skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I have serious reservations, I do appreciate philosopher Paul Feyerabend's idea of science as "epistemological anarchism." In the end, all rule-based concepts of how to accumulate knowledge and understanding fall victim to methodological problems: the only way to really do science is a no-holds-barred, anything goes attitude of a mind against the universe.
> It can be disheartening to realize that your most unique and amazing idea is not unique or novel in most respects and that it will be competing in a pool of several thousand games with similar ideas

This is why you should only make stuff that you want for yourself. The second you get caught up in making money and comparing yourself its now work and good luck sticking with it.

I always turn this around and think what i don't like about the big successful games. Then once you take out what you don't like it the game no longer seems totally overwhelming with features.

For example,

Uncharted = Press X to climb walls 90% of the game.

Witcher 3 = spend 90% of the game talking to tons of intricately modeled quest characters you have no idea who or what they are doing in the game since nothing makes sense.
Honestly, after minecraft - no
Sir, its not graphics. If somebody buys into your world at turtle graphics, he will buy in and add to it.
We all defended carbordfort in the war of the stickguns against those pesky neighborhood guerilla.
Automotive and ads
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/telenav-reports-fourth-quarter...
Perhaps one more: guaranteed once-only delivery.
I agree that it's a good format. It's an engineering compromise. The benefits you see also cause creshal's comment:

> Beginning and the end, which continues to bite us in the ass until today, where we regularly stumble over bugs when one part of a toolchain uses one entry and the rest the other.

Do you think creshal is mistaken?

Of course they are due to bugs in the toolchain. That's a natural consequence of the file format. That's the whole point of creshal's comment.

What do you think I'm trying to say, because I don't understand your responses based on what I thought I was trying to say.
Even if they wouldn't "hop into bed" with other governments, if they had hopped into bed with the US govt. they would have lost revenue in those other markets, which would be likely to view Apple products as backdoored by the US government.

As a multinational company, it's in Apple's interests to maintain a 'no backdoors' strong privacy stance, or it will both lose foreign markets (that are afraid of US/other nation's backdoors) and have to contend with increased requests from various governments for backdoors/audits (they got backdoor access, why can't we?), and the associated revenue lose.
THIS. First I am very sorry to hear about your condition. I sincerely wish you all the best in dealing with the scourge of cancer.

Second, I can't backup your statement enough. Cancer is not related to diet or exercise, not one bit. Steve jobs got it and he lived on a vegetarian diet and lived a pretty zen lifestyle at home.

Not a human, but my dog who was an inside dog rarely went out except to do her business, and got skin cancer a few months ago. This totally blew my mind because I thought you only got that from over exposure to UV. When the vet told me it was probably genetic I was really schooled at that moment.

With all the radio waves, and microwaves blasting us 24x7, toxins in our food and water, it honest to god, matters not one bit how you eat or what lifestyle you choose to follow, cancer can get anyone at any time for any reason. I do not believe diet or healthy lifestyle make any difference on wether you get a cancer or not.

If it does make a difference I believe it is negligible.

P.S. FU$% Cancer!
Ditto. I thought of:

- They'll go to StarBucks or Nero or Costa some other god awful chain with over-roasted fully or semi robusta coffee

- They'll want me to explain what a flat white is

- They'll put sugar in my drink

- They'll get me some kind of American milkshake instead of a coffee.
I can't find anywhere in the article that says those photos were taken with permission.

I was under the impression that photographs were not allowed.
Can't taking a value from an array result in a panic? Quite the side effect.
Android Nougat has been finally released
Indeed. I find that the new annoying thing that people do is usually just a variation of the old annoying thing that people used to do. Social media is an enabler perhaps, but annoying people will always find other ways to be just as annoying. It's the people that are fundamentally annoying, the technology is just their weapon of choice in this case.
Not sure if he missed it on the support page, or simply is not willing to pay the added cost, but Google does offer a paid support option with both phone and email support options. Obviously the more you pay the quicker the response and more access you have to those options.
Shit non-mathematicians say about maths
Google cloud engine doesn't even exist. Google cloud is a platform that provides a product called Compute Engine. I use it. it isn't down.

a small subset of instances, from a single region are affected.

you're all idiots.
I think the whole point here is that marriage today has many aspects, and the legal aspect is completely orthogonal to the romantic aspect. One should be aware of both. If you want to bestow great depths of meaning on it, it's ok - a marriage like you describe is indeed a profound moment for the two people involved. If you consider this as the essence of marriage, fine - but the legal layer exists independently. By law and custom, it's attached to the union of two people. It may not define the interpersonal meaning of marriage, but it defines its meaning for the rest of society. It doesn't diminish anything, and there's no point in ignoring it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/governmen...
Is Amazon or Azure or Heroku really any different?

