skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is another awesome piece of news!

If you're interested in using docker+.NetCore+EF a "proper" database was the only piece missing.
UpLabs (YC W16) thinks designers and developers should hang out more
When do we get to the point where the sell-side AI and the buy-side AI talk to each other in some useful way?
The authors argue for using better predictive models to screen drugs at an early stage, because too many drugs are failing at costly clinical trials.

In my opinion we already know the best predictive model to use, but we choose not to use it. When Jenner developed the first vaccine back around 1800 he didn't use any petri dishes or mathematical models: he just found some nearby children and tested his theory directly.

Now you may find this ethically repulsive but from a consequentialist point of view it was the right thing to do at the time. This line of research saved hundreds of millions of lives.

I say we have gone too far in the other direction. The problem with failed costly clinical trials is not the failure per se but the cost: in money spent, time, reputation, commercial return, legal consequences, etc. And the hidden cost of how long the whole process takes even if successful.

Take the field of monoclonal antibodies. We now have almost off-the-shelf technology to develop drugs that specifically block certain biological mechanisms. But it still takes 10-15 expensive years to progress through different lab and animal models, then healthy humans, before clinical trials on actual patients.

Instead we should reduce the cost of human trials: have a network of terminally ill volunteers to test mabs at an early stage. Fail fast to move fast. Use the money saved to offer defined compensation when things go wrong.

The drugs that we really want to find are the ones with an obvious effect on real patients. This process would find those drugs much faster, and save lives overall.
Virtualizing your server resources is essentially outsourcing a whole lot of sysadmin work to a vendor.

Dedicated servers create a different kind of lock-in: Dynamically scaling up dedicated servers is like laying down the tracks while the train is moving. Acceptable to some, but not to a company like Spotify.
What it does is move the license issue from Arch to the user[1]. Instead of Arch infringing on the GPL, the user is infringing on the GPL. It's much harder for groups like the SFC to sue a bunch of users than it is to sue an organization, but it doesn't make the licenses compatible.

I feel for the SFC on this issue, but I wonder what they realistically expect the outcome will be. Ubuntu stops distributing ZFS? Ubuntu ships a means to install ZFS from source (which doesn't remove the infringement, just shifts it)? Oracle convinces everybody to change the license? The last seems wildly unlikely, so I just don't quite understand what they are trying to do.

[1] Of course, AUR is a community oriented repository, not part of Arch proper, so there is not really any question of Arch being involved at all. But you get the point...
What's EF in this context?
I probably know just enough about this to be dangerous, but offering a different pricing model isn't the same as colluding to force the same price, even if the model results in an increased price. Purchasing soda at a convenience store is more expensive than buying a 12-pack at the grocery store but I don't think 7-11 is entering into an illegal price-collusion scheme with Coke and Pepsi to raise prices on soda.

The agency model allows each publisher to pick the price for their book at the seller takes a percentage. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that this is price fixing. It doesn't prevent other sellers from using other models (Amazon, wholesale model), or other sellers from using the agency model with a different 'cut' or for publishers to set different prices for their books.

It the end, I think this action seems to have the unintended consequence of strengthening the control of Amazon rather than encouraging a competitive environment for book sellers.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/882/
The publishers aren't allowed to coordinate on such matters, that's a cartel of suppliers, and Apple isn't allowed to arrange such coordination between them.
HA! You mean I should think ahead? Nonsense.
While running nuclear power plants might be manageable, reliably storing the nuclear waste for the next 1,000,000 is almost impossible. No other industry has a similar problem.
As a side note, $300k/mo is a pretty small amount of money, compared to the +$100MM/mo revenue Spotify brings in.
This was the subject of one of the lectures I took in Biophysics at the TU Delft in the Netherlands, great to see this talked about. A lot of our intuitions about motion is based on the old swimming idea of "I'll kick a vortex of water backwards and it will propel me forwards!" and that simply doesn't work if you can't exceed this critical force of the fluid, which is what you need to do to make vortices and transfer out of a laminar regime. Instead you have to essentially "crawl along" the fluid around you, rather than "swimming" in the normal sense.

