skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to this, not only does the current technology not have halos, but your peripheral vision will increase as well.

I had mine done a few years ago on a state of the art machine (at the time), called the Allegretto Wave Laser. No blades - just one laser to cut the flap, and another to shape the lens.

Result - in 17 seconds (per eye time of the laser doing it's work), I went from 20/400 with a bad astigmatism to 20/15. A week later it had improved to 20/10 in one eye, and 20/12 in the other. Overall, it took 5 minutes or less of time laying down, including all adjustments.

This year celebrates 10 years without glasses, and I am finally needing to start looking at reading glasses for some situations (small print at a close distance). The great thing is that I have thick corneas, and they can actually shape them again to get rid of that as well - which I'll do in a couple years when I hit 50.

The only greater miracle I have had is the birth of my son. If you can, I highly recommend it.
IMO, the practical sorts, such as this author, who want everybody's vision for AI to be as narrow as their present-year work is, suffer from the reverse affliction to what they think futurists suffer from. I will call this affliction "rationality-signaling".
"Sorting themselves out" is a loaded word, I see that now.

I agree with you. This being at peace with your own company is a result of a tendency to work on your inside, and respond to emotions and "calls" from there immediately.

The other side are people who regularly experience a state of mind which could be described as happily relaxed nothingness. No thoughts, ideas, inner monologues etc.
No urgency to work on their inner life.

That isn't better or worse. It brings advantages and disadvantages.
I didn't know about the whatsapp share button - that is very neat.
Effort doesn't have much relationship with value. Nor does the complexity of the core tech. People don't pay for implementation details; geek points don't mean prizes.

Effort where it maximizes return, leveraging existing assets where possible, to solve problems for real customers, is what's valuable.

Newly built tech is a rapidly depreciating asset; the depreciation comes not only from the progressing state of the art elsewhere, but also in maintenance costs and lack of network effects. Open sourcing to offset the depreciation is risky too.
New Technologies to Reshape the Retail Industry
Retail industry was expected to receive the biggest transformation ever in the year 2016, but industry was surprised to avail much more than assumed. The introduction of chat bots giving birth to conversation commerce was the biggest highlight of the last year. With this update, interaction with customer has improved a lot. The retail industry also saw some other dynamic changes in 2K16, like – advanced artificial intelligence, multi-channel retailing, a lot more secured interface etc.

See More: https://www.solutionanalysts.com/blog/new-technologies-to-reshape-the-retail-industry/
This seems to be happening with enough frequency that we citizens of the world ought to create a third party mirror of all gov data so as to withstand leadership transitions and politically motivated deletions.

I'd say someone like the UN should coordinate this, but it would probably be better done by a Wikipedia style outfit.

Maybe on the block chain. Perhaps we need a DataCoin that fuels keeping this stuff alive.

I'm curious how much data we are talking about and how difficult it would be for us to automate backing it up so this sort of issue isn't as devastating.

Might also be a way for us to cite data in such a way that it automatically triggers archiving.

Ie. Using http://dataarchive.org/govagency.gov/data/numbers would automatically store the source info as well as last accessibilily information.

Ideas?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13973144 and marked it off-topic.
I don't know where he has talked about race, maybe the master/slave comment is the one referred to but if you follow those links in the article to the actual posts he made you can see that what he wrote isn't that controversial, he's just not fully supporting changing the master/slave terminology or adding more options to the gender field of a user profile. The author of the article described it as "not agreeing with the SJW party line".
Funny that in a few already oppressive big brother type countries, lots of people already walk around with surgical masks. For different reasons, but...
Ask HN: What are the best Tech Business / SaaS podcasts?
I'm interested in learning more about SaaS and tech businesses in general. I discovered and listen to following podcasts, but it was hard to find them in the first place. Mainly through recommendations:

1. Release Notes
2. Startups for the rest of us
3. Giant robots smashing into other giant robots
4. Starting from Nothing
5. Bootstrapped web
6. The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing Business and life
7. The Official Saastr Podcast

What are your favorites and do you know any good ones, which are not on the list?
We're not using it efficiently, though. And the whole field of UI / UX actually now moves in completely opposite direction - towards how to make things least efficient and least information-dense, but more and more pretty so that it sells and addicts better.

I'd love to see some research into just how much data can humans really process if humans are properly trained and the data is cleverly presented.
re https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202501

What do \lvertneq, \gvertneq do? I can't find an online reference for them
I disagree.

We need alternatives or modernization to current transit systems and companies; we don't need Uber.

