skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Done this years ago, still being used in production. In addition to the inverted lists, we have a bitmap per level, which tells whether an id is present in that level. All bitmaps are merged in memory in a structure mapping each id to the last level it is valid in. Then, lists of different levels are merged using a binary min heap. Entries that are not valid in the map are kept off the merge heap.
Code fifty lines, and what do you get?/Another day older and deeper in debt...
this is already on the front page, please check for dupes before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164694
no 'web' button for me (.nl), but if I just put a questionmark in front of the url (e.g. search it on google), you can click the first link :)
Not really. It might be if they built it in some isolated part of Nebraska.
Botulism spores can survive much higher temps than those used for pasteurization. This is why there's a risk for botulism for home-canned goods that aren't acidic enough. If you're water bath canning, that's pretty much 212F (or less due to altitude). Pressure canning at 15PSI can get up to around 240F, which the minimum temp to kill botulism.

In the past I have done the family milk cow/goat thing, as well as canning, natural fermentation, and cheese-making. So I've done some reading on the topics. I sorely miss raw jersey milk on a daily basis. That stuff is wonderful.
Wasn't he the one that said that when he goes to downing street they listen, but when he goes to Brussels they only take notice ?
A post about garish design on a garishly designed blog. Appropriate.
Also, Safari don't hide scrollbars when you don't have a touchpad.
Well, yes. That's what "single market" means. The EU has gone to great trouble to get rid of physical customs barriers and is not going to like people erecting virtual ones instead.
Show HN: VuejsFire – A hackathon starter based on Vue.js and Firebase
How did that "wealth transfer" work? When (say) $200 of the $800 I spend on an iPhone goes to Chinese manufacturers, they have $200, and I have an iPhone that I value more than $800.

To me it looks like we're both wealthier, not to mention the American company that's booking a few hundred dollars itself.
I feel like this is where the world is heading for a great many things. The "appliancification" (yes I made it up) of things that we could previously open up and tinker with. It's too bad. I want the right to open up and play around with something that I bought.

What's it going to be like when electric cars are the norm? Will the car become an appliance?
Badly needed for video calls! Real time, please.

What I do is minimize the remote video and move it to the corner of the screen, as close to the camera as possible. If the other person does the same, we are then close to making eye contact while gazing at each other's images.
I use MXE to build libsoundio releases for Windows. It works wonderfully.
I actually used to have that limit set to 60, but then when I thought about it, I probably would still have some physical strength at 60 and still wouldn't want to die. But at 80 I can't imagine myself being other than a total wreck.
European privacy body slams shut backdoors everywhere
There is something wrong with your machine (or you are doing more than it is spec'd for). It is potentially still within the standard warranty period, so bring it back. If you have been experiencing these issues and have intentionally let it run past the warranty date, that's on you.
lookatsrc.com - Browse and search the source of java frameworks
I'm all for challenging academics, but that abstract was inflammatory and un-constructive. And this is coming from someone who was a little unconvinced by some of Chomsky's ideas. For instance, 'it'/'there' insertion in X-bar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Projection_Principle
While that's obviously hilariously unethical, we are beginning to use biology in combination with machines to real effect. I wonder if we couldn't breed useful biological detectors and skip having to engineer them.
Investor A has no grounds to force you to pay their lawyers unless you signed an agreement stating otherwise.
Yes, all of the gifs are literally comical. If instead the gaze had followed the cursor (very commonly done, first example I found: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/xeye.shtml ) it could have been a lot more amazing. it loses its seriousness.
The BBC is changing their rules as regards the requirement to have a TV license to stream their content. All they then need to do is allow people to buy TV licenses for non-UK addresses and they turn into a normal-looking streaming video service.
WordPress VIP that hosts TechCrunch does require 2FA. Not saying it could not have been social engineering, but the usual dumb methods may not work.
The problem is that cities have become so opposed to allowing construction of middle class rental units that it takes the concerted effort of a multi-billion dollar corporation to build any.
This the same as a charity creating a white people only code camp in Senegal
Article from 2014, which looks at people engaging in digital book piracy not as thieves but as modern-day librarians or collectors, who are focused more on preservation than providing easy access to the materials. Mainly, the authors write about various online libraries and how they're organized, with a small amount of technical details.

I found it a somewhat interesting article, but I'd hoped they'd go a little more into the ethics of it, and also give more of a view from the perspective of the various stakeholders they mention (publishers, authors, etc.).
Cost-efficient container scheduling with Docker Swarm
Your confusing Out of Band authentication with 2FA. They are not mutually exclusive, and solve for different issues.
That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once the state begins persecuting a citizen based on a suspicion of exercising free speech and security in their papers and effects, it is ethically correct for that person to rebel.
> Because I can't pay taxes with my home "value".

