skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, looks like they completely ripped of our design, including some content. They possibly scraped much of our content too which I'm looking into right now. (we incurred very high CDN fees because of this)

As for BetaList allow allowing pre-launching startups, that's a policy we're about to change since many startups skip the pre-launch phase and launch an MVP on day one.
The article mentions it prominently.. including references to an earlier book about the same subject;

> As University of Maine anthropologist James M. Acheson put it in his 2003 book "Capturing the Commons: Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry:

> While scientists do not agree on the reason for these high catches, there is a growing consensus that they are due, in some measure, to the long history of effective regulations that the lobster industry has played a key role in developing.

The author of your suggested book heavily references Acheson in making her case: http://www.marjoriekelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Kell...
Advantage of Facebook over email / texting:

- Facebook shows me updates about friends that I wouldn't otherwise know about. These updates provide an opportunity for a quick connect that is appropriately shallow, just enough to keep the relationship warm.

- For many people I have their FB, but not their email, let alone their phone number. I discover these people through FB's mutual friend suggestion. These people can be those I met briefly at parties, friends in primary school, etc.

- A public exchange on FB allows others to jump in and converse. An email is confined to the intended recipients.
The Fifth Amendment still applies in the "constitution free zone." The name is a bit exaggerated by the ACLU to make their point.

No matter where you are, the U.S.government cannot force you to speak as a condition of flying home. Just be quiet rather than deceitful.
Please don't follow-up on an unsubstantive comment with an even more off-topic complaint about downvotes.

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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This is actually a feature of HN (but a well-hidden one). My favorite comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=tptacek&comments=t
Nice article, but note that the site's operator is "on pause in 2017",
and the video appears to pre-date the damage sustained
by the SS Palo Alto during winter storms of January, 2017.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/2...

For more concrete fun, and interesting material sciences challenges,
see what floats civil engineering students' boats:
http://www.asce.org/event/2017/concrete-canoe/
How Even Dumb AI Could Outsmart Humans
We did a similar thing, but folded it into unsupported and deprecated - unsupported browsers will get an HTML page extolling the virtues of updating your browser once a decade, whilst deprecated browsers (basically IE10 at the time tbh) were treated to a popup explaining that whilst the site probably works just fine, their browser wasnt fully upto date and the experience might suffer.

Eventually, and I doubt we had anything to do with it, IE10 usage dipped below the magic .5% (when it costs is more money to support than it earns us) and it was finally unsupported.

The only crappy browsers we still officially support are ancient safari and IE11, both of which are still going relatively strong for reasons we've never been able to fully explain!
For broader context, this might be used to help explain the well known link between the age-related decline in mitochondrial function (and consequence lowered production rate of ATP) and the age-related development of aggregates such as amyloids and tau. Aggregates are age-related, but one needs explanations as to why that is the case. Other proximate causes include declining cellular garbage collection mechanisms, aggregation of other proteins (protein A spurs aggregation of protein B), failure of mechanical clearance via peristaltic channels, and so forth. It's never just one thing.

Like many lines of research manage to achieve, this finding adds a little more emphasis to the need to restore mitochondrial function in the old. Clearing damaged mitochondria, delivering replacement mitochondria to cells, allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes, and so forth.
User Steuard explains why EmDrive doesn't work and responds to an ad-hominem attack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9473209

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476202
I'd be curious to see what people think of when they say "open office". The description from you and others of < 12 people in a common space doesn't fit my definition. The open offices I've experienced are ~100 people separated by rolling whiteboards at best.
Two 1080TIs are way better than one Titan Xp and cost about the same (2x$700 vs $1200). Each TI has 11GB of RAM vs the TitanX's 12GB, and each TI is nearly as fast.

At the NVIDIA conference all the second tier hosting companies were promoting the P100 (at NVIDIAs insistence) but when pressured admitted that their big customers now deploy 1080TIs. Paying for P100s is sort of a clown move even if you're spending someone else's money. The P100 starts at like 10x the price of the 1080TI and isn't much faster and again has just 12GB of RAM (16GB if you pay $4000 more, ludicrous)
Yahoobleed flaw leaked private e-mail attachments and credentials
Do bacteria age? Biologists discover the answer follows simple economics
Note that fasttext is the next generation of word2vec/doc2vec, and shares many of the same creators.
Truckers are not in position to negotiate better working conditions. If you don't take the deal, somebody else will. There does not need to be more.
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It is probably because that entire line is the return statement, and you are breaking it. Python is VERY strict about its white space.
So .. there's no HDR setting on them?
Fact: Certain federal judges were getting a disproportionate amount of patent cases.

