skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The margins and economic incentives in medical care are very different from those in food and housing. It's of limited use to compare solutions in these two spaces.
> (e.g., do not copy the look and feel of Amazo Drive branded apps)

Amazo!
Instagram and Whatsapp stories I can understand - I don't particularly think they're good decisions, but I can understand them.

To an extent it makes even more sense in the Facebook app itself, but having the core app and Messenger have separate stories despite them using the same exact account is ridiculous to me.
Tesla 'autopilot' car hits Phoenix police motorcycle
That is a discussion that does not seem intellectually interesting.
I think this is a much better model vs either regular Amazon Fresh or the status quo of shopping at the grocery store. The real pain points of shopping are actually going into the store and spending an hour finding everything you need, and then waiting in several different lines, or getting stuck in a clogged up aisles. Having someone to specialize in doing that stuff for me, and probably eventually automating that, without increasing costs from delivery, is definitely the way to go.
Here Are the Software Skills That Will Get You the Highest Salary
A general AI, especially a "malevolent" one, is such a mind-blowingly powerful entity that these questions are rather pointless. A self-improving GAI could rapidly take over the planet and have a myriad ways of "controlling humans".

I'd be far more concerned with other humans messing with it. And before that, just bugs and other damage.
Your statement reminds me of the representation of PhD:

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
LASEK actually dissolves the epithelium, which is a protective skin layer that regenerates vs. LASIK which cuts and then re-attaches a flap.
A 32-BIT FISHINO WiFi, SD card, RTC, audio codec, LiPo and more…
The article describes Dalvik which is different from JVM, so it's not really a proof.

But you are actually right. It looks that JVM bytecode includes full function signature in function invocation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/it-haggar_bytecod... (if I'm reading examples correctly).
My favorite things about creativity were Robert Rodriguez's book "Rebel Without a Crew" about making El Mariachi for $7,000. He is a total cheerleader for DOING THAT CREATIVE THING RIGHT NOW.

Also, Kevin Smith really hammered this home in one of his recent Q&As, but I can't remember which one. It was really encouraging and beautiful, though.
> Who thought this was a good idea?

People who like snapchat?
The vegans I know call one bad and the other worse. However, the point that I was getting at is that you're recommending that people be vegetarians instead of vegans because of the environmental efficiency of feeding chickens scraps in the backyard, but almost everyone doesn't have a backyard, or chickens.
Boggs is the same who issued the infamous Mormon extermination order.
Given that the R interpreter is written in C and admits trivial FFI bindings, as demonstrated by libraries like glmnet or gbm calling out to it, I don't see how this is an inherent advantage of Python.
That's exactly why we made styled-components![0]

I really dislike writing styles as JavaScript objects, so styled-components let's you write actual CSS in JavaScript. We have also added support for a bunch of editors, so you don't miss out on syntax highlighting just because of that.

I'd encourage you to check it out!

[0]: https://www.styled-components.com
You'd lose out on most of the awesome if you allowed unikernels to run without being kernels, no?

Docker is basically just a fancy chroot. In addition to changing the root directory, it changes the root pid, the set of network devices, the hostname, and a few other things, but at a conceptual level it's not doing anything fundamentally different from what chroot does to a process - it changes some pointers in the kernel's struct for the process. Instead of "root directory" being a global variable in the kernel, each process has a root directory pointer, and chroot changes that. Each process also now has a network-device-list pointer, a hostname pointer, etc., and Docker changes those too.

The flip side is that Docker (unless you're using boot2docker or something) isn't virtualization, so it is basically zero overhead. Running qemu inside Docker is as efficient as running it outside; it's not like nested virtualization or anything.
Having reviewed several papers for Scientific Reports in the past year, it was very similar to my experience reviewing for PLoS One. You are mandated not to factor in the significance of the work and only to critique the methodology and conclusions [1]. My experience reading articles there ranges from complete junk to papers that probably just missed the mark of getting into Nature proper.

