skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Many problem spaces are not continuous and can involve incomplete information that make a continuous model like a curve useless.

For instance, a linguistic model that lacks definitions for some words, or which allows too much ambiguity can leave sentences unparsable or uninterpretable. Disruptions to word order in sentences can lose sufficient information that no curve or fitment can recover it. A curve has to capture sufficient information for fitting it to be useful. I think not all concepts or relations are amenable to N-dimensional cartesian representation. (Though I'd like to see a reference confirming this.)

And hidden interdependence between dimensions can make any curve drawn in that coordinate space a misrepresentation of the actual info space, and any curve fit in it, dysfunctional.

Any mapping of info onto a cartesian coordinate space presumes constraints that limit the utility of any function that across that space. So no curve is guaranteed to be meaningful in "the real world" unless those assumptions are conserved upon reentry from the abstract world.

George Box's "All models are wrong, but some are useful" suggests that while fitting curves in wrong models may be possible, it well may be form without function.
Good idea, thanks for the suggestion. It does seem more open for the appliance to ship data to the cloud and also the reverse. The interest is interesting, and I'll definitely feed that back.
I don't think that is true at all. Can you clarify what you mean by that as quite a few languages (some that are old) off the top of my head share little with Java: APL, Perl, OCaml, Rebol, Nim, Common Lisp...etc.
Those 122 compounds were also over-representing publicly available products, as opposed to medically regulated compounds. You would need more rigor for a study where the compound efficacy actually mattered to make a general finding, across all classes of drugs. 25% difference in a beta blocker, glycerine, or blood thinner is a fatal change. These drugs are monitored with physical symptoms (metroprolol) and/or regular blood testing (sodium warafin/heparin/lovenox).
lack of value types makes many games a pain in the ass to do performantly.

basically anyone thinking they might want to use Java could use Monogame instead and have a much better time.
IOU exchanges are just postponing the real problem, that the gateway to the legacy system (Fiat). With gateways converting and issuing IOUs to Fiat you make the gateway to the actual exchange including all problems of trust and security.
True, there's been discussions, but from what I've seen it's mostly flag planting or vague pop-eng fodder that project directors dish out to tech journalists. Having Keras make a statement on this carries far more weight, because fchollet is not selling a product, or pushing an agenda, or creating a walled garden of some sort.

The only thing that's a bit off about Keras is that it's mostly the efforts of one guy. Sure, there's many other contributors, but they don't seem to be acknowledged. I've never seen anyone else speak for the project. I'd really like to see a neutral party emerge for deep learning practice and tooling, before the whole industry gets sucked into a single dominant ecosystem like AWS.
In the US, a lot of the time you can digitally access your records yourself
It's not the ubiquity of php per se so much as mod_php meaning deployment is literally 'drop in' there's no setting paths or configs or even a little friction it's just write and save your php file.
It matters to me as a personal user because my use of duplicacy might change at some point and suddenly I'd lose rights to use it (unless I pay). I'd lose rights to any development contributions I might have made unless I pay.

And as a personal user, I can't use any code from Duplicacy in any other project. I can't even, say, create a package for it and get it included in Debian.

And aside from some of these practical issues, I'm a personal user who supports software freedom so I don't want to use something encumbered in this way.

And as a commercial user, any development contributions I make are no longer my own and I have to pay to make use of them.

But the worst part of it is, your license isn't very well defined. As it stands, you may at any point stop accepting license payments from a commercial user and they'd lose the right to use it entirely - they'd lose access to their backups (unless they used the software without a license).

You of course have the right to choose any license you like! I just wouldn't use duplicacy myself under the terms of that license.
Millennials, as Seen by Corporate America
Wired came along, and the ads were suddenly for cars rather than smart drugs. There was no dreaming in Wired. It felt like a fashion statement, not a manifesto.

Mondo 2000 was something else. A promise of a future we could have, if only we were brave enough and crazy enough to try.
To determine if you really thought that not being able to choose your master was the distinguishing feature of slavery as you previously claimed.

Apparently you didn't really think that.

My point was that there's no stark dividing line between freedom and slavery and that wage slavery does indeed share many of the same features as chattel slavery.
This paragraph is to me the number one indicator for a healthy and respectful company culture:

"We work hard to staff projects realistically. If overtime is needed we either compensate you by paying for additional hours or you can take the time off later."