Consider: Over time, it is possible judges in other jurisdictions did not like this. (Why?)

Question: Can anyone assume that these other judges not in, e.g., ED Tx, will not also be "plaintiff-friendly"?

Consider: Being "plaintiff-friendly" can have the effect of more patent cases being filed in the judge's jurisdiction. Further consider that some judges may want more patent cases filed in their jurisdiction.

As such, the headline may be prematurely drawing conclusions. Or not. Will patent litigation continue to rise, will it remain steady, or will it begin to fall?
They had puffer machines for people in 2006. They stopped using them because they required regular maintenance. Then they replaced them with the body scanners, which cost more than the puffer machine and a full time maintenance person in every airport in the country combined.
> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting?

Events/Groups is big for me. Not FB message groups (but I'll touch on that in a second) but FB groups, it's great for topics that my friends and I are passionate about to post into. FB Messager groups are awesome because they level the field in terms of experience and in some ways beats even iMessage. It's great for knowing if your friends saw your last minute message about a change in plans and works the same for my iOS and Android friends. Events are great because it keeps all the planning for a trip in one place and provide a good interface for seeing who is going/not. Yes there are other places that you can do all of these things but it's all under my FB identity and that has value. If it wasn't FB I'd probably use Google which is 6 in one, half a dozen in the other to me.

> but realize everything you do is a vote towards a certain state of things.

I believe heavily in democracy and the power of voting but this isn't just a vote. It's a choice to leave my friends and that's a choice I won't make. It's great if you've got friends who are ok with leaving FB, mine aren't and I'm not going to change their minds anytime soon and more honestly it's not worth being that annoying person.
Spring? If you need Java DI you will find Guice fixed the warts.
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link to the study
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/09/1620344114.full
> If Facebook were suddenly gone tomorrow, I would feel devastated (so many memories of my kids, deceased father, mom, all would be gone).

I may not have articulated how I feel very well in that post. I should edit it to miss out on the things in other peoples lives I got to see and things I got to share with them because of Facebook. So you didn't take it completely out of context but you only commented on 1/2 of my post ignoring the fact that a lot of the value I get is from the feed aspect.

>From your perspective, there's no distinction to be drawn between "Facebook is gone" and "Facebook is gone from me"

Not true, If I lost account access to Facebook, I'd create a new account and build my network again. Not a huge deal.

>Except that, in the former case, you're probably much better off, because in the latter case everyone else is still there - and it feels as much to them like the only way to keep in touch as it feels to you right now, and keeping in touch with anyone who isn't there feels like just enough of an imposition that, over time, they stop bothering.

This is something I have experienced because I only recently started using facebook again. I use it to reach some friends but not all of them. I know that. What you are describing ticks me off too but it's the same with people who don't have phones/email/etc. Except in this case it's not a generic protocol but a specific service. That's probably more the issue with facebook/twitter than anything else. They created a closed ecosystem that people rely on not a protocol that can be implemented by anyone.

>As for the rest of your comment - I don't know to whose claims you're responding, but I'm pretty sure they're not ones I've ever actually made...

I was using a fake example to make a point. We all rely on services that are hosted by private parties and the fact that you're horrified by my choice seems a little extreme. I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, if you felt that way then my bad.
Sure, but what I'm saying is that you probably wouldn't feel badass unless you also looked badass with those nice white headphones and a playlist dial. Or at least not to the same degree.
Algolia's API show votes for older comments (not sure how old is the line when it stops showing).

Edit: naturally, there is a strong bias for older comments in the list.

Code I use:

<script>

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var lasthours = "";

$("#refresh").on("click", function() {

var html = "";
var url = "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=comment&numericFilters=points>120&page=";
var page = Math.floor(Math.random() * (20)) + 1;
url += page.toString();

var position = 0;
position = Math.floor(Math.random() * 20);

$.getJSON(url, function(json) {

var hits = json.hits;

var html = "<p>"+hits[position].comment_text+"</p><p>Story: <a target='_blank' href='"+hits[position].story_url+"'>"+hits[position].story_title+"</a><br><a target='_blank' href='https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id="+hits[position].story_id+"'>comment by "+hits[position].author+"</a></p>";

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HN really isn't the place for this. You should post this on Stackoverflow instead.
If single offices were the optimum, why aren't we all working from home in single apartments anyway?

