skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lawyers advise against it because damages go way up if the patent owner can show you knew about the infringing patent. A very perverse outcome.
Your body WANTS to move around. There has to be some sport or physical activity you enjoy! Soccer? Badmitton? A game of tag? Land Quidditch?
I think in some markets it has worked great. My cheap car, a Hyundai Elantra is at just about 100,000 and I have not had to replace any major components.

Back in the 80s and 90s Ford and Chevy were making real junk that wouldn't last long, and people that wanted better and started buying Toyota, Honda and Hyundai.

If my Elantra is anything like my aunt's it will last until I wreck it. Hers was wrecked when another driver ran a red light and stopped her 210,000 mile streak. I hear the American companies are doing better, and things like Ford Fiestas are expected to last, I think we need more time to see.
One argument I could see is that the canonical url is ambiguous where the m.* url is more likely to be intentional. If I am on my mobile phone, I will probably type facebook.com into the address bar, because switching keyboard context for the url would be more difficult. If I am on a desktop I am unlikely to type in m.facebook.com, unless that is the url that I really want.

If you think about it this way maybe it would make sense to have a d.* and m.* url. The URL without a suffix will remain the ambiguous case and you will be redirected based on which platform you are on. If you would prefer a specific version of the site, you could request it explicitly.

Maybe some type of prompt to easily switch versions if it recognizes a url/platform mismatch would be helpful in the case of shares that you described.
Sure, I'm not really arguing that all medical schools have sterling reputations or high standards, just that the joke, as a way to illustrate the problem, unfortunately obscures the real problem. It's pithy and punchy, which makes it good joke and easy to repeat. It's sort of a peeve of mine when I see well intentioned but slightly misleading memes propagate. They're hard to fight for the same reason they are memes.
What a good question. If I was not in the position that I'm currently in, I would have been struggling with the same issue.

My conclusion which may not be applicable to your situation is trying to start something yourself so that I can be on the other side of the table hiring people instead. It may be a bit too high to achieve but comes with a lot of benefits including protecting your privacy.
> All of those little uncomfortable pauses

But low-latency collectors have more pauses than low-throughput collectors, as well as spending more overall time collecting than low-throughput collectors. They also have a tendency towards higher memory pressure in the long run (though it's far less spiky than low-throughput collectors).
>In your opinion, is work not worth doing if those mammoth companies are pursuing it?

Depends on what it is, and what kind of resources you have. In this case, you're talking about a massively difficult task (between the technical and regulatory aspects and the safety-critical nature), and at least two mammoth (i.e. well-funded internally) companies are already working on it. What exactly is a company with zero expertise in the field (a mobile app? Please), with absolute reliance on VC funding, likely to bring to the table? A lot of risk, that's what.

Yes, I think driverless vehicles are probably an inevitability, but I wouldn't look to Uber to come out on top here, any more than I expect Tinder to come out on top in asteroid mining.
Various definitions for types of art follow in the latter half of the article. Discussions on kitsch, sublime, great, etc. Which is essential to be able to put the whole thing into context, seems to be what you want. It's right there.
Which in and of itself is not a problem until the refrigerator finally needs to be disposed of.
So you're telling me I should support TPP, globalization efforts, and the subsequent concentration of economic and political power because you have a good feeling that humanity is heading in the right direction and we can invent some effective control on inequality because nothing is impossible the same way we invented the electronic computer?
Depends on what part of the world you're living in.

Where I live (North central Idaho, at an elevation of 2,500 feet), new houses were being built without air conditioning 10 years ago, because it typically didn't get hot enough in the summer to justify it. Our summers are getting hotter, so that's changing, but here that change has occurred in the past 10 years.

Many people still live without A/C on much of West Coast (Oregon, Washington and BC), so long as they live in a temperate climate near the water there's rarely a need.

So, living in a house where the temperature is A/C controlled at 75°F in the summertime, isn't going to be too different than living in a climate where summertime temps don't often get above 75°F.
I think it's important to realize that, when cooking your own food, you shouldn't be afraid to add salt. Generally you'll be adding much less than processed food, and it makes a huge difference in how tasty your food is.

I would not be at all surprised if home-cooked low-salt diets have lower adherence to the point where the average benefit is much higher for a moderate-salt diet.
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Is there any concern about a web-native journal being less "future-proof"? I've come across quite a few interactive learning demonstrations in Flash/Java that no longer work.
> The data-sharing agreement — which was signed in 2015 and has since been superseded by a new contract — allows DeepMind access to medical records from 1.6 million patients attending London hospitals run by the NHS Royal Free Trust. Although at the time Google presented the deal as primarily about finding patients at risk from a condition known as acute kidney injury or AKI, the actual terms of the agreement, revealed in April 2016 by a New Scientist investigation, were more broad.