Then your home (and those of everyone else in the same situation) is horribly overvalued.

Property may be atomic, but their ownership can be split. Walmart is pretty damn unitary, but I can own shares in it, entitling me to a share of its profits. Similarly, a municipal government levying property taxes can allow you to pay the tax in shares in that property, entitling them to a share of the profits. In this case, the profits are imputed rent, i.e. the rent you avoid/pay yourself due to owning the place.
skeumorphism was Scott Forestall's thing. Jobs just agreed with it. Once Jobs was dead, Forestall didn't last long in Apple. Officially, he left due to the "maps" debacle, but in reality, Cook was gunning for him for quite a while.
The headline seems a bit click-baity. It seems to merely add some suggested guidelines to how this is done.
Every other time I've seen architects used on the business end, you wind up with huge messes that take a long time to produce anything of business value while developers basically sit idle or flail around trying to build prototypes based upon very vague ideas. This isn't to say it's useless, but YAGNI principle is violated on the business side very frequently and costs themselves significantly. You tend to get messes that define an entire lexicon of thought down to minutiae like DoDaF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Defense_Architec...
I have no idea what the context is here. Imagine a company that has $1M of revenue in a certain year.

It is one thing to set a goal for $3M in revenue and end up with $2.8M.

It is another thing to wind up with $1.2M.

If the $3M was really a "best estimate" of revenue odds are you are going to be a little high or a little low and I would not get excited about it.

In the other case you are talking about a real failure.

Practically I see people react emotionally to these things in ways that are often irrational. Practically there are organizations that lumber along for decades setting big "stretch" goals that they never meet and the employees really get used to it and don't get excited about it.
Actually you can still combine PDFs that way. I'm running 10.11.6.
The USPS blockchain graphic is worth the click.
I think it wouldn't look so goofy it wasn't animated. If you saw a still frame, you probably wouldn't notice.
I think you missed the point, the way to "not suffer" is death.

In general every morning we make a decision on whether the expected future happiness is going to outweigh the expected future suffering. When that fails (and it does) we find reasons of duty to keep going, for the people we love etc. You're right, depressed people have a skewed vision of the future and it destroys their expectations of happiness.
All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama
Using the name that is printed on the card to look up my name.

Around here at least it is common to have cards with names printed on them. Some even have photos and can be used as IDs some places.
> Even if you're an atheist

I really don't understand this sentiment. Surely belief in an afterlife is a far greater motivator to off yourself than not? It's only religions that threaten you with eternal suffering if you do that would act as a special deterrent (easily eliminating all religions that don't have a concept of hell). Especially if you consider that some of those even go out of their way to make exceptions for certain forms of murder-suicide ("suicide attacks").
The last step would be to start paying employees in company scrip. I'm sure it will be better this time.
I think I took something different from it than others are.

Many people choose not to suffer, because "suicide is an option". Or pills. Or therapy. Or, the lucky ones, they can switch it off.

Depression (noted in another comment) further limits the ways by which one can control the suffering brought on by pain. I know this well. Many of us do.
Not everyone knows this. The OP made a fair comment. It's better to upvote him to spread awareness for this feature. I visit daily and only noticed it recently.
Who's going to provide that data for free when they can charge a LOT of money for access to it. Ever notice why free data on Google or Yahoo are 15 min delayed?
Hey thanks for the great questions!

(1) The NN uses two convolutional units and a fully connected softmax layer. Relative to Inception V3 or highway networks, this is _not_ a very deep architecture. I was looking for a balance between accuracy and training time (trained on my MBP).

(2) I looked into other neural architectures (LSTM and several fully connected) without much difference in performance. If you take a look at the physionet google group, there are a number of other methods evaluated (logistic regression, SVMs, etc.)

(3) I did vary hyperparameters and saw a dropout of ~0.45 and frequency cut-off of 4Hz performed the best for this specific architecture. That said, I imagine the best performing features would be a concatenation of the output from several filters across a range of thresholds. Then the burden of deciding feature importance falls onto the learner.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.06228v2.pdf
http://physionet.org/challenge/2016/#forum
What about all those cancer causing chemicals we allow companies to dump into the water or fluoride? I guess the conspiracy theorists are already onto fluoride.
One sees this kind of thing within niche P2P communities. For example, on a popular BitTorrent tracker dedicated to music, one often sees indie artists "leak" their content. Consequently, the artists receive more recognition and appreciation for their work. I'm not claiming that piracy is victimless, nor that P2P sharing is more beneficial to the preservation of arts/academia than it is harmful. There is, however, some degree of promotion and conservation that occurs through sharing.
All of the data can be found on the physionet site http://physionet.org/physiobank/database/challenge/2016/
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.)