I'm living abroad at the moment in St. Petersburg Russia, and the local taxi company's response to Uber was basically to clone Uber. People here are just as ready to summon a Yandex taxi or one from the multiple other taxi services publicly available as they are to use Uber. My last experience with a Yandex taxi was seamless - driver was to our location in a few minutes, fare was ~ 500 RUB (little under $10), no tip expected, and they made exceptions for us having multiple stops for different people.

There is nothing unique or special to Uber except the huge amount of hype and VC money behind them - just like we saw in the US with Austin, TX, Uber's model is easily replicable and scalable for local companies.

Uber is throwing its weight around and finding out that it really doesn't carry as much weight as it thinks it does, and pretty soon investors and other transit companies are going to start to capitalize on this.
Ask HN: Grails vs Play
Hi Hn,

I'm planning to work on a side project. I'm thinking about choosing either Grails or Play.

What would you suggest or prefer? The side project is quite complex, so I need good productivity using the framework.

Also which is best at scaling number of concurrent users?
Also, even if VC-funded startups could compete with the Big Five, not every small company is a VC-funded startup. Forcing entrepreneurs to ally with one group of rentiers and arbitrageurs or be crushed by another group of the same is not a good way to build a long-term healthy innovation economy.
It sounds like you're saying then they're doing it wrong - which is not uncommon. When you learned about active listening, there where a number of adults you remembered growing up who actively listened, and they were the most engaging people.
>All the money in the world can't save you from death and time is our most precious resource.

Now, yes. But the question is whether it should be like that or not, rather than whether it is so.
The Brits put up a valiant and effective effort, but they didn't have the ability to retake the continent. The massive industrial capacity of the American economy, and the large number of young healthy American men available to fight, was necessary to win the war.
I'm interested in why you think this person is the best. Email in profile.
I'm just saying if your brownies are smoking you're baking them wrong.

Edited to add I like trying new things and I've tried several THC-free "hemp based" energy drinks and I would assume there is no great technical effort required to merely remove the "THC-free" characteristic. This simplifies the topic to the existing "war on energy drinks" which is a whole nother topic. When I eat something unhealthy and non-paleo I like to try something new and good, if I take a diet vacation its not going to be at McDonalds drinking a Pepsi.
Yes. Just because the smartphone + app has the same capability doesn't mean that it is the best solution - nor does requiring a taxi meter mean that a government approved app that meets all the requriements of the taxi meter cannot be approved and/or used. Maybe the taxi meters have some sort of feature that makes them more secure. Maybe the government just cannot update the appropriate systems yet to include the tech. Maybe the general public doesn't trust the information of the meter.

The point is that there are multiple reasons this is sensible regulation.

The other thing it mentioned is seat sensors. I'm not sure a smartphone app would be able to do this as well, and I'm guessing the reasoning is because the taxis haven't always acted in respectable ways and is a way to fight against money laundering.
They handled that extremely well though - I can't recall the exact timing but ISIS was seemingly always on the verge of crumbling or being bought so they just sort of let it happen and the group made a seamless (if not painless) transition into ineffective drug dealers and bungling private investigators ("The Figgis Agency")

Anyone stumbling across this comment and wondering WTF we're talking about - definitely check out Archer, it's pretty great
If anyone has not yet read The Gulag Archipelago, please brace yourself mentally and do so. A very realistic look at how these things happened at a certain point in recent history.
DeepLearning.scala 1.0.0: a simple language for creating complex neural networks
It's sigmoidal.
Neuroplasticity won't protect you from someone generating 0.1A inside your body. You only need 4.5-5V battery to generate a killer current.

Also it can't stop someone from bricking your heart.
If PHP Were British (2011)
The reason lobbyists are so effective is that they can influence a large number of representatives all in one place. An actual constituent can call his congressman, but that's a lot smaller influence.

IMHO one solution to this is to keep them all in their home states and vote on issues remotely. Keep all communication public, and exclude influence from anyone outside their home state. This would force them to get their input from the people who elected them.

On another note, every state should ban election advertising from anyone outside the state. There is little reason to allow outsiders to influence state elections. Hey, if you're going to get upset that maybe the russians influenced a US election, why not be upset when some national organization (including political parties) tries to influence a state election?
Show HN: EteSync – Secure and journaled sync for Android
Hi everyone, author here.

As it says on the website, EteSync is a secure, end-to-end encrypted and journaled personal information synchronization for Android.
I created this project for two main reasons. The first is that I'm very privacy conscious, and then second, is that I version control almost all of my data, and I really wanted to version control this as well. Think Git for your contacts, calendars and etc.

Feel free to ask me anything, and please share any feedback you may have.

In addition to general feedback, I also have two specific questions:
1. Does the website easily explain what EteSync does? Even to less technical people?
2. I'm still trying to come up with a short tag-line that represents what EteSync is. My current favourite is: Full history, fully yours, only yours. But I feels a bit wrong. Can't explain exactly why.

