skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you said, superstitions didn't prevent your uncle from building rockets. I propose to 'allow' personal beliefs and tribal identities and keep science out of the line of fire as much as possible. It's unfortunate when religion influences real world politics, likewise it's unfortunate that atheist preachers use science as a platform and create an us-vs-them mentality.

Also, quite a bit of that half-serious scepticism is actually critical thinking; an experiment in researching topics, finding additional angles to complex issues and expressing dissenting opinions which was not possible before the internet.

So let's say the moon landing was fake, just for fun. Let's look at the fotos, look for clues or contradictions in old publications. Let's say you're ill and in pain, and none of the doctors could help or give relief.

It's easy to see the appeal of finding your own truth, no?
I poked my nose into the Improbable's public API docs. What I saw looked like an OK Entity-Component-System straight out of /r/gamedev + some C# serialization so that you could have Systems (aka "functions") run on different nodes on a network.

What did I not notice that's worth half a bil?
I agree so much. I think there should be a tool for building interactions as well. I think code is not the right job for this either, but we have no other option ATM.
Given we’re sharing quote lists, allow me to spruik[1] my own contribution — Q4TD: Get one, per day. Available at the following places:

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/q4td

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/quote4theday

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Blog: https://q4td.blogspot.com/

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.” — Michel de Montaigne

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/spruik
It's Now Super Easy to Install Atom Text Editor on Ubuntu
to be fair, we're also usually not flying around inside a room
Isn't it a bit ironic, given your concern with 90s-era Microsoft practices...

...that your comment is basically just FUD?

I'm not saying your wrong! But your comment is, clearly, intended to make people feel fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Microsoft, the Windows platform, what MS may choose to do in the future, etc. And you don't have any particular factual claims to back it up (classic FUD tactic), just an appeal to authority ("as a senior sysadmin") and some handwaving about events that took place long before most of us were actually in the workforce. I mean, I'm the oldest dev on my team, and I was a teenager when the Halloween Documents were published.

We live in a very different world. I'm not saying MS wouldn't abuse their power if they could, but you know...what power? And how does WSL provide them an opening? At this point, I'm much, much more concerned about Facebook than Microsoft, and I think the onus is on MS critics to explain exactly what they fear. And no, chanting "embrace, extend, extinguish" is not an explanation.
That's not entirely correct. Allo isn't suitable for consumers, because you can't be logged into more that one device at once (last time I tried it you had to actually reactivate it every time you switched device). Additionally there is no web interface.

Hangouts does have an enterprise story, but I don't understand what Google's strategy is. I'm not sure they have one.
Any place I can visit on Earth will be not so much different as a planet on Alpha Centauri. More unknowns. More information to process.

Another thing is potentiality. If I want, I can afford to go to any place on Earth (I have to save some money for, say, South Pole, but it is still possible). But I can't go beyond Solar System, ever. Maybe it is my character, but when I hear about something that I "can't" do, I become obsessed by it until I can, or at least I can chart a path to this, even potentially.

And it's not I am not trying. I lived (as a legal resident) in six different countries, and visited around 35 more. I saw dark forests, and volcanoes, and icebergs, and glaciers, and other natural wonders. I am not as proficient as some pro-grade travellers who visited every country on Earth, but I hope to see more.
Not trivial if it turns out vaccines are linked to autism.. don't assume everyone is a hard utilitarian
Note that the "ulcer story" is more complicated that the mainstream story. In particular: ulcers are exacerbated by stress, so it's not completely surprising people thought they were "caused by" stress. Also, in many people, the bacteria that causes ulcers also have other protective effects (more commonly in third world countries with poor sanitation).

In the case of CFS, there are probably multiple underlying etiologies, only some of which are induced by microbes.
> The company believes it has developed revolutionary technology with its Spatial OS operating system ... allowing small developers to create massive simulations without much infrastructure of their own.

If that's the case I can't help but feel this is a gross misuse of the VR buzzword in the headline. This is cool stuff, but we call that cloud computing, not VR.
There is a phone number listed on the site given in your HN profile. Can you be reached via txt at that number?

Definitely remove that site from your HN profile, as the other posted suggested. It plus google severely compromises your privacy.
The first evidence is a direct evidence, but limited only to my direct channel, which is my personal experience.

The second evidence is an indirect evidence. If average APL programmers can write and read programs at the same speed (character count/minute) as average programmers for other languages, Java for instance, then APL programmer will possess significant advantage in finishing similar programming tasks, given that the typical code size is often a few orders smaller. Why such advantage is not embraced and see APL programmers everywhere? My hypothesis is avg APL prgrammers program at much slower speed.

