skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I organized an iOS development Meetup for years in a fairly low-population area, and I had no idea what our Meetup would actually do when I created it! I didn't even know if other people in the area were doing much iOS development; I literally knew nobody who truly wanted to attend when I started it.

Primarily I wanted to meet other smart folks who were interested in similar tech problems as myself, hopefully learn something, maybe make some friends (which I did - many I still keep in touch with!), and have fun.

So the specifics of what one does at a meetup include, but are not limited to:
* listen to talks
* meet new people
* say hello to people you've already met and - important to avoiding burnout - ask how their projects (or life in general) is going
* grab a beverage or a little food after the event

Bonus if you organize it: people start to think you're an "expert" in this field, even though you may have really just wanted to meet some people. I went on to help organize other meetups and events with great people because of it, too.

Whether you organize or attend a meetup, simply approach it as a way to meet some new people and talk about the topic at hand, and you shouldn't be disappointed.

If you think you'll make lifelong friends after attending one or two, or think you'll find your cofounder for a new startup after attending one meetup, temper your expectations. Just like any community or relationship, really getting to know people takes time, and there's very little substitute for that.

Get out and meet some people!
"Things get normal again" only if people come out of their bunkers and put away the gun and pick up a shovel and a hammer instead. Build huts, clear the debris and plant seeds, not take the remaining fuel for the helicopter.

If this concept is not clear anymore after too many seasons of Walking Dead then I don't know.
WSJ reports Harvard's endowment is expected to lay off half its staff
> If you've developed expertise in deep learning and want to apply your skills to healthcare in a startup

What if we haven't but we do?
If only systemd was written with the level of care OpenSSL had...
Why haven't they replaced the average radiologist yet then?
Ask HN: How to finish personal projects?
Hi HN, how do you do this? My current workflow is this:

1) Begin a new projects

2) Work in this project 1 or 2 days

3) ...

And that's it... Do you work everyday in your projects? You decide to work X days in a project and then "is finished"? Maybe you have a feature list and once everything is ready you stop working?

How you do this? :)

Thanks!
Ryan

From my iPhone, pricing on the pricing page doesn't display at all.

http://m.imgur.com/kyDPO3n

For an app that's going to be used predominately from a mobile phone, you might want to double check your entire website from a mobile browser to ensure its displaying correctly.
India switched to 100% electronic voting. People accept technology faster than you might assume.

Also since it doesn't have the Visa/Mastercard rent seekiny duopoly and dysfunctional ACH system. It can actually have smoother transition to a UPI based payment system. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
What will help gifted students and not regular students: faster curriculum, with less practice and review

So you put a regular student there. Pretty soon, they miss some key bit of understanding. Class doesn't pause and replay. Class moves on. Very quickly, the situation becomes hopeless. Why pay attention to calculus when you don't understand negative numbers or fractions? Why attempt Hamlet when you can't read words with more than one syllable?
It all just seems like a massive wasted effort.

I think many of us pursue new tech to ensure the chore of doing our work remains fun and engaging, the most important priority! Probably billions of dollars got spent last year just so startups could migrate between one pointless stack and another to entertain their developers instead of their users, and the punchline is the developers still aren't comfortable enough.
Applied Harmonic Analysis, Massive Data, Machine Learning and Signal Processing [pdf]
Cannabis use might not have actually doubled. According to your link, "The percentage of Americans who reported using marijuana in the past year..."

The amount of people reporting increased. It is difficult to tell if actual use increased or if people are just more likely to admit they use it because of decreasing taboos.
Two or three big players in the credit card market can effectively shutdown a business.

Honest question: do we need better enforcement for the First Amendment rights in the current digital era? Shop owners cannot decide who enters in their shop, should digital service providers be allowed to discriminate?

The same happens when someone is banned from Facebook and Twitter: of course there are other options, but he won't be able to reach 95% of the Internet audience.

Edit: maybe should've spoken about a "different, active enforcement" rather than "better enforcement".
The problem with major Credit Card companies is that they're all American and that the US of A is incredibly moralistic. For the sake of convenience, I'm considering PayPal to be part of the same club of moralistic knobs.

It's virtually impossible to set up any kind of online shop without accepting one or more of PayPal, MasterCard, Visa or AmEx. As soon as you accept money for anything one of these FOUR(!) financial behemoths objects to, you're out of luck. You'll be forced to stop using them, and as soon as you do you'll see your revenue drop dramatically.

And why? All because a couple of old men in suits think that they know what's "acceptable". Nevermind the legalities. PayPal makes it impossible to sell pornography, which is perfectly legal in large parts of the civilized world.
Without commenting on the relative merits of Apollo vs the Space Shuttle programs, it bears remembering that there were 11 Apollo flights and 135 Space Shuttle flights. There simply aren't enough statistics to know whether the Apollo flights were more risky than the Shuttle flights or not, and hence which program did the most to "limit progress in the name of eliminating risk".