Articles should make it more clear the distinction between Nature Publishing Group, Nature (journal), and Scientific Reports (open access journal). Confusion then propagates to the headlines of the articles when posted to content aggregators, take /r/science and it's related subreddits for example.

[1]: http://www.nature.com/srep/journal-policies/referees#criteri...
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971728
Then you are an arsehole, plain and simple.
Cute tongue in cheek reply.

>> planting three avocado pips

If you search on "planting avocado seeds", the first page of results are on how to plant them, with little discussion of why not to plant them.

“Ungrafted” trees (like those grown inside from seeds) rarely produce fruit. In order to have an avocado tree that produces fruit, one must graft the seedling."

https://www.willsavocados.com/index.php/grow-avocado-tree
Except you won't be able to do that in Denmark anymore per the article that this thread is about. And there's a number of other places in the world where Uber does not have coverage. Uber doesn't even tell you where they are, so you get to find that out when you get off a plane.

There's an inflection point where the "no stress" mentality goes away, and Uber might be headed there. It certainly isn't headed away from it.
AtlasObscura has another piece on early American surveying: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ohio-public-land-survey

PDF linked from that seems interesting if a bit dry: https://www.blm.gov/cadastral/Manual/pdffiles/histrect.pdf
They'll probably restrict where and when you can consume it like they do with alcohol and tobacco (no drinking on the street, no smoking anywhere with a non-smoking sign, etc.)
the idea (or name) of freedom is valued highly here in the US of A. But, for the average American, I don't think "freedom" means what they think it means...
Please don't use preformatted syntax for quotes. Just dump the quote as-is, otherwise it's really hard to read, because it's all on one line. If you do wish to use preformatted syntax, wrap at 70 chars. Maybe less to keep it readable on mobile, too.
How do high risk pools address this? Will they be subsidized more then others, passing the cost to taxpayers? Otherwise, they will be unaffordable. The only way insurance works is to pool resources of people who don't need the service to cover those that do need the service.
OOP, OOD
> The new features might keep Facebook users from switching to Snapchat but would it entice Snapchat users to switch to Facebook?

I think the former is at least as important as the latter. Facebook has an order of magnitude more users than Snapchat. FB needs to keep their platform feeling modern and interesting so existing users don't feel the need to leave for greener pastures.
New ones pop up
Elon Musk’s Crusade to Stop an A.I. Apocalypse
Which if I remember correctly were very highly contested on constitutional grounds as well.
While many of the methods in java.lang.Object have a native implementation, there are still other methods that do sport a pure java implementation: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/file/tip/src/share/...
Change for changes' sake is partly what frustrates me. Indents are such a stupid idea IMHO. What was wrong with curly braces?! Certainly Python sticks out in this regard. I also think Python has evolved beyond its initial premise to the point where it has acquired many of the features it was trying to escape from at its inception. When I see all the ugly cruft in the average large Python app/library I start to question.

As a developer I care about these things when they pollute my work with their crappiness.. Be that in concept or execution.

I'm well aware of C's limitations. My point is that the types of environments in which C prevails are perhaps a little less prone to the latest trendy fad.
I have two favorite missurveyed landmarks:

1. The Four Corners monument marking the spot where borders of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah meet. Even after several lawsuits and court rulings, it's still off by half a kilometer or so.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners_Monument#Misplace...)

2. Prime Meridian mark (that goes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich) is off by 102.5 m.
(https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gec-nature-sc...)
I live in Hannover, Germany. I am physically impacted by both stories:

For obvious reasons by the refugee one;

And also by Trump's bullshitting with healthcare due to having multiple friends in the USA whose lives are directly and acutely endangered by him and his murderous troupe, which in turn impacts my ability to meet them again.
Why are GIFs a problem for performance?
I loved the OA, so perhaps I'll like Stranger Things even more? If I loved OA is it worth checking out ST?
2017 Summer School – Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning
Ethereum for Enterprise [pdf]
Finally a good Apple Music playlists discovery
Facebook is well known for doing A/B testing. I'd reckon most of your friends didn't yet have it.
Why the Future of Product Design Is in the Cloud
"There are no experts in AGI right now" ... Well there's Ben Goertzel from http://opencog.org/
Tesla shorts can't get a break. First a smooth $1B+ capital raise without a stock hiccup and now this.
Because employers can provide group health insurance plans.

