skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you write more about "sped up time"? I'm reminded of something like this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mnp/travel_through_time_to_increase_...
I've heard recently that the causality for heart disease actually goes the opposite way than everyone assumed. The body's response to inflamed arteries is to lay down a layer of fatty plaques to protect the arteries from further damage. The fat deposition is the effect of the inflammation, not the cause, and now researchers are trying to understand just what the real cause is.

...which just goes to show how complicated causation vs. correlation is in real science. It was a pretty obvious conclusion that clogged arteries would cause heart disease...except that it's both obvious and wrong.
Considering that the biggest factor for turning a startup into a massive success is luck, I find that sentiment delusory.

The best you can do is to accept that you're not an expert in picking winners. (Just see how many hedge fund managers underperform the market. Even the supposed experts have problems doing any better than random decisions.)
Fixing the WiFi performance anomaly on ath9k
Since when do we have to rely on science for raising children? Since when is science the only goddamn way of producing knowledge?

Also, for fuck's sake, science is rooted in intuitive inferences based on data, not logical conclusions based on data.
Toothpaste: a custom theme for your text editor with flavorful colors
There are many obvious things to do. Give them a place and supplies to wash their teeth if they want to would be my suggestion #1. This won't be expensive, and yes, needs to be guarded, but ...
Uber Argentina Enlists Bitcoin Partner in Fight to Continue Service
>In an interview with police and prosecutors last week, Diaz said he "felt Google was watching him and it made him upset."

Well, they are.
Could you clarify what you mean by that?
Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy (2015)
One problem with cost-benefit analyses are the unknown-unknowns. Just because you have a cost-benefit model, it doesn't mean the model reflects the reality of your situation. There is a very real risk that much time is spent considering eventualities that can never occur, while ignoring all of the things that are actually happening.
Well you just answered about 15 nagging questions I had. Thank you.
Ask HN: Cross-platform framework to build a great Mac/Windows app?
I'm looking to build an app to sell in the Mac and Windows 10 app stores.

I'd like to use a cross-platform framework so that I can reuse all my code — UI, business logic, storage, everything. The framework needs to comply with the app store rules.

I know that you get the best UX by building the app from scratch twice, once using Cocoa Touch / Swift, and then again using UWP / C#. Is there an 80/20 solution where I get 80% of the benefit with 20% of the work?

Which widely used cross-platform framework gives me the best UX?

Electron?

I'm flexible with the programming language — JS, Java, C#, Ruby, Python or Swift.
D'oh! Without access to the PCB designs it would be completely asinine even to consider such a venture. Thanks.
I've always thought this should be a very effective way to explain a point to someone, but in practice it rarely seems to work....maybe that saying applies, something about you can't use logic to change the mind of someone that didn't use logic to arrive at their conclusion.
Ya theres another issue, sometimes on my textbooks the page that is in the book (ex pg 100) is not the same as the page in the application (ex pg 107) this causes issues esp. because sometimes their way off. that would be a must have fix.
I'm not epileptic or anything, but the background graphic was making me nauseous, not figuratively nauseous, but actually, physically nauseous. I couldn't make it past the nausea!

(I've never had a response like this before! Out of curiosity, I opened it up again after writing the first paragraph, and yep - waves of nausea with some not so subtle vertigo thrown in the mix!)
I wrote something on my white board this weekend that is similar in concept: forced efficiencies at random intervals. I hypothesize that systems which have the least moving parts are less likely to suffer "breakage" if the infrastructure on top of which they run is randomly reliable and/or stingy with resources. Also see Gates/Page's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
> “the body is made of things, and things don’t have thoughts.”

Ha! I could say the opposite. The body is not made of magical stuff, just plain matter. And it has consciousness, it feels like something to be alive. So, consciousness cannot be but the result of matter arranged in space.

Let's make an analogy. Say you have a car on the road. It is free to move. Then come many more cars. Suddenly, the road is gridlocked. Is "being gridlocked" a property of the single car? Is it a property that only appears when multiple cars are in a certain relationship? Where does "being gridlocked" reside, in the car, in the road, in the other cars? http://biser3a.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gridlock.jpg

I believe that emergent properties can and do occur. The new properties emerge from the complex structure of causal relations that exists between simpler elements. This complex web is "stuff" that adds to, and changes, the simple elements of which the system is formed. In other words, the emergent system is made of its constituent parts plus the internal structure, and this internal structure is a property of space and time. Similarly, matter itself might be insentient, but matter arranged in special patterns in space and time is conscious, thus consciousness comes from the properties of space-time, not just from the constituent matter of the body. The space-time arrangement is the software, the atoms of the body are the hardware. They work together to generate consciousness.
For a new grad several years ago comparing offers between say Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Google, and Facebook, the mid-stage private companies like Uber/Airbnb/Stripe are likely paying $100K, while Google/Facebook offer barely more at $120K or so.