P.S. both client and server are open source.
If you want to get a really serious treatment on AI (and probably the single one in the history of TV/cinema that actually makes sense), check out Person of Interest (ironically, by the same team which now makes Westworld).
> Having a reference that the GC doesn't collect

Using such object is/can be as dangerous.

In fact I find double-free safer because it usually crashes (and in my code I do checks so it almost certainly crashes), while in C# I can happily use such object without knowing it. But as I said, it depends on specific use case.
If we have been wrong about prohibition of marihuana for so long, then it seems reasonable to ask "are we not wrong about all drug prohibition"?

Like honestly, who really cares if people make a personal decision to take cocaine or ecstasy or whatever? It's not something I'd do, and doesn't seem good for your health, but apart from that, it's not harming anyone other than the consumer. And if all drugs are freely available and manufactured professionally then they would be much safer and more predicatable and far less likely for people to overdose due to variances in strength of street drugs.

Cheap, clean freely available drugs mean that addicts don't have to dedicate their lives to their habits and thus are more likely to hold together ordinary family life and jobs.
In Danish we have a word "fagidiot" which means idiot of your field. It's the kind of things that make it impossible for someone who's been in the army to enjoy a movie if they don't use the machine gun properly or a designer to appreciate the casting in the end if the typography is not kerned properly.

The things that matter to someone who spent a lot of time in any given field are rarely the important things to anyone else.

Edit: And no it's not pronounced with a hard g but with a soft g.
Avid golfer here, while I agree with your premise on the threat to Titleist that KSIGS present. I went out and played 4-5 rounds with the Kirkland Signature and it couldn't hold a candle to the tournament balls I normally play. For a competitive golfer, the ball just is not up to par. For your weekend warrior, its a perfectly fine ball and probably better than the prov1(x) as the cover is much harder and won't wear out as fast.
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Is you "economics background" a BA, by any chance?

The people who say economics "became religion" are usually those whose only exposure to economics is through secondhand knowledge (ie. they read about it in media) or took a handful of undergraduate classes.

Take a look at what modern economics research looks like [1]. Seriously, read __any__ of those articles and come tell me with a straight face it's not doing normal science (come up with theory, test with empirical data).

Economics is the most scientific it's ever been, most graduate curriculum, and even some undergrad, are veering towards the applied statistics arm of economics because it's what's been most successful in the last 20 years. Granted there are empirical problems in, say, macro, but that's mainly due to lack of data.

Economics is also probably the most politicized it's been in a long time at the moment, I agree with you in that. Apart from a few venues like Planet Money or Freakonomics, there isn't much pop-economics like there is pop-science in other fields like physics. Moreover, the incentive to politicize economics is much greater than other sciences.

[1] http://www.nber.org/new.html is a good place for free versions of upcoming papers.
This is not normal by any means.
Ask HN: How to proxify emails?
I'm running a store platform for which buyers coordinates are sensitive. In order to prevent sellers to store the buyers coordinates to be independent, I am looking for ways to alias phone numbers and emails.

So far, I've found Twilio which seems great for SMS and Call with Virtual Phone Numbers.

But I can't find a similar way for emails. Is there any I missed?
Same happened to me after a long flight to Malaysia. Going from airport to KL, meter shows 90MYR and the guy asks for 150MYR adding up tolls, night tax etc.
What should I do, fight the guy for 10EUR? Note it was a licensed cab booked from the Airport counter.

Used Uber for the rest of my vacation there and it was great.
would you care if every transaction you did on your bank account also fucked you out of 2 cents?

We (me in Portugal but a lot of Europe as well) have laws to prevent this kind of fraud. Gas stations, scales in supermarkets, etc all have to be 'validated' every year to make sure no funny business is going on. If you end up fucking up, the fines can/will probably make you close shop.

You may not care, but if for each litre of petrol the station sells, it pocketed one cent, we are talking thousands of euros fraud per day. If most shops do this, the customers are being defrauded of millions.

You still think it is ok?
If he is so unconcerned with verifying his test results, perhaps luminaries in his discipline should write to the journals where his papers are being published pointing out the uncorrected errors and suggest that the journal's editorial department be supplemented to fine tooth comb his assertions.
Certainly with acid rain, a lot of policies where put in place to try to reduce acid rain in response to those predictions. Any analysis about whether the predictions about acid rain where correct or not cannot be done without also studying the effects of those policies.
What are the best alternatives for find freelancers?
The new law actually liberalized the market a lot and is pretty smart I think. We have had 'strict' regulation on taxis as long as I know, but the new law makes it easier to enter the market while still ensuring stuff like the drivers are trained, know first aid and pay taxes. It also manages to regulate taxi-driving as a business while not killing ride sharing. You can deduct any expenses related to a trip, and if the payment only covers costs the trip is defined as ride sharing, for which you don't have to be registered as a taxi driver.

