skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone needs to make a trustworthy escrow site for betting on situations like this.

I could take a blanket bet against "any conspiratorial theory about Hillary Clinton" and clear 80% of them.

Her stint as SoS featured a 20-something-day operation in Libya, laying groundwork for detente with Cuba and Iran, while getting the chemical weapons out of Syria without a shot fired.

I'll go on record that we just keep doing the same stuff we're doing in Syria. Unlikely that we even do a no-fly-zone, there's absolutely no reason to risk open combat against Russia. That's crazy.

EDIT: Maybe US advisors with the Kurds in Mosul wind up technically in Syria while helping get rid of ISIS. But it's likely that Assad will be shored up enough at that point to demand no US troops over the border and we go along with it.
It would depend on how critical the element is to the system. I would expect at least one backup system. That is there should be a least one major backup DNS provider for example. Some systems on airliners have two backups.
Twitter needs to find a frictionless way to get paid by their regular users that most users won't notice or think much about. Several potentials exist: can charge to follow additional users above a certain threshold; can charge to expand publishing platform (i.e., to be followed by more than a certain quantity of users); can have "premium channel"-style users that only paid members can follow (this may also be a way to allow publishers to monetize; set your feed "paid follower only" and split the revenue with Twitter), and so forth.

The FREE! model only works out when you can sell your users' attention. Twitter has proven that it can't do that -- for whatever reason, user attention on Twitter is not worth what it's worth on Facebook or Google and they can't make a profit from it. So they need another way to monetize, and IMO that should be the tried and true "make people pay for what they use".
“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame”

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
Montreal, seriously. I grew up in Cambridge, Montreal blows the Boston area art/culture/music scene out of the water ;-)

5 hour drive but USD goes pretty far these days up in Canada; definitely worth a road trip to get a taste of Europe in North America.
It might be interesting if there were some routine that could 'reverse-decode' drug-like properties, i.e. producing Lipinski's rule of 5 from nothing but "drug-like" and "not-drug-like" labeled training set.
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I'm guessing you're never met "the man" direction Dixie's BBQ. I'm not a big fan of spicy BBQ but there is definitely hot BBQ.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282
Damn it, I remember the days when one could sit there inside until 2am in the morning smoking and drinking coffee until closing then driving to Boston sea port watch the airplanes land at night. Good times. The place well be missed :(
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Because iPods were 70%+ of the entire MP3 player market worldwide for years? That's certainly a valid definition of "won" in my book.

Your personal anecdotes are not data.
Then you may be able to answer this question: is it really a problem that those people accessed the link but didn't login? Because sure you could put malware on it, but that's possible on any website.
Hey are there any datasets related to this stuff publicly available? It would be awesome to put this up on kaggle and let people compete to find the best model.
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I at least get tech-related ads, but they are surprisingly useless as well. People trying to sell me tips to market my (non-existing) content better. Companies trying to be "hip" for young people. Ads that clearly haven't been translated by a native speaker. There is some monitoring service whose ads I get shown ALL the time. The ad says "The Pingdom Alternative" in large letters and I can't even remember the name of the company making the ad. So good job anchoring your competitor in my mind...

This means either their targeting is pretty crap or they only get low-quality ads.
We did something like that for a more continuous property, like logP, which is easy to predict with cheminformatics. We are working on metrics that reflect drug-likeness better.
When I read that line it made me think... has anyone done any decent comprehensive retrospective scoring/review of their or other industry 'predictions' even in the near future?
Hey David, author of the linked repo here. I thought the paper was pretty neat and I'm a fan of the graph convolution work being done by both you and Patrick Riley's and Vijay Pandes' groups. A few questions:

- In the paper you trained the property decoder separately but mention in passing that it could be a good idea to train the whole thing jointly. I haven't implemented the property decoder part yet and it seems like a pretty easy extension to just add that to the same loss function. Where is your thinking on independent vs joint training of the autoencoder/property prediction network now? Do you think non-obvious tricks will be required to get nice smoothness of the latent representation for things more complex than logP?

- Though learning directly to/from SMILES is weird, it's also kind of awesome. Do you think the future is an "inverse weave" module or something of that kind, or going further on learning more complex input representations?

- How do you feel about the synthetic accessibility score you used in the paper overall? Obviously it fell short on carbon ring sizes, but do you think we're close on this or we basically need to start over? What datasets would you think about using for "learning" synthetic accessibility as you imply in your post here?

Thanks! My vague intuition had been that this is a domain where I'd expect physics-based simulation should work better than machine learning but I have to say that the recent literature is changing my perspective.
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Ask HN: Could browsers prevent phishing by blocking HTML form actions?
### Background

As readers here would be aware, many online threats can be mitigated by disabling Javascript and cookies on untrusted websites. However, phishing can still be achieved with a static HTML page that masquerades as the target page. All that is required is CSS to style the page, and an HTML form where the user types their password.

