skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what I absolutely love about this...

He's still a hacker. CEO of one of the biggest internet companies of our time and he still hacks.

I explain to people all the time, true hackers are like true writers. I've heard writers talk about the same thing. It's like an urge of creativity inside you, you have to release it into something.

You can also see in the comments section, he's replying to people and providing feedback.

I really dig this.
Funny. I have seen it for last ten years. And it was not that rare that the sysadmin knew more about system's internals than its programmer.
A pouch of instant noodles cost $1 and is a filling meal that I make in the microwave. Honestly, if it wasn't bad for me I'd eat that all the time. That's what I ate growing up.
Not elderly, and anecdote is not data, but I agree. I've personally had much better outcomes with female doctors.
In what concerns Apple OSes, just like with any other first class programming language developers that want to target them will not have any other option.

All the language improvements Objective-C has got since Swift was made available, were only to improve the interoperability between both languages.

Also just check the amount of WWDC talks from the past two years that still used Objective-C on their presentations.

This is why it is so important to have OS vendors sponsor new languages.
1970 GDP in current $: just under 1,000,000,000,000

2014 GDP in current$: just under 17,000,000,000,000

Amount as a percent has dropped - but dollars spent has skyrocketed.
Not a mod, but the rules are pretty clear on this

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, if you want an answer from the mods please e-mail them:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

EDIT: and here is @dang calling this explicitly OT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13213437
Why would anyone ever do that? Are they going to put it on a thermos and drive around with it until lunch?
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HN Guidelines [1]:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This assassination falls squarely within politics and crime, and it's definitely something that'd get covered on TV news (and is). Clearly, some people felt that for these reasons, it's off-topic, and likely because it would be exceedingly difficult for such a story's HN comments comments to not pivot back to politics, geopolitical speculation, and the like. While stories like this have trended on occasion, there's not much substance here. While the event may or may not turn out to be relevant for all of us on a world sphere, it's more likely than not to be off-topic for this particular forum.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A small tangent, but what's the most compelling use case for an Alexa?

Based on the commercials, it seems to solve trivial problems like answering trivia questions. Why can't it vacuum my room like a Roomba, fix my leaky ceiling or fix my power outage? That's what I call an useful home assistant. Being able to parse and understand my voice is nice but it's relatively useless if it can't perform extremely valuable tasks.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, 2nd paragraph.
I mean, if it helps. the snapchat app for android is complete garbage
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I'm still confused about the use case. Is the purpose of a cache like this to create a unified interface to accessing and storing web pages? So you can write code to scrape pages based on their URLs, but then you can re-run without changing your code using local cached data?
A paradigm shift in Geolocation
This problem is not limited to the US. China, India, and the rest of the world has and have had the same problem here.
They did actually review the submissions (not a formal peer review process though), and initially rejected the Sokal paper for multiple issues, eventually accepting it with no changes for their "Science Wars" issue.

The irony that they decided to accept it exactly for the Science Wars issue, after initially rejecting it, is amazing. If they had published it in any other issue, the impact wouldn't be as dramatic.
To catch type errors well ahead of run time.
NPR has been getting pretty clickbaity recently. They had a segment recently about how scandalous it was that CharityBuzz was auctioning a coffee with Ivanka Trump, but they totally ignored the fact that they were also auctioning lunch with Tony Podesta. I guess with 40% of their funding coming from the public, it's important that they push certain narratives that resonate with their audience, rather than being impartial.
CHIP-8 is pretty fun! Here's one I made in JavaScript w/ debugger: http://greatcodeclub.github.io/chip8/

Code: https://github.com/greatcodeclub/chip8
Fake news can affect the economy negatively.

Traders, including trading bots use news as input.
Bill, why not "fake news" block also ?

Bill, you start to be late from train, mate.
China did that 40 years ago!
Tabloids have a long history of fabricating stories. Will they be held accountable?

Whenever I read about fake-news it is generally associated with the alt-right but people seem to forget that the established news are equally as guilty. I recall losing a lot of faith in the NYT when I read the Amazon expose and felt it read more like a vendetta piece/sensational than truthful objective journalism.
I think it's very early to say who owns the voice platform.
> Amazon owns the next platform.

No. We built a market analytics app on top of Alexa and we have Echos all over the office. It's great.

But I don't want to be tied to stationary speakers in the office. I want my app integrated with the devices I carry with me everywhere. Google and Apple are poised to win here once they open up Assistant and Siri to third-party development.
Do you object to laws against fraud in general or just this specific one?
Here is an interesting comparison between FastText and word2vec.

https://rare-technologies.com/fasttext-and-gensim-word-embed...
They already are.

