skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that I've had friends on Truvada (PrEP) that use condoms less because they know they won't get HIV.
Idgi. Am I supposed to be surprised or maybe unimpressed that test subjects did not remember these miniscule details? Why did I get a sense the author expected a movement of heart?

Logo design is not concerned with trivia, but with symbolic association. If there is a goal, it is gross, unmediated communication of form and resulting symbol.

If anything, this study would be best used for these companies to know what to remove from the logos in their next redesign.
I think they updated it a lot after my comment.

Apologies that it's no longer correct.
It’s worth also mentioning the the Armenian genocide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide ) which happened around the same time by the Ottoman Empire, and is just as unknown. That resulted in the death of over 1.5 million people, and tensions between Armenia and Turkey are still rather tense today. Many Western countries still refuse to accept it took place, most likely due to their favourable political position with Turkey.
I think the TLDR summary is that MacOS doesn't work very well in the datacenter. The hardware is not designed for rack mounting. The OS licensing is not friendly to running VMs. I wonder if this is going to bite Apple in the long run. Building datacenters that run Linux is so much easier and cheaper. Microsoft has been trying to up their game but Apple apparently has no interest or no clue. Maybe that's fine. They are awash in money from their iPhone hardware so why should they care.

Edit: photo of goofy setup here https://www.macstadium.com/datacenters/
Too bad more people aren't reading this before whingeing in the comments.
wow, just wow!
Ok, we'll s/Better/Other/ above.
I always saw plastic bag bans as more of a “civic aesthetics” thing than strictly an environmental one (though there is that too.) Disposable plastic bags are an eyesore and a blight on the landscape.
July 2016 :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675
I would even say that this is somewhat revisionist history. From my perspective, this all started from an attempt by Kolmogorov to solve Hilbert's 13th problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_thirteenth_problem

Kolmogorov authored a paper titled "On Representation of Continuous Functions of Several Variables by Superpositions of Continuous Functions of Smaller Number of Variables," that basically solved this in 1961. This led to a nice back and forth series of papers between Kolmogorov and Arnold, but the one that becomes more important is Kolmogorov's paper, "On the Representation of Continuous Functions of Many Variables by Superposition of Continuous Functions of One Variable and Addition," in 1963. What this paper proves is that any continuous function defined on the n-dimensional unit cube can be represented by the superposition of 2n one dimensional continuous functions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Arnold_repr...

Now, the problem with this theorem is that it doesn't say how to find these magical 2n functions. However, in 1989 Cybbenko published the paper, "Approximation by Superpositions of Sigmoidal Functions," which both extends and weakens the above result. Basically, he loses the 2n bound, but gives a way to construct these functions by using a linear projection inside of a superposition of sigmoids. This led to the universal approximation theorem:

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

and I would contend the underpinnings for the modern neural net models. Now, is there any biology in there? No