In the thread discussing Exploratirum's phishing attack today, a few ideas to mitigate phishing threats were mentioned / proposed:

* Two factor authentication
* A browser extension that checks whether a known
password is being used on an unknown website.
* Browser extensions such as lastpass can prevent
phishing indirectly because the password is based on
window.location.origin
* Security images, which are not very effective as per [1]

I had an idea which seems simple, effective and easy to implement by the browser vendor.

### Idea: Block forms by default

Much like the option of blocking cookies and/or javascript by default, if browsers prevented form actions by default then a majority of phishing attacks could be prevented.

User might type in the password on an unknown site, but if the form action was prevented (in addition to javascript), the site wouldn't receive the password and the user would be alerted to it.

Thoughts?

[1]: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19155/
I don't know about "take off", but it could work as a niche. People seem to be used to what they already have.

It doesn't have to be perfect, but at least much harder to game than the current situation.
http://www.pointerpointer.com/ is coool
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VLC can do this too:

Speed up: ] key
Speed down: [ key
Normal speed: = key
The reason this fails is that positive/neutral/negative is a really really poor way to represent complex bodily processes. It really should stand as a totem of data analysis over-engineering. My suggestion would be to grep 'period' next time.
This goes both ways too. There is a lot you can say in a bar that could make you an immediate outcast.
Thanks, and yes that's what I meant :-)
My understanding based on actual reports from people is that the companies you speak of did not go to MACSEC, but did start doing host-to-host IPSEC, as well as L1 AES256 encryption (not macsec).

Agreed with the balkanization of the clouds/infrastructure.
If I understand correctly, he's guessing that pitch discrimination is finer at lower frequencies, so tuning at 432Hz would allow our ears to be more 'exact'. Of course, this advantage would be negligible, and pitch discrimination decreases past a certain point. The songwriter intended their piece to be heard by human ears at A=440Hz, knowing the various propensities of human hearing at various levels.
Uh, what do you need React for on a content driven site?

For interactivity you you could add a post-grav build step to run your React step: https://medium.com/@velmu/sleep-safe-with-static-html-968ee7...

If you want to use React as your toolkit for the whole site, take a look at React powered static site generators like Antwar: http://react-etc.net/entry/a-static-site-generator-built-wit...
The third category is especially problematic, but all of these have common words that end in -gram or -graph.
Staying stable finanically is okay, but staying stable and no optimization (better algorithms) might hurt. Hiring good engineers is surprisingly expensive and hard.
> Compared to any device that had a USB port and hence actually worked with our PCs

USB 2 wasn't even ratified until the end of 2001 after the original iPod's introduction. Do you know how long it would have taken to sync 1000 songs over USB 1.0? 1000 * 5MB/song (avg) / 1.25MB/sec = 4000 seconds or over an hour.

Firewire was able to stream data at disk write speed which would have been anywhere from 5-20MB/sec.
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I still remember the time we came to office hours with Garry to get some advice on how to approach designing a new product, and in 15 minutes he sketched out an entire design -- which we used.
There's a Linux version but it is pretty much unmaintained. It receives the occasional update but it's slower than the Windows version, has less features and the UI is terrible.
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In Germany not passing a new budget wouldn't let to a government shutdown. So it's not an option anyway.
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Why do you need to hit the CapsLock key when you restart?
It's impossible to read much into articles that are so incredibly buzz word inundated. It sounds like a transistor with ultra low leakage power which is becoming an increasing problem. You'd still have dynamic power consumption.
ElasticSearch new Painless scripting language is a secure lava-like DSL language which is a superset to just logic. Although it seems to be jvm opinionated.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/mast...
Because there's really two different "wants". We "want" to be productive but we "want" to screw around all day browsing the web/playing video games. The former requires focus, effort and discipline while the latter requires none. How rewarding they are is commensurate with the amount of effort.
That would be an odd choice for a Haskell alternative. Lacking higher kinded types and type classes is a bit of a show stopper.

The obvious choice for Haskell on the JVM is Scala.
Hey, I saw you driving through my area today using your signals, yes. Thank you!
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> I had Nomad like devices and they were crap.

Tell me about it. I also used Windows Mobile phones (and PocketPC before that). The iPhone was revolutionary compared to every other product on the market at the time. Even Android was just a Blackberry clone at the time. Yet I've seen people argue right here on HN that there was nothing special about the original iPhone.

Apple is always beleaguered.

Just like everything is 100% obvious in hindsight.