I think the more open the place, the better. We are social animals. If people choose solitude, it's likely for wrong reasons. (Not saying that there aren't ever reasons for that, (almost) everybody needs some privacy every now and then.)

But yeah, all people must also think of others, people who don't do that are likely making work a bad experience.
For those who don't recognize it, that's from the movie "Real Genius". For those who don't quite remember it that way, that looks like it is the version from an early version of the script. By the time the movie was actually made it was changed to Frito-Lay from McDonald's, Hopsfield was changed to Hollyfeld, and the above dialog was altered slightly.

That scene is based on a real life incident which in fact involved a McDonald's sweepstakes and Caltech students entering over a million times: [1]

Since everyone knew that the school in the movie, Pacific Tech, was meant to be a thinly disguised Caltech (it only became Pacific Tech when Caltech objected), and McDonald's had not been happy with the Caltech sweepstakes prank and probably would not want it brought up, my guess is that one or both of McDonalds and Caltech asked for the change.

Changing it to Frito-Lay is an interesting choice, because six years before the McDonald's sweepstakes, a group of Caltech students tried mass entry on a Frito-Lay sweepstakes, but apparently were not as successful.

[1] http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_...
Github gets a good one: https://securityheaders.io/?q=github.com&followRedirects=on
Nope, they're a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffer_machine

> The machine operates by releasing multiple puffs of air at a passenger who is standing upright within the machine. This will flush out any particles on the person inside the machine then analyze and identify them in seconds.[6] According to an article in the 16 June, 2005, New York Times, it is capable of screening up to 180 passengers an hour.[7] This sample is then analyzed using IMS or MS technology to search for specific explosive or narcotic compounds. If a substance of concern is detected, the security personnel are notified by a visible and/or audible alarm.
No mention of k80's k40's...
That's not exactly what I said but---even if I did---I don't think that it's such a flawed line of reasoning.

Do you mean to imply that if something exists, it is likely that it will never be used?
I'm still writing up the interview that I did with them (Tom Olson and Neil Trevett) on Friday, after the initial post was published, but they do intend to merge OpenCL into Vulkan.

One thing they did want me to make clear, though, is that this is an OpenCL decision. Vulkan's roadmap isn't changing. While I'll elaborate in the follow-up post, it's to move OpenCL more low-level and abstract (ex: as I said above, FP32 makes no sense for many DSPs or deep-learning accelerators).
I'm guessing you don't... you use the cloud, right?
Imagination is a path
That sounds terrible to me. Some of my favorite working experiences are wrestling with a gnarling technical problem deep into the night.
Since encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise, I think poor compressibility is actually zero compressibility, isn't it?

I don't think so. Random noise can take any form - even of a string composed entirely of zeros, which would be trivially compressed. It's just very unlikely that it'll actually be compressible.
I really like Elixir. Learning to write & test concurrent code has certainly been adventure! It's probably been a good warmup for testing microservices.
Europol arrested 27 for jackpotting attacks on ATM across the Europe
> Is there any way to display a special "Your browser is outdated" page for the users on WinXP?

https://browser-update.org/ is a great service that does this.

For the case where SSL was broken, unfortunately that wouldn't help at all, because they'd never be able to load the webpage.
Call it coincidence, or nepotism, or maybe something worse... both of the judges that hear most of the patent cases in ED Tx have son's that represent most of the trolls in court.

I would love to see the Justice Department or FBI investigate the financial relationships between the Judges and their sons. Are they jointly invested in anything that could be used to launder funds and provide kickbacks? Or are these just two fathers that are proud to see their kids get rich?
Seems like python became popular as a teaching language in the last few years [1] and now we're seeing the results of that.

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-th...
Thereby giving us another synonym for enormousness, vastness, immensity, titanic ... And at the same stroke, purging the English language of its sole word with just that one distinctive, moral connotation.