> The report notes that DeepMind was given access not only to relevant blood tests and diagnostics, but historical medical records dating back five years, including information on HIV diagnoses, drug overdoses, and abortions. The report also says the wording of the 2015 deal did not constrain the company from using AI analytical techniques on the data (something DeepMind disputes).

What's the legal status and overall vibe of something like this in the UK?

It's a bit different in the USA as we don't really have an NHS here with everybody's data and it'd be done directly with multiple insurers or medical providers. I'm guessing this would violate some type of patient privacy laws as well.

Given the option I bet many people, including your humble commenter, would opt-out too. (or just not opt-in if we're lucky).
Art is up to taste, so as a critic it's easier to recognize something as art that maybe you don't partake or enjoy, like post-modern literature, Jackson Pollock paintings, or anti-art, than to fail to recognize it at all. That is what makes Roger Ebert's argument weak.

The best example of sublime art in a game would be Myst. Outside of that minor examples might be The Stanley Parable, Half-Life 2, or Façade.

If there are a few examples of video games as sublime art, then I think that establishes the medium as art. The movie Doom is abysmal, and yet the late Roger Ebert would put that on a higher plane than these great examples? That seems irrational.

I think the greatest issue is with the video game work that Roger Ebert was exposed to. If you had never listened to music in your life and only read books and seen paintings, and then you were introduced to pop radio or a host of folk death metal albums, you might have the same reaction as he had had to video games: seeing that music is an inferior form, merely an amusement rather than art, instead of seeing that certain genres are more crude than the level of sophistication enjoyed in his books or paintings. Being surrounded by the most popular or violent collections of medium aren't encouraging in the way that seeing an instance of sublime art would be.

The examples that Kellee Santiago gave were really independent renaissance games, which are often minimalistic or contain subtle elements. Instead of an example of an epic like the Iliad or Lawrence of Arabia, they are a short story, of any quality.

And just as Roger Ebert did not live in a vacuum and had certainly seen video games played in movies, he has obviously seen them develop from the very beginning. The examples of early arcade games are like simple drum signals compared to a symphony. It might be that he just missed out on what might have been a great artistic experience.
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. At the airport, I have even been ordered into cabs by police officers. The consumer has very little choice.

With a car-for-hire service, I can investigate the car service ahead of time. I can get an exact rate quote and say "yes" or "no." I can decide whether or not they are worth my trust, and if I don't like them I can hang up, open the Yellow Pages, and shop around to find another one/

The fact that you think "press a button on my phone" is just the same as "put my hand in the air" is the same misunderstanding as the guy who can't understand why the robots aren't paid minimum wage. "Could my mental model of what's going on be incorrect? Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."

Try this: taxi companies and car-for-hire services have been regulated differently for 100 years. Were they wrong to have been regulated differently all along?

The "get into a car with a total stranger with whom I have no commercial relationship" market is vanishing along with its regulations. There is no law of nature or regulation that says we need to find a new industry to be regulated the same way.
I'd be curious; can you describe the emotional reactions you've had to reading a mathematical paper?

Have you experienced joy, sorrow, loneliness, kinship, heartache, lust, tenderness, guilt, hope from reading a math paper?

Could you tell us which paper inspired various emotional reactions in you?

Honest questions all. If you've experienced a variety of emotions from a maths paper, and can talk about your inner world in relation to such a paper, it'd go a long way to convincing me that math can be great art.
Eh. When I moved from an apartment with a ~30 year old dishwasher to one with a new one, I was pretty startled by how much cleaner it got my dishes when I didn't pre-rinse them as much as I used to have to.
No, they don't deserve better. As a wise Frenchman once said, every nation gets the government it deserves.

Besides, if you're only met "nice, intelligent, loving americans", you haven't spent much time in America, or you weren't the "wrong" ethnicity in your interactions with them.
5 Creepy Things Your ISP Will Do If Congress Repeals FCC’s Privacy Protections
Awesome.

How do I donate to this?
On the other hand, heat stroke kills a lot of people every year, and suffering through ever changing weather takes a toll on productivity.

