skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally there are a lot more people glued to their screens than there used to be. I think one factor is younger people who become drivers after already have been addicted to their smart phones.

It used to be that you could tell from a distance who was talking on their phone while driving. They would drift off their lane and correct randomly. At least while talking you have some % of your attention on driving, if low. While texting or interacting with the device's screen you have just about 0 attention left for other tasks. And you often don't even realize it...

There must be some data specific to distracted driving you'd think...

EDIT: Some data:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951952/

http://www.fleetfinancials.com/article/story/2011/09/5-year-...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/distracted-dr...
I read this and was a bit sad. Intel has done a great service here and I am sorry to see them step back. I hope another industry leader can fill their shoes.
Ask HN: I am visiting SFO should I rent or use zipcar?
Hey guys,

So I am visiting SFO in few days. Staying in a hotel near union square. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to use ZipCar or Rent a car? I am trying to save some money from expensive parking. The cheapest all day I have seen so far is $25/day for 3 days it's $75 dollars. Assuming I get a really good deal I would pay $200 - $300 for car rental. I am traveling with my baby so having a car is must for me. I saw ZipCar I am not sure about it's hourly rate, while I like the fact I can pick a car from Airport and drop it at any ZipCar parking in city, it makes decision hard for me.

Any ZipCar customers here? Any recommendations? Should I go for Rental or ZipCar when I am staying there for 3 days?
This is why I think Facebook is ultimately "just" the most successful dating site/app. It matured from facilitating college hookups to sharing baby photos with family. It's the definitive place to find out that your co-worker got divorced, that your high school crush is single again, or that your ex moved across the country and got in amazing shape.

The "relationship coach" is your audience of friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances who see quite clearly how successful your romantic life is by what you (or your partner) share (or don't).

I can't imagine many "matching" services/features that would make very good businesses. Unless exclusively focused on hookups, cheating, or escorts, but then naturally a harder pitch to investors.
Seems obvious if you look at the schedules:

1983: vaccines given : 3 to 4 .

2017: vaccines given : ~10 .

That is a big difference in terms of what you are asking a body to do.
In Canada, you need to wait over 2 years to get any sort of treatment, because of the long lines. My friend has 2 autistic children, who both suffered and continue to suffer because of inadequate funding. And because of the 2 year wait, these types of diagnoses are useless, because they won't get funding until much later. It's a travesty.

But here in CA, if you have Kaiser, apparently they have a gold medal autism treatment program, according to a doctor that deals with child developmental disorders. It's because they got sued several years ago, and the result was they now put every child in a top autism treatment program.
Proving theorems isn't just performing routine checks. There are creative aspects, like finding the right loop invariants, at which machines fare absolutely miserably.

OTOH, machines excel at exhaustive enumeration and enforcing separation of concerns: that's why ML-style algebraic data types, pattern matching and parametric polymorphism are such a boon for high-level programming.

So there's room for both human and machine work in program verification. What we should be interested in is finding the right division of labor between humans and machines.
Ohhh boy. The problem is when the guy on the float(5) side genuinely believes that this is better code style. At the end of the day you do have to appeal to some system, whether it be to the PEP, or to SOLID design principles, or even to "someone else thinks this is a good idea on stack overflow".

Personally I like to go with "is accepted by the community" as opposed to "is accepted by most people in this room" or "Greg thinks it's beautiful".
Most of people (citation needed) use some sort of frontend building pipeline (gulp, bower, npm, what have you...) and usually they put something like jshint which would fail a build if a semi colon was missing.

Certainly not elegant but it works (speaking as a python developer doing some javascript stuff in react / angular)
From my experience, these Chinese students probably did try at first to make friends with local Americans, but were made fun of because of their accents.

So rather than be humiliated, they chose to just hang out with people who won't insult them.
I have heard people advocate this before, and it makes sense until you ask yourself why should the business pay you $6000 for the project when they can hire (assuming similar competency) another developer to do the same thing for $1000?

You aren't just competing with their existing solution, you are competing with other developers that they are likely collecting quotes from.

IMO your ability to charge them $6000 was based more on them not knowing exactly how much work went into the project and not the value it saved the company.
> I guess to be rewarded in science you have to be a master in your field and intensely concerned with IP deadlines.

Dr. Zhang and MIT proved that the Crispr technique would work in plant, animal and human cells. The value of the patents is in that research, not Doudna's in vitro proof.
P-Adic Stability in Linear Algebra [pdf]
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There are a few models for freelancer pricing.