I've had similar problems in the past with Amazon shutting down services and providing little to no support to get it remediated. Even after paying for technical support, it was impossible to recover (in our case, it was a billing issue that was entirely Amazon's fault).

My general recommendations are:

- be sure you have fully scripted your deployment process,
- be sure you are making remote backups of critical data (often times this is as easy as setting up simple replication of S3 to GCS or Azure's Cloud Storage)
- rely as little as possible on their "value added" features
- if you do rely on their value added features, be sure you still have someone on staff who can quickly replace it with something minimal (e.g. know how to install your own mysql)

At the very least, this will put you in a position where you aren't 100% locked out of your data, or have to completely rewrite your application in order to move to another provider.

You don't have to go crazy with some kind of hot failover, or active-active deployment. Just have daily snapshots of your data and mitigate the risk of your PaaS provider.

No matter who your hosting provider is, you should probably have this sketched out as part of a "disaster recovery" plan.
Have you lived on $20k a year? It's desperation. You are constantly waiting for the next shoe to drop. Forget about medical costs, forget about the fact that anywhere you can do this is an unpleasant place to live, and far from everything. $20k a year and old age? There's a reason for the skyrocketing suicide rate of men in their fifties and sixties right now.

All I want for retirement is the same lifestyle I have now. Anyone who thinks that it's going to be somehow easier to live with less when they get older is fooling themselves. If you won't live like that now, you won't want to live like that later; you are just pushing the burden off onto your future self.
First of all, a Ruby developer would need to be convinced of the value of static types, in his/her domain. For the maintenence of large complex systems, they are invaluable, for web development perhaps less so. Advanced type systems simply allow one to statically verify more invariants, or in the case of higher-kinded types, allow one to make more sophisticated abstractions and reduce boilerplate. It's important to remember that every statically typed language is capable of being dynamically typed also. I can use string-keyed dictionaries and runtime tagged types in Haskell if I ever need to. What you loose is ease-of-use, which I guess is why Ruby is more popular than Haskell.
Why is the time to acknowledge longer than the time to resolve? I would have expected the opposite.
I agree very much with your first statement. With regard to self consciousness, I think it emerges naturally from cooperative problem solving with multiple agents. When cooperation is necessary, both language and the modeling of other's internal state become advantageous. The notion of self follows from that of others. Self consciousness is the result of model based reinforcement learning with multiple agents.
It's written in java/tomcat after I read for 15+ minutes and then backed out, as I don't use java.
I worked on a similar pipeline for renal cell carcinoma a few years ago [1], although we only published a small subset of results since parts of the pipeline (e.g., finding representative tiles, survival prediction) had better results being produced elsewhere in the lab.

Regarding the hook in the headline -- computers surpassing pathologists -- it's a bit like automated driving in that even if true the immediate problem is the social and economic system. That is, we're not going to be removing the pathologist from the diagnostic and prognostic process anytime soon for many reasons, so how instead do we leverage machine learning in concert with the human observer to improve the diagnostic system? For that reason, decision introspection may be as valuable a topic of research as improving classification accuracy: justifying a particular automated classification to the pathologist, directing them to representative regions, and describing regions of feature space in biological terms.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6945104
Though I don't wear socks with sandals (find it uncomfortable) I've found most people don't care or follow "fashion rules" people post online.

I recently saw one about not wearing shorts after you're 20 years old... I just had to roll my eyes. Enjoy wearing pants all the time in the summer.
I wonder if they are curbing their consumption of meat?
I want to say this story is personal for me.
NetIn: Create a team and work together at a startup
Sure you can:

{-# LANGUAGE ConstraintKinds #-}

import Data.Monoid

type Joinable = Monoid

something :: Joinable m => m -> m -> m
something = (<>)

But like MustardTiger says, don't.
I suggest reading the article.

"Google offers support solutions where you can talk to a person if you have a problem. We view it as problematic that interrupting an “allergic reaction” as a “support issue”. However, we would be willing to purchase top-tier support in order to get this resolved quickly. But there does not appear to be an option to purchase access to a human to get this resolved. Apparently, we should have thought about that before our project was suspended."
Jazz Jackrabbit 1 plus addon. Great game and music. I also played the second game and the unfinished third (3D) one - they were interesting, but lacked in comparison to the first one.

