skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are ML algorithms that can be interrogated about their reasoning. One type is symbolic systems that use data to generate or "tune" their rules. Another one is stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqPcq0n59rQ (it's a kind of ensemble system that uses a linear combination of human-interpretable classifiers). Both kinds are pretty interesting, because you can manually inspect and tune them after training.
That's a very bold claim.
The Columbian Exchange continues!

One question about the article: why do they say "technically extinct" and not just "extinct"?

I also wonder---if we get chestnuts back up to their 19th-century numbers, what species will suffer as a result? Similarly to how coyotes are suffering from the reintroduction of gray wolves. I'm fine with attempting to restore the previous equilibrium, but it's good to be aware of all the consequences.
Facebook changes trending topics section after backlash
A lot of vitriol in response to this (specifically, the uncritical accusation that this is "bullshit"). But you're right on.

The problem is, you can't take an existing current public school system (of the worst kind), flip a switch that says advanced kids have to teach the less advanced kids, and expect things to work. It requires a total rethinking of the school as a small society engineered for learning from each other.

To those that say teaching each other is a recipe for abuse, or that it doesn't happen: that's only true when you've set up school as a simple game defined by scores on homework assignments.

Ideas worth trying (some stolen from my fourth/fifth-grade class, whose teacher, Kent Daniels, actually tried many of these things out with success):

* Replace lecturing, for the most part, with individually adaptive material, aided by computers where appropriate, housed in a one-room schoolhouse with kids of many ages and skill levels.

* Allow for lots of individualized creative work. Read a book of your choice and present it to the class, write about it, whatever. Program a robot. Etc.

* Eliminate homework as a basis for grades. Maybe eliminate actual home-work and replace it with in-school work; and maybe eliminate grades entirely. Schoolwork should be a mechanism for learning, not a graded success metric, and this eliminates the biggest problem with the next item.

* Encourage kids to help each other out. Teaching others is the perfect way to better master the material, develop effective communication skills, and other things that simply getting the high score on a math test doesn't do.

* Turn the teacher into a roving mentor: their job is to get an individualized sense of how everyone is doing, to help kids, and to help kids help each other. Their job is to be a better feedback control system than testing could ever be.

* Monitor the teachers in much the same way the teachers are monitoring the kids: not with standardized testing, but with empowered professionals. Create an adaptive, fuzzy hierarchy of learning and teaching.

* Experiment with different kinds of testing at multiple scales. Some structured evaluation will probably serve as a nice complement to this fuzzy system.
If there is a DigitalOcean engineer in the house, I'd be curious to know how this compares to how they run their KVM setup.
Firefox was out four or five years before Chrome appeared. When it started, it was competing against an aging IE6.

I don't think it has never kept pace with Chrome. Or if so, not for very long. Even if the products had been equally good, which they weren't, Google just has far more market power.
Motivation comes and goes. Discipline is what counts.
Yeah.

FetLife acts more like a porn/escort site than a social network in many respects. Its unfortunate since a sex positive kink community would be a great boon but they all seem to get seedy when they allow RL nudity/discussions.

I wonder if a no RL rule outside of things like clubs, etc. that are larger organized group activities with physical presences and business licenses would have been the "real" solution.
Your wife (and you) are wrong. Cleopatra was a Pharaoh.

Yes, she was a Greek decent of Alexander, and the Ptolemaic Dynasty was of his blood, not Egyptian, but it's founder Ptolemy declared himself Pharaoh, and therefore she had the title as well.

It's similar as to how Queen Elizabeth is the Queen of Canada, even though she is English. To say she isn't the Queen of Canada is simply incorrect.

This level of hubris is a perfect example of why mixed education is a good thing. Nobody is so gifted to be above the human frailty of being wrong.
In general, I think the linking of good with heroism is a net negative for society. Articles like these are a reminder of how much space there is to redefine heroism, or abandon it altogether, and how important it is to remember the good that is done that is not dramatic, individual, and quick.
>You, I and every other person who's ever lived in MA know that the MA gov't is beyond dysfunctional.

Well, except that the MBTA keeps running, laws are enforced, we have decent public schools, and we don't all have lead poisoning -- a few things we've got over, say, Michigan.
It was an image segmentation task, and the features were similar across data sets. The other thing that made it work well was heavy use of data augmentation that captured ways in which different data points could reasonably differ.

