skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, imagine if Fukashima (which leaked radiation slowly into the ground water an ocean rather than burning the pile) were treated like Chernobyl. Amazing how I read articles about how the area is such a great nature preserve now, when it was so much (5-10x) larger.

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

In comparison the Tohoku Tsunami caused 25k casualties, which (outside of Japan) seem have been largely ignored over by the coverage of the radiation leaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
I am very happy to be in that 6% share that macOS has.
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Android popularity is due to it's multi vendor nature. You don't like the latest Sony? Then buy HTC or moto or Xiaomi or whatever. You will even keep your apps and settings. Your problem with Windows was really due to lack of this.
>I talked to a couple of programmers about the project, and they laughed at me because of the name, dismissing the project and not even wanting to hear about it.

Clearly a sign that you should avoid listening to said programmers on any important matter from now on, because they are 16-year olds inside (not to mention they haven't even bothered to open a dictionary in their lives).

Reminds me of people that laughed at iPad's name (because of the maxi-pad connotations).
Additionally, multiplayer games often have to run a low-geometry simulation server side to reduce cheating and account for prediction/latency sync issues.

While certainly not directly linked to poor physics simulations of water in computer games I would guess it has played a big role in holding back advancements in this area because how much locally-only non-game mechanic influencing visuals could cause contrast with need to be duplicated on the server physics.
This comment is 100% on point. I include a clause in my contracts that I own all of the work we do until payment is made in full.

It still would have been better to have not pushed the site live until the payment was made though. We have a policy for that, but the team gets a bit overeager.
German is very suitable for abstract thinking because you can form compound words with ease and put the function at the end of the sentence. These compound words are hard to translate (aufhebung - sublation is a famous example).
Hegel wrote about this in his Logic. German is like a different programming paradigm compared to English.
This is a neat project . I think as a follow up step he should compare it to Word's grammar checker .
opencl appears to be supported by TF now. Regarding FPGA, some startups such as teradeep are on it, whether it is using Caffe or TF.
I have watched a lot of footage and read many accounts of Liquidators who thought they really were fulfilling their duty to the Motherland.

I suppose it could all be a Soviet psyop, but to me it's convincing.
The same could be said about any other time period. If it was 1970 you could say we have televisions and cars, how could the ancients' advice possibly benefit us. Next the author will tell us about an article he read about the Singularity.
Just bought his Free Speech for Me but not Thee. Hadn't been aware of his work but this obit made it seem worth a read.
It certainly could happen - http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming.html - how much will someone pay per hour to play one game? It feels like a timewarp to pre-AOL when online games cost more per hour than minimum wage.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming.html
This eccentric Ukrainian thinks the Soviets blew up Chernobyl intentionally to cover up the true purpose of the nearby radar array Duga-3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1poYZCO7qk
Lindy effect.
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This kind of thing validates one of the premises of Rust: that we can re-write fundamental libraries in a safer language. Demonstrating that it's possible in practice rather than theory is important to lots of people.

A lot of Rust stories _dont_ get upvoted on hacker news as well.
I fail to see how subscription vs one time purchase costs are any way related to how much a customer costs to support, both situations have edge cases of demanding customers eating up support staff time endlessly.

If anything per-customer support costs go way up in a SaaS situation because of the (mostly artifical) introduction of having to run the software on your own servers.
How about networking improvements? I gave up on PhantomJS a long time ago because it did not support SNI and was therefore unable to talk to most HTTPS sites. Is that situation better now with this new release and the newer Qt underneath?
The author seems to take the goal of studying philosophy to be knowledge/technique collection, for an eventual goal of some type of measurable output. In other words, she expects philosophy to have something in common with the study of physics that it just doesn't have. One reads Plato (for example), not to collect facts about the world, but because Plato's Socrates still represents one of the most noteworthy and admirable ways of being towards the world. You read Plato to learn how to comport yourself better towards death, injustice, and most of all, your own ignorance.

The bias I'm trying to get at is shown here:
> And if philosophy is about having certain experiences, like poetry, but then it would seem to be a kind of entertainment rather than a project to gain knowledge, which is at least not what most philosophers would tell you.

Dividing experience into "knowledge" and "entertainment" belies an ignorance of much of the subject matter Plato treats. Many works of ancient philosophy are still some of the most worthwhile texts to read because they are education in how to live. They represent some of the most admirable and imitable responses to the puzzle/experience of being a fragile creature who knows that it will die but doesn't know why it's here nor quite how to find out. Scientific inquiry can treat "why" questions when we understand "why" to mean "by what means?" but not when we understand "why" to mean "for the sake of what?" Many today would contend that "why" questions in the latter sense are not meaningful nor admit of answers, and you can't present empirical data in rebuttal, nor do much else besides try to inspire a sense of skepticism about their broadest assumptions, habits, etc. And encourage them to read Plato.