Like any science, I cannot say my hypothesis is conclusive. I am open (eager) to hear and examine any other evidences (and change my hypothesis if necessary).
Thanks for that link - it happens to have information at the intersection of several of my interests.
Thought the same. Or computation, or any other sort of functional benefit...
Because they don't want them to have less than $500 in their savings account, like a normal person.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings...
"if it turns out vaccines are linked to autism"

I don't believe you, please show me some peer reviewed science instead of waiving around some ^hokey-pokey^ rubbery belief.
Ok, but I think you should change your PUV to something like: 'travel and fit into new culture' or something related to your main goal.
On the other hand, I think that find schools and locals teachers should not be your main product, it should be a section of Waysily, not the main value that you give your users, because I am not sure if there is a big market to this.
You are missing the point. It's not for you to re-enter the PIN every once in a while, it's to prevent a potential attacker with physical access to your phone to unlock it, exactly when the phone itself it's not phisically with you (and so you have nothing to mess with).

Anyways it would only mitigate the risk without fixing the root problem.
> Then why not dev on GNU+linux?

So I can have sleep and wifi working properly and working 3D acceleration for Apps and Games.
This is interesting, as I've had the exact opposite experience. I've bought more than a few EA games, and in every case I got something out of the deal, usually followed by finished product. (Although the quality of that finished product can be questionable)

Kickstarter on the other hand seems to deliver an EA game, which then has the same risks as a normal EA title. Often times you've just thrown away some cash without even a demo to show for it.
I lived in West Richland as a kid while my dad was working at Hanford. Beautiful area!
Follower of Christ here. The short answer is, you can't trust anything. Science is neutral and good because, if true, you can reproduce and see for yourself. The problem is, you can't trust the reporting. I see science-related reports the same way I see political reports – bias with an incentive to lie.

If I were well-versed enough to read the white papers, I would probably trust it a little more. But even then you can't be certain unless you perform the experiment yourself; it's not uncommon for scientists to leave out inconvenient data to get the result they want.

Such is the state of this world – you can't truly know a fact for a fact unless you actually see it for yourself. And even then there's room for doubt :)
You might want to look into Google Voice. Free number for texting, calls over data. I receive and send texts and calls from a browser too.
If a bison left the national park and rammed your car, you might fairly believe you were entitled to some compensation

I cannot fairly comprehend the entitled mentality needed for me to ever think that. Shit happens, quit whining. No matter, it's a poor analogy. The government is subsidizing ranchers because the government said, "can't shoot 'em." "Well, WTF are we supposed to do, then?", say the ranchers. So the government pays per carcass.
Thanks for replying! I'll certainly be looking forward to the publication.

>about 10% of people who come in to the cardiology clinic experiencing symptoms are diagnosed with an abnormal heart rhythm

OK, but I'd be more careful about staying apples to apples in your comparisons; your app is about asymptomatic AFib. So how many of those people going to the cardiology clinic had undiagnosed AFib; for how many of those would a new diagnosis of AFib have changed the plan of care; etc. Kind of like robbiep was saying, I would be interested in actual added value from the larger perspective.

Totally appreciate your point about perfect being the enemy of the good. The danger is that these semi-medical wearables currently straddle a strange zone between medical and consumer use. The inevitable marketing strategy is to co-opt the positive reputation of medical products while acknowledging none of the pitfalls of consumer products. Most of the screening methods you bring up are used by a doctor on symptomatic patients with a suggestive history, and only as a partial component of clinical judgement. The way Cardiogram seems to make the most money, on the other hand, is to sell the product to asymptomatic, casual users. (Furthermore, CHA2DS2-Vasc costs 30 seconds of talking or reading a medical record, not $700 in Apple products.) So you're inevitably running up against some doubts among physicians [0].

And finally, I agree that more machine learning practitioners should join medical research. I hope the field works to set more reasonable expectations, however, as in: ML will solve very specific subtasks in clinical reasoning (as in the diabetic retinopathy study [1]). Instead, the headlines usually ratchet that up to "AI will replace radiology/cardiology/$specialty in X years." That tends to hurt the people currently in the trenches, since their contribution in bringing about practical, incremental change is diminished. The top answer of this Quora thread [2] has a good discussion of the many dimensions of the problem.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Abraham_Jacob/status/860119573915287552

[1]: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2588763

[2]: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-machine-learning-not-more-widel...
Loom.ai does just that: https://www.loomai.com/

(disclaimer: I work here)

We're still pretty early stage, but hope to open up our developer API/SDK soon!
In "real life"—unless there was some absolute urgency to the problem—you wouldn't try to reconstruct a smudged partial print; you'd just use social engineering/espionage tactics to get a good print.

(Remember that iOS locks and/or wipes devices after 10 failed attempts. You want to go to however much effort is required to be perfect the first time.)

I can think of a number of situations one could create where a person would have no incredulity about actually inking their fingers and carefully applying fingerprints to a piece of paper. Committed adversaries aren't scared of crimes like "impersonating a police officer", remember.
Differentiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_differentiation
An Algorithm, an ETF and an Academic Study Walk into a Bar
Ah, Gila!

