skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're thinking this is more likely to be an honest attempt at a medical treatment, with the goal of furthering scientific and medical knowledge. I think that is extraordinarily unlikely. I think it is more likely that this is a scam.

My reasons are that (as others have pointed out), one does not start medical trials on humans; I am unaware of any plausible reason for why this would help in the first place (stem cells are not magic); they apparently did not follow proper protocols for eye treatments (start with one eye instead of both); the women were clearly not informed of the risks; and finally, this was a paid treatment.

For more, see these two blog posts I pointed out in another comment: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/alzheimers-and-... and http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/more-stem-cell-...
Same story here, as computer science students we got a hefty dose of mathematics, and was in some respects close to what students of physics and mathematics got.

For example, when compsci students get Linear Algebra in their second year, they are getting the same lectures as Physics students in their first year. (Same room, same exam).

We also had shared physics courses in the first year.

I believe that physics, mathematics, and computer science should have some shared courses, not just having compsci students take mathematics. For example, for programming, we were a joined group of mathematics,physics and compsci students in the first year.

They are all courses related with logical reasoning anyway, so a compsci student should not hate mathematics and physics that much. Most of the complaints I noticed were the physics students complaining about _programming_ rather than the compsci students complaining about physics.
I do ubuntu dist-upgrade since 2009. I have done 2 full reinstall. Once to try linux-mint. And another one a little latter when I bought a new ssd drive (switched to ubuntu gnome).

The main upgrade issue was with systemd in 16.04: it found a dependency loop between net access and my nas drive and decided to cancel net access.
Actions speak louder than words. With Windows 10, Microsoft is basically saying, "f* you."
>try to give him meds and force him to somehow fit in.

For the vast majority or people we tether between fear of social exclusion and over-confidence. In theory, social interaction it easy; its just people conversing about shared interests. If you are willing to take the chance at making friendship your life can be so much richer and they will most likely live longer. It's easy to find excuses not to interact but we all have to try. People like Christopher Knight are outliers and probably beyond help but it doesn't mean there shouldn't apply the slightest societal pressure to people to form relationships because not doing so means a deconstruction of society.
The return on capital includes a risk factor, there is no risk that you won't have to repay the debt (other than death or bankruptcy).
When Do Startup Investors and Startups Sign Mutual NDA?
You do this then, don't you
Question: this guide says that quicksort, for example, has a best case of O(nlog(n)) and a worst case of O(n^2). Then goes on to explain that Big O is used to describe worst case where Big Ω Omega is used to describe the lower bound (best case?). Then why is it that the guide describes both the best and worst case for these algorithms as "O()". Isn't this wrong?
Disc drives are consumable items. They only last 5 years. They're so fragile we treat them as if they're going to fail at any time - we have multiple backups in many places.

We shouldn't be encouraging people to use them for as long as possible, we should be encouraging better recycling.

I agree about other electronics though - the constant upgrade cycle is very damaging to the environment.
I think most American students would score far below 100%.
I don't know about these ones specifically but a lot of the nuclear test photography was done by Doc Edgerton and EG&G.

http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/
Converts love to proselytize.
I predicted this before, but somebody will do a cloud with webassembly. With all the extensions, this becomes quite an interesting middle ground between VMs and containers.
Hm, "simple changes" are almost never simple. To get it done, the following would likely need to happen:

Project managers would need to write a proposal and use cases. UX/design would need to meet and make wireframes and mocks. Engineers would need to nail down the technical design. The time and costs would have to be approved by management. They'd likely end up discussing the change with their biggest clients to make sure it doesn't interrupt their work flow. Eventually the engineers will be able to write a bit of code to make the change -- at which point QA will get their hands on it when they finally have time.

This is why suggestions like that are typically "put on the roadmap" with little likelihood of actually happening.
“There is virtually no software - it is a very safe Aircraft” (2009) [pdf]
my impression was that this was about the time taken to make each prediction, not to train the model? and yep, looking forward to the paper!
I wonder how often a Chrome extension had to led to a feature implementation or bug fix?
Anyone know where to find the pseudo code? It references item 10 in the References and Notes which states See Supplementary Materials.
> but I am sure that given an option with outcomes of death at 50% and keeping vision at 50% he would take it (I would, too).

Sure. But this has nothing to do with the scenario of an unproven stem cell therapy. There the chances are 99,99999% vs. 0.00001%.

> Regulating non-approved medical treatments out of existence might look appealing, but IMO we need to allow informed, rational people to choose unapproved treatments where no approved one exists.

This is a really bad idea, and your comment ideally shows why that's the case. You're selling people the idea that they have something like a 50/50 chance. But that's a complete illusion. Even 10/90 is an illusion. The chances of a completely unproven therapy to do any good are practically zero.