As others have observed, many of Aristotle's scientific claims have been falsified, and personally I didn't get much out of reading his Physics. But the Nic. Ethics made a permanent change in the way I think and feel, in part because it revealed to me how incomplete and shallow my justifications about ethics had been my whole life, and that a coherent way of thinking about ethics was possible.

Also, studying the history of philosophy and philosophy of science are the best ways to become aware of the (often questionable) philosophical assumptions that underlie the contemporary scientistic attitude towards knowledge.
I hoped the piece would comment on the role rhythm plays in visual designs. Is auditory rhythm more "complex"? Are other rhythms favored by the eye?

In auditory perception, rhythm seems very natural and is easily explained. We find the same term used in visual art, but it's meaning is less intuitive than "proportion".

I hoped for a moment a scholarly source would include both, although I'm not surprised. I imagine the complexity of drawing conclusions would cause any such reseach to be preceived as suspect. meh.
We watched Monana a couple of weeks ago and afterwards my wife said that she was amazed with how good the water looked. I said, I bet there were a bunch of mathematicians working on that :-)

In another life I'd be doing maths for 3D movies. I went to university in Wellington where Weta are based (Peter Jackson's film companies) and at one point had a look around the digital arm. I seem to recall that they had the SGI machines as desktops and a big unix rendering farm. I just love the way you can use maths to create such magic.

Anyway, if you haven't seen it yet, Moana is fantastic. Incredible animation, catchy pop hooks in the music and a brilliant storyline. It's wonderful to see a Disney film with a strong female lead that needs neither male support nor a love interest.
Ask HN: What are your personal top 2017 stock pics?
The argument is that an exam with free form answers is a more objective measure of knowledge than a multiple choice exam. Not an argument about bias.

I think it depends on the subject matter, especially interpretation of art is hard to have one correct answer, an essay test could be graded upon support for the argument etc, where a multiple choice test is really "what did the authors of the test think the author intended?"
2016: The Year Blockchain ICOs Disrupted Venture Capital
... citation required? With windows terminals on every office desk, every point of sale station, every library computer room, etc. I don't think it is inconceivable that "enterprise" purchasing outnumbers personal purchases.
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NY,NEW YORK,2320-01-074-7642,"TRUCK,ARMORED",1,Each,65070,2012-06-15
NY,NEW YORK,2350-01-069-6931,"CARRIER,107 MILLIMETER MORTAR",1,Each,205400,2012-06-15

I'm not sure if it's just the truck or if the mortar tube was included too. [0]

Now, I'm not sure if that includes the actual mortar or just the vehical and I know a real airstrike and a mortar strike aren't exactly the same thing..... but it's close and definetly not settling.

[0] - https://github.com/TheUpshot/Military-Surplus-Gear
I quite like http://bitofnews.com/subscribe/, I read the Quora Daily Digest most days (it's very addictive and learns what I like pretty quickly) and I subscribe to the Launch Ticker (https://www.launchticker.com/), but most of that I've seen on HN by the time I get it.

Looking forward to seeing what others recommend!
Yeah no. This whole gender thing is a parody of itself.

Government identification has gender/sex along with other bits of information as a means of verification--just as the tags we give our pets. Sparky was born dec 5, 2012 and is a male of the Labrador breed.

The vet finds this information helpful when diagnosing or treating a health issue.

Stop with these gender politics. You are a very vocal minority who has made mountains out of molehills, cry-bullied anyone who is not onboard with your worldview, and you see insult everywhere your views are not represented.

404 rationality not found.
Yes! This would go wonderfully with LobLib, the Lobster library:

https://github.com/bae43/LobLib/
Containers provide resource limits but not necessarily safety. The ABI surface is too large. You kind of need the code inside them to be secure.
How will people get similar pay for less work?
So it's unsurprising that rust isn't successful outside of HN. Imagine that.
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I wouldn't say never. The golden rule of computer games code is that you get to cheat a lot.
which should be reflected in these numbers, no?
Thanks for the tips.

Clueless noob here . . . most guides I've seen use bs=1M for writing e.g. a Linux installer to a USB drive. Does 1 MB vs 2 MB change anything?
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Pot isn't physically addictive, though. Those things are his brain causing the symptoms.

Seriously. I've smoked heavily for years, with sudden breaks, and at most I get a couple days of off appetite and bad sleep. No big deal.

