skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit confused by people who say the big benefit of Blue Apron is time. When we tried it, it took about as much time as cooking the meal from scratch - maybe 20 minutes of prep and 20-30 on the oven/stove. Whatever we saved in cutting was lost in opening & sorting through all the individually-wrapped ingredient packages.

BTW, a good set of kitchen tools makes meal prep go a lot faster. When I moved in with my now-wife, she had a couple requests for new kitchen goods that were non-negotiable. A good sharp kitchen knife, a mandolin slicer, and a salad spinner. They really make a huge difference - before, it could take me an hour to prep a simple pasta dish, afterwards, it's like 15 minutes. Washing vegetables now basically means dumping all of them into the salad spinner, swishing them around, and turning the crank twice, for a total of 5 minutes. Cutting or dicing an onion can be done in under a minute, regardless of the cut desired.

Together these cost a lot less than a Blue Apron subscription, and you can use them for years. And the quality of fresh farmer's market ingredients really can't be beat.
What do you suggest to do to prevent things from moving this way? Do you think that it will never take off because people are uncomfortable with the idea, or that this is simply not technologically going to happen? I of course would respect anybody's right to vote with their wallets. Just as there are premium goods such as Rolls Royce that are hand-crafted versions of products that are normally mass-produced, I'm sure there will be premium services in the future to replace automated ones, such as food preparation.

The other solution is what is, in my opinion, a sort of neo-Luddite reaciton to automation where we either ban hugely efficient economies-of-scale infrastructures as a make-work program, or a regulation requiring sufficient numbers of humans in the loop.

I think you are really over-interpreting the way I see this. Replacing jobs with more efficient services is pretty unequivocally better in my opinion. If it weren't better, people would keep using the less efficient services that give them some form of empathic pleasure. In particular, I find the allegations of classism a little baseless. I have no problems interacting with those of a lower class, and if they do indeed lose their jobs due to mass automation, I definitely think the government will need to implement programs to retrain them or to provide for their needs a la basic income. But it doesn't make sense to pay someone to do a job that could be done better, especially ones like in food service, just so we can pat ourselves and say that "they at least have a job."
I wouldn't be surprised if the commission would take a look at Apple in the future, but note that currently they are not dominant in the mobile market.
One was an operating that had a monopoly that was nearly impossible switch away from and was bundling software to destroy specific competitors.

The other is a web page with tons of competitors, many of which work well, deciding what their own computers after you specifically requested them to do so.
San Francisco was like this before the current tech boom, too- http://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/sf/ it dates back to the 1980s- http://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/overview/

Really nothing to do with YC.
Classify digital photographs that I need to review by its content. Import/export data from/to a DB, analyze it statistically and show graphically the info. Pretty standard.
> Hows it being old?

If you want to comment here you need to be nice, regardless of how someone else behaved or how old you think they might be.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648376 and marked it off-topic.
Alcohol drastically increases suicide rates and self harm rates.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jayne_Cooper/publicatio...

> Conclusions: The results highlight the importance in a suicide prevention strategy of early intervention after an episode of self-harm. Treatment should include attention to physical illness, alcohol problems, and living circumstances. Self-harm appears to confer a particularly high risk of suicide in female patients.

http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centrefor...

> 11. Over half the patients who died by suicide had a history of alcohol or drug misuse. There were national differences, with alcohol misuse a more common antecedent of suicide in Scotland and Northern Ireland, drug misuse more common in Scotland. However, a much smaller group was in contact with specialist substance misuse services
Well, I'm disappointed that the majority of their flights are this short. I thought there were some of them which were permanent atmospheric weather stations.

But short flight times don't really have to be the case, because it seems that they can fly for extended periods of time: one of NASA's balloons stayed up for 46 days [0]. The US air force also uses balloons as surveillance stations, though I don't know the actual flight time of these [1][2]. JLENS was supposed to stay up for 30 days at a time.

[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/news/supertiger-record....

