skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't even aware of the "October 6 Event" the article references:

At dawn on 6 October, the military and the police as well as the three paramilitary forces began blocking all exits out of the university and shooting into the campus, using M-16s, carbines, pistols, grenade launchers, and even large-gauge recoil-less rifles.[10] Prevented from leaving the campus or even sending the wounded to the hospital, the students begged for a cease-fire even though the attacks continued.[11] The actors in the mock hanging had already turned themselves in to Seni at the prime minister’s offices.[12] When one student came out to surrender, he was shot and killed.[13] After a free-fire order was issued by the Bangkok police chief, the campus was stormed, with Border Patrol Police personnel in front leading the attack.[14] Students diving into the Chaophraya River were shot at by navy vessels while others who surrendered, lying down on the ground, were picked up and beaten, many to death.[15] Some were hung from trees and beaten, others were set afire while female students were raped, alive and dead, by police and Red Gaurs.[16] The massacre continued for several hours, and was only halted at noon by a rainstorm.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thammasat_University_massacre
Probably you won't see this anymore, but this is just one example of things going very wrong with iCloud documents:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/maybe-be-careful-with-os...

In general Apple has simply been terrible at ensuring reliability of their iCloud services. Their idea of hiding everything away simply doesn't work - there are legitimate and regular edge cases that won't be handled if you don't give a UI.

If want to hear the Siracusa story, see this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/44auj0/atp_155_liste...

I don't know about you, but I simply don't trust iCloud with documents. Personally, I've tried it with something very simple first: Notes. It just doesn't sync reliably at all, totally useless.
I've been using IPv6 on a consumer-grade cable modem connection with a Cisco DPC3008 modem and a previous-generation Apple Airport extreme since 2012. There weren't even any difficulties getting it working.
panic should be a "the world is ending" sort of operation.
With a bit of planning, there is no difference in quality of life for able-bodied people living in communities from "town" up to metropolis:

Center of large city (i. e. new York, Paris):

Above a certain density, public transport becomes the norm across all income levels (cf. bankers in New York).

Suburb of large city down to towns:

For commuters coming in from the suburbs, there are hundreds of cities that show that rail is an option that's affordable and it usually takes 1/2h to the city center.

What motivates people to buy cars seems to be mostly daily life within the suburbs: shopping, getting children to school etc. This is a failure of city planning, because it's perfectly feasible to combine the density of a suburb with local subcenters that provide all daily needs (schools, shopping, medical etc.) within walking distance (let's say 1.5 miles).

Taking the worst as an example, the density of Atlanta's suburbs is about 1000/sq mile (http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/city-vs-city/6570...). Meaning there are 7074 people within a mile of any given point. That's plenty to sustain the infrastructure to provide for daily needs, although it may mean a need for more, but somewhat smaller schools/shops etc. (If this isn't convincing, consider that Atlanta is the worst of the worst in terms of waste of space. You can easily fit 10000 people within a mile^2 and still have backyards for everyone).

It's only rural living that requires a car. The quality of live in large cities will dramatically increase in the next few years, if only because self-driving cars and car sharing require far fewer parking spots. These make up about half of the space required for cars right now, meaning their abolition could double the space available for pedestrians.
Here is the source:

https://www.janus.com/insights/bill-gross-investment-outlook

How does he benefit ? The way to win on the stock market is sometimes and somewhat cynically referred to as OPM (other people's money). Bill Gross has managed to convince a few large clients to invest in bonds through him (their money - his decisions) and has made quite a bit of money because of a sustained streak of good decisions. How does he benefit ? By convincing more people to put their money in one of his funds.

A more balanced report of what he's talking about is possible. Right now he feels that it is a necessity for capital preservation to be well protected against a large downside (which would translate into a big surge in interest rates).

On the one hand "past performance is not an indicator of future performance", on the other hand, it would be foolish to ignore this voice.

People should realize what the cost of "stimulating the economy" has been : long-term low-risk investments have done extremely poorly for 10, even up to 15 years in some cases. High-risk investments have done well, but with several big "oops" moments that challenge capital preservation. Combined with this, regulation of pension and bank investments across the globe have emphasized capital preservation and forced these organisations to put significant investments in low-risk-and-now-extremely-low-yield investments. This currently means, if you're under 35-40, you effectively don't have a pension if you're not in the 0.1% (ie. you're not a director at least ? You don't have a pension). That age is going up, and it's not like it's doing any favors for people who are older. In other words: we've forced banks and pension funds to move away from "more risky" things, nonzero odds of failure for certainty of far-off failure. We have decided to have an almost-certain failure of our pension systems, so governments can spend more today "to save the economy". That save part is in quotes because while people were quite certain that was what they were doing 8 years ago, let's say that the enthousiasm for this viewpoint has gone below freezing in the past year or two.

