skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance billing. These need to be exact in order to correlate to a) rates negotiated b) data collected for future underwriting c) exact repayment. Medical billing is a crazy world.
Maybe it's just me but I don't really find Consumers Reports useful or that reputable. Especially their vehicle reviews. Having several mechanics in the family and being a car enthusiast myself I find their past recommendations of Hyundai and Kia laughable.
once again this a thing (priming or pre-suation that is) that EVERYONE does. all animals even do it. and, again, P or P is neither a good nor a bad thing in itself.

for those who "haven't learned to wipe their asses yet", another way of explaining the idea here is that, the psychological phenomena at play here is that when people are dumber than someone else, but yet they both are unaware of this and also little bitches who can't accept how pathetic they are and so they take ideas that have no relation to anything negative/positive, and moronically mash words together randomly in order to make other dumb people think that something is negative
Yeah, I do. I don't set an alarm, I just get up when I wake up. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 instead of 7:00, the watch tells me to go back to sleep. No way would I use a phone for that - I set it on silent in case a group chat blows up in the middle of the night, but if I saw the notifications I'd have to check them. At 4am. Ugh.
Crazy idea: People often argue that we might have a lot of problems farming on Mars because it receives half the sunlight as Earth. Could we genetically engineer food crops to employ the iridoplasts discussed in this article so that the plants are better suited for low light environments?
I'm always on the lookout for better summarization tools but this one seems to give similar results to some of the popular ones out there (like smmry).

We've recently started working with the Stride.ai API (http://stride.ai/) and the results definitely stand out from some of the classic algorithms.
Nah man. I've had the same experience until my current job and I think the only reason my teams been given the power to so things right is because the company went through 2-3 other teams that would take 6 months to take data from one of our services and put it in an excel sheet. Most of the places I have worked have had the engineers so far removed from anyone who had the power to actually allow changes to the process, that me and my coworkers didn't even know what they looked like. It seems like a matter of luck of being in the right place and right time, so that managers have had so many failures in software development that they are finally open to listening to alternatives
What struck me about the Snowden leaks, as opposed to previous (much smaller) leaks regarding the NSA is the fine grained insight into the apparatus, the machinery, and the scope of the spying. Whereas previously we only knew of vague scenarios like tapped undersea cables, we now know the specifics, mechanics, and even operational details of the NSA.

I think fine grained insight into what an intelligence service looks like on the inside is enough to compel people to change their behavior. I know for me, I was skeptical of claims the NSA even could do half the things people were purporting they could do, and having confirmation like this was the real game changer.
Yeah that spinning click wheel was genius at the time.
I am expecting apple to drop both the headphone port and usb ports this time around. Maybe 2x USB C ports on either side.
I think the point the parent was trying to make wasn't that Apple products were only so-so but had great marketing, just that there were a few other products that were nearly as good, but couldn't market the way Apple did.

(Follow the Principle of Charity, please.)
It's actually very widely accepted, and his methods are used in the intelligence community for political forecasting.

It threatens a lot of conventional beliefs, but they are conventional mainly because, as shown, people are sheep.

This is probably the most dangerous video ever produced.
This is one of those weird articles where having degrees in Biology, Genetics, and CS converges so bear with me as I explain a lot of domain specific terms

Central dogma reminder: DNA -> RNA -> Protein.

In the scheme of a person, a gene (DNA) doesn't mean as much as protein folding does. To give a programming example, DNA is the source code, RNA is the compiler and proteins are the executed program.

A "person" is the executed program bc it's the end result. However tracing a lineage back to the source code of DNA to figure out the smallest amount of code required to create the program is often difficult (if not impossible).

Genes are the blueprint, how those genes are transcribed into RNA and then translated into proteins matters FAR more than the amount of genes that it would take to make a sustainable human.

So while I understand what this article is trying to get at, it's missing the central dogma of molecular biology which is still the wild Wild West!
Who says they won't have a right to vote by then? Some panderers have already tried to change that: http://nypost.com/2016/02/22/new-bill-could-give-illegal-ali...

Additionally, they might not be directly pandering to the non-citizens, but to advocacy groups and their supporters.

Lastly, I think the chances of politicians pandering to non-citizens are at least somewhat greater than basic income being implemented in the United States. So there's that to chew on.
The "curl | bash" usages I've seen from reputable sources avoid that by defining a single bash function f and then executing the the function as the final character, i.e.:

function f {
echo "hello world"
}
f
> [I] opted to skip the english lesson.

