skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thankyou so much :)

I know I've wondered a lot about this subject for a few years, but I can't remember anything at this exact moment (just got home from being out). If you feel like poking me (contact info in profile) from some sort of anonymous email, that would be awesome, I could get back to you.
XCode is a sometimes excellent, sometimes shaky experience, still far ahead of Android Studio until the past 6 months or so. The API design of iOS is also still second to none, and part of the reason I continue to develop for Apple platforms. I use XCode Server for CI without issue, another team uses Jenkins happily. Apple's hardware can be fairly neglected, but the experience of being a developer in their ecosystem is still very pleasant overall.
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Not false or true, but it would already help to check if the text is an opinion piece. Lingustic hints for that should be relatively clear, as opposed to for example encyclopaedic style. That way they could both exclude most Breitbart stuff as well as editorials from actual newspapers, which shouldn't make it into quick-info fact boxes either.
And if it doesn't idle enough, we'll make it.
A fantasy:

The idea takes hold in the collective Google-consciousness that a fact is whatever the majority of their users believe to be a fact. There is a precedent for this, after all. They defined Spam as whatever their users said was Spam.

At first there is some friction between the knowledge of internal Google personnel (especially down in that pesky engineering department) and the new shared reality developing out in Userland. However, once an appropriate terminology is developed (in-facts and ex-facts) even the engineers are satisfied - after all their main concern was being able to draw nice clear lines between things.

Meanwhile in Userland while the boiling point of water is largely unchanged, the death toll in the Biafran blockade has shrunk to approximately 17 persons (with some arguments over whether to count people who were over 80 when it started).

Then one day an Engineer has a neatO idea which will eliminate the need for storing two sets of facts and thus save valuable Petabytes of storage and, more importantly, significant code complexity. He calls this idea Authority. Pitching it to his superiors in the marketing department he explains: "You see opinions are like assholes" - (there's a collective wrinkling of marketing noses) - "everybody's got one!". He goes on to explain that some people have more knowledge and are more scrupulous about accepting new facts than other people. Authority would identify such users and give greater weight to their activity and feedback. A profound silence falls over the room. A voice comes over the meeting room Intercom:

"Are you saying...are you suggesting...that some of our users are better than others?"

"Not better, " says the cowed Engineer. "Just more...um...authoritative. Purely in an informational sense."

"Authoritative." The voice draws the word out as if profoundly contemplating its meaning. "OK. We're going to submit this idea to our Hard AI (Larrey) - the secret one we're afraid to network."

Everyone waits. After a minute the voice says:

"Larrey has a question for you, Engineer. It is this: If you're so smart, how come you ain't rich?"
My senior undergraduate research thesis was based on the illusions Dr. Kitaoka had constructed. I tested people's ability to perform tasks that required them to understand heightmap data given one of three randomly selected renderers: a top-down, completely flat map with no height rendering as a control; a similar rendering but with Akiyoshi's "A Bulge" illusion generated on the fly for each "hill"; and an isometric rendering where the hills were rendered in 2.5D. I was able to show that the illusion method was about 95% as effective at conveying heightmap data as the isometric map, while being no more computationally complex than the flat map. At the time (2005), it was one of the first direct uses of optical illusion in computer graphics. It was also one of the first papers to discuss the importance of changing graphics techniques to extend battery life on mobile devices.

EDIT: forgot I had put up all my stuff into a Github repo a few years ago: https://github.com/capnmidnight/optical-illusions-in-cg/blob...
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I think they say in the making of that they randomly generated lots of combinations and then chose one...
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It's not at all boring or difficult to get through. It's simply a great film, both excellently plotted and filmed beautifully. You're never going to feel it's going on too long or you want to have a break.

(I've watched the European cut several times. I also hate the modern trend for over-long films or episodic TV with a thin plot stretched out.)
However prepending is possible. Figuring out 'the true answer' is in many cases impossible (what is the meaning of life, is x beautiful etc) and in many others merely several orders of magnitude harder than current tech can cope with (is there a polynomial time solution to TSP, why is public discourse so vacuous these days). So if that's what Google is gunning for it's going to be broken for a long time.
I'm afraid there is ultimately no way to not be political.