There was a really cool medical imaging paper recently that literally just labeled several 2D slices in a 3D dataset consisting of 3 images and performed a reasonable segmentation:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06650
Thanks! Being a solo founder definitely has its positives and negatives. I think everyone's situation is different and we always make the most out of it regardless if you're a 1 person operation or part of a big big team.
Yeah, what a great idea, let random "cloud" services authenticate who gets to login to your machine!
Why bots are not weird anymore
And after that, the maximum hardware they should be allowed is what I mentioned. Unless you're crunching massive data sets, you don't need 64-bit (and most programs don't, excepting games and of course databases!)
Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?
Being the Open Internet advocates that they are, you would imagine that most of us are generally big supporters of Firefox. So why then aren't more of us using it as our primary browser?

For me it's a simple feature in Chrome "tab to search" which frustratingly has never been ported into Firefox and every time I try to switch over the absense of this feature lures me back to Chrome as I'm just more effective with it.

Ref: http://www.danielfuterman.com/google-chrome-tab-to-search

What stopping you?

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How widespread is the use/acceptance of credit/debit cards? Can you typically get by for long periods of time without cash (e.g salary paid to bank account and then you buy food, pay rent with bank transfers or with a card)?
Do you believe that it's feasible to improve schools holistically? Because I think that's the major disagreement between you and I. I think the idea we can one day improve schools as a whole, for every student, is a goal worth striving for, but I do not think it's realistic nor feasible in the current education system.

This problem of cooperative education (wherein we separate students with similar features) is well studied, for both "at-risk" and "gifted" students, and it's been show that regular classroom practices do not benefit either group [1].

[1]: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED379845.pdf
Yeah! It's absolutely crazy!!

When legalization gets to my state I hope I have the foresight to have the planning and financing in place to be the first dispensary to open here.
These things are just redonculous cash cows.
> Being a free country does not mean necessarily you can act freely against the collective good.

Yes, that is exactly what it means. It means that I can ignore your theory about what is 'collective good' because it is stupid and will do me and my family irreparable harm, and I can substitute my own theory of what is actually going to move us towards more 'collective good' and act according to that. That is what being free means.
Sounds like your justifying it by saying nobody else could ever make an application better than Apple?
In 2017, learn *every* language
Speaking as a manager, it's better for you to leave before than after.

I'd want to know that the right team is in place to support a product before releasing it, and once it's out there's no reigning it back in.
Nice thing about pain-free FFI is that you can move functionality between the scripting-layer and engine-layer as you see fit. Start in JS, perhaps move pieces down to compiled-lang as they solidify or perf becomes an issue.
Maybe only the high-level logic is JS. Or maybe you have JS as "plugin" extension points. Or one could design a domain-specialized "framework", and use JS as the embedding language for an embedded DSL. Acheivable performance would depend a lot on such architectural decisions.

With C++ one would unfortunately have to create C-wrappers, but with say something with easier C interop like Nim or Rust.
First dress made with graphene unveiled in Manchester
9 questions to ask when (continuously) deploying microservices
A few thoughts:

- Very slick onboarding experience, especially compared to other calorie counters. Big plus here.

- There doesn't appear to be a way to add food outside of the current "meal." I'm sitting here at lunch time, but wanted to add what I had for breakfast --- instead I've just eaten a very large lunch.

- The current database of foods seems pretty slim. No entry for my African Peanut Soup, for example, which is available in both LoseIt and MyFitnessPal.

- How will you deal with things like sandwiches, where many of the ingredients may be totally hidden from view? Guess "sandwich" and let me pick what's on it from a sensible list of sandwich ingredients? Same goes for soups, or stews, or anything that can be visually similar with a wide range of possible ingredients.

Over all a good start, and some much-needed innovation in the calorie-counting app space.
Your story is another fantastic example of how social class is culture, and that money alone isn't enough to advance from one social class to the next, you have to be able to put on the performance of the higher class as well, which is something you simply have to learn.

I highly recommend this piece about social class in the US:
http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light
Sure, but in my experience accidents are very rare compared to the total. I don't live in LA, and my evidence is anecdotal, but I'd be willing to bet that overall accidents have minimal impact on a road's throughput.
I'm guessing the SSH session between me and my friend is not encrypted end-to-end because of proxies and what not in between?
Not that it's going to get any traction, but I find myself compelled to ask: is it possible that the problems with attempting to enable human beings to make the most of their individual capabilities, by means of an assembly line, are not best solved by incremental modification of the stations and routing on that line?
I see what you mean, communication must have been so hard back then.
R's Lists and Its Detestable Dearth of Data-Structures
3) Make a list of what you think your project needs before launching, but put as much as possible off until after launch, recognize that you can still work on it then

4) Do something on that list

5) Go back to #3 until you are launched

By postponing additional work you give those ideas time to mature while making concrete progress and finishing your project at least to some sort of functional state. By the time you're up to those tasks you will probably have identified why most of them weren't ever worth doing let alone derailing projects for.
I would rather invite 4chan to my laptop than my friends ;]
> Does anyone have more insight into what the government thought would happen?

