skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU is accountable, democratic and transparent (more transparent than some countries, like Germany, within the EU anyway).
Which part stops talking to you, if it loses consciousness and slips into a coma?

That's the part that sues you for malpractice.
I was wondering about that as well given that the dimensional analysis didn't work out, thanks.
Curious if it is deployed in production and if so at what scale.
unixtime is an integer, it has no concept of some seconds being different to other seconds - leap seconds only matter when converting this integer into a "human readable" format :)
> Compared with markdown, drool is minimal without signals like [ or !. drool will not make a literary article look like programming codes.

looks at demo screenshot

> There is @@a link to @@./demo.webp https://www.google.com/ncr
Guess I'll do that, thanks !!
In one example, GM has coopted "Eminence Front" by the Who, without checking what the lyrics might mean.

If they checked it and used it anyway, then... well, okay then. It feels like they didn't check.
How does Kim Kardashian posting a picture of herself eating a placebo violate your privacy?
This probably isn't the best phrasing:

> It sounds like you had a really bad experience, which of course is your prerogative.

Sharing it might be someone's prerogative but labelling their experience this way doesn't feel up to HN standards.
Doesn't it come down to what can be exchanged and retain jwn?

jwn's head on a different body may be taller and slimmer, but the personality remains. It should, in essence, still be "you". Vice versa and we get a completely different person but with about your height and build.

So on that basis I think I prefer to think of body transplant to head transplant.
News companies have tools to help schedule advertisements in ways that don't make the advertiser look bad (airing a segment on oil spills then don't advertise BP).

While advertisers don't explicitly ask media companies not to run negative segments, they can book a large commercial inventory and incentivize as much.
I was about to mention that the DDHHMMZ format is used to stamp aviation weather reports and forecasts too, but I see the article beat me to it. :) Anyway here's the current (as of this comment) report from SFO if you're curious about what they look like:

KSFO 301656Z 29011KT 10SM FEW008 SCT160 19/13 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP165 T01890128

You can see the timestamp in the second element. Once you learn the format it's second nature, really.
Woohoo! I remember taking a C programming course from John Shipman (the author of this post) back in the day.
The goo.gl short URLs in (parentheses) are really annoying. They totally hide the content behind the links.
Using gas as a gameplay mechanic is such an obvious idea in hindsight. It's a glimpse into what "blockchain-native" games could become in the future. Apologies if this is a well-known trend and I'm just now learning about it, but I think it's pretty cool, and it's neat to see how this game implements it.
Learn how to use the tool in general as part of my Big Data course.
HN is one column, but it's 85% of the page. G+ content is a fixed 530px.
Ireland gave Apple tax breaks that were not theirs to give. Just as a worker can't give a break to an employer and work for less than minimum wage (even if they want to, and even if they wrote the contract!). The ruling was effectively saying "Apple does actually owe those taxes to Ireland, even if they were willing to forgo them, since it is against EU rules for Ireland to give tax breaks of that nature." It actually is reasonably equivalent to a court declaring a company needs to give backpay to a worker to make their wages equivalent to minimum wage, even if the worker doesn't want the money.
Single Founders: Alert
This is supposed to be about keeping the medium itself impartial.

When we converse in person, the medium (air) doesn't discriminate. Let's have a 'Net like that.

What are you talking about?
The Ghost Who Codes – How anonymity is killing your career
Re: e-residency, https://www.leapin.eu are guys building a convenience overlay on top of the government provided services
China considers banning western lifestyle media
Perl 6 regexes are parsed at compile-time (i.e. they're code just like any other code) so using incorrect regex syntax, eg unknown characters, results in a compile-time syntax error.
It struck me as odd, too, but then I realized I didn't know the cultural background of interviewer or interviewee and maybe it was a welcome, completely normal question. It's useful to keep your own dispositions in mind when analyzing someone else's conversation.
> I won't comment on the specifics of this case, but a more nuanced approach regarding security is preferable because it favours transparency.

Certificate Transparency solves a lot of this already. It'd be nice if you could flag your domain as being only acceptable from a CA of your choosing. I don't even think the false positives would be an issue as worst case you have security conscious customers not coming to your site (i.e. you make the business decision).

> If a vendor/CA/whatever knows that they will die if anything comes out, they will bury things like this even deeper.

There's already ways to handle this. Rather than signing everything with your top level cert, you sign a series of intermediate certs and use those to sign the end user keys. The intermediate certificates would be rolled over every N days and creation of new ones should happen offline (i.e. where you keep your master CA cert, the "approved" one).

If you have a system like that in place before shit hits the fan, the damage is isolated to the impacted intermediate certs which could be selectively revoked/blacklisted. If a CQ has not taken those precautions then they've got no recourse when something like this happens.