Having these kind of anti-news sites appear as "news" on Google is not just poisoning their reputation but making them complicit in whatever disaster finally results from it. The worst case scenario is genocide e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib...
if you have a load balanced system you could always have the "roll-back" button prevent users upgrading their profile to the newer version of the app.

but anyone already upgraded would be left to deal with the bugs till they are fixed and the there's a further upgrade scheduled.
Is Breitbart a fringe site anymore?
I was senior engineer with Autonomy ( before being bought by HP ) and we did really good projects for some big companies, it worked well. Lucene comes a long way, with enough time, some cool stuff would emerge.

But if you need to replicate google, you need bootloads of user data and in generally data to operate on ( i.e. to be able to extract the equivalence of certain terms and expressions, and so on ). And generally some kind of feedback system ( like user clicking a link on a SERP, is adding that question/answer combo a certain boost for the future ).

In short: it's complicated and after 10 years of experience I couldn't tell if a solution is so unversal as google.
The credit managers at one of the Big Four Australian banks are waiting for the real estate market to burst before they swoop in and buy investment properties. It would be better to wait on any sort of real estate based investments or other stocks that move with real estate.

I am starting to think the best investment possible is in your own business/company. That way there is a direct correlation between what you can control and what you put in to what you earn back out. Obviously you can't predict what the future will hold, but you at least can manage your endeavor prudently so as to better minimise damage in the face of bad circumstances.
I think that would offend my British sensibilities. Unless delivered with a winning smile. It's amazing how much a smile can solve.
> Can you find one that is less than 100 kcal?

Let me introduce you to my favourite snack when cutting: nori seaweed. It's something like 10kcal per 3 sheets. Add salt and slowly toast over an open flame.

if you go for the already-flavoured ones, they're like 30kcal per packet
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Or maybe because that view is overly simplistic - to quote the article:

We've long thought of weight loss in simple "calories in, calories out" terms. In a much-cited 1958 study, researcher Max Wishnofsky outlined a rule that many organizations — from the Mayo Clinic to Livestrong — still use to predict weight loss: A pound of human fat represents about 3,500 calories; therefore cutting 500 calories per day, through diet or physical activity, results in about a pound of weight loss per week. Similarly, adding 500 calories a day results in a weight gain of about the same.

Today, researchers view this rule as overly simplistic. They now think of human energy balance as "a dynamic and adaptable system," as one study describes. When you alter one component — cutting the number of calories you eat in a day to lose weight, doing more exercise than usual — this sets off a cascade of changes in the body that affect how many calories you use up, and in turn, your body weight.
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Looks like the link on the website might be wrong. I opened an issue on what I think is the correct repository: https://github.com/switchemulator/switchemulator
same story for digital photos vs film. Film is still superior in several areas but not as convenient.
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I don't see the "does at length argue about the health risks of X-Rays emitted" in the article. It discusses them and concludes that they are widely considered safe.

> CRTs can emit a small amount of X-ray radiation as a result of the electron beam's bombardment of the shadow mask/aperture grille and phosphors. The amount of radiation escaping the front of the monitor is widely considered not to be harmful. The Food and Drug Administration regulations in 21 C.F.R. 1020.10 are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0.5 milliroentgens per hour (mR/h) (0.13 µC/(kg·h) or 36 pA/kg) at a distance of 5 cm (2 in) from any external surface; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit.
While this is clearly an impressive technical feat, I can't help thinking of the carbon footprint of creating a house out of concrete, which is notoriously un-environmentally friendly, and difficult to deal with when the structure is no longer required. Hopefully a more environmentally-sound material will be used. There's not a single mention on that page of the carbon footprint of the building method used, and I think it would be interesting to compare physically identical (as much as possible) buildings of different construction (3d printed like this, bricks and mortar, pre-fab wooden/osb panels, etc), particularly when the tag line of the article is:

"We Are Building the Future Today."
Government can lease commercial property, the same as anyone else.

In the backwaters of upstate New York, half the post offices are in leased buildings, including parts of private houses in otherwise residential neighborhoods.

So, you don't really need anything special to provision for local government, just a local government with tax dollars to spend.
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Most of the images are different exploitations of the "peripheral illusory movement" effect. Alternating bands of contrasting color--high, medium high, low, medium low--gives the impression of movement, bit only in periphery vision.
"Just eat less"

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As with other professions, we can always create a "professional degree" that follows the standard 4 year degree. Similar to how medicine and law behave. Or how you basically have to spend the equivalent of a year studying to receive your CFA charter. Now further to your point about software not being mature, I'd say the evidence is clear. Software design patterns and languages are actually rather consistent. Software language paradigms are pretty much set. http://wiki.c2.com/?ThereAreExactlyThreeParadigms

Further, that standard commonly used algos and data structures that make a good design are established and basically a standard part of every modern language. What does seem to be rapidly changing is the framework du jour where for some reason we keep reinventing the wheel thinking that we are doing things better when in actuality we just keep creating competing frameworks that don't necessarily benefit anyone. I'm all for competition but eventually a clear winner is defined in a space and it might be better to contribute to improving that winner than not.

