skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cat was eating so much volume she was vomiting. Weight control food doesn't help with this issue.

Additionally, my obese cat was on a very controlled amount of "diet" food for years, it doesn't actually work. Switched him to Blue Buffalo and didn't observe any weight change.

And before anyone asks, yes, the cat has been to the vet and has gotten all the blood work and I've tried multiple meals and everything. Don't even go there.
Inaugural Issue of Ledger (Open Access Crypto Journal)
"Why" is having control over frequency and quantity. If you have an over-weight cat you may need to dial that down gently over time to avoid too much protesting.

The writer clearly indicated this is just for one meal of the day. People are losing their shit here as if this cat is locked in a room for months on end with no human contact.
Which makes one wonder why doesn't Ireland just take the $14B. That is a lot of money , surely more than what apple is going to pay ireland in the next 20 years. They can say "sorry apple, they forced us". How likely is apple to leave Ireland for another country? There few countries that will offer such sweet deals.
Yup, the cause. The solutions were all political.
Have you seen recently released software synths? They are much different from traditional analog synths and are capable of way more possibilities of sound. Definitely modern.

I don't get why "traditional" musicians tend to dismiss electronic music. Electronic music is not just dubstep or Eurodance. There are modern genres such as future bass that incorporate more advanced musical composition and implement it with new technologies that many people enjoy.
All universities have codes of conduct and expel students who violate them. Everyone who enrolls at BYU knows that BYU students are expected to behave in accordance with the Church's values while they're students. No one has a right to go to a specific university, much less a private one like BYU. Getting kicked out of BYU for breaking rules you'd explicitly and knowingly agreed to is not the same thing as shunning. I'm not seeing a problem here?
DO YOU WANT TO LEARN How to BOTTLE FLIP IN SECONDS?
Stanford C programming
There are three times as many public relations professionals as journalists in America. Media companies are being consolidated into a few owners, many of them with tech leadership. Microsoft, for example is the MS in MSNBC (although I think they recently sold MSNBC?)
I don't understand what you're trying to say?
Yep, I've been 100% remote for 5 years now (wow, it feels weird to see that number!) and am never going back, for the same reasons.

The only caveat is that it's important that you work in an organization that is aligned with remote work, if not remote-first. Just scoring 'permission' to work remotely somewhere not used to it, is probably a recipe for a pretty bad time.
Even with that lead time, you know ahead-of-time when you're about to run out of supply in 2016. There's just no excuse.

That said, I just don't see too many people buying Echo. Another distracting device that tries to get you to buy more stuff on Amazon is just not something I think people want, and the speech recognition works flaky at best, even in a quiet room (my Amazon engineer buddy has one). It's just like Siri.

I had to go brick-and-mortar to get a flash drive in under an hour the other weekend. At Silicon Valley's Best Buy in SF, the in-store Echo demo had a few passersby press the Demo button, and then as soon as it started talking, they looked confused and walked away. Not a good sign.

It does make a lot of sense: When something actually isn't selling so well, running a marketing campaign saying "we've sold out" is a great psychological hack to temporarily drive up demand.
One of the linked pages in the article illustrates the insanity surrounding health care and the FDA at the moment to me:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Philips-Lumify-ultrasound-f...

One of the responses to the question is a respectful, reasonable post; the other responds with the typical protectionist FUD that permeates this area. The second asks about the costs of misdiagnosis by people using it inappropriately, but ignores the lost rewards of appropriate uses that are curtailed, and the costs of overpayment due to lack of competition to determine what level of training and payment is actually appropriate.

The original article might be naive about some of the technological challenges associated with an ultrasound machine, but I think that's missing the point.

When a response to "why can't anyone buy an ultrasound machine" is to disingenuously reply "because you have to have the FDA ensure that it's working correctly and people aren't running around killing each other with it," it puts huge constraints on innovation and growth in this area. I can go buy a crowbar and kill people with it, so why can't I buy an ultrasound and use it to study muscle movement, or for education, like the author of the posted article is noting?

Plenty of technically sophisticated open-source efforts exist, and they can't happen if there's arbitrary and unnecessary prohibitions on them happening. Maybe if the FDA said "hey, go to it" people would realize it's too hard, but maybe they wouldn't. We'll never know as long as there's unnecessary restrictions in the way.
Lucky you!
> ...still clammors endlessly for food.

This is normal for dogs. They're always "starving".
Developers at the small companies that I have worked at have had at least some input into business needs.

Developers are often aware of solutions that do not occur to the business people. A business person might think we are being as efficient as we can be in process P, but then a developer may come along and say we can automate parts of process P by implementing solution S, for example.

