skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I have this pill/wire-probe/exercise-machine, I don't really know what it does, but in some folks it seems to make them happier/healthier, that is all the info you are going to get about said thingy.

Do you use it?

Bio is like that. We really don't know what is going on with a body most of the time. When we try to leverage it, it gives totally nutto results. Like, yeah, water is good for you! Like, maybe we should make it inhale-able! Or yeah, caffeine is alright, makes you wake-up! You should just take NoDoz and never sleep again!

Those are absurd examples, but I hope they illustrate that in bio, 'leveraging' something typically means you are gonna die either real soon or you are gonna get cancer. Fen-phen is a great example of 'leveraging' something in bio [0]. Yeah, you loose weight, but then you blow your heart valves out and end up as worm food.

So when you say that we can just throw computers at the problem, you make a huge mistake with that idea. Your input data is everything. You have to run a LOT of experiments in the real world to get the right data, not just noise you think is data. Living things are really good at staying alive until they aren't. They are not just noisy, they are also altering the experiment along with the experimenter. Homeostasis is a real thing and bodies and living things try to stay happy, healthy, and alive. Like, here is the thing, your experimental test-bed is alive and thinking and is, in some cases, trying to experiment-on/kill-you right back. Try feeding that into a computer! You have 300k+ dependent variables (that you know of) and 10 equations (if you trust those other authors). You are trying to find the mean of N interacting Poisson/Gaussian data sets (you hope they are normal) in N dimensional space and you know that you don't know all the variables and you can only do this on 5 rats.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenfluramine/phentermine
This also makes it difficult to automate. Similarly, maybe I would like to automatically submit my new bot when I do a commit or a push, but the Submit button uses Javascript which makes this unnecessarily difficult. (At least for me.)
Is Qt not free?
3) Is a catch-all for 'complications associated with every single form of treatment.'

Consider this case: You have cancer. You can do nothing about it, and die in 3 months, or you can have an operation, that has a 60% chance of curing you, 30% chance of doing nothing, and 10% chance of killing you.

Most people would choose to undergo the operation, knowing the risks.

Those that die will be cataloged as 'medical error'. I'd argue that cancer should get at least an equal share of the blame.
I'm confused. It looks like this won't work unless you use the stream API, which is (apparently) not open source / self hosted.

The only reasons I can think of to host my own RSS reader are to prevent third party profiling, editorial transparency, and future proofing against the provider shutting down or evolving the service in a way that I don't like. This provides none of those advantages.

Am I missing something?
tl;dr: 17.24%
Makes me sad to read this as my first job didn't have any great technical mentor like that, but was a bunch or regular devs trying to ship a run of the mill product.

How can a grad tell they are going to work for a top company that is great for their career within a good team? Especially if outside the US so not necessarily just going to work for Google.
https://github.com/getstream/Winds/issues
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Content is stored in our public github repo, and we use TravisCI to build Jekyll pages on commit/merge, which are uploaded and served from S3.

Interactive functionality is provided via React in the front end, and API-Gateway/ AWS Lambda in the backend.

The API Gateway/Lambda provide various proxies to our various sandbox API environments, so Developers can quickly try our APIs directly on the site.
I like Keepass becuase it is not tied to any ongoing subscriptions or providers. You can use the file sync tool of your choice to distribute your file. The downside/feature is not having tight browser/app integration.
>> We will not tar good people for joining the Trump administration.

>> Their motives will not be questioned,

>> [They] will not suffer guilt by association.

Really? I'll do whatever the hell I want. It's perfectly reasonable to blame the enablers and question why they would associate with and help a person who has said and done such heinous things.
I think he won indirectly because of Facebook. The real powers behind the meme magic on Facebook were /pol/ and /r/The_Donald. This is evidenced by the amazing growth rate of /r/The_Donald and the huge traffic to and support from /pol/.

And I don't think misinformation won Donald the presidency. The main theme pushed by the two forums I mentioned was that Hillary and the DNC were extremely corrupt. Every new WikiLeaks release was scoured by /pol/; there were daily /cfg/ (Clinton Foundation general) threads on /pol/ in which tons of anons investigated the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and then made memes and organized social media movements about their findings.

It wasn't misinformation that won Donald he presidency, it was the organized effort of people trying to expose corruption. Whether the corruption was over-exaggerated is another story.
This is surprising, and it could mean that early commenters have their voice heard more than later commenters. But it could also just mean that topics raised by early commenters end up being discussed in those threads, and commenters on both sides have their voices heard.

For example, if the first comment is roughly "I read the linked article and disagree because of A, B, and C" then someone with an opposing viewpoint would probably reply to the existing first comment instead of creating a separate comment.

