skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that a drug of last resort is being widely used in livestock is actually quite concerning, because it still builds resistance to this antibiotic even if it's not being used on humans. It also raises huge questions about the ability to enforce shelving.

At least two cases have been detected in the US, the first was earlier this year, the second as of yesterday.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711150939.h...

As mentioned in the article, the colistin resistance is being transmitted via plasmid, so it is capable of diffusing quite widely into different types of bacteria.
Ask HN: Book recommendations to show family the world of software development?
Like a lot of people here, I'm the only software engineer in my family and sometimes I have trouble articulating exactly what it means to "write software." I thought Dreaming in Code might be a good read for curious family members, but was wondering if anyone else has thought about this and has other recommendations.
Yeah, I'd have to agree. At this point, talking about Vine is almost (not yet, but almost) like talking about a subsidiary of Yahoo; whatever the unique problems of the child company, the parent company's dysfunction remains the primary issue.
In times like that, I would just assume the array size is +1, and ignore the first C Zero position. It's a pain but just setup something once and its done.
my perspective is on the opposite side of modern european social liberal standards.

individuals should only hold themselves accountable. the effort to establishing universal well-being assumes political enforcement and coercion. it's a process of ceding individual sovereignty to a political entity.
As an Englishman I have first hand knowledge of the country and much of its history. So I can see the article is not very accurate and very simplistic.

Great Britain was the pre-eminent 'empire' in economic, political and military power up until about the first world war. The military power was based mainly on naval superiority for protecting our overseas empire with a mediocre army. But from that point onwards it was in decline. We did not realise it until the second world war when the full industrial power of the United Status make itself felt. Winston Churchill may have sat with Roosevelt and Stalin but even he know that we was the junior partner in the talks.

Even after WW2 we had an outsized political influence because of our special relationship with the USA and influence with many ex-colonies. The UN security council was setup with five permanent seats, the five countries that at the time had nuclear weapons (USA, Russia, China, France, UK). Obviously the UK is not likely to vote itself off of that council and they have veto power.

The Brexit vote is based purely on the issue of immigration. Part of being in the UN is that all people from the EU countries can travel and work freely within any of the countries. Given that English is a very popular second language in the poorer countries you can see that many of them come to the UK to try for a better life. I would do the same in their position. Imagine if the USA joined in union with Mexico and part of that meant the border between USA and Mexico was completely open. Do you think there might be a large number of people moving to America and do you think that would cause stress on the education, health system and resentment from the local population? I think it would and so it has with the UK population. Add on top that the British have never really liked the Europeans very much and that much of the EU is actually controlled by a German/French power block and you have plenty of people who want out.
Squir-Rel who came from Superman's planet, you know.
The foreign use of drugs-of-last-resort is what's specifically concerning, and what raises the questions of the WHO's ability to coordinate and enforce shelving.

The use of common antibiotics isn't good, by any means, but last-defense drugs being used is far worse.
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They seem to have pivoted from running a co-working space to lead generation for lenders.[1]

[1] https://generalassemb.ly/apply/financing-your-education
Such a shame, I love Vine. Integrating it into the twitter feed just means videos will not be seen as they have to compete with all the other stuff that's taking space on your feed.
What We Can Learn from Nearly Millennium-Old Love Letters
"I only spy on you because I love you, Baby."
So, you mean if people got suspended sentences or probation?

That happens.
"B...F" are not all the causes of A. You forgot to include the relation "f(B...F)", whose existence is also strongly correlated with A, as per the entire justification for using that '=' symbol the way you have.
Worksnaps Integration
The Ternary Manifesto
You can use composition to reduce boilerplate as well. Composition > inheritance is something that is emphasized greatly in the React community.
> "The restructuring is expected to cost the company about $164 million in pre-tax charges during fiscal 2017, $82 million of which will be employee termination costs"

$82000000/6500 = $12615

Average severance of 12.6k per employee seems rough.
I agree with your notion. However, lots of people and organizations make contrary claims. So maybe there are some kinds of teams which can perform relatively well as a dispersed team.
Regulators ask Tesla for Autopilot engineering details
There exists people who think that if they program a demo for an old system like a Commodore 64 using the Sid chip to generate a song that it is something that hasn't been done before and pushes the C64 to its limits to show that it still has use and potential in modern times.
I used to use a camera shopping website that had a race condition in their product listing/search functionality. Their site was quite slow, and if you tried to have more than one tab open to their site then you would get mixed-up results. The tabs might have the same content, mixed content (eg the breadcrumbs from the other tab), or sometimes nothing at all. This would occur even across a significant period of time, not just if you made the requests at the same time.