I think it makes sense to advocate a level playing field and having a situation where two companies are in the same market but one is heavily regulated and the other is not is not fair or desirable. Uber could stay on the danish market, but choose not to because they will not be able to denounce all responsibility for their employees which is a central part of their business plan.
So what are the sensible reasons? Can you provide any beyond vague speculation and "maybe"?
How much does VR application development cost?
Is there a definitive history or record of how this scene was created, how those values came to be?
Well, they definitely had good reason, it's just that the feature isn't very useful without the extra work. Although, I don't know exactly how much functionality is missing, so I might be wrong.
For us without the access to twitter, can please somebody write what the hell the person learned? "Here's what" titles are the worst I know.
Because you can fiscalize a fare meter, not someone's phone GPS tracker module.
>> Think about all religions, they come from the quest to live forever deeply inside human's unconscious

>Yeah, I don't agree with this one either.

Follow the commandments and you are guaranteed to live forever in heaven. It doesn't get more concrete than that.
Explainer and animated video production
It's much easier to beat the 'writer's block' when there's a large,captive audience for your work.
I don't smoke marijuana but I welcome it primarily because I hope that freely available marijuana will mean people are less inclined to try meth.

People want to get high, and if they can't get some pot down at the shop, then I think they are more likely to try much more dangerous drugs.
Same here. I'm sceptical about most of the "big ideas" - most of them are marketing bullshit. Doubly so when it's a startup - the goal usually is to bullshit people so that they come on board and enable the founders to have their exit.

But Elon Musk I trust. He's shown time and again that he honestly wants to realize those ideas, and not pursue them for the money. He also has a pretty good track record there. I'm hoping there will be more people like Musk though; I think we desperately need them.
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It is my understanding that the banks will still accept them but as a retailer you no longer have to.
> Many people have eyesight that progressively gets worse and require a new rx yearly.

And many people have had the same prescription for 4-5 years or more, and don't have eyes that continue to get worse.

I think the GP's point was that either your eyes continue to get worse every year, and you need new glasses, and LASIK probably won't last forever, or you don't, and LASIK is a one-time expense that will take quite a while to break even on in a strictly financial sense.
SV just can not be trusted with biology. The mottos of failure is OK, lawsuits are cheaper than following laws, move faster than the ramifications, force it to be all or nothing, and just ignoring the fact that there will be fallout. I don't want to be a plaything experiment of a Silicon Valley psychopath.

The brain has so many moving parts, no security, and just far too trusting of what's in it to start injecting thoughts and information into it.
Side effects include potential dry eye, ectasia and glare at night time.
I don't like the smell of Cheetos (which is legal), but I don't fight with people that eats it on a bus/airplane (although it makes me angry).

What I mean is that we should get in an agreement good for everyone, not the common patronizing discourse of non-smokers been right, smokers wrong.
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> I want those two bananas and if the scale says its 2.19, and im fine with that, do I really care whether the scale showed the correct weight? Seriously?

You might not care for that individual transaction, but you're benefiting from the scale having been validated nonetheless.

If scales weren't validated, stores would be in an armageddon about how far they can cheat you in order to appear cheaper than other stores. The grocery market wouldn't be functional. Rather than competing on giving buyers value, they'd be competing on how far they can cheat buyers instead. Honest grocers wouldn't be able to compete. You'd effectively be paying a corruption tax on all your groceries; not just those two bananas.
Right, but this is a political problem. H-O (or Ricardian trade) is about the simplest model of trade you can come up with to show the concept.

It's not like economists don't know there are problems in distribution of wealth -- one of the most discussed papers last year (see these podcasts [1] [2]) talks about the effects of China massively expanding trade with the US in early 2000s on some parts of the country.

Pretty much everyone has known for half a century what trade does, there's a political and logistical problem in redistribution, though (counties tend to get devastated, and people don't like to move).

Interestingly, trade has extremely similar labor market effects to automation.

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/03/david_autor_on_1.ht...

[2] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-eat-americas-jobs/
Good job of convincing or educating me with that strong argument. How about you tell me how it works instead? Right now you're making it sound like a schizophrenic can do whatever they want, whenever they want because they are victims. Even if it's outside an episode.
I think it's okay in this case, with taxi meters. The Uber app shows you the route and cost before you commit to it. And, you can verify the calculation with other free tools if you want. A meter in the taxi is actually less useful. It accurately measures distance, but doesn't tell you if the driver took the shortest route.