This doesn't mean that the second commenter's voice isn't heard—it just means it all happens under the thread created by the first commenter.
Read the entire section of Basic Theory and Description.
I must say i probably have lot of luck. I have 2011 nonretina macbook pro without ssd and i never had problems. I even dropped it once on hard ground (slipped from opened bag pocked). I use it every day, abuse it, travel all the time i do cpu intensive shit and even 3D sometimes. It still works very well without single repair (just added 16gb ram).

I never was much of a apple fan but this notebook was so good investment. I wish i would get something equaly good again. Unfortunately all that unrepairable glued bullshit is just sad.
Indeed! I wish HN had comments sections that good. They're civilly debating with references, without demonizing the opposing side.
> One can go almost anywhere to find political discussions

But where do you go to find intelligent political discussions. For those of you who don't frequent /r/politics, it was completely taken over by HRC's Correct The Record team, the minute the election was over the character of the sub changed completely. You have to admire how effective they were.
I hear you. I took a pay cut (albeit with the possibility of a pension after 5 years), largely so I would not have to deal with offshore hours.

That said, the guys in India on our support team were fairly accommodating about working what was for them swing shift, so that their schedule pretty much matched NY Stock Exchange hours. 6 AM Pacific Time would have been pretty brutal for me, personally. 7 AM was bad enough.
There was a quote regarding this which I can't find, but paraphrased it was something like,

"Bullshit flies halfway around the world before the truth has even gotten its pants on."
Anyone one know what type of tree diagrams these are? I'd love to generate a file system directory structure in that style of tree diagram
What can be done about it? Rich people funnel money into making poor people fight amongst themselves, poor working people blame people who get money from the government, and immigrants who are willing to have a lower standard of living, to vote for conservative governments, and the immigrants and unemployed to vote for liberal governments, instead of joining together and getting rid of the rich people taking all the money in the first place.
That's a pretty one-sided view of safe spaces. I don't think "safe spaces" are meant to be so radically exclusionary, though it's obvious why they can end up that way.

It's to give people an opportunity to talk about the impact of a thing without needing to prove that thing exists in the first place. It's like climate scientists not inviting deniers to their conference: they want to focus on the implications of climate change, not debate the existence of climate change itself.

I think there are plenty of reasonable safe spaces that accomplish the thing they were meant to do without resorting to blanket exclusions. The answer to one extreme is usually not the other.
Have you written anything about this, or can you point me to any resources that might help me avoid pitfalls? I'd appreciate it!
In one sense the electoral college worked as intended. Except that it does not function as intended. As intended it was to be a deliberate body that would debate the candidates and decide the next, best president from all options given. It was meant to be a final review process to make sure a tyrant or despot didn't get through, for instance.
Which is roughly the algo already used for Reddit's default "Hot" view of submissions, isn't it?
The point of my comment was that getting good testing is surely easier on humans than monkeys. Actually going in has to happen at some point - why not do this on humans that have volunteered?

1. Humans do volunteer and it does happen, but even with full consent, regulations will always be stricter on human experimentation than on animals.

2. We don't understand the brain very well and it is easy to make mistakes when working with neural tissue. The consequences of causing irreversible damage/death are much higher when the brain belongs to a human being. On the other hand, most people eat animals for pleasure.

Cellular level investigations are obviously important but getting a wire in somewhere is not going to happen at a level this small

It does happen, there exist small electrode array implants that can be placed in neural tissue to both induce (for example, cause sensations that one can feel) and read-out activity. Such implants are in fact used in some human subjects (there are issues such as development of scar-tissue however).

A decent MR DTI can help when you want to know where the fibres go, but as you say, the hardware/software division isn't quite so clear with live things.

Yeah, for neural interfacing a connectome is not enough, you need to work at the neural code level. Reading out each spike with full spatial resolution from a distance will probably never happen.

Believe me, neuroscientists do not enjoy the fact that invasive experimentation has to be performed on blameless animals; unfortunately it has to be done, unless people are willing to live with the level of understanding/treatments we have now and never move forward.
Oh yeah, I'm not saying that sportsmen are against the environment. I'm referring to the cultural divide between city-dwelling vegans who rarely, if ever, venture into the wilderness and sportsmen who eat meat and fight tirelessly to preserve nature.

It's a matter of people talking past eachother.
$200 is cheap compared to the benefit of basically eliminating the ability of candidates to field multiple offers.