Everything that I have seen on the ground makes me think that livestock can't be beneficial for an ecosystem, be it a desert or a forest. All I have seen from cows in the west is damage. The times have changed. The economy is different. The priorities of the country and people's attitudes have changed (conservation). It is time to get cows off public lands where it makes little economical sense.

BTW, in your case it is not grey wolf, but even a more endangered mexican wolf, correct? These are critically endangered, if I remember correctly.
First principles. A priori logic. There is a long history of antiempiricists in philosophy.
Until we disregard the DNC/RNC and their theatre democracy (they admitted in court they have control of rigging the primaries), eliminate billion dollar campaigns, there will never be an honest candidate without strings attached.
Spot on.

Hope you didn't miss my point though. Say you discover data that leads you to suggest a different vaccination procedure. That is difficult to communicate in an ideologically entrenched environment, don't you think?

Look how the parent post expressed discomfort already in the face of harmless new information relating to neurons.
Clients do get a ton of spam but there are better solutions than resorting to xenophobia.

From my experience as a client, 90% of the spam proposals are copy-pasted so they could simply filter them out.

They could also reduce 'connects' (freelancers have a maximum amount of points they can use to apply for jobs. You can buy more points).
More than anything, Windows 2000 'felt' great. It's hard to explain, but the UI felt smooth, solid, and stable.

That feeling hasn't been since in any versions of windows since then.
In Washington state, ranchers are subsidized. They are allowed to graze their cattle on public land for free, and when wolves kill their cattle, Washington state Fish and Wildlife uses helicopters to kill the wolves at over $1,000/hour cost to taxpayers.

They are killing the Profanity Peak pack as we speak because a rancher refused to not let his cattle graze unmonitored right next to their den. Why should I have to pay because some rancher refuses to move his cattle to some other land he also doesn't have to pay to use?

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/profani...
Patent owners could use it too, but overall it would make invalidating patents and resolving patent disputes faster, easier, and cheaper.
Thanks for taking the time to ask that question! This was super interesting.
Am I the only one who read that as "UK virtual reality firm improbably raises $500m"?
Whose Sign Is It Anyway? AI Translates Sign Language into Text
My favorite are the people who shilled for Jill stein all campaign, saying democrats are no different than republicans - then blamed democrats for republicans stripping the ahca, saying they should have stopped them. Rania Khalek is a prime example of this type of non ironic hot take.
Larry Page Disguised Himself During Darpa Challenge to Hire Sebastian Thrun
Those aren't equivalent events though. There's no risk to being somewhere a flood happened a billion years ago.
? I don't get that logic... And neither do half of my friends. The other 50% actually don't get it, either. But I did only ask <100 people.
Maybe? It's certainly the dominant theory but I wouldn't ascribe real truth to it. There are certainly species today that operate this way but there's no way to prove they represent the origin of multicellularity. There's no reason to even believe it happened only once.
So you're saying that if Hillary Clinton was elected she would have instituted a Muslim ban?
Thats certainly better than trusting just to faith to solve things and understandable. I would say about the same. Its an interesting philosophical problem, what we know, and how we know it. I guess instead of black and white trust or not trust I would rephrase and question peoples distrust of highly likely things.
As to #1: they say you _can_ get near-native speed, not that you _will_ get it. Applications that spend lots of time inside Windows APIs will be faster than those that don't.

I think that Office version already is native, and that they gamble/expect that the likes of Photoshop and Mathematica will soon ship real native versions (rightfully so, as that is what happened when Apple jumped PC architectures, too, with the exception of Quark Express, which consequently got eaten by InDesign.)
>We didn't. Los Alamos is pretty busy this time of year. So is Sarov.

Relative investment and manpower on the issue has plummeted. I can't get into more specific details.

>We had. And also, we were smart enough to put these papers on the shelf and not proceed with them.

As the other commentator to the post makes very clear, the definition of 'progress' needs to be made clear. If it is increased understanding in a field of knowledge, then the statement I highlighted indicates you and I share the same viewpoint: maybe sometimes it is better to just stop learning more about a topic.

If the definition of progress is all increased understanding in a field of knowledge which is good, then progress is tautologically good.

Unfortunately, since the two definitions are similar, the term is very frequently used to launder advancements of their ethical consequences.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/if

It seems you were making the argument that even if autism was linked to vaccines, the benefit would outweigh the cost. Now you are attacking me on a different point (that I didn't make)
Very cool! Thanks for the examples and linking back to the commit :+1:
"if it turns out vaccines are linked to autism.."

