skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think that there was some bribery and game-riggery involved with the EpiPen. The Intercept had an article enumerating the various laws that the company had lobbied for or even had a hand in writing, almost all concentrated on either minimizing other manufacturers or encouraging the purchase of more EpiPens. The interesting bits are in the second half of the piece.

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/24/epipen-uproar-highlights...
I disagree. People working in the 'soft sciences' should still be aiming to work scientifically, so we should continue to describe them as such.

In practice it is very hard to measure up to the standards of good science in a lot of disciplines, where there's enough complexity to make constructing good experiments difficult.

I'm thinking in these rough categories:

1. Real science that demonstrably works now.
2. An attempt at science that may become (1) in the future, but doesn't quite work yet.
3. Pseudo-science. The trappings of science without the intellectual honesty.
4. Claims about truth that don't pretend to be scientific at all.

So, for category (2), we can have some respect for the scientific integrity of the practitioners, while at the same time being skeptical of the results and accepted theories for the time being.

There's also the side-matter of avoiding the engineer's sneer towards people who try to understand things but refuse to learn the maths. I don't think it's a helpful attitude, although I don't know what the right fix is.

I do partially agree with you though. It would be good to make sure that people making political decisions based on economics or sociology do understand that those subjects aren't quite ready yet.
Any research you care to share to support your claims?
Taxing proceeds of a crime doesn't necessarily compensate for the damage of the crime. The same applies to some of the greyer areas of finance. An individual can gain millions and pay fair tax on them whilst wiping out billions in value for others. Especially when it comes to insider trading where it's much easier to induce an artificial fall in a share price than an increase.

Sure, there is a certain strand of right-wing economist that has got the wrong end of Coase's argument about transaction costs would argue that virtually all forms of financial shenanigans could, in theory be solved by investor consortiums that stand to lose billions paying the bad actors more than the millions they could earn through malicious activity to desist. But I don't think any sane person believes that shareholders agreeing to overcompensate executives even more to avoid them seeking to profit from insider information at their expense actually is a more efficient solution than aligning those incentives through the legal system.
Sorry for the off topic but is anyone else getting very high cpu usage from O'Reilly websites? Any known resolution or work around?

With Chrome developer tools I see one error:
"Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document."
WW3 HILARY CLINTON DEAD US BLAME ANYONE 4 FREINDLY FIRE KILLING ASSADS MEN AND
Still can't see a difference with before and after material design. It's seems an awful lot like the emperor's new clothes every time I see it discussed.
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Why not train a network on ad unit headings from Outbrain and the like. That seems like it'd be pretty spot-on. These in-situ pseudo-related-articles ad units are, by their nature, click-bait. Aren't they?
I've seen copious bad papers in EE and MechE journals. I'm not qualified to evaluate chem or physics research, but you'd think if any field would be hard to fudge, it would be engineering. Turns out this is not the case. The bad engineering papers I've seen tend to draw overly-broad conclusions while failing to document the methods adequately.
I'm the opposite, I always roll my eyes when doctors say that AI/ML will never replace human doctors, or at least that it can never replace their human intuition or empathy. Human intuition is exactly what will be superseded by machine learning. I know empathy is important, and I read something about lonely people being less likely to have a fast recovery, but it just isn't all that important for accurate diagnoses or treatment.

Further reading from Vinod Khosla: http://fortune.com/2012/12/04/technology-will-replace-80-of-...
Just noticed, yeah you're right on the difference. I'm curious to what AM Best might rate Lemonade. Or how their numbers line up against some peers. A small part of me wonders how AM Best would look at the fraud potential versus other approaches - make a difference? Maybe no, maybe yes. Just thinking out loud.
So if you watch a video, it'll do that all over mobile data? Since I've never seen it use much, I always assumed WiFi Assist was just used for stuff like timely push notifications.
Safari has indeed a public bug tracker.
https://bugs.webkit.org
Well said. This goes (probably double) for the similar conversations about javascript, where lots of people question whether it should be used at all, which is a reasonable question for sites but not for applications.
I guess you missed my point. I'm sure the chemists had a good time.
If it is, it's for their anti-fingerprinting features and not for Tor. What I'm saying is that running Tor on a machine that also connects to the public Internet is a bad idea. Use full-system Tor through iptables at the very least, and ideally use Tor on the router or host machine so it's transparent to the guest.
I think he might be an HN user...