Good, because of the pot and kettle thing.
Well we've had to save Europe twice now from destroying itself and possibly the rest of the world. So we've prevented a heck of a lot more bad than we've created IMO.
See, that's just the thing right there. Jobs wanted to market a great product and was in no way concerned that some people might not be able to use it, because expanding the product to those users would compromise the greatness of the product. USB ports with comparable speeds to FireWire had only just been released on PCs when the iPod came to market, and charging a battery over USB was at that time just an abuse of the specification, whereas FireWire was designed from the beginning to provide 15W nominally and up to 45W tolerated. USB did not reach FireWire levels of battery charging ability until 2012!
An event that will always stay with me, some years ago I a job opened up where I would have some sway in recommending candidates. I had a uni friend who would fit the role well. A great bloke, smart and hard working. He came from a very blue collar, low income background. His job was pretty middle of the road stuff.

This job would have been lateral in responsibility but in a better industry giving about 2+ times salary. I mentioned this role and said I would get him a chat with the hiring manager. They seemed interested. I said you can double your salary. At this point they got cold feet and said 'it sounds too important for me'. I told them I knew the job, that it would suit them and I wouldn't burn my own credibility if I want confident they would succeed. But they money spooked them.

And while this was a sample of one it really opened my eyes to sense of entitlement that comes with growing up in a wealthy vs poor enviroment. And simply the expectations you approach life with, having a overriding effect on natural ability.

There are so many variable in play for this its not a one issue answer but I suspect this one is more important than we typically give it credit for. An expectation on oneself of where we should end up based on how we grow up.
"How the brain wires itself up during development, how the end result can vary in different people and what happens when it goes wrong": http://www.wiringthebrain.com/

Very good at exploding conflations and weakly argued conclusions by those who would popularize and construe results in neuroscience.
Let’s Encrypt’s Vulnerability as a Feature – AUTHZ Reuse and Eternal Account Key
OS X: Slack-style emoji everywhere on your Mac
Well, ok. :)

I tweeted the repo link to the HyLang account.
Can you make payments with the Pebble? Turn on the computer when you come in proximity?
The problem is insurance companies can negotiate bulk rates, but it's actually illegal for people to get together in a group and do the same thing without the insurance part.

What's also annoying is you can't determine ahead of time what something is going to cost, so even when it's not an emergency you can't shop around.
Well, I'm not a sound engineer, but I think it's conceivable that 432Hz tuning might sound better due to entirely non-mystical reasons. From the perspective of harmonic entropy, or at least I think so, the tighter differences between each notes' frequencies and that makes the problem of fitting intervals into ratios harder.

I recognize that this bit is entirely personal, but I think that can make otherwise "simple" music more enjoyable. But my enjoyment of music is almost entirely dependent on the careful management of the "Wall of Sound" effect and by how much noise (in the form of timbre, attacks, number of different voices) is introduced or removed from the track. And I think that's the key difference between, say: a library piece, or a movie score; and pieces meant to be listened on their own.

Also, the expression "cargo cult numerology" pretty much made my day.

http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/HarmonicEntropy.pdf
Honestly with how much simpler Tesla's cars should be their position on Consumer Reports' round ups has always troubled me. It's the main reason I'd lean away from buying one even if I could justify it financially.

As a side note. I switched from BMW to Lexus a year ago and have been a much happier car owner.

Edit: I'm going to retract this. Looking into Tesla guts a bit and some things I thought would be much simpler actually get more complex like the cooling system.
Yes, that's it. It's beautiful.
I had one of these badboys, which I filled with music from DC++ (those were the days.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos_Jukebox_series

I wish I still had it so I could laugh at how big and heavy it is, with its 20gb spinning disk and those big blue rubber bumpers. Learned a lot putting different homebrew firmwares on it.

Also big shoutout to the Cowon iAudio series. Those things did sterling service for years. Just thinking of the brightly coloured menus is sending me back to my teenage days.
"The problem isn't machines, it's letting machines do your thinking for you." - Leto III (Dune)

A friend suggests that Black Mirror is "about screens". I see what he's saying on a surface level, but, screens are just how we interface with machines doing the thinking for us, instead of people.

On the other hand, isn't bureaucracy a machine, running on meat? "Screens" used to be "Paper" - see the crazy movie "Brazil". Replacing something hard (actually getting to know someone and their situation) with something easy (the output of a system) has been with humanity for a really long time, if not forever.

Most [of the prior] Black Mirror episodes are about, I think, man's inhumanity to man, just mediated by modern technology. Most of them are about some way that people are failing to connect to each other.

