there should be no meat, milk and eggs in the diet of developing countries.

How does a growing economy cope with costs of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer?

WHO report said 50 grams of processed meat per day significantly increases chances of colorectal cancer (causation proof). 50 grams of red meat correlates with all-cause mortality (causation being published). White meat is filled with cholesterol which is the main cause of heart related diseases.

This is something that from an economic perspective shouldn't plague the developing countries, ignoring the energy needs.

50 grams daily is 350 grams weekly, about 18kg of meat per year per person. USA consumes ~100kg of meat per year per person. China is 50kg - and has just in the last 40 years risen from poverty. Just imagine India doing the same, Africa.

If you think people are being moderate, they aren't. This luxurious culture cannot be rationally apologized.
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To a first approximation, nobody writes home about science books. These days everything is a juried paper.
This was my first web project. I really want to change the source of my data. At the moment search is okay but I would like to add more features for tv. At the moment only some of the items will display the seasons available. Have a go you might find it useful.
Well, patents are a deal between inventors and government. In exchange for protection for a set period of time, the inventor reveals the workings of the idea. That protection does give the inventor time to profit. Without that, the inventor would have no incentive to disclose.

Trade secrets are different, hard to demonstrate, and critical to protect. For example, Apple is trying really hard right now to protect its trade secret iOS from being revealed by the FBI.

More on trade secrets: http://www.wipo.int/sme/en/ip_business/trade_secrets/protect...
As someone who sees a lot of doctors the ones I really trust are the ones who say "I don't know" or "I'm not certain but...".

Given that my symptoms matched a host of things and its a 7 to 20 in 100,000 thing that only got caught because a good AE (ER) doc told me to forcefully request an MRI I've learnt which doctors to trust over time.

Also if you have a rare condition don't expect your average doc to know much about it even my specialist (first one) wasn't that up on the latest research (again unsurprising, they are concerned with hundreds of patients, I'm only concerned with one).

Doctors are generally excellent but they are not omniscient and the good ones own it.
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"My Briefcase" could have been Dropbox, 10 years earlier, if only 1) it could work decently, which it never did, and 2) had an option to sync to MS servers. Bandwidth was an issue at home, back then, but for offices it would have been fine.
That guy is quite a jerk right?
I'm struggling to see the advantage of this? Surely either running the entire thing in the container and just running the command using subprocess would achieve the same effect....
That's a classic problem to introduce Bayes theorem. However the more interesting fact is 95% of doctors get that question wrong.
Passive aggressive rhetorical questions huh...

On forums and in real life, it is best to avoid inviting a punch to the face. You must have grown up without getting hurt, like Bill and Melinda Gates :)

See how perhaps it is you missing my point but thinking I am missing theirs?

Now one way to settle this is for you to tell me what you think their point and intent is, that way we can move past me explaining your privileged arrogance and lack of manners.
> WHO report said 50 grams of processed meat per day significantly increases chances of colorectal cancer (causational proof).

Go careful. WHO said we now know that processed meat causes cancer. But the risk was tiny, and the increased risk is still tiny.
What exactly are you imagining is happening? People just want to use the languages they're familiar with. It does not harm you in any way. You're not going to be forced to start using JS in Bash.

"Why do we insist on using the same one language everywhere?" Who is this "we" you're talking about? Where is this "insistence"? It's not like there is some cabal out there that is organizing a campaign to rewrite everything in JS and also delete everything else.
What does it matter to you that people started a new project, that re-implements functionality of a dear, favorite project of yours, without taking resources away from that dear, favorite project? These people, who are only wasting their own time, who would have never worked on your dear, beloved project anyway? If you don't want to use JS, just don't. Stop reading posts about JS.