A more cynical person might say that governments have decided that while they will constantly loan money, they will no longer pay interest. Bill Gross' critique is that this is the feedback mechanism that balances governments spending against private sector growth spending (because the government is a negative for the economy. It's a necessity, roads, healthcare, etc, but a negative. If the public sector grows "too much", as history has proven time and time again, a total crash follows).

Assuming there's no total crash (because you don't prepare for that. If that happens, it's over and what you did or did not do doesn't matter. So you prepare for the other options), what people are predicting will happen, given the models of 1972, 2001, 2008 and even before 1929 and the like is that a sudden massive inflation spike will occur coupled with a fall in asset prices (like houses and ...), and especially a fall in stock prices.
I don't think that was necessary.

There's a few points where he exaggerates or otherwise overstates comparative claims about Rome, but his research into the antiquity cultures of Asia Minor/the Middle East is both accurate and refreshing considering how little recognition they get outside of anthropology and (specialized) classics. The comparison of contemporary Chinese and Roman power is also a valuable one - it's not often brought up in either one's respective historical studies.

It's worth keeping in mind that this is a Medium post by a blogger. It's not peer reviewed, and it should be read with the author's opinions and goals in mind.
I see your point, but NYC pedestrians tend to make up for it by simply walking fast (with the highest average pedestrian walking speed of any city in North America). The really long blocks have always seemed like a questionable decision to me.
I believe on Wikipedia it is mentioned that the price was originally awarded soon after the discovery. However, after several occasions where a discovery awarded the Nobel price was later invalidated Kama they switch to the present practice of interpreting it as the benefits becoming clearer in the past year, rather than the discoveries.
> Medicine? Let's be serious: almost all medicine before the 1800's was placebo

Is this a joke?

The First Recorded Case of Inflammatory Mastisitis - Queen Atossa of Persia and the Physicial Democedes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1034507/

I can't find the source now, but it's known that antibiotics derived from molds such as penicillin have been in use for a very long time.
Happy to take that bet.
fwiw, gold doesn't have an economic policy either.

But the difference is that with fiat, "no policy" means they'll do whatever they want in the future. With cryptocurrency no policy is more like an unbreakable policy of no tampering.
Or you can just copy the media directly from the stream.
How I came to love an annoying millennial: Bots are people too
Ask HN: Apps or chatbots for mobile commerce future?
Will consumers adopt chatbots and make them their preferred interface for mobile commerce, or will apps remain the destination of choice? There definitely seems to be different use cases for both, discovery vs search.
There are TONS now; Especially newer static generated sites where the owners don't bother setting up RSS
original source is spot 3 on the front page...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635848
Note that the Samsung Galaxy S4 -- or, more correctly, a specially "hardened" version of it -- is the only device supported by DISA's DoD Mobility Classified Capability-Secret (DMCC-S) program.

An S4, protected by this "Knox" system, is the device that replaced President Obama's Blackberry 8830. In addition, Secretary of State John Kerry was reportedly an early beta tester of this "special version" of the S4.
And forty years later, there are still serious human rights violations in Thailand:

https://www.hrw.org/asia/thailand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Thailand#Infri...
I work for a large pharma, and the primary uses for AI that I've seen here are 1) biomarker development and 2) a more precise or accurate, and reproducible way to measure medical signals.

Biomarkers predict outcome, of drug effect or of toxins/safety. When used preclinically (non human models) biomarkers continue to be highly valued internally. If a computational model can reliably anticipate outcome, it can shorten trial time and cost. However, in clinical/human use, biomarkers seem increasingly fraught in recent years. However the FDA seems to be less receptive to surrogate outcome predictors, and more demanding of concrete quantifiable clinical adverse events (e.g. the LDL/HDL ratio vs stroke, BMD vs bone breakage, A1C vs retinopathy). As such, I'd be circumspect about developing biomarkers that lead directly to diagnosis. Like the PSA test, even a strong biomarker that also introduces false positives or uncertainty is likely to face opposition to adoption in standard medical practice.

As to the use of AI (esp. pattern recognition) to better measure drug response or toxin effect, this seems to be well received, at least for in-house use. Automation of signal acquisition or analysis, if it can reliably improve on the status quo, in my experience, is well received by my employer. As a drug development cost cutting measure or as a more reliable rater of symptom measurement, AI seems to be win-win. That doesn't mean I see a wholesale rush to adopt AI-related tech here, but the interest seems to be steady and positive. Presumably this should lead to greater use of AI by manufacturers of medical instruments, which frankly I have not seen (though Siemens certainly has hired its share of quants, presumably to serve such ends. However, these folks may well spend most of their time working their magic on external contracts.)

