skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I concur with that observation (UK) completely and it is alas down to the shift of families owning two cars more than anything else.

Alas we now have whole generations of children who do not walk to school and this is in a time in which school selection now means that the students are more able to have a school nearer home than the past (or course always exceptions and the countryside always has that aspect).

This not only has a very noticeable impact upon roads (at a time they are least able to accommodate traffic and add to the problem and pollution) but also has seen a rise in child obesity and alas the way this is tackled is by things like sugar tax, that penalizes everybody. Then again you have the same with alcohol, few people drink to much so they want to introduce a minimum price per unit of alcohol to combat that and again, penalise everybody at the expense of the few.

But if a Government can be `seen` to be addressing a problem by adding a TAX over promoting and encouraging a more healthy lifestyle like kids walking to school, then they always go for the TAX option, sadly.

Now what really is a sad situation is many parents drive there kids to school as they feel the roads are not safe with all the traffic, that in itself only add's to the issue and befuddles me, mentality wise.

Maybe time to suggest to goverments that cars should be taxed if a family own's more than one. I'm sure they would jump at that option as they so love to use TAX as a solution. But until then, I love school holidays as it is the only time in which the roads are so much easier and quicker to navigate and that is from a public transport bus perspective alone. One journey I used to make would take an hour during school open times and during school holidays would be, between 25-50% quicker.

Another interesting observation I have made was that during school holidays nowadays there tends to be more road works, which can offset some gains and that is a trend that becomes more and more prominent. I can only surmise they do this to minimise impact, which only highlights the issue with school run cars without addressing and tacking it in any way, shape or form.

Again this is from a UK perspective in the London and surrounding area or urban sprawl and would be interested if the same trends/issues are as common in other countries urban area's.
#allemannenhandinhand
Frictionless WebVR Development Workflows with Motion Capture
Well, the platform is not just about client apps, people use Twitter's data and features for all kinds of things. You're welcome to build on the platform if you've got a good idea.
Java applets on the Web were tried! They failed largely due to performance.
The training data consisted of 82 million reviews, so I'm sure that phrase (or slight variants) occurred hundreds of thousands of times.
This is what I want. I've been wanting to build something like this for a long time. Something where I own my data. I can back it up and if my laptop gets stolen, I just import my data on a new machine and we're good to go.

The challenges that I see:
- Making it easy for any user to get up and running.
- De-authenticating old devices.
- Making it available from any mobile device.
I wasn't comparing anything. I was proposing a suggestion and only mentioned usenet as a means of explanation.

> I'm simply pointing out the error in the premise of your question.

No, you made a non-sequitur factual post about Usenet. I see no actual error pointed out. The fact that Usenet stopped expiring non-binary posts after most of their traffic fled to other services is not a valid argument against possibly using the feature in a peer to peer distributed social network.
Scientists Hack a Human Cell and Reprogram It Like a Computer
The modern conception of money is that something is the a good of exchange and a good of account. I would argue both of those have been invented independently both in various decentralized ways and by a state.

You can also keep accounts in your head. The concept stays the same if you write it down or not.

If the notes you are circulation are IOUs for that good then that does not change the underlying concept.

> Maybe I misunderstand, but it's not the whole point that markets deliver better solutions for everybody that any kind of central planning?

Markets come about as soon as you have property rights. Property rights come about in many ways (I have other comments in this thread making this point).

When you of course go impose a property rights solution on a society then that is of course a form of central planning.

So I would say again, you can have both, you can central plan a market, but not all markets are centrally planed.
I'd never read the wiki on it, and was pleased to see a criticism section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology#Criticism

Mainstream evangelicalism has consistently opposed prosperity theology as heresy[37] and prosperity ministries have frequently come into conflict with other Christian groups, including those within the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.[35] Critics, such as Evangelical pastor Michael Catt, have argued that prosperity theology has little in common with traditional Christian theology.[71] Prominent evangelical leaders, such as Rick Warren,[27] Ben Witherington III,[27] and Jerry Falwell,[72] have harshly criticized the movement, sometimes denouncing it as heretical.[27] Warren proposes that prosperity theology promotes the idolatry of money, and others argue that Jesus' teachings indicate a disdain for material wealth.[27] In Mark: Jesus, Servant and Savior, R. Kent Hughes notes that some 1st-century rabbis portrayed material blessings as a sign of God's favor. He cites Jesus' statement in Mark 10:25 that "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" (KJV) as evidence to oppose such thinking.[73]
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Does it normally take too long indexing database? since I started the app have been a long while.
I thought this could be a nice tool to use in places like Cuba, but I've realized now, that once connected to a Pub it download more than 1 GB, that would be a problem too in a place with lack of internet bandwidth.
I've been using OmniROM (https://omnirom.org/); it was a fork of Cyanogenmod when they went commercial initially. Not sure what the difference is between it and LineageoOS or why the lineage people didn't just start developing for omnirom; maybe they still have political differences or something. Regardless, it seems to work well.
>Meanwhile I'm in search of a long-range, wireless communication system that can function like a network without the need of an ISP. Anyone know anything about this?