It's different if you have early stage interventions that have some weak evidence behind them. But there are already mechanisms to cover that. The right thing to handle that is to add people to a study.
Business data storytelling 101
Title taken from this classic passage:

"You should start with the assumption this aircraft isn’t safe. You start with the assumption it is a fatigued aircraft. Prove to me that the wings are going
to stay on. Prove to me that the engines will keep flying. Prove to me that the engineers that are servicing these engines have not become complacent because they have been working on them so long. Regularly, when I joined QinetiQ, people would say: this is a steam driven aircraft, nothing can go wrong with it, it is all hard wired, there is virtually no software, there is very low risk, it is a very safe aircraft. That is the wrong position to be in, especially if you are a safety engineer."

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Well, you know, unless you are too poor to afford the move.
I have the opposite fear. Because there is enormous potential in treatments from stem cells, I fear more quacks will exploit this potential in pushing scam, for-pay treatments using the thin veneer of stem cells to lure people in. For more, see http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/alzheimers-and-... and http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/more-stem-cell-...
I'm glad you tried to expand your bubble and understand the viewpoint of conservatism, though choosing sources like r/Conservative or Breitbart is perhaps equivalent to understanding the liberal/progressive view through Daily Kos or a Occupier. It might be representative of a certain strain of popular conservatism, but it doesn't get to much of the deep ideas or intellectual history. I'm not sure if that even matters, since I don't know what percentage of self-described conservatives really give those ideas any thought versus sticking to a "my team versus their team" mentality. But there are some serious conservative thinkers out there worth engaging.

An easy intro discussion of conservative ideas might be William F. Buckley's older interview show Firing Line, which is all on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/firinglinevideos

Disclosure: I don't consider myself conservative nor liberal.
Assuming it is directed towards admission into a Graduate Mathematics / Engineering Program, it looks pretty average to me.

For a student who is in-form (e.g. a fresh graduate or a mature student who has taken 2-3 advanced calculus and algebra+stats courses as refresher), they should be able to perform.
Banks increased their cyber security budgets. How is your security?
Can you provide more details about what you're talking about?
Coconut_crab, holy shit... I recognized your nickname from the VnOSS forum 10 years ago, so before I saw your answer, I already knew it. It's amazing you're still around. Hope you're still doing well.
If anyone is curious, the reason is that many/most special relativistic effects are proportional to gamma = 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2), with gamma = 1 being non-relativistic. Even at v=20% of c, gamma is only 1.02 (a mere 2% effect).

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?t=crmtb01&f=ob&i=Plot%5B1...
Yep, they make money either way. However, it only takes 1 person carrying a balance at 20% to make up for the rewards of 20 people who spend and pay off.
Ah, yes - layout inflation is such fun. Still, there are libraries you can use that don't require usage of lateinit. Kotterknife [1] is an option, the Kotlin android extensions [2] is another option though relying on code generation it may not be the first choice of people. Delegates in Kotlin are a powerful tool, and a great way to handle cases where you think lateinit is necessary but really isn't.

Otherwise, if you're going with Kotlin anyway you can just get rid of layout XML altogether with anko [3] or even give MVVM a shot with KBinding [4].

[1]: https://github.com/JakeWharton/kotterknife
[2]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/android-plugin.html
[3]: https://github.com/Kotlin/anko
[4]: https://github.com/BennyWang/KBinding
GM doesn't sell the car to the dealer for $37k. I'm too lazy to look up invoice price, but even that is unlikely to be the true price the dealer pays. There could be dealer incentives for moving the car. There are usually "holdbacks" in the invoice price as well. If GM is making a profit per car, they are doing so at significantly less than MSRP.
Here's the announcement, they moved back from being a for profit startup to an open source community effort. Most of team is now working at cloudflare.

https://sandstorm.io/news/2017-03-13-joining-cloudflare
Uber is of course a ridesharing service, so it's reasonable for the driver to confirm that you're going the same way they are, to prevent a detour. /s
WellHello.com Review Is It a Scam?
Here are some assumptions I've made that make me think being cold does increase the chance of illness:

• Feeling cold increases stress.
⇒ Stress weakens the immune system.

• Being cold expends energy.
⇒ Fighting a virus requires energy.

• Being cold increases blood pressure.
⇒ High blood pressure is not conductive to good health.

• The cold reduces circulation.
⇒ Reduced circulation is detrimental to health.
The market has been flooded with them for years. They have various mechanisms for fighting them like mouse detection and scanning your computer for various programs and confiscating your funds if caught. In the end, people will always find a way around the detection methods though.
Will circular runways ever take off?
>except maybe SharePoint-related, that was quite the mess a few years back, dunno about today tho

Ah, glad you mentioned that. I was about to say that Sharepoint (especially 2005-2010) felt woefully under documented when I worked with it.