Facts not superstition, reducibility through empiricism. Rational thought instead emotion. Ideas like this were fought and won during ^the Enlightenment^ some 200 to 250 years ago. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
Does git svn build a local git repo out of the svn server or just act as a normal svn client?
some modern cams (at least traffic ones) no longer use AGC and will not be fooled by this
How many platforms does that Microsoft emulator work on? One? Unlike Microsoft, Google supports 3 development platforms and so their new emulator also had to support 3 platforms.
Also, the new emulator was written from scratch and that takes time.
This company has to be satirical. "Improbable"? When it crashes and burns it will all be revealed as art, like that time the KLF burned a million pounds.
Teaching an AI to Play Flappy Bird
If you truly think that coyotes and coy-dogs are "as bad or worse" than wolves, in terms of being dangerous to humans, you don't have a clue sorry.
I minored in philosophy and that has always interested me, though not quite to the extent of anti-empiricism, haha.
Not an example of using a gun, but this wolf did not seem deterred by confrontation and repeated shots of bear spray to the face:

http://www.montanaoutdoor.com/2013/07/wolf-attacks-bicyclist...
That would not have been my first thought after reading "the well-being of humans should be more important than an animal" - I'd've thought "oh shit, they just triggered all the urban dwelling armchair economists".

On the other hand, I suspect the trend you describe at least somewhat exists, and you're suffering from the human brain being an overactive pattern matcher in any given specific case rather than being entirely wrong about the general case.
Looks like Darkstore is offering full 3PL
Discounted Cars Benefit Buyers, but May Spell Trouble for Industry
Remembering Richard Feynman: Devia ser em portugues [pdf]
How'd you guys build this? Are these native apps, or Cordova/Ionic?
If you're hunting, presumably armed with a rifle, why would you run from wolves?
Yes Kengo, that is our goal, right now we are receiving feedback from our users (you could see a left square float button on landing page in order to choose what do you think should be the next feature, and based on the result we'll work on the most requested option). Thank you so much for your comments.
Initial randomization of neural network weights?
>The top one percent of the world population hoards over 110 trillion dollars

That provides ~630k a year perpetually (average). I wonder how much wealth is the cutoff line of top 1% (~70M ppl) ?
"It is unclear whether decisions people made about vaccination were influenced by their exposure to certain tweets and media, or whether they simply chose to inhabit an online community that reinforced their beliefs, a tension known as contagion versus homophile." [0]

Interesting article on role of social media. Obviously you are a hard core, a non-fence sitter, so I'll ignore you.

[0] http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/how-twitter-more-accur...
My understanding is that their twist on the problem is some kind of dynamic sharding of game entities across a cluster of servers. Different games seem to try to deal with this in different ways:

- WoW - Several servers hosting copies of the main game world, dedicated party servers for instances

- Second Life - A server maps to a specific volumetric "box" that is estimated to be able to handle whatever activity and whatever entities end up in that box

- Eve - A server maps to a star system, local game time can slow down to accommodate more activity

My understanding is that these guys do something else, where they determine sets of entities (players, NPCs and non-player entities) that are likely to interact and shard off the controlling logic to a server. As the world-state changes, the clustering and mapping of entity groups to servers changes and they have some kind of way to move likely interacting clusters of entities seamlessly within the infrastructure.

This has the possibility of supporting huge persistent game worlds with tens of thousands of players at a time without the kinds of ill effects we see with the other approaches.
Heart disease, plaque! Brush teeth!
It's sometimes called a scam because the lead designer was making false claims about the game all the way up to its release, not because it's bad. That's a totally different question.

Anyway, it sounded to me like your initial point was that the game is generally well liked and the people who are disappointed should be dismissed as "a small number of people crying," which is both rude to those people and seems to be the opposite of reality. That's why I was like, "Whoa there."
Ignoring the actual "fuzzing" going on here—wouldn't it be possible to use this approach (or something like it) to make a sort of 'universal wire-protocol auto-discovery-and-negotiation library'? Picture a function like the following:

def client_for(arbitrary_socket)
valid_requests_discovered = repeatedly_fuzz_probe(arbitrary_socket)
valid_request_formats = cluster_and_generalize(valid_requests_discovered)
peer_idl = formalize(valid_request_formats)
client_module_path = idl_codegen(peer_idl)
compile_tree(client_module_path)
require(client_module_path + "/client.so")
end

I imagine that if we're ever doing the Star Trek thing, gallivanting around in starships encountering random alien species with their own technology bases, this would be the key to anyone being able to meaningfully signal anyone else.
Look at it from the other end - if there are on average a 1000 difference between two neurons, and a difference can be encapsulated by a single bit you'd have 2^1000 variants - you'd expect to have to look at 2^500 neurons to find a duplicate. And a difference is probably more than one bit.
That reduces to the absurd conclusion that otherwise smart people doing $500m investments do zero due diligence and don't care about being legally bound by fiduciary duty.
But how does stress causes ulcers?