I struggle to understand how that could even have happened. Were they storing the results of the DB lookup referenced against my IP somehow?
The Commissions position is that the conduct would have been barred previously. With the consent order, WB has essentially lost the ability to claim that the conduct is not barred in any future actions, since it will be a violation of the consent order irrespective if it was a violation of the generally applicable rules or not.
How to enjoy 4K movie with normal video
I don't understand why Tesla is allowed to release a safety critical system on to the roads when it requires buyers to acknowledge its not-finishedness. They're putting beta systems into an uncontrolled environment. No driver in the nearby lanes has been given that choice.
"As a first employee, for better or worse, the thing about joining a startup is" the founders get 10,000,000 shares and you get maybe 10,000.
Since there appears to be no financial penalty attached to the consent order, I don't think your revenue contention holds water.
To be clear, those solutions were well known at the time. It was known at the time that multiple layers could compute any boolean fucntion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons_(book)).

The role of Minsky in killing perceptrons is seriously overblown.
It's nothing like a drug, in my opinion. And it seems to serve detrimental evolutionary purposes, which makes no sense (anyone distracted by music is fodder for predators or accidents).

I was once in USAF basic training. One of the peculiarities of that 2 month existence was a total absence of music. This is not normally something people encounter in their lives. I found out that after a while I literally craved music. ANY music. I distinctly remember leaning into a passing car which had its windows rolled down and music pouring out, while I was marching. Around the 1.5 month mark we had to wait in an auditorium for a speaker and he was an hour late. The A/V crew (this was 1993, by the way) decided to put on the Black Album by Metallica, and the ENTIRE auditorium was jamming, metal fan or not. It was really something. It was one of the sweetest (and yes, most meaningful) musical experiences I've ever had. They ended up playing the entire album before the speaker finally showed.

Anyway, I'm here to tell you that something strange is up with music, and it is NOT materialistic in nature (at least, according to out current understanding).

And it's not like I don't think about materialism a lot, being a programmer who was once a Physics major. But try to come up with an objective evaluation of music and you will fail to. It is one of the most subjectively sublime values we have. I mean, all it really is, is sound wave patterns, but somehow it is much more. (Perhaps, just like the Mona Lisa is much more than the sum of ink, paper and wood frame it is made from.)
HN has various software and moderation penalties that can be applied to accounts that routinely break the site guidelines. That is the case with your account.

Some of these penalties involve voting, some involve ranking, others involve all kinds of different things. Taken together, they're one of the most important devices HN has to stave off a summary collapse into a disastrously worse place. There's no "voting hellban" (including on your account, some of whose votes count), but there are provisions for dropping votes and weighting them according to various criteria, which we're not going to disclose.

People sometimes think that HN maintains the quality it has (not great, but could be worse) purely by its own equilibrium. That's far from true. It takes major, conscious effort, and much of that effort—as much as possible—we encode into software. Without that it would be physically impossible to keep this place up, and would drive anyone mad to try.
I've seen this cycle a few times now. Just give it a merciful death (vine and twitter). Some things are meant to be ephemeral. I think vine and twitter are in that category. Just like a forest needs fires to be a healthy ecosystem. People should be more willing to let go of business ideas that see explosive growth but lack the business fundamentals to be sustainable.

Instead what's gonna happen is that it is going to be a slow and steady march of attrition until only the husk is left and people just feel sad every time either twitter and vine are mentioned.
haha! :D so funny!
How do you define 'a people'?
Heroin doesn't make you happy.

It nukes emotion.
Ask HN: What to do when your content and images are used without permission?
A site has translated my blog post into Russian, without contacting me in any way. I found this out when doing a reverse google image search.

They’ve used the third person throughout, adding “Hart said” at the front of paragraphs, but do not add any insight of their own. The rest of the content is copied word-for-word.

When content is translated poorly it makes the original look bad. I also think adding the “Hart said” is a sneaky way of making it appear that they haven’t just ripped my post.

It looks like a few other sites have used the translated Russian copy (not the original).

Translations are basically free publicity and I don’t have a problem with them (the same post is translated into Japanese). However, done without permission it feels wrong.