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/manhattan_project.png
What amazes me is how violently the run-of-the-mill programmer hates namespaces. Despite the fact that managing namespace collision is important for composability (either deliberate or accidental) and code generation.

This problem has, for instance, dogged RDF. All the time I hear about programmers who "don't want to learn SPARQL" and I think the heavy use of namespaces is one of the impediments. For most other programming languages it seems the opposite:

(i) half of the software managers in the world are driven nuts because their team is screwing around with Vagrant instead of working
(ii) it seems no programming task is too boring if you do it in rust or go.
yep, that's good if you want to retrain a pre-trained model for specific categories on new image data (that are pretty close to imagenet type images)
> STI; LRET works too, and it's faster for stupid reasons.

Interesting, didn't know that.

> This is an entirely ordinary sequence of events. [...] It turns out that this actually causes a problem on AMD CPUs

Sometimes I think that the hardware designers intentionally made kernel development complicated :D. Thanks for the heads-up!
Matthew Rocklin: Dask Cluster Deployments
seems like you can add this to the controversies listed in wiki --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Vekselberg

shame is an effective tool as a catalyst for change (sometimes)
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I have a license too but as I'm moving between workstations and sometimes between accounts even on the same machine, I don't always paste the license in, because it would be extra effort to dig it up and copy-paste it...

I bought it on day one when I discovered that Sublime supports Windows, Linux & Mac.

I wanted a "modern editor" after vim, which works the same way across platforms, easy to install and configure, supports proportional fonts and does save on focus lost, yet still neither a memory hog nor a snail.

I never would have paid just for getting rid of the nag screen, but I was so impressed with its quality, I just had to express my gratitude by paying. :)
yes, these constant reposts must stop!
Does this support 3D hardware acceleration? That seems to be a common problem for these types of setups.
It's just sitting on a windowsill.
Well, I thought of feedback as part of "hard-won experience", but yeah.
>why do terrorists and the like even bother with (seemingly much harder to obtain, though admittedly flashier) chemical and nuclear weapons?

What terrorists are you talking about? Seems to me like 99% of terrorists use regular weapons I.E. explosives, guns, and knives.
> Each plugin is still a static binary that is self contained, but you can load capabilities into the server in runtime.

In my Go code, I've just used subprocesses for that. Stdin & stdout, plus a simple serialisation format, and I'm done.

Not suitable for high performance stuff, of course, but good enough for my needs.
Once you go YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS for photographs, you'll never go back (having the exact millisecond would be neat though)
Hosting a social media contest: a look at the costs and benefits
Even to that standard, "the height of rigor" it is most certainly not.
We were relatively lucky since my wife gets access to medical supplies for almost free and we used the individually wrapped 'gauze' (not sure if the right name, basically squares of cotton in a gauze like pattern in layers) and water. If we go out, we researched and found other brands that had little ingredients as well and took those.

We also (if in the house) preferred to wash him over using nappies (small baby, fits well in a sink and its quite quick to clean up)
Your experience isn't in healthcare, finance, military, manufacturing or oil and gas (to pop a few verticals off the top of my stack), it would seem. Literally 80% of my (adult, American-enterprise-employed) students in 2015-2016 so far have IE9 as their desktop standard, and have to beg for a special exemption to be allowed to install Chrome or Firefox.
Hardware acceleration can be done using PCI passthrough to pass your graphics card on to the guest OS. IOMMU and VFIO are two terms I commonly see associated with this, but having never done it myself I am not sure what the difference between them is - perhaps someone can chime in?
Yeah I thought of that, but did not find an immediate solution. Anyway, just an idea.
Right, thanks. I did a quick search but that didn't turn up anything. I'll add the link to the SO question.
Non-replies are common for any kind of job search. It may be awful, but it is a fact.

