skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "... at the end of the day people will believe whatever they damn well want to."

I finally learned this and, after long denial about it, now "know" this as a fact about the universe. Or at least humans. That humans operate 1000% out of beliefs and that they didn't come to those beliefs rationally. And that you can't reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into.

It's actually been hard for me to come to grips with this emotionally and to integrate it into my day-to-day operational instincts/intuition.
Well in a way you're just offloading the cost of hosting that code/data in that case. Instead of hosting it yourself, the page with the link is hosting that webpage.

Well it wouldn't really be arbitrary, it'd be specifically HTML and/or JS, for security related purposes.
Looking at Dow returns since 1975, you have about a 40% chance any given year of getting < 5% return.
For people who wonder why YC and pg are okay with some of Peter Thiel's more extreme behavior, this is why.

It's pretty interesting that pg describes the possible outcomes of contrarian ideas as either positive for society or merely a waste of time. Even though the pursuit of risky and contrarian ideas can also be hugely harmful for society.
Time, Space, and Life as We Know It (Recursive Data Structures Pt 2)
For the many millions of people who are insured today thanks primarily to the ACA, the economic impact includes:

* Access to preventative care that keeps them out of the ER, where the expense of their care is maximized

* Financial contribution to their care, rather than the previous expectation that they would simply default on gigantic medical bills or go bankrupt, in either case leaving everyone else in the market to absorb their costs

* The availability of guaranteed-issue insurance on the individual market reduces job-lock and, for us in particular, makes it possible to start companies without worrying about how to secure insurance for our families. Health insurance has been a top 5 issue for the founders I've talked to about it (obviously, myself included).

The thing you need to remember about risk pools and denial of coverage is that health insurers can't deny health services to people, only insurance coverage. For a variety of reasons, including the fact that insurers have collusive secret pricing deals with health care chains, but also the fact that acute health care is just crazy expensive to provide, almost anyone who doesn't have insurance will simply be bankrupted by medical events without coverage. When that happens, it's not like we don't pay for it; it's just that our insurance companies get to dodge a bullet that we collectively have to take for them.
read the manifesto : http://trumptweets.io/manifesto
we are just getting started.. those are just test samples. working on better content though.. try it out though.
Resistance to the Antibiotic of Last Resort Is Silently Spreading
No, they don't. I own one that's about to get bought back.
Which is exactly the point. Use it as a stronger signal and case closed. Web will change the way they want. Always. Right now they want to change it to their walled garden.
You can switch that mode really easily though...
My company runs 350+ Macs.

Years ago, we abandoned Macs in our datacenter when Apple neutered OS X Server and gave us no alternative. Windows is now king there.

Now we are seriously considering abandoning Mac for, of all things, our Prepress department. Why? Because for the last three years, macOS has been become almost unusable with network shares with a large number of files (anything more than a few thousand). Think minutes, at times, to open an f-ing folder. It is a known bug. It has been around since 10.9. Apple has not even acknowledged the problem. What takes milliseconds on Windows can take anywhere from 30 seconds to two minutes on a Mac. The problem exists regardless of share type. SMB and AFP are equally bad.

We are as core a user as it gets. Prepress. Graphic arts. And Apple is unable to make a Mac work efficiently on something so obscure as a file share. They have made it quite clear that they do not care about power users like us, and they are never going to care again.

We have work to do. Browsing a network file system is a basic service. It should not be difficult. It should not, as it currently is for us (and an untold number of others), cut our productivity by half because our users spend so much time just trying to open a file.
Hey! Yeah I taught that class three years ago...

Several papers that really demonstrated this was possible at scale came out around over the next year, the most well known is "Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks" (https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5346-sequence-to-sequence-learn...). It's been quite fun watching something I assumed was too hard at the time, become essential to the field.
If you get diagnosed with cancer, would you go to med school and wait until you graduate and can fully understand the diagnosis and how the prescribed treatment was arrived at by your doctor before you follow it, or would you follow the treatment as closely as possible as soon as possible?

Perhaps climate scientists don't know with completely precision everything there is to know about climate change. But as far as anyone can tell no one has a more accurate picture. "This theory may be imperfect [not even 'is imperfect'; we just don't know] so we should disregard it completely" is a Nirvana fallacy.
Very much this. As our supposed standard of living rises, we blithely add in all sorts of costs we could never imagine living without.

That's where you get the joke: "how many people does it take to dig a hole?"

"One person to dig a hole. One person to make sure they are working under union regulations. Another person to make sure they are compliant with environmental regulations. Another person to handle payroll." And so on.
There are examples of generics that were different than the branded versions. Wellbutrin is a great example. A few generic versions were pulled since they dissolved at a different rate and delivered much higher doses of drug and causes side effects. Same thing with a few version of valprolic acid for epilepsy.

