skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard it was "worse" way "back then" but I had no idea how much worse. Without regulations and scrutiny, competitive people will push the envelope on how bad they can abuse others and for how little money. Gotta push back.
It's already happened:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-c...
You should sign up for Blind and read the Uber employees' comments.
The scale present on color flow ultrasonography exams does indicate the instantaneous speed at all locations on the plane defined by a cross-cut of the vessel. Duplex ultrasound outputs a time->velocity signal, but only focused on a single point. The traditional technique to estimate flow uses duplex, but is imprecise (~30% flow volume error, at best) and hindered by a lot of manual manipulations making it not reproducible along time and machine users.

Both techniques have disadvantages, making it difficult to obtain a good flow estimate. In the clinics, color flow Doppler is used as a mere location and speed rough indicator. I tried to solve this by including the vessel shape in a mathematical model, which makes the automated method surprisingly practical and efficient on those preliminary tests.
I think your analysis isn't totally fair because it ignores the public's varying appetite for console gaming. Maybe it's better to consider each console relative to its generation? If you do that, it becomes clear that Nintendo's performance is usually quite solid.

The big question now is, will the Switch inherit the absolute dominance of Nintendo's portables, or the somewhat weaker performance of its home consoles?

Atari 2600 (1977) - 30 million

Atari 5200 (1982) - 1 million
NES (1983) - 62 million
==> WINNER: Nintendo

Sega Master (1986) - 13 million
Sega Genesis (1988) - 31 million
SNES (1990) - 49 million
==> WINNER: Nintendo

Sega Saturn (1994) - 9 million
Playstation (1994) - 102 million
N64 (1996) - 33 million
==> WINNER: Sony

Dreamcast (1998) - 9 million
PS2 (2000) - 155 million
Gamecube (2001) - 22 million
Xbox (2001) - 24 million
==> WINNER: Sony

Xbox360 (2005) - 84 million
Wii (2006) - 102 million
PS3 (2006) - 84 million
==> WINNER: Nintendo

Wii U (2012) - 13 million
PS4 (2013) - 53 million
XB1 (2013) - 20 million
==> WINNER: Sony
Perhaps that's the intent, but the actual wording suggests specifically those individuals.

Also, since he has claims on .security and .theatre, why doesn't he go for the obvious and add .securitytheatre?
You veered into personal attack. That's not civil and not ok. Please don't do it again.

Also, please stop using HN for ideological battle. That's not what this site is for.
Fun problem: Write a parser for the English language.
See it fail at tweets :)
Japan is testing USB phone charging stations in public transport buses
What do you mean when you say "HF skid"?
> Not to mention how infinitely more convenient paper is to handle than laptops, and while I can easily spread 10 A4 pages in front of me to look at them simultaneously, I doubt my company will buy me 9 more computers to do the equivalent "digital" thing...

People nowadays laugh at how people in Star Trek always had multiple PADDs and sorted through them like a stack of papers or books, but at the end of the day trying to cross reference several sources to do work on a single iPad can be very frustrating.
I disagree, this states 'the following' then list bullets so it should be

> Abusive use of a domain is described as an illegal, disruptive, malicious, or fraudulent action and includes, without limitation, illegal, malicious and fraudulent defamation of Oprah Winfrey, Daniel Negari, or Justin Bieber.
I really suggest you try out Sublime with Vintageous vim emulation. Part of the reason I spent so much time tweaking emacs is that I work in a lot of different languages, and I had to spend many hours setting up each one. Installing and working with new languages in Sublime tends to just work.

With Sublime I tend to use a separate terminal app for doing all my code running and things. So if I'm working in a REPL-like language I do it there. There's also plugins for most languages that do the editor integration I actually want, like autocomplete and highlighting.
I think "Paths" is a terrific idea. There have been times where I've wanted to do a "first principles" look at a topic but don't want to go back through my HN upvotes. "Paths" allows for a curated and practical advice-driven jumping off point. Looking forward to more content. Best of luck with it!
I think self-driving cars would be a major challenge for Uber. As long as ridesharing companies need human drivers network effects ensure that Uber will remain at the top. But when driverless cars become feasible Uber's moat disappears. What's stopping an upstart company to buy/lease 10,000 self-driving cars and let them loose on the street? There's no reason for customers to prefer Uber over them. (This problem becomes more acute if Uber IPO's by then and have to worry about quarterly results but their competitor can burn through VC money.)
I'd suggest a used macbook air, try to go a couple years back, and look for a little bit of cosmetic damage to drop the price super low.
Gomix is the easiest way to build the app or bot of your dreams
the computational entities are going about their inscrutable
business largely without reference to the human symbiotes

A behaviour also seen in Iain M. Banks Culture.
I guess there aren't many scenarios where computers can be all-powerful, but also offer peaceful co-existence with humans.
There's a lot of this kind of content here:

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/
The Strange Persistence of First Languages (2015)
Do you know if eOS collects any user data during use and sends it home?
Because no one wrote one. There were some attempts but nothing which would work now. Delivering small applications does not seem to be a focus of SBCL users.