And this law just applies the laws that apply to the tabloids also to the web.
Gotcha. I definitely agree that there can be consumer surplus not captured by GDP.
There was a Wired article [0] that had the writer in a Jeep driving down the highway while two hackers (who were part of the article) were able to shut down the Jeep. If that is happening already I wouldn't want to open my car to any more risk by connecting it to the cloud.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
It will probably allow me to eliminate some Windows VM's that are strictly there to provide some enterpricy Java apps with an MSSQL database.
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In addition to this, if a lot of the libraries you're using are written in PHP, it makes a ton of sense that command line scripts using those libraries would also be written in PHP.
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I hate his ambition...

In reality, I hate that I am not as ambitious as I should be. Say what you want, Zuck is really killing it and its admirable.

We're the same age, yet I let myself think feel that its someone else's job to build the "cool" stuff.

I will have this article handy and read it from time to time. Hopefully it will continue to motivate me.
There is "twisting" the truth to implicitly convey a certain narrative, and then there are outright lies. Do not confuse the two: the "trash" news sites that publish blatant lies for ad profit are very real, and a bigger problem than bias in real journalism.
You'd have a stronger point if you had France vs. US and no other standards.

In reality, you have the accepted world standard and the US one, with a small smattering of UK units thrown in. To argue the entire world should switch back to the US standard instead of the other way around is ridiculously obtuse.
The suggestion I've seen repeatedly is that self-driving cars can travel faster with smaller gaps between vehicles due to strong coordination between them and near-instant response time in processing compared to a human. The article also suggests safety equipment in the vehicle would potentially be lessened as well. (Google's little koala cars would crush like tin cans, for example.)

Of course, when something goes wrong with that, yes, the accident would be more severe, because the velocity is higher and the likelihood of multi-car collision would also go up.

Of course, the effect may be akin to an airplane crash: When one crashes, the survival chances are lower, and more people are killed, than say, in a car crash. However, the frequency of the incident is drastically less, and hence airplanes are generally understood to be safer, statistically.
The last NYT story I saw had ~20 upvotes, suggesting it is in fact of interest to hackers. I've been here about 7x longer than you, I don't need you to tell me what the HN guidelines say. Non-tech stories of global significance are frequently discussed here and always have been.
You are welcome to your opinion, but the fact is that soft serve is ice-cream: "Soft serve is a type of ice cream[0]"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_serve
I'm sure AWS will happily host any of the hundreds of startups who want to (try and) beat the Echo in the "consumer facing" aspect. It's a win-win.
The degree to which the other NATO nations are required to render assistance under 'collective reponse' is entirely undefined and subjective.

A box of 7.62mm ammunition would qualify.
Yeah you're right, but I'd never be able to properly make a kobe steak at home so I'd rather go out. Chicken and most fish is hard to mess up so I keep that at home.
Only one of the people you mention is sitting in on Presidential transition meetings.

To be clear, having connections to the Clinton's really is different than sitting in on meetings with foreign heads of state.

(I'm not sure I think that Ivanka having coffee with someone is problematic, but it's still different than a lobbyist doing it)
Is your post written in ignorance of Intel's "0-day bot," kernelci, et al. or are you just complaining about the workflow it uses?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQjs&feature=youtu.be...

Edit: kbuild catching build failure in question: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2016-December/0287...
I tried Alexa a month ago and gave up on it within a week. Digital assistants fall flat in walled gardens. It was clear during this week that Alexa only worked well with Amazon services, which were always subpar. Google search? Nope. Support for Chromecast? Nope. Support for Instacart? Nope. It was basically a perverse link to the Amazon-only supply chain.

Google's assistant might be striving for more openness, but I don't have high hopes here either; at least until a formal development kit is released. Given that Google won't be able to use its same tried and true ad revenue strategy, we can expect them to offload voice requests to the highest bidder or prefer Google services above all else. This is another perverse link into Google's realm of anti-privacy; but worse, because they won't be able to do ads along the side. The responses will be the ads.

All of this to say that all of these locked down digital assistants will fail until a company truly approaches it from an open and wholistic perspective, and one that doesn't rely upon troves of private data. These devices may sell well this year, but so did digital picture frames. How many of those are still in use?
You're welcome.

I have cut back: x64 single core & x86 quad core are no longer measured, x86 single core updates are not frequent, and x64 quad core updates are less frequent than they used to be (although more frequent than the chart dates might suggest).