I doubt the government thought about this at all.
Pretty wide array of technologies covered in these benchmarks. I wonder how ClickHouse will fare, should be very competitive.
Interesting. I am trying it out right now.
Erm, VISA, Mastercard, American Express, and Paypal are not US Government. They're private companies.

Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx are doing this on behalf of their own internal policies. Welcome to the free market.
I've been harbouring similar thoughts to you for quite some time. I live in Canada, where healthcare is supposedly "free" (it's not, you get taxed like crazy here!). The treatment you receive here is subpar in my opinion. The declining quality of treatment, I'm guessing is most likely attributed to an increasing population and the limited number of quality doctors available to treat these people.

I would assume these challenges aren't unique to Canada and from an outsider's perspective the medical system in the US seems worse (maybe not if you're rich)
You didn't get my point. I'll try to make it clearer.

Nowadays the right to free speech is enforced in a passive way, so-to-say: "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech".

However the Constitution was written in a different era, when doing nothing to abridge the freedom of speech was effectively granting freedom of speech to everyone. Today on the Internet a few corporations can effectively abridge one's freedom of speech.

So, what I am asking is: do we need a stronger and active enforcement of the free speech rights? An active enforcement in which the Government mandates that all businesses must give equal voice to citizens?

Apparently that's not something new, see mfringel's comment above:

"#2 implies that, in the US, anyone who attempts to use overwhelming coercive power of any form to silence speech tends to get looked on poorly by the law."

Edit: guys, that's not Reddit, try not to downvote a civil debate.
In US I think it's even worse - it is known there are medical applications of it but the federal government just pretends they do not exist and still qualifies cannabis as "drug that has no known medical use". They don't refuse to look - they look, see, know it exists and still say "no, it doesn't exist".
> There is no 'perfect' time for leaving

This is very, very true. It applies to pretty much any commitment that is bad for you: a bad job, a bad relationship, there's always a Very Important Reason not to do it right now.

See also: https://xkcd.com/1768/
However, Webviews do give you a very predictable container to target. If you use something like Intel Crosswalk [1] as part of your project for Android, you can bundle a recent Chromium webview to much older devices. And Flexbox is very well suited to solve phone/phablet/tablet layout problems.

[1] https://crosswalk-project.org/
I think that the issue is how much society is willing to spend on education as a whole.
Sure, if we do not want to spend more, we can have some trophy schools and lower the quality of the rest a bit further, and if we let just the good students go there, that will ensure the success of those schools even more.
On the other hand we could try to get some gifted people into every school as teachers. Of course that would be much more expensive.
You could probably write a wrapper to go from the node way to their style.
Also, as noted elsewhere in this thread, the App Store rules explicitly ban third-party browsing engines, so it doesn't help even if you go without a JIT entirely.
Social skills. You still need them, patients still demand them. I am a physician myself and can assure you I think my profession will go the way of the dodo in the next 50 years, starting with surgeons and going on to conservative diagnostics/therapy. The only reason it is not happening immediately is patients still (and for the foreseeable future) demand and expect the physician to be a human as well: showing empathy and bonding the so called "therapeutic alliance" with them.

As soon as AI manages to show that capabilities, it's the end. Algorithms are much more accurate in combining all the available biomedical information needed to decide for diagnosis and therapy.
Love this for prepared meals and home cooked meals, where you need to analyze the ingredients of a dish. Have you considered adding the ability to recognize a standard FDA Nutrition facts label as well? For example if I have a protein bar, it would be great to snap a picture of the label and OCR the macros. I know that differs though from your current tech of a CNN for image analysis, but it would round out the product to cover a greater percent of foods eaten.
>If you're a vaccine developer or someone working on genetically modified crops, you'll get pushback from Democrats. Pick your poison.

hi, former vaccine scientist here: there was never any pushback from democrats that i ever heard of, and i can say with authority that nobody would pick republican any percentage of the time for any purpose. i'm not even exaggerating. scientists are liberals.

that's all.
http://coconut-lang.org/ looks really interesting - it seems it is a patch exactly for parts of Python I am missing.

(Though, not sure if want to use another language just that case. Vide CoffeeScript and JavaScript; in this case JS absorbed the best pars of CS.)
In New Zealand, we have the Consumer Protection Act. It has helped considerably. Mobile Station, an Auckland company, refused to warranty my Nexus 4 that died (mobile data stopped working first, but Wi-Fi/text still worked. Then it all died).

I reflashed the stock OS but forgot to relock the phone. They tried to say since I replaced the OS, I voided the warranty. I said the warning screen says "This might void your warranty" but that didn't apply because in NZ, we have the consumer protection act.

https://www.consumerprotection.govt.nz/consumer-law-and-your...