Finally I'd say software is in a better place now than medicine was when it was about the same age. We are much more evidence driven (but still lots of opinions persist). And as with any other scientific discipline (because let's face it that's what software is) it will change with new literature so of course we should have a continuing education component.

The reality is, the only party that doesn't benefit from having a credentialed software practitioner is companies because now they have their pick of the litter and can control prices. But if all of a sudden the barrier to entry to becoming a software engineer is high and only licensed practitioners can allow code to be released into the world, we become an expensive resource.
I'd beg to differ. From personal experience, in the UK you cannot breathe without getting planning permission.

Although, these days, not sure whether to legitimately include UK as part of a European discussion, sadly.
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I'm quite sensitive to sub-75Hz monitors - I could not stand 60Hz - but another side-effect of higher refresh rate is smoother desktop updates when scrolling or moving windows.

I recently upgraded my second monitor on my home PC to a 144Hz gaming version. The smoothness and responsiveness of UI on that monitor side by side with the standard 60Hz is really remarkable, I'd forgotten how big a difference it makes. The PC physically feels much more pleasant to use. OTOH, my partner doesn't notice the difference at all.
The conclusion that there is no truly hierarchical measure of status, because there are fractally distributed groups for which you could have status within, is wrong on it's face.

As an example, nearly everyone on the planet knows who the US President and Pope are and recognize them as the highest status (even if you don't like them - don't ask me why this is). If one of those people walked into any of those smaller groups, they would inherit the highest status immediately, without having to do any of the in-group activities.
Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?
Please excuse the frustrated tone; the "secrecy" all over the internet about the whole issue has been driving me insane.

The usual useless BS is "oh, these companies get it from governmental public records". Yeah, right. I'm pretty darn sure that some of the personal information I can find online on MyLife, Intelius, InstantCheckmate, Spokeo, etc. is not in some government agency's public record, and regardless, surely there's no way that hundreds of companies are repeating each others' work over and over again when they could just buy the information from someone.

Someone (or a few) hidden underneath has to be doing the heavy-lifting of scraping people's data from sketchy sources and selling them to third-party companies while staying hidden. My question is, who are these, and (where it is possible to know) whom are they selling to? How can I find out? Surely someone knows, and I'm tired of playing this goose chase where those who don't know just make random guesses as to how the information must be coming from some some public records, and those who do know say hardly anything beyond "you have to know where to look".

I'm not looking for just 1 pointer, though I would appreciate it. I'm tired of pointer chasing. I'm just looking for as comprehensive a list as possible. It has to exist somewhere... after all, when a court needs to order that someone's information be purged (for whatever reason, e.g. for safety), it's got to have a list of these data aggregators somewhere, so I'm sure some people must know. So how do I find out? I'm hoping to also learn to fish in addition to being given the fish.

Thank you!
It's just an eye strain headache. It goes away with rest. Migraines are a different thing.
how about just moving there an polluting the atmosphere as a side-product of just being there?
So playing a classic arcade game will look different than it did back then.

But if you think about it - if the screens we have today would have been available back then, what do you think would the game designers have preferred?

Also, screens will continue to get better. Gaming on [an arcade machine with] a HDR OLED screen could be amazing.
Do audiophiles watch movies in "tube" (CRT) screens? :)
That tech challenge is coming, and when it does, do you want TDD by your side?
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How would one stop the police from getting "anonymous tips" with illegally acquired evidence again and again? It sounds like it would lead to a plain disregard for procedure.
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If someone from Facebook is listening, allowing bots in Group Conversations will enable other companies to innovate in this space. For example, you could replicate Slack for a small team with Messenger and Group Chat bots. Right now, there is very little you could do with their Messenger API.
I have a very soft spot for this movie, I say YES. Watch it in one sitting. It'll leave a bigger impact.
Without clinking-through each of the links given in the article you linked to, can you help me, as a layman, summarize the criticism of Nautilus with regard to multiverse physics? Is the criticism more that they are disproportionately covering it, or is it misrepresenting it?