From a user's perspective, I wouldn't want my browser/OS/app to trust any certificates from these losers. If they can't isolate the damage that's their and their customer's problem. I'm not going to compromise my security for their sake.
Another article about this is http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-drive-cap..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12391391.
You can get a guarantee right now. It's called an SLA. It costs money. There are negotiated terms for what happens in the case the SLA is not met.
React has never been about speed (if you look at the official dev posts, speed is never listed as a top priority) but rather about not being slow (sCU check and whatnot). It's the slowest vdom implementation I know of, but it's fast enough and the network effects from being the biggest make it good enough. If you're interested in faster vdoms then check out inferno (fast), snabbdom (simple), mithril (compact), or domvm (flexible).
The compiler already depends on the state of the file system though, notably because it depends on the source code. In the above case, the xml is essentially just another source file that happens to not be in the same language.

An important difference is that the compiler doesn't know it's using that file ahead of time, which could have some unforeseen consequences, but I don't see anything immediately worrying about that fact since the compiler didn't know about the source either at it's own compile time.
A lot of good stuff also came out of IBM Rochester (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rochester), Minnesota.

ADDED: They were tapped to develop what was going to be to the System/360 what it was to prior systems, that got canceled for the obvious reasons, and various of those things ended up in what's now their IBM i (formerly best known as the AS/400), which under the hood is light-years beyond UNIX(TM) and its progeny.
Initially Google+ was Google's big foray into social networking and while it gained users it never grew to the size of a Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace. But nowadays it's kept that capability along with bringing in aging Google features such as communities (it seems clear to me that communities will eventually only live in Google+).

From the outside looking in it looks to me like Google+ is going to be the hub in which users can interact with all of Google's properties that have a mechanism to work with and collaborate with other, public users. They likely still have millions of users.

In comparison to Facebook sure it's a massive failure. But I'm of the opinion that isn't an accurate nor useful comparison.
You can't strongarm a truly random sample. Alas, hah.

For some stuff you have to ask people to come on site, which tends to self select a bit. Sometimes you get... interesting folks.

(Just talking generally about onsite user testing, not involved with G+ in any way)
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Although I think not what was being referred to, the UK and Ireland do have a more porous border than most EU states do with their non-EU neighbours.
This is why I love angular 1.x so much. I was able to make a product in no time with no experience. Everything was so straight-forward for my mind.
California, and therefore "Silicon Valley", still enjoys the unique advantage of non-competes being unenforceable, creating a particularly liquid market in talent.
Why doesn't it?
>End that, and you end new drug development

To be fair, most of the "new drug development" that is needed is not what is most profitable. I'm not sure if 30 versions of ED medicine really translate to a better social outcome for us all, really.

Similarly, there hasn't been a lot of new development from Mylar on the epi-pen that connects it to its recent 67% price hike, has there?

I'm not naive enough to think it immoral that drug companies investing in R&D should be fairly compensated, however being willfully ignorant of what is happening in Pharma R&D in the US doesn't really help matters.

The simple reality is that taxpayers fund a good deal of pharmaceutical R&D, drug prices have little to no relationship to their actual cost, and these companies do a very good job of exploiting loopholes to pay as little tax back into the system as possible. There are a lot of issues there, but at the end of the day, the only reason drug prices are so high in the US is that consumers aren't protected from hikes in the same way they are by other countries that view affordable health care as a part of their mandate. I think you'd probably get a lot more benefit overall in reverting the US to a model similar to the rest of the world, rather than forcing the rest of the world to abandon their previous positions in Trump-like bluster. The US isn't as isolated as some of its citizens think it is.
Bukowski published his first novel at 51. He had written a couple of stories and poems before his 30s, but spend most of the next 1.5 decade drunk and not writing.

Burroughs published his first noval at 39. He had just written a few articles until then.

Walt Whitman first published a poetry book at 36.

Toni Morrison wrote her first novel at 39.

Bram Stoker wrote Dracula around 50. He worked as a public servant before, and wrote theatre reviews.

Anthony Burgess (of Clockwork Orange fame) first published at 39.

Raymond Chandler worked as a businessman (in the oil industry IIRC) and started writing novels at 51.

Wallace Stevens, celebrated poet, worked office jobs, and first published at 35, but his best work was done in his 50s. He went on to win the Pulitzer price at 75.

Beatrix Potter wrote her first book at 35.

Jules Verne, who went on to write tons of classics, started at 35.

Ian Flemming worked as a spy in Britain, and only started writing his books (James Bond) when he was 44.

In another genre, Martin Rev released his first album (with Suicide) at 39, Leonard Cohen started as a singer/songwriter at 33, and Vi Subversa (nee Frances Sokolov), started singing and performing as the vocalist of the influential Poison Girls punk band at the tender age of 44, and as a mother of two.

>Early means in your teens, early 20s. After that it is near impossible to master the unconscious mastery of the basics of whatever craft you choose.