I've kind-of been hoping the hardware would fail -- but someone would probably gift me a new machine :-)

From my perspective "defence of the benchmarks game" is a matter of saying "Keep it in perspective" and "Keep it in context" until we do ;-)
I stopped reading at "Aliens". The Turk explanation was so patronizing IMO it reduced my tolerance for any other apparent nonsense not related to the topic at hand.
I have both and Google Assistant/Google Now is a much better experience than Alexa/Echo. The google voice interface is much more intuitive, allows context to be kept in a conversation, and is with me wherever my phone is. With Alexa I feel like I'm constantly searching for the right way to ask her to do something.
This is very neat, but he's right that some won't like the unhygienic variable definitions in the with-chip macro. ;) If I were to do this in Scheme, I'd use a "parameter" called 'current-chip' (think of it like a dynamically scoped variable) and write getter/setter procedures that operate on the current chip. This way everything would remain hygienic. I guess it's just another example of the usual difference in software design between CL and Scheme programmers.

I'm excited to see this blog series develop to the point where there is graphical output.
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Their TLS configuration is very strict. Only TLS 1.2 with only ECDHE + ChaCha20 or AES-GCM cipher suites. A lot of clients can't talk to it (including IE 11 on Windows 7 and 8), so it makes sense that they still offer non-encrypted connections: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=openssh.com.
“A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.” ― Jacques Derrida
Wow, that's cheap. Name brand soda (specifically I'm talking about Coke) is $6/12 pack normal price here. I'm not sure who buys it at that price though because it goes on sale all the time. The most common sale I see is 3 for $9.

Generic soda is obviously much cheaper.
By bridge I assume you literally mean a traffic or pedestrian bridge. Both are expensive and beyond what I read the OP as meaning by "funding an idea". Given this site, I read OP more as a software or hardware guy wanting to build something and get funding for it - something much smaller and less regulatory hurdles than an actual physical bridge.

But, let's assume he did mean a complex, expensive bridge. If it truly was worthwhile location to build a new bridge, then why would it be hard to show that people would use it - it's more a matter of measuring existing traffic on other nearby bridges etc...
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As opposed to letting transparently false information trick people who should know better?

You're right, we should be leery about government regulations, but false information is a problem.
MOST. AMAZING. SIDE. PROJECT.
It was part of my normal university computer science data structures course. Was actually one of the structures we had to implement. Also, for all the "hard to get right" comments I remember them being much easier to write than RB Trees or B Trees.
That's fair, but then that "rule" would also apply to the number of white/black people in the countries listed, making it lower. Doesn't make the point of considering demographics any less valid.
why is Google search lousy for API discovery? If I search for email sending Api, I get results for MailJet and SendGrid - relevant ones. If I search for entity identification api, I get AlchemyApi back - also relevant.
It's a pretty weak signal given all the sorts of things you'd have to correct for. 11.07% vs. 11.49%, a 4% relative difference.

For example, they exclude all data from ICU doctors because they're disproportionately men – suppose only the best doctors work in the ICU, by excluding that you're excluding more of the best male doctors than the best of the female doctors resulting in leaving a better population of women in your study.

They correct for illness but not for doctor specialty, perhaps females specialize in things that happen to have lower mortality rates.

... and on and on and on. There are so many variables to possibly correct for that a study like this (especially having skimmed it) is pretty much useless. It would be trivial to do a study like this and get whatever result you wanted. Just stop doing statistical corrections when you get the result you're looking for. P-value doesn't mean anything here because it doesn't capture the ways the study could be wrong.
Sounds rather unlikely in SV but if they did, so what? The resume got me the interview, I should be able to demonstrate my value. If they're still going to treat me like I'm somehow tainted for briefly working a low-status job, I can't do anything about that.
If people kept getting serious burns from plates at a hotpot restaurant, I would really hope that the restaurant would get punished. If you cannot safely provide your service/product, you should adjust your service to make it safer. McDonald's was serving extremely hot coffee in flimsy cups, and people were getting seriously burned by their coffee. McDonald's refused to make their product safer and got punished for it.
> American leaders have, historically, tend to be white men (think the first 49 presidents).