Without either the individual mandate (which is itself a half-assed approximation to single payer healthcare) or group health insurance (through employers or some other non-health-related cooperative), people put off getting health insurance until they get sick, the risk pool stops being a pool and the whole concept of "insurance" falls apart.
Bandwidth uses this? I thought they were a telecommunications company
Haven't gotten through much of this yet, but this is really interesting so far. Has anyone watched Bland's Rainbow of Death presentation? I think he gave it at a conference recently.
I hate when people call it Climate Change. Thats a phrase right wing think tanks cooked up to soften the blow of the sound of Global Warming.

No amount of evidence is going to convince Global Warming deniers. But those who deny but also suffer from the effects will be the first ones with their hands out asking the government for money to save to bail them out.

I'm glad the WashPo is writing these kinds of articles, but nothing is going to convince climate 'skeptics'. Stop wasting your time trying to reason with people who cannot be reasoned with.
Explorer is a single-instance application
Agreed. Responding to the replies, regarding the fidelity of a copy: Yes, the copy would have a great claim to being you. Assuming the physiology of the copy is also (nearly) identical (behavior and personality is not a pure function of the brain), the world at large would also identify it as you.

But I'm not interested in legacy style immortality. I don't care at all if a separate version of me continues to exist – I want to be continuous with the physical substrate I now occupy. In other words, we are all Ship's of Theseus, and that's fine, but a perfect replica of the Ship breaks my internal narrative of continuity.

To distinguish: If a form of "immortality" supports the possibility of another copy of me existing simultaneously with the current incarnation, then it is not the immortality I'd desire.

Responding to the parent, I would much prefer slowly replacing my neural hardware with circuitry to wholesale scanning and instantiation in another substrate.

Summarize: Identity is (partially) a function of substrate. Change the substrate in a discontinuous fashion, and identity itself becomes discontinuous. I call that discontinuity (one form of) "Death".
That's one more way a government isn't a business. Also, didn't Trump campaign on generally minimizing government? Did (does) he also run his businesses in such as way so as to "minimize" them?

Obviously there are approaches that make sense to be common to running both business and government (that probably apply to most everything else as well because they'd seem like "common sense") but, at a high level, to say "run government like a business" is one of those things that only sounds reasonable (possibly) until you think about it.
Amazon Launches AmazonFresh Pickup grocery service (employees only)
Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Compete with BMW 3 and Mercedes C
So true. I was beginning to enjoy doing Stories in the Messenger app.
Yeah...wasn't saying that path implies genius. It should, though, denote the ability to do basic math, or the common sense to have someone proofread your papers. This is just so odd to me, has me wondering if he's trolling.
Again, all you're doing is rattling off a description of a boycott.
> Tencent is a prolific investor. It holds equity in Snap, this year’s hot tech IPO, among others following an early investment. While that interest in messaging makes sense since Tencent’s operates China’s dominant chat app — WeChat — it isn’t immediately clear whether the Tesla investment has strategic undertones.

This was my immediate question as well. Is this purely an investment for its portfolio or is there a strategic element as well? I imagine being able to send/receive messags on WeChat as the beginning of something more.
In what system can you sue when something some came at no cost, no warranty (express or implied) and in a good faith effort to help everyone at the personal expense of the developer?