There are a lot of things that may be bad for us as individuals but necessary to our society.
And, just to finish that thought, "read macros" aren't some abstract corner case of interest to theoreticians; they are how a whole lot of the language and libraries (e.g. complex numbers, the regex library, etc.) are implemented.
I may have missed it in the article, but what was Nick DiLiberto's source of income during the 4 years he worked on his film??
Sometimes the drug companies will use tricks like finding some side effect in their current drug that makes it difficult/impossible for a generic version to get approved. But no worries, they've already invented and patented a replacement!
Dr. Zaius it's up to you to revive humanity!
Because most people, when they look at a starving child in a warzone and was forced into child-soliderdom, respond with compassion for that other human. Not by berating their parents for not taking 'responsibility' and allowing a tyrannical warlord to slaughter said parents for being from a different tribe of some sort or another.
This has the whiff of what might kindly be called activist research, particularly given the track record of the author(s). There may be legitimate questions and concerns, but I'm inclined to trust the Wellcome representative's analysis of the situation.
First of all I think the hololens is an amazing piece of tech and is the best device out there. That said, I disagree about the price point being the only thing. It needs to be in a really tight form factor and needs a lot of work on FOV and usability.

How good does AR need to be to do HyperReality?[1] Not much better than the HoloLens

You're underestimating the problem significantly. Read the link I posted previously because I lay it out there in detail. (I don't get paid or referrals or anything if you read it, it's just that I already wrote it all out there and don't want to do it again). FOV and draw dark are far from trivial issues, not to even mention content and geolocalization/georectification.
What would a modern utopia look like?
Neil Tyson is beyond cheesy. He's a pendant and gives the wrong idea of what acting intelligent is to youth. [1] It's a sign of immaturity and a desire to appear profound.

[1] https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/704330815321210884?lang...
The "little and often" line is a takeoff on the job of a fireman for a steam locomotive.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVIr66K_rUA
Errors in transparency and oversight. Fix the title please.

Still a very legitimate concern, especially in the age of privacy.
A book doesn't have to be heavily constrained by the story. What's the mathematical equivalent of Finnegans Wake?
I meant "memory barriers". Atomics embed memory barriers.
There's another factor to this - the US homeownership has gone down over the years, and will likely go lower.

More renters = even less incentive for reliable products, as the cheapest install that works is sufficient to rent.
https://www.mib.com/

> including your humble commenter, would opt-out too. (or just not opt-in if we're lucky).

At this moment, do you know what organizations own a copy of your medical records -- in whole or part -- and what laws apply to each of those partial records? If not, then how can you possibly hope to opt-out?
If you really want a stronger lock I presume the main limitation is that, in my experience, there's a maximum thickness the locker design will allow for the lock. As such it's generally trivial to break the lock with a bolt cutter.

I think that's actually a feature, the gym owners want to be able to open the lockers if a member loses their keys or simply locks one of the lockers and then never comes back.

So I think you should simply consider going to a better gym? Seriously, that sounds pretty terrible, I've never had any issues in any gym I've been to and I'm not exactly paranoid either (sometimes I'd forget my lock and leave my stuff unlocked and never had any problem).
I'm not actually sure what the overall point of the parent comment actually is, since he start's with David's timeline and then cites the reduction in medical schools related to Simon and Abraham Flexner, but doesn't actually delve into why Osteopathic medicine survived the medical education reform, or into John D. Rockefeller's support for Osteopathic medicine in general.

So, while I see the implication, the parent never actually makes that implication explicit.

Either way, I think it's important to separate the actions of the grandson and grandfather.
I remember jitney's in Pgh !! In the 70's I used to ride in jitney cars with my mother to get back from the grocery store. In some cities, "jitneys" are called "hacks"-- unlicensed cab drivers driving their own cars. Perfectly safe if they're neighborhood folks that you know.

There used to be a similar/related practice called "slugging" as well, it seems to have faded as Uber rose up.
So are 40 degree Celcius hot tubs as effective as 80 degree Celcius Sauna sessions. I was just about to buy a portable sauna, but if a bath gives me a similar effect I wouldn't buy it. Except that I can watch TV while I'm sitting in my portable sauna chair and my S.O. lounges on the couch.
You mean easy to get around if that's what the law actually said? Sure, the distinguisher I gave doesn't easily translate into cheaply applicable test that law enforcement can use; it's more for identifying categories of activities that look more like gambling vs insurance so that lawmakers can identify which are worth banning. It's hard to externally identify that on individual cases.

With that said, given appropriate modifications, your example could legitimately be called insurance. If

- There were a quantifiable decline in prestige from the loss (per sibling comment), and

- the payout were low enough that the insurer thought that you'd still prefer winning to loss+payout, and

- this were a common enough thing

Then yes, it would look a lot more like insurance and merit being regulated like that and less like gambling.
Yep, agreed. I've literally been hijacked and taken to an ATM before by a cab driver who clearly had a VISA sticker on the window of his car. While uber seems pretty evil these days, I just can't risk the unreliability of traditional cab services.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons qualifies, I think. There's one particular moment in that game--everyone who's played it all the way through will know, and I will not spoil it--which is emotionally powerful, and absolutely could not have been made in any other medium.
My point is it's their choice to run their country the way they want. I don't think anyone can say for certain whether certain social programs will be sustainable or not.