You mean 43 US presidents. President Obama is number 44.
You're might be wrong, which is perfectly fine
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Eh, the highest punishment for a newspaper generally is that they are forced to publish a retraction, and maybe civil damages for someone they reported about. I can't think of any law that explicitly punishes made up reports. Is there one I'm not aware of?
> It won't be pretty but you'll be able to use VR Excel

> I think its very clear MS is pushing into the low end to entice businesses

I can't come up with a reason this would be desirable. There are eye and mental health issues that seem like serious roadblocks to making everyone use these things for whole workdays, and if you have to revert to a normal screen much of the time then what's the point of messing with VR? Just one more gadget. Plus any battery-powered device will suffer from greatly increased power drain compared with doing the same stuff in a normal desktop, even with a lower-fidelity VR experience. 8hr battery with monitor versus 4hr battery with VR (I'm being generous)? The productivity benefit from VR would have to be enormous to make that look like a good trade.

I can see it for some niche applications (3d modeling or CAD, maybe) but for MS Office cowboys? What's the pitch?
dan you're being disingenuous here. The historical significance of an incident like this is unusually clear.
It is no "reluctance" but the Presserat codex that journalists adhere to: Just disclose the ethnicity if there is a pressing need to do so [1].

And note that this is not something "the government" has imposed, it has been discussed over and over again and the Presserat has members from all walks of journalist life (conservative and tabloid Axel Springer as well as more liberal papers).

And besides that, this "reluctance" is a very subjective observation that you make. There is such a variety of media in Germany and you can certainly find "ethnic crime" reporting in huge papers such as BILD, Welt and FAZ.

[1] "In der Berichterstattung über Straftaten wird die Zugehörigkeit der Verdächtigen oder Täter zu religiösen, ethnischen oder anderen Minderheiten nur dann erwähnt, wenn für das Verständnis des berichteten Vorgangs ein begründbarer Sachbezug besteht." - http://www.presserat.de/pressekodex/pressekodex/#panel-ziffe...
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I remember Feynman said to check the spin of the photons emitted from alien species. If they're 90 degrees out of phase with ours then they're made of antimatter and we shouldn't shake hands. (At least I think it was spin, been a while since I read QED)
Parallelism isn't easy, so the core team is expending time to get it done correctly and released before 1.0. Crystal doesn't have anything like the GIL, and the compiler already enforces some simple rules, like type flow not being available on instance variables because they could be changed on another thread. You can't expect the world from any new project straight away.
Concretely:

> We accounted for patient characteristics, physician characteristics, and hospital fixed effects. Patient characteristics included patient age in 5-year increments (the oldest group was categorized as ≥95 years), sex, race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and other), primary diagnosis (Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group), 27 coexisting conditions (determined using the Elixhauser comorbidity index28), median annual household income estimated from residential zip codes (in deciles), an indicator variable for Medicaid coverage, and indicator variables for year. Physician characteristics included physician age in 5-year increments (the oldest group was categorized as ≥70 years), indicator variables for the medical schools from which the physicians graduated, and type of medical training (ie, allopathic vs osteopathic29 training).

They don't say _how_ they controlled for those characteristics though. Presumably, they divided each patient's calculated 30-day risk of death [1, table 10] by the relative ratios in risk of death of every category, calculated from the same data set. That should probably cut it for controlling for this particular difference, although I am not a statistician.

Paper link:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

[1] Supplemental material https://jamanetwork.com/data/Journals/INTEMED/0/IOI160102sup...
This isn't a new idea. The real peak for invention was around 1880-1900. Steel production finally worked, electricity was known, the basic machine tools existed, and steam power was working well. That's when Edison was most active. His "invention factory" had a goal of a minor invention every two days and a major invention every three weeks. There were so many easy hits available waiting to be invented, and the tools were there to build them.

Some technologies develop rapidly and then hit a wall. Aviation developed rapidly from the Wright's first flight in 1903 to the late 1960s, which produced the Boeing 747 and 737 (both still in production), the Concorde, the SR-71, the C-5A,and the Saturn V. Since then, improvements have been minor by comparison. Yet technical documents from the 1960s project vast improvements - hypersonic ballistic transports, single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft, atomic-powered interplanetary rockets, and fusion drives. Even antigravity was studied seriously. Didn't happen.
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> Antihydrogen is made by mixing plasmas of about 90,000 antiprotons from the Antiproton Decelerator with positrons, resulting in the production of about 25,000 antihydrogen atoms per attempt. Antihydrogen atoms can be trapped if they are moving slowly enough when they are created. Using a new technique in which the collaboration stacks anti-atoms resulting from two successive mixing cycles, it is possible to trap on average 14 anti-atoms per trial

The amount of work that goes in to producing 14 anti-hydrogen atoms is astonishing. It's simultaneously the height of human technical accomplishment yet vanishingly small quantities of the most primitive element possible.