A lot of the time this sort of thing does not happen in the scheduled, structured meetings, or in email chains, or in video conferences. It happens when people in the office approach each other "out of the blue" and decide to grab a conference room and work something through face-to-face.
if you want to? i can't understand why the usual social rules don't apply. we all get to choose who we hang out with, whether they be from work or from the neighborhood or...wherever

for everyone else there is a very clear social contract where we are expected to exchange minor pleasantries and act nice, but no more

when did this system break down? i liked that system
There are usually agreements about double taxation between countries so u dont pay double taxes.

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/taxes/double-taxat...
I got a Dot for $40 a few months ago and liked it so much I got a second one at amazon.com/alexadeals for $20. Already had two alarm clocks with Bluetooth speakers built-in, so very quickly I gained a full-coverage voice assistant for home automation.

It's totally a utility for me... turning on lights when I'm heading up the staircase, setting timers while in the middle of cooking, checking the weather/forecast, making sure there are no surprises on my commute. I use it to play music occasionally.

I would have never started down this path if the device was over $100, though, so I agree with you there. $40 was just a good enough entry point for me.
I presume when they are fusing off these functions, they are also skipping QC on them, so they effectively have higher batch yields on that silicon.
Some things are near instantaneous, though.

I've discontinued use of optical media circa 2009 and replaced my OS drives with SSDs in 2010.

Eliminating spin-up times and random seek times for multiple small files has probably been the biggest performance boost in my user-side computing experience.
Cheaper to just buy commercial software.
Personally, I find darcs lovely to use. It avoids complexities like branches (you already have a filesystem - if you want to work on multiple things, you can have multiple checkouts) and provides a simple UI that shows you what you're doing every step of the way by default.
Was anything accomplished by linking to Slashdot?
I'm sure it's not how the whole Y2K process was running, it's just how the exact New Year's Eve event was planned.

I was personally also on ready-to-go-to-office stand-by, even not working in Microsoft, but in much, much smaller company. And my team did do a serious work in making the code we were responsible be Y2K proof, we've spent good part of 1998 with that.

In short, we've worked for almost a year to make that "nothing serious happened" result possible, in our own domain of responsibility. The highest management understood the problem and the process was properly planned. That "nothing serious happened" for our code is a success story of the quality of the tests we've did and used to fix the real problems. And they did exist. I'm sure there are other HN readers who can tell the similar stories.

The computer-related risks are a serious subject.

I remember following the news on the New Year's Eve to see what's happening in Japan and Australia. As also "nothing serious" happened there, I was ready to bet that everything will be fine, and that enough other companies also took the subject seriously and acted early enough.
My thought was immediately gone to using these nanowires to trigger excitatory bursts in localized areas of the brain, solving issues like microseizures (or possibly large scale seizures also) or performing extremely precise electrical therapy. However as the article says, these cells don't have the same transmembrane transport mechanisms (wrongly called phagocytosis by the article) they relied on so this would need more research, but the fact the wires can generate an electrical potential across the membrane is huge in itself and the rest can come.

However, the application of drug transport is also amazing. Currently a lot of research is performed on lipid transports (microbubbles, etc.) or capsule-like nanostructures to carry hydrophilic or oversized molecules across the cell membranes. Stimulation of membrane-mediated transport for any molecule just by attaching a chemically inert nanowire to them would be AMAZING.
Building a Brain in the Lab
Your actual sampling rate will be higher than the Nyquist if you are trying to process data from an array, as the sampling rate required to detect phase shifts depends on the sampling period (which is determined by how quickly you want to 'move' the array).
Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox
> someone donates some of their time to write it. that's usually how OS works.

Sure, those high school and university students building up their github portfolio for job interviews.

The majority of serious open source projects are backed by hardware or consulting companies, and usually fade away when that support is no longer there.
Sure you can hire someone. But it's cheaper to buy commercial software.
Especially when your cat's a "puker" that will eat, eat, and eat some more, barf a bunch, and go back to eating.

Also what is with everyone saying "he"? Seriously. That blog is pretty clear about who's writing it.
I'm not sure what a 3 step methodology is, so I can't answer that way.

From what I know about this subject, she is proposing communicating to children that they have the ability to alter their own abilities. This is in contrast to the attitudes like "I am just not good at math" or "They did it easily because they're gifted". These attitudes are undesirable because challenges (things that you cannot currently do) are avoided rather than attempted.
> direct sampling ADC at 80 MHz or less is far from an impossible task

The Sonix linked below has 32 40MHz 10bit ADC channels, which is a factor of 64 off from the 80 MHz figure if one were to assume 8 bit, and places us firmly into the realm of several-hundred-dollar ADCs.