If that system exists, it sounds disgusting and unethical. Paying for something changes the nature of the transaction.
Maybe instead of blocking disposable emails, give user a gentle notification and explain why you would not like him to use such email address.
No one is saying "everything that unions do is bad and they should go away". But it's equally naive to suggest that unions never do bad things at all.

So why is it that we get something like a thousand "look at this CORRUPT OVERPAID LAZY RENT-SEEKING UNION" stories for every "this union did something kind of OK, I guess" story?
Switch to Fastmail.

You can make addresses on the fly like microsoft@cryptarch.fastmail.com (which will automatically be resolved and sent to cryptarch+microsoft@fastmail.com) and you'll save the hassle of having to run and maintain your own mail server.
I imagine it's the same appeal as wanting to run JavaScript on the server. The more things you can do in one language, the fewer times you have to switch from thinking in one language to another.
This feels a lot like Amazon's ecommerce activities. Since Amazon own the platform in ecommerce, they can detect which goods are most successfully sold, sell those goods themselves, and use their scale and distribution to muscle out competitors.

Now since Amazon owns the cloud infrastructure, they can detect which apps are among the most successful (e.g. customer service apps) and build only winners. Again, they can use their scale and distribution to muscle out competitors.
Even if you have a language that forces you to assign the return value, what does the compiler do in a situation like:

Integer getSomething()
String getSomething()

when the calling site is:

Object something = obj.getSomething();
> The same could be true of preventative care, basic access to an NP or similar, well child care, and such.

I never thought of the issue that way but now that I hear it I absolutely agree. I do not plan on having a child... ever so this may sound a little trollish but please bear with me here.

Anyone who is against gender discrimination (or thinks there is no discrimination against women based on gender) should be FOR free of cost and generally available quality child care for all. I think a lot of bias against women in the work force will go away if we don't have a mindset that women will quit the workforce once they have children.
"abnormal growth of plants, as a direct result of artificial, high-voltage electric power"

Erm? http://gpnmag.com/wp-content/uploads/LED_Lights_in_Basil_Gre...
You can't move the async without the developer touching it if you want the async to save you IO-wait = be on the socket. You need the async. to be in the network.

Async-to-async means your CPU only touches your work when it has to and when the instance is waiting the work is in transit on the network so the CPU can do other things.

> In practice, you need two small pools of threads with the same amount of threads as the CPU has cores. And those will pass the "work" back and forth between incoming requests -> outgoing requests and then incoming response -> outgoing response, both arrows indicating a thread to thread handover that will make most programmers faint. (but once the platform is built developers just need to wrap their head around the philosophy and not making that handover work)

Async-to-async is the solution for zero IO-wait without context switching problems and scalable to millions of concurrent sockets per machine, not that that's what you want, what you want is a distributed model where many small machines co-operate on a larger task, but that requires async-to-async too. An here you have to try and use any SQL database to see why that fails in a distributed system. etc. etc. I need to write a book and I rather write software to prove my point instead. (if yc had edit after longer duration I would explain this here too later 3rd tip)

When a thread is stuck in IO-wait that is pure loss, eventually all sync. systems break due to IO-wait and that means you need overcapacity. The advantage with Async. is that 100% CPU means little to no problem and you can have the system appropriately powered at all times by sharing resources in a distributed sandbox instead of sharding them in virtualboxes/containers.

> Sidenote: you need to be able to share memory across threads so forget about programming languages that don't have "real" threads (PHP, Javascript, ruby, python, etc.)

Overloads are fun in a async. system, because the CPU just keeps working on the queue that it fundamentally needs (that sync systems have between everything to avoid crashing) and watching the latency go up a bit when the system is overloaded is so much fun when you see the system does not grind to a halt but just churns right through the overload.

> Async. is inherently anti-fragile.

About solar, you need to remove money and add all energy required to build everything around the solar panel, including the energy required for the person assembling it and even that persons cat food, transport, mining, etc. Otherwise you're only seeing "the tree and not the forest". Energy has no dollar price, you should not be able to buy energy with "nothing".

