skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find running pairs well with music -- I'm into electronic dance music, and running allows me to simulate how the music would feel at a nightclub: you're physically engaged, sweating, does the music push you forward or pull you back? What are the cycles of tension and energy and are they effective? I also find myself more able to really dig in and listen while running: I've found myself gaining a much deeper understanding of albums after I've run with them.

I would find running without music to be frustrating and boring. Although, after about 15-20 minutes, I just drift off into thought-land and kinda forget that I'm running, so maybe it'd be doable. I guess that's runner's high/endocannabinoids for ya.

I find weightlifting less fun but it's SO healthy (and quick) that I push through and do it anyway.
I think the stress in that case comes from your body reacting to not having food.
But there is also a nontrivial difference between having living stem cells then and having 100+ year dead feathers now. Plus, Dodos would possible be breeded by transplanting stem cells into eggs which you might be able to ramp up quite easily.
https://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmapimages/diversophy-larg...
Indeed. The paper itself details seven "transgressions:"

> 1) We do not know––and have no power to find out––what Google and DeepMind are really doing with NHS patient data, nor the extent of Royal Free’s meaningful control over what Google and DeepMind are doing;

> 2) Any assurances about use of the dataset come from public relations statements, rather than independent oversight or legally binding documents;

> 3) The amount of data transferred is far in excess of the requirements of those publicly stated needs, but not in excess of the information sharing agreement and broader memorandum of understanding governing the deal, both of which were kept private for many months;

> 4) The data transfer was done without consulting relevant regulatory bodies, with only one superficial assessment of server security, combined with a post-hoc and inadequate privacy impact assessment;

> 5) None of the millions of identified individuals in the dataset were either informed of the impending transfer to DeepMind, nor asked for their consent;

> 6) The transfer relies on an argument that DeepMind is in a “direct care” relationship with each patient that has been admitted to Royal Free constituent hospitals, even though DeepMind is developing an app that will only conceivably be used in the treatment of one sixth of those individuals; and

> 7) More than 12 months into the deal being made, no regulator had issued any comment or pushback.

Quite a few of these strike me as rather absurd, but I don't know the regulatory environment in the UK.
I'm biased[1], but the lesson I draw from this for software isn't about collaborating or not, it's about avoiding division of labor. When working with someone on a project don't "design an interface" and then work alone on either side of it. Work together all over it.

[1] http://akkartik.name/about
> "those who can, do research; those who can not, explain research."

I've rewritten this comment maybe 10 times because I'm struggling to capture how completely myopic this idea is. But here's a quote from Feynman's 5th messenger lecture [1] that I really enjoy, he's talking about the graph of all possible human endeavors:

[The graph] is a series of concepts that we use to understand things at an ever higher level. And going on, we come to things like evil and beauty and hope. Now, which end is nearer to the ultimate creator or the ultimate or, if I make a religious metaphor, which end is nearer to God? Beauty and hope, or the fundamental laws?
I think that the right way, of course, is to say that the whole structural interconnections of the thing is the thing that we have to look at. And that all the sciences and all the efforts-- not just the sciences but all the efforts of intellectual kind-- are to see the connections of the hierarchies is to connect beauty to history, to connect history to man's psychology, the man's psychology to the working of the brain, the brain to the neural impulse, the neural impulse to the chemistry, and so forth, up and down, both ways.
And today, we cannot-- and there's no use making believe we can-- draw carefully a line all the way from one end of this thing to the other. In fact, we've just begun to see that there is this relative hierarchy.
And so I don't think either end is nearest to God. And to stand at either end and to look out off the end of the pier only, hoping out in that direction is the complete understanding, is a mistake. And to stand with evil and beauty and hope, or the stand with the fundamental laws, hoping that way to get a deep understanding of the whole world with that aspect alone is a mistake. And it is not sensible, either, for the ones who specialize at one end and the ones who specialize at the other end to have such disregard for each other. They don't, actually. But the people say they do. Sorry.
[LAUGHTER]
But actually, the great mass of workers in between, connecting one step to another, are improving all the time our understanding of the world, both from working at the ends and working in the middle. And in that way, we are gradually understanding this connection, this tremendous world of interconnecting hierarchies. Thank you.