I have only watched one of the new episodes.
It looks like his site has been hacked
Yeah, the base price is $5 and you can pay in multiples of $5 for slightly more complex things. Basically people will do very simple work for $5 or a multiple thereof.
I owned a Nomad Jukebox around the time of the original ipod release and couldn't understand the hype around the ipod, as it was lacking in functionality, specs, and especially usability compared to the nomad.
CmdrTaco's quote gets mentioned a few times in this thread, but I shared his opinion at the time, as it just seemed so obvious that the ipod was lacking when compared to other devices on the market. However, it's actually kind of interesting looking back at such events, since they seemed to be so trivial at the time but are now touted as turning points in the industry. Makes one wonder what other "hits" I'll miss out on in the future.
We're playing around with these concepts in Discourse as well:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/speccing-out-a-full-page-chat-p...

You're very welcome to join the discussion/development! Send an email to erlend@discourse.org if you wanna bounce some ideas around.
Stuff from that era that still exists might as well be indestructible. A little bit of survivorship bias, but it's hard to find anything that well made at any price now.
Why actively trade against a moonshot -- Would you have done the same against NASA for the moon landings...?

My understanding is that short positions are not merely passive; they can have a detrimental effect (in aggregate) on a company's likelihood of success. Are you really interested in harming the company (even if fairly negligibly for you as an individual) in exchange for some modicum of personal financial gain?

Sorry, I just don't get it. Assuming NASA's $18.4B budget is split evenly among 300M Americans... I'm paying ~$60/yr for NASA. I would gladly pay that to TSLA even if it didn't have "good business prospects" as a way to push forward humanity -- that it continues to have financial upside is just a bonus.

In this world, we so rarely get a chance to "vote with our dollars" in a meaningful way. The fact that some people have grandeur plans and work tirelessly to progress humanity is amazing; that others just want to naysay and profit off their crashes & burns... it boggles my mind.
I think that was a direct response to the then-Mac-only nature of the iPod. Initial criticism (referenced in the article) was that Apple/Jobs initially had not yet decided whether or not to release a Windows version of iTunes.

I think in that light, McNealy's point is pretty spot on. I assume that, initially, the iPod sparked some new Mac sales, but overall most Windows users weren't going to jump ship to Mac just so they could use the iPod. Apple's later release of iTunes for Windows is an admission of that. I can't imagine the iPod continuing to do as well as it did if iTunes had been Mac-only.

(And imagine if the iPhone required a Mac!)
People with a sense of history and wonder? I'm an Android diehard, but I think this is awesome.
Most APUs support it. Many motherboard manufacturers choose not to expose this capability and a few sockets don't even expose it.

Kabini supports it. Construction cores support it. FM2+ does not, but the mobile socket version FP3 does.
How Crowd Curation improved search quality by almost one-third
I believe you may have failed to consider the important role played by reliability.

X cannot always be done reliably - it usually relies on timing. Y, as we've seen, can be done with some degree of reliability. Combining them, in the wished-for world, creates a more reliable exploit environment because the spoofed records will not expire. The result is more attacks that persist longer and are more likely to reach their targets.

Such a world is certain to not be better than this one and likely to be worse.
Well, it shouldn't drive you nuts. That implies that the truth drives you nuts. WW2 didn't look great before the USA stepped in. World wide innovation has been driven by the USA in almost every frontier. And you cannot expect a CEO to regard his product as anything but the best.

The thing that drives me nuts is the lengths people such as yourself will go to in order to rationalize their dislike of him. Calling people who like him and the car 'disciples' is also pretty terrible.
I'd spend my days on outdoor activities. Hiking mountain biking. Skiing. Just getting some rays and fresh crisp air. I'd spend my nights on making a real change in the world. I don't know how but I'd try to use my skills in business and software to find ways to build software for those areas that desperately need it, but aren't a target customer of any modern startups.
No(t only). People wear traditional watches to bed because they have waterproof
watches and couldn't be bothered with taking them off, and don't set their
strap/bracelet too tight.
Looks like a Show HN. Can you update the title?

Sharing screenshots quickly sounds like a useful app. I'm interested immediately.

I've never used IPFS so when I see the installation steps list things like "install IPFS" and "start IPFS daemon," I'm scared to actually take those actions. I just wonder what this is going to do to my system. Is it going to be running a web-accessible service?

vague idea of what IPFS is leads to more questions

Can I remove content after publishing?

Do I have to have the daemon running forever?

Is it like pastebin for images? Am I anonymous or not?

etc.

Because of those types of questions, I haven't actually tried it out yet, but this seems like a good opportunity to package up a 'program' that people can just 'run' on their computers. If you're relying on an existing network that any party can enter, the program just works and you don't have any infrastructure. Am I on the right track here?

I'm not really looking for answers to any of those questions, just pointing out what thoughts I have after reviewing your project. If I wanted to know the answers, I would go spend a while learning about IPFS.

If the author is still here, I am wondering what benefits/drawbacks using IPFS has compared to, say, a shell script that uploads images to your own server and places the link in your clipboard.
"Down and out.." or, "Why is sucks to be an asshole in a reputation-based economy".

