skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny. I'd managed to read "president" as "professor," googled it, and found a fairly well-known physicist, which made my second quoted paragraph seem especially relevant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Allen_Bartlett
This last election was brutal for my phone. Every day for two weeks I got atleast 1 text and sometimes 5 reminding me to vote for some particular candidate or issue.

I don't know how my number got on these lists, but I replied STOP to every one of them.
Growing up, Barnes Wallis was my hero. Paul Brickhill's book describes how he had to battle unimaginative Whitehall bureaucrats one day, and cutting edge engineering problems the next, to get the thing built.
I'm not sure "sadness" is the way I'd describe it, but returning back to the real world is a bit weird if you've been in for a few hours. I've always attributed it to the wind-down. The crazy part of onward is it literally invokes a prolonged adrenaline reaction. At least it used to, it's not nearly as much anymore. Leaving can be exhausting. It's definitely part of the addicting aspects. The first few times when I dove to the ground because I heard gunshots near me was exhilarating. I find myself wanting increasingly more intense moments.
There is also a strong correlation between money and # partners...all else being equal.

By saying all else being equal, you are singling out one quality. If people were to judge ONLY on that quality (all else being equal) everyone gravitates towards perceived positive qualities.

To prove my point look at the following statements:

- All else being equal, money correlates directly with number of partners (rich have more free time/access to partners)

- All else being equal, beauty correlates directly with number of partners (beautiful people have more access to partners)

- All else being equal, kindness correlates directly with number of partners (kind people have partners gravitate to them and stay with them)

- All else being equal, confidence correlates directly with number of partners (confident people generally have better access to partners)
What a great project!
What is your problem with gay people? Pretty sure refusing to work with them is considered discrimination.
Ahh, whoops, you're right about doc karma [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation
It wouldn't be inconceivable for a determined person with some electronics experience to make a cyclotron [1], which is a neutron gun that can produce radioactive material. Not sure if "reactor-in-my-garage" folks are doing this, or if the material it produces can be used in any subequent reactions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron#Usage
I refactored the angular 2 tutorial tour of heroes, what do you think?
Google, Facebook cut ad revenue to 'fake' news sites
Yup, lots of it. Smaller computer means more room for other machines, like larger CNC Mills.
Well you were using the wrong tool for the job. Snapchat is for sharing transient data with a small intimate group. It's not meant for business at all. Instagram is designed for the kind of thing you just described using Snapchat for.

It's just like if you displayed your art at your local bar instead of the local art museum, and complained that only your friends saw it instead of new audiences.
ICQ happened to figure something out - girls wrote boys as well, I remember getting messages from strangers as often as initiating those.

Anyway, it was more about talking than about romantic relationship. Not many people expected to ever meet their virtual friends.

You can definitely ruin that, for example, if you do not randomize well enough and a small subset of user base gets too much attention.
It wasn't really mentioned but there is a program where weather enthusiasts can submit readings from their automated weather stations to a service, which provides them (in bulk) to various data consumers. Some of the consumers produce consumer weather sites (Weather Underground, for example) and others are scientific users who aggregate the data and do statistical analysis. In most towns, there's at least one enthusiast submitting data, so when you average all of these thousands of collectors, it can cancel out the effects of the methodology changes described in the article above.

On a side note, I have a weather station in my back yard and I wrote my own software in Go to collect and graph data from it. The station is a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2, which is a decent "pro-sumer" level station like you might find on the roof of a fire department or ski patrol building.

My software is called gopherwx. It doesn't have CWOP support yet or any documentation but you can check it out here:

https://github.com/chrissnell/gopherwx

I have the data feeding into InfluxDB and graphing via Rickshaw on my site, which updates the readings in real-time every three seconds:

https://mhkweather.com/
>"The researchers removed immune cells from the recipient’s blood and then disabled a gene in them using CRISPR–Cas9, which combines a DNA-cutting enzyme with a molecular guide that can be programmed to tell the enzyme precisely where to cut. The disabled gene codes for the protein PD-1, which normally puts the brakes on a cell’s immune response: cancers take advantage of that function to proliferate.

