skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know what AMP is? How it is used?

In this case Apple is literally helping you and publishers not get screwed. I think you need to read up on AMP, because seeing the words 'standard technologies' and 'AMP' in the same comment in that way is extremely awkward.
The purpose of universities is twofold: to educate and to produce new knowledge. You seem to have the mindset that most of a professor's work should be teaching-related.

People don't do PhDs because they want to teach, they do it because they love their field. And a professor's status (and funding!) depends on a history of producing high quality (and quantity) research, not their teaching prowess.
Really, really, slow. Crashed my computer. Interesting idea, though.
Possible. It is still in the documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/articles/1636185810492479#pre-warming

The "advance notice" and "over provision" advice is still being given for things that could scale up fairly large. (where fairly large isn't anything that exciting, really)
The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum[0] and the Permian–Triassic extinction[1] may have involved "methane gun" events.

0) http://www.pnas.org/content/113/28/7739.full.pdf

1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/dayearthdied.shtml
Neural Network at Warp Speed (1988)
I think this is broadly correct. Your system 1 (in Kahneman terms) can tell the difference between 50/50 and 1/10 but something like 1 in 1000 in is put in the same bucket as 1 in 100,000,000 -- unlikely but not impossible. If you want to actually work with odds like that you need to use system 2 to compute something more tractable like EV (~$0.75 on a $2 ticket for tonight's drawing).

In the interest of full disclosure, I probably spent $30 on lotto tickets last year.
What impacts can performance appraisals have on a tenured professor? Is it possible to be fired or have your salary severely cut simply from poor performance?
I used to find them accurate myself. Now 90% of the time it's "Next hour forecast temporarily unavailable (radar station is down)." The radar station somehow still shows visually on the map, though.
But he wants the application to disable the internet! It's more an example of a customer needing guidance from a professional. In this case, part of deciding if this is a good project to work on is explaining the tradeoffs and seeing how the customer navigates them. If the customer really wants to "have his cake and eat it too," then walk away!

If you tell the customer, "computers don't automatically run applications on USB sticks because then they would get hacked," and the customer doesn't understand, then run away!

Otherwise, this is a situation where the customer needs to understand the tradeoffs among a web application, desktop application, and tablet application. If a desktop application is preferred, then there are very significant tradeoffs with applications that can run off of USB sticks, versus tiny installers that will only run on a recent version of Windows, versus an installer that will work on Windows XP.

This is also a situation where a statement like, "an application that runs off of a USB stick is very challenging, and is limited on what it can run on. This would be a major distraction. Can we limit this to Windows 7 and Windows 10 with recent updates? Otherwise, we can put an installer on a USB stick, but it might be very large in order to support older windows without updates. Would a web-based application be better? You can run them in full-screen mode."
That's an ethical problem, which is orthogonal to the fact that this fake meat is basically a soy hot dog in terms of nutrition.
What sort of effect does this increased CO2 have on the plant life in the area? Do they benefit from the increased CO2 leading to more plants/trees, etc?
Coverage isn't great, but these two have managed to get in to my bookmarks:

http://thecontext.net/

https://legiblenews.com/

I seem to recall a similar weekly service for HN but I can't recall the name of it.
If Google is the one pushing all those standards they are "standards" only on paper and no longer serve as standards.
Now this is doing it right. That's how car companies do it. Big test tracks, and years of test track time, plus simulation and test rigs.

As the article points out, Google has far more autonomous driving miles than everybody else put together. They're on the hard cases, too; not just driving on freeways.
Aren't there reports of methane-induced explosions because of all of the melting of the permafrost in Siberia?
Not having and using a bike is costing you many times that.

(Though if you don't need the e-thing 310€ will get you started)
I agree to some extent but selling physical products, let alone perishable products is an insane endeavor.
Yes! Yes! 100 times yes! Thank you Apple!!

I hate that amp crap! It's the main reason for moving to ddg.
Coveralls – Test Coverage History and Statistics
One question: did the ability (or easiness) to stay compatible with Gnome 3 influence the decision? How about the great udev scare? Also, we all remember that 4:4 vote, and all the drama later.
I can just hear the private equity firm claiming it's "business as usual".

My experience tells me when that phrase is uttered only a short time passes before lots changes!
Actually, I think you want to compare apples & apples, meaning Font A and Font B at the same size and line height.
I think this is great. The current way food is produced in America (and other places) is not sustainable for either environmental or moral reasons. Take your pick.
> AWS . . . does not scale well

GCP may have some advantages over AWS, but the reverse is also true and it's hard to take what you say seriously when you say something like that.
I just tried to move a rails app to appengine. It uses the flexible environment (eg, docker). It took like 10 or 15 minutes to deploy, each time.

Heroku does my deploy in about 5 mins.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/hZM...