However, the Google/FB overs likely include RSUs valued at $400K that vest over 4 years, while the private companies offer options (at the time) "worth" (at current company valuation) ~$300-400K, with incredibly low strike prices since the 409a can be much lower than the preferred valuation. It really depends on how well the company has down, but since the last 3 years those private companies have doubled to 8x in value (see Uber), and thus the Uber employee's shares would be worth $2.4M-$3.2M. Google also appreciated (+50%) making the RSUs worth $600K, but still has not appreciated as much. Of course, this is just one example, picking the most successful companies, but it is illustrative of the general principle: if 20-30% of the time you can get on a rocketship, you can be +EV but with higher variance.
Everyone should want to - and more companies should support that. I believe that the reason they don't in the tech field is that once you define you "part time" in hours - say 20/wk - you are exposing the fallacy of "full time" being 40/wk.
Are you visualizing all this in your mind's eye?
> starting a family with ~1M in the bank

This is an outlier and, in my opinion, not representative of any useful demographic for this discussion. The idea that you bank $100k a year (let's even through in compounding) is certainly feasible, but not common.
The article addresses only one of the laws that Clinton may well have violated by her actions, 18 U.S. Code § 793, but doesn't address the other law that she likely violated: 18 U.S. Code § 1924.

The FBI and the DoJ did bring charges against Bryan H. Nishimura under that law for something not dissimilar to what Clinton did. I've already posted the relevant bits in another comment on this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12041283

And 1924 is short enough to just post here (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1924):

(a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(b) For purposes of this section, the provision of documents and materials to the Congress shall not constitute an offense under subsection (a).

(c) In this section, the term “classified information of the United States” means information originated, owned, or possessed by the United States Government concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States that has been determined pursuant to law or Executive order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interests of national security.
How Michael Bloomberg dominated an industry for 30 years:Book review
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For context, a company can easily get ~1B security-related events a day, so even reporting say 0.1% of those wrong a day means some poor junior analyst has 1,000,000 tickets to slog through. If you expand that to full packet captures as suggested in the article... ouch.

(We do some cool visual analytics work here, including unsupervised learning / classification, and target more of the problem of "given an incident you're already investigating, what else should you now look at from across all your tools?")
Hand Assembling an Engine at the Mercedes-AMG Engine Factory
At least in Mandarin, given enough context, each Chinese character has one correct pronunciation. It's frequently the "context" that trips up non-native speakers.
Focusing on your last point: this is true in a lot of fields.

ML is amazingly powerful, but if you don't have sufficient domain knowledge, or you aren't collaborating very closely with actual experts, you can make very dangerous mistakes. Domain knowledge helps a lot - not just in malware, but in biology, image analysis, etc..
Along with the reference to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, I'd want a reference to the fact that voting can be done in ways other than ranking, e.g. approval or score voting.

Overall, a superb list.
Professors, like VCs, don't have the time or the inclination to help you out of their good will. You need to give them a reason to help you, i.e. make them feel like you are helping them.
Timers have unique properties which permit more optimal solutions. A hierarchical timing wheel is O(1) to start, O(1) to cancel, and O(1) to expire.

Finding the next minimum timer isn't O(1), but you don't actually need to know that information to process the timing wheels. It's O(1) to figure out the next _set_ of timers to process. They're populating a shared bucket. If they're in a higher-level wheel you would need to linearly search them to find the minimum. But normally you only care about when the next cascade operation needs to occur, which is the minimum within the granularity of that wheel, and _that's_ O(1).

See "Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for the Efficient Implementation of a Timer Facility" by George Varghese and Tony Lauck. And specifically appendix A for the O(1) expire.
> Math is an invention of man it doesn't exist in the real world

I see this from time to time, and certainly opinions can differ, but I tend to cringe when I see this idea pushed. From my perspective, math is not an invention of man, but a discovery. Math is an intrinsic part of the universe, that we continue to discover and piece together. Certainly we have invented the symbols and the terminology, but the underlying concepts...these laws, these truths exist whether we discover them or not, whether we give them names or not.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en
There's many, many frames of reference you can use to map your GPS data into actual on-ground coordinates. There's a number of systems that do this, but usually it's done with a projection from abstract GPS points into real-world positions via something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System
The Kindle e-format has a way to embed page numbers that correspond to the physical book. It's optional, though, and you can blame the ebook author if it wasn't done or wasn't done right.
Adafruit interview with Autodesk about CadSoft EAGLE purchase
Relevant: https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/07/crowdflower-series-d/
Great example:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-29/birchbox-c...