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2005-07-06.html

There is also the possibility to compress the image. See :compression option when saving an image:

http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#index-g_t_0040sbext_007bsave_002...

Commercial Lisp implementations like LispWorks and Allegro CL have a treeshaker for delivery, but that's not too surprising, since these products are for developers of applications and the users pay for such features.
The original Wii had a healthy lifespan. It had quite a few good titles. I don't think it's fair to say Nintendo moves into the Wii U too quickly. The Wii came out ahead of the previous generation of consoles and the Wii U followed suit. If anything the Wii U was a bit delayed. The original Wii was only capable of 480p and everyone was clamoring for an HD console.

The Wii U, on the other hand, was replaced quickly by the Switch because it flopped. People like me who bough a Wii U got burned.

I bought my Wii U in 2015 when Nintendo announced Zelda for it and said it would be out Christmas of 2015. Here we are in 2017 and it is coming out but it is a Switch title and the Wii U version is an afterthought. I feel like the money I spent on the Wii U was squandered. Lesson here being don't trust release dates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project

"The genome published by the HGP does not represent the sequence of every individual's genome. It is the combined mosaic of a small number of anonymous donors, all of European origin."

I work at a for-profit DNA company which sequences humans for genealogical purposes. The human reference, as we call it, has been through several 'revisions'. My company uses anywhere from "build 36" to "build 38", depending on the specific sequencing product purchased. It's an ongoing effort to upgrade older products to use the newer sequencing version: each revision may change, add, or remove genomic locations of specific named variants. That can wreak havoc, of course, when trying to translate older data to the newer revision. Customers would of course notice right away if their genome data were to change on them! It creates rather a conundrum to solve.
You didn't just build a strawman, you made it an asshole and attributed it to the other commenter. That's not a civil move in discussion.

Please take better care to address others respectfully when commenting here.
Uber's racing to make their drivers obsolete. They view them as an unwelcome cost and have no desire to spend resources making them loyal.
I'm sure I could, as much as I'm sure I won't be bothered to.
What is 'fraudulent defamation'? If the defamation is fraudulent, does that mean it is true?
Great! It'd be superb to confirm the laptop ACPI emits discharge events every once in a while, or when a threshold level is reached. Then you can write really neat udev rules.

Plug n unplug events are more common. Battery ones are quite infrequent.
Why wouldn't an AI evolve its own set of emotions? They might be completely inscrutable to us, but an AI might still have them.
This Serial Experiments Lain fan site gets passed around a lot. Be careful, it's a bit of a rabbit hole.
https://fauux.neocities.org/
> Whether to call it a back door / flaw / trade-off is just quarreling over semantics

I think this is writing off a significant portion of the meta-story here, semantics matter very much in journalism. While the technical nuances of trust are important, they won't be understood or digested by the average reader. What will be remembered is the headline, which doesn't say "Whatsapp is as secure as iMessage" it just says "Whatsapp has a backdoor".

The story you tell is framed by the audience that's listening, and the framing the Guardian chose unfairly paints Whatsapp as not just secure, but less secure than alternatives by singling them out. That's not an accurate story.
Yeah, I realize a lot of devs have already have their own setups that work extremely well for them. Unfortunately anytime you transition to a new tool you're obviously going to break _someone's_ workflow.

That said, switching to something like GitHub doesn't necessarily mean developers all _have_ to use exactly the same workflow. For example, if you're more comfortable in the command line, there are tools like [hub][1] and [git-gitlab][2] available which let you perform common tasks in GitHub/GitLab using the CLI.

I just think that long-term it's better to have a good baseline user experience that devs can then extend with their own personal tools if they choose than to have a not-so-great one that _requires_ you to extend it with your own tools before it's anywhere near as good as what a well-designed Web UI provides out-of-the-box; even if in the short-term that means breaking some dev's workflows.

Obviously that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to maintain compatibility with developer's existing workflows wherever possible though. For example, GitLab and GitHub both let you reply to issues by email, and RocketChat has an IRC plugin that lets you connect RocketChat rooms to an IRC channel.