One may criticize its progress for being slow, but what is beyond debate is that the Shuttle program did not anywhere near eliminate risk.
No one is forcing you, but when the cultural zeitgeist is behind it (reported every day in the pop news, especially when rising) it promotes mass financial illiteracy.

I think it's a lost cause, just like the metric system in the USA, but dropping the Dow and focusing on more accurate measures would, in a small way, focus people's attention on more important economic news.
This is a really awesome project.
It might be useful to point people at your blog point via the pgsql-advocacy mailing list too. :)

https://lists.postgresql.org/mj/mj_wwwusr?user=&passw=&func=...
> Putting gifted students with "regular" students is not regression to the mean.

How is it not? "Gifted" students are not given a chance to grow, since there's no pressure for them to excel in a school where they're already ahead. "Gifted" students aren't different from other children, they're responsive to the same social pressures all students face, and placing them with a "gifted" peer group allows them to thrive. Gifted students are among the most challenging for teachers to serve, as their needs lie outside the standard curriculum.
How to become a payments network
I also use name.com and recommend it.

Can you explain the bit about pricing, though? I was given a retention discount years ago when I moved a domain away (and that discount is still active for all .com registrations), but is there some other discount that I haven't received? As someone with a ton of domains there (but definitely not as much as a squatter or reseller—50+, not 500+), I'm curious what I'm missing out on.
I was really very well impressed by the small size of ionic apps. It's in the order of ~3MB which is great.

But the startup times are somewhat big. I'm talking, for the simplest of applications a startup time of ~5.5 seconds in ionic 2 (the beta) vs ~2 seconds in React Native in Android.

For me, that detail has a significant impact in usability.

Any plans to work on those startup times?
I'm not so sure we could ask the algorithm itself, in any literal sense. An algorithm trained to introspect might actually be wrong about its own "memories" or "motives"—just like a human might! (Though, likely, without the penchant toward political rationalizing.)

This is most simply because, whatever the algorithm is trained to do, it's certainly trained better to do that thing than to introspect. Introspection is a separate skill!

But there's also a more insidious element: introspection (in humans, at least) tends to result in the creation of a lot of "personal concepts" that don't map to well-known common concepts. An introspection on one mind must necessarily result in a taxonomy that contains terms for the tiny, unique features that only that mind has—which makes it very, very hard to communicate one's personal introspections to others. (You might call this a kind of overfitting: the introspection capability becomes optimized for that one mind, but ceases to translate well to features in other minds—like human minds.)

I'd place a much stronger bet on our ability to train one AI to "stare at the brain" of other AIs as they make decisions [tons of them, as its training data], with the expected output being a general theory on common AI features responsible for the given calculation step. A computer psychologist, of sorts. :)

Of course, you could include such a pre-trained model as a "module" alongside the AI itself, and call the combined system "one AI" if you like.
Maybe he knows something we don't - is there a habitable place farther away from America?
December 2016 Existing-Home Sales – NAR Inforgraphic
Healthcare plans do not reimburse machines yet.
Naively compiled C/C++ is fairly easy to reverse engineer (I say this from a lot of experience!).

If you want to "protect your source code" you need to apply obfuscation techniques to slow down a reverse engineer - but keep in mind that everything ultimately can be reversed and understood given enough time. Plus, many obfuscation techniques can be made applicable to Python code too (e.g. encrypting, obfuscating or mangling Python bytecodes).

The real question is: what are you protecting that is so secret? If it's details about a protocol (network messages, file format or external API calls) those are fairly easy to dissect externally. If it's a proprietary algorithm, someone could blackbox the relevant parts of your code to use in their own application, without even reversing it. If it's proprietary data, client-held keys, etc. there are ways to get at it. Assume that everything you hand a client is no longer secure or private - if you really need to keep secret sauce close to home, make it server-side.
Hell no. The last thing we need is to segregate arbitrarily designated 'gifted' students from the rest of the school population. Not only will that breed resentment amongst peer groups, it also reduces the amount of important social interaction that takes place. Some of my best friends and the most inspiring people to me were so-called 'average' students who I wouldn't have met if I had gone to some smarty pants academy.

I was considered a gifted student and had the chance to go to some fancy private schools but I stayed at my public school and you know what, I absolutely loved it. Were the classes slow for me and too easy? Obviously, but I always brought a book (or three) and would read them throughout the day and at lunch. I slacked off on my homework and taught myself how to program. I helped my friends with their work - not cheating, but actively tutoring and explaining the principles. One of my friends who absolutely sucked at math is now graduating with a chem degree.

