skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, is not about Theranos, is about an interesting view from outside on the relation between tech startups and healthcare.
It already works the way the oil industry wants - free, and no annoying sales people, contracts, authentication issues to deal with.

A buyer that tried to "sell it to them as an industry specific chat service" would destroy it in the process.
If you want to build a Linux from scratch, check Yocto Project. It allows to configure a mind-numbing number of options, from the package format to libraries used, to what's in the rootfs, to create read-only rootfs, etc etc. It is targeted at embedded, but it's good for desktop too.

Disclaimer: worked on it for a couple of years.
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I personally think this makes the most sense too. Occam's Razor and all that. I'm in the Army and there's all kind of ordinance detonation stuff that happens way out in the middle of nowhere, where no one's presumed to live. Especially in Russia, it's entirely plausible to me that they tested some bomb or munition not expecting a group of student hikers to be out there.
And indeed THAT Wigner.

At some point a measurement is made, and the only way you can be sure of the result is by consciously experiencing it. And until you ask your colleague, her quantum state is entangled with whatever is being measured, and with the measuring apparatus.

I don't see why it's embarrassing about physicists and other scientists using "squishy" terms about things they know (or even suspect) are there but can't explain. Magnetism was just as squishy a term until it was understood. The only difference is that consciousness seems to be exclusively a first-person experience, but that arguably makes it even more real. (You might be a brain in a vat, in which case everything you sense would be bogus, but your experience of it would still be real.)
This is going to take a bit of magic to pull off. Groceries are very low margin items and people just opt for pre-made restaurant food when we are feeling lazy. When I'm motivated enough to prepare my own food I'm motivated enough to go to the grocery store. This is the domain of driver-less delivery vehicles of whatever kind.
RAS Syndrome
Missing tongue was most likely an animal scavenging.
When Proteus was the only place I wanted to be
Employers in U.S. add 38,000 workers, fewest in almost 6 years
Love it. I built a way simpler thing years ago that would let users tag an artist/album/song and then weight the tag {-x, x}. Then you can try to figure out how close two nodes are to give recommendations.

The metal subgenres are from Wikipedia, and depending on your perspective, some of those aren't real genres. 'Classic metal' and 'Symphonic & Gothic Metal'... Symphonic is a descriptor that can be applied to any genre. For example, there's symphonic power metal and symphonic black metal. Same goes with Viking metal. Progressive, however, is both a genre and a descriptor. Dream Theater and Haken are 'progressive metal' bands, but you can also have a band like Atheist, which is a progressive death metal band.

Taxonomy, especially of music, is a really difficult thing to do. You have orthodox, revisionist, and post-revisionist ways of classifying things. I personally think it's most convenient to use post-revisionist buckets and give orthodox classification through history blurbs/slugs on an artist/album/song. An example - Slayer is a thrash metal band. But at the time, a lot of people would have called them a black metal band. That's because when Show No Mercy was released, black metal was an aesthetic and subject matter, not a sound. So in this map I'd place them under thrash and clarify the dispute.

My top-down perspective is: black metal, death metal, thrash metal, power metal, doom metal, heavy metal. 'Glam metal and hair metal' belong under rock genres. Those 60s/70s hard rock bands (e.g. Sir Lord Baltimore, Blue Cheer) that Wikipedia calls 'classic metal', are just hard rock. Metalcore, deathcore, crossover, crust, grindcore, are interesting cases as well. Metalcore is, arguably, death metal -> melodic death metal + []hardcore. Hardcore being under punk. If you place it under metal overall, people will complain that it's really punk-based. If you place it under punk, you'll get the complaint that it's so influenced by metal that it shouldn't be. Similar problems in taxonomy arise in a lot of modern black metal bands because post-rock has influenced many greatly.

Anyway, very cool site, one day I'll be a librarian.
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In fact, the MP3 patents are directly responsible for spurring the development of Ogg Vorbis, which is arguably superior in some ways (see other comments). From Wikipedia:

> Vorbis is a continuation of audio compression development started in 1993 by Chris Montgomery.[8][9] Intensive development began following a September 1998 letter from the Fraunhofer Society announcing plans to charge licensing fees for the MP3 audio format.[10][11]

This is interesting because "innovation through forced workarounds" has long been one of the ways patents are said to be beneficial. Ogg is a prime example.
Just. Get. A. Warrant.
What does alcohol do to your body and brain?
same here. such a shame

might read through though

setting up arch really did learn me few tricks - i find LFS similarly beneficial
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explaining to a gradually more shocked Microsoft evangelist in 2003 why WinFS would never be accepted, even with Microsoft's potential leverage behind it.