Often in pharma, I think AI, like math models, are perceived by biologists to be too synthetic and abstract, and lack the credibility of a well trod mouse model. Unless AI/quant models lead to a < .05 T Test and a visible separation of error bars between groups, it's unconvincing statistically. And unless the AI can be tied _convincingly_ and directly to an underlying chemical mechanism, it's unconvincing biologically. Scientists are a tough audience.
If banks make money off the interest rate spread, how does the absolute level of rates matter (outside of misjudged future rising rates)?
Is it bad that the first thought that came to mind upon reading the example code on the page is "Wow, this is ugly"?

...And I don't mean the "if err" sprinkling that has a whole subthread, I mean the actual layout of the code. It's not hard to understand just.. ugly. Aesthetically. And it's hard for me to put my finger on why.. maybe it's the symbols everywhere.

I was about ready to make a remark about how I hope that's not idiomatic go code, but no, this is from the official site.

I've never wanted to like a language that makes me not want to like it as much as Go, and that's the god's honest truth.
I don't understand your ideological point. The editable representation has no bearing whatsoever on the storage representation of a program. There is nothing preventing you from having a visual programming environment where everything is just ASCII text under the hood.
I've been trying to work out for a while how the Netflix webrips that are floating around the scene are done. They're not screencaps like the Amazon webrips are, but I didn't think you could copy the stream directly like that.
Decentralise (in a kind of centralised way)
There is a very limited amount of space in dense cities like Manhattan. Every bit of space needs to be maximized. Free on-street parking is a very poor use of publicly owned space. Lots of people making individual trips in private vehicles is another poor use of publicly owned space. It makes sense to maximize the total utility of the space for all. If that inconveniences some drivers for the benefit of the much larger number of people who can make better trips now that single-occupant vehicles are deprioritized, so be it.

I live in a dense part of Manhattan. I barely know anyone who owns a car, and the few who do do not rely on them for daily transportation; they're more of a "weekend fun get-away" kind of thing. I bike everywhere, but I recognize that a lot of people who otherwise would do not because they are (rightfully) afraid of how dangerous it can be. Start to deprioritize cars, further densify Citi Bike, and you will see an explosion of trips taken via bike. The vast, vast majority of trips that occur in Manhattan are already not being made by private cars, so we don't particularly view it as a big loss if that is cut down further to the detriment of 5% of people if it benefits the other 95% who walk/bike/take transit everywhere.

But again, you seem to be under the impression that we want to get rid of cars and not do anything to improve transit. That simply isn't the case. We want better mass transit, we want more subway lines, we want faster bus service that runs in exclusive lanes that doesn't get gummed up by other vehicles, we want more bike lanes, and we want the elimination of free on-street parking to pay for some of it and make room for all of the above.
Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine (BBC Series, 1983) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pYRn5j7oI&list=PL04B3F5636...
With the years, two things started to emerge to my senses:

- patience: I lost lots of memory capacity (stress, accident), but it seems that memory is really like a cached graph of correlated bits, even if the cache is fubared, the graph incomplete, with enough bits, you can fill in the blanks. Many times names came back as syllabic anagrams of the one I was looking for.

- understanding: hard to define notion, but so many advanced concepts (or not so advanced, but being able to reflect with abstract combinatorics, or numerical abstractions such as logarithmic relationships) become clear without really knowing why. You struggled with them, and some day the rules are just there in your mind and you can recall them more clearly than ever. I guess it creates something different in your brain, some first class configuration that is stabler and thus "helps" in recalling. So try to get a deep understanding of things.
So good. This looks like a great platform. Great work!
Partnerships, Scaling and My Departure from Able
It is, actually. Car-centric cities are pretty bad, but people are willing to live with them because they like their cars, and they often don't know any better because they haven't lived somewhere with good public transit. If it was hard to park or drive a car in a city, past a certain point, people would vote for more mass transit. They would end up with walkable cities with good transit, instead of the car-centric messes we have now.

Every time you mandate parking spaces in new developments, you mandate the continuation of the car-centric city model that is simply unsustainable once the population grows past a certain point. Cars are effectively being subsidized by the government in most cities. That money should be spend on transit instead.
Predating Trump support, Scott Adams is and was a nut-bag misogynist, so my hanky is pretty dry right now.
“I will Not wear a hijab and support women’s oppression” -US chess champion
Give it a chance. I feel the opposite in many cases today because of two reasons: static typing and gofmt. In Python code I frequently find myself playing "what the hell are these objects" or "what the hell does this overloaded operator do" and in lower level code (esp. C++) it looks like a mangled jaggy mess. Linux kernel code is one of the few exceptions due to the strict style guidelines.
I disagree, I see a lot of elderly people pushing around some pretty sizable grocery hauls in wheeled carts in NYC. When you're retired and you don't have anything else to do with your time, then walking some extra blocks to go to a real grocery store and save money and get better product is absolutely worth it. People live longer in Manhattan than anywhere else in the United States. Part of that has to do with people continuing to be active and getting exercise at older ages. And grocery runs count. But you're definitely right that hardly anyone owns a car.
It's not clear from Mair's post if he's teaching undergraduates, graduate students, or both, and Penn's course catalog isn't much help as it looks to have been cross-listed at a variety of levels: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ealc/pc/term/2016A including CHIN492/EALC222/EALC622