Another lecture which was memorable dealt with the sheer variety of different situations and biomechanisms which you can rule out using the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The bottom line is that when you're at thermal equilibrium then everything must jitter thermally by the same amount, which is what excludes "Brownian ratchets" [1] from working: if you peek inside at the spring and asymmetrical "teeth" inside an actual ratchet, then you realize that the work extracted actually comes from heat-transfer to the spring, which is being implicitly assumed to be at 0 temperature in the naive "oh, you get energy out of nothing!" argument. It's a very simple 2nd-law argument to make, but really hard to poke around inside and figure out what's going on internally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet
I'm a heavy ad blocker user, and I have never needed to whitelist anything myself. All the adblock lists I've ever used consciously avoid anything so generic it'd catch ad_main.js on J. Random Website. (Hell, if anything they undercatch—I have several rules for things which are ads and aren't blocked.)
If the parent mindlessly bashed psychology that doesn't mean you too need to go generalize and label all engineers (programmers).
> Apple isn't allowed to arrange such coordination between them.

But they coordinated without Apple anyway, it's also in the court decision that the executives had meetings among them before Apple even appeared on the e-book scene:

http://dearauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Cote-Decisi...

"On a fairly regular basis, roughly once a quarter, the CEOs of the Publishers held dinners in the private dining rooms of New York restaurants, without counsel or assistants present, in order to discuss the common challenges they faced, including most prominently Amazon’s pricing policies."

Apple made the iPad, with the reading experience up to then unmatched by anybody (no tablet with such characteristics existed before 2010), wanted to open the e-book store, gave the publishers the offer they liked, but definitely didn't invent that communication between the publishers.

What was Apple supposed to do, given that whatever coordination existed, it existed even before Apple approached the publishers? Apparently not a single publisher was satisfied with Amazon's (monopolist) terms. Of course Apple offered them different terms.
The Interface of a Cheeseburger (2006)
At the end Marvin says the tattoo on his arm says "Bam, ... the name my mother called me". So, there's a chance that among her own psychological issues she just doesn't remember him by the name of Marvin.

I couldn't possibly understand the family dynamic these people lived, but this all supports the notion that prisoners like these need help. .. not death
> The title also implies some level of surprise that 'girl' 'figured out' this 'giant computer'.

That's a good point. There was something about this title that I didn't like, but I wasn't really sure what it was. That may be it.
In the sign up page (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/sql-server-on-l...) you'll find this quote: "Please note that at this time, SQL Server on Linux is available on Ubuntu or as Docker image." :)
Letting "victimless crimes" exist in the books for whenever a powerful entity wants an excuse to jail someone, or to excuse inequitable enforcement of the law.
Because fines are assessed based on the harm done not the ability of the person/organization to pay.
No I mean when I use 'docker rm' when the container isn't even running.
In reality it increased competition. No business wants to touch GPL'd code so they simply write their own code. The only thing the GPL ensures is duplicated work and effort.
Which is why Fi is nice that it will carrier hop between Sprint and T-Mobile depending on coverage for the area.
Common Lisp already provides various hash-table traversals with LOOP: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/06_aba...
The Real Mad Man: Bill Bernbach on Advertising and What Makes a Great Creative
i've always done my own paperwork and filled out the ol' tax returns and company returns.

the biggest difficulty i have is the language, which wastes much of my time in google wondering what these /stupid/ terms mean when they involve concepts we learn at a very young age and nothing complicated at all...

i'll be bookmarking this and trying to drill it into my head to avoid it... but i still find it sad that there is an entire industry around accurate counting, summation and trivial sums propped up by red-tape and confusing language.
Another is Btrfs is quite usable on embedded systems, e.g. 32-bit ARM. I'm curious if anyone would use ZFS in such a case?
The problem is: Average Joe or my mother are not going to understand it. And a democratic process that is not transparent to everyone is not democratic.

Also voting by paper ballot is not less efficient or slower than voting with voting machines. I used to live in a rather large district and observed the counts of several elections (communal and federal). Communal elections are a major clusterfuck of parties, lists, individual candidates; every voter has 3 votes that may be distributed according to certain rules, etc., etc. And even with that mess counting all the votes the mandatory two passes took less than 3 hours. Yet it took another 5 hours for the official result to be announced. That 5 hour overhead would have still been there if electronic voting machines would have been used.

Also a lot of people forget that it's not a democracy's goal to be efficient, but to be just and, well democratic. If you want efficiency you want some form of dictatorship, technocracy or other top-down heavy from of government. Personally I don't care if I get the result of the election the same day, or a week later. Usually the actual administration will not form for another few weeks or so, due to playing their cards with all the other parties, forming coalitions and such.
Facebook is still only for friends and family, if you're smart. Mixing all your coworkers and professional contacts in with your friends and whatever personal stuff you post on FB is just asking for trouble.
There is nothing more robust than p-values. The problem is that people call things "p-value of this experiment" when they aren't (for example, they may actually be talking about the "p-value of this other experiment" [which they possibly didn't even perform]).
I'm not sure that was implied. He could have used ifconfig.