Which I mean sure has nothing to do with why this idea is being marketed so hard.
IMAX raised $50M to fund creation of VR experiences
It is literally a quine, viewed as a program in a language where (for example) the code consists of a regular expression and the output is the sequence of all strings matching that regular expression.
Evan Spiegel Is Willy Wonka
Be careful with 2 factot authentication. A Telegram user was hacked by the police in Russia. The government can receive your SMSes. Use non-SMS 2-factor.
The article claims that this is already done.
My understanding is that the safe-spaces movement wants dedicated rooms and even classes to be safe-spaces. That sounds like the opposite of what I described. Is this simply a disconnect from what the original intention was vs the current movement?
I don't know as what you define free.
But Qt is as far as I know is available under LGPL, GPL and under a commercial license.
Also they co-operate with the KDE project and made sure that it will stay "free" IIRC.
Post-truth politics
The file/syscall abstraction breaks down when we want to do something as simple as copy and pasting from a spreadsheet to a text editor. This is not a slide that should be surrounded by happy people!
The implementation and papers are probably much clearer about the details. This post might also help: https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-deep-learning-keras

I'll answer briefly about the Parikh et al model.

1) Input: (ids1, ids2). These are integer-typed arrays of length len1 and len2

2) sent1 = embed(ids1); sent2 = embed(ids2). Data is now real-value arrays of shape (len1, vector_dim) and (len2, vector_dim) respectively. 300 is a common value for vector_dim, e.g. from the GloVe common crawl model.

3) sent1 = encode(sent1); sent2 = encode(sent2). Data is now real-valued arrays of shape (len1, fwd_dim+bwd_dim), (len2, fwd_dim+bwd_dim).

4a) attention = create_attention_matrix(sent1, sent2). This is a real-valued array of shape (len1, len2)

4b) align1 = soft_align(sent1, attention); align2 = soft_align(sent2, transpose(attention)). These are a real-valued array of shape (len1, compare_dim), (len2, compare_dim)

4c) feats1 = sum(map(compare(sent1, align2))); feats2 = sum(map(compare(sent2, align1))). These are real-valued arrays of shape (predict_dim,), (predict_dim,)

5. class_id = predict(feats1, feats2)

The post describes steps 4a, 4b and 4c as a single operation that takes the two 2-dimensional sentence representations as input and outputs a single vector (obtained by concatenating the representations feats1 and feats2 in this description).
Great comment. Without privacy for verification the election is open for vote buying which I think is the biggest flaw with the proposed system.

I also like the idea of using 2 paper receipts which I think is easy for people to understand.
Sadly, no I haven't written anything. (if my comments are any indication--I kinda suck as a writer).

The biggest pains are:

* Mapping parameters in API Gateway

* Setting the IAM Roles for API Gateway & Lambda (the latter is required to provide execution for API Gateway)

* Setting up custom domains for your API (it uses cloudfront, but must be done via the commandline, and the process kind of sucks)

I've done this work now 3 times. Feel free to email me any questions you have: balasuar@gmail.com and I'll be happy to answer, and provide guidance.
All indications are that this is the safest time in history to be alive. The headlines give us all a sense of terror because it useful to some narratives, but any articles citing studies and statistics show otherwise. We're just much more aware of horrible things due to the proliferation of information. https://goo.gl/yQkFXx https://goo.gl/J9ib0x
[JS] How to make a nextgen 3D game with physics in browser
Given the current impossibility of even _defining_ consciousness, this idea makes me uneasy. How well do we actually understand the correlation between brain activity and consciousness?
Many universities are private property, and students have a say in how they are used, hence school-sanction safe spaces existing in the first place.
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of the Constitution

> No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

I don't see anything there about genitalia or skin color.

But since it's a "safe space" I think I'll pop in there and relax for a bit. It's time I escape this mediocrity and claim the power of my white male birthright.
> Also, intentionally paralysing a creature, leaving it to live in that condition, and then performing experimental surgery/procedures on it is significantly different than slaughtering it.

It seems very similar to intentionally placing an animal in a cage it can't move around in and leaving it to live in that condition. The conditions are, as I understand it, more cruel and unusual than "experimental surgery/procedures."
Thanks for wording this :
The fact that a receipt exists means that you can be pressured to provide it. If my boss wants me to vote for pro-business-owner anti-union candidates, he's not going to take "Yeah I promise I voted for your guy, but I destroyed my receipt" for an answer.

I don't really buy "it's illegal" as a counterargument. There are a lot of things employers pressure their employees to do that are illegal, but the employees don't really have the ability to do anything about it, because they're taking a risk on the legal system working out for them, and in the meantime they'll probably lose their job and be known as an employee who litigates against their employers. As a wise man once said, if you're a single-digit millionaire, you have no effective access to our legal system.
Nice article.