1. Wild guess.

2. Figure out how much the customer is willing to spend.

3. Figure out how much you need to make.

4. Get estimate from a cheaper freelancer on UpWork, X 2.

5. Through experience understand the customer, the job, and your own productivity.

The questions you are asking demonstrate that you aren't ready for professional freelancing, so any of the first four models I listed will work for you.

Since customers are usually interested in both budget and schedule, freelancing "as per my will in a given deadline" should make you even more attractive.

Don't like snarky, sarcastic replies? Then take yourself seriously and don't insult professional freelancers. With just a little bit of effort you can read hundreds of articles about freelancing, project estimation, scheduling, client relationships, requirements gathering, planning, and execution. Actually learning these things and doing them right takes practice. A professional freelancer is not just an unemployed developer or someone with extra time on their hands.

My freelancing business is taking over projects that failed or stalled because of bad estimates, bad schedules, bad planning, bad execution, and poor communication. So welcome to the "freelancing world," you're keeping me in business.

I have several relevant articles on my own website about freelancing. You can find plenty of good advice (and even more bad advice) online.
ZipCar daily rates are terrible compared to subcompact rentals at SFO. Are you planning to leave SF city limits? If not take the train (BART) to/from your hotel/airport and use Uber the rest of the time. Parking a car near Union square will set you back 30 to 40 bucks a day btw.
I'm partial to (and operate) https://wtfismyip.com/
2016 Mazdas have the screen in your line of sight rather than down, and a non-touch input device (a click wheel in the center armrest).

Unfortunately Mazdas are the only economy cars that seem to care about this. For many others, it's a laggy touchscreen well below the vents.

Very happy with the old fashioned tactile controls on my 2012 VW.
http://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20110725/sharp-d...

100 dead kids and 11,000 hospitalized a year is no big deal? Not to mention shingles.
I think he's saying he's banking on a vast market of "super babies" going to be born. It'll be on par with investing for college tuition.

i.e. Interested in getting your newborn baby with a super brain? Super strength? Super musical talent? Pony up a few hundred K, and watch it become a reality with the power of genetic engineering.
Doudna took Cripsr from an odd genomic pattern to proof of Cripr/Cas9 being a bacterial immunity complex complete with proof of mechanism.

Transferring that body of work over to in-vivo is trivial in comparison to what she did. Transferring genes from one organism to another is run of the mill molecular biology.
The Udacity ML course is gradual enough to avoid overwhelming you, but really in-depth: https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning--ud262

Definitely recommend that as a good starting point. Isbell and Littman can be a bit cheesy at points, but they're very clear and thorough.
Unfortunate. Clearly everyone involved had a part to play in the discovery but I guess there is no such thing as a joint patent.
Right; you need to put your lock in the database, encoded as an index.
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) isn't due to an immunocompromised state. That happens in normal people who get measles. It's rare in adults that contract measles, but much more common in kids that get it.

A similar disease called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is due to an immunocompromised state. Patients with HIV and those taking certain medications with multiple sclerosis are at risk.
human genetic engineering for increased IQ which is looking extremely possible in the near future (hopefully something that will be available here in Singapore before I have kids)

I wouldn't hold your breath. Intelligence is not a single gene you can turn on or off. We don't know enough about what genes to modify (even if we could modify them).
But he entirely bootstrapped fandalism too. So his argument is completely legit. Any one of those competitors could have built a fandalism for customer acquisition too. Anyway, his point is he did this stuff all as a one man shop with no funding. Nobody can dispute that. He is David.
But he entirely bootstrapped fandalism too. So his argument is completely legit. Any one of those competitors could have built a fandalism for customer acquisition too. Anyway, his point is he did this stuff all as a one man shop with no funding. Nobody can dispute that.
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The problem is, sometimes they work. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13657508. One of the reasons OkCupid didn't ban duplicate messages is that often they led to successful exchanges.
Increasing abstraction is directly proportional to decreasing software quality
It is my observation that if you use a shit ton of abstractions, wrapper libraries, frameworks, so on, your software gets crappier. This is from experience, too. Whereas, if you build something from scratch, that is, reduce reliance on abstractions, the software quality in the long run is more stable. Thoughts?
I'm one of those who wonder if these things should be patented.
That being said:

"Swoop in and patented it" is not exactly how it goes. There is a long back story to this with a lot of people discoing stuff to make this possible.[1]

CRISPR-CAS9 will probably be supplanted by something else. They're already working on it (hopefully with fewer off target effects).
http://www.nature.com/news/alternative-crispr-system-could-i...