[1] http://www.cornell.edu/video/richard-feynman-messenger-lectu...
I think you have emphasized the main point: a lot of work for a low reward. Research is more above exploring the state of the art and new venues, divulgation and graphics is more akin to book sellers (for example Nielsen open science, and other interesting books, but for young researcher the most important and rewarding goal is to publish.
If EU data protection rules apply then why aren't the authors marching to doors of EU Privacy Commisioner demnding to prosecute Google? The reality is that what is Deep Mind did is routine and commonplave, and that's why no one other than clickbait driven press is interested in it.
I have been looking to move away from Braintree for a while, they are eyewateringly expensive, and are now Paypal, which I am extremely uncomfortable with. I was previously based in a country where there is no Stripe support, but that is changing, so looking at alternatives. Can't wait to move away...
I agree that the $400 million seems ridiculous. But it's interesting that you mention black colleges, because David Rockefeller's grandfather started the General Education Board [0] - one of the first and most important factors in developing black education in the United States.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Education_Board
YouTube adds “restricted mode” which hides LGBT videos
Blog posts should be very short post-it memos imho, not semi-papers. Any r&d endeavour must go into a proper paper instead: industrial, academic, tutorial or even into a conference poster.
The revolution will be livestreamed
Consulenza Di Growth Hacking – Victor Motricala
In the US electing police chiefs is rare (but can happen under the Commission style of city government).

Prosecutors, however, are often elected, and you can imagine the incentive problems.
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Hi Chris,

Thank you for this effort. I'm a fan of your blog articles. A question regarding Distill: is it a journal like conventional journal to target new research? Or it is a journal for educational articles to explain old researches better?

I hope to contribute to an effort to better explain deep learning. I don't know if that is what distill is looking for?
What's the going rate on an intelligence implant these days? Having cosmetic surgery to overcome a lack of exercise is like moving your fuel gauge to "Full" so you ever have to buy gas.
There are also, I believe, higher layers of health. Societal, existential; that this society tries to shield us from. Like not playing guitar because it might hurt your fingers. Often I read that there's everything to be as happy as you can on the ground, but we lock ourselves into to sweet nests.
I think the main issue is you need more ways to get customers, cause in SEO almost everything everyone else does - including Google - can derail all of your effort.
"hormesis" is the idea that a stressful thing in small amounts can often have a positive effect. http://gettingstronger.org/
is an excellent website on hormesis applied to a bunch of common problems (eg. improving eyesight, eliminating back pain, eliminating allergies, curing insomnia, eliminating obesity, stopping procrastination, overcoming addictions, etc.)
Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.

No preventative intervention we have in medicine leads to that kind of gains (except maybe quiting smoking).

Articles like this are probably causing harm to the people that read them by discouraging them from exercise [conjecture]. Until I see rigorous mortality data on taking bath, I think I'll stick to my exercise routine...

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/resources/recommendatio... (see 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report [PDF - 4.5MB])
The origins of North America’s bison ‘invasion’ are 135K-190K years ago
The description applies very much to TXL as well.
Techmeme mostly has human curation and a little bit of automation, though it is hard to tell from the outside how much that factors in. Human curators also rename article titles to provide a summary of the contents in an attempt to save you a click if you don't want more detailed information.
My newbness (or age) is showing. I wish I got to know these. And I believe it might come back since production may distribute closer to people (3D printing for non mechanically challenged parts)
No one (including the post you're replying to) is suggesting that globalization can solve inequality. It solves a bunch of other things, presents some new challenges, and makes the consequences of inequality worse.
Uh, no? That's the DOI and ISSN for the journal, not for each article. The BibTeX code at the bottom of each article doesn't include a DOI either.
Major verticals that come to mind in terms of progress are healthcare imaging and research and self-driving cars.
Another comment has cited that they do pay taxes for their properties and employees, covering their presence.
It's déjà vu all over again. Remember "eyeballs" from 1999.

Research into "autonomous driving" began 1987 with the Prometheus programme consortium, then came C2C and C2X.

We have "autonomous driving" the day an automotive CEO is happily blindfolded on the back seat, alone, chauffeured a random journey through Seoul on a morning commute in monsoon season or a scooter-mania evening on Friday in Milan.
I'm similar, but with StumpWM instead of ratpoison (it was written by ratpoison's creator), tmux instead of screen, and st instead of gnome-terminal.

I will never, ever go back to a windowed desktop. This just works way too well for me. I feel like I can focus, and I never, ever have to drag a window.

It's pretty awesome.
The thought certainly isn't original to me! I think that Slate Star Codex and The Last Psychiatrist both had pieces on the reproduction crisis, especially in psychiatry, and I'll check this episode out as well.
Because we're talking about corporate profit taxes, not sales taxes. They already pay sales taxes in NZ (or collect from customers).

>> Apple's New Zealand operations are wholly owned by an Australian parent and appear to be run from there. A tax treaty between the two countries sees dual claims on income tax default to where the company is controlled.
In D this is indeed known only at runtime, one of the decision was that "there should be only one type of pointers".
immutable(T) doesn't guarantee it isn't in the GC heap from what I can gather. shared(T) could perhaps do it, but it's rather unpopular.
I don't know jack about machine learning, but these illustrations are gorgeous - simple, elegant, and aesthetically very pleasing.
Can you expand on this?