GCloud is cheaper though.

Also, VMs spin up in GCloud amazingly fast. Like 5 seconds. Feels like somebody at Gcloud just needs to go and fix this. No reason this is so bad...
I'm not sure if this is a real possibility given our current understanding of nuclear physics and reactor design. We have enough knowledge to fully understand how a reactor like this would function. Past incidents have been caused by design flaws that were known at the time. It's not a matter of lack of knowledge so much as a lack of good management and regulations.
Maybe there aren't any. Maybe all sentient species self-destruct when they discover and start developing technology but don't understand all the implications. There's a theory along these lines that explains why we've never found any signs of extraterrestrial intelligent life.
Yeah, tell me another way you can become insanely rich with no effort and such little cost.
How do you buy millions of dollars worth of bitcoin? Paypal?
thats not true. amp is a collection of best practices to speed up the web!
I think it's unlikely that we'll want to have people playing with radio active waste in their backyard..

We have decent electricity grids, if reactors become financially viable, first goal will be to power the grid.

I don't see any profit margin in decentralizing the grid.
I work in the administration for a top public US research University. The increase in size of University administration and bureaucracy is due to a number of factors. One is certainly unnecessary employment and over-employment. Not only at high levels, with VP's, Assistant VP's, Assistant Vice VP's, Chancellors, Vice Chancellor's, Executive VP's, Directors of XYZ, etc, but also at low levels where the work done by 3 could realistically be done by 1.

However it's also important to recognize that not all of the runaway growth of University bureaucracy is due to poor management or redundant workers; expansion of IT infrastructure and increased regulatory requirements - especially for public institutions - demand more labor. These are the obvious culprits, but beyond these, because the modern University has become far more than just a place of higher education and has come to resemble a miniature city, it is expected to serve the diverse non-academic needs of tens of thousands of students, in addition to more traditional academic needs. Counseling and advisory services, recreational activities, food service, engagement and diversity programs, ubiquitous computing, etc. all add to the University's bottom line. Universities fear that if they were to stamp their feet and refuse to supply these amenities in the name of keeping down tuition, matriculation rates would decline as students would seek greener pastures elsewhere.

Add to this the fact that Universities receive no penalty from the market for continually increasing their prices. Because student loans are available to service ever increasing tuition costs, and students pretty much need to go to college to succeed in the 21st century, demand for college education is highly inelastic. What economic entity wouldn't raise its prices if it knew demand for its product wouldn't suffer?

In a traditional market, as one supplier increases price, competitors enter the market offering lower prices. This doesn't happen in the market for higher education because the value of a University is largely tied to its prestige, and prestige cannot be easily generated by competitors. We bemoan the high cost of University education then mock the University of Phoenix and similar offerings. Market dynamics are the guilty party here.
Ask HN: Hard copy books to keep for the apocalypse
Good day HN,

I was curious - what books (and other similar items) would you keep hardcover copies of, for the when the zombiecalypse/apocalypse/skynet happens, and digital access ceases to be possible?

I'm wondering about both practical types and names of books (survival guides being an obvious one), but also sentimental and historical texts (bibles, encyclopedias, diaries, etc).

Assume you have room to keep whatever you need (within reason), and that we don't have a 'must fit in a backpack' restriction :)
The article is about UK Universities. Stanford is not broke. http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances
Opposite of web standards? It's HTTP+HTML+JS+CSS. What part of AMP isn't standards compliant?
Is Social Capital trying to end run banks by creating IPO 2.0?
Who is everyone? I highly doubt that anyone that actually studied the underlying protocol had any illusions about it being anonymous.

The important thing to remember is that all transactions are public and that any linking of a single transaction will allow someone to link all other purchases / receipts with that address.

At best bitcoin is pseudo anonymous.
That's a much easier game, it's a 150 billion dollar market that trades a few billion a day; converting millions is nothing. Nor do you need to liquidate it all at once at your destination, you can take your time.
To the downvoters: This is technically correct.

#1: (charged particles traveling faster than the speed of light) in water

#2: charged particles traveling faster than (the speed of light in water)
As a counter point, the CEO of Impossible Burgers thinks that meat grown from cells is "stupidest idea ever" (http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/arti...).

And I kind of don't see how Memphis Meat can possibly compete with Impossible Burger (or other companies that can produce meat-like products from vegetables + industrial processing).

Today Memphis Meat costs "several thousand" per pound and generates literal pounds of meat. It's a pre-alpha prototype.

Impossible Burger's ground beef costs "comparable to organic beef" and are scaling production to a million pounds of meat per month. They've shipped and are increasing velocity.
Undefined behavior or not, implementations of languages in gcc and Windows tend to support it, even if the language itself does not. I consider it my job to make this work if at all practical, because users do not like ugly surprises.