If a student is truly gifted, they will learn on their own and help others. As society becomes ever more unequal and stratified, we need as much social pollination as possible. Hell, the way public schools are going we should keep as many smart kids in there as we can. There were some student-run after school courses at my HS that were amazing.
Yeah, but on the other hand there are only a handful of companies that make Browsers, and even fewer that make browser engines. The vendors could pay Apple to audit the codebases and it would be worth it to be on the platform.
I was thinking that myself. Personally I think the entire App Store model they have is terrible. Let's take something really good about Linux (package management), now we'll make all the packages monolithic (eh, guess it avoids dependency hell at the expense of space) and also you can only use our one and only tightly controlled package repository (da fuck?!) oh and you don't get admin rights and you can't install 3rd party signing keys (?!?!)

You market it to the general public of non-tech people and no one cares. It looks fancy and shiny and you no longer need a stylus .. and doesn't crash twice a day like PalmOS.
Yes, but how much business would they lose?
Reddit plans to rewrite its website in 2017
great work!!!
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> The people in this story are still counting on quite a bit of society to exist to ferry them to their fancy secure locations.

I think if there's going to be any place that a bit of society is left existing after apocalypse will be somewhere in the US, perhaps much closer to where those billionaires reside than they think (so there's no need to run to New Zealand).

I think the better investment would be to literally convert some of your 'paper' wealth to physical means of production of basic goods.
Google has an incredible amount of money invested in our federal government here in the US. Including at least one former FTC Commissioner in their pocket. :)

Competition watchdogs in almost every other first world country, however, are investigating Google for various antitrust claims.

Apple doesn't get a lot of scrutiny from competition watchdogs because they aren't a monopoly anywhere. Heck, outside the US, the iPhone has a pretty tiny market share.
Wanting labeling is not anti-science.

GMO is a tool. It is itself neither good nor bad, neither safe nor unsafe.

Those who wish to do good can use GMO to do great good. It is more powerful than non-GMO methods, and so potentially can let them do greater good than they can with traditional methods such as selective breeding.

The same holds for those who wish to do bad things. They can currently do bad things with selective breeding and other non-GMO methods. GMO gives them more power to more extreme bad things and do them faster.

The question of whether such foods should be labeled comes down to whether or not there will be those who will GMO for bad things, and if so whether or not consumers who wish to avoid those bad things should be given the information to do so. Science is completely silent on how to answer this question.

Looking at the foods that fill a typical American supermarket, I do not find myself confident that the major food companies have my long term best interests at the top of their priority list when they design a new food product.
Hello!

Sorry for bringing this issue here and I'm sure many may not understand my point... but, after reading some posts about objectification of women (like this one: http://www.heroicgirls.com/de-objectify-women-comics-guide), could the woman in the homepage picture be drawn differently?

I'm sure it was not intentional and it may be seem as a small issue for some people, but I know women who do not like to be represented that way.

Thanks for understanding =)

Btw, I really like the page design! It is great =)
Court Reinstates Theft Conviction of Former Goldman Programmer Aleynikov
You know what I wonder?

Who wants to keep on living, in a sheltered compound, for any length of time, if the world around them has collapsed?

Especially if your lifestyle up to then consisted of jet-setting to different locales, eating all kindsa fancy food, listening to DJ sets or seeing Broadway shows.

So you've got your gilded, gunned-all-to-heck compound, but there's no Internet, no culture being produced for you to consume or take part in, nothing left of the day-to-day human experience. Your life is now canned food and worrying about the zombie hordes knocking on your door.

What, at the end of the day, is the point of living?
On the other hand Microsoft wasn't preventing people from installing an alternative browser, Apple is.
Hey everyone, sorry if this seems a little sales-ey – wasn't intending it to be. I built a product that helps with the pain points I mentioned above, so just trying to spread the word and maybe get a few more beta users. Wasn't trying to detract from the article or anything like that. Again, sorry if it was a bit too much – I would remove it if I could.
> If you want speed you go to any other scripting language (other than Ruby)

Which one? PHP? Perl? Bash? Scheme? VBScript? Windows PowerShell?

Python is in fact of the fastest scripting languages that exist, especially JIT'ed.

The notable exception is JS, and oh, that has a GIL too :P
Indeed, doing the real-world portions of Tron Legacy in 2D and the in-the-grid portions in 3D worked beautifully. I also happened to pick up a magazine about visual effects which contained an extensive interview with one of Tron's vfx designers, and it mentioned lots of cool details I missed when first viewing the film, e.g. check out the fireworks when they introduce the light cycle battle.
Mary Tyler Moore, TV and movie star, dies at 80
Is this the old "we can't do this because we're too big/diverse/awesome" bogus argument?