But we may yet hope to slow the slide down to Newspeak. At least one dictionary is willing to keep at the prescriptive mission: https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=enormity
What's good for markets isn't necessarily good for people. eg, Slavery was pretty efficient. Takes awhile for people to rise up and explain to the markets they're not as rational as they think they are.
When I was a kid, a neighbor friend of my sister's came over to our house and very arrogantly announced "I live next door to a Nobel Prize winner." We all made polite comments. After she left, my mom turned to us and said "I so wanted to tell her 'my dear, I sleep with one.'

Yes, it was probably the only block in the world with two Nobel Prize winners living on it.
Could always form a union. Low skill jobs income has declined with the decline of unions representing them.
If you think it, don't say it.

If you say it, don't write it down.

If you write it, don't sign it.

If you sign it, don't be surprised.
Of course lobster pounds and the like have a market price that's usually posted on a chalk board or whiteboard.

What I was referring to was regular restaurants that routinely don't list a price for dishes that use lobster on their menu and instead just say "market price." Which, in my experience, is more or less a synonym for "expensive."

I'd note that, in addition to lobster pounds, it's far more common for coastal Maine restaurants to have the price for lobster in their menu like they do for every other dish.
We have contact all the time --on the fringes.

It's obvious that humanity could collective lose its mind if contact were widely and publicly acknowledged, so no one does.

Literally the moment we grow up there will be aliens (anthropologists) all over this planet. ;-)
Facebook means I see all kinds of things people are doing and thinking and saying without having to be sent it deliberately. I can message them with this context sparking a new conversation, learning something about them - or even just ask if I can join them at an event.

People who can't see the difference between email and Facebook are not even trying to get what they can from Facebook.
The problem is that mostly we don't farm ocean life - we just hunt it, on an industrial scale.
Details https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/nvidia-titan-xp-gp-1... If your machine learning problem is sized to fit 12GB better than 11GB, it could save a lot of time. But unless you're really in a hurry, it's still probably not worth the huge price bump.
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> Is this really how most programmers work, though?

Yes, well, I guess it depends on how mundane the coding is. It is possible that a programmer spends a lot of time typing and not a lot of time thinking, but then it is probably brain dead boilerplate that should have been automated somehow.

> When I'm learning a new language or tool, sure, but after that it's mostly just the activity of writing the code.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "writing code".

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039522
> An NHTSA investigation into the crash revealed that the car’s software was not to blame for the accident and that virtually every automatic emergency braking system would also have failed to activate given the specific circumstances of the crash.

Which is why Tesla should really stop marketing this as "self driving" or "semi-autonomous." These are safety features similar to those found on newer Hondas and BMWs (lane assist, emergency breaking) that are meant to supplement driving rather the replace the human. Sure Tesla's might be more advanced versions, but they shouldn't allow drivers to be less aware/more lazy.
The Algolia API cutoff for comment scores is October 2014. (which I know because it was cut off after I made a blog post on the subject: http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/)

There have been quite a few good comments since then.

It is worse to make an incredibly biased list than no list at all.
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> Your comment is uninformed garbage. There's no nice way to say it.

Please just leave it out, then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really want to know how Apple's laying out the new campus. I've read something about different types of "pods".[1] Is the idea you can float among different types of spaces (quiet vs collaborative)? Who gets a door? Does anyone know more details?

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-...
Would like to add the following snippet from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. "The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish "the illusion of individuality," but in fact they have been to a great extent de-individualized. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. But "uniformity and freedom are incompatible. Uniformity and mental health are incompatible too. . . . Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed."
I am deeply skeptical that anything other than R&D and patents will come out of this move by Apple. I am bearish on the prospects of using technology in healthcare. Primarily for these reasons:

1. Regulation: it is very hard to innovate at the pace of the consumer-electronics industry while satisfying FDA regulations.

2. For general purpose applications, signals and measurements are highly noisy and sensors are still deeply in the academic realm, working only in very special use-cases, as opposed to 'in the wild'. It is a different matter for special applications such as Type-I diabetes or other diseases because devices are critically important and patients are willing to tolerate discomfort (of wearing probes, pumps, etc.)

3. In general, predictive power of algorithms tends to be lower for non-genomic health care applications because of variability across individuals, errors in installing devices, rarity of certain types of data for training and validation, etc.

4. Some of the key benefits are hard to grasp for users because of the slow time scales over which things like weight loss occur, and also due to the multi-factorial/multi-component nature of human well-being.
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