At a lower valuation, employees could have had a nice exit. Now they are stuck.
For C++, I recommend wxWidgets.
Sorry, not friendly a-tall. Never imagined a future vehicle would have a 1970s-era unix command line! Anyway said command line behaves oddly, cursor seems to get "above" the ">" prompt and then I can't type? I can see the point in that you can build up to some complexity without having to invest in a ton of artwork and pixel candy to create a believable GUI for the ship, but the cost in playability is high. I gather your implementation language is Lua... is there for Lua anything comparable to PyGame for Python where you could leverage some graphics?

In interactive mode, I zoomed out what seemed like quite a ways and didn't see anywhere to go.
I'm curious what percentage have never done so, but would still recognise:

> 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

> 20 GOTO 10
This is pretty normal.

Remember 90% of code is crappy. Your job is to make something work, and then you can go back and make it work better.
People don't need a local time, they expect one based on tradition.

If we all agreed that Zulu or Stardate or whatever was the way to go, and we had a singular planetary time, we'd all know what that time meant in local terms.

Maybe your sun rises at 00:12 and mine at 08:15. Maybe you go to work at 01:00 and we do at 10:00. Local traditions prevail.

Unfortunately establishing a world-wide time system would probably have people screaming something about the Illuminati, the New World Order or Reptilians. This is why we can't have nice things.
The second quoted paragraph seems to be attacking a strawman. I don't think it was suggested that we should add silly details to improve falsifiability, but rather remove them. Moreover, it seems like this is a way to choose between existing theories, rather than a way to mutate one theory into a better one.
I made a bit of money flipping things during the Black Friday sales - a bit of retail arbitrage. I didn't make much, but I got a lot of airmiles out of it.

My experience with FBA was very positive and actually made me consider finding something to sell. For me the main advantages were a) if you sell on Amazon using FBA, you get to use Prime services and people will preferentially choose that over 3rd party sellers on their own b) Amazon will (for a small cut) deal with all the shipping, packing, returns and so on. Shipping was pretty cheap and the UPS van picked up the stuff directly from my house.

It's so heavily automated that aside from the initial shipment to the warehouse - I don't believe you're allowed to dropship direct to them from China - you can sit back and forward parcels to them and they'll do absolutely everything else. The small overhead in warehouse and handling fees is well worth the peace of mind I think.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6683866
The biggest feature I want is a read versus unread list.
> So if you've ever thought about what you actually own if you buy a share of a Chinese company on a US stock market, say Alibaba( BABA US Equity), you aren't actually getting a share in Alibaba in the same way you can buy a share in Microsoft.

Isn't this similar to how American stockholders don't actually own the shares of stock, but rather the Depository Trust Company owns ALL shares of all stocks, and you only own a...Nomination(?)...to control the shares and receive the dividends?

If they went offline, could anybody buy or sell stocks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_Company
To escape Google (and what Google now represents) we have to replace the WWW and arguably the Internet with something like I2P. Encryption and anonimity need to be baked into the protocol. You can't just run to another website to escape the panopticon.
> just imagine an alien species that, for example, can sense their planet's magnetic fields

Radio?
Actually, by the time they went after him, he had retired from the DoD and was the Director of the CIA, a civilian agency.
Solar roads coming to Route 66 via photovoltaic pavers
Interesting to note, even in the United States, it's not entirely clear what you do/do not own when you purchase stock. It's not even clear as to whether your broker owns the stock that you purchased. And, as it turns out, this actually has very real-world legal ramifications. See: http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-13/t-rowe-pri...
Sure, inasmuch as concepts require conscious minds. But surely the universe would exist if it had never spawned conscious observers. So I don't see that the question of existence begins and ends with conscious observers.
I loved my AP history classes in HS, and I think it's something everyone should be familiar with... but majoring in it? Not so sure.
I'm sorry: I shouldn't have said you were cherry picking in that case. You were misinformed by the limitations of the datasource you were looking at.

Given the performance of academic economics over the last fifty years and the scandals in peer-reviewed academic journals, studying hetrodox economists is well worth your while if you are interested in truth rather than tenure. But I can save you the trouble, having looked into many of them: Keen is the one to read.

https://www.amazon.com/Debunking-Economics-Revised-Expanded-...

He's genius-tier, maybe our era's Keynes.
> What does non physical existence even mean?