+1 upvote, would cautionary tale again.

PS - If you haven't read Rapture of the Nerds, check it out. It's a Doctorow character (downer of a dude) in a Stross world (craaazy tech).
This strikes me as a strange wager, as Panasonic is providing capital through a partnership with Tesla for Solar City [1] [2]. Tesla is acquiring a long term bond revenue stream (while stripping away the expensive SCTY sales/marketing expenses, relying on Tesla's existing network instead), as well as a very expensive mostly-automated solar panel production facility [3], at a deep discount with a partner providing the financing.

Your TSLA puts seem like a poor way to burn up options premiums; I'll be thinking of this conversation while listening to the earnings call on Wednesday.

EDIT: I haven't even touched on the fact that Tesla has a buyer for every battery they produce, whether that's in a Tesla vehicle, in a consumer PowerWall, or in a utility scale PowerPack (which they've signed at least 3 deals for in the last 2 months, all to have installation completed before the end of the year). This signals, to me at least, that they are supply constrained (Gigafactory construction continues in stages), not demand constrained.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-and-panasonic-collaborate

[2a] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/785139055793152000

(@elonmusk: "Would also like to correct expectations that Tesla/SolarCity will need to raise equity or corp debt in Q4. Won't be necessary for either.")

[2b] https://twitter.com/roger_kappler/status/785139908604207106 (asks Elon about 2017Q1, response is "Probably not then either")

[3] https://electrek.co/2016/06/01/musk-solarcity-robotic-solar-...

Usual disclaimer: Long TSLA.
The car reviews are awful. They like who they like.

I remember one Honda that had a transmission recall, defective radio and a tendency for body trim to fall off (according to the little blurb) and was rated awesome.

The equivalent Ford was dinged because the OEM tires were noisy.
See, this is the thing about population studies.

1. Millions of people live their life
2. Academics put people into buckets in order to count them
3. Other academics group that data and label those people
4. Even more other academics come along and do more groupings then write a paper.
5. A newspaper writes an article with a catchy headline and an out-of-context image with arrows drawn on it to call your attention to one correlation but not others, then proceeds to use that data to make arguments that don't actually follow

At every step along the way, a biased researcher or newspaper makes assumptions, discards outliers, and labels individuals in such a way that if we focus on their chosen pivot, we see what they want us to see.

Longitudinal studies, machine learning, and more are all improvements on the current shaky process. I just hope they continue to catch on despite being tougher to do.
What does this have to do with anything? Is it just to inject a bit of cynicism?

Because while there's certainly a lot to be gained by a bit of creativity with the coding, the first/subsequent encounter distinction is ill-suited, considering these are binary categories, and any mistakes/attempts to defraud can detected with an sQL query shorter than this paragraph.

Concerning the original question: it's basically denormalized, with the usual tradeoffs. I'd guess it's easier to double the number of codes than to add a new attribute to legacy systems.
Note: The sequel goes into way more detail on how the proposed system would work; the first book is really how it (frequently violently) takes over.
Seems pretty straightforward to me, having seen this occur quite often. Not much you can do to break through to the upper echelons in the US today if you start in the lower economic class, better to go to a country with higher social mobility.
Regardless of whether their ratings work out for you, in particular, they have an incredibly reliable method of rating a huge variety of consumer goods, and they do it in an open way that shows you that the advertisers aren't biasing the results.

That allows you to simply +/- their ratings in a certain area, depending on how well their rating lines up with your personal experience. It's hard to do that with similar types of organizations, where it really comes down to the person who reviewed it, and sometimes even how they felt that day.
Well, there's this little problem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ7vqAUJdbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSNw_n1Xgk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkx-4pFjus

Note that those are all the same design flaw.
Considering what we ended up with, Apple would probably be in serious financial trouble if they didn't disrupt themselves.
PCem – An emulator for various old PCs
Although Trump ostensibly doesn't believe that America is great (rendered an utter wasteland by Obama and Crooked Hillary's failed polices!).

In any case, lavish praise of America is kind of a common American thing... no one person or group really owns that.
At least on Chrome, bbc.com is hijacking middle-clicks and opening them in the same window. Who there thought that was a good idea?!

That's the first time I've seen that one. If you're a web designer, please do not do that.
It's amazing what these people have to go through. I hope one day there will be an agreement that such bombings are not acceptable no matter who is doing the bombing.
I won my Apple watch in a contest. I wouldn't have bought it. I find the notifications on my wrist are really great. I don't take my phone out nearly as often as before.

I now pay for gas, small groceries and various other things with my watch. I unlock my computer by just pressing the spacebar instead of typing my password. The killer app for me is when I'm cycling or motorbiking and have directions appear on my wrist instead of my pocket.