This makes me feel like I am being respected.
Good idea, thanks for the suggestion. The interest is interesting, and I'll definitely feed that back. I felt the pain recently myself when I moved all my photos and videos to Google Photos and I wished I had one of these.
You'd have to handle this in service workers. You want this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-di...
I wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of a small particle accelerator and I wouldn't want any part of my spaceship in that position either.
Yes. One of 2 (or 3?) manufacturers in the US making it as a medical product had manufacturing issues, so there isn't enough of it that's cleared for medical use available.

EDIT: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/05/31/how-baking-s...
Oh yes... it's a pain in the ass. Recently in the news, too [1].

There weren't many days where the hospitals I've worked at weren't short on something. (And these are like, big name academic medical centers in big U.S. cities.) I've run into a shortage of normal saline before. Yes... salt water.

Sometimes hospitals will even stockpile basic supplies to keep from running into shortages... which only makes the whole situation worse.

It causes a lot of patient harm, even if it's usually not catastrophic because we usually have redundant meds. Recently my hospital was out of a common, generic, cheap antibiotic. For many infections in many patients, this meant we had to switch to the second-line drug -- which was more expensive, had more side effects, and was less effective against the bug. This type of thing happens to chemo drugs, to drugs you give after a heart attack, to drugs you need for planned surgeries or procedures.

I don't know how to solve this. Less regulation? More regulation? Subsidies for manufacturers of essential medications / supplies? I mean, normal saline is already ridiculously expensive enough [2].

For more reading: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/hospital-drug-sh...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/health/sodium-bicarbonate...

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/health/exploring-salines-s...
Ruby, Python, etc all do this fairly well if you're talking about dict/assoc.array literals and ease of serialization/deserialization.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Gleb (author) and I have both had that (writers missing our emails and then being shocked that they missed a story) and it really does make your heart sink a little bit. We've adjusted our pitch schedules as well based on the writer and how responsive they are (and what their contact preferences are - some like 2 weeks notice, others like 2 days, etc...).
Probably because also "democracy in government" is also BS, but harmless (people get to chose between two same-ish parties, with most options that affect the majority of them being the same, and some token items where they differ so that each can catch the appropriate demographic).

If that wasn't the case, a country could potentially change hugely from government to government, but most of what they do is small stuff, and all converge towards the benefits of corporations and mega-interests.
Thanks for the link. Interesting map.
If you're doing this regularly, a good alternative is to install on a separate partition and symlink it. Then to delete, you just quick format the partition.

echo Y | format Z: /FS:NTFS /X /Q

source: https://superuser.com/a/352321

Also, on Windows 10 you can use Ubuntu bash and run rm -rf. I've read that it's faster, but haven't tested extensively.

Update: I did a quick test with 100,000 files and the 'del /f/s/q foldername > nul' approach was about 50% faster than 'rm -rf' on my machine.
>1) Escape key is not mechanical, it's on a row of gummy-feeling function keys.

The Advantage 2 resolves this issue. :) I'm looking forward to getting mine later this year.

For gaming, I use the Razer Orbweaver, but while playing Dark Engine games recently I found it problematic because there's not enough room for all the mappings I wanted to use (gadgets, special weapons, quicksaving/loading). The situation would probably be even worse with strategy games.
I don't really buy that cycling is "gentle." It's true that it's not high-impact, but that's mostly about joints (IMO, I am not a sports scientist).

And joint stress is probably the reason that most people could not run a marathon every day for 3 weeks. The muscle energy expenditure for the TDF is off the charts--typically 8,000 calories a day, and the vast majority of that is burned in the leg muscles and respiratory system.
Outrage is a form of cultural pollution?

On the 21st century internet, an alarmingly large portion of it is. Some outrage is justified, clearly. However, the incentive structures online are so extremely skewed in favor of producing outrage, we need a new form of skepticism. I was once outraged by the notion, "Pics, or it didn't happen!" But on reflection, I realized that the new incentive structures made the rewarding of internet fakery far too likely. Young people, realizing this, reacted in a rational way!

As with "pics or it didn't happen" this is going to be hard for many to hear, but there needs to be a more rational approach online. As it is, the lowered bar for producing online commentary and media has meant a general drop in quality, and this extends to commentary and media produced for activism and activism itself.
Yev from Backblaze here -> ProductHunt is also pretty popular for productivity apps and similar items, though backup may not necessarily fall in to the realm of things folks are used to seeing on those sites. (Edit - formatting)
We've all heard the poor story with Java in regards to performance, and the arguments for/against it, so I'm not going to dwell on that. A significant amount of work is being done on the GPU now more than ever anyway.