I don't know how Rust's RAII deals with exceptions thrown by lower level code. If someone better acquainted with Rust could chime in here, it would be interesting.
On a bitcoin exchange like Coinbase. Plenty of people have millions of dollars of Bitcoin. 10 million USD is about 2500 bitcoins, that'd barely move the market if purchased all at once, not at all if spread out over a day or two. 24 hour trading volume is about 3 billion USD.
"How to make Lisp go faster than C" (2006)
http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/issues_v32/issue_4/IJCS_32_4_19.pd...

And these figures aren't using the SBCL Lisp compiler which should currently be faster than the one cited.

You are correct, it wasn't designed to compete against C. And it has a garbage collector. But make the right choices and a compiler like SBCL can produce surprisingly "clean" (optimized) machine language code.
> In this case Apple is literally helping you and publishers not get screwed.

I'm not getting screwed by AMP, and neither, AFAICT, are publishers.
Only thing in my opinion that is anti-web here is Google with AMP. AMP is anty-web - it is everything that web is not.
Sure, but it's quite nice that any random passerby who happens to look at the Monero blockchain has no idea what you've spent and where. If there's something like bitcoin's "new address per transaction" for Monero, they won't be able to tell anything even if they have data from all the merchants.
I couldn't get it working for me on the first image. Could anyone give more pointers on how to make it work? If I "clear the blurriness", all I see is the original image, razor sharp.. No furrows and no triplet..?

>Figure 1: 'Furrows' (1979). One of the first random-dot autostereograms (from Tyler, 1994). Converge or diverge the eyes so as to see a triplet of three red dots, then clear the blurriness while maintaining the triplet to view a field of horizontal furrows in vivid 3D.
True, but there was a ready substitute. When have we ever had a global agreement that required real sacrifice?
That looks awesome. Double points for syncs with scrivener. Thanks
I've submitted this earlier, but I recently added a new command (for listing source code of objects using inspect) which I am finding very useful in my daily work, so I thought I'd re-share.
I get you might not have officially trained a model, but similar model evaluation questions might apply to your diagnosis system.

For example, did you do any hand tuning of thresholds? Did you do this tuning while looking at the scans, or did you design it without looking at ANY of the mentioned 3000 scans - and are you are basing your 90% accuracy on diagnosing a sample which is how representative of the population at large?

Is there a further description of this 90% statistic - do you have precision / recall and some sort of description of possible biases in this 3000 sample set? Based on another answer, it sounds like half are alzheimer's and half are 'similar' but non-alzheimer's. I don't want to be flippant, but I am always sceptical of 'accuracy' in medical diagnostics where a simple diagnosis of 'false' is 95% accurate.

Edit: I see you answered this second section in another comment, nevermind.
I don't know much about the implementation details of AMP. But my perspective as an end user is that it's pretty great. Non-amp pages tend to take multiple seconds to get interactive, and then the content jumps around as images and ads and fonts load. AMP tends to be usable in under half a second.
I work in post secondary administration, so I think I have some perspective here. Part of the problem, at least in the US & Canada (Where I live) is that post secondary institutions are positioning themselves less and less and places to get an education and more and more as places to go for an "experience." Its no longer enough to provide a quality education, universities now are selling themselves on their facilities, their "student life" and all the other intangibles that are secondary to actual education. This leads to all the administrative bloat we're seeing as now that many schools are functioning more like glorified 4 years spas they have to have departments filled with staff to plan events, throw parties, Snapchat sports games, provide "save spaces," etc.

I haven't been in the sector long enough to have a real handle on when or why this shift happened, but from my perspective its the primary driver of the increasing administrative bloat. Schools are competing more on the intangibles, and so they need to invest more into these areas, which means more staff and more overhead.

Personally I think the whole university model isn't long for this world though as there are plenty of ways competency can be signaled apart from a fancy foil-stamped piece of paper and eventually when the costs of university education don't provide a positive return over any reasonable time horizon students are going to start looking for alternatives en masse and the market will innovate to meet that demand.
In all honesty... Walmart offers exactly what you're talking about[1]. Order your groceries online, pick them up at their store. None of the fancy organic-attitude stuff you talked about, either.

[1] https://grocery.walmart.com
Darmyian founders wrote the following in another post[1]:

> Roughly 97% sensitivity (3% false negative) and 85% specificity (15% false positive)

So with this information, the calcuation of Bayesian probability is as follows:

(0.97*0.016)/(0.97*0.016+0.15*0.984) = 0.095

So a 9.5% chance of actually getting Alzheimers within the following 15 years if Darmiyan's test is positive. I don't have much formal statistical training, so I'm all ears if I'm making a mistake in the calculation here.

They also write the following:

> False positive here is not real false positive, as the software is detecting abnormality in people who are still cognitively normal.