That presupposes that you need to. Modern painters don't need to learn to learn to paint like Michalangelo to express themselves (and many don't know), modern musicians don't need to go into classical training or even know the scales (e.g. somebody like DJ Shadow and tons of others).

As for writing, it can be more about sensitivity to details and having an interesting story or viewpoint to express, than mastering some genre rules. One can learn most about writing from having read a lot (which is also what most writers advise young writers to do).

Kind of like how you don't need to study CS and study TAoCP to learn to program and write something useful. There are stories that picked up programming later in life and went on to write succesful apps and open source projects.
the individual post pages contain a lot of whitespace, yes. But text looks better at a narrower width. what do you want them to do, fill up the gutters with ads just to colour your pixels?

the main index page wraps nicely to multiple columns when you're on a larger screen.
Delightful cause behind muscle atrophy.
Annoys me on a daily basis because I have to keep working out to maintain my shape, but makes so much sense once you see why it is the way it is.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388563 and marked it off-topic.
> In public, as in private life, the important thing is tolerance and kindliness, without the presumption of a superhuman ability to read the future.

Wise advice in any age, and perhaps of particular value in ours.
Politicians in the US and UK have also claimed they want to ban encryption. Unless the CA is literally run by the government (which some Chinese CAs are, but not this one), it doesn't make sense to penalize them for dumb things their country's politicians say.
Just like individual income tax for expats corporations only pay the difference between their foreign tax liability when moving funds to their US-based sister or parent companies, last I checked.
And I would love to see the "developers" who stomp their foot and say they're not going to fix bugs because that's maintenance shown the door.

Yes, this happens and yes it is very immature.
There's actually been a huge changeover in Google+ in the last year. Luke Wroblewski is the new product director there, and he's absolutely busted up some of Google's worst ideas of design. Another huge thing he's done is made the change and feedback process for Google+ extremely public, whereas since 2011, it's primarily been "people notice something changed" as with most Google sites, and now we get changelogs from the man.

I absolutely recommend people check out what he posts: https://plus.google.com/+LukeWroblewski is his G+, but he's actually surprisingly active on LinkedIn of all places, and I'm pretty sure Twitter as well.
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thanks !! well I'll start with hadoop and quickly understand HDFS and mapreduce by doing small projects like page rank or wordcount and move on to spark soon.
Well, having to give your actual name was a painful, and with all the bad experiences with Facebook closing people's accounts because Facebook didn't believe people had last names like "Yellow Bird", Google was probably not given the benefit of the doubt and they have a second problem.

Google doesn't do customer service well. I'll give a current example from yesterday that I posted on HN. If you go to news.google.com and search for: North Dakota Indigenous people, you will get an article from snopes.com with a totally wrong and, frankly, racist headline with a one paragraph description that reads like a hit piece on the ND governor. I submitted feedback and highlighted the article and yet its still there 24 hours later.

This horrible response to issues does tend to make people think about things.
I think they are trying to say that it's too difficult to distinguish noise from a real signal when we have no idea of what the underlying language or code is. I'm not really sure how that's relevant to this thread though.
I agree. The big guys are scared. I played with it a lot and the new Docker Swarm mode is really, really great. It's the Digital Ocean of orchestration. Granted, 1.12 is the first incarnation, has flaws and is unfit for production, but that will change. I can wait a few months.
Please don't. In HN threads the main thing to optimize for is signal/noise ratio, because that is what serves the site goal of intellectual curiosity. This is why the site guidelines ask you not to go on about getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Downvotes are irritating, of course, but it's an irritant we all have to deal with.
I think the org-mode syntax is way superior to markdown and should be more-widely supported.
In my experience, it most definitely is.
I don't know much about deep learning. Just noticed that there are 40+ upvotes and 0 comments. I propose the HN Bikeshedding effect theory. Take the number of comments and divide it by the number of upvotes.

<0.1 = Too technical for even HN audience
0.1-1.0 = At the right level for the HN audience
>1 = The topic is similar to painting the bike shed.
That's exactly my view as well. You don't have a "body minus liver" transplant, you have a liver transplant (i.e. you get a new liver). Here, you get a new body, not a new head, therefore body transplant.
People rant a bit on the new design, but they bury the lead on the most important difference. The "classic" G+ site was so terribly written and bloated that it took an AVERAGE of TWELVE SECONDS to fully load the page. (On single-threaded Firefox, this actually seized up the whole UI of the browser, too.) The classic G+ site was an awful, unredeemable pile of trash.
Can you elaborate?

I can't see any clear revenue path or exit for any tech investment out there, you couldn't even invest in a weed business out there like in Canada or the coasts of the US

What are huge opportunities we are missing?
"It has to be noted with regret that it was not our digital Commissioner Günther Oettinger who listened to the people and defended an internet not biased towards big corporate interests [...]"