Related: From the blog you linked, "not even wrong" is a phrase used as an attack by experts on outsiders, but it does not need to be an attack. It can simply be: "that is outside the realm of mainstream scientific research." I think experts would do well not to be condescending, but rather more explanatory here.
I don't see how these are three-dimensional. Is it because they depict three-dimensional objects? But then aren't most (all) paintings 3D?
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"A naïve tourist" and "spy pretending to be a naïve tourist" are hard to distinguish without further data - it is impossible to tell either way.
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Which areas is film superior to the modern sensors?
Well, part of their job is a national police force where the endgame takes place in the public sphere.

The FBI does also have a significant counter-intelligence function where the endgame is often "foreign diplomat declared persona non grata".
You're right, eventually modern display technology will catch up to the point where it indistinguishably simulate CRT screens :)
The maintenance burn on a pound of muscle is pretty small.

Like 5-10 calories a day.
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I have a few simple (Wordpress or simpler) PHP/MySQL sites that get a couple thousand pageviews/mo apiece. They don't need more than ~99.98% uptime. I spend $5/mo apiece to host them on a shared host (asmallorange.com, if you care). I could probably find similar featured hosting for half that, but my experience is that the extra $30/yr buys you good customer service.

At work, our site serves 8 figures per month in page views and targets 99.999% uptime. We're on a Python/Django/MySQL stack with Celery, Varnish, Elasticsearch, and a few other things thrown in for fun. Between staging and production environments, and redundancy in production, I'd estimate we spend around $7k/mo on AWS for hosting, plus about $3k/mo for a couple Redshift instances for internal use. This year we might reserve some of our instances to save money.
The arcade CRT's are different from TV CRT's, the voltages are a lot higher (I heard 10.000 volt somewhere) and therefore quite dangerous to handle even. This is also the reason the colors were much brighter in the arcade then on your home system connected to your TV.
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I can't think of any other hobbies unfortunately...
Another one, with more focus on 3D, boost license:

https://www.geometrictools.com/
I guess it's right. Instead of the best, the word right makes more sense. It does boil down to one's taste and preference and a couple of other factors like the nearest server to the users' location, ISP speed and the purpose for which the user intends to use a VPN. In my case, I found Ivacy to be a decent vpn in terms of privacy because it offered me zero logs and encrypted transactions. tunnelbear is decent option as well but i haven't explored it fully.
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> (It should be noted that Wilson was still a notorious racist.)

See that's the funny thing about fake news, not even this article which seeks to set us all straight on the matter could avoid it -- just because you get your facts from a source you consider reputable doesn't make it so. In fact, Wilson was actually no more "racist" than Abraham Lincoln, but no one would ever call Lincoln a racists.
Regardless of having a license fee or not (I do as while I don't watch live TV I do have a TV in the house and I like the BBC) I think license payers should be able to view this kind of content. Without the fee the BBC wouldn't exist (in its current form at least) to make projects the projects that aren't funded by the fees. Anyone have a mirror, please?
The real point is not that X does or doesn't work, but that weight gain/loss is complicated and personal. I lost ~40 pounds after I started running. My diet was essentially the same or maybe a bit worse - the "compensatory behavior" mentioned in the article. Do I expect running to have the same effect for everyone, and recommend it to everyone on that basis? Nope. It didn't even completely work that way for me. After I lost 40, I slowly gained back 10 before my weight seemed to stabilize. This time, definitely no change in diet. No idea why that happened.

I could name a dozen friends who have had similarly "anomalous" experiences - both good and bad, with various approaches to weight loss. Turns out there's a lot going on in there, and not the same lot for everyone. Some studies have shown that gut flora have a large effect on weight gain/loss, so at least for some people the answer might be neither diet (as generally thought of) nor exercise but changing one's internal ecosystem. The good news is that biologists and medical researchers are beginning to untangle these factors, so in another ten years we might all have access to personalized weight control that actually works consistently.
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I'm being a bit pedantic but you can go to The Globe in London and get a pretty close thing to experiencing Romeo & Juliet as intended, albeit with the audience wearing modern clothing. If you ever get the chance you should go, its an experience worth having.
Loved that book! Loved all the behind-the-scenes stories and the deep-dive in to some of the tech issues (it was past my ability to comprehend it all, yet "not enough detail" for a friend of mine).