Not impossible, but I'm pretty sure that's where much of the cost is hidden.
And like other comments have suggested. You cant sue for following the laws. If EC/EU does not like laws then change the laws. If EU does not like Ireland laws then kick Ireland out. But holding 13B euros hostage cannot be tolerated.
Sure. After they show that the casino knowingly used marked cards to gain advantage against them, as the casino did vs Ivey. Which I'm not even sure is possible in Baccarat, since my understanding is that it's a purely mechanical game from the house perspective, like Blackjack. As in, any choices made by the house are dependent only on information that is witnessed by all players.
Yeah, 100x odds is a great marketing move but it isn't that helpful to the average gambler. A game of heads or tails with a fair coin would be the best EV bet in the casino, but it isn't that useful if I need to place a minimum $1000 bet per flip.
It's very company dependent.

2 data points from other industries, based on LinkedIn:

1) Ogilvy & Mather: 7,289 employees, 188 with Vice President in the title.

2) Johnson & Johnson: 63,072 employees, 1,154 with Vice President in the title.

3) Microsoft: 129,445 employees, 2,514 with Vice President in the title.

I think Vice President doesn't mean as much as it used to. :-)
I just upgraded to a RX480. From an R9 390. Not much gain, but wanted to support the company that is committed to being open.
But on the other side, compare with pigeons who could pilot a glider bomb into WWII enemy ships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

(As the owner of both a cat and parrot, I've learned not to underestimate their intelligence.)
>Some people have automatic coffee makers that run on a timer. Does that make them indifferent to their own health?

This analogy is very far off from feeding your cat from a machine.

Feeding a cat is 1. giving it food 2. bonding and establishing a relationship 3. chance to check on cat's well being.

People can talk and tell someone if they are unwell.
There was a new Hurd version announcement a few days ago and somehow Rust reminds me of Hurd, but from a different direction: it seems to me that Rust simply changes way too much to be currently widely accepted at any scale, and has a high rate of attrition because of that.

Statements such as "But as of Rust 1.15, this restriction will be lifted, and one of the largest blockers of people using stable Rust will be eliminated!" and "It is unclear if there ever will be a Rust 2.0." (to avoid the "Python 2 / Python 3 effect") don't help.

I'm comparing this to Go (yes, yes, both Rustaceans and Gophers will yell "it's not the same!" - in vain), where the Go 1.0 syntax was set in stone in 2012, and remained mostly compatible now, 5 years since, and still it feels that the community is somewhat sparse and reinventing wheels on regular basis. The reality is that for complex projects and complex development environments, once "Rust 1.0" syntax gets stabilized, it will probably take 5+ years for the community to feel comfortable with it, and trust the language developers not to break things at a whim.

Remember that the still widely-popular Python 2.7 was released in 2010 (and it also sort-of set in stone the "Python 2 syntax"), and plan accordingly.
Thanks. So, what do we tell our kids? Focus on skills they are passionate about instead of getting bogged down with skills they are not good at?
Using and extending NX components, client-side middlewares
And OP is topologically equivalent to a bagel (disregarding nostrils)
Yes. It made me reminisce about 2002.
> the pathologies of reddit are down to a shared platform (the voting system, moderation tools, etc.), userbase, and site culture.

I don't buy this, not a whit. I think /r/the_donald and /r/woodworking are as different as any two phpbb messageboards on the pre-reddit internet ever were. What is the same between them (the voting, mod tools, etc) are not opinionated enough to affect the culture, they are the bare minimum necessary to make the site work.

I don't think Reddit has changed as much as you think it has. It had its share of racists and trolls back in the halcyon days you remember, and it dealt with them (or didn't) pretty much the same way back then as it does now. If anything it is doing better on that score. But I do agree that something has changed, and I have a theory on what that is, which I will now share with you (and the one or two people who ever read HN comment threads more than a day old):

I think that what's changed is the, shall we say, meta-conversation about Reddit in the larger media. For the past 2-3 years or so, the question, "Is Reddit racist/sexist/etc?" has been a newsworthy one. Like any newsworthy topic, it has generated commentary: pro- and con- essays, nuanced opinions and dumb ones, insightful well-researched articles and misleading clickbait journalism, blog posts, FB comments, etc, etc. It spawned numerous sub-controversies (Did Ellen Pao make things better or worse? Was banning /r/whatever censorship or not?), each of which was a new opportunity for all of the bloggers and journalists and randos to weigh in again and argue some more.

Point is, if you follow this meta-conversation, by reading articles about Gamergate and Ellen Pao and so forth, you are exposed to much more of the worst Reddit has to offer than you would've been simply by using Reddit as a discussion forum to talk about fly-fishing or programming or whatever it is you went there to chat about. From the sounds of it, you did follow this stuff, at least casually. And it seems plausible to me that that changed your opinion more than any real change in the underlying "character" of Reddit (to the extent that such a thing even exists).
I think grandparent meant a "git revert", which is actually a distinct operation (introduce a commit which is the inverse of a given commit) from resetting a branch pointer.
You're essentially arguing that OSS shouldn't be considered as a viable alternative for businesses looking to solve problems.