Do not answer questions about required salary or past salary under any condition. If it is at all possible in a sales process (i.e. not a tag on the shelf) you want to discover what the "solution" is worth to the customer.

It goes both ways. Sometimes I find somebody who sets a price for their services which is 1/10 of what I think is a fair price and then I don't think this person is taking the job seriously.
What it has taken me 33 years to learn (2013)
What you've noted does exist, but the second line is more like building a 'tower' which is still in the primary layer. There's quite a bit of diversity in the reinsurance market so you're right about certain types, usually purchased by small businesses with large vehicles (cement mixers) who can't get enough in the primary.

But, in insurance companies buying insurance, there's some differences.

I'm not licensed but I do know the "Quota Share" structure is quite industry accepted for a few different lines (property being one, casualty, auto). So the % of risk retained versus ceded at various points to reinsurers is exactly the contract structure. Within that structure there are some limits and retentions that get hammered out during the contract and negotations ($XXX,XXX per occurrence of X, Y, Z, etc). But the point of this is that yes a company can retain XX% and reinsurers, usually several, split up dibs on the other XX%, sometimes in layers as well.

It's pretty interesting stuff and the numbers of what's out in the markets for underwriting is definitely an eye opener.
AFAIK the only way to achieve this is to pass-through a GPU via VT-d. This config does not appear to support this though. If you search github for this line, you will find other configs that support doing this- https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/macOS-libvirt....

Edit: It's relatively easy- blacklist (or uninstall) GPU drivers from host machine, and pass the PCI address to qemu. Performance is not perceptibly different from native. Other things you probably want to do are enable hugepages, pin virtual cpus to physical cores, and use vfio for network- https://github.com/pmj/virtio-net-osx.

It's also possible to run boot OSX using UEFI mode, which removes the need for the binary blobs in this repo.
The script seems to use qemu's default VGA graphics chip. I'm not sure whether you can get anything faster to work, given Apple's limited graphics driver support.
Mutations occur in bacteriophage. Those mutant bacteriophage which can attack previously resistant bacteria are then selected for and become more prevalent.
The Code Coverage Paradox
It doesn't change color for me in safari 10. Is this a joke?
Why? Individual action is utterly irrelevant for any global problem, and the pontificators know it. What can help is changing the incentive structure for the consumption of millions or billions people; i.e. carbon taxes, power plant tax incentives, new solar/wind tech that makes it cheaper than oil.

Given 95 million barrels of oil being burned every day, it matters not an iota if a rich guy sets fire to an entire barrel of oil - but it matters massively whether he lobbies for a carbon tax or whether he uses his influence to spread lies to prevent one.

As an aside, the same applies for taxes - I am not a hypocrite if I make use of a mortgage tax deduction while at the same time arguing that it is a nonsensical and highly destructive tax.
yeah, it could work for sure if latency is not an issue. It's also possible to do a go->C->go bridge to load Go plugins dynamically.
> You don't understand people fighting for their rights?

Are or should those be their rights? If I _voluntarily_ step into a volcano should that volcano be liable for my actions?
Microsoft AI against cancer
Here comes a piece of history.
I replied this to my Sublime Text 2 purchase confirmation email I got from Jon Skinner on 2011/08/30:

> hi jon,
>
> my salary was reduced by 30% just yesterday, but when i woke up today,
> they 1st thing i did was purchasing sublime. it's that fucking awesome!
> i wish it would be open source, so people could learn from it...
> but, hey, i doubt many open source developers could contribute quality
> code to it.. :)
>
> if u could implement the elastic tab stop feature (which has some reference
> implementation on the nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ site), then i
> would be happy to pay another 60bucks for it.
> actually, u could sell separate license for the version which has this
> feature...
> i know it would be quite elitist, but it worked well with the black macbooks
> back then...
Whatever you do, do not use Google Allo: Edward Snowden
Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV [2013]
Some sort of high level body magic would work too, I'm thinking about some kind of general purpose blood-magic ritual.