That would hardly have been expected: in the first six months of being a Commissioner, Oettinger met with two NGO representatives but with 44 corporate lobbyists [1].

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/guenther-oettinger...
Home is like my Facebook feed, except with even less of my friends and even more ads (only because I follow companies).

Collections is like following random Pinterest boards created by other people. I don't know about others, but I like to follow official things, or things that have the most followers but none of that info seems to be surfaced. Featured really means nothing to me. Is it hand-picked? Randomly generated featured? Are they paid to be featured?

Communities are cool but it's really hard nowadays to beat the communities in subreddits. Anonymous users seem to give a lot more to the community in an unselfish manner vs. Google+ users seem to post in communities in a self-promoting manner. This could just be anecdotal and my subjective viewpoint but that's what I see.

I honestly don't know how Google can do social, but I'm glad they're trying different things. Hopefully they try something new.

Random thought: I find Slack very similar to Google Wave.
Thank you will look into it :)
This looks absolutely horrible on a 4k monitor http://i.imgur.com/jSlw0St.png
Can you please explain what makes this utility different than other OCR solutions? I've seen quite a few coming out recently. What is the secret sauce that makes this more than just a frontend for tesseract?
From what I can see, the course you mentioned looks very cool, however it seems a lot of the slides and linked papers are password protected. Do you have copies mirrored and/or know if the professor would be OK with these being shared?

(Don't worry if not, As much as I'd love to browse some of whats on there, I don't want to make extra work for you or get anyone in trouble!)
Which is exactly my point, the FED would not have gotten into this mess, and the ECB also shouldn't have.

The ECB was out of line not only in regards to common sense but in it's essence in regards to it's mandate.

The FED would not have have messed with the state notes, and it would surely not have threatened to shut down it's banks by saying it would not guarantee their liquidity and cut Cali banks out of the dollar payment system if Cali dares to allow it's private investment banks and bond issuers to declare bankruptcy.
>S16 companies had an average of 13.88 meetings with a median of 15 meetings. 15 was the maximum[...]

How is that possible.
You're right. That was a poor choice of words.
These is a flip side to this which is if you publish lots of details people tend to typecast you.

One theory of computing careers is that X% percent of workplaces are good ones to work for, and the other ones have high turnover. Most of the job listings are for high turnover jobs at crappy places and no matter what methods you use to get jobs you are very likely to end up working at places that will burn you out.

If you get one of those rare good jobs at a non-failing organization you can cruise along for decades, so if you are one of those lucky folks you don't need to promote yourself. If you aren't, then self-promotion will mainly speed up your progression from one crap job to the next unless you can break the cycle somehow.
Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs
http://time.com/35524/ageism-in-silicon-valley-is-causing-an...
I possess the gift of linkokinessis, thus without reading the article, i deduce, that any idea, that strives towards finality applied to reality will absolutely fail.

In memoria to all those jewish scientists, kolak farmers, chinese intellectuals and all those sweatshopped to death wherever the distributed ecocide of neo-capitalism hit.
.. which means only the bicyclists will complain. everyone else thinks there's no problem :)
It seems reasonable to point out that there is no 'Arduino' involved here - it's an ESP8266-based board programmed using the Arduino IDE with the ESP-8266 board support package installed.
I see this point, but I thought you meant that aspects of science mix with political thought. I can definitely see that science has consequences and influences on all kinds of things, including politics. In that case, every field is connected or related to another in some form or fashion.
I've been in the Kansas City developer market since 2002, and I can report that salaries for senior developers (java and .net) are going through the roof here. 110k to 120k is becoming common. At a very non coastal cost of living.
It's a great time to be a developer in the midwest!
Thanks for the interesting article. Although, from my reading, it seems to support the importance of both data handling and statistics in avoiding bias. That is, a bias in the dataset (or which subset is analyzed) would subsequently bias the statistical results (Box 1 and 2).

Regarding big data and ML, I guess the question is then what kind of biases exist in data collection, something that seems dependent on the details and history each particular dataset.
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The head transplant boils down to 3 problems: microsurgery, nerve regeneration and immunotherapy. Each of which is incredibly complicated, but the understanding is there to do things like full hand transplants (they don't restore full function, but the doctors apparently believe them to be useful enough to be ethical).

We have no idea how to artificially provide all the functions that the body carries out. We have some baby steps like dialysis, but how would the life support system deal with infections? Or take a look at the problems that various heart assist systems have with clotting and coagulation (blood likes to stick to the artificial surfaces).
Kylie looks like a zombie with a twisted left leg on that pic. Bleurgh...
More than half the companies have 15 meetings, others have lower numbers?

E.g. if there are 100 companies, 75 having 15 meetings, 3 having 14 and 22 having 10 would give an average of 13.87 and a median of 15.