Lu’s team then cultured the edited cells, increasing their number, and injected them back into the patient, who has metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. The hope is that, without PD-1, the edited cells will attack and defeat the cancer."

Or maybe it was this:

>"The researchers removed immune cells from the recipient’s blood and then selectively killed most cells containing a certain sequence using CRISPR–Cas9, which combines a DNA-cutting enzyme with a molecular guide that can be programmed to tell the enzyme precisely where to cut. The targeted gene codes for the protein PD-1, which normally puts the brakes on a cell’s immune response: cancers take advantage of that function to proliferate.

Lu’s team then cultured the surviving cells, increasing their number, and injected them back into the patient, who has metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. The hope is that, without PD-1, the selected-for cell population will attack and defeat the cancer."

Since there is no paper (only press release) we can't say much more about which explanation is most plausible in this case.
This is actually an excellent illustration of how organizational incentives seep into data.

Imagine you have a historical temperature series record. You have an bureaucratic incentive to find and justify an argument as to why past temperatures should be adjusted downward, making the curve of global warming look steeper. You have no bureaucratic incentive to look for the opposite.

The result is that, overall, modern corrections adjust past temperatures downward -- what we'd expect if these biases exist. But this doesn't mean any specific correction is based on "fabricated" research. It's probably perfectly valid. It's just that downward corrections are more attractive to research, because they produce research that has a social impact that the field finds desirable.

(Edit: here's a picture of the net adjustments: https://judithcurry.com/2014/07/07/understanding-adjustments...)
I would be very interested to know this too, but of course it's all technically against the ToS[1] and so I doubt Snapchat will ever even acknowledge it, much less give numbers on it. Don't want to offend those delicate advertisers!

[1] http://www.dailydot.com/debug/snapchat-porn-banned/

(The article is over a year old, but not much has changed since then.)
Poor non combatants though, eh. Argue semantics if you like, but entire families were wiped out in the raid. You probably have an 'acceptable number' of women and children that can be destroyed to "save allied soldier's lives" but for a lot of people, that number is zero.
Then how do they make money? If they are going public then they will need to satisfy their investors, not their users.
'I write fake news that gets shared on Facebook'beat
Cool.

I've been using a combination of NoScript,Self-destruction coockies,ublock and a personal vimperator script to wipe out all that nasty stuff when I close the window.

https://github.com/liloman/dotfiles/blob/master/vimperator/....

https://github.com/liloman/dotfiles/blob/master/Scripts/Scri...

By the way firefox is pretty nasty by default and you must do a lot of hard work to evade tracking, in special by google:

https://github.com/liloman/dotfiles/blob/master/vimperator/....

Of course you must use custom fonts if you don't want to be tracked by google for every single webpage you enter.

I think I will play with containers for firefox when I try firefox 50. Something like a new container for every tab, I reckon It must be pretty easy with vimperator(or whatever plugin you like) to make .

Put your vimperator/penta/vimium/X to work for you. :)
where is this guy getting these immersive experiences? I have an oculus and haven't experienced anything that great yet.
The real fight isn't proving that the data is there, it's proving that people should even look at the data. Climate Change Denial doesn't come from a scientific place and it doesn't have a scientific answer really.
Good to know. I thought it doesn't include and prevent the download of some DRM blobs.
It makes sense and that's very acceptable strategy to follow. But, at some point everybody has to offer a way for business to work with them so they can earn some money, isn't that right?

Unless Snapchat is not after money...not now at least.
Interested too, just mailed the throwaway account :)
Ask HN: How do you create good key performance indicators? (KPIs)
I am ramping up on "key performance indicators" (KPIs) for technology projects, such as how to measure traction for startups and how to monitor devops and IT systems.