Would love to get some insight into this. Should I invest my time into protecting my content? Or let things like this slide? Has anyone had a similar thing happen to them?
Twitter's firehose is extremely valuable data, just not at the lofty valuations the company was given.
Staying off topic for a moment... I bet there's an interesting study in this. Something along the lines of neurochemical or psychological rewards when one does something like "downvote" in self-regulating forum like this; seems like it would be narrowly focused enough an as compared to say, trolling, that you might be able discern something in from that sort of behavior. (I'm clearly no scientist :-) )

For the record I agree with you. I think when someone says something that is silly, naive, or somehow just wrong in a forum like this... it seems like it would be far more productive to both participants and observers to have someone just point out what's wrong (yes, that takes time, but you cared enough to down vote, right?) Some part of the time you'll just uncover a misunderstanding or actually find out the person that would otherwise be down voted may have had a point.

Oh well... back to work.
In particular reference to Twitter, I wonder if they tried to make a product out of what probably should have been a protocol.
Interesting book. I'll take some time to do a read through. A few things that bother me though off the bat:

1. Anything that uses the word 'protip' can not be taken seriously. I think this needs a law. 'The Law Of Silly Programming Memes - Anything using the word 'protip' cannot be taken seriously'

2. The 800px width format in the world of responsive design gives me pause. Basically this says 'I'm for mobile - screw you'. I would hope that a better format for this would be chosen in the future.
I think squirrel offers much better C++ integration.
Spector: a tool to capture fonts and colors in the real world
Mechanical Turkers are college-educated millennials making below minimum wage
South of Bodega Bay is going to be more expensive than North of it, but Nothern coastal communities are much more rural.
What exactly is valuable about it? I keep hearing this but it is just a jumble of collective stream of consciousness. Has anyone that has read Ulysses actually made any sense of it? Twitter is the collective analog of Ulysses.
Here's a good book on convolutional neural networks: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ It's suppose to be like the bible on deep learning at the moment but like most cutting edge stuff -- you're going to have to put a lot of effort into thinking for yourself and reading a lot of papers to make any new progress.
I've just finished the history book "The Theory that would not die", as mentioned here a couple of weeks ago [1]. It's got some interesting stuff to say on how Shannon's work emerged from the cryptography scene. According to the book, Information Theory was the culmination of all sorts of pragmatic techniques that were developed during code breaking. The terminology and expression was different (eg. information was measured in bans rather than bits), but it was really interesting to read about how practice developed into theory.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11983200
Current Tesla investigations:

- NHTSA - the people who order auto recalls.

- NTSB - the people who investigate crashes; usually air crashes. They go into intense technical detail, have human-factors experts, and are familiar with the problems of relying on partial automation.[1]

- SEC - Tesla kept the fatal crash quiet while Musk unloaded his stock. Uh oh.[2]

A comment from Chris Urmson, Google's head of automatic driving: Google tried semi-automatic systems like Tesla's. Google tested with 140 drivers, discovered people didn't pay close enough attention, and rejected that approach as unsafe.[3]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-biggest-problem-now-is-...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/sec-investigating-tesla-possi...

[3] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601885/tesla-investigatio...
I hope the pdf version of this book will be available. I just don't know how to read Kindle e-book on Linux.
The problem with benzodiazepines is that they're insanely addictive. And withdrawal is excruciating.
Yes. I have a hard time getting excited about children when the species survival is in no danger, family names care so little value these days (I will be dead anyway) and there is no guarantee your kid will be a good thing for the world (we hope they will and that would be our legacy). There is the argument that says children will make you see life differently but that requires a lot of faith. Will it? Can I see it differently without the cost of raising children?

Anyway, I bet it's something a lot of people have thought about and come to terms with either choice. I still am unsure.
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I don't know. I think if they had souped up RSS they would have been in a much better position and maybe it would have been more sustainable but a long series of missteps has led them to this point. I think the biggest mistake they made was shutting down the developer ecosystem. They never recovered after that.
Maybe if all of the cuts were in the Bay Area. However the article suggests it's the "manufacturing footprint" in Asia that will be most affected.

Potentially that's not a very bad severance.
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Not autopilot's fault, as evidenced in part by driver being issued a ticket for careless driving:

http://electrek.co/2016/07/12/tesla-model-x-autopilot-accide...
This is the kind of thing that bugs me, though, this sort of software-engineer exceptionalism. We like to pretend that somehow we're the only ones who have complex projects with tight deadlines and changing requirements. We like to pretend that if you haven't been coding since you were in diapers you can't possibly have enough context or experience or sense of the history of tech to make good decisions. We like to pretend that somehow the only people qualified to be software engineers are the kinds of people who've traditionally been software engineers.