Now that you mention it, though, I thought of an apparently notorious scene from NCIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc-FuE41kZU
To update the PRL you just need to dial 22898, that's all the VZW software does (228 is interactive and requires you actually answer a voice prompt, while *22898 forcibly pushes a new PRL to your device).
The absolute probability of the observation is irrelevant. Only the RELATIVE probabilities of said observation under the different possible theories which are part of the prior.

If the set of prior theories does not include anything that depends on birth order, then birth order and the experimental design are irrelevant to the posterior conclusions.
Entity Framework. Microsoft's high-level ORM for .Net.
No. Ultimately, as I mentioned in my reply to one of your comment's siblings, I'm in the single-payer healthcare camp.

From "Libertarian" premises, however, the solution to those costs is that smokers, drinkers, and people who eat poorly should pay higher healthcare premiums to offset the increased costs they incur.

The problem with that, of course (and a big part of why I'm pro-single-payer) is that people who eat poorly, for example, are disproportionately poor, themselves. It turns out, it's expensive, in terms of time and/or money, to eat healthily, and the poor, especially the working poor, tend not to have one or both of those to spare.
And that's one reason not to support government welfare.
I still content that the IE bundling case was a horrible miscarriage of justice.

Does ANY for pay OS today not come with a Browser? How the hell else am I supposed to get a Browser without some form of browser? Go to the store and buy one?

Yeah, boo IE, hiss Microsoft, but honestly including core functionality like HTML rendering in your operating system is not morally wrong.
“Disgusted” Member of Parliament Intervenes in Internet Piracy Case
Let's start a side business
I recently moved to a suburban area and with that I took my commute from 10 minutes to now 1.5 hours. I want to make something of this commute and so that is why I'm here today. I have 3 hours now where I want to start up a side project that brings in $100,000 over the next year.

So what do I bring to the table: 1) I've started a few businesses over the years - some successful, some not. I've learned a ton about the process though. 2) I can sell and set up a sales team. I've been the top seller at a fast growing start-up and have managed teams of 20+ sales reps. 3) I've got some money to invest, but I want this to largely be bootstrapped.

So I am looking for someone who offers a different package than myself to possibly start a business with. I don't expect someone to work on this full time either. But I think that if we both put in few hours a day we can achieve 100K in year 1 revenues. I have a few ideas but I'm open to what the business ends up being. If you're interested, message me what you bring to the table and let's talk!
So ... you're saying the insurance companies shouldn't try to recoup the costs imposed on them by drug users more often needing hospitalization or rehab? They should just eat those costs?
This is deeply touching beyond comparison.
> wasabi

I thought that was supposed to be pretty difficult to grow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi#Cultivation

I recall reading about some company trying to do so in Oregon and failing at it, despite the climate being pretty good.
Of course it is. In a paper vote you can mark your vote in a unique, distinguishable style; as long as it clearly shows your intention unambiguously and meets the elections constraints it must be counted.

So after the vote closes you stay for the count, wait for the ballot with your particularly marked vote to be counted and assert that it gets counted the way you intended it.
Actually: https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm

And amusingly, the distribution of result is close to 50/50
Yes, but that has no impact on the cost. It's a flat rate in 64kb blocks. Batching and compression would only affect the networking fees from Google, not the per API call fees. If you batch up 64 1kb messages into a single batch then Google still bills you for 64 publish API calls.
Creating Shakespearean n-grams with just the command-line and regexes
Ah, I actually agree with that in it's entirety.
IMNAL, but I think you are trying to apply criminal legal theory to a civil situation. In this case the law dictates redress of the infraction through restitution and not punishment.

I'm not sure I would want to live in a world where administrative regulations were punishable through imprisonment. I think there would be some pretty severe unintended consequences to economic activities.

Helpful definition of criminal vs. civil law:
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Civil_Law_vs_Criminal_Law
Raymond Tomlinson, Who Put the 'at' Sign in Email, Is Dead at 74
You can't go insult a science based on the faults of a theory or a field.
> Doesn't some state belong in the component itself? Certainly there are cases where this makes sense, right?

It depends how pure you want to be. The app I'm paid to write is in clojurescript and follows the convention of keeping almost everything in the global state. The main things I'm missing is focus and cursor state in text fields. The main benefit to doing this session recording and playback. I capture every point of non-determinism in the app as an event so I get full fidelity playback from recorded event streams.