At least in my experience, I've had a great deal of fun working with LWJGL and it is a pleasure to use. It's very unopinionated and doesn't try to force you into any sort of specific structure. On top of that, Java + LWJGL hide a significant portion of the cross-platform mess that you inherently see in this field. No matter where you stand on the issue, setting up a project to build and run cross platform, and managing its dependencies is a pain point in C/C++. Add a trivial maven configuration once and you're good to go the majority of the time. Having a mature package manager is also something that you shouldn't ignore.

No one should shy away from writing a game if all they're familiar with is Java/some JVM language. It's a gradient between choosing the right tool for the job and premature optimization. Here's a video of what looks to be a dead project, but still serves as a decent tech demo of a nice looking game running on the JVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_bABrFERs .
> The mechanics moved carefully, putting down tools and climbing up and down ladders to consult paper instructions in between steps... Fast forward to today, and GE’s mechanics now use Glass running software from our partner Upskill, which shows them instructions with videos, animations and images right in their line of sight so they don’t have to stop work to check their binders or computer to know what to do next.

The article makes it sound like Google glass is the first to do anything like this, and it was all paper manuals before that. In fact, aircraft manufacturers have been using smart glasses for years to augment workers.

http://www.engineering.com/AdvancedManufacturing/ArticleID/1...

Maybe Glass is a significant improvement, but it's not unprecedented.
Am I the only person who immediately thought: WHY ISN'T YOUR BOOK NEXT TO YOU INSTEAD OF ON THE CART ONE LEVEL BENEATH THE SCAFFOLD? Was this seriously the A/B test?
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Specifically, a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot can't even support a 200 Gbps NIC. Apparently the Mellanox ConnectX-6 NIC takes up two slots.
I think it is creepier by definition, through the very fact that the other person can't verify you aren't recording. A camera is a camera. Even if the product officially doesn't record anything, who's to say I didn't mod my glasses' firmware to dump the video buffer? Not to mention that once video stream goes into cloud, you lose control over what happens to it.
It doesn't seem surprising to me that smaller companies are cautious when adopting tech solely supported by a large company like Facebook. Plenty of projects in the open-source graveyard were created and (somewhat) supported by the likes of Google, Facebook, and Twitter...only to change technology stacks a few years later and abandon maintenance of their libraries. Having to rewrite your code using different libraries is pretty bad, but it's way worse to have to rewrite your whole app because the platform you wrote it on isn't supported anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I love all these technologies and (although we're beating a dead horse here with the Java references!) Hack really feels like the "Scala of PHP" in the sense that it provides a lot of great features, but you can always "drop down" to PHP whenever it's necessary. That said, I think it could use some more adoption and articles like this are the first step toward getting people interested.
What about a static website served through nginx, for example?
That's not creepy at all. Hypothetical: I have one contact on my new phone, my wife, and the top suggested app is Tinder.
I actually am really sad Glass didn't take off. When it was available, I was unemployed. I'd love to get my hands on a new version of it, if google were ever to release a new version for the public.
Perpetuating itself and treating well those in power that treat it well.

Like any remotely complex systems, it's all about replicating and thriving itself.
ssh, zsh, tmux, xterm, vim. In no particular order! I work in telco as sw dev.
"the reason why migration is so attractive is that some countries are well-run and others, abysmally so."

The article does not discuss the possibility that "migration controls" is a component of "well-run". If so, then opening borders might be a disaster.
One of my favorite songs. Doesn't apply here though. Iron Mountain has a service today to move data out of GCP.
Great comment. PHP has evolved, just avoid old comments on stackoverflow and questionable tutorials, they usually evangelise bad practice and are full of security vulnerabilities.
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This is completely wrong.

Dosage studies happens between Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials (and Phase 4 "post marketing" too) and are the most expensive, longest and most scientific process that arguably any business engages in in the entire world.

Phase 1 is a safety test in healthy ~men. These seek to find the maximum dose before adverse effects appear in the healthiest humans.

Phase 2 is a safety/dosage test in a much larger and varied sample. We know dose ranges and begin testing them for efficacy in a varied population.

Phase 3 is the big one. It's a randomized, controlled, double blind test of SPECIFIC dosages in SPECIFIC target populations to scientifically prove efficacy over placebo.

The dose we take is not a "BEST GUESS"

It is the result of a billion dollars of scientific study and that PRECISE NME (new molecular entity) has been studied, at that PRECISE dose, in a target population, for it's effectiveness, and it must be better than existing-treatments and better than placebo.

It should be highlighted that this process takes on average 10 years, costs $1 billion dollars, and has a success rate (success meaning FDA approval) of about 1 in 10,000 attempts (hence the price tag).

Source: Drugs: From Discovery to Approval, Second Edition http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470403587
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The clever part about bitcoin is reusing existing technologies in a novel way.