My work thus far is here: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/key_performance_indicators

How do you create good tech KPIs for your technology goals? What KPIs are you using that you like?
Decades after deadly lab accident, a secret Russian bioweapon decoded
How data collection works?
tl;dr Facebook seems to want to ban The Onion

I don't get it
8TB disks still looking solid, seem to be some of Seagate’s best
Bingo.

But the bone is cooked with the steak. Eventually, the VCs will want a return on the cash, and then you need to have customers that want to use snap-chat. There are 2 options then: Turn it into a paid service that you pay to use, or turn on the ads. I think we all know that most kids aren't going to pony up to use snapchat, so ads it is. They have to turn on the ads, and then, as the marketers are the customers, their voices become the most important. Eventually, all the VC cash is eaten away and snapchat is yet another photo-sharing service with a 'community' and some lite blogging/captioning attached.
I did make a TaskPaper iOS app, but then got overstretched and and wasn't able to continue working on it. I did open source the code here:

https://github.com/jessegrosjean/NOTTaskPaperForIOS

I think the most popular app that derives from that code is TaskMator:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taskmator-taskpaper-client/i...

I might make another iOS app for TaskPaper at some point. But as an individual developer splitting myself across multiple projects and multiple platforms becomes painful pretty quickly.
The 2017 Entrepreneurship Report: A Research Project from Drip
San Francisco is also a great place to catch screenings of classic film noir in the historic Castro Theatre (complete with pipe organ): http://www.noircity.com/
Snapchat is not going to do this. Facebook's business model is built around ads disguised as content, whereas Snapchat makes the ads clear and separate from the content. Snapchat is more like TV -- if you want to promote your brand, buy an advertising slot.
A lot of it depends on the integrity of the researchers, and I would suspect NOAA scientists have more integrity than the average "bureaucrat".
If you use the cloud ml service.
I have never seen a keyboard which doesn't have a Ctrl on the right side.
Looking at the "waifu" culture in Anime, it doesn't seem like you need a particularly deep or compelling experience. What you describe already happens; it just might start happening for a slightly broader array of people.
Ah yes, sorry, it would have been more correct to say "perl's REs lacked recursion at the time ". I use PCRE pretty frequently, so knew that it's supported recursion for some time; but it's been a while since I've done anything non-trivial with perl itself, so couldn't remember if it too had that functionality or I was just getting their feature-sets confused. Evidently I guessed wrong - thanks for the correction.
It exists for ages already, though. You use the same shortcuts to cycle tabs in dialog boxes. And that goes back to at least Windows 95, if not further.
I commented on using Back Orifice but Sub7 was another one we used.

If I remember correctly BO didn't have a GUI until they (Cult of the dead Cow) updated it to BO2k so it was easier for us kids to use Sub7.
What does this have to do with you falsely claiming thousands of Germans died, when in fact most of the people who died were victims of the Germans and were only there in the first place because of barbaric and racialist German policies?

Edit: Well if he can whinge about downvotes, and get upvoted as a result, maybe I'll try. Didn't realize HN was such a haven for neo-Nazis.
You seem to have pretty strong opinions about how other people should live their lives.

How is that working out for you?
i just signed up here and started interacting. Looks like a good forum and community.
What's a better alternative?
It's not obvious at all. Tons of studies also show the opposite preference. Domineering and self-centered people getting it more than the altruists.
I would think you'd use: /.+@.+\..+/
I must be the most selfish jerk on the planet since I haven't had sex in over 15 years.
I agree there will always be noise, sensationalism, deceit, and propaganda. The idea that tools can play a role is a good one, though I think it's limited in two ways:

- it can be prone to an echo chamber effect if one's not careful

- it does nothing to prevent the promulgation of "bad" content (think clickbait), or rather, it doesn't improve the quality of the news

As for improving critical thinking skills, wow. That's a tough one. I agree, it's incredibly important. If you can figure out a way of doing that in short order, be sure to let me know, okay? :)

This is why I focused on incentives in my question. What would motivate publishers to improve their content?