Another composer who had a similar music style was Chris Hülsbeck (Turrican, Giant Sisters, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FaAs4M3d0
WeChat: China’s Integrated Internet User Experience
I wouldn't mention the site publicly, and it wouldn't do much good anyway because there are literally hundreds of them that do this. There was a template floating around several blackhat marketing forums for a while with this functionality built in (the Flippa site I mentioned was based on this template).

I'll give you a whitelist instead of a blacklist. Unless you're seeing expensive, national ad campaigns from a given penny auction site and they are based in the US, more likely than not, there are no actual goods to be won. Even then, many use shill accounts to keep the bidding going until the item has reached the desired profitability from real, paid bids.
>>> If you are so much into having a remote team, then why would you discriminate against location right?

Well, minimizing the cost of running business is very reasonable, as long as it's fair to the employees which is subjective and complicated issue.

I think that this is a fairly complicated issue. Some points:

* if you pay the SF rate for developers in small towns in Easter Europe or Siberia or India or whatever, where the average salary is less than $750/mo and sometimes much lower, you might have some odd dynamics. Golden handcuffs and all that;

* however, it is reasonably often an intentional decision to live in a cheaper place, with less opportunities, etc, so that you can save more money. So not really fair to heavily penalize for that and questionable how much should you penalize;

* it's hard to adjust the numbers globally, really. There are some web sites about cost of living, but they ignore loads of details about the local dynamics. Often it's just a crowd sourced average.

So paying the SF (or NYC or whatever) rate globally probably wouldn't work, you need some adjustments. The severity of such adjustments is hard to get right.
So the name `mappend` is "completely wrong" in your opinion?

It's such a Haskelly response to say that I am not allowed to use a concept for what it was designed for, unless I use it in its full generality.
> A more logical explanation could also be insider theft. If that’s the case, it’s one more reason to question the usefulness of an agency that secretly collects private information on millions of Americans but can’t keep its most valuable data from being stolen, or as it appears in this case, being used against us.

If there's anyone still questioning the results of Snowden's move, here you have it. The Reuters opinion is stating that this data is potentially being using against us. If the perception that the NSA doesn't collect for the public good becomes broadly accepted, change can be achieved at a political level.
Get married and have some kids. You will stop caring about what others think pretty quickly.
I think one of the big problems in the US, is that most of the land and property is owned by someone else.

Trying to work at a community level here will likely get pushback from some property owners (likely remote) who will block any potential or even perceived increase to their taxes/expenditures even if you can prove ROI within 5 years.
I hope iOS takes up on the multitasking capabilities next year.
It's absolutely fair to criticize the gesture. You know how SJW's tell outsiders to check their privilege when they make the discussion about themselves? Platitudes similarly make the discussion about themselves instead of the cancer patient. "Fight it." Wow, you're so optimistic! "Eat more fruit." You're so knowledgeable! Since you're a certified nutritionist, am I eating enough Quinoa?

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/12/funeral.html

> (...) The hyena is caught awkwardly, so he rests his paws on the woman's shoulders, and now the sobbing woman must associate her last chance to be with what is left of her father with the stale breath of a sycophant waiting for his moment to be relevant.

> And while that's going on others are whispering to the quivering back of her coat, "oh, I'm so sorry", "I'm sure he really loved you", "are you ok?"

> Why did any one of them think they had the power, the right, to interfere with another person's mourning? This was between her and her father and God and no one else. Did no one notice that even the husband had given her space? Did they just think he was being a jerk? "I just wanted to comfort her." No, you didn't know what else to do, so you did that. "I didn't want her to be alone." That's because you are a terrible person.

I.e. the woman struggled to spend her last moments with her father while the surrounding mourners (each vying for her attention) entered a pissing-contest to prove who had more empathy.
When an article's title is misleading or linkbait, the HN guidelines call for it to be changed. Alas we can do nothing about misleading titles in the big wide world, but we can at least tend to our little corner of the internet.
Currently in California. I've been a remote employee since selling my own company 2 years ago.

First job was $90K.

Current is $125K.
The sibling comment points out property based testing (see QuickCheck), which is a good idea in any language. And yes - you don't need to write that many unit tests (but still some) when using a type system, because you can encode a lot of invariants in the types.

But still, my point stands - writing tests during early experimentation is a lot harder than just altering some type and letting the compiler infere what needs to be done or what you broke.

I've spent some time writing Clojure and still use dynamic languages a lot for smaller tasks, so I know both sides. This doesn't mean much, but I'd really encourage you to try some ML language and spend some time with a nice type system. Haskell is probably too big a time investment, so maybe try Elm [0] - it's very beginner friendly and a lot of the people using it come from JavaScript.

