skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article somewhat misses the point about the Sleep with Me podcast: it's not boring content; it is boring by design.

Drew Ackerman has a keen understanding of cadence, stream of consciousness, and knowing his audience that allows him to craft an efficient insomnia assassin. You want to follow him down the rabbit hole and see where he goes with it, and by the time your brain realizes it hasn't been thinking about that big presentation you have tomorrow, you're already asleep. If you happen to jolt awake, you struggle to figure out how long it has been...and you are out like a light again.

Boring content simply gets tuned out quickly, and you are back to your racing thoughts. Boring content doesn't entice you to try and stay with it, and that is why this hasn't worked before.

Sleep with Me is an absolute gem and I feel like it's just beginning to scratch the surface of how technology can help us rest instead of distracting us from sleep like it has done so much up to this point.
>With Cygwin you get a GNU/Linuxish API as well as the Windows API.

Genuine question, why is that useful? Intuitively, it seems like if you ever used that capability, you'd end up with a horrible chimera program that can't run on linux or windows, which doesn't seem good.
Battle of the secure messaging apps: how Signal beats WhatSapp
I had a feller from HP trying to get me to relocate to SiVa in the 1980s. I dunno. I calculated that land price made Texas better, and it was for quite a while.

"If you aren't in SF or NYC you are nobody..." Whew. Okay then.

"Wealth stratification" is, IMO, largely an artifact of 1) increasingly abstract wealth and 2) low interest rates. This is oh so very much because of the tax code and because of Fed policy.
The hedge fund buying spree happened after 2008.
They are using the "Watson Tradeoff Analytics" product as the underpinning [1]

As others have mentioned, "Watson" is a brandname/pillar at IBM, similar to Infosphere (anything information management), Websphere (anything middleware-y), etc. It's a bunch of simple and complex, in-house-built and bought products, some of which play together well some of which don't, some of which were pretty impressive and some of which aren't.

To play with Watson Tradeoff Analytics, you can check out the documentation or get a free account with Bluemix [2]. They used to have a subset-of-functionality demo for Raptors on Bluemix as well. It seemed nifty but not groud-breaking.

My understanding is that for the real-thing, they also used the Watson Tone/Sentiment analyzers to see if players would be culturally a good fit, i.e. get along with their team-mates, not just whether they're good on paper.

[disclosure: I work for IBM... nowhere NEAR Watson, in the plain-ol'-ERP department, but I've been curious myself to figure out what the hoopla is or isn't all about]

[1] http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...

[2] https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/services/tradeoff-ana...
> At school, we call them “mean girls” and later, we call them “catty” or “queen bees.” (What’s the derogatory male equivalent? It doesn’t exist.)

Jerk.

also Asshole.

its pretty contra-usage to call a woman a "jerk"
Again, you're kinda missing the big change from wolf3d to doom.

Doom added semi-dynamic lighting, arbitrary line angles (wolf3d was only grid-based), and moving segments.

Maybe not as large a leap as from Doom to Quake, but at the time it was significant.
Solutions --

1) Wait for the bubble to pop and see if prices reach a new equilibrium.
2) Double-down on current solutions, i.e. more subsidies.
3) Impose a head tax on everyone a la Obamacare.
Convince your cofounders to build the prototype first. Talking to investors in a distraction. The result of your meeting will most likely be "okay lets keep in touch".
Cygwin handles the drive letter situation using a special directory under it's root called cygdrive. Each drive letter is exposed as a sub directory of it so in your example the path is:

/cygdrive/c/foo/bar.txt

Not saying it's any prettier but that's how they do it. Not sure how they do this but thankfully it doesn't nest recursively. Say you install cygwin on your C: drive. If you do "cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin" and then ls you'll see cygdrive as a directory entry but if you cd into it and ls again there are no drive letters. The only place the drive letter directories are exposed is directly under /cygdrive.
That switch better have one helluva buffer.
I think Airbnb (even leaving out the ‘skirting regulation’ stuff) is pretty much primed for discrimination. As soon as you require a photo of users you are doing that. It’s interesting to compare Airbnb and Uber (another company I’m leery of for skirting regulations).

As a black man in Boston, catching at taxi was an exercise in humiliation/frustration. Either they did not stop, or they did and were incredibly rude/racist. When Uber became available in Boston I immediately joined. It was an incredible experience. No more having to deal with rude/racist cab drivers, no more having to worry whether I’d actually ever be able to catch a taxi to get somewhere. I have not used Uber in SF since I’ve found no problem catching a cab when I need to (and I’ve become disturbed by their business model)

Airbnb is the exact opposite. It is essentially renting without the benefits of the Fair Housing Act or anti-discrimination laws. I’ve faced housing discrimination even with those laws in place (a good program on this is This American Life’s “House Rules” episode) so I’m under no illusion that things would magically be better on Airbnb’s platform. here are things they could do to fix this

- Not require photos
- Have metrics to track rejection by race (track when a host says no to one person and then yes to someone else for the same time period)
- Have a streamlined complaint policy

It’s not enough to ban one host cause he was so outright racist/egregious that it came to the attention of Social Media and finally their CEO.
Ironically, a recent contact told me of people who work there remotely, but from California.