Google's been trying to do this for years, but the Mountain View city council keep blocking it. :(
> You think that 10 and 20 year olds growing up with computers and even smartphones available for all of their life, know less of computers than people in the past?

Yes. Aptitude with screwing around with a GUI isn't very relevant.

40 years ago, computers were at best used by clerk type people for specific tasks at a terminal. Accountants were using tabulation machines, written materials were on IBM selectrics.

The people engaged in professional work with computers were mostly programmers or others doing "data processes" or working with business analyst types to model business process around workloads that could live with the available computing resources.
As part of the push towards a digital single market the EU has looked at geoblocking for a while. It will probably still take a while for geoblocking (in the EU) to end but it's only a question of when and not if. I don't think it's too far fetched to assume that some companies are already accepting that instead of fighting against it.
I 'd like to believe all those unfortunate calls on their part, the huge benefits of switching to x86-64 and standard h/w components(for the most part) for PS4/XB1 developers(and their makers), and their predicament they are in now, have informed their guided their decisions this time around.
That is not causation, is it?
The web button failed me for the first time, no luck via Google.
Infernal Scoop, a crowdsourcing interactive story builder
Now they're bluffing for real. Good thing you didn't sign anything. Sounds like they would have been a gigantic PITA all the way through if you had signed with them.
It's one of the few framework options for an opinionated framework that has easy to use setup and tools for generating views, models, etc. Not every company or team has the time or interest to fiddle around with tweaking their setup and codebase for new JS UI projects.
Why boxes beat billboards
Out of curiosity - was the pain fixed when you woke back up? Because brief, intense pain like that is one thing, but experiencing pain all day, everyday is a very different beast. Even if it's a tenth of the pain that you felt, that kind of thing really wears on you, especially after years and years and no help from doctors.
Cleveland Is Not Immune to Weird Tech Culture
The strong will to live inherent in most humans means that suicide is typically not a choice people can make. That's kind of my whole point: the fact that anybody can ever make this choice is remarkable. But to take the possibility of suicide and thereby declare that suffering is a choice makes no sense to me. It may be for some, but not for most.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a professional body for Computer Science?
I know that people say that "interviewing is hard" and I've read lots of articles that say that people generally don't like doing long winded technical screens but it is the only way to judge whether or not a person is competent, etc.

What I want to know is why have other related areas of study such as Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science and Operations Research been able to organize professional bodies that can determine competence. There are other professional bodies where they don't give credentials but they organize a central location for candidates and organizations to come together and they provide a standardized format to determine competence.

I find this especially baffling now that "data science" has become a buzzword. Lots of "data science" techniques such as:

- Generalized Linear Modeling

- Gradient Boosted Machines

- Support Vector Machines

- Random Forrests

- The Simplex Algorithm

- Anything with the word Bayes or Markov in the title

were developed by Statisticians/Mathematicians. Even though hospitals and insurance companies and the Fed and logistics companies are able to find statisticians/operations researchers/ predictive modelers/ etc. with out problems why do tech companies such as AirBnB(https://www.quora.com/How-does-Airbnb-hire-data-scientists) say they HAVE to give these multi-day long technical screens with multiple homework assignments?

What is it about applying the same techniques to tech that makes them special and some how harder to measure?
Blockchain is useful for a lot more than just Bitcoin
Also, hiding some menu actions behind an Alt-click, which is terrible for discoverability.
The transparency is worse than pointless. It is so distracting and ugly, it makes using macOS awful. When scrolling though a webpage (on macOS & iOS) the flickering color of the titlebar always makes me think the display is starting to fail — then I remember it's the stupid transparency.
Here is a video that shows the GPU in action: https://amp.twimg.com/v/b080f46d-e408-4348-864e-7cc12e40d1ac
Take a look at the challenge homepage, http://physionet.org/challenge/2016/

tl;dr ECG is much more accurate but requires a careful, controlled environment. If it's possible to accurately predict heart abnormalities from sound, cheaper, easier to run screening tools can be developed for at-home use.
We already remove chemicals from the water that change people's brain chemistry (e.g., lead). Adding something entirely helpful doesn't seem that different from removing something entirely harmful.
Wow, I've never seen those in real life (I live in Poland). I know most of the results are photos, but I always encountered those in the form of icons, so my brain is still telling me that I'm looking at icons. It's a weird feeling ;)
Yes, in fact I do that myself. But a credit/debit card from a different country requires that you have or have had in the past residence there, generally speaking and once you have addresses in multiple countries there's very little that can be done to control that.
Just say no. If they sent anything short of a lawsuit, they aren't serious. And if they do proceed to a lawsuit, fight it, and counter-sue for your own expenses and trouble. You signed no contract with them, they chose to spend their own money on the project, and they did not complete the deal. That is just part of doing business. You owe them nothing.
On the other hand, if your idea of "the nature of language" doesn't include how listeners understand a statement then you are probably not thinking about the nature of language.
Comparison of function hooking libraries
It's available as a prescription in the US. A psychiatrist can prescribe it. There are other drugs that have less side effects that can be tried first though. I wouldn't take it without doctor supervision as it's very easy to reach toxic levels in your blood. Even while on it with a doctor you need blood work regularly. It is one thing that did finally start to help me after about 10 years of dealing with bipolar 2 (which included symptoms of not wanting to live).