You might find a way to update it to either change the 1988 date, or make it clearer that 1988 is when the particular formulation of MVC that you're talking about was invented, not the origin of the MVC idea.
I used this once to illustrate software development work to non-technical colleagues. It succeeded in showing them how many small changes from many people come together into the final product.
Does it support Ed25519 keys? This is one of the things that Panic's Prompt still lack support of, and I really miss it :(
Like Calibre too https://calibre-ebook.com/about
I also use Keepass[x]! The issue that I see people facing is that it isn't multi-device (it's an offline password manager).
For me, that is the selling point though.
Ask HN: Has someone made this?
I have really shitty memory.

I also have friends and check out stuff.

So sometimes my friends will suggest a new TV show or book I should check out. I say I will and then completely forget about it.

Also, sometimes there are announcements about stuff I should get but maybe I don't have the money or just don't want to deal with it.

I could use an app or web service that makes this stupid easy. I open it, type the thing (such as that cool book I should check out) in and then close it.

Every so often I can open it and look at the list of stuff. Maybe I got a raise and want to buy something cool, maybe I'm bored and need a new Netflix show to watch.

I'd also want it to notify me once in a while. Maybe once a week or even just once a month to check out the list.

Stupid simple. I know I could use a note app like evernote or keep but then the list gets lost in everything else there.
How I had access to the sourcecode of more than 15.000 websites
I enjoy using scrapy because it allows for a bit more functionality. Check it out if beautiful soup is too simplemente for your needs.
I honestly don't know what is typical. There are things like this (I went and searched it up, I have dim recall of other discussions of the culture not embracing the lists):

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2015/01/16/jama-why-...
Comparing Windows to Linux. I find Linux much more simpler. Is this by design? Why does Windows seem much more complicated and complex? Compare the Windows API to Linux API.
> To be humane means "having or showing compassion or benevolence" which is about as far from how you can describe the treatment of livestock that you can get.

The problem I have with this is that like in so many other subjects, a too general term has been used to describe a specific type of practice. Traditional farming is very different than factory farming (which seems to be what you are describing), and there are many levels between them. You may still have problems with how a traditional farm is run, and that's fine, you can present those. But presenting features of factory farming as problems with "livestock farming" implies that all livestock farming is like that, and that's untrue.

If you believe all livestock farming is immoral, please use, or at least add justification for the cases where it's not factory farming if you are going to call out all livestock farming. If you are instead specifically targeting factory farming, please endeavor to accurately label it.
Infineon chip solves Rubik’s Cube in 637 milliseconds
Hololens facial recognition prototype
Globalization (and corporatization) creates money vacuums, and dead spots in the places that they replace.

Walmart/Amazon/Etc vacuum money and resources from the local (or "local-ish") community to their respective profit centers. It used to be small towns would be relatively self sustaining and much of the money staying within local boundaries, and while the cost of goods was higher at least buying them would support local businesses.

When a factory leaves a town or a company goes under from overseas competition it creates a big gaping hole in the local economy that frequently doesn't end up being filled. There are no companies coming back, and no capital available in the area anymore since all profits are sucked up.

Maybe all this is inevitable, but it doesn't quite seem so to me.
History of the Order of Operations (2000)
Are you suggesting that HN commenter spiritofenter is "people who work two jobs and still can't afford rent or childcare"

Anyhow, inre his original

> national leadership has not done anything to address it

Obama and the Democrats have been trying hard to push for more infrastructure spending, improved childcare, more money to bail out struggling state governments, minimum wage increases, more parental leave, continuing fixes to the healthcare system, reduced prescription drug prices, relief for the heavily indebted, etc., but (a) they’ve faced unprecedented obstructionism and deliberate dysfunction from the GOP (for instance states refusing federal money for medicare expansion and trying to sabotage the ACA), and (b) these are difficult problems which can’t be solved by waving a wand and uttering a magic incantation.

The auto industry bailout and stimulus bill and ACA were what they could get passed through congress, not their preferred policy solutions to these problems.

At the state level a number of GOP-controlled states have cut state spending and employment dramatically, closed schools, slashed income taxes for the wealthy and replaced them with sales taxes, undertaken targeted campaigns to destroy local unions (both public and private sector), etc.
It is hard to fault people in that area of the world for turning to folk medicine with fraud rates that high. It is probably just as effective.
On the face of it this is of course reasonable, the problem is the context. You're basically asking people that have been oppressed and are fighting for their rights (often resulting in more vicious oppression), to now come and cuddle what they perceive as their current and former oppressors.

Another issue is that the many white males who perceive themselves as under attack respond to it by engaging in even more vicious racism and sexism. Just look at the way they treated Obama who didn't actually do much if anything to threaten white people, he was barely noticeable as black.

Maybe people who are fighting for their rights are sick and tired of the racists and sexists, and now having to reach out a hand to them yet again, when they themselves have always refused that.