Why would it never be accepted? My dream is to create a similar platform.

That said, I have no idea if semantics where even an issue in the eventual decision to retire WinFS as the future of storage.

They weren't.

(Disclaimer: I was on the WinFS team.)
Wow, untilHellbanned, I was actually on your side in this strange thread.

Until you mentioned your 12 y.o. nephew.

You may have just set a new Hacker News record, moving up Paul Graham's Disagreement Hierarchy from DH0. (Name Calling) all the way up to DH4. (Counterargument) in just 2 replies!

http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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The Genealogy and History of Popular Music Genres from Origin Till Present
Many HE munitions are airburst, because they cause greater damage from aerial deployment than they do close to the ground. For example nuclear weapons are detonated 1-2 miles above the ground. Considering that fact it doesn't rule out a conventional military munition.
There are also moms (and sometimes dads) at home with a small kids. And they may be highly motivated to avoid journey to a grocery store.
If someone is talented enough, schools will bend the rules on credentials. You can't do it "on the way up", you have to be "already there." I suspect that a school out there would be willing to triple his salary, and Mr. Ito could walk with faculty and corporate contracts and rebuild the Media Lab somewhere else. This is a small price to pay to keep him.

This is perhaps also made a little easier based on the field. In the arts, faculty members do get by without Phds a little more often than in science. Sometimes an MFA is enough.
GPG is not transparent. And its symmetric encryption is not authenticated. Neither is dm-crypt's.
The typical grocery delivery service bumps up the margins.
My carefully curated list of followees has a stringent eviction rule on overposters.

Unfortunately, in an effort to satisfy undisciplined people that routinely follow people in the order of thousands, each one of Twitter's tentative change to incrementally bring a mimicry of automated smartness to everyone's timeline has terminally ruined it for me as my feed turned into a non-deduplicated, unordered mess appended with nonsensical suggestions (and ads).
Radical Changes Are on the Way for Investment Banks
Android: control any wifi ,even if it isn't yours
When all of these small-and-smart weapons meet up on the battlefield it's gonna be cray cray.

However, it will not be anything new. All it's going to do is shrink the same thing into a smaller space. Instead of an air force establishing air superiority over a theater, a platoon will launch a swarm of drones to establish air superiority over a tactical battle. We'll have the exact same rock-paper-scissors strategic tradeoffs, we'll just have them within smaller constraints of time and space.

Sooner or later it will shrink all the way down to the individual. A far-future soldier will be accompanied by an array of personal small-and-smart weapons. Imagine the advantage you'd have in a knife fight if you could launch a little drone off your helmet to fly around behind your opponent and stab them in the back.

Speaking of knives, that's going to be the most interesting (from an abstract point of view) part of the far future soldier's job. They will have to be proficient at every technology that's ever been introduced to warfare because they will have to be able to fall back to older, more reliable technology when the advanced stuff fails.

The far future soldier will probably end up having to specialize in complimentary levels of technology. A squad will probably have a "designated swordsman" who's spent a lot of their time learning to use pointy sticks so that they can take the lead when someone deploys their "deactivate gunpowder gas." Someone else will have to understand the latest AI-enabled VR hacking interface so that they can take down the opponent's integrated autonomous defense system. Nobody's going to be able to do both of those things at the required proficiency.
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I opened a PR to limit permissions to youtube.com; hopefully it will get merged: https://github.com/darajava/youtube-smooth/pull/24
There's no question that electronic media as readable as paper can be done -- and, in a way, it is not too surprising that it hasn't (I don't think most technologists care). I am quite curious why the super-high-res screens don't work better for this (worth looking at).

The first commercial laser printers were 300dpi and the result was quite readable (the very first one that was invented -- by Gary Starkweather at Parc -- was 500pdi). I asked John Warnock why 300dpi worked better than I thought it would, and he said that it was the "real black" and excellent accuracy.

We have both at least that on "retina" type displays, so I'm guessing that there is still some refresh flicker that is causing some of the problems (if so, then that would revise long ago experiments that indicated most people would not be bothered by anything above 120p).

(But I think I feel that my eyes are doing extra saccades on laptop displays, and that the contrast ratios and res are not good enough with eInk.)

The experiments I did at Parc, cross connected with Tom Cornsweet's work at SRI, showed curves that swung both with contrast ratio, and "distance from real black".

Another thing that will help (for "Aldus" type personal books) will be the next round of flexible displays that will feel a little more conformal.