We're doing it wrong :)
But none of that matters because Magento 2 still can't serve a dynamic request in less than a second in even the most optimal conditions.

https://blog.amasty.com/magento-1-vs-magento-2-performance-c...

The Magento framework builds static sites with a (slow) dynamic CMS system. It's garbage.
> from the community feeds I'm still connected with

Can you please elaborate on what these channels are?
I think this is a mostly a false dilemma. It makes most sense that if a collision is unavoidable, brake hard to minimize overall damage/injury. There is no reason a computer-driven car should ever unavoidably find pedestrians in its path except when the pedestrians recklessly got into the car's path. Therefore, why inflict injury to the innocent passengers to save pedestrians who are at fault? It seems like braking and hoping for the best is the best solution, for human drivers as well as computers.
As per my other comment, I _believe_ that for the actual application, they did use Watson Tone Analyzer / Sentiment Analyzer / etc, to figure out the "fit" of a player to Raptors culture and with other team-mates.

I've seen a demo where as part of the app, they scrape player's interviews, twitter feeds, etc to get a personality representation.
That's very interesting. In competitive SSBM (smash bros melee), movement is one of the integral parts of the game that give it its depth. Top player's movements can differ greatly from each other.
The headphone port is inherently analog - more like power than VGA.

With VGA, it made sense to switch to digital ports once the displays went all digital (flatscreens). With VGA, you were converting a digital signal to an analog signal just to send it over the wire, where it got converted back to digital to drive the display.

But speakers or headphones are analog devices, they need analog voltage to make membranes move back and forth. The analog headphone port directly drives the speakers, whereas any digital port needs a chip inside the speakers to convert the digital signal to analog. It makes much more sense to have a single DAC (digital-to-analog converter, or "soundcard") inside the phone, than to have a separate one in every single pair of headphones.

Granted, you could argue that a digital signal travels better over the wire, or that the user could choose to use headphones with better quality DACs. But for all practical purposes, the analog headphone port works fine, and when it comes to standards, open and universal wins over the highest quality any time.
Maybe I'm obtuse but I'm not sure I understand what you mean by the "right side". You definitely want to use a number that's slightly larger than 100 ln(2) ~= 69.3 to account for the linear factor, but is there some inherent reason to use 72 rather than say 70 or 74, other than that assuming that 8% is some useful midpoint for the type of growth rates you're likely to be interested in?
My partner and I - both well-educated and well-employed professionals - sketched out our long-term financial plan recently. The only way we envisioned owning property would be to build our own a considerable distance away from our small city's center. That alone proved to be a significant part of our budget, which is already under considerable pressure from student loans and car payments.

We estimated the expenses for future children and the picture was not pretty. Then we factored in higher education, assuming costs rise at the same rate as the last 30 years - roughly our lifetimes - and concluded that by the time our future kids are at college age, they will likely be paying for most of it themselves, with debt they may hold their entire lives.

So we aren't having any.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I am not simply saying that I am forgoing children because their college costs would be too high, I'm saying EVERYTHING is too expensive, and college in 20-30 years, assuming current rates, will be forbiddingly so.
Could you share links to buggy ones? I'm interested in seeing how they go wrong.
What platform are you on that doesn't ship with curl?
A hint for the Teleport people:

Oil companies, and other engineering businesses who need massive computing power and are very strict on confidentiality, are probably going to be very interested. 2FA and the ability to easily revoke access is very much their cup of tea. I know some of them run java solutions for 2FA ssh-in-the-browser, and it's a PITA. Plus, they have deep pockets.

Good luck cold-calling them though. Best bet is probably going to an applied reservoir modelling / geophysics conference or something.
Sure, but this particular protest is against GOP based procedural decisions in recent years.
Who knows... Ain't that the mystery?
4) Stop having the government pay the exorbitant cost of state schools and making inappropriately large loans available to students.
Well with Over 675,049 California ballots remain uncounted. Bernie could still win the state.

http://vote.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status/
Why not send your future kids to community college and then have them transfer?
Sorry if I misunderstood, but you're not having kids because you might not afford to send them to college?