Mesh networks/WANETs. But you need enough adoption for the network to be considered long-range. Generally they are local-only.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_ad_hoc_network
The Active Directory Domain Services Is Currently Unavailable
Ahh yes, the always tired retort of "people in the past/in a different place have it worse, so you have no right to complain"

totally legitimate argument, im sure your grandfather fought hard for there to never be better working conditions for his grandchildren, and would hate that working conditions have gotten better and continue to improve.

have you ever complained that something tastes bad? dont forget theres starving children in africa, so you aren't allowed to complain about your food tasting bad, because someone has it worse, right?

Have you ever been thirsty and asked someone for water? that gall on you! people die everyday from dehydration, you being thirsty is just hipster self pity, you aren't going to die, so you aren't thirsty

see also:

>Fallacy of relative privation ("not as bad as") – dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument.
Very interesting. I wonder if they tried to predict part-of-speech tags.
It is not shocking at all that the bank had sloppy accounting. You don't get very many highly motivated professionals to sit around an office and help people fill out checking account applications all day. It's a retail gig with a fairly low salary, not much different than running a register at the Gap. If you are doing anything even slightly out of the ordinary you will run into headaches more often than not.
Sorry. I should have said primary and secondary.
That sounds like something you should be able to do with subtractive synthesis. If you don't have an analog synthesizer lying around, you can try software like maybe zynAddSubFx. If you set the pitch bend range wide, you could simulate smoothly revving from low to high RPM.

I have a Moog Slim Phatty that does an interesting/glitchy thing if you try to play notes that are too low for it, where at some threshold the oscillators slow way down. If you use pitch bend to ride the edge of that threshold, it sounds like a car engine trying to turn over, catching for a few cycles, stalling, and so on.
Pepsi ad review: A scene-by-scene dissection of the worst commercial of all time
For relays, that is more or less what the pub servers do. I connect to a relay, and if I subscribe to a channel or follow an individual, I end up with messages from months ago. The pub servers "gossip" with each other, so any particular pub server you connect to, should be able to catch you up on all of your friends and channels "gossip".
I love JavaScript :-)
This article is no better than a back-cover summary of " Bitten By Witch Fever".

Such a great and intriguing topic, and such a stilted article :/
A NSFW warning would have been nice. I'm lucky nobody was walking past my desk when I opened that...
I attended a Google interview coaching session yesterday (if you get in touch with a recruiter, they'll send you an link to RSVP for one in session, and I think they're all recorded). It was led by, if I remember correctly, a fairly senior manager whose team was working on machine learning for recruiting, so he had some fairly specific experience with this.

Two things he mentioned that stand out for your question: first, Google attempts to hire generalists, or at least "fungible specialists". Three of your five SE interviews will be general CS algorithms questions; the other two are likely to be specialized if you're interviewing for a specialized role. I don't think that it's likely to be different from the other "Software Engineer, Foo" interviews (e.g., "Software Engineer, Front End" or "Software Engineer, Mobile"), where at least one of the remaining two interviews will probably be specific to Foo.

Second, he specifically complained about people who show up and say "I want to do machine learning" and then say they have no machine learning experience / background. There are apparently a very small number of teams who will train a bright person how to do ML, but in general you're expected to have some background with it.

This seems like the sort of thing you should ask your recruiter (after getting in touch with one) and perhaps ask at a coaching session, if there's one in your city. I am a little genuinely confused that they seem to think their interviews need a coaching session, but hey, at least it's progress.
How can you tell what SpaceX's culture is like?

Note that ULA does change things from time to time, but never does a test launch.

Meanwhile, SpaceX is on the 3rd or 4th revision of F9, but their accidents have not been related to changes to the rocket.
I never use backwards comparability either. Part of the reason is games are incredibly time consuming these days. I barely have time to enjoy new titles to completion, revisiting last generation titles isn't even on my radar.
In addition to all the existing competition, I find this news disheartening. Things like this seem like they are about legacy for people like Bezos. It would be nice if some of the multi billionaires started some not for profit companies to solve the existing problems we have like clean energy, clean water, sustainable agriculture, etc. Especially in this case since Musk has already spent a ton on this.
SetSDK launches API so transportation apps can predict where users want to go
When 6' is classed as tall then is 5'6" really classed as short by standards, even for that time? Again that is based upon others in that country and average heights per country do vary greatly and in some countries Napoleon would be classed as average or indeed tall. Though personally I would not class him as short.
The grid spec has something kind of similar through defining "regions". It's been a godsend.
Something like https://mbasic.facebook.com/?
I just saw a stat yesterday that NYC taxi medallions reached their lowest value with a total of 13.6k medallions in existence; compare with 50k Uber/Lyft drivers.
Original source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-projec...

And HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050338
I wan't to buy this man a beer
Here's one: Use:

git push --force-with-lease

Instead of

git push -f

(Obviously ideally you'd never do either, but sometimes life happens.)

The advantage of the former over the latter is that it won't push if you haven't already seen the ref you're overwriting. It avoids the race condition of accidentally "push -f"ing over a commit you haven't seen.

(Why this isn't the default, I have no idea.)
Also, first they write:

> We were very surprised that our model learned an interpretable feature, and that simply predicting the next character in Amazon reviews resulted in discovering the concept of sentiment.

And then they write:

> We believe the phenomenon is not specific to our model, but is instead a general property of certain large neural networks that are trained to predict the next step or dimension in their inputs.

So they can't explain why a phenomenon is occurring, but they think that it generalizes to other contexts.

I find it all very unconvincing. Is this kind of writing common in the deep learning literature?
Wait, what stories did you hear about the particular teacher I'm talking about?
The "best tools money can buy" is too objective.

What you're really trying to get at is that you'll get a decent computer, not a hand-me-down laptop from a salesman who couldn't sell anything.
* advancing the state of the art

It says right at the top: "we get 91.8% accuracy versus the previous best of 90.2%" on a standard sentiment corpus. In addition, their method needs less training data than previous approaches.

* Were there any insights learned that give a deeper understanding of these phenomena?

The main appeal lies in the fact that a model trained on a (1) different and (2) very general task basically "in passing" also learned to predict sentiment (i.e., a specialized task that more or less arose from the domain the general model was trained on), and pretty much through a single neuron (out of the 4096 used). The authors speculate that this might be a general effect that could also be transferred to other prediction tasks.
I agree with your sentiment, but it applies to a lot of popular companies, especially debt financed companies that don't charge their users. When they stick their hand in the VC cookie jar, the necrotic hand on the other side, grabs them and pulls them in.
...and the same definition of "prosperity gospel"?
In theory, Hacker News could still be a nice place to discuss things. I'm uninterested in Uber; I'm saying that Ggp is being silly.
Facebook’s New Plan May Curb Revenge Porn, but Won’t Kill It
Is assembly language not useful for mere humans? Certainly, every human-friendly programming language abstraction that we use today is built off of something like assembly language.
Mind you, this is not a scientific publication but a blog post that has intentionally tried to adapt the tone to that medium, presumably to appeal to a wider audience.
I never knew that in this drawing Leonardo was trying his hand at illustrating a well-known passage from Vitruvius, thus the name.

Leonardo was interested in human proportions, and made a lot of notes of comparative anatomy, motivated mostly I think by his interest in accurate artistic depictions.

I have used the Vitruvian Man to remember that my arm-span is roughly the same as my height, when it comes to estimating measurements.
Why Stop Multitasking
A gold coin can be money, a bank circulating a IOU that allows withdrawal from bank of one gold coin is called fiduciary media. The underlying money is still gold not the note.
I find the fact that people believe this to be really quite frightening.

Sure, you feel great after a few drinks, that is kinda the point. But you are still impaired. Driving is not an activity where confidence helps. Reaction time matters and that goes down from your first drink.
sometimes when you have a lot of tasks to do you do them at the same time depends on what tasks you are doing, and this is actually not a smart thing to because you are actually not multitasking you are just switching tasks in unproductive way, this article made it clear what multitasking actually is.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice...
Look, kids. You are going to have to have an execution layer you can trust somewhere, you can't just expose your data store directly to the outside world or you run into an infinite number of security issues[1]. (Not that this is stopping people from doing exactly this these days.)

That somewhere is going to be a server side execution environment, and it will be separate from your data store so you can scale these concerns independently. Additionally, you are probably going to want a DSL for your data access as well as a highly tuned indexing system for your data store.

We have systems that do this, they are called databases. Are they perfect? No. Nothing is. But the idea that they have "failed the web" is so over-the-top childish that, like the author says at the end of his post, I'm not inclined to be charitable.