(Also, how could the Ipad and Eink tablet folks failed to have put the batteries on one side of a symmetric device so it could be held with the center of mass in the offhand?) This is really shockingly awful elementary human factors design. The next round of these will hopefully have a lower density/mass in any case.
I'm torn between wanting somebody to compete with Amazon and it being Walmart
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I think a niche approach could work in Japan. The two issues I've seen with taxis over there are price and supply/demand imbalances during off hours.
If I see a random child and they look at me, I used to ignore them. Not because I don't think it's hilarious to stick my tongue out or make a face - but because I was worried what someone might think. And, hell, I'm only 30 - it will only get worse as I get older.

I decided that I would not bow to that absurdity, and now I choose to say hello, or run away, or say "boo" or whatever takes my fancy in interacting with said child. Because it's amusing getting a response, watching them process the event and make a decision on how to react. I'd still be nervous if I saw a child without obvious supervision though. To try and help, or not to try and help...
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That is true, yes. Base ruby or C or PHP make it easy to make entire classes of mistakes you won't get using certain other languages.

But many of these problems can also be caught using the right tools and framework. With Ruby, using Rails will eliminate entire groups of risks you would have without it.

This is the same with PHP and frameworks like Symfony - which, incidentally, we use large parts off. And Lukas has been working a LOT on doing this kind of work, making sure we eliminate types of problems and mistakes developers could make. Combined with training (giving talks and workshops on writing secure code to our developers at events), code reviews by him and others, static code checking and so on, you get something that is really quite secure.

I am confident enough to say that our code base is the most secure way of sharing and syncing files using open source. Of course, before you or somebody else brings it up, SSH and rsync makes for a more secure experience but that's not exactly what Nextcloud competes with so perhaps add 'that gives a dropbox-like experience' to the above qualification :D
>After beating Google, Russia’s Yandex targets e-commerce.

Just a couple of days ago there was a report saying that more people use Google than Yandex in Russia.
If no-one is prepared to pay for it, it's probably going to get destroyed at some point anyway.

If something is absolutely critical to the running of your business, then at some point you need to at least consider paying for it.
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North Korea ballistic missile explodes on launch fourth straight time
The 'cost' of voting isn't about paying money to vote. It's about the laws and policies that are brought in by the people in power. Taxes are a very obvious direct one, but just diverting tax money from "good stuff" to "bad stuff" is a fairly direct cost too.

Someone promising you unreasonable things is much more likely to be fucking you over. Some would say that promising you unreasonable things and then fucking you over is the basic thread of all politics, Trump is just taking it several steps further because apparently people have become unmoored from the reality of government and so cannot judge what is unrealistic anymore.
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> No microorganism gets to move for free. Newton’s third law, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, becomes something of a tautology, for there are no longer any actions.

I acknowledge this post was made by a scientific author catering to the masses who have little experience with physics but this is misleading and wrong.

Nothing gets to move for free (according to known laws and our mutual agreement of what it means to have a 'potential' energy) of course including microorganisms. He even contradicts himself by earlier stating that the tiny organisms do move miniscule distances on the order of angstroms, micrometers etc after they stop "swimming" ( applying a force to the water (abiding by newtons third law, and thus, swimming.) They do have both positive and negative accelerations.

Taking into account the micro fraction force and size of these tiny "things" compared to larger "things" this conclusion just makes a whole lot of intuitive sense, regardless of ones understanding of Reynolds number

Finally, to get a numerical grasp of how the physics is different for small Reynolds number, the average ecoli is 2 micrometers, and an angstrom is 0.0004 micrometers which I admit is interesting, since in one of his exemplary cases, the bacteria only travels 1/5,000 of its average length before stopping, whereas a human may travel maybe 1/2 body length before stopping, swimming at ~0.5 m/s.
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> However, when a designer makes a real gesture-based interface it's because there's something their users can't do with the interface they're used to.

You're right when the designer is good. A bad designer might make a real gesture-based interface just because he saw Minority Report and thought that it was cool.
Ask HN: How to deal with stress and overspecced responsibility?
In my organization, I started out as a senior software engineer. Through my work, I put together a number of detailed architecture designs and was given people to help build our product over time. As the definition of the architecture and implementation came along, I was given more and more responsibility and duties, to the point where I'm helping to set the direction and schedule for major parts of the software organization. At this point, I've even been given allocated headcount for a large team to help build it all. I don't really have a manager, as I report directly to the VP of software, and mentors are far and few between.

I'm still personally tasked with building out the architecture, writing code, training newhires, handling the HR-side of management (PTO, sick leave, etc), hiring plans, work estimates, gap analyses, bizdev relationships and so on. I've asked for training, but so far haven't actually received any. I don't have a college degree, learned everything I know about software engineering myself, and have no experience or training with the business-side of things.