The US has many social programs, social security, subsidies, etc. People have been saying for years that these are unsustainable. The national debt has been an issue since founding 250 years ago. Some feel it weakens us. Others feel it ensures we maintain friendly relationships with neighbors.

If there were a major war right now, and the US were unable to defend its allies, the value of the dollar would tank. That keeps us and our allies concerned about each other's safety. I think that's a good thing, so long as we don't tank our economy in doing so.
A major disconnect here comes from a lack of gaming literacy among critics. I read a great paper recently, Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming as a Constellation of Literacy Practices, where the author talks about how RPG games are actually quite literary in the sense of reading and writing than people give them credit for [1]. But what really impressed me about the essay is that he presented a screenshot of an RPG video game and pointed out that few critics could explain what was going on in the image, even though it was instantly familiar to me despite not having played the game.

Critics are not game-literate, so they can't appreciate them. They know nothing about mechanics like strategic imbalance, the Skinner box, achievements, power creep and other concepts I myself am only becoming familiar with thanks to the thoughtful folks at ExtraCredits[2]. They don't know anything about how video games tell stories, challenge players with moral choices, or the brilliant innovations artists have had to come up with to work around hardware limitations in both graphics and music over the decades. If you aren't literate in gaming, then of course you can't appreciate the many many layers of artistic expression from algorithms to writing to graphics to music and mechanics that go into making a game.

Video games are more profitable than films now. Critical theory surrounding video games simply needs to rise to the level of other mediums before more people will respect it. Remember, films were originally considered such a waste of time no one bothered to preserve 75% of silent films[3]. As the new generation of game-literate kids grow up, I trust that games will get the respect they deserve.

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2304/elea.2007.4.3.29...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_films
That's why you don't usually want extreme low-latency collectors that make your program slow by sacrificing throughput over latency.

Of course you know there's a difference between a slow program and a sluggish/unresponsive one. A user will forgive the former, but will abhor the latter. As a programmer, you're a kind of user. However, I note that many programmers have a kind of un-self-awareness when it comes to their own creations and favored, highly customized tools. If a programmer thinks something is nifty for another reason, they will often excuse much more latency than an ordinary user ever would. This is one of the biggest UX blind spots programmers have, generally.

Also, with an environment where it's easy to fix throughput, why not mostly eliminate latency? Fixing throughput is usually more straightforward and easier than fixing latency. (Pareto principle)

And that's why you should have a GC that balances throughput and latency.

In practice, due to programmer hubris and bias against perceiving flaws in our own creations, one has often ended up with GC that has better than needed throughput numbers to alleviate speed criticisms while having latency that is a little bit uncomfortable. I think it's a common programmer blindness with regards to UX.
Damn. My muscles have been feeling more fatigued lately and I was planning to start going to a hot tub on a semi-regular basis :/.
I don't think it's "fairer" to treat personal and commercial traffic the same.
your right, and IIRC the "rap genius" fiasco that happened a few years back actually started on HN.
This is why if you are a thrift store, the older-looking item is often a better buy than the newer-looking item of the same kind. The newer one is often further along is wear cycle than the older one.
There's the Ohm editor now.

https://ohmlang.github.io/editor/

Ohm is the successor of Ometa. The editor shows which portion of the string are matched by each rule.
Don't know if things have changed recently, but last time I was involved you'd have a year after going into production to apply for the patent. Miss that deadline, kiss your patent goodbye.
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To be fair, in Europe we pay more exactly because we recognise that, if left to their own benevolence, the rich will never pay enough.

(And, the guy donated in addition to paying his fair share of taxes, one would hope. At one point, pre-Reagan, US taxes on wealth were as high as in Europe, possibly even higher).
When you say a "limousine" are you not just describing a livery service where you call a dispatcher and they send a car?
Ask HN: Which startup has the best support documentation?
I am looking to revamp the support site for my startup and looking for some inspiration. We are in user-engagement and analytics domain. We have our Android , iOS , Windows and javascript SDK. All have been up there on our support site. But right now it is more 'developer friendly'. But as 'user-engagement and analytics' is also used my many marketers/sales folks, I would like to make my support site both developer-marketer friendly.

Looking for great support site from which I can find good points and implement it in my own support site.
Thanks.
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To better understand how generated parsers work. ANTLR LL(k) thru LL(*) is largely a black box for me. I can't say writing my own helped my ANTLR skills. But hopefully I'm doing less trial and error now.
This is a high-priority for us. By focusing on web-standards and avoiding proprietary plugins we're pretty confident that the content will be future-proof.
That's non trivial if you sterilize before sale. Also, if it's a fad then having a X year head start before sale means you can ramp up much faster than any competitors.