I know optimism in and around computer tech is through the roof, but the levels of delusion on tech disruption topics in our community never ceases to amaze me.
Look up "schedules of reinforcement," or see the first chart here: https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psy...
It's like the Typical Mind Fallacy, but for bodies/health.
You said Linux was "a real threat, especially with MS failing to innovate."

This was an unrestricted claim that ignored a massive amount of Microsoft innovation. I pointed out that you were wrong and now you're quibbling about another of your personal opinions. Why make the same mistake twice?

Seems to me that the whole Microsoft Windows ecosystem -- across Azure, PCs, games consoles, smartphones, and iOS and Android devices -- shows far more innovation than Linux.

If you want to provide a list of Linux innovation to compare with my incomplete list above, I'd be interested to see it.

Be even better if you could address the whole market, without restricting it to your personal peccadilloes.
I would rather make a game a million people play for free than making a game that nets a million that only one person plays
That's my point. When you have so much money to invest you (are forced to) capture a more representative slice of the market and regress closer to the mean.
Is it possible to run several OS' on a single machine with fast switching between them, access to all hardware, and at full or almost full speed?
Is there some kind of "statute of limitations" thing that means we're suddenly finding out about a string of breaches from 2012 now?

Or is there some group that is trading breach data privately that have themselves been compromised so that data coming from them is finally leaking out?

I'm now more worried about the 4 year delay in these things coming to light than the effect of the breaches themselves given how many times I now show up on haveibeenpwned.
Did you edit the comment? I cannot recall reading that at all, but I may have been in a hurry.
Yeah but HDMI is compatible with DVI so if they had output it conversion would be a trivial dongle. I think the point they're making is that they had digital output but didn't take advantage of it. But the digital out they had at the time was probably a standard they thought was going to be the winner or long term so I don't know if I'd knock them for not knowing what is obvious with hindsight.
What Math Looks Like in the Mind
< I need the 3D hook

What about using a combination of StageXL and ThreeJS?
Then use Cordova to package your HTML5-based app?

http://www.stagexl.org/
http://threejs.org/
https://cordova.apache.org/
Sublime is slowly making me end my hold out that Textmate will one day take over again.
I tried doing this the other day, hoping that I would finally be able to get a working OSX setup on my desktop (have made several attempts with no success at getting it working bare-metal on my Z600). Sadly it just ended with more kernel panics, something I was hoping would be avoided as I got the impression from some sources that QEMU was a more straightforward solution than trying to run it on bare-metal.

Having said that, I've been getting more and more frustrated with OSX (had a great experience with Leopard on a PowerBook G4, and my 2013 MacBook Air is easily the best laptop I've owned, however personally I don't care for the direction that they are taking OSX these days), and ended up using it as an excuse to update to the latest version of elementary OS, which certainly isn't without its teething problems.
I definitely plan to integrate the futures library in the kernel somehow. We just need some asynchronous things and threads first :).
I would think that would be UI overload for such an edge case.
Where will the next major advance towards general purpose AI come from?
The comment I replied to led with a general point about greed in the medical industry getting people killed, and was in a thread about EpiPen. If it wasn't meant to be a comment on the medical industry generally, not just a specific case in Russia, that's pretty weird.
... How? If anything, Gitlab seems to have grown a lot recently. As far as I can tell, the competition with Gitlab is one of the main reasons GitHub has started releasing so many features (many of which Gitlab had first).
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Show HN: Register to vote via SMS chatbot hello.vote
I think the problem with making profit out of it is that it's very time consuming(read - expensive) process, which has to be tailored to every person individually. In theory, a phage therapy could save someone who doesn't react to any other antibiotics, but the therapy would need to be prepared specifically for that one person. At least that's what I read about this.
A chatbot I built with FightfortheFuture.org that makes it really easy to register to vote. Takes only 10 text messages to gather information, and then we submit to the state or send you a PDF.