In my opinion, the current situation is due in large part to the reliance on on-line ads, which focus on clicks and eyeballs. Subscriptions encouraged maintaining quality content day to day, not click to click. There's been a lot written about how hard the media industry has been hit in the move from print to digital. I don't see how that's going to get easier over the short term, either, given how deeply imbedded advertising is online. People don't want to pay for content, or at least they're not used to it. And it's difficult for content that's available digitally to be controlled, which it needs to be if the publishers are going to make money producing it. I'm not saying anything new here, and I'm sure it's been stated much better elsewhere.

I fear that this is too much armchair-philosophizing on my part now. Thanks for providing the opportunity for me to write some of this up that's been rattling around in my head.
I'm not singling IBM out, I'm singling this story out: it is nearly content-free and volatile given the company behind it and the context of the election.
From back when I was active in the "black market" (around 2009), nobody would deal with you if you didn't use ICQ or OTP. Carders especially used ICQ almost exclusively.
http://brandonburning.com/warmup

A simple warmup calculator for my workouts. Use it multiple times a week.

https://safe-savannah-8578.herokuapp.com

When Turntable.fm folded, I was sad. I wanted to learn sockets, so I built this. It's like Turntable, but uses YouTube videos instead of actual songs. Bugs galore, but I use it at work almost every day.
It might be hard to determine a false statement from a pants on fire statement, but just because it's not purely objective doesn't mean its not useful.

What would are some Politifacts that you think were wildly off base? Like statements that you believe to be true that are labeled "Pants on Fire".
Does anyone use some free/opensource software for this in practice? I tried the following:

- https://colmap.github.io/ all-included and has nice GUI but dense reconstruction is currently nvidia-only

- http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ I didn't succeed in building it, and it has restrictive license. Also comprehensive GUI

- https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM promising but lots of heavy python dependencies, tricky to set up and use. Tried only old version when it didn't have dense reconstruction
I have tweeted about SO several minutes ago before I discovered this topic on HN: https://twitter.com/otarch/status/798647799411675136

StackOverflow is so powerful resource on the Internet, alongside with Wikipedia and Internet Archive.

I wish I could donate two ways:
1) Yearly or monthly (subscription) donations, like on Wikipedia
2) I would be extremely happy to donate authors of some great, life-saving answers. I feel so excited when I find the right answer after searching a solution for hours.

Just shut up and take my money!
You don't need dishonest researchers to see this effect. You just need researchers who care, personally and/or professionally, about the impact of their work.

I'm sure Mr. Spock is a professor somewhere. If you talk to real working scientists, you'll find very few Spocks. Also, there are not a lot of Victorian gentleman-scientists; they all need to be funded...
As an internet marketer I have got to agree with you on this completely.

No one wants to even give a second of time to the ads in Snapchat. They are obtrusive and in the middle breaking up the content you want to see.

For personal branding Snapchat is great. For communicating directly with people you care about, Snapchat is great.

I honestly don't see it going anywhere beyond that. Probably going out of business due to a lack of revenue.
Yeah I was going to add that I get sad after a good book or tv show or film or video games but reading the article it seems to talk about a much more debilitating effects related to the increased immersion from VR. I think it warrants some closer study specifically because it reminds me of that scene from Inception, where people prefer their VR life over their own and end up like junkies in an opium den.

If you look at how good computer graphics have gotten, it's no a far stretch to see where it will be in 20 years, 40 years. Suddenly, the are-we-in-a-simulation philosophical debate comes to mind.
Why was hp hardware a requirement? What was so special about hp hardware?
And you're looking at through the lens of a user, rather than a shareholder. The teens may not care about discovery, but the people selling to those teens do.
The Phase 1 effects remind me of the first time I got behind the wheel of a car immediately after playing GTA. I was barely able to drive because I was afraid of doing something stupid.
Ah, but as a brain-in-a-vat how could you distinguish other brains telling you things from the simulation just telling you what you want (or don't want) to hear? As long as we posit the "simulation" it doesn't really matter.