The law states the generic should be within 80% to 125% bio-equivalent of the branded version. Normally that's good enough, but for some drugs it causes problems.
Do you have details on the wide margin of error for the active ingredient?
Hey HN, I built HiCoach to make finding fitness plans easier. You can sort by days per week, type of fitness, and your level of experience. I'm working on adding more plans to the service, so if you have any recommendations, I'd love to hear them.

The site is extremely simple: it uses a php script on the backend and Vue on the frontend. I actually typically develop in Rails, but thought it was going to be overkill for this sort of project. I'm certainly not the world's greatest PHP developer, so it actually was quite fun learning the quirks of PHP (once again).
IoT growth and challenges 2017 – infographic:
I remember Dragon Naturally Speaking. You had to do a lot of training to your specific voice to get it to a level of accuracy I would describe as "not great." You'd have to slow down your speaking to get anything I'd consider acceptable output out of it. Modern systems are much better.
I don't mean to excuse the opinions he has on women, which I agree are deplorable, but I want to ask: what is wrong with being an activist for men's rights?
Can professional experience and a partially completed bachelor's degree in SE substitute for the undergraduate degree requirement?
Last time i checked, that was 7 weeks....guess you missed that day in math class.
Bad on me for mixing my frustrations with the Pi and the laptops together. I suppose just having frustrations with both in just the past few weeks added up, ha!

The laptop for him seems to be going okay as a development machine. He's definitely not using it as a daily desktop. And editor and console open is mostly what he's using it for.

It wasn't pre-installed, it was a laptop donated from my work without a hard drive. I gave it to him with a new in box HD and a bootable USB stick for his birthday in November and told him to roll with it. Eventually I had to step in and help because the install just wasn't working, we switched to a DVD install disc instead. The USB just wouldn't work.

I did the same for my daughter for Christmas, except with me doing the installation. This was going to be a desktop experience for her to use for homework and the like. Google Docs, watching YouTube videos, etc.

Sound card issues. Browsing issues. Bluetooth headphone issues. Blue or black screens with no response. Eventually I just bought her a Windows laptop and she's been productive ever since. I'm sure given time I could have corrected every issue by delving through documentation and forums, and in fact she was willing to over look all the issues and power through. But at end of the day I wanted to give her something that worked.

I love Linux for servers. But Linux for desktops still seems like a tinkerer's passion to make it work. In my own experiences it seems not that more advanced than it was a decade ago. I'm glad it works for some though.
Not on a net cost basis.
Exactly. The defaults of GPG 1, the one which can be used as a single not-too-big binary, seem to be poor.

GPG 2 has better defaults, but it grew to include the kitchen sink and have a lot of moving parts, and I'd still prefer to have a good smaller program that does only a few things but do them good. My ideal would be a small executable with as little dependencies as possible.
Good point, and there's evidence to support the fact that the main indicator of a successful entrepreneur, is if he or his family is wealthy.
What exactly did Obama accomplish with the Digital Service? It's an honest question, seems like he's more known for literally every single agency getting hacked and their inability to launch a healthcare website, what have been the accomplishments that weren't reported as much?
Thanks! Yes, I plan for agents to support death. In fact, I plan to backfill the entire human species into the database, most of whom are dead. I estimate this will grow the database by 80-110 billion agents.
Show HN: Calorie and macro meal planning with whole foods, photos, auto groceries
Gutmann writes a bit colloquially, and the text was a message on a somewhat informal mailing list. So keep that in mind regarding the tone.

The overall point of the post was not to blast DJB, but, well, to point out the crypto monoculture, like it says on the tin. DJB's stuff is good, which is why it is popular. The problem Gutmann is highlighting (mostly) is that nobody's competing with him.

That problem? Monocultures are high-risk. A bug or a cryptanalysis breakthrough could render "everybody's" security broken at the same time. Or, DJB is eaten by a bear; who supports that code now?
A College Just Paid Ransomware to Hackers
HMM based speech recognition works ok locally today (and has worked for a while as you say) but there is a large difference in word error rate, handling noisy environments etc when compared to SOTA recurrent neural network models. Those don't (yet) run realtime locally on mobile hardware, but we are not far off.

The difference between 8x% and 97% accurate speech recognition in terms of user experience is pretty drastic
HUD paid employee $1M to drop racism complaint over Little Rascals reference
Ah OK I am glad I asked thanks then, thanks for link too.
I loved toggl but I ended up needing more features than just tracking time for $10/month.
I'm a long-time Linux user, I've used Linux on a desktop for years and I started that with Slackware when I was about 15 or so.