How have those of you in similar situations dealt with the stress of it all? I find myself overwhelmed with responsibilities, and some of the political pressures from above are starting to take their toll.
Let me try to rephrase my question: I know what I can use Clojure or LFE/Erlang for and what their strengths/weaknesses are. I don't really know anything about Common LISP other than it is a LISP, so I would love to hear some factors that led some people to prefer Common LISP to anything else out there (other than personal preference, which is always a factor).

Is it good at number crunching (which is not Clojure's and definitely not Erlang's forte)? Is it good at low level systems programming? Is it good for computers with low memory resources? Etc. In your words, I am looking for the context.
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Agreed, and I'm in the boat. However those same people tend to have less disposable income and seem to be less apt to pay monthly fees or premiums for luxuries. When you think families think more bulk generic costco toilet paper and less "convenience fee" of any kind
The typical grocery delivery service also has the luxury of batching orders (controlling cost) and delivers with refrigerated vehicles (consistent product)...seems more sustainable to me...but what do I know - to me, the Uberization of most markets (other than ride sharing) never seems to have a clear win on cost/benefit...
Maybe the alternative is to structure social media platforms as non-profits?
Indeed, that one was an insta-add for me, this one however I will pass on until it is similarly restricted to youtube domains.
Elon Musk says we could all be living in a video game
@smaudet - you are hellbanned.

It looks like all your comments since your very first one have been pretty reasonable. Not sure if this is something that can be fixed, so you may want to consider creating a new account?
Naspers Invests $60M in Online-Learning Startup Udemy
Bullshit... this is still encoding. It does not matter that it is using neural network to encode frame. Guys, when you get over this neural network hype?
I can as well create and encoder using some machine learning, to create a blurry and inferior version of the movie. But what's the point?
I could as well used other prediction method with some kind of memory, much superior and nobody will enjoy it.
Summing up: nothing impressive here.
Stem cells shown safe, beneficial for chronic stroke patients
The computer that runs the VR (including the AI controlling the behaviour of the NPCs) might well be conscious, but the NPCs themselves are just pixels. Before you argue that you are too, you know otherwise and you see the VR's pixels. Meanwhile, the computer which is generating the VR, and is outside it, doesn't have to see anything. It might sense some electrical signals originating from you and your friend's bodysuits, but that isn't going to feel anything like the experience you and your friend are having.
Linux Voice magazine have a lengthy feature on creating your own distro; it's dated April 2015:

https://www.linuxvoice.com/build-your-own-linux-distro/
Continuum (TV series) did that too, and I loved that. See some examples of protagonist's police suit:

https://vimeo.com/64120587

My favourite feature - changing colors.
This feature is coming after we have more data :-)
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I have met skidding last February when this was project was in its early stages. We walked through Cosmos and it definitely was an inspiration to Carte blanche. Skidding even helped us to design the initial props form: https://github.com/carteb/carte-blanche/issues/47

Cosmos in my opinion is a fantastic tool and covers even some areas we haven't touch yet, but planning to do soon like injecting/manipulating the internal state of a component.

While there a many more differences these are probably the most interesting ones:

- The core of Carte blanche is a Webpack plugin. By hooking into the main compilation of Webpack Carte blanche can identify your components and list them in an application living within your running server on different URL path. The coolest part from my perspective is that we inherit all your webpack settings by default. No need to configure your loaders. Cosmos in comparison is a separate app.

- In Cosmos your need to write your examples by hand. Carte blanche reads out your propTypes/Flow types and allows us to generate a form input for each of your properties including nested structures like a person object containing an avatarUrl, firstName & lastName. This approach allowed us to create some kind of UI fuzz-testing feature in the interface. While I believe that it's important to focus your efforts designing/developing for the most likely cases it's also relevant to cover edge-cases. Fuzz-testing is a great way to discover them.

I hope this help. Let me know if you any other questions :)
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It seems like a lot of the people who understand technology agree that some form of UBI, sooner or later, is a given. On the other hand, a lot of the people who don't understand technology, disagree that it's a given.

I think it's a given because technology reduces the need for labor in that it allows fewer people to provide for the same needs. If we continue to rely on "work as the main mechanism which allocates spending power" we'll run into a huge problem when only a few people are "working."

If we just plain don't need everybody to work in order to provide for everybody's needs...then we'll need a way OTHER THAN work to distribute the stuff everybody needs. We'll either invent activities that aren't actually work (like Japan assigning people to open doors) or we'll give people what they need without asking them to work for it.

People who grok technology seem to agree on this conclusion even if they don't arrive at it in quite the same way.
Clojure seems to be a natural choice for microservices, but I never used it for anything on a larger scale. Good point, if it is something Common LISP gets right it is definitely worth a look!