[1] - http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.ht...
There's a polyfill that should help on unsupported browsers: https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill/

It ain't perfect, but it works pretty decently.
https://www.ivpn.net/
Ahem. I feel that you're talking around my points entirely.

There are two possibilities:

1) all things are only accidentally so in our world (including triangles, according to you). In which case, we will never have enough information to say if the sum of accidents is "better" or "worse" than the sum of accidents in any other world. The only "proof" of such a world would be experiencing it, in which case it wouldn't be an "other world," it would be our world.

2) some things are "necessarily so," in our world, in which case they would be necessarily so in all worlds we can possibly "image-ine," (that is, conceptualize).

Thus with respect to pain,
the "bad-ness" of pain either follows from its definition, or it doesn't. If it follows from its definition, then there is no possible world in which pain will be "good." If it does not follow from its definition, then pain need not be bad in this world either.

edit: this is why I said Leibniz's theodicy is "nearly apodictic": his argument is essentially deductive, flowing from the very nature of reason and experience. Now, whether or not this constitutes an acceptable theodicy is a different question entirely. My point is that anybody can see the unacceptability of the argument; it takes a philosopher to see the cleverness of the argument.
Yeah, I have a nice 4K tv and I still think 4k is a bit of a red herring. I even moved my couch a foot closer. The only thing I noticed is that I can now distinguish between 720p and 1080p where I couldn't on my old 1080p tv.

I think 4k is more important on 25" to 30" computer monitors that are perched just a couple feet away. I'm not convinced it makes a difference on a wall mounted TV.

I think the more exciting bits of progress are the wide color gamut and HDR.
Well there is

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.l...

and

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.m...

But neither seem to be eligible for some reason.
Drchrono raises $12M Series A takes on older EHR's like athenahealth
Should America Have Entered World War I?
My wife is Armenian and I have visited 5 times. It is a beautiful country with a rich and friendly culture. They love visitors. I highly recommend visiting!
I'd have expected most people to have a laptop at home. Maybe I'm unusual, or maybe the people I know are unusual, but I don't know many who use a desktop PC at home any more.

Desktop work PCs are still common, but you're not going to spend your own money on them.
really? I mean, I could probably make a version for folks to test.
It only has git support and SFTP.

Committing to git currently works, push works, but sometimes says it fails. Still looking into this.

Color syntax highlighting works with your handwriting, but in the "worksheet" (an interactive shell) it does not yet.
Why fMRI Inferences for Spatial Extent Have Inflated False-Positive Rates
I think security in general has gotten so bad that keeping things secure by putting them under lock and key is much more practical than using any of the myriad different useless security products that claim to protect you.
In terms of architecture and features the 1080ti and Titan Xp are the same, the only difference is the Titan Xp is slightly faster and has 1GB extra VRAM.

If your workload can be efficiently split between multiple cards then a $1400 pair of 1080tis will vastly outperform a $1200 Titan Xp - 16% more money for nearly double the throughput.
Well, my good idea was a client app, so no, I'm (and I suspect a good group of other) not welcome anymore.

Frankly, it should be a lot more about client apps and new ways to use the information in a personal manner instead of creating an API that looks for all the world like something I can use to automate my support staff on twitter and fire a bunch of people.
I still find it strange that we consider the Europe/Asia distinction relevant now that we know they're part of the same tectonic plate.

They're still separate cultural regions, maybe (insofar as religions that tend to spread through one will peter out at the borders of the other), but if we're talking about regions of cultural influence, then the ex-Soviet states are all effectively "Europe", while the Middle East [in modernity] forms its own region.

But for some reason we keep trying to classify things as "in Europe" or "in Asia." There's no there there, folks.
History says otherwise. Usenet shows, in the ever growing ratio of binaries to non-binaries traffic from (roughly) the 1990s onwards, that in terms of the literal weight (i.e. the traffic volume) the uses that you talk about very much did outweigh the "legitimate" uses, by an order of magnitude at least.

And the history of Usenet also shows that people do think that the fact that something is mis-used should preclude any use of it. One can look to the history of how several organizations discontinued their Usenet services as a lesson for that, too.
And in today's wallpaper (and paint, and wall construction, etc), VOCs are making people sick. And there are plenty of people who say it isn't harmful.
It doesn't matter how you feel about it, take a look at people complaining when Google put a news article about Facebook at the top of the results instead of the Facebook login page:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/feb/11/face...

These are people who typed "Facebook Login" into a Google search, clicked the first result without reading, and got confused. Now tell these same users that Comcast blocked their social network or that they can't log in on their phone because their home Internet connection is down.

If you want a social network filled with just people like you and me, look at App.net or GNU Social for inspiration. If you want average users to sign in, these issues absolutely do have to be solved.