But now I'm my late 30's, I work as a Linux Admin/DevOps/automation engineer for a living and I have more money than I have time. So time has become very important to me. Even in 2016, running Linux in a desktop is a time sink, since researching hardware and troubleshooting X, etc. other issues, selecting which variant of some basic killer app with strange names to use, all that other stuff I ENJOYED doing I now don't enjoy, because I have hobbies.

HOWEVER, I would be willing to forgo all of that, and suffer the miserable time sink of running Linux on a desktop again for one thing: Adobe support. Lightroom and sometimes Photoshop are 'killer apps' for me for photography as a hobby, and no, I'm not moving to Gimp or something else that's open source. Again, my wallet has more power than my free time is vast.

I had a Mac Pro tower years ago, the big heavy one, before the newer revisions turned it into a tiny garbage-can-shaped appliance that you can't upgrade (soldered graphics, clever). Then I've Macbook Airs, and once that new Pro came out, needless to say I had to pick other alternatives.

At the end of the day I chose a Microsoft Surface Book, because a) Microsoft is now the underdog (and this is coming from an open source, Linux guy by trade) b) the hardware is sexy, with a screen that comes off a real base with a discrete GPU and decent keyboard, turning itself into a tablet c) It runs Lightroom and Photoshop! And the pen is a nice touch.

So that's my story. I'd have a story more closely aligned to moving to Linux if I weren't hobbled by Adobe dependence. But I do say, I don't regret the (very expensive, but time-saving) Surface Book.
/r/nofap - even if you don't believe in the "science", it's amusing to read the experiences of people attempting this.
The GPG1 defaults are definitely not great, but I'm not sure they have much practical impact for this use case.
> off the charts batshit insane

I suggest you become more of a student of history. At very least it will leave you with bigger charts.
It doesn't look that far off from the FN P90, which also appears to be impractical on first look.
The funny thing is you can use async successfully without having a clue. But one day it will bite you hard.
Amazing actually. Worked like a charm. Of course these are my own super secret tweaked versions of Windows and OSX developed specifically for the Pi. I'd share with you but I need to clean the code up first. ;)

No, I get it, I mixed together my frustrations with the Pi with my frustrations with the laptop installs. At the end of the day though the combined experiences recently made me go "this is still a pain in the butt".
The first sentence of the article clearly states the intent is to add 100,000 full time positions, wth benefits.

That doesn't sound like contract work to me.
I'm not the author of the above comment, but here is my take..

I think one benefit of a curated course is that it includes materials you didn't even know exists. We can easily improve on our known unknowns - just pick up a book or google it - but unknowns unknowns are... well difficult to learn. I think going through a graduate program helps you get a better grasp of what you don't know AND what you didn't know you didn't know.
> Have you tried this?

I have not used this feature myself because I'm not aware that it's supported in Linux, and I don't use Windows.

> The amount of bandwidth consumed is non-trivial and especially impacts compute workloads or anything that does read-back from the GPU.

Given that the most typical use case of this technique is for people gaming, I'd say that the amount of data being read back from the GPU in a gaming situation is quite small, so this doesn't have a significant performance impact for its intended audience.

Since I don't use my dGPU for anything but gaming, do you have any more information on the performance impact on compute workloads?
That's not quite accurate. It's a device/drug combination. The manufacturer still has to produce the drug under GMP conditions and get an aNDA approved for the drug portion.

One could argue it's more expensive than just a medical device.
Engineering war stories and lessons learned in 2016
Indeed. Alchemy was the precursor to chemistry. The whole turning lead into gold trope was an obvious failure in hindsight, but that was not the sole point of alchemy. An awful lot was learned about chemistry and the nature of matter.
New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter
Absolutely agree. I work in publishing, our readers are confused by the changed design of the site (Who the hell knows about AMP or Instant Articles besides people in the industry? The average reader doesn't care).

We have to maintain variations of article templates for our responsive website, AMP, Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News now. Product owners and editors think implementing these things is cheap and easy because of all the marketing but unless you have something like a basic wordpress setup, it's plenty of work to implement and adds a lot of things to maintain and requires developers to remember which subset of HTML AMP uses, what the JSON API for Apple News is like... at least Facebook Instant Articles use rss...
What is a normal drive?

It's easier to standardize and precisely specify the test cycle on a dyno.
Key stretching is critical for password-based encryption, and gpg's s2k options are vulnerable to GPU acceleration. Command-line tools to encrypt with bcrypt/scrypt are common and may be a better option.
If income distribution still worked the way it did in the mid 20th century, most people wouldn't need to work 40 hours a week for the paltry income they receive today.
Nevermind being black. I was there for 3 years, I am Spanish, my English was far from perfect and people were really nice to me.

I used to pay $500 for a huge room in a flat shared with 2 other people :)
His administration has certainly issued press releases about them.