You can watch a video by Zheng (the patent holder) on how CRISPR works if you are curious[2]

I doubt she's livid, they won a lot of research prize money from their research [2]
and she's probably collect money from patents from the company she started with the patent holder "Editas Medicine. Co-founded by the Broad’s Zhang (and also by Doudna, in more collegial days)"[2]

as with most patent disputes the lawyers are the real winners:
"The Broad’s legal costs, paid by Editas, topped $15 million last summer. UC’s, paid by Caribou, have passed $5 million. Neither party has said what they have spent since then."[2]

[1]http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)01705-5

[2]https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/15/crispr-patent-ruling/
ZipCar (actually, Uber is probably even better). Parking is absolutely miserable in that part of the city - I've heard that at any given moment, half of the cars in SF are searching for parking. The hotel garages may charge up to $100/night for parking, while the public garages tend to fill up very fast and run about $36/day.

I also wouldn't rule out public transportation. Union Square is right by BART so you can use it & muni for anything in the Market Street/Embarcadero corridor, and BART will take you straight from the airport to the hotel. By the time you find a parking spot it may actually be a longer walk to your hotel than walking from BART would be.
So there are a few parts to this. Raw distribution you've got stuff like Draft2Digital which can help you distribute to Amazon/B&N/Kobo/etc. Limited value outside B&N requires you to be in the US so they can help you get around that if you are non-US based. But they also give some tools to make things like putting links to the right store in the back of your book for each platform.

However doing any licensing stuff if say you want to pay to put quotes from book snippets/lines from poetry/etc into your book the way distrokid lets you license a cover, nothing that I know of handles that space. I don't know if there's enough of a market for it because it isn't nearly as good a business decision for a writer as doing a cover can be for a musician, so smart writers avoid it.
An interesting analogy is the tradeoffs in going from one machine to a distributed system: a single SQL server will outperform a 3 node cluster for small loads, but the 3 node cluster will survive hardware failures and eventually out-scale the single-node setup as you add more nodes.

It feels like larger companies are always reluctant to have a single point of failure, whether it's a machine in Utah going down or Greg getting hit by a bus.
Sounds plausible that it's more distracting, but I'm not convinced that the difference is more varied than found among different types of passengers (back-seat driver/kids/dumb friends/audiobook(?) etc)

If you have a few studies that show more than that, I would be glad to check it out.
My experience with Docker Swarm has been great. I came from Kubernetes but found it way too complex for my needs.
> Transferring that body of work over to in-vivo is trivial in comparison to what she did.

If this was the case then she would have won the patent fight. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board thought otherwise. Did you read their 51-page decision?
It's not like there's a simple way to invest $1 and extract $44. That $44 is diluted in the total GDP. There's also a quite low limit on how many people you can vaccinate, even if you offer it for free.

This kind of thing is quite profitable for the government though, because they get to collect that $44, even if it is diluted.
* Universities make much more money off their Masters students, most of whom are international, and pay full tuition (or someone does for them).*

It's a scam.

The Ph.D. is the real graduate degree in US schools. If you get a MS, people who know the system expect that you flunked out in quals (it's the parting gift for those that couldn't handle the work). Terminal MS degrees at serious schools are just outright selling prestige to the naïve.

A MS from MIT or Stanfurd is much, much less prestigious than a BS degree from the same school and requires less academic rigor.
For anyone following along still, I just tried the bad merge example that vesinisia linked to with both git and mercurial. Git does indeed do the wrong thing as illustrated on that web page. Mercurial gets it right.

UPDATE: both git and mercurial get the concrete version wrong (https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/badmerge/concrete-good-semanti...)
White out: Snow-making companies in a warming world
aren't they used heavily in sports, though? That was my impression of the NBA/MLB, at least.
“Proof” that Fuchsia will replace Linux for Google
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part yourself. What isn't part ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Hermann Hesse, Demian

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

Playing high status at work could be a coping mechanism. Honestly, if you're unhappy just quit and go work someplace where people are smarter than you are. But if this feeling persists, its probably time to change yourself.
You might have seen some very bad abstractions. In my experience, they almost always make code more flexible, if designed & implemented sanely. My $0.02.
This is a great reason not to speed in residential or downtown areas where there are pedestrians around.

We're most likely to get speed cameras on major roads and freeways, where pedestrians are rare to nonexistent and have no expectation of being yielded to, as you might with a crosswalk on a 25mph road.
Do you think George Bush (junior) did?
Getting an MRI and having each (so far symptomless) lump examined is not the goal. But getting an MRI every 6 months to a year and being able to see the changes in these lumps is much more important.
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Microsoft’s February security update release delayed to March
We've been running Kubernetes in production for over a year. It has a steep learning curve and it takes a lot of time to fine-tune the underlying infrastructure (we use CoreOs) to make it production-ready. There still seems to be a lot of shortcomings of k8s that seem like should have been addressed by now:

- it is impossible to trigger a rescheduling / rebalancing. When a new node comes in (via AutoScaling policy or whatever), kubernetes doesn't do anything. Thus, the new nodes can be sitting there doing nothing.

