skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've read so far of interest relating to age prevention or reversal since I'm a programmer myself and you may find these interesting...

A Healthy lifestyle slows telomere length decline by producing more telomerase in your system than otherwise. Activities such as aerobic exercise where you sweat a lot, eating very healthy food, having a bit of red wine now and again and probably most important, having a solid network of people you interact with (and or animals) that care about you and express this for the most part in a positive way.

There is also strong evidence that caloric restriction slows your aging process by up to 30% coupled with high nutrition (CRON diet) which is backed up by tons of experiments in animals as seems to be fundamental to our biology.

The company "Elysium" produces a drug "Elysium" $50 that claims to slow the aging process through increasing NAD production which we lose through aging, putting you in maintenance mode (similar to CRON?) without having to starve yourself.

TA Sciences sells TA-65 and claims to elongate telomeres and reversing aging? by boosting telomerase activity from refining the Astralagus root's enzyme and putting it in pill form (1 part in 10,000 so its 10 times more expensive than Elysium).

The other route is gene therapy but it costs 1,000,000 dollars (picture Dr. Evil) which Liz Parrish has partaken in is reported to have increased her telomere length along with a muscle enhancement to avoid sarcopenia.

An interesting one is stem cell infusion that I've read about as well as stem-cell injection sites for stem-cell therapy which has been reported to have miracle-like effects in reversing symptoms of stroke to arthritic conditions but I don't know the pricing on this one.

Aubry De Grey seems to have tons to say on aging but I have yet to make heads or tails of his conclusions even though he seems to be super smart.

David Sinclair is a big proponent of NAD and Sirtuins, having a high degree of credibility in the field and finding proteins that stimulate our production of NAD, seems very sound.

I didn't list references as probably something you should look into yourself and more research is coming out so fast to debunk or bunk it.
Balanced diet is the one based on current scientific knowledge as opposed to new age crap.
What about the people they perpetrated the crime against? They are not all nameless and faceless... There is an offender walking around right now due to this belief that they are not violent offenders and shouldn't be sent to prison. This individual has cost me and my family lots of time and money and I have no way of recovering it. My impact of his crime in time value alone has been more than his "punishment". (the monetary restitution will never be paid and there is no point in suing for the same reason.) Maybe I'm just angry but I see the system failed to provide a disincentive for this particular crime. Dropping the risk to reward ratio creates criminals.
There is a lot if hidden privilege that allows you to think for most people it is a choice.
The Next Head of the FDA May Be a Man Who Is Fighting a War Against Aging
New Linux Kernel Bugs by PVS-Studio Team
Migrating an Angular 1 App to Angular 2 E-book
Both The Idea Factory and Titan were excellent. Haven't read any of the others yet. I'd recommend reading The First Tycoon[0] before Titan, as chronologically it sets the stage very well for the world Rockefeller rose to power in.

[0] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4839382-the-first-tycoon
The benefits of your terminal emulator allocating a new DOM element in a web browser for every line of output. You can also watch Hyper's memory use climb up at a constant rate
Actually there's a very clear definition of what types of problems ML ought be used for, and that category of problem is what defines it. Those familiar with regression (and stats in general) ought to be familiar with it already - it's an issue of relationship of datatype between independent and dependent variable.

In brief, you're going to run up against two types of data - categorical and continuous. (There are facets to this, eg ordinal, but these are really the elemental types of data). The relationship of datatype to independent/dependent variable is what determines what kind of analysis you may conduct.

Categorical Independent vs. Categorical Dependent, for example, is fairly restrictive, as makes logical sense. You may cross-tabulate, you may score likelihood based on previous observation, but obviously, because all of the data involved are non-numeric, there's no chance for regression, ANOVA, etc. Linear Regression is used when both independent and dependent variables are continuous, and cross-category differencing techniques like ANOVA may be used when the independent is categorical and the dependent is continuous.

The part you don't typically learn until grad school is when the independent is continuous and the dependent is categorical, ie, in ML, a classification problem. The standard statistical methods used as foundation for these problems are logistic regression, logit/probit. It's expansion of these methods that lead to ML in the first place.
May have been better to stick '7.3' in there to avoid the confusion I and others have had.
My main problem with trackpads on Windows laptops is actually a software problem: there's no separate sensitivity/acceleration settings for trackpads vs mice for Windows (MacOS has this).