DropBox/Box is just rsync.

Instacart is just paying someone to shop for you.

Uber is just a taxi service.
"the aggressive marketing has clearly cost lives"

Tesla has suggested the opposite -- that the crash rate when the car is on autopilot is already lower than normal.
Particularly prescient:

> And if the iPod succeeds, I expect it to be just the first in a new line of noncomputer products from Apple.
Can you explain a few more details on the application? I'm wondering why you didn't just design an API and embed a super simple scripting language at that point if you really needed that kind of power.

If I'm thinking what it is, the graphical editor/composer is what has saved you a lot of time, not the DSL. Your users likely are never touching the DSL, they are simply using your GUI application to build their use cases at that point. This is a common pattern that has nothing to do with DSLs; you just happen to target one as the intermediary format. It's important to understand this distinction.

But feel free to provide more details if this is not the case.
> But were they indeed confirmed? This is the problem that keeps cropping up.

The book is carefully researched and exquisitely footnoted. Can you cite something specific that you have a problem with in the book? I'm curious if you have even read this book or if you just stating a more general concern about people who do me publish research.
I'm sorting through suggestions and was glad to see MF mentioned. Exceptionally high-quality discussion.
This is a matter of personal preference.

I find `return` to be quite distracting and annoying for a small function that spans part of a line, while you and some others may prefer the explicitness of the `return` keyword.

I would agree that nested destructuring should be used quite cautiously. Code legibility is incredibly important to the success of any serious project.
This reasoning feels safe for services, and risky for software:

* Big companies start small. VCs will tell startups to find something their tech can make them the best at and grow into nearby verticals.

* Software goes to zero. Academia, side projects, whatever. Either you keep up, and reach some sort of scale that you have a moat, or your risk goes up.
How about a miniature data centre on a drone that follows you around, so you can use your phone?
This is still useful as there are plenty of early Windows games that don't work correctly (if at all) anymore on modern systems.
They can't process requests now. Hug of death already?
From a very quick read, yet another UI takedown without mention of underlying content-adressable arch.

As it turns out I do think both the porcelain and plumbing commands both suck, but I rather read a takedown by somebody who's learned all the layers.
It's often forgotten that the early versions of iTunes synced with several popular MP3 players of the era.

That said, it often took forever over USB, so the fast transfer speeds of FireWire was a big selling point.
There's the unpublished paper.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1610/1610.03031.pdf

But to say "‘probably’ from aliens, scientists say"

Either they or the reporter are idiots.
> varying the levels of heat/spiciness by adding more of less of it

Not just by adding more or less, the heat is tempered by pairing with ghee or yogurt in the dish, as Capsaicin is fat-soluble. Also of course by pickling peppers in e.g. mustard oil.
This guy is excellent I wish this were higher up in the thread
Excellent analysis with some pretty cool insights due to their own distributed CDN response tracking tools.
Agreed - this article is quite disingenuous.

From the graphs provided, comparing them makes no sense. Each should be taken own its own; i.e. At the start of college, 100% of the poor kids where in the lowest income percentile. At age 40, only 16% remain. Whereas, for the high school dropouts, only 14% remained in their income percentile (the highest) at age 40.

I think that describes a meritocracy very well. The opportunity is there - you have to work at it.
Twitter lost the trust of many users and are now suffering the consequences. It was once supposed to be the place for the freedom of speech and truth and is now just another arm of the left-leaning politicians in the US.

So many conservative/libertarian political figures and personalities have been permanently banned from Twitter in the last year for only posting an opinion that it can no longer be chalked up to circumstance.

Good riddance.
Well then they're pretty much doomed to failure. There's only so much blood you can squeeze out of a 140-character stone.
> It is very unlikely that a white man is going to go to the top graduate school in the country and discover that they don't give white people Phds. Black people can't say the same.

Got a link? I'm not questioning you, I'm curious to know more.
Cities and provinces in larger countries do not have nearly the same level of governing autonomy, nor do they have the same privileges according to international law.

Perhaps places like Singapore deserve to be talked about more than they are for the same reason, but Iceland is interesting because it seems to be exploring new ideas in governance in a serious manner.
But reddit is not young. Reddit is more than a decade old. According to wikipedia, it's the 11th most trafficked site in the US, and 25th in the world. They are well past the point of "our employees all do a bit of everything".
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Graphics emulation is one of the huge ones. Various graphics chips would give widely different results, sometimes comparably better or worse, sometimes just different. Sound emulation, again, in the old days, sound cards had widely different feature sets, which would result in different sound quality. Then you had the issue of different chipsets which had their own sets of quirks. Compatibility was something that took a good deal of time.
That's a pretty impressive editing system you've got there. Care to share a bit more info on what technology you've built it upon?
Tangentially related — and I'm not dissing on OS X here — but I really like the Linux kernel's Magic SysRq keys. It's a simple concept: no matter what software does, the hardware will always pass through the kernel first; so set up special keybindings to command the kernel to do special things.