I think Sharepoint dev has gotten better since 2013 (the introduction of their app model), but I left that role before the company upgraded so I can't say for certain.
while I agree, it may also is a option for some unskilled people to get to money they really need. IMO its better than buying cheap clothes, as captcha at least does not kill those people.

To clearify: I lived in some cheap third world cities, and i can certanly see that solving captchas could finance a rather nice life.
Tangent: a triple score is a hat trick. The term was originally assocatiated with cricket, though in the U.S. and Canada you hear it most often in hockey. I mention this only because I would have expected someone from the U.K. to use the term. :-)
Mexican-Americans have a saying for that "Ni de aquí, ni de allá" - "Not from here, not from there".

I remember a quote from a Mexican-American movie (Selena) "We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It's exhausting!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUZ5Yhwzz80
Not sure that Danes can really talk about artificial borders, given how it's recently become very anti-immigration.
Upvoted because it's true: Microsoft has no obligation to support old software, any more than it has an obligation to respect its users. I mean, it would be nice if they did, but clearly they aren't in it to do good for the world.
Just thought I'd ask, do you happen to know any good Japan themed youtube vlogs? I watch TheJapanChannel but just looking for other similar ones.
Bald eagle population threatened by lead poisoning, US scientists warn
I'm guessing that there are a lot of articles saying "We tried to embrace Swift, but found that it's not ready for prime time, so we're going back to Objective-C for now." Meanwhile, no one's going to bother to write an article justifying their decision to switch from Objective-C to Swift, because it's an expected migration.

So maybe that's a flaw in the whole exercise: it's only taking into account remarkable/unusual language switches, the ones people think are worth writing articles about.
"It's just unbelievable how much energy's released," Spriggs said. "We hope that we would never have to use a nuclear weapon ever again. I think that if we capture the history of this and show what the force of these weapons are and how much devastation they can wreak, then maybe people will be reluctant to use them."

That's exactly why they likely will be used. So it serves as a deterrent right up to the point where it serves as an advertisement.

Interesting bit of un-intended poetry in there: The nitrate film used to store the images is itself rather explosive, so here is one explosive used to record the effects of another:

http://www.atomsandnumbers.com/2013/why-the-golden-age-of-ci...
For fixed-wing drone airports, I feel like you'd have better luck making an inclined runway for landings, and a railgun-assisted runway for takeoff. Given that the biggest challenge is finding clearance at both ends of the run way, it would be nice not to have to find 360° clearance for both takeoff and landing.
Circling the drain...
That's interesting. I know Japanese has multiple scripts. Problems 1 and 3 appear to be in a much simpler script that looks less dense. Problem 2 is using whatever script that looks closer to Chinese and is full of much more complicated characters. Is there a reason for that? Did Japan import whatever concept question 2 is about from China and developed the math for the other questions independently?
Did they purposefully expose people to cold viruses during that time? If not, it's a preposterously large effect size.
> Implementors have discussed and concluded that while alternative encodings might offer improved size, the intention to support layer 1 (allowing outer wrapping format specific compression), and the degree to which LEBs are well known, outweighs this advantage for MVP.

Interesting. Any idea what's meant by "layer 1" here?
This is amazing work. Thanks for posting. Reminds me of the people who rescued the lunar orbiter tapes from a McDonalds.

I just don't understand why every little 3 minute video needs car commercial music in the background. (re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWpqGKUG5yY)
Only if people using C are equally likely to blog as people using Java or Python.
Today is my HN 1337 day
According to my profile page, I joined 1337 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=calebm
No, not really. Sturgeon has to demand a second, and a third and a fourth referendum whenever she can as she defines herself as "independence or out" and that's what her most loyal supporters demand. But it's unlikely such a rerun would happen for several years, and things might be quite different by then.

I guess it also depends on if you see devolution as turmoil. I wouldn't consider an independent Scotland or leaving the EU as "turmoil" - just a rearrangement of politics to be more local, which is likely good in the long run.
How to talk to developers. Manual for recruiters
If only someone had reviewed the actual research on the subject and written an article about it.
>> I'm sorry for the early morning jocularity but I just can't take this topic seriously

No worries. Seeing as you have missed the point of the parent's comment, its not surprising you overestimated how jocular your comment is.
Yep, write random data to the entire drive before doing the secure erase. That way, even if the secure erase implementation is completely broken, at least the remaining data should be limited to the spare area of the drive.
Where did Vue.js come from?
Writing a compiler in C that can compile it's source code is for me, the best thing to do before retiring from C programming.
XP was the last unobtrusive OS of microsoft.
Does this mean that fintech firms get taxpayer bailouts?
Is TRIM no longer a thing?
The constant finger-pointing to the shortcomings of other browsers was getting particularly annoying — especially when IE and Edge are historically the lowest performing, late-to-the-game browsers.