Which is a terrible excuse - abnormality is only clinically relevant if it leads to disease. By this logic I can create the world's greatest test for cancer simply by saying that every given individual has cancer (100% sensitivity), and if they don't have it yet, they do carry the genetic abnormalities that will lead to cancer eventually - no "real false positives", right? Simply saying that "sooner or later, our test will prove correct" is not good enough here.

Founders of Darmyian: I commend your efforts in this space as a tool for research, and can potentially be very valuable for clinical trials. However, offering it to consumers as a screening tool when there are no proven preventative measures is - in my opinion - completely unethical and comes across as an attempt at trying to profit off fear mongering.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15083617
That's what they're doing
Hopefully Apple fighting AMP makes it a non-starter going forward now since it isn't reaching lucrative iOS users.
I used "downvotes" to represent what they're meant to be used for here: "Is this content HN-worthy?"

I keep an eye on my total karma because I want to know whether I am, on the whole, fitting in around here, and which comments contribute to that the most one way or the other. Speaking truth to power can be useful, or fun, but if you're saying things that aren't being heard, you're just wasting your time and everyone else's screen space.

And some venues want the entertainment. That's signal in their world, and they deserve to have it.
Definitely look into the Linux kernel data structures. Container_of is a fantastic way to do data structures in C.
Remember Tesla's first car? It was not the Model S. The Roadster was based on a Lotus chassis. They built a car on an existing vehicle platform before venturing into producing their own.
The AMP client source is available but worthless. Google validates that you're running their blessed version of the framework and if you change a single bit in the files Google doesn't serve your AMP content anymore.

It's a classic walled garden, like the Android app store. You can develop Android apps that don't meet their guidelines but you can't distribute them through normal channels.
Why won't a poor high-SAT-score, future STEM graduate be able to get a loan? Banks will mostly take into the account the probability of loan repayment, not how poor the person is right now.
Do you have to provide the reward to every tester, or do they apply and you pick the ones you want?
Technically, those embassies are still in U.S. jurisdiction, however, I grant you your point as I was unaware they did this.
CORBA and SOAP are things that must not be named... The horror is too real. Of course, Dbus is better than CORBA and SOAP, almost anything is.

How old is CORBA, again? And how crazy is SOAP?
Sharing economy: the dark side of working for strangers
Yes, undoubtedly.
I have absolutely changed my behavior with regards to how public I decide to voice a view or opinion. Most of the time, it isn't that I hold some view that I know to be unpopular but rather it isn't always even clear to me which "thing" could cause reprisal from some zombie mob hungry minority that catches wind of something and decides a couple sentences voiced about something is now deemed worthy of crucifixion.

But perhaps more sinister than the mob responding to something said online is that as the moral landscape continues to shift (as it has since... forever) what you have said online a long time ago can ALSO come back to haunt you, even if at the time you said it was considered perfectly acceptable or normal or whatever.

This is why, I think, that social media in general is not really something I find very enjoyable to participate in. As they say, the internet never forgets.
Thanks for building it!

It only took me a day or two to get https://www.dailylore.com up and running because of it.
Yes I mean the interviewer. Your critique of is argument is based on his use of reliability - I find that tangential. His main assumption is that of a universal truth - faith being unreliable is just what follows. So are you saying that there is no universal truth or that faith is somehow exempt from the search for truth?
People who are unhappy with systemd are usually so for reasons other than compatibility.
Mostly because Google serves the page from their own servers and starts loading it before you even click a search result. It's great for Google search and bad for everyone else.
Or accidental variable reuse in a template. Could be either.
No one who understands what bitcoin is thought it was anonymous.
> Sorry if dumb question but how is this possible when it's garbage collected?

On a big or complex system you end up at least doing one or both or two things:

a. Having to manage many temporal (transient) objects in memory. Thus you end up doing some sort of garbage collector, either doing it yourself, or using the facilities provided by the languages, or a library.

b. Allocating fixed big blocks of memory (such as arrays, or doing a "malloc") and then using this block of memory as your storage area, which then you manage.

Usually on C programming you do (b), although you can also do (a), it is not so easy.

Usually on Common Lisp programming you do (a) very easily, but you can also do (b) by allocating an array and a bit more stuff. It is not difficult, really.
If our local makerspace can score a little funding in there somewhere for a glass workshop, I'm sure we would love to squeeze in a small bio/chem lab to go along with that and the electronics lab. We can make most of our own equipment, and our business license ought to enable us to buy chemicals from otherwise discriminating suppliers.

To put things in perspective financially, we appear to be sustaining ourselves on $40/mo memberships, with materials sold at cost for members. Projects for the outside world are expected to bring revenue in to the group, with a suggested minimum price of 2x material cost, unless they are for a charity or a primary/secondary school.
"Better part of a year" is not a very long track record.