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_System

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JLENS
Nintendo Announces Mini Super Famicom for Japan
This happens with any large lifestyle choices. If you bring up a study about having kids or religion increases or decreases your risk of depression or life fulfilment you'll see the same thing.

People feel passionately about life choices they've made.
The use case is probably not around maps but more around ads. Say you have a web project using cloudflare. There can be a single button on cloudflare called "monetise" which injects ads into the page.

Additionally I've seen that major media sites use analytics services for tagging and have a way via the tagging tool to inject javascript.. This is a pretty terrible idea but allows the tagging changes to not be coordinated with site changes as usually a different team controls the tagging. Cloudflare would be able to provide another way to inject custom analytics / tracking into pages.
Eaze Cannabis Delivery User data Compromised, possibly held for ransom
Because the cost is in satisfying local rent-seeking, rather fundamental physical restrictions. If the cheapest housing unit costs three times as much in SF because of earthquake-proofing, HVAC, and density, then sure, build in Sacramento instead. However, roughly speaking, the price differential is because people in SF voted to have houses that cost three times as much (because they own houses and get to make those decisions consequence-free).
A couple things I try to do when reading research papers, inspired by these two amazing [b|v]logs.
[1]https://blog.acolyer.org/
[2]https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz

I try to paraphrase the paper into a Acolyer like 'morning paper' blog post on evernote while mentally I am directing a 'two minute paper' video on the paper :)
There’s a war brewing in Japan, and the banks should pay attention
This was a very fun read. Makes me want to get back into assembly, figure out 64 bit assembly and make this more than a toy... almost.
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Overview of Scala.js from a GWT developer perspective
A contrary opinion.
http://www.gq.com/story/david-brooks-trump-whitewater
I really don't buy the "cost of living" explanation. Are we suggesting that these homeless people can't afford $1800 a month per rent, but are somehow going to get a more reasonable $1000/month apartment?

Exactly what job are you going to get if you smell, are missing teeth, have an alcohol problem, don't own clean clothes, and potentially have mental health issues?

I think we need to think outside the box on this one.
Apple maps would have to implement Google defined api and respond with some sort of failure.
Food shopping definitely sucks, and on top of the time commitment, having to keep a catalogue of typical prices per quantity and freshness/ripeness-determining markers in one's head is fairly burdensome. One of those great things the truly rich don't have any reason to do/learn unless they just feel like it.

I'm skeptical of the value of these services overall but the more I think about time savings and not having to worry about keeping up my otherwise-useless food-buying skills they could be worth it, though only if they all but completely removed my need to grocery shop. And I think the prices would still have to come down a little more.

What'd be more valuable is a grocery store with online ordering and curbside pickup with some kind of enforceable (like, with real teeth, not "oh yeah, we tried to screw you, here's a voucher for the $1.50 difference, bet you're glad you spent two hours getting us to pay up!") guarantee that they wouldn't sell me anything over the average price for my area. Infeasible now, but imagine if government tweaked the information imbalance to be a bit less out of customers' favor by mandating (or incentivizing) machine-readable posting of prices week to week... then such a service could exist, could be audited, could be more-or-less trusted. And would save huge numbers of hours and lots of fuel for driving around comparison shopping and other useless consumer BS we (those not rich enough to pay others to worry about this useless crap) currently put up with as practically a second job.
I got my numbers from here:

https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-By-the-Numbers

> ...may help a fraction of that minority.
> Which is probably why I never qualified “minority” with “small”.

I believe we're now arguing about semantics, so lets agree to disagree.
In other cities I think the government has your back. The SF police will not respond not a non violent encounter because the court system heavily sympathizes with non violent offenders in SF, to the point where they don't even prosecute. I am at a loss as to what I, as an individual, can do to curb the aggressive behavior.
One British pint is 568mL, and one "unit" of alcohol is 10mL -- I think the latter might be a European standard.