Directly submits to states in CA, MA, VA, IL, GA, CO, AZ. Working on further integrations in PA (where there's an API), and other states with online systems that don't have CAPTCHAs. We'd love to work with other voter registration innovators like Vote.org, VotePlz, NovemberApp, TurboVote and Rock the Vote to improve online voter registration for everyone.

Will be open source after the election. Code is Node.js, Python and Jekyll.
Sure. That's why I did it on my own.
using lex and yacc, is not the same thing as knowing how lex and yacc work.
I'm happy to be "banned" for protecting myself online.
That is pretty impressive. I spent hours upon hours getting OS X to run on a Linux host in KVM and QEMU. Eventually I did get it to work, but things like Messages.app had no chance of working. That was actually my goal - to create my own little Messages API so that I could send automated messages to myself. I ended up just scripting Messages.app on a real Mac and that works really well, even 2 years after. I remote control my house that way.
Smash color – Popping drops of paint before they will fill your screen
A screen-oriented text editor with undo and search/replace. Can you make it handle a 10MB file without "simple" operations having annoying delays? How about 100MB? 1GB? 100GB? With no line breaks in the file?
I would love to read a long-form article about this if you're ever inclined.
How to Load CSS and JavaScript Faster
Like Qt Quick?
Using Vmware, and passthrough for the videocard you can achieve this with Linux as the host and Windows as the guest.

Not sure if it's possible with OSX.

What we really need are video drivers for OSX, for virtualbox and/or other virtualisation solutons, so OSX as a guest can work really well.
Truly aligned incentives are almost impossible to achieve - in a lot of situations, "mostly aligned most of the time" is the best we can hope for.

For example, if my startup is renting servers from AWS our incentives are aligned in the sense that we'll buy more from AWS as we get more users; but unaligned in the sense that if we're using more resources than we need to AWS wouldn't profit from pointing that out. Indeed, even an externality-free positive-sum deal between two parties brings with it a zero-sum deal in deciding how to distribute the benefits.
The fastmail mobile app is a complete joke. Is so slow and so buggy. There now pushing their marketing towards business clients.
Both are proven tools and should be used by any serious frontender.
Pick SCSS, it's your most advanced option; you won't hit a limit in what you ultimately want to achieve.
I agree with vinceguidry's comment.

Perhaps I wasn't clear - of course you should be careful about naming things well (one of the hardest problems in CS, right? :P), but using consistent terms, case and the like is one thing.

A large part of CSS naming conventions is doing more convoluted stuff such as business-page__contact-form__submit--disabled, just because there are other submit buttons on your website and you don't want some styles to clash. This is the part that is abstracted away by automatic solutions.

If your favorite programming language scoped all variables globally, no matter where you defined them, sure you could prefix them with the name of the current function to solve your problem, but it'd be painful and error prone.
No, it doesn't and there is no graph returned whatsoever. It's just a list of the top classification labels for the image (see example at the tutorial he cited https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...). This is not the result of a segmentation but is rather a list of the top labels the model believes this could be. If you look at the top results you'll see they're usually similar/in the same family (again, refer to the example in the linked tutorial, the top 3 labels are: military uniform, suit, academic gown). This is literally the normalized output of the nodes of the last layer in the neural network (where each node corresponds to one category). If you added all probabilities together it'd sum to 1.
URL changed from http://uk.businessinsider.com/yahoo-to-confirm-2012-hack-200..., which linked to this