I've met exactly one person that had withdrawals from pot: In his case, he was self-medicating with it. It wasn't that he got withdrawals from pot, but that mental illness simply reared its head more when he stopped.
Well, a significant number of osx machines in those places are mackintoshes' :)

Not that it changes anything
Read the paper of the inventor. It is easier.
Adleman, L. M. (1994). "Molecular computation of solutions to combinatorial problems". Science. 266 (5187): 1021–1024. Bibcode:1994Sci...266.1021A. doi:10.1126/science.7973651. PMID 7973651.
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Great point. The "other legal issues" I mentioned were other lawsuits I have been through:

-A patent troll sue me a few weeks ago (got it dismissed voluntarily)

-Another client with a stronger case sue for breach of contract a year ago (I won that and got attorneys fees). This was extremely stressful as it was for big money. I read several law books to prep for this one.

-Six year ago my first salesperson sued for commissions after I fired her (she won because I didn't have a contract)

I also don't want it to look like I get in a lot of lawsuits. I have had over a thousand clients and only two ended in lawsuits. I have also had over 250 employees and thousands of contractors and have only been sued once there.
And I'm wondering whether this has something to do with the rhythm of language... The heart-beat would give the baseline but language would create different patterns...??
If you define "desktop" as 'not a portable computer', I suspect MacOS will drop a lot, percentage wise. Maybe Linux is already #2 in that market niche. Plenty of rack mounted linux machines run firefox/chrome...
I understand complaints for "not new or current" if the reader is expecting hacker _news_. But unless the expectations changed too much in last years this site is not necessarily about _news_ as it is about _information_.

If the link is worth it then the year is irrelevant. If it's not worth it, the year won't save it. Thus, adding the year just satisfies our appetite for novelty.
By what measure?

We're seeing a huge uptick in production users. And a lot more who are pretty much waiting on Tokio to deploy more. Many of them read HN, but many of them don't.
It's been tried elsewhere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek), and it's not been a massive success. It certainly hasn't made a dent in the unemployment figures.

We may be further from the jobs drying out than we think we are, and humans may have an ability to generate "work" for themselves greater than is generally thought. Among possible explanations anyway, there are surely many more :)
The US is not responsable for all, but its absolutely clear that the US is willing to take diplomatic action against countries that try to change direction. This is specially true in Latin America.

The US has active military operation against drug production all over Latin America.

Plus the US is responsable for the massive demand that drives a lot of these activities.
Deflation?
The other thing to remember is that Disney are completely at liberty to reject and re-render scenes when something doesn't look perfect. Arguably, this even applies to examples chosen for the demo video.
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The sudden obsession with "fake news" started last November after the election. Why then?

The big media also seems very discontent that Trump uses social media to communicate his news with people directly, bypassing the middlemen.
Pick one:

1. There's something you missed along the way and thus you fail to appreciate the complexity of the issues.

2. You're considerably more intelligent than the hundreds of thousands of very intelligent people who struggle with the issues.
There are tons of good advice threads on the internet for this, because it's actually a really hard decision.

I looked into it a year ago or so, and pretty much universally, the advice was, "start with really good binoculars, because even relatively expensive beginner telescopes aren't all that much better, and it's more important to understand what you're looking at than to see it well".

Then, by the time you know whether or not you're going to be "into it", you'll know if you want to spend a few grand on a Dobsonian (which isn't necessarily the best answer, but is a good example).
Include a public URL in your build process from day one.

I use dokku for this and simply git push dokku master right after I got push origin master.

At any given time those who have the URL can see what I'm doing and ping back with feedback.

That, and Show HN her is great. Reddit has /r/startups which I also think is supportive and helpful.
Why you should have schnauzer in your family?
Molten salt reactors have their issues too eg. "The primary concern with MSRs is that the radioactive fission products can get everywhere. They are not in fuel pins surrounded by cladding, but are just in a big, sealed vat." - https://whatisnuclear.com/reactors/msr.html#problems
This is really cool. I wonder how one goes about getting into work like this - niche field but few qualified to work it, I'd guess.
That doesn't feel right to me (though it all depends on how nearby is nearby).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A

"Its brightness peaked in May with an apparent magnitude of about 3"

(a few million times fainter than the full Moon)
The point is that yes, there are some things he was wrong about, and when we think of the questions that "physics" amswers, those are the ones that come to mind. But that ignores the contributions he made that we don't think of as contributions at all because we take them so for granted that it's not at all clear to us that people could ever have thought otherwise. I don't know if the aitiai are the greatest examples of this, but the entire approach of questioning why objects move and change the way they do and trying to reduce it to a concise set of rules? My understanding of history is that that was very novel.
That reminds me of another point ... we're getting used to seeing breaches that expose personal data, credentials, etc. But what other kinds of "data disasters" might come about through mass breaches similar to the MongoDB story on the front page yesterday. It seems inevitable that there will be confidential and/or proprietary data in some of these breaches that won't lead to identity theft but will lead to embarrassment or have financial ramifications.
Look at their sampling methods. They use analytics from certain sites (news, social media, gov, ...)

A lot of enterprises are beyond proxies and many places don't allow you to access internet outside a few select sites
To put this in perspective, 60fps == ~16.7ms per frame.

That's 16.7ms to run your WHOLE game engine, you get some fraction of that left over to do rendering.
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I REALLY like the idea of putting extra hours worked as a discount on an invoice... thank you!
Interesting idea! I think this is analogous to the idea of a de-noising autoencoder in computer vision. Here, instead of introducing Gaussian noise at the pixel level and using a CNN, you're introducing grammatical "noise" at the world level and using an LSTM.

I think that general framework applies to many different domains. For example, we trained a denoising sequence autoencoder on HealthKit data (sequences of step counts and heart rate measurements) in order to predict whether somebody is likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure, or a heart rhythm disorder based on wearable data. I've also seen similar ideas applied to EMR data (similar to word2vec). It's worth reading "Semi-Supervised Sequence Learning", where they use a non-denoising sequence autoencoder as a pretraining step, and compare a couple of different techniques:
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5949-semi-supervised-sequence-l...

Toward the end, you start thinking about introducing different types of grammatical errors, like subject-verb disagreement. I think that's a good way to think about it. In the limit, you might even have a neural network generate increasingly harder types of grammatical corruptions, with the goal of "fooling" the corrector network. As the the corruptor network and corrector network compete with each other, you might end up with something like a generative adversarial network:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00160
My 2 cents. Coding a side project is "fun hard", for a developer, while marketing and selling it is "hard hard". You could consider for your side project, an app using the API of a platform such as Heroku, EventBrite, Slack, Shopify, and so on. These platforms could help you make the marketing (a bit) easier, by exposing you to users in their app store/directory/marketplace. As a result, that's one of my criteria for side project.

As far as finding an interesting problem to solve. PG explains in a follow-up essay, I think, that most people get used to suboptimal situations. We, as human, are very good as rationalizing painful situations, processes, etc, as normal and good. You need to take a step back when something is long, boring, repetitive or annoying. Is it really necessary? Couldn't it be automated? Question your assumptions :-)
Their giftcard system does not even work mostly, completely broken (by code, bugs). Tried purchasing a e-giftcard with a custom photo for weeks. Contacted support and no response for over 3 weeks.

Finally made a purchase of a normal giftcard in Safari. Think it was just pure luck, had to go back and forth the contact details page several times to be able to check out.

Seems like Ticketmaster simply does not want our stash? :)
You are correct, I only scanned the other OS X versions from the bottom and kind of missed the 1.1% of 10.10.
Windows NT 4.0 - deploy and forget. Maintian only when some hardware breaks.

There are some nt machines chugging along doing specific tasks that will outlive us all.
There is a wonderfull joke in talmud when two rabbis argue about some problem. One says: Let's call Jehova and ask him directly! So Jehova comes but the other rabbi tells him: God go away, you did your thing now let us wise men discuss about this. God says oh my god you are right and he leaves.
Security, upward mobility.

The entire rust value proposition is based on its vulnerable memory safety. It's days are numbered, as are yours.
I don't understand why we expect people to be paid the same for less work.

Given the benefits of a shorter work week accrue primarily to workers, why do we not advocate for giving them the flexibility to work fewer hours if they want to?

It's harder to make this argument in software, but in shift-based employment this should almost be a no brainer.
This section stuck out to me also:

> Why would you want to be like Socrates, and not like Newton? Especially since Newton had more to show for his thoughts than an account of what his thoughts were like. I suspect the difference is that because physicists invent explicit machinery that can be easily taught, when you learn physics you spend your time mastering these tools. And perhaps in the process, you come to think in a way that fits well with these tools. Whereas in philosophy there is much less in the way of explicit methods to learn, so the most natural thing to learn is how to do whatever mental processes produce good philosophy.

The notion of having "more to show" is beside the point. The goal of philosophy can not be described as "producing good philosophy." The goal, at least for many of the ancients both in and outside Greece, is coming to know the truth, possessing wisdom, but not in the sense of holding in mind a set of facts about the world. It is a goal of reconciling oneself to the world, reaching the best understanding of how to live and think properly that is available to human beings.
I normally wouldn't pair seafood with coffee, though.

However, a tea stain or wine stain package would indeed pair nicely with LobLib, now wouldn't it?
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