Regardless, please note that of the 9 students, 2 were from China and a third was from Hong Kong.
The guy you're replying to isn't going after anybody. You seem like you're just looking for a fight to make some point.
I love 8-bit guy and Gaming Historian, I'm gonna plunge into Techmoan though!
Scoop has salespeople out in force in Oakland -- waiting in line at the DMV some lady from Scoop was lobbying all the bored people in line hard.
I have to second the other guy. There's no negative stigma associated with the word "bodega". It's just a small store that sells a large variety of random goods, including food, and that is run as a small business (i.e. it isn't a national chain). They're everywhere, in all neighborhoods.
Cite? Because I only know him from his comic that is about as funny as Garfield.
In fact, that's literally what every GUI is. The graphics system just represents ascii characters. Hell, even a terminal is basically the same thing!
can anyone confirm this is legit?
I agree. it works if companies are not already using an ELK stack. Looks like a great product!
But something I've learned is that it doesn't matter if it actually has utility.

What matters is if you can predict how insane humans will perceive its' utility.

Which I can't do, so I am poor.
(well not poor but I have to work)
I've used my Airport Express to extend my Airport Base Station for years. Is this "mesh networking?" How is Google WiFi different?
Can't he just use his powers of persuasion and hypnosis to make twitter do what he wants? More seriously, I am curious what he actually did. Is he constantly an asshole or threatening people or something? Twitter is not the same thing as free speech, but I know a lot of conservatives get their panties in a bunch, being so afraid of being oppressed by the (wo)man.

The article doesn't really say what he posted.
It wasn't mandatory mostly because Motorola was commited to provide the latest Android which ensures you'll never be out of a new feature. But G1 aren't supported anymore, if today's Google conf apps aren't Lollipop friendly you're stuck with unlocking.
Cul-de-sacs are purely residential, with nothing besides other people's houses in walking distance. Superblocks are in dense urban areas, with almost everything you could need in walking distance. Plus superblocks are designed to be maximally walkable, whereas cul-de-sacs are designed to be minimally transitable by any method. It doesn't affect cars as much because cars go faster, but it's murder on getting anywhere efficiently by walking.
Also the human nose is very oily. Ever hear people mentioning "powdering their nose"
He does come across as a bit of a nut. I really loved dilbert, sad to see him so paranoid and bitter about the world. He reminds me of Peter Thiel.
I suggest you read Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" which, though it was written with no knowledge of Ayn Rand (it predates all of her published works), anticipates her work (through a philosophy Heinlein introduces, called "Functionalism") and proceeds to demolish it on basic economic and common-sense grounds.
Financial markets have always been casinos.

I think what Bill means is that central banks have now taken a seat at the casino's table.

If a whale sits down next to you at the casino and starts playing unorthodox strategies and betting crazy and distracting the dealer - well some old folks don't like that.

Side note: Read Bill's bio, he is a very good gambler, especially blackjack.
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"Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken"

[1] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

[2] http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
Technically that was Zimride, the original startup by the same two founders but is actually a separate entity.
Time Improvements in Windows Server 2016
Ah, yes, you'd like more reasoned, rational debate. Which is why you turn to Scott Adams, who is of course a paragon of that, as he is a paragon of every field of study and endeavor of all of humanity, or can quickly become so, according to himself.
Sure, but we literally have one Manhattan in the entire country. Maybe we could try having as many as three or four real cities in the country? Maybe one on the west coast?
That adds some... interesting context to the name of a popular energy drink.
Do you have any links?
I live in NYC and ... in the winter, on cold days, people just wear heavy coats. It doesn't stop them from doing the things they need to do, like go to work or buy groceries. There's way too many people here for everyone to take cars anyway, regardless of heating requirements. Traffic is already in gridlock conditions for many hours of the day in the summer, so it's not like you could add any trips in the winter for people who don't want to walk.

The real solution, although we're starting to go tangential here, is to do what Toronto has done and build a massive city-spanning series of underground pedestrian passages and malls. I've walked through a large part of the system and it is pretty astounding.

Here's a map of it: http://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/Economic%20Develo...
Whatsapp may have been hacked
Nitpick: the US did not become a superpower until World War 1, when it dramatically expanded the size of government and the military.
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