That makes a ½pt (284mL) beer, at 3.5%, almost exactly 10mL of alcohol (284*0.035 = 9.94).

The average beer is stronger than it was 20 years ago, but there's still a feeling that 1pt = 2 units in Britain.
Precisely. This is an incredibly easy problem to solve. See all the Rutan projects, the model plane that crossed the atlantic, etc; most from over a decade or more ago.

They claim that solar efficiency is not there yet, but look at the NASA Helios. Yes, it's large, but such is life if you want solar. The math behind it is incredibly simple.

Yet, as usual, HN is foaming at the mouth because it has the word drone in the title.

Edit: this is just another MIT fluff piece. Watch the video, it's a carbon fiber tube filled with random COTS hobby grade components. With a hot wire and some composites knowledge you could make this in your garage.
I wonder too -- Apple should be hiring _somebody_ to build a modern nd-array for swift -- and evolve playgrounds into the ultimate scientific computing environment.

The tools for scientific computing are amazingly scattered - seems like a big company with a modern platform strategy could make a huge impact ...
A large problem of earlier versions of FreeSurfer v. < 6 was the resampling of all data to 1mm isotropic voxels.

For hippocampal segmentation, many regions contain intersections between three tissue types (white matter, gray matter, and CSF). This complicates tissue classification of images with large voxels, because a voxel will be an average of multiple tissue types. FreeSurfer version 6 has options to use the native resolution of your structural images, so this might improve things some. I have yet to try it out. However, it will still use a single probability atlas, which tends to have lower performance than the multi-atlas methods.

I should emphasize that FreeSurfer is great for what it does great: Surface reconstruction.
A world free of ads.... what a wonderful dream

A better dream is a world free of marketing of any type
That doesn't explain the ghost towns around the mines.
Why is that a safer bet when randomized control trials with animals finds the same thing?
It's still a shame neither open-source nor inversities do it. Even if it's just idealistic.
> Go build a chipotle meal at some other zip code.

Chipotle is much lower quality than anything I've had from Blue Apron (this is typical of low-price national chain fast-casual restaurants; the fast-casual restaurants that are worth comparing are independent or local-chain places).

So, yeah, if that's the kind of food you want, it's price comparable to BA (but you wouldn't be looking at BA if you were satisfied with that kind of food I the first place.)
Klarna, a Swedish fintech unicorn, gets a full banking licence
The machines will be able to id you by height, limb proportions, cadence and hundreds of other things that cannot be concealed within reason.
I don't do any of that on facebook. The only FB product I use is WhatsApp and Instagram (view only).
Haven't seen anyone else comment on this specific statement from the abstract: "No association was found with cross sectional cognitive performance or longitudinal changes in semantic fluency or word recall." Based on other people's comments, seems like the main finding here is that maybe the hippocampus shrinks as we get older and maybe there's an effect on lexical fluency. We already know that, even in "healthy" subjects, the brain shrinks due to aging, and I think no-one can say yet how much atrophy can take place before it impacts memory or learning.
What is the story behind your screen name?
How African Americans Use DNA Testing to Connect with Their Past
The main difference is that there are at least jobs in cities. They may not all be >$50k solid middle class jobs, but they are there. There are actually almost no jobs in these areas.

I would even agree with urban relocation if one city had a disproportionate number of people trapped in inter-generational poverty and another had extra jobs. I don't think "deep cuts" to urban welfare are ever the solution. I do think that the welfare system should prioritize setting its recipients up for success.
bash functions:

# Helper function for running command in each subdirectory under current one.
function each {
if [ -z $1 ]; then
: # If no command is given, then this is a no-op.
else
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -path '*/\.*' -type d -exec sh -c "(echo {} && cd {} && $* && echo)" \;
fi
}

zsh functions:

# Helper function for navigating tmux sessions
export WORKSPACE_ROOT=$HOME/workspace
ws() {
if [ -z $1 ]; then
if [ -z $TMUX ]; then
tmux attach-session
else
cd $WORKSPACE_ROOT
fi
elif [[ $1 == 'ls' ]]; then
tmux list-sessions
else
tmux attach -t $1 || cd $WORKSPACE_ROOT/$1/src; tmux new-session -s $1
fi
}

# Helper function for running command in each subdirectory under current one.
each() {
if [ -z $1 ]; then
# If no command is given, just exit
else
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -path '*/\.*' -type d -exec sh -c "(echo {} && cd {} && $* && echo)" \;
fi
}
In my opinion, we still have a long way to go to quantify and program emotion. We know that humans make choices based on reason and emotion. While computers excel at the former, humans more often than not depend on the latter to make the final call. Now obviously our emotions are based upon previous experiences so machine learning should be able teach emotion. However, in addition fine tuning the weights and biases of a typical machine learning algorithm, I conjecture that an 3rd element in Time is also needed. The reason I say this is because humans will make different choices depending on their current state of emotion. Before we can have true AI, a system needs to consider both the logical and the emotional outcomes of its actions. Without both, AI systems will always be naive because they won't have the "fool me once" mentality.
> I'm a bit confused by people who say the big benefit of Blue Apron is time. When we tried it, it took about as much time as cooking the meal from scratch - maybe 20 minutes of prep and 20-30 on the oven/stove.

Blue Apron is cooking a meal from scratch (so, obviously, it doesn't save time in cooking.) The time saving is in shopping and inventory management.
.Net had always had a problem with open source because Microsoft implemented APIs and kept them closed source. Users ended up paying for it via licensing, MSDN, and Visual Studio.

I often see a lot of really mice Java frameworks with a .Net clone which gets much less attention (Hibernate, some of the Spring stuff, etc).

Whole I understand Microsoft is going their best to open up .Net, I'm hesitant to believe they'll ever get to the point where original implementations are done in it, and then ported to other langs - it just has a deservedly bad rep.
Might as well ask here there...

CreditKarma looks down to me, and downforeveryone agrees [1]. It's been that way for 24 hours now. But that's just in firefox, the site actually works for Safari and Chrome. Anyone else seeing this?

Edit: n/m, looks like the problem is that you get the 503 for http but not https.

[1] http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/creditkarma.com
Possibly true, although some of the surface widgets have been linux capable in the past.

I wouldn't worry, chromebooks are increasingly getting the ability to run android apps, and arm compatibility is a big win for android running apps. I expect nice chromebooks are in the pipeline with the snapdragon 835.

Every chromebook (and chromebox for that matter) can be installed with Linux. I believe that agreement that allows suppliers to call it a chromebook require the ability of the user to install their own OS. Additionally google's been pretty good at upstreaming various patches for touchpads, battery management, and related.
Spinnaker 1.0: a continuous delivery platform for cloud
How does an automated email from FB that gets filtered into my FB folder that I never read actually influence me?
Google and ARM have for all practical purposes closed off the open source Linux ecosystem as far as mobile phones are concerned. You can't run any off the shelf Linux on your phone without drivers.

I wonder what Microsoft will accomplish with ARM on the desktop? Are we going to regress decades to tightly closed drivers and systems? And the spectacle of open source devs struggling with ARM SOCs for years while the ball is kicked from vendor to ARM to Microsoft and back.

In effect lose the ability to run our own OS on our desktops and the incentive for people like Linus to develop an OS and the rich ecosystem it has spawned.
It actually is possible to do - you can use CSS to move the position of the anchor tag. If I recall there were some extra CSS properties needed to make it work, but it can be done.
perl -aE 'say "$F[2]:$F[0] $F[1]"'
I'm quite aware of that, but yes, that's a crucial distinction.