We're doing encrypted secrets in config that get decrypt by aws kms on application startup and it's been working quite well for us.
This is very close to the way Babylon (Babel's JS parser) works:

https://github.com/babel/babylon/blob/7.0/src/parser/express...

If anyone in SF is interested in hacking babylon to build a superset of JS, I'm happy to get coffee and share what I've learned building LightScript [0]. It's been a lot of fun.

[0] http://lightscript.org
I hope you're not worried about hype. Good luck with the project.
> Parent is probably referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crysta

Possibly, but that is not the meaning intended in the article, nor the usual meaning of the expression, so it's not relevant.
The improved Javascript support sounds great, and I'd like to take a closer look at what they're doing with routes. I'm not feeling the idea of checking encrypted secrets into source control, though.

That feels like asking for troubles. I guess it would be okay if everything about the whole encryption system is 100% perfect, but what are the odds of that? If you've ever published a version of the encrypted secrets anywhere public and a bug in the way they use encryption is ever discovered, then all of your secrets are exposed, possibly for an unknown amount of time without you ever knowing. I don't see why you would bother with the risk and trouble when keeping them entirely secret seems much harder to mess up.
The first point is completely irrelevant. Beyond that, it doesn't really seem to matter – is anyone claiming that this is illegal versus a sign that the NZ legal system needs to change?
I left a comment on your blog announcement to this effect, but I'd love to be a "research distiller" :)
Perhaps this is a good opportunity to teach those people about pdftotext. If you keep converting everything for them, how will they ever learn to do things on their own?
Clojure does allow type annotations that are used to avoid reflection. https://clojure.org/reference/java_interop#Java%20Interop-Ty...

(defn len2 [^String x]
(.length x))
Title reads like a bad dip.ly clickbait...
The plumber quote is likely ultimately based on this incident between Charles Steinmetz and Henry Ford:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm...

One of my go-to stories when telling freelancers not to charge hourly :)
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Just in case this wasn't meta enough, his twitter linked in comments here now references this thread as Important thread on how I'm an "asshole", how deep can this recurse?

https://mobile.twitter.com/gaberivera/status/843917237916319...
Convolutional Neural Networks and Checkerboards
From your comments here, it appears that you're doing PhD research dealing with large sets of healthcare data.

It also appears that you are casually dismissive of concerns about the risks of that data being de-anonymised. Your best rebuttal seems to be some vague allusion that the parent poster, who was essentially correct, didn't know what they were talking about. (This is something of a digression anyway, because in the actual case we're talking about, as the report notes, the data supplied was already identifiable anyway.)

You have accused the authors of the report of going on a witch-hunt, but again you have offered little real argument except that such things are going on in other places, as if that makes those practices above criticism or automatically acceptable.

Do you realise that you are providing a near perfect, real-time example of the need for stricter controls on medical data and who is allowed to access it?
>> Apple's New Zealand operations are wholly owned by an Australian parent and appear to be run from there. A tax treaty between the two countries sees dual claims on income tax default to where the company is controlled.

Nothing to see here, move along.
One of the things I recently learned from James Whittaker (http://www.docjamesw.com/) is to try and tell a story. Previously I thought I had done a pretty good job about avoiding the wall-of-text type slides and doing more talking via memory and improvisation. While I felt that was ok, I think the idea of being able to work an actual story around your talk helps a lot with keeping your audience engaged.

I realize it's hard to do that for some types of talks but it's something I have been working on this year.
So using screen or tmux means your non-gui apps keep running when you disconnect from your server, but what about X apps? I've been using xpra for the past few months for tmux-like functionality with GUI apps. It's /pretty/ good, but rough around the edges.
Email optimization 101: How frequently should you email your customers?
The difference is that your home security system is not an artistic expression.
Ask HN: What's Up with the Seva Coffee Submission
There is no way to comment on this Story. It doesn't even seem to be submitted by any particular user.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13917313
I've come to this same conclusion as well. If the global elite is, as the populist crowd claims, trying to enforce LGBT rights, pro-science public policy, representation of minorities, etc., then I enthusiastically give my full support to the global elite.

As time goes on, the anti-elite movement comes off more and more as a pack of vandals.
If something has to be "worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers" in order to be considered art then the vast majority of what people call "art" doesn't qualify.
Oh c'mon, principle of charity, please. That is not at all what the parent said or even implied. It is fact that humanity is heading in the right direction over the long term (based on tracking standard of living and the standard deviation of such). It is also fact that there are bumps and regressions along the way. We shouldn't support the TPP; it sucks (the only good thing Trump has done so far is pull out of it). We shouldn't support the concentration of economic and political power.