Alt-SysRq-f pulls out the OOM killer, which targets the worst memory abusing process and just mercilessly kills it. It's super handy on a desktop OS that's frequently pushed to its limits. Chrome eating too much RAM? Pull out Alt-SysRq-f and kill the fattest Chrome process!
recent discussion of the gitless project, which is presented as in this paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12621837 (300+ comments)
I don't see how it's illegal.. there's no unauthorized access. The analytics servers open a port for the browser to send data to. This extension sends data to it.

It's the servers problem that it trusts the data that the frontend sends to it.
Quora - start with something interesting on the newsfeed and just follow recommended articles from there.

UI/UX is terrible now compared to early days but I can still get lost with hours of learning from some incredible writers.
I'm writing a compiler in Haskell for a university class this semester. I don't think "painless" is the word I would use to describe it. Would you care to elaborate on your thoughts here?
How about T71.193A? http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/S00-T88/T66-T78/T71-/...
I got rather obsessed with BBS in the early-mid 1990s. That quickly turned into an obsession with Usenet.

Looking back, those were amazing times. By day, I was an awkward teenager who was still battling a pesky speech impediment. But, by night, I was part of communities where I was judged by the quality of my writing!

All that said, while I see what you're saying, BBS and Usenet both had their problems.

With Usenet, the biggest problem was discoverability. There were amazing, inspiring threads, but it took work to find them. When you would find an amazing thread, you had to parse through (often hundreds) of meaningless replies to find the few gems. Then, there was the sheer hostility of some of the communities. While much of that was reserved for newbies who violated the oft incomprehensible etiquette, some of it was just insane. For example, massive flame wars would erupt over the slightest provocation. This sounds silly in retrospect, but there was a point where typing 'Reconstruction of the Fables' in rec.music.rem would provoke serious hate.

With BBS, particularly when they were popular enough to be busy, the biggest issue was that people are really fucked up when they think they're anonymous.
Meh.

I stumbled across The Edge via HN when the annual question issue was posted a few years back. Yes, there is the very occasional good response, but I'm increasingly underwhelmed by it -- the typical answer is self-serving (fund my research!), pie-in-the-sky, self-serving (fund my startup!), underinformed, self-serving (buy my product!), etc.

Yes, there are exceptions. No, Sturgeon's Law has no risk of being revoked.
I personally think Git's staging concept is one of its best features. Yes it is different and increases the learning curve somewhat, but it also provides a lot of flexibility in what you commit. For anyone that thinks Git is too complicated, consider using Mercurial.
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TL;DR: author blames his lack of understanding of the git concepts rather than the git concepts themselves.
Compilers are a bit easier to start with because you can just deal with pure functions for the majority of the time
> What is patio-11 ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
Non-intuitive module system by Facebook used in React
flagging as dupe since also submitted with additional "Show HN:" shortly later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12785365
has anyone built a system where complex math had to be made part of the system... yet had to be user editable?

would something like this help?
This comments section feels like an Amazon review page of a product that launched a month ago with 1000 5 star "received product with discount here is my unbiased opinion" reviews.
My original iPod still worked when my last FireWire Mac gave up.
The parallels and precedents from other (mostly) European powers is also telling. England (Ireland, Boer Wars, China, India, Indians, Carribean), Belgium (Congo), United States (look up the history of the American Legion, or of the Los Angeles Times, just to mention two), make the history of Italian and German fascism all the more chilling. That wasn't a fluke.

As for Werner von Braun: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKn1aSOyOs
Cheney also writes: "The lessons of Python 3 (and Perl 6) are prescient; ignore backward compatibility at your peril."

I believe Perl 6 can embed and/or call Perl 5 code, similar to the proposed Go 1/Go 2, but that hasn't helped its uptake.
Probably a lack of inventory.
It appears to be in the post to me

>announced plans that publicly trusted website certificates issued in October 2017
It is called 'Haste' which is different from CommonJS module system.

https://facebook.github.io/react/contributing/codebase-overv...
app.net should have waited three years to pivot into a Twitter competitor...
Common words have been under trademark-attack for some years now.

Carlsberg managed to register 'probably' in the context of beer and food:

https://tmdb.eu/trademark/008349227/eu/en/probably

and Specsavers recently won 'Should've' in the UK, to be referred to the EU level now, though thankfully they had their application narrowed-down to eyewear and medical devices.