Edit: I just wanted to point out that the sticker price is usually not what people pay for college. Grants are very common and so are scholarships of various kinds and sizes. But beyond all that, you can opt-in to this repayment plan https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education... which caps the amount per year and also the total amount that borrowers will pay for college, based on their income.
The way I read the blog is that the adblocking is enabled to show that even _with_ an expensive extension enabled it still beats Edge, but that was in my opinion not the gist of the post.

The post was about that microsoft is not transparent about the methodology/setup/scripts/target websites used. A third party should be able to support Microsoft's claims.

Is it possible for the setup to be published to your github.com/microsoft so that it may be executed automatically? Heck, go the extra mile put it in a CI and publish the data on regular basis :)
Babylon.js is a pretty good option for 3d games
We got it down to an average ~400ms under load with aggressive full page caching (including our own hand-rolled component caching) and edge caching of all static assets (freeing up the servers to be optimized for dynamic content).

This should not be considered an endorsement; getting sub-second pages was a downright herculean engineering effort requiring system-level optimizations beyond what should ever be required of a pre-packaged system.
Obamacare doesn't have a head tax. It has a mandate and a tax penalty, and the penalty is proportional to income with a ceiling.
Generally for a tech startup, I do think it can make sense to move. Plus, necessity is the mother of invention, Airbnb and Uber were both started because of how painful it can be to live in SF. What if the founders had been somewhere affordable with great public transportation?
Can you turn off a mutation's ability to adapt and mutate?
Ask HN: What has “machine learning” done for YOU?
I've been pretty excited by the various machine learning libraries/frameworks, like TensorFlow, Theano, Keras, Torch, Caffe, etc. I've participated in some of the more basic Kaggle challenges, and I've learned enough about the "how does it work" and "why does it work" (and remember enough of the mathematics from my younger days) that I'm able to teach the basics of simpler aspects, especially related to NLP, like classification or syntax analysis.

What I haven't done, however, is come up with a direct answer to the question: "What can machine learning do for ME?"

I don't mean, "what can someone else's AI do for me," I really want to know how YOU have used machine learning to solve a problem for YOU. "You" may be a company, or even better, "you" are an individual who set out to answer some personal mystery, and by solving that mystery, done something to improve your quality of life... or even just satisfied a burning curiosity.

So, HN: What has machine learning done for you?
I discovered a few years back that chess instructional videos knock me out immediately. I used to play competitively and am genuinely interested, but have never, not even once, survived an entire 20-30min video--usually Alex Yermolinsky and his fantastic accent in the "Every Russian Schoolboy Knows" series on the internet chess club.
> Firefox does also have a native ad-blocker

I don't think it has one natively. Which one do you mean? Or are you referring to tracking protection (private mode only, but available in Fx 49 also in "normal" mode iirc)
5) Stop whatever makes a college education the popular entry ticket to middle class.
Do you need that comment?
When I used namedtuple that way it tended to blow up on me, because namedtuples implement 'dunder' methods to act as sequences, which is not what I expect for some random algebraic datatype. This makes bugs manifest as very head-scratching behavior. Nowadays I use my own struct type builder with only the equivalent of 'derives Show' and such.
My impression from my peer group is that most people from my generation that went to college take on significant debt to do it. Isn't this basically the normal path people take to pay their way through college?

(I didn't go.)

Having kids is obviously a deeply personal decision and don't think I'm second-guessing you, but college funding is probably not a dispositive concern.
And that's how we get Idiocracy.
Don't more subsidies put upward pressure on prices?[1][2][3]

Also, how would a head tax improve the cost of education?

[1]http://college.usatoday.com/2015/08/20/report-federal-aid-ri...
[2]https://fee.org/articles/student-loan-subsidies-cause-almost...
[3]http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/09/08/student_loans...
Of websites using a discernable server-side programming language, over 80% of them use PHP -- https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua... -- The four biggest content-management systems on the web are all PHP -- https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management...
It can be treated as a glyph. Why would it be inappropriate?

And besides, languages the world over use plenty of words borrowed from English, and English itself is loaded with borrow words from other languages.

I've thought the mania for icons to replace common words since the Mac to be silly. Why is a picture of a Kleenex box more understandable than 'PRINT'? I have no idea what half the icons on my iPhone mean.

No way to google icons, either. I know, I'm supposed to learn them by pressing them to see what happens, but as someone who has learned not to learn how to operate machinery that way, I find it distasteful.
I think a reality that will hopefully soon catch up with societal stigma in the United States is that college isn't right for everyone. I understand this as a separate point from college being unattainably expensive, but it is an important point.