That's fine if you want to just do it as a hobby. But if you want to make a living, you're going to have to intersect with the business world somehow.
Eating is the process of mechanical consumption, not metabolism.
I hope you are joking.
See "topological insulators"
> Tell me what's wrong with Breitbart?

You have got to be fucking kidding.

If you don't know what's wrong with Breitbart you have absolutely no place to criticize anyone.
Now imagine leaving it on a train: http://www.thelocal.de/20160108/violinist-forgets-24-million...
Private collaboration among competitors is usually frowned upon as illegal collusion. Contributions to a public open source project wouldn't face the same issues.
I expect that this article's title will give some Hacker News readers an incorrect impression of what it's about.

As the article mentions, this talk was given at the Donaueschingen Festival, so the audience almost certainly consisted mostly of fans of avant-garde contemporary classical music. If the author only mentions jazz or rock, or electronics only in passing, it's because he's primarily talking about the future of contemporary classical music, and in particular the future of the sort of highly-experimental classical music played at the Donaueschingen Festival, and probably not the future of music at large.

In this context, I think his question is a reasonable one. What will/should innovative classical music look like in the future? The article's suggestion seems to be that it should focus less on being radically experimental, and more on innovating in a way which is more deeply rooted in traditional techniques and more easily comprehensible to the listener. I suppose the question is, in light of what is now a long history of extreme musical experimentation, what does innovation look like in this more traditional context? I obviously don't have any answers, but I agree with the author that it would be nice to see more focus in this in the experimental classical music culture.

As an aside, this article has a lot of references to composers and pieces which will make it tough reading for someone not already familiar with avant-garde classical. That said, it does give a nice whirlwind overview of a lot of historical trends in this space, so if you're unfamiliar, but still sufficiently interested, you might use it as a quick reference for areas to listen to. Alex Ross' book "The Rest is Noise" is a good resource for a deeper look at the area.
RIP Stan Meyer
The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does
Oh! So there's a bunch of context and nuance to the question? And a bunch of other questions that need to be asked about like what is bad and what is good (and what is okay), or why is it bad, or how long will it be bad? Because none of those things are discussed in the article.

That pretty much undermines most of the "value" of the article, it skips all those steps in the discussion and tries to sum it up under a single (universal) question. And then goes on a terrible rant about how people don't deserve their passions.

That's my entire point.

How about we just skip all that garbage (e.g. bullshit) about screwing your passions and just say: if you need a job, or if you need to pay bills, or if you want to be self-reliant, getting a job is a good way to fix or do those things?

Also, I never said anything about coercion, but it is implied by your use of the word make in the phrase: "don't make others (such as your parents) unfairly pay for your pursuit of passion." And I just cast a light on the implication.
Sure, but treat it like HR is standing right behind you with an evil eye.
Seattle Voted for Light Rail Because the City Stopped Moving: Congestion Up 35%
The neutrino is very real, and observable by experiment. It was first unambiguously observed in 1956 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowan–Reines_neutrino_experi...).

Reines was awarded a Nobel prize in 1995 for the discovery.
> So yeah. Rust definitely has problems for beginners.

IMO Rust has the challenges that are very similar to all other languages have. But if you are trying to make the leap from a GC'd language like Java or Python to Rust without ever having written C/C++, you should expect to have to learn not only new language concepts but new programming concepts.
The surprise is that it is supposed to happening now, shrinking relative to 2015 when AMD CPUs where already just as far behind.

Maybe there was a pattern of brand-loyal, sufficiently rich gamers who made a hobby out of building a new system at the very top end of AMDs offerings whenever a new generation Radeons came out. Those would not find an excuse for an upgrade this year because the latest generation of Radeons tops out lower than previous generations.

But this explanation attempt breaks down completely when I try to back it up with the numbers from the article. The way I understand them, the average AMD/AMD system has actually become more expensive, suggesting that AMD lost more at the low end. But I have similar problems with the main conclusion of the article: what I see in those tables is that the Radeon fraction has dropped faster on Intel machines than on AMD CPUs. With this in mind I would rather conclude that brand loyalty is even more important for AMD than it used to be, it's just that with shrinking general popularity of Radeons, the CPUs get less of a helping hand.
It's really nice, but text can be hard to read without scaling or enlarging it. I haven't looked at any other 4k or 5k displays, but I think a 30" 4k would be much better. Sadly those are really expensive at the moment. The P2715Q is the best IPS 4k monitor in the price range, plus I got a great deal on a used one.

Even with the text issue, I think that it's still a significant upgrade over the Thunderbolt displays I was using before (I was using 2). Not quite as huge as going from my previous non-IPS 1920x1200 monitor to 2560x1440, though.
> Please remind me why is Apple dragged into this ?

Because if Ireland "loses", then Apple owes 14B Euro.
So, Apple is an interested party.