Nice article, but comically ironic.
The parent's point is that it is a very poor proxy for future language popularity.
I think the problem is while they certainly made it better in many ways, they also made it worse in arguably more important ways (disrespecting the user).
The research isn't conclusive. The research about stress, blood pressure and circulation is much more so.
TL;DR: move on, nothing serious in this article. Just barking useless advice and spitting insulting nonsense.
I'm not surprised these were kept classified for so long. No one could watch these and not be
moved. That beautiful beach with a mushroom cloud on the horizon. The birds fleeing. What a juxtaposition! Nuclear weapons are humanity's shame. That we used our best minds and science to build these things.

"I should have become a watchmaker" - Einstein
Number one thing to watch out for when doing Postgres Streaming Replication
Very aware of House and HalVM. Not aware of the second, though, thanks for that even if it's just historical.

HalVM and House still rely on some C for the runtime, so I think my goal would be great for them.
A demo would be nice, but overall a great job.
Okay only slightly related, I had an idea a long while ago for putting satellites into orbit where you just fling them? I didn't think it good for humans because of the G but for stuff. The win being that the power required is all on earth and you don't have to carry fuel with the payload. You could spin them up on a centrifuge and then let go at just the right time (and angle). I was going to mention it to Elon one day...
How 1,600 People Went Missing from U.S. Public Lands
@ser0 Thanks for your review. i'm pooya the developer of bootstrap-vue.

Bootstrap is not releasing major changes so fast, v4 may continue to semver/minor updates for years and we will have small changes in tags and components usage. This library is not packaged with CSS files so it can remain compatible with most of next bootstrap releases.

I preferred to not advertise our brand. But actually we are currently using this components for at least 3 production websites @Fandogh - An amirkabir university supported team.

Also i am trying hard to have more community contributions by adding more people to core-team. This way community would help remaining bootstrap-vue updated for next both bootstrap & vue releases. :)
> WASM is basically asm.js, but without having to go through javascript?

Sort of, but not exactly. See section 2 of the linked article.
The closing quote: "The legacy I'd like to leave behind is basically a set of benchmark data that can be used by future weapon physicists."
Send Rails console commands to Slack
The general structure of the problems is that they start out with easy questions and get progressively more difficult. If you don't get a single "last question" right, the committee will most likely tear you to pieces. At least this was the common understanding back when I was at Todai.

Fun random fact, back in 2009 Todai had their own "brand" of toilet paper made from recycled paper -- old archived exams that is. I think that I still have a roll stashed away in a box somewhere. Using it did give you a bit of a weird feeling knowing the anguish old students must have gone through.
I did not know that the return value of snprintf is actually the length of the string that would be produced. I assumed I'd just get some error code - which would require re-trying with some larger buffer, thus the "loop".

Thanks for that :-)
plus - native binaries can be copied between one and the other and run natively without any emulation layer provided the c library, kernel version, and other libraries are reasonably similar.
New fintechs who want to move money have to obtain a Money Service Business license in every state where they operate. In almost all cases, that means they have to get 48ish MSB licenses (a state or two don't require them). Each one can be both complicated and expensive to obtain and maintain.

This new license would let those fintechs instead obtain a single license (and set of rules, and costs, etc) for nationwide use.
> ...performs poorly by whatever metrics you value...

And there's the rub. You don't, and won't, have that information.

To my knowledge there's one single solitary charity that provides adequate metrics to donors to support this kind of decision and for them it's on principle rather than to open up the market.

Charities as a whole are simply not incentivised to share this kind of information because they compete for funds based on marketing, not efficiency, and there is currently no mechanism to change that.

Yes, there are organisations that audit charities in small numbers and put them on approved lists, but you're still only getting a fading rubber stamp.

> It is voluntary...

He said, casually cutting the funds available for public infrastructure, welfare, health, education and the military by a couple of orders of magnitude.
TRIM does not guarantee to delete data, it just tells the SSD that it isn't needed anymore (and thus can be deleted or overwritten whenever the SSD wants).
In the context of living a debt-free existence, I have to disagree.

In the monetary policy environment we live in, having debt is the most sensible way to build wealth.

Dollars are a terrible store of value. Dollars invested in a savings account are almost as bad. Securities, real estate, and inventory are much better. Dollars invested in education and advertising to multiply the value of securities, real estate and inventory are still way better than a savings account.

In an environment where a savings account pays <1% and collateralized debt costs 1-8% and non-collaterlized debt costs 10-20%, the sensible thing is to borrow as much as you can and invest it wisely.

In such an environment, I'd be proudest paying cap gains tax at 15% than income tax updwards of 25%.
The US pays (on average) less than 3%. The debt is also just a bit less than $19 trillion.

So we save $30 billion by using the slightly smaller debt and $120 billion by using the interest rate of 2.4%.

$450 billion is still a huge budget item and it is a problem that interest rates will rise.