I have friends who would be mechanics, Peace Corps volunteers, electricians, or plumbers if they hadn't instead gone to a private 4-year institution, pressured to attend the best schools possible because they did well in high school. The permanent solution for this is either adjusted student loans or free community colleges, or some combination of the two. People on the opposite side of this issue I've talked to have often expressed concern that the bachelor's degree will basically become devalued if everyone has access. My response is always "it already IS devalued, but hardly anyone has access". It's near impossible to get a job in a desirable field without a college degree and relevant experience, but it's also prohibitively expensive to get a degree. Where will the 22 year olds with $100,000 worth of debt working at McDonald's going to be in 30-50 years? I have friends who in their early 20s are recognizing it's worth accruing more debt at even higher education in hopes of getting a job that will make the investment worth it.

> Unless we make college affordable for people of all financial means, opportunity through higher education will be a false promise.

But this is half of it, right? Plenty of people who walk out of colleges with no debt still can't find a job because the market is changing so much. As today's jobs move towards automation, I think most here can agree that current careers will change forever (frequently on HN the conversation steers towards more technological jobs). What I don't frequently see posted here is that automation will free up creative jobs where going to college is a necessary path. Writers exposed to other young writers can become inspired for life, especially given the opportunities. This turned into sort of a soapbox and is mostly anecdotal, but I think most would agree a national conversation needs to be had about this.
When I left my last company I had to write a check for about $10K to buy my options. It's like rolling the dice.
Man beats murder rap because DNA expert illegally testified via Skype
One of the best XKCDs ever is about this what-if scenario. It addresses full robot sentience -- if they suddenly became aware and tried to take over the world Terminator style. An "out of control / hack / malfunction" would be even more laughable:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/
Hey thanks for the tip :)

Teleport lets me to join my customer's environments and provide live support in seconds - and they can see everything I do. That's the main reason we wrote it - to enable instant support for a distributed customer base.
You aren't having kids because they would go into debt if they decide to go to college? You are aware that the bulk of human knowledge is available for free on the internet right?
"The jury was not legally allowed to hear the original recordings of "Stairway to Heaven" and "Taurus" in determining their verdict."
The Tough Legacy of Ulrike Meinhof
We aren't going to have kids we can't support. Right now we absolutely cannot, and even in five years time things will still be looking relatively tight. We might be able by then to scrape together a down payment on a mortgage, or have a child, but not both.

The biological window gets smaller by the day. Why bother?
I struggle with going to sleep and have tried myriad methods of falling asleep. One of the best ways was to plug in my iPhone headphones and listen to a documentary on Iplayer or TED.

However several months later a huge problem occurred. Both my ears were infected, left moreso than the right, that caused me a great deal of irritation and pain. Many months of visiting doctors, hospitals and medicine did this horrible problem get better.

Bear this in mind even though I was using dettol wipes to disinfect my headphones daily!
Or you could just step to the side and laugh while it tries to figure out how to re-orient itself.
I love it, because two things are abundantly clear to even the most casual observer:

1) everyone at IBM has been told to pretend they are this huge, leading "cloud" company

2) 1) is a clear falsehood

And so you see marketing struggle to come up with all these ridiculous "case studies", because it's difficult if you have to invent them out of thin air instead of real customers.
Depends on what you mean by "fail hard," I suspect. Sure, cancer cells can gain or lose mutations, but if we target a mutation important for cancer development only a fraction of the target cancer will survive the treatment. We might achieve nice-to-have results like reduction in tumor size and increased patient life expectancy, or a "cure" in lucky patients with less agile cancers, which would put this radical new intervention in line with most standard cancer treatments. As a total cure for cancer it will "fail," but then, so have all the breakthrough cancer treatments that have collectively shattered the mortality rates of cancer patients.

(You mention you're involved in cancer research, so you presumably know all this already- I'm wondering if there's a more nuanced reason for this pessimism.)

The best theory I've heard so far as to how we'll "cure cancer" altogether is that we'll simply develop a big enough armory of anticancer treatments that no individual cancer case could evolve fast enough to beat them all. Unlike bacteria or viruses, cancers evolve on their own and when they're done their evolutionary innovations die with them. Our technology lives on, though, so we can hope to eventually just totally outclass their capabilities. If CRISPR gives us another source of these partial treatments, we're just that much closer to that level.
"assuming costs rise at the same rate as the last 30 years"

I just can't believe that will happen. The millennial generation has been burned HARD by higher education. I'm guessing the demand for expensive programs loaded with amenities that provide little value will plummet by the time their kids come of age.

I expect huge growth in low-frills low-cost technical programs.

Also, the insane cost of higher education is mainly propped up by easy access to loans that are practically impossible to discharge via bankruptcy. If this ever changes (and there will be a lot of political will to when millennials are the main voter base) expect the price to practically collapse overnight.