- once a pod has been scheduled onto a node, it never reschedules it anywhere else. The node may be experiencing problems, thus the pod is affected. k8s doesn't do anything to heal that -- it could simply delete the pod so it is rescheduled somewhere else.

- docker itself constantly ships with a lot of bugs. To this day (we are on docker 1.12.6), we constantly have problems with the docker daemon hanging or becoming unresponsive. I'm not sure if k8s can do much about this, but I feel like it should since we don't directly control docker.

- doesn't integrate more tightly with the OS / cloud provider. For example, it could perform health checks and decide if the node should be restarted, terminated, or idle.

All of our services are stateless, so it would be nice to have the option for all the above, especially k8s started as being the solution for stateless apps.
If you can upload a sample log, I'd be happy to take a look and try to provide some more specific guidance (email's in profile).

I did some work using stack traces to predict duplicate bug reports, so I'm somewhat familiar with a similar problem.
A Skeptical Look at Screening Tests - https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...
Which is amazing but irrelevant - if the lesson is "build something obsessively for years until you have an audience to then, also over the course of 4 years, monetize on another project - assuming you get both of these things exactly right even though they're both unbelievably hard" there's no lesson.

I know this from experience. I helped build a site used by millions of people in a particular demographic, and some of my collaborators on that project have been building products to help that demographic in deeper ways. The problem? It's still hard to get that right! 2 years into that effort they're still just starting to find product market fit for the second products.

We hit the absolute lottery to somehow get 5 million users for the original product, and they'll be hitting the lottery again if they get profitable on the second product to that audience. It's hard. Having money helps.
The MSP430x5xx and MSP430x6xx families have this problem. From the user-guide [1]:

> Include at least one instruction between the clear of an interrupt enable or interrupt flag and the EINT instruction. For example: Insert a NOP instruction in
front of the EINT instruction.

> Include at least one instruction between DINT and the start of an code
sequence that requires protection from interrupts. For example: Insert a NOP
instruction after the DINT

Luckily if you use the MSP compiler's intrinsic functions to enable/disable interrupts it takes care of this for you.

[1] http://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/slau208
Coded by Micah F. Lee of the free press foundation. Pretty well respected member of the community and all around great guy.
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In fact, the patent system comes close. If what you contributed was inventive and new, you get a patent on that slice of what you invented. For someone to commercialize the whole thing, they may need to pay both parties (essentially both parties who had a part to play in the "discovery" will be paid for their work). In many cases like this, the parties have to cross-license each other (pay each other or license each other for their respective patents).

That is actually what the article says.

"An appeals board of the patent office ruled that the gene-editing inventions claimed by the two institutions were separate and do not overlap."

"Ultimately, companies wanting to apply Crispr for use in medicine, agriculture or other fields might need licenses from both the Broad Institute and the University of California, a lawyer for the university said. ..."
Is there a bug for the emptyDir autoscaler node tear down issue? That sounds really wrong by itself.
I think Python is a good example of how things can happen.

Python's standard library includes a lot of pretty frustrating libraries, but offers a lot of low-level functionality. So people can easily write wrapper libraries with more "pythonic" usage.

Think about requests vs. urllib (though technically requests' backend can be replaced).

I can imagine that Apple could write Swift libraries that are more idiomatic to the language by just wrapping Cocoa stuff. I mean, React Native can exist, so why can't this?
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Ping is the answer to to HTML
Does it affect the data connection, like a SSL connection to my bank? Can it see that data stream as well?
It's polygenic, like height. People who I read in the space of cognitive genomics, such as Steve Hsu and Razib Khan, agree it's looking increasingly plausible. It would require modifying hundreds of alleles. Embryo selection is possible now, just not useful until we have a million genomes tagged with their donors' IQ. 1 of 10 embryo selection give you about 8 IQ points per generation. Hsu thinks Crispr will obsolete embryo selection before it's in wide use.

He also said the following:

>I think there is good evidence that existing genetic variants in the human population (i.e., alleles affecting intelligence that are found today in the collective world population, but not necessarily in a single person) can be combined to produce a phenotype which is far beyond anything yet seen in human history. This would not surprise an animal or plant breeder — experiments on corn, cows, chickens, drosophila, etc. have shifted population means by many standard deviations (e.g., +30 SD in the case of corn).
How did you find this site and what makes you interested in posting here?
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Let's be clear that what you're saying is, "In high density locations, there shouldn't be anyone who won't pay the rent to live within walking distance."