But that's just bullshit. People with CS degrees from big-name schools and years of experience still do a shit job of managing software projects. They still do a shit job of picking tech stacks. Our literature, such as it is, is positively overflowing with stories demonstrating just how fundamentally horrifically awfully bad we are at this stuff. Often, they're bad at this stuff precisely because of the background that's supposed to make them exceptionally qualified; they're bad at it because they got extensive training in how to coordinate a dozen threads in an application but precisely zero in how to coordinate a dozen people on a team. They're bad at it because they got a bunch of ideology about theoretical purity shoveled into their heads in college instead of a bunch of pragmatism. They're bad at it because in the easy-VC-money days nobody cared what your tech stack was, as long as you picked something shiny and new. They're bad at it because they literally do not have the relevant background to be acting in a senior-engineer role.

But what about someone who gets tired of being, say, a lawyer and decides to do a coding bootcamp? They come in from a field where research, shifting requirements, teamwork and pragmatic approaches to dealing with a client's wants are all front-and-center required skills. The same is true for plenty of professions: we can take in somebody with the project-management skills and teach them about tech and coding. We're good at teaching tech and coding. What's hard is taking the person who has only ever learned tech and coding, and teaching them all the other skills.
It can be pretty useful for sentiment analysis across large populations - for a lot of different purposes/clients
They have workers in many countries so it would depend on where they are happening.
I create and deliver a lot of presentations. What I notice: I often use PPT "slide sorter" to reorganize slides. My presentations are usually hundreds of slides, and I can't imagine hunting through markup for my frequent (daily) reorganizing. I also use the Training standard of about 50% to 60% graphics - and I tend to revise and revise graphics as I work on the course. Having integrated graphics is both very fast and very easy - with easy access to other slides for cut/paste (and an integrated library of symbols I create and reuse.)

I'm not complaining about this project...I'm just commenting about why no "production" course developers would consider switching to something like this. Just an FYI.
Hot Spots

Business or fan log their local spots and print a QR voting code to put up at the place ("vote for us!")- then nightly (or during the weekend) people vote by scanning the QR code at the spot (probably would have to make an account to vote), places with the most scans are listed as Hot Spots. the hotness goes down after a few days, unless ore votes come in - you can also do metrics on most visited, best weekday spots, etc.

Plan to do this myself at some point.
But with mathematics, nitpicking is ~kind of~ the point. For example when dealing with real numbers, you can get away with defining Compact sets as bounded and closed sets; however when you enter a different Topological space, that definition will surely fall apart. So in retrospect, defining compact as bounded and closed was working in your limited test cases (real numbers) but in the real world you really have to embrace that it means there exists an open cover that a finite subcover covers the set. It is not pretty or clever as the limited case, but it is what you need to do if you want applicable flexibility.

Same with fitting polynomials to data. Statistics and Machine Learning specifically warn you of overfitting. You can get 0% training error if you try to fit MNIST with a 60,000th order polynomial, but can you imagine the test error rate?
Puns like these make my day.
Trend forecasting, market analysis -- mineable data for purposes other than just display (their own) ads.

Shazam [1], a company that makes an app to identify songs recorded through the microphone, makes money off of figuring out which songs get a lot of interest. Twitter can do something similar, if they don't already.

[1] https://www.shazam.com/company
People dying of infection is not pretty, especially at scale.
It's standard practice in many, many online fora to accompany song recommendations with YouTube links.
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Hi please write us at info at mapd dot com for more info. We'll also be rolling out cloud instances soon if on-prem deployment doesn't make sense.
Oh, I agree - I just used WWII as it's a more commonly-understood datapoint. The Spanish Flu epidemic only took a couple of years as well, as opposed to the half-decade of WWII.
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I'm curious to know more about this. Perhaps when the team has some breathing space, zealoustiger or fuJiin could share more about the decision.

Also, if you don't mind sharing, it would be good to know more about what it would have cost to continue to run the service without any additional features or support.
Perhaps Tesla need to be a bit more aggressive with enforcing contact with the steering wheel. My Passat will straight up tell at me after 20ish seconds of not touching the wheel.

I know Elon wants to keep defending himself but really it's something Tesla can prevent.
Wow. Does he talk about it much?