[0] http://elm-lang.org
It's really not all as bad as you perceive. This is more a problem with the mental state of the people in that line. The misery (if you see it as such) of vacation photos predates social media. You can go through some old family photo albums and see that. All social media does is broaden the audience. The pathology of misery might seek out social media, but that doesn't make social media the genesis of all that misery.

Without these photos, whether posted to Facebook, Instagram, or a family photo album, we tend to forget about wonderful experiences over time. A little work in the moment isn't such a high price pay as long as it doesn't consume you.

From the other end it's not all bad either. When I see my friends and family sharing pictures of their vacations, kids, and successes, it makes me genuinely happy for them. That's the only reason that I still check Facebook every few days. We don't all need to make life a contest.
May be it is the licensing requirement that is more ridiculous here.
America’s First Offshore Wind Farm May Power Up a New Industry
People get lazy and upload a bunch of highly prized top secret "keys to the kingdom" at once. Seems like the opposite of "Tailored Access".
If you don't think the sentence structure and word choice was extremely deliberate you are absurd.

They probably spent a lot of time on the message. Coded words or phrases. Embedded keys. Resistance to identification analysis.
would this fall under the PUC? I didn't think internet was considered a "utility"
Yeah, realize now that unless you're making daily headlines for your misdeeds or any gossip you may be generating is actively and visibly impeding your life, even those that gossip about you will be gossiping about something/one else tomorrow. In the grand scheme of things, as far as the world at large is concerned, you're meaningless. Not to say you are meaningless, you're quite probably a most lovely person, but if you take the number of people who know you, that you care about and care what they think, divide that by the number of people in the world and the resulting number relates somehow to the amount of significance you have. Given that lack of significance, which is remarkably unfair considering how awesome you are, does it really matter what you do as long as it doesn't land you in prison or impede your freedom? I mean, if nobody gives a shit, why should you waste time caring about what they think? It doesn't serve to make you happy in any way...
Fedora 25 Will Use Wayland as Default Display Server
This is the google M.O. - optimize all processes through cheap machine learning and heuristics and accept that some people will get screwed along the way.

The number of people that can be served at very little cost without any human involvement is apparently very lucrative. Google just considers customer service as an archaic relic that predates the invention of behavioral algorithms.
There are plenty of people who are happy to live in Nebraska. Warren Buffet is happy in Nebraska. You think you're too good for it or something?

Yeah, either be worth a couple million, or buy property in a smaller city or town. If said city or town is lame, make it better. We live in one of the biggest countries in the world. You don't have to live in SF or Manhattan, nor are you entitled to.
> Integers are monoids.

I think that one bad habit that Haskell promotes is statements of this form, which are true in Haskell because of the way Haskell forces you to define typeclasses, but aren't really "true" of the concepts modeled by typeclasses. (Integer, +, 0) defines a monoid, as does (Integer, ×, 1).

> Things that can be appended is a subset of monoids, not a description of them.

The key operation that defines a monoid is the append operation ("mappend" in the definition of the Haskell typeclass Monoid, to avoid collision with the list-specific "append" operation), which for the monoid of integers over addition is (as the name suggests) addition.
You don't have to explain yourself to anyone, just say "I don't like coffee, I'll get a tea/water/juice/etc". Easy—a lot of people don't. Whatever ideas about people thinking you're weird or disliking you because of that are false.

I don't get sugary coffees either. I just order a black coffee. If anyone asks (rarely happens) I just tell them I don't like sugary or sweet/caramel drinks (I don't).
No. Choose Boise or Bozeman, MT.
Display the cryptographic signing information about any file on your Mac
Given that F/SF is often considered to be about the present (a la Disch, Gibson, etc.), I would say that the device of delivering a letter is just a foil for the social commentary of the story, which clearly is not a prediction about the future of Beijing but a commentary on social stratification today.
Not everything here is perfect but there are a lot of things that I like. Good example in my line of work is that it's a "delegated practice" state, like South Carolina. This means that different EMS services can use their own medical director instead of how it was in California where the county had one that all of the providers had to use. This allows a lot more flexibility and for more progressive pre-hospital protocols.

It's been a pretty good system.
LAPD helicopters surrounded an unidentified object or ufo over Hollywood, CA
This is a silly statement I see time and time again. Does the tool provide you value and solve a problem you have? Then use it. You are an engineer.

To show how silly it is, imagine if you were talking about another program that was incredibly useful like grep for example:

"It's written in c after I read for 15+ minutes and then backed out, as I don't use c."