It's more work than just keeping things locally or using two-way bindings but the code to handle the sort of things you'd keep in internal state is simple so handling the events is just registering the cross-app generic handler for the event. I designed the system for capture and replay but the main benefit turned out to be that when something goes wrong I generally know the source of the problem immediately even if I didn't write the code.

To use your menu open/closed as an example, I click on the preferences menu and it doesn't open. I look at the log and don't see `[:preferences/toggle-dropdown-menu :open]`, the problem is that something's eating the mouse event and I have to walk the component hierarchy. If I do see the event, I dump the app state and look in `:preferences :dropdown-menu` and see that the value is `true` instead of `:open` so my handler is broken. If the value is correct, the problem is either in the component itself (click another dropdown and see if it works) or in the computed value chain I'm using to feed the data into the component. For everything but the mouse event, I know by convention which file and function contains the relevant code and they're almost all 5-10 lines of code. Here's what the handler would look like:

(rf/handler :preferences/toggle-dropdown-menu
(mw/path preferences-path)
(mw/set-value :dropdown-menu #{:open :closed})
I had no idea. So iOS devs cannot use LGPL software at all because of this?
Work with private repositories and other updates of the FlyElephant platform
Well, assuming that observers attend the counts at all locations each observer can compare his local results with the officially published results for each location. If one mistrusting observer did this for each location, each and every single miscount would be immediately detected.
Right but that only affects networking costs, because the batch is split out into individual publish API calls on Google's side, and that's what you're billed for.
space Aliens?

The CIA has space aliens. My parents are CIA.

God says...
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The woman at the dollar store was clarvoyant. I had taken a shit and shit was on my mind, avoiding hand contact. Don't worry I washed them, but the thought was fresh.

God helps by giving clues.

God says...
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You think like an engineer :-)

I think cloud services are appealing for a couple of reasons from a top-brass perspective.

a) You free the capital, and the balance sheet looks nicer.

b) It's less complicated on a PowerPoint level. Just a box. (probably not the reason Spotify opted for google though.)

c) You don't think it's your core competence to keep servers safe and running, and rather would like to spend the time and effort on developing services while enjoying reason a) although you know it won't be cheaper.

d) Maybe it's hard to find the right people
I believe that the housing market in Medford and union Sq for years has been inflated on the speculation of the green line exrension. For years it was taken as a given. Has the Market declined since it came to light that the estimates were off, and the project cancelled ? I imagine a lot of people will lose money over this.
Singapore's Smart Nation Fellowship Programme
The similarities to WebOS are striking.

The reasons why are different but they made some of the same mistakes and are ending up in the same place.
T7.js – compile template strings into virtual DOM objects
SQLOS is a relatively new component, it was introduced for SQL Server 2005.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slavao/archive/2005/02/05/367816.asp...
> "When he and his adviser, Michael McCullough, reanalyzed the 2010 paper’s data using state-of-the-art analytic methods, they found no effect."

Hmm...what was different this time?
Wow. Just two days ago we were wishing SQL was available in Linux so we could move away from Oracle.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234008
http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Reynold
> Instead you have to essentially "crawl along" the fluid around you, rather than "swimming" in the normal sense.

Or screw through it ;)
Good question. The way this works right now is you can submit a non-payment tx into the bitcoin network and attach tx fees to it just like you would with a normal payment tx. Miner collects the fees when they mine the block with your tx in it.

So from the miner's perspective the incentive is there. There's the "wasted bandwidth" angle there as well but that's a different story...
Psychedelics or entheogens are extremely dangerous for the establishment, because they (might) affect the user's worldview and ultimately users end up challenging the "truths" that the establishment so dearly spoon fed them since they were born.

They start to question authority... of the the State, of the Church, of the Justice system, of core societal values...
These substances alter the user's brains in unpredictable ways - generating deviant art, music, literature, movies, comedy!

Fuck no. Ban everything. Throw them in jails. Dirty hippies. Get jobs.

Go to work. Obey. Consume. Repeat.

And when the ideology needs fresh blood, send your children to war. Let them die in battle, like real men.

The establishment doesn't care about your human rights, never has.
They - the makers and players of the game - care about their own well being, driven by the desire to control everything combined with the fear of losing it all.

When enough people start playing this game, war becomes inevitable. Human rights don't apply on the battlefield.

This sickness can be treated or prevented with the "medicine for the soul"..

If wearing glasses is a human right, then using entheogens should also be a human right.
The post reads like a (very poorly written) rehash and plagiarism of Diamond...
Very happy to see this.

MS is extending the olive branch in so many ways, and we in the open source community can learn to forgive. Still, it will be hard to get over the mutual hostility from decades past.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trudy-bourgeois/what-george-wa...