[1]: https://github.com/github/hub

[2]: https://github.com/numa08/git-gitlab
It plugs into the TV. It has traditional controllers available. It's a successor to both. That's just a fact.
I downvoted your comment because I think you are wrong to believe that there is a simple answer to this issue that can be seen from the outside. Your level of confidence would only be justified if you have inside knowledge that the rest of us lack.

you're happy to see someone dragged from their home in the middle of the night

I didn't see anything in the parent's comment to indicate this. I took "There doesn't seem to be enough evidence to know for sure" to express the parent's sadness at the turn of events, rather than satisfaction in the outcome.

The woman with delusions of assassination plots is the one who needs mental examination

Whether they are delusions or not would depend on details of what happened in the lab. Someone who files a report of academic misconduct against their advisor in the final year of their PhD and continues working in that lab is likely to exhibit signs of stress. Someone not aware of the underlying cause of this stress might reasonably conclude that the subject is behaving erratically and unpredictably.

how much you want to bet this guy's got a different skin color than his accusers?

Very little, but I guess it depends on who you consider to be his "accusers". If we are restricting ourselves to the members of the lab group who were referenced in the article (cross-referenced with the names in the docket), all participants appear to be of approximately the same pale skin color: http://hscrb.harvard.edu/res-fl-rubin-members.

If it's true that the parties are of the same skin color, how would it affect the confidence you have in your interpretation of events? While it's possible that other ethnic or cultural issues are in play here, I think the simpler explanation is that normal relations break down in the presence of accusations of academic fraud.

If you want to dive into it further, the docket referenced by the parent is interesting reading. The judge who wrote seems to feel the white male advisor unfairly took retaliatory action against the white male graduate student, and there is no mention of race or skin color being a factor. The docket no longer appears to be online, but is still present in Google's cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:86cjl1...
I've worked in a few small business, and have been the end-user for quite a few tech products focused on SMBs. I think the problems are far more complicated than what is written here.

First, many SMB owners are highly technophobic. No matter how good your product is, if they straight out fear technology, you aren't going to get anywhere with them.

SMBs, by definition, are small, and many run on credit card debt during the slow months. They don't have the luxury of finding investments like a tech company. Since most of them are bootstrapped, it is hard to ask for $5k / month from SMBs. If they can hire on 3 people for the same price, where do you think they are going to spend that money?

Unfortunately, many SMBs are stuck in a hard place with tech. The tech they can afford is pure trash, a total displeasure to use, crashes on a weekly basis, and so obviously bad that no one needs a math degree to understand that this product is a money pit, and likely ends up costing more to use than it would if everyone was doing things by hand.

On the opposite end, the products that are worthwhile to use are a) too expensive and b) the technology companies don't want to play small ball, so the SMBs they talk to tend to walk away feeling disrespected.

When you have a technophobic, cautious SMB owner as a customer, playing a game of "push and see it break" isn't going to work. These products end up stalling out the entire business for a morning, and the costs of paying for employees not working, then tacking on overtime, reflects poorly on these products.

I totally believe that the SMB space is ripe for massive disruption. The current tech offerings are old, buggy, slower than molasses in winter, and doesn't work as promised. The problem is, who can get to the gate first with a product that is cheap, productive, and obviously not the product of people with no domain knowledge.
The non-profit I work for has been using airtable+zapier for precisely these needs.

I think a fundamental grasp of relational databases is a very handy skill.
I love Ian's Culture series. He clearly had a good mind and knowledgeable experiences with technology, in order to write about it so capably. And just as interesting, he clearly had a solid, hands on understand of the liberal end of the spectrum of political thought, from liberal-capitalist straight through to the various forms of anarchism. His books clearly played with those concepts in the environment of a post-scarcity society.

I read through the series once back in high school and found them fun. Fast forward 15-20 years, and I have a career in tech, and dabbled in leftist politics for a while. I came back to read one of them, and ended up re-reading the whole series. I found that he had already thought about and written down questions and answers to many of the things I'd experienced. Just put into a fictional, usually pretty fun world.

Those most interesting parts of his stories were the backdrop. Great reads, not mentioned enough.
> I think Uber should immediately offer the following services to its drivers:

The taxi industry pioneered the 'independent contractor' business model. Some of the services you suggest cross the line between 'contractor' and 'employee', especially 'healthcare subsidy'.

The owner/operator whom I drove for says that the company only provides liability insurance (to cover the cab company's liability) as a part of her contract with the cab company. If she wanted collision coverage, she had to buy that separately, because insurance == employment.