> The dollar does not exist.

As an exercise you can read the source, and then when you feel confident enough google: async. processor.

My next and last project is to apply async. to a 3D engine, where the rendering/physics is done in two c++ threads, and the scripting in java asynchronously modifies the state for those threads from a third thread.
Looks really cool, I wish openvbx was still developed
We have 30 days of time for NaNoWriMo. That's a lot of time! Can get a lot done in that amount of time, or get nothing done, depending on how the time is occupied.
Other countries have loser pays and they've managed to do it without closing off justice for little people.
Did you forget a /s?
your language use is problematic, in my opinion. "conditioned to thinking..." implies that you have some objective, irrefutable notion of the truth and that people that disagree with you are delusional due to psychological conditioning.

this is just subjective stuff. I like the smell and taste of limburger cheese and durian fruit. other people tell me it makes them want to gag and vomit. some people like the way Beyonce's music sounds. It makes me want to leave the room. it's subjective. you don't need to make a bogus argument about dopamine receptors to notice that.
we're just talking about the lower courts here. that exists for appeals. http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/
Yes, this is kinda like the "lodash" for writing styles in JavaScript.

The main goal with writing styles in JavaScript is to make CSS work in the context of component-based systems. The language is magnificent, but it was made in an age where the web consisted of documents.

These days we're building rich, interactive, client-side user interfaces with the same language, but it's standing in our way. That's why there has been a lot of exploration, especially in the React ecosystem, around putting styles in JavaScript.

I'd encourage you to take a look at these magnificent resources which I cannot do justice in a single comment:

- The talk that kicked it all off: "CSS in JS" by vjeux[0] (made React Native, works at Facebook)

- "Rendering Khan Academys Learn Menu Whereever I Please" [1]

- "Scale FUD and style components" [2]

and a bunch of other talks and articles if you google "CSS in JS".

[0]: https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js
[1]: https://medium.com/@jdan/rendering-khan-academys-learn-menu-...
[2]: https://medium.learnreact.com/scale-fud-and-style-components...
Apple made a historic to all iPhones – and you probably didn't even notice
How do you know? Is this fact, or fear?

If you deserve promotion for a non-social role, but aren't because you don't go out with the team, that is not good, but that's a tangent to banning work related drinking events.

Another question is, do you go to non-alcohol related work events?
So, some consumers now like to use their phone, I personally find it more convenient.

As an extra capability that appeals to some folks it's a no-brainer to market it as a feature.

Sure, it's probably only a few percent at present. Your objection seems to be "I don't use that, therefore they shouldn't mention it on their page", no?
"You absolutely can insure against regularly consumed services, as long as the premium is enough to cover it"

That is called fee for service. Maybe it gets bundled with actual insurance, but it's not insurance. Regular, universal expenses are not underwritable.

Insurance is a technical term that has a strict meaning. You are absolutely correct that regular wellness checkups, etc., can positively affect the outcomes of that insurance pool, but they are not, themselves, insurable. They have to be paid for somewhere.
Ian Mackaye was the first interview we did for The Creative Independent:

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/ian-mackaye-and-br...

(TCI is a side-project launched by Kickstarter)
It could hardly be otherwise, or the JVM would need to do overload resolution at runtime, which would not be a pleasant experience for anyone.
Just printing facts isn't unbiased -- starting with the selection of which facts to print. Facts alone also lack context. You might factually state "radiation from Fukushima has been detected in the US". That sounds quite alarming! So you need to add some context like "This is because detection tech is very advanced. The levels are very low and pose no cause for concern." But then someone will criticise you for downplaying things.

So the newspaper could very well be biased and skewed, just in how they present or don't present certain facts, which context they provide, etc.
Good call, will update!
These are very vague - could mean anything from "don't build ransomware", through "no Amazo Drive encryption apps, we'll offer that as an option" to "leave your cust data in clear so we can play with it"