I had to go through a tribunal, that went two session each about 2 hours. I wasn't sure if I could make my case. I tried to state phone modification isn't warranty voiding; that people reinstall Windows or Linux onto laptops they purchase and that doesn't void the warranty.

The arbitrator eventually found in my favour because the device had failed slowly indicating a hardware failure and the manufacture didn't offer to repair the device for a fee (you are required to supply parts or repair). It was way too much work for $480, but I'm still glad that protection exists.
5% of hours in a typical work week. The occasional machine-down situation due to a bug I put in the software or a disagreement with a higher-level manager.
This article was well written and surprisingly did give a plausible reason why Trello grew and was later acquired.
There's a great book by Paul Dutton of Northern Arizona University called "Differential Diagnoses" comparing US and French healthcare in depth that talks about the ratio of GP's to specialists and its direct correlation with positive health outcomes, among other things. If you're interested in the field, worth a read, here's a good introductory portion:

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
> these are more facts the article relays

So it's a bad article, aka a political fluff piece. I got that message from reading it.

But what are these facts?
You should always ask your doctor for a treatment plan, i.e., a structured approach to curing your condition. Make them plan a few steps ahead. And question that plan.
Why commit a crime (money laundering) to hide a non crime?
Would be neat if having done

teleconsole -i other_users_github_id

my teleconsole session ID would be sent to server along with my Github ID (optionally other user's too) so that they could

teleconsole -j my_github_id

to join instead of having to share session ID and fumble around with that.

No more/less secure that I can see, but it would be more convenient.
I'm sure some, but if even half the people who subscribed by card sent in checks, it's better than nothing.
I'm still working my way through this article (after watching the video at the beginning) but one random comment about the Steam Controller I want to drop in:

I use the Steam Link + Steam Controller to play games from my PC in my home office on my TV in my living room, a lot. I would say in the last year I've spent at least 80-100 hours using my Steam Controller in different situations and games.

It's hit or miss in many games, the best experience I've had with it is in Civilization. In some games it's _so_ close to perfect but the game disables mouse-input if you are using a controller, which means you can't use the Steam Controller to its full capability.

All in all, I mostly use my Xbox controllers (connected to my PC via the Microsoft adapter) to play on my Steam Link, mainly because the Steam Controller just feels cheap.

When they first talked about open sourcing all the designs for it I was hoping someone would take the specs and make a all-metal version of the controller, with some more heft.

I love the Steam controller, but it just feels so cheap so that when any growing-pains pains get in my way, it's one more negative against it compared to just using my other controllers.

I may be part of a small niche market but I would gladly pay $150-$250 for a good feeling controller that does exactly what the Steam Controller does. I think if I paid a bit more for it and it felt more premium, I'd be more invested in taking the time to configure it just right.
It's straightforward to build a graph database using LMDB, the performance is excellent, and it supports transactions, online backups, etc.

If you don't mind Java, Neo4J is another good choice.
I remember mine - I knew university was possible, but I had no idea how to get into the program. Latter it was explained to me that the school had to may for my classes so they would do everything they could to discourage students from taking that track without being obvious about it. They didn't allow any information to be in school, the guidance consular never mentioned it (not that I saw them).

By contrast AP was just a choice I could sign up for when choosing classes.
Same here, I personally don't understand people who can use a browser that does not support Tree Style Tab. Serious browsing requires nested tabs on the side.
>but I'd say that America really needs is more sanity amongst Republicans.

agreed entirely... but sanity might not be enough to win those sane republicans any seats.
My pet peeve is "passion"
> 1. Don't work your ass off.

> Especially, don't work your ass off expecting to be rewarded. It never happens.

I think this might be an over-generalization and that this is might only hold true for people who are farther along in their careers. I'm currently in year six of mine and I've been given a lot of great projects and early promotions (with subsequent pay jumps) from having been in the minority of people on a team that is working their ass off. These returns have, however, diminished with time.

If I had to hazard a guess I think this is probably because a more junior engineer working their ass off can show quick and obvious improvements to the quality of your work and time management skills, which start off as near excrement and iterate to "ok" over time.
App Store telling me the app is not currently available in Australia.

I'm guessing there is nothing specifically US centric in the app, any chance of opening up region support and sharing the love with your mates down under?
Have you ever been to the DMV? The next time you go, look around at the other people you are in line with. That is 'the rest of the country' that you are talking about. They aren't especially functional or reasonable.
Does this also explain why people in Scandinavia+Finland seem to be so clever?
MBAs are mostly worthless people that get churned out of business schools and have no ability for independent thought. What did you expect?