Every time it's pointed out that Europe is a much better place for the middle class than America, you get all conservatives and/or all libertarians up in arms making up excuses for why America is supposedly unable to replicate that for various reasons.

With that can't do attitude, of course it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
THANK YOU for pointing this out.

The stock market is not the economy. Stocks going up is not objectively good, and stocks going down is not objectively bad. Same for housing prices and cost of living.

When the pie grows, often the result is I have a shrinking portion of it.
You assume there will be free elections in 2020. If Putin is Trump's role model, what happens to dissenters?
Because the fuzzers can be used by blackhats to find vulnerabilities to be exploited. The blackhats surely write their own fuzzers, but why give them a head start?
Elm-UI - A Beautiful User Interface Library for Elm
Still doesn't work in a number of situations like if you have a touch screen.
Leave as scheduled. If your existing employer desperately needs you later, offer to consult at some very high rate.
“With its long neck, big eyes and strange oblong head, I thought it resembled E.T. I even made a Halloween mask that resembled the head of this insect. But when I wore the mask when trick-or-treaters came by, it scared the little kids so much I took it off.”

The bug itself bothers me in some deep way I cant quite identify.
Segregating gifted children in with the regular population will one day soon be seen as child abuse.

It has profound negative effects on the child, and leads to really terrible outcomes like drug abuse and absenteeism.

We have a lot of evidence that shows this. What you posit above amounts to exploiting the gifted child to benefit the needs of the other children. Gifted children are very open to being exploited by peers and teachers in the regular classroom.

It's wrong, and a detriment to the children and society.
I did have to force enable it as a few plugins didn't official support it yet. So far it's been amazingly stable though and had sped up my browser considerably.
Black money is clearly a problem in India

"Black money" will always exist as long as goods and services humans find valuable are illegal. Altering legal transactions to thwart "illegal" transactions will actually make it easier for illegal transactions to hide in plain sight as legitimate transactions are pushed into loopholes which look "illegal".
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Predicting portion size is something we’re actively looking into. One of the reasons for getting Bitesnap out to a larger audience now is to be able to collect more training data for doing this. We’re also experimenting with allowing users to specify portion sizes in more natural units -- for example by comparing a serving to the size of their fist -- and we’ll automatically convert these to conventional units. Finally, we’re also building more tutorials and help content into the app to educate people on better estimating portion size (among other things).
That's a pretty lame exuse: if anything, OS integrated JIT engines are likely to be less secure, and a more diverse engine ecosystem makes attacks less attractive. Witness how JIT engines don't cause many problems (and never really have caused many problems) on desktop. Which isn't to say they're immune from security risks, just that there are lots of other components that pose just as many risks (or more), which are not (or cannot) be avoided - not least of which the first-party JIT.

Furthermore, many exploits don't care if their running on a JIT or on a scripting engine - that's an implementation detail. And if you really cared about security, you could design a verifiable native subset (as several systems have done) - webassembly shows that even slow standardization processes that need much more complicated cross-device compatibility can move meaningfully in that direction.

Disallowing non-first party JITs completely for security reasons is at best delusional, but more likely intentionally anti-competitive. Minor security bonuses are just gravy.
Well faking fingerprints is quite easy if the reader only checks the print but not if the subject actually has a pulse, but I never heard about a faked retina yet...
CacheIR: A New Approach to Inline Caching in Firefox
Agreed, a civilized society should have a basic education curriculum which all students may participate in, regardless of sex, religion, or socio-economic status. This is the minimum bar that all should be granted.

However, most of the comments here seem to be assuming that school is 100% of a child's learning.

If you are a "gifted" student, then there are plenty of hours in the day to develop other skills. Or pony up the cash for private school.

The public school should be for educating the public. When I was young there was already basically two tiers of education within the public school, the AP track and the vocational track.
I think the apotheosis is not the result of science, but the method by which those results are arrived at or observed. Do you have a hypothesis, and do you reject/alter that hypothesis based on what you observe in reality? (Or, more literally, based on the manipulations of reality that you perform in the course of experiments?)

Being willing to believe things based on what reality says is the thing we should value. And it should be very highly-valued indeed.
I hope he meets Benny there who has 4 or 5 kids. And two jobs.
> Either they failed to detect a large portion of real malware, and/or they were a huge drain on the system's resources.

Those aren't mutually exclusive... ;-) Some things never change, I guess.

As a Windows admin who uses Unix-ish systems exclusively at home, I am a little clueless sometimes. When using AV software on our computers, I can at least point to that and say I did what I could (be reasonably expected to do), but whenever I read what people who really know about IT security have to say about the AV industry, I get the feeling it's all just a bunch of charlatans and snake oil peddlers.

But the latter is a little difficult to explain to my boss without sounding like a tinfoil-hat-wearing lunatic.