This is getting silly. It is 100% in line for all politicians to claim credit for everything they can, and many things they can't.
What'd be even more awesome is if they'd stop polluting google images with spam pages generated by their site.

"1000 ideas for ..."
I live in Norway, so my broker service is local and not available to people in the U.S.

If I lived in the U.S. I would first look into Schwab's options trading service.
This discovery and write-up was an awesome read but I do disagree on the price critique. 70K seems relatively inexpensive for deployment of an app at a state level, let alone development of an app. Proof of Concept, perhaps but what does a full security audit cost these days? If anything I would be concerned that the budget did not include those kinds of factors and should have cost a bit more :)

This article does lead me to wonder if Rave has missed an opportunity - installation of an app on Crestron / Andoird room automation systems that accomplish similar things. That would take the mobile component out but still have a benefit from a facilities / awareness perspective.
RSS (in the sense of using a reader to track a personally curated set of RSS feeds) is pretty niche these days. One audience is journalists who really do want to discover news from a variety of sources faster than someone else does.

Most people are fine though with just using social. If it's noteworthy enough they figure they'll learn about it soon enough. Personally, I do have Feedly configured but I confess I don't use it systematically any longer.

I'm still a bit puzzled about Google shooting Reader. Keeping it would have been a tiny effort and it doesn't seem much removed from a mission of selling ads (excuse me, organizing information). But, then, Google has largely walked back/de-emphasized pretty much all their information curation projects other than straight search.
Newton's theology was extremely heretical (to all major religious factions, as he was an anti-Trinitarian!) at a time when religious politics in England were brutal and could easily be fatal; being expelled from Cambridge for violating the religion oaths/tests would've only been the start. And, incidentally, alchemy was, besides being highly disreputable & associated with con artists, illegal in England for centuries before and for most of Newton's career: punishable by death and then confiscation of the deceased's estate (Levere, _Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball_). So if the full extent of Newton's activities & beliefs had been known, he could have lost his good name, job, life, and any family wealth.

So what exactly was Newton risking?

Everything.
God's War By Dr Christopher Tyerman. He was my teacher so I think that it was his influence that was key.
The guy who did minimallyminimal.com did this several times, and it (probably) got him hired at Microsoft. It was interesting to see the progression of quality and scope of his work as I was following the blog since quite a long time before it took off.
Workers in France Now Have the ‘Right to Disconnect’
I recall that, Ford had to purchase a bunch of Honda V6 engines for their trucks because they didn't have an engine that could meet the standards.
I understand its shortcomings, and I understand how it is derived and how it fits into the classic production function.

For measuring productivity gains from technology, what does "go study its real impact in the real world" entail? Is this the current thinking of state of the art productivity/tech economics?

How do you disaggregate one technology from another in a system as complex as a business, let alone an economy? These are the hard (impossible) questions that TFP addresses - we don't try to look at each part individually in a vacuum, we impute the total effects of "technology" and try to control for 2-3 main variables: capital, labor, and output elasticities.
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Of finances - Kellys was proud to occasionally return money to the military when they finished complex technical projects under budget. Sure, they had the financial backing of their giant mothership Lockheed but they did not spend frivolously and delivered. Probably because of their capability to deliver they could do things their way.

I was not targeting your comment when I erupted about process frameworks - sorry about that. It was an outburst against the percieved "best practices". Like Cato's "By the way, Carthago needs to be destroyed".

I agree - orgs need finances just like cars have instrumentation, but they should not be running all things unless that happens to be the orgs core business.
Simple slug generator in Erlang
Managing a Team That’s Been Asked to Do Too Much
Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React
I am glad this is still going - if only for the reason that different computer architectures fascinate me. IIRC they said the belt machine thing maps well to SSA - you specify your operands by position, but the destination register is implicitly the back of the queue - in kind of the same way that each "a op b" in SSA is saved to a new variable.

http://millcomputing.com/wiki/Belt
I can't reply to your comment, so I guess I have to do it here. I feel like you are just listing reasons why having health insurance is good. I know all those reasons. That's not the question I was asking. But I think I probably attached this question to the wrong thread, or have made some other error, because we appear to be talking past each other.

Edit to respond to your comment: Yes, maybe it is a dumb question! I don't know.

It sounds like your answer to my question is a combination of:

(a) denying my premise that we are actually paying more in aggregate for healthcare by saying we were paying for it before with higher service costs. So I guess you believe that the total amount paid for everyone's insurance premiums would have risen just as fast (or faster because of costly emergency room visits) without ACA as they did with it in order to continue covering those hidden costs that are now explicit.

(b) fewer medical bankruptcies
So instead we overregulate to the point where affordable car's can't exist furthering the divide between the rich and the poor. Wonderful.
I hope there's a video of this talk!
If your doctorate is in a completely unrelated field, yes, you are a layman.