Acceleration is pretty much a necessity for trackpads to be usable with high-res/multi monitor setups for me, but I cannot stand to use mice with acceleration enabled (probably a relic from my hardcore PC FPS gaming days... I get horribly distracted when my mouse movements don't map 1:1 to movements of my cursor). Not being able to keep separate settings for these different classes of input devices means I simply can't get any decent amount of work done on my laptop without connecting a mouse or going into my settings and enabling acceleration (and of course, disabling it afterwards when I need to use a mouse again, which is a huge PITA).

Having touch alleviates the problem somewhat, but there are still plenty of instances where having the precision of a touchpad is necessary.
The difference is that children start dependent on others hand and foot.

Adults have savings, insurance, sick leave, government unemployment benefits, government disability benefits, etc. Or at least they can. There's a lot more grey area on what's necessary.
Whether or not this comment was sarcastic, its net effect would clearly be pro-inflammatory, which is not great for HN. We're after civil and substantive discussion here.
I've really come to value sorry non fiction books. Too many non fiction books seem to repeat the same point over and over. Less danger of that on a short book. My favorite non fiction author is Ian Buruma. All his books that I've read are short but loaded with information and are highly diligent about giving references.
it's probably related to your 2 edits solely about being downvoted
Most of all I like this:

char *stime[] = { "400ms", "5min", "10min", "15min", "20min", "25min", "30min" "No timeout" };
They're putting in token effort and trying to create an impediment for Linux kernel development even on other hardware. And they were warned months ago that it wasn't going to fly.

Having a driver is good, but putting it in-kernel is bad if the kernel devs can't read it and fix it.
Your friend is right in that sound designers aren't always striving for kitchen-sink realism. Tentpole film sound design is often subjective and hyper-real, only because it's both meant to denote how something actually sounds, as well as how the sound makes us feel.
I am not an expert but as far as I know in Germany the families get 14 months and I think the pay cut is even lower.
Sensemaking: The one statistic you never hear about drugs (2014)
I don't necessarily find it more complex to get started on, but some of the vimwiki defaults with navigation and creating new pages are nice to me. Plus, it makes my workflow simpler, because org-mode was the only reason I was jumping into emacs.
I want to quote the whole section that gives the most info, just because McCarthy's writing is so great & ominous:

"The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. What is it? she said. He didn't answer. He went into the bathroom and threw the lightswitch but the power was already gone. A dull rose glow in the windowglass. He dropped to one knee and raised the lever to stop the tub and then turned on both the taps as far as they would go. She was standing in the doorway in her nightwear, clutching the jamb, cradling her belly in one hand. What is it? she said. What is happening?

I don't know.

Why are you taking a bath?

I'm not."
> ...his assertion that Trader Joe's mistreats their employees.

He's not asserting that, he's using it as a hypothetical example:

"If I were to boycott, say, Trader Joe’s, on the grounds that it mistreats its employees (for the record, I don’t think it does)..."
Small point of feedback: the header of this site is extremely distracting.
Yes. It works beautifully and they're very reasonably priced. Couldn't recommend more highly. I have 3 built into my house.
80 hours of coding vs 80 hours of managing companies is different.
Our automated future
Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit
tim gowers's blog is very informative on the subject: https://gowers.wordpress.com/category/elsevier/

this one is a good starting point: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-...
Does anyone know what some of the non-obvious locations are? I'm not sure what RADC, ETAC, and a few of the others are.
This is my observation as well. I recently read a FB discussion where an American friend was generally in favour of Obamacare.

The people who disagreed did so not because they necessarily disagree with universal health care, but because they thought it was unfair that they had to spend their hard earned money to subsidise people who they view as freeloaders.
How Much Does It Cost to Run a Serverless API on AWS?
And there's a lot of hidden choice that you are ignoring.

A government mandate requiring companies to provide paid leave forces (i.e. opposite of choice) everyone else to pay for it.
That doesn't sound that bad. I might investigate AWS until putting an investment into my own dedicated hardware.

I'm just starting off, so my primary concern is speed of iteration and learning. I want to train on and generate audio phonemes, so this will undoubtably take a lot of practice.
Yes, we agree. Plenty of people are paying more - the depreciation and finance cost on a nice new german sedan is already getting you up there.
I retired at 25 due to startup and some inheritance. Being free all the time can be depressing and i began to look for challenges. It's not so easy if you don't "need" to go through all the bullshit and hard work that gives you results in the long run.

So now i'm focused on social issues. Fixing small social problem arising due to bad laws with a bit of automation. I'm on my second startup (or rather NGO) in that area and it brings me a lot of satisfaction.