Point being that very large user account collections do exist.
1. Make a list of the people that you actually care to stay in touch with for social reasons (for professional connections you already have LinkedIn). Ensure you have other lines of communication open with them (email, IM, text, phone, Skype etc). If possible, and if necessary, inform them you're leaving FB and how you intend to stay in touch with them

2. Delete your FB account. Delete the app from your phone (if you have it)

3. Mark any email from FB as spam

4. Block all FB domains at the router level
Lisp:

$ txr -e '(awk ((prn `@[f 2]:@[f 0] @[f 1]`)))'
1 2 3
3:1 2

How about input from a string stream? At the REPL:

1> (with-in-string-stream (*stdin* "1 2 3")
(awk ((prn `@[f 2]:@[f 0] @[f 1]`))))
3:1 2
nil

It pays not to have awk be some some canned global behavior enabled by a command line option.
That was before they got competitors with thousands of apps.
If I ran a mapping website I'd bend over backwards for a chance at that embedded sidebar Google spot. Everyone would.
What isn't carcinogenic?
This is completely off. At the college level physics is almost completely math. Linear Algebra, Functional Analysis, and Abstract Algebra aren't exactly 'measurement-based' subjects.
That's a good point actually. I never thought of it that way.
Heat the air with direct solar to give it lift. Make it clear on the outside and have something black on the inside to absorb more heat. For bonus points, let it be deployable during flight...fly drone into position in plane mode, pop the blimp, inflating it with air from the forward travel inertia, heat it once with a small rocket motor or something, then let the sun keep it hot enough to float. When done, eject the balloon and fly back. I'm sure there are lots of details around why they don't do this.
Thank you for asking. We Googled "layoffs vs firing", and got the following from Susan P. Joyce on Job-Hunt.org:

"Being laid off is NOT the same as being fired because it is not considered to be the fault of the employee. It is, actually, the fault of the employer. A layoff is often called a "reduction in force" or "down-sizing." ... This is often the reason that more highly-paid employees seem to be on the layoff candidate list."

Here's an article from Jan 2016 listing many VC-backed startups that laid employees off: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/08/burn-slower-or-vaporize/

Here's a newer article from this year that also lists different VC-backed startups that laid people off: https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/14/early-layoffs-and-closure...

All the while, the tech scene and general economy have been growing. Layoffs in tech are a byproduct of the accelerated lifecycle of VC-fueled startups, leaving unsuspecting employees to unexpectedly look for a new job without having one, wasting valuable time and earning potential.

Existing job-search processes usually take months from kickoff to signing, as it takes time to both find the right fit and move through a company's various interview steps. Our platform will address the first problem by broadly circulating candidates to hiring startups that want to know about newly-available talent, and we address the second problem by incentivizing employers to compete on speed of interview process. If they don't, they'll simply lose these local, experienced candidates to some other firm.

Layoff-Aid only accepts candidates affected by layoffs from SF tech startups.

Let me know how I can clarify further.
The fruit company (and really all of AFGAM and much of the rest of the industry) is biased toward hiring recent grads or folks who have a clear record of steadily increasing responsibility, which disadvantages those who have followed a more... eclectic path, as well as those who have had major dislocations of some sort derail their career.

And almost by definition, "those 30 guys" building and maintaining a library with their volunteer labor in some "field" (that didn't exist as such until relatively recently) mostly won't have standard-looking career paths.

Sometimes there is a critical mass of those folks concentrated in a company, prompting an acquihire.
the idea to "think aloud" is downright silly.

people who "talk to themselves" are labelled idiots. mental dialogue is supposed to be mental.

call it social conditioning if you will. spelling out your thoughts for someone else to hear them just so they can take note of them for evaluation is the polar opposite of normal human interaction.
That excess value was captured by a select few, rather than by the government (as in Norway).
Yeah, good points. Maybe putting the script(s) inside a .whatever directory inside the project root like some other dev tools do is worth consideration. What do you think?
As an example of what this looks like, see the failed Talos motherboard; $3k for an (admittedly high-end) workstation motherboard is pretty steep.
The UK even has two choices: either 25mL or 35mL. The bar must have a sign saying which measure they use, it's usually fairly clear once you know where to look.