https://www.crazymeds.us/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Meds/Lithium
Never got a single spam call or text in Germany either. I did get a bunch of credit card phishing texts while visiting the US (on a US SIM) and one or two calls from strange numbers that I didn't answer.

No problems with a UK mobile number while I lived there. Seems like mostly landlines are affected there?
Meh... Fair point on the icon for the photos app, but other than that the article is grasping at staws
you can make more money, you just have to take more risk, and it takes being quite knowledgeable, experienced, and careful to know what a good risk is and how to diversify it/hedge it.
I used to do research on gene sequencing on a GPU. For small sets it was quite fast (it's arguably a O(n^4) algorithm, though really a O(n^2m^2)) but once you couldn't fit the data set on the GPU it was dead slow.

This would solve that problem nicely.
> I think most startups do care, and have cared.

Maybe since I'm not in that space, that's why I haven't have seen that.

> What do you think of the ZFS/Linux licensing issue?

I am sad that Sun decided to make a GPL-incompatible license. However, a better question is "would there be proprietary ZFS forks if ZFS wasn't under a copyleft license". I can think of at least one company that would have such a fork and that alone is worth not making it permissively licensed. Same argument goes for DTrace, which has been ported to several proprietary operating systems (but you can get their modified versions of DTrace). At the same time, the CDDL isn't as strong as it should be but it's inconvenient enough that practically most companies won't bother to make a proprietary fork.

Overall, while it sucks for the GNU/Linux community IMO the net benefit for free software is greater (you can use illumos or even FreeBSD which incldues ZFS).

> if not considered a derivative of the kernel by the GPL?

I don't think anyone thinks of ZFS as a derivative work of the Linux kernel. The translation layer definitely would be, but nobody could seriously think a project almost as old as Linux and developed completely separately would be classified as a "derivative work" of Linux. DTrace is a separate topic.
No legal ground to pay them. Just ignore the noise and focus in your product.
Porsche reputedly makes $23,000 in gross margin contribution per unit. That's probably worth 50 VW Golfs in margin contribution.
> I guess the conspiracy theorists are already onto fluoride.

They are. I hope however that we can agree that they are in fact conspiracy theorists.
I'm just more frustrated with how Reminders seems to be so buggy on occasions where changes are simply not accepted. I suspect it's largely related to iCloud and possible sync collisions, but it's really frustrating and there is no clear indication that the changes you made were just simply rejected. Sometimes it's so bad that, e.g., moving a task in a list results in the task with its label being overlayed over another task. It's really bad. The other day I had the worst time trying to get OSX EC to accept changes to a task locally, when they were propagated across devices with apparently no problem. It's just so so buggy. The buggiest Apple software I am aware of.
You did see that I listed other options, right?
Removing the 3D effect on the Dock is the only visual change I'm onboard with. Too bad it looks so bad with transparency turned off. :/
Is that your "gut feeling"?
All the Business of Software Talks Ever in One Blog Post
Can you explain how you got the CEO's cell phone number? That sounds pretty amusing, honestly.
> You might also find this interesting

This was my summary of it when it was last posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11683235
Building a car is a little different than a phone, from pretty much any perspective.
Since the article spends quite a bit of time talking about icons, let me focus on that, too.

I think the old icons had too much detail in them to be visible at typical icon sizes. They ended up looking cluttered and over-designed. The new icons are simpler visually, making them clean and fresh. And they come in brighter, happier colors.

I much prefer the look of El Capitan over older OSs.
Took forever to load.

Is this another example of a "free" Oreilly book for one of those products that everybody wants to believe in but always fails (ex. Neo4J?)

So far as I can tell, CDNs are a scam. If you use http/2 and serve everything off one IP, you get fast loading consistently. Every DNS lookup you add to a website is just another chance for the web browser to go out to lunch for 30 seconds.
Ah watch out for the new headquarters building curse.

https://steveblank.com/2009/05/15/supermac-war-story-11-the-...
In the sphere of "talks," I know TED puts a big round carpet on stage that you're supposed to stay on while speaking. More generally for "carpets on stage," I've seen some smaller music venues and studios with carpets to make a nicer area for performers and to absorb unwanted sound (in the case of studios)