But not having to do stuff can be sometimes as hard as having to do stuff.
Not a paper but at least it's a reference to a paper from a reputable source. Now the problem is I couldn't find the part where it says eat 1kg of butter per day. So how does this counter the parent comment?
ML = anything where parameters are learnt from data.

Yes, this means ML is "just" statistics - the distinction being that it is automated so you can run it on larger amounts of data quickly.

I thought this was pretty much an accepted definition.
I get your point but as a father of 2 kids, I can tell you that choosing to not go back to work is not as easy as you make it sound. Some people don't have a lot of financial flexibility (you can blame them for it sure) and quitting job to stay home is difficult unless you drastically reduce your financial liabilities which sometimes is just not possible in a short term.
So, a "calorie" is just a measurement of energy produced when something is burned. Like, really, that's it.

Proteins have specific uses, and some of them can't be produced by your body, so that would be an example of a "non-empty" calorie. Same thing with lipids. Carbohydrates are, essentially, sugar. (Once they're broken down). Obviously you can use them for energy, and they're useful in that regard, but once you have "enough" carbohydrates to fuel whatever activity you're doing adding more just causes your body to convert them into fat. So, that's why they're considered "emtpy" -- they have no nutritional value other than being converted to glucose.
Pretty basic here.. we are a payments processor so we check volume, average ticket $, credit score and things of that nature to determine the quality and lifetime of a new merchant account.
In addition to the great overview of voting systems and the policy commentary, the interactive parts -- which they call 'Explorable Explanations [1]' -- are fantastic! The code for this one is on Github [2].

[1] http://explorableexplanations.com/ [2] https://github.com/ncase/ballot
Hmm, I guess starving is technically a choice.
Pro tip: function calls (especially anonymous ones) are the biggest performance bottleneck. I've done pretty extensive research on this: http://youtu.be/BEqH-oZ4UXI .
(2017)
Here is a good PC build, also some software info: http://deeplearningathome.com/2016/09/Building-PC-For-Deep-L...
The benchmark thing is pretty common in GPU vendors as well. It was pretty widely documented a while back that certain vendors were removing thermal limits[1] when certain Android benchmark apps were detected.

Only real solution is to write your own private benchmarks that match your use case and aren't shared widely but not a lot of people have that luxury.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-andr...
I just started in UC Berkeley's MIDS program.

My only two misgivings about the program thus far: It is 1) pretty expensive and 2) geared towards working professionals rather than academics, but my employer is helping pay for a good chunk of the degree and I'm more interested in acquiring the skills and tools to go solve problems in industry as opposed to doing research.

Otherwise it has been great thus far. The program was attractive to me because it is somewhat marketed towards those that may not have a software background, but have problems in their industry that could benefit from a "proper" data science treatment. I've been referring to my application of the principles as "Six Sigma for the 21st Century" with managers/directors. I think the vast majority of HN would groan at that term, but it helps communicate the potential value to someone who has no technical background with software whatsoever (think old school manufacturing/operations types): Process improvement for environments with many variables that have practically unknowable inter-dependencies (as is the case with the project described in my original comment).
Saying "it can't be done" and "nothing will change" for decades is why we've built up a massive backlog of absolutely necessary changes.
Study Concludes That We Need a “Strict Ban on Human Cloning for Any Purposes”
Me too, even though I was a bit surprised by the announcement: with the undergoing work around async IO and Futures, I don't expect hyper to stabilize quite soon.
If you base your health decisions on The Express then why not some anti vac website
> If someone in the C suite takes 20 weeks, then it will be culturally ok.

Given that the average age of someone in the C-suite is approximately 50 (particularly for a company of the age and type of Amex), then chance of that happening is slim to none.
Haha yes, I remember seeing washing machines on my landing page for months after I bought one from Amazon. I mean, how many of them could a person need?

Seriously though, I don't understand why it's so hard to take this effect into account, as there should be a very strong negative correlation between a purchase in a given category and the probability of buying an article from that category in the near future, so even a simple ML algorithm should be able to pick this up easily. Anyone here who can explain why this is difficult?
Thanks for your perspective.

In trying to rationalize the article to myself, it occurs to me that, after a lifetime of measuring your own success/pride in dollar-denominations, a complete, instantaneous loss of income represents a likewise complete collapse of pride and an ensuing inability to even measure one's own perceived happiness.