It uses:

- Hashcash-style proof of work: http://www.hashcash.org/ (originally designed to make spamming harder, although I don't think it ever really became widely adopted).

- Merkle trees to reference transactions in the blocks (same technology used for bittorent chunks): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

- Elliptic curve cryptography for signing transactions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography (asymmetric cryptography, used in TLS, SSH etc...)

- When a new "node" connects to the network it uses hardcoded addresses and DNS seeds to find other nodes to connect to: https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/dns-seed (before that it used IRC)

And there are probably a few other things but basically if you know how to work with those technologies then you have all the tools you need to implement a bitcoin clone. It's nothing groundbreaking, it's "just" a clever novel use of existing technology.

All the actual "rules" of the network (the block reward etc...) are simply validated in the nodes, they'll reject any block that's not properly crafted (i.e. bad reward, invalid proof of work etc...). Therefore the node consensus dictates what bitcoin is. If you implement a non-compatible change in the client and you don't convince all the other users to switch you create a fork since you won't have the same definition of what constitutes a valid block.
I mean, a passing TOFEL score is required, I think. Expecting them all to speak English conversationally is mute with a passing score.
Stocks and crypto are both subject to speculation, but it's apples and oranges. The actual value of a stock is its discounted future value. When people speculate on stocks, they speculate on what its discounted future value is.

With crypto, the discounted future value is by that definition zero. People are instead speculating on what the consensus value will be, i.e. what they will be able to sell it for. It seems that in time the consensus will favor the currency with the best technology, not the one that was first.

(My personal bet is that all crypo will trend towards zero eventually, but that's besides my point here)
Cybersecurity spending outlook: $1 trillion from 2017 to 2021
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#1 issue is lack of strong typing.

I don't understand the appeal of dynamic languages. Worse performance, more overhead, harder to read...
Cooking is an art form. Baking is a science.
“...The millennial generation [is] moving out of the cities, forming households, having children, looking for better schools and that's going to drive rate demand in the suburbs.”

Not by choice, by necessity.

Anecdotal - my friends are moving out of cities. Not because they romanticize or even want a suburban house, but because they can't afford to be within an hour of a city and not be burdened by more debt. The only other option is to move outside the city influence and into the rural areas, which for many is worse than the suburbs.

EDIT - after reading through it all, it's clear this is a bunch of out of touch CEOs who are generalizing some weird psuedo-data trends. Unless every person I know happens to be well outside of the "millennials" presented here.
This is maybe not the best example. I've used vi for a very long time, and I'm only now finding out about the underscore. The point that's being made here is that the first y is an action and the second is a motion. I was content to think of "yy" as a special case. Better examples would be yw, ye, yj, which respectively yank to the beginning of the next word, the end of the current word, and the current line plus the one following it.
Yev from Backblaze here - we definitely splatter the embargo dates/times all over every document/email that we send out. If one person breaks it, other writers get upset and that's not good for anyone. We've even placed people in "penalty boxes" where if they've done it before we don't pitch them until morning-of or right as the release is occurring. We might even give them another tidbit of information so they can take a different approach than others writers (so there's still some incentive for them to write).
Same way an airplane works - push against the air.
It is extremely expensive to setup and maintain infrastructure to process big data, especially when you get into the petabytes.
With tersewriter, I'm excited by the idea of creating a platform between Twitter and Medium. It'd have a 300 word minimum and a 450-word maximum. That way, every post is substantial, but focused on just one idea. My main motivation is to create a tool that gets me thinking and writing every day. I figure the word limit makes posting less overwhelming, as with Twitter.

Yeah. I've been thinking a lot about how to monetize the different apps. Together? Separate? What to offer for free, and what to offer as a paid premium. One idea (crazy?) is to charge per day of use, almost like AWS. You'd get 10 days of free use (of use, not just calendar days), and then pay 10-50 cents per day of use. That'd make it nearly impossible to spend a dime on the suite unless it really created a lot of value for you.
I was going to post a similar reply. However, outside of tetracycline, there have never been reported adverse effects from expired drugs. Furthermore, there were only three cases of expired tetracycline related Fanconi Syndrome and that preparation responsible is no longer made. Of course, if it's old...

Otherwise I agree I'm surprised by the reporting ignoring this because this is a classic board question in internal medicine.

Source:
http://www.mdedge.com/internalmedicinenews/article/113748/sh...

Edit: Apologies that the above link has a paywall. When I accessed it via google it worked once, then shot up a paywall. If it doesn't work at all I'll remove it.