We should support things that make sense and promote the reduction of income inequality. That need not be at odds with globalization, though many businesspeople tend to push it that way since it's cheaper and good for them.
Middle Eastern airline bans the use of electronics at US behest
Bixby: Samsung's Siri competitor revealed
> When you hold up your hand, you have no information on the person pulling over to pick you up. You don't know the rate, you don't know the safety records, you don't know anything about the driver. [...] The consumer has very little choice.

With Uber, I now know the rate. All the other points apply to both equally. And with metered taxis, I also know a rough rate.

> With a car-for-hire service, I can investigate the car service ahead of time.

Am I under an incorrect assumption that there are multiple taxi companies in most cities that are licensed to operate? How is this different than calling a dispatcher at a specific company (which afaik does not suddenly make the car that picks me up a car for hire).

> Taxi companies and car-for-hire services have been regulated differently for 100 years. Were they wrong to have been regulated differently all along?

Taxi companies (traditional) and car for hire (Uber) haven't looked this similar over the past hundred years, as everyone wasn't carrying a cellular and GPS equipped supercomputer around in their pocket.

> The "get into a car with a total stranger with whom I have no commercial relationship" market is vanishing along with its regulations.

That sounds a lot like Uber too.

And this is why the regulations exist as far as I can tell: (1) safety, (2) awarding monopolies to prevent a race to the bottom that impacts (1), and (3) preventing your driver from using their position of power to charge you an unexpected / unreasonable rate.

I'd also note that I haven't said anything about whether I think taxis or Uber should be regulated. I've just asked how they're different as each exists today.

Nothing you've said so far makes me feel they are.
It was an honest question.

My interpretation of your comment was that there was some (not insignificant size) group of people who would be unable to view this document due to some inherent limitation of whatever platform they're using to access the Internet (e.g., some mobile phone OS that can't open PDFs or something similar).

If I'm understanding correctly, however, your complaint is either that 1) nobody has provided you with an application to render PDFs on an 80x25 dumb terminal screen or 2) this document wasn't created in the format that you prefer.

When you make a conscious decision to not utilize a "GUI DESKTOP" -- like >99.9% of the rest of the world -- you must be prepared to accept such inconveniences and/or find alternatives that meet your needs. The rest of the world has no burden or obligation to cater to your preferences.

(FWIW, in an earlier comment, I posted instructions for converting this PDF to both text and HTML as well as performing the conversion myself and making available those versions of this document. You're welcome.)
Globalresearch also publishes 9/11 truther articles and chem-trail articles.
They are not a valid source.
Blogspam of

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/dr-uvr032017...

(official release linked from Disney site)

Project page, with video and full PDF:

https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/catching-a-real-b...
Dan Grover – Chinese Mobile App UI Trends
This seems more like promotional material than something to rely upon. Did your contract promise time to response, with or without carve-out for US business hours? "Emergency" and "email" are not terms that frequently dwell in intimate proximity.

It's not my intent to apologize for Braintree, about whom I know virtually nothing.
I was wrong to dismiss Elm, and I think you probably are too
Note that there's a big difference between de-identifying and fully anonymizing data. In general, it's extremely hard to fully anonymize a dataset. De-identification gets you most of the way there, but its frequently possible for a dedicated attacker to re-identify users by combining the data with public datasets. For example, patient ID e76f57b may be a 38 year old woman in Smalltown. Her medical record states that she gave birth on 3-20-2017. Find all public birth announcements from that day in that town with a 38 year old mother. Once you have a small set of candidates, it's not hard to narrow down farther.
So far, Uber et al. have operated on the principle of pitching easily disposable worker bees against each other, at the mercy of an opaque rating system, with zero rights to appeal, burdening them with all costs of doing business (car, insurance, maintenance, etc.) while providing nothing more than an app with server-farm back end - the classic founder/VC/underwriter/IPO-seller benefit narrative.
I meant incentive with respect to career advancement, in the narrow sense of what metrics hiring and tenure committees use to make decisions.
Is Amazon Moving Away from Misleading List Prices? Not So Fast
I've been using a tiling WM for a while now, and it's pretty great. Most of the programs I use are in the terminal (urxvt with a pretty color scheme and font, unlike the OP), switching workspaces for different programs is just nice to use, and everything is minimal. I'd encourage everyone to check out /r/unixporn at least once.

I use a fairly boring WM, too. spectrwm doesn't have a lot of config, it Just Werks, and lately I've been using a WM in wrote myself in Rust.
As far as I have been able to tell from the behaviour of those who believe this kind of thing, the correct authority to consult to determine ethical tax liability is the sub-editor in charge of writing headlines for whichever newspaper one reads.
A superconductor is sort of a perpetual motion machine for electrons, isn't it?