It's a faulty concept. Everything is physical. But I think it refers to non-material aspects of the physical, especially patterns of cause and effect.
Book of Ingenious Devices
one of those, how did they miss this?
"A SYLK file is a text file that begins with "ID" or "ID_xxxx", where xxxx is a text string. The first record of a SYLK file is the ID_Number record. When Excel identifies this text at the beginning of a text file, it interprets the file as a SYLK file. Excel tries to convert the file from the SYLK format, but cannot do so because there are no valid SYLK codes after the "ID" characters. Because Excel cannot convert the file, you receive the error message. "
I can't stand trying to use reference books, especially with diagrams, on my Kindle. My bookshelf is full of all kinds of reference material and my favorite books.

I generally buy it for the Kindle or Audible first and if I really like the book or it was especially thought provoking and I want to be able to dig in to it again at some point I go buy the hard copy.

I do most of my reading while traveling so I rarely (maybe not even once in the last 5 years) carry anything other than my phone or Kindle for reading.
Works in verse tend to be better on paper. Formatting is often important, and sucks in ebooks. Even if it were better, there's no way to do things like choose which line a page splits on (well, not without potentially even-worse formatting weirdness). It'll vary by device and user settings.

Physical books can help with recall of material, fiction or nonfiction, in my experience. Location of text on the page, size and appearance of the book, weight/texture of the paper.

Footnotes/endnotes remain terrible in ebooks, mostly, and this doesn't only matter for non-fiction.

Commercial, big-name ebooks full of stupid errors, as if they came from some early proofreading copy of the text a couple months before it went to the printer, are surprisingly common.

No ebook has ever looked or felt important. Printed books can. Sentimentality? Maybe. But it can be motivating, and it can help get one in the right mood for a book.

You can't arrange your fiction/poetry/philosophy ebook collection chronologically by date of author's first major work and place it on shelves where everyone in the house sees it daily, and thoroughly learns, over some time but with little effort, that so-and-so wrote after what's-his-face. An under-appreciated feature of physical books only because too few people choose this most sensible of shelving strategies :-)
I think that AdrianN was mocking the people spreading bitcoin FUD while pushing their own agendas.
Building radio stations at SoundCloud
All of these are implemented in specific patterns that actually exist in reality and are detected by the brain.
Yesterday I promised myself to not buy cigarettes anymore nor ask anyone to do it on my behalf. This first step only requires tremendous willpower when visiting a store, as the dispensers are placed at checkouts so I must stand right next to them when I'm in the queue.
yeah but thats wrong, in-n-out makes the best fries. :p
Ockam’s razor can’t tell you which theory is correct, just which one to use when you have more than one theory that accounts the data. It is purely a pragmatic way to rank competing theories.
Except in this case it's the Hong Kong stock exchange with the lower share price. Almost all A-H dual-listed companies are relatively overvalued in A-share market and undervalued in H-share market, and it has been the case for the last 10 years.

There's no effectively way to arbitrage this other than waiting for "all future cash flows" to be realised and discounted to present. It's the same share in the same company, with equal voting and distribution rights, but you just can't take one share bought in Hong Kong to Shenzhen to sell.

Among the Chinese investors, it's commonly accepted that A-share has a price premium because its price is likely to go up more in a bullish market. Given the largely speculative nature of the Shanghai/Shenzhen markets (compared to the more "rational" western-style Hong Kong market), having the same voting and distribution rights is far from enough to cause a convergence in share price.
This is so egregious that we've banned not only your throwaway account but what I believe to be your primary account as well. If you don't want that one to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com with a promise that nothing of the sort will ever happen again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12041000 and marked it off-topic.
Hokkien Taiwanese is no longer particularly prominent in Taiwan, let alone the Taiwanese kana (according to that link they're not even all in Unicode).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuyin is more relevant, as it's still moderately widely used today in Taiwan.
I've woken up to screaming crew members finding a new winged, scaly bedmate in the morning as well. Some captains loathe them since they can cause a mess and a stink if they fail to clean all of them up and let them linger for a day in the hot sun.
Clicked on japanese.

"Japanese contains 26 letters (consonants and vowels)."

Then goes on with a table of 48 characters representing syllables. (including the 2 very rarely used ゐ(wi) and ゑ(we)). They happily skip the part where there are 2 such syllabary systems, plus the Chinese characters.

Then there are pages about "Japanese Plural" and "Japanese Gender" (Japanese doesn't have such things), and one about "Japanese Numbers" not explaining a thing about counter words.

This all looks like templated information that is the same for all languages. You're apparently expected to just translate from English word for word and hope for the best.

Edit: Oh, and it's funny that they only introduce hiragana, but also use katakana and kanjis for all words and example phrases.
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