EDIT: Pithyness. Solipsism is fun, isn't it? :)

EDIT#2: I didn't mean to dismiss your point preemptively. I actually think it might be interesting to explore whether there could be (in principle) such a thing a shared-yet-simulated reality without succumbing to the solipsism argument. I don't think it's possible, but I'm not a philosopher. Incidentally physics has a similar problem. If you're interested, look up Boltzmann Brains and the "Arrow of Time".
The ship that sailed is the one that says we must keep traditional systems alive and well in the modern world.

Yes, some people live cooking --as do I when I have the spare time, on the other hand, often I don't have the time to futz and just need a pragmatic meal, rather than experience based cooking.
If curious, I did a post on that a while back. I'm settling into a new house and will pick this series back up soon.

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
> You probably have an 'acceptable number' of women and children that can be destroyed to "save allied soldier's lives" but for a lot of people, that number is zero.

The only solution would be to surrender to the Germans then. There was (and still is) no way to win a war without civilian casualties.

You realize what the outcome would be?
No, it wouldn't be a good thing. Stories are works of both art and engineering, and neither of those fields have much room for random outcomes.
Oh I loved Miranda when it came out. Thanks.
I'm calling it now: Snapchat adding discoverability features in a few years is the beginning of the end.
Pretty common to see that data on APRS.fi as well, I wonder how much overlap there is.
For a 15 year old boy, you are totally normal my friend.
Nice to see how these links appear on HN front page now as the new POTUS plans to build a concrete wall...
Many dinosaurs also did not had feathers, some had scales, some had skin closet to mammals, and at least some were likeky warm blooded.

Birds are only part of a single branch of the tree of dinosaurs, and currently it's more than likely that most dinosaurs did not had feathers and are not really related to birds in any particular manner.
I am hungry for news of HP's "The Machine" or whatever they're calling it, which is the big iron that will leverage and be built around the memristor-based memory.

Any progress on that development?
They sell sponsored filters, iirc Snapchat is already profitable.
Well, killing the workers is also a way of disrupting arms production. In my hometown the allies didn't so much bomb the shipyard or airplane factories, but rather the part of the city where workers lived. Not sure how effective it was, though.
People said that about Robert Jordan too, then he got sick and the mantle passed to another, faster author.
Unfortunately, going with a tour guide or a group of Americans completely changes what you see. I am an American and Dutch citizen and elected to travel on my Dutch passport. Some Iranian friends showed me around, and the experience I had was the best of my life - and definitely not something you could get with a group.
Good points. Just finished building firefox 50.0 with for cairo-gtk2 and trying it out now. Hope there are no crashes.

I agree with what you say and want to add that there two issues here. First is the GTK3 port of Firefox not working as a native Wayland GTK3 window. Second is the themeing issues with GTK3 that people ran into, which is something you can live with. Finally, it's the serious regressions of GTK3 itself which go unnoticed or ignored as evident in the gnome.org bug-tracker and the tickets I've linked to in a sibling comment.

The most important argument for Mozilla providing GTK2 builds is that otherwise the likelihood of the code bitrotting is very high as it happened with the Qt port. The interesting aspect of the Qt port was that at that point in time GTK2 was the best choice, but now for substantiated reasons major applications chose to rather port to Qt than GTK3. Therefore, if the Qt port were to be revived it's much more likely to be of interest and maintained than back when the GTK2 port was good enough that nobody cared about Qt.

I know X11 and Wayland are not Mozilla's main platforms of interest and I'm grateful that they do support with the feature set they do. I'm surprised at the seemingly isolated echo chamber perspective of the GTK3 devs. It's an interesting behavior to observe since without non-GNOME users it could just as well be rolled into GNOME itself. Interesting times, having lived through the times when jwz in 1998 was debating whether GTK1 was any good for Linux.