Perhaps the restless retiree from the original story could use his dissatisfaction as a driver to find another means of self-fulfillment, rather than allow it to shock him back into (imo) tycoon-esque distraction.
think the moratorium is over:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
Game of Thrones uses a sound effect for dragon attacks like some of the Transformers sound effects - shame really, spoilt it a bit for me.

GOT:

https://youtu.be/56oIsum8HQc?t=1m57s

Transformers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JySDiW0psM
My disagreement with the placement of "Strangers in Their Own Land" is basically that it really is well loved by Mother Jones[1], NYT[2], etc. but not at all liked by the people it claims to report on[3]. I guess if you hold liberal beliefs and want some reinforcement, then its a good book, but I would think you probably want to read books by people who actually are the people being talked about.

1) http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-white-blue...

2) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/books/review/strangers-in-...

3) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/09/01...
See also: Median voter theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem
Probably Google's, right?
Two-way data-binding is definitely still controversial and/or can be hard to use in some cases, but its also very easy to use in others, and we've found it help people get started very quickly. I think it's important to know that it's an _option_ and has potential downsides. I'm not sure we communicate that enough. We do have large customers who follow a mostly-one-way pattern.

Speaking of, Google does use Polymer widely. All of YouTube is converting to Polymer right now, plus quite a large number of "smaller" projects like Play Music, Chrome, Translate, Chromecast, TensorFlow :), etc.
Ask HN: Why are laptop companies moving to touch screen?
Apple introduced the touchbar. MS is supposedly seeing a lot more people buying their surface lineup. I'm trying to purchase a laptop but, stepping back for a moment, a thought came across my mind: Just how useful is the touch screen really? What's so good about them that a lot of companies are willing to do it?

In places where I need portability, such as in bed or during commute, I can simply pull out my laptop and get stuff done much quicker. If that's not possible, I almost always reach for my phone. A tablet feels awkward to use in settings like this.

For touch-based shortcuts, it will be extremely challenging to be proficient at it. I'm talking second nature of pro gamers or digital artists. Imagine replacing your keyboard with a touch-only keyboard. The lack of reference forces you to look down, especially when the keys are far away from each other. Another example: Emoji touchbar. What's the point when you can simply "ctrl+cmd+space"? It requires less movement and provides a quicker way to browse them.

One advantage would be for doing creative work. However, I feel like there still needs improvements to complete with something like a cintiq. The pressure sensitivity is worse, and doing detailed work requires me to zoom in farther than usual. I'm optimistic that it will be much better in a few years, but for now, I'm hesitant to purchase something that will become outdated soon. It's not like I can just replace the touch screen portion of the laptop.

New technologies fascinate me. Whenever something different comes out, instead of lashing out because it's outside of my comfort zone, I always try to adapt. But this is one of the few things that I can't seem to understand. At first I thought the benefit of a touch-screen was accessibility over speed and proficiency. However, I'm beginning to think that it's more redundant than accessible.
I think our thread grandparents were referring to the decisions of country/government itself ("Canada has x"), not specific U.S. companies
It's quite hard to take anything objective from this article. Unless I missed it, I don't see any link to the source material and there is no mention of what the specifics of the test were, or the sample (aside from the sample size). The three links provided on the article are links to mentioned universtiy landing pages or a link to another Telegraph article regarding a /different/ study.

It would be interesting to see the details of the study to determine if there is potentially more of a link to some other criteria (e.g. wealth) than the test questions themselves (which are never mentioned).
I guess no book list can ever escape the mediocrity of Neal Stephenson. At least it wasn't Snow Crash this time.
I've always thought the 'living in a simulation' scenario and creationism are pretty much the same thing, if the person that started the simulation felt some sort of rules ought to be followed (for the longevity of the simulation, or whatever reason they might have). That doesn't seem like a stretch - we do that with the Sim games, and we're hardly brilliant.
Wow. It's crazy to think erlectricity is still kicking. That was one of my first open source projects, although to be fair mojombo has basically replaced everything I wrote with far better code over the years.
That is called society, and as someone who pays a lot of tax, has owned businesses in the past, and plans to do so again, I fully support it. And I speak out in favor of such ideas and plans, to encourage my fellow citizens to support these as well.
I've read shoe dog. Entertaining fast read but I don't think you should prioritize it unless you're really into sneakers or Nike.
Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships
Yes, essentially they systematically try to hamper open access to articles while also extracting as much money as possible from the scientific community. As a corporation all of this makes sense because they want to make money, but that is why boycotting is a good response as it will give them a profit motive to stop trying to hamper science.
Using neural networks to model neural networks is adorably meta.
Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'.