When I signed up I was told that I should buy my own worker's compensation policy, but I never did this.

Most people don't want 'on demand' employment, they want stability. Because of outsourcing and automation, the economy doesn't need as many workers anymore. Uber's business model is entirely dependent on this phenomenon.

Drivers -- taxi drivers, 'rideshare drivers', trucking drivers, etc -- would benefit from a union. Arizona is not a union-friendly state; I don't know if taxi drivers elsewhere have unions.
There's probably a huge market for super thin portable (wireless) displays. If I could grab a handful of displays and wirelessly link them with my laptop while using gestures to move content between them, I'd probably pay a few hundred dollars per display. (I imagine the drawback of them being wireless would be a really slow refresh rate, so you likely wouldn't be able to watch video on them.)

If you placed a magnet on the back of them you can throw one on the wall when you get home and it could detect it's location in the room and start serving as some other systems interface.. like a thermostat or something. Then pick it up on your way out the door and it connects to your phone or laptop.
There should be more vehicular cockpit VR games designed for people sitting on a swivel chair. Granted, wireless headsets are going to make the experience of this much better.
I didn't "pick" anything.

The argument was made that "bodily fluids" can't be a differentiator between men and women.
The newer releases are much, much faster. You should give it another shot.
The sites are still all being archived through IPFS! The link of the latest archive was temporarily removed from the site profile, but it's coming back soon when we launch the new IPFS infrastructure (weeks not months). The first IPFS implementation was experimental, the next version is going to be pretty amazing. Stay tuned.

Using Neocities with IPFS has been really great for stress testing, as we have a lot of content and it links to itself in really weird ways. It's discovered some performance bottlenecks that the IPFS devs have been able to solve. The result is that the newest IPFS implementations are much, much better for massive datasets.

I'm a very strong believer in the distributed web. I think it's the future of static web content. People much smarter than me think it's the future of the dynamic web too, but I'm pretty single-focused on the static side of things right now.
that story was served anonymously, but correctly predicted 2 days ago that there would be military overflights of teh inauguration parade, confirmed here: http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/military-flyovers-for-...

So I think it would be a mistake to dismiss it as pure conjecture considering that it has been partly validated by events. It would be quite easy to file a FOIA request to find out whether there were requests for ground-based hardware. Trump is already on record expressing a desire for military parades: http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/trump-to-hold-military...
Really getting into those sorts of games in a way that made them uniquely fun quickly led to RSI pain for me, in ways that playing the same sports for real would not.

Plus the person making subtle wrist-flicks while sitting on the couch would usually destroy the one standing up playing "for real". Between those two things it killed my enthusiasm for waggle controls pretty quickly. May as well have used buttons.

Best console ever for rail and light-gun shooters, though. Surprised it didn't get more than it did, especially ports of older ones.
No worries and thanks for the apology. I apologize for my own comments in this thread, which were lower than the quality I aspire to. I had pulled an all-nighter for work and was sitting grumpily with my phone at an airport.
YMMV, I'm not happy if paying for Prime and 50% of packages get lost, I call, and get them some days later than expected or get them later as expected and payed for next day delivery in the first time.
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Unrelated note. If anyone knows the Geocities founders I'd love to interview their first employee for our Employee 1 series.

Craig@YCombinator.com
Redfin Predicts the Hottest Neighborhoods of 2017
Well, if you always stop actually listen to these scientists at the first sentence, then you are not educated (IMHO, sorry, no offense).

To be educated IMHO, we should care about reasons of what they say more than the title of what they say. It is not unusual for scientists to draw wrong conclusions from the the right reasons, and those right reasons can help you draw your own right conclusions.

When each of us can maintain our own set of knowledge/conclusions under a set of consistent reasons, then the society will be much more resistant to any kind of appeal to authority/popularity logic fallacy.
Keeping Linux devices secure with rigorous long-term maintenance
Could you show your work? You're valuing "decentralied and truly free" as significantly more valuable than (far superior to) the sum total of GitHub Slack features. Could you list out the GitHub Slack features that you considered (and which ones you didn't consider) and your heuristic for their value and how they all combine to be much, much less valuable than decentralized/free?
Stark, Language Design Part I – The Tokens
I dont believe there are secrets in programming. Even if someone gave a newbie all the books in the world, it would still take many years to practice.

All school Mathematics was much easier that the complexity of software.

But good luck to the op!

However if I wanted something useful, Id like to have all the knowledge doctors have, because that kind of information is much more expensive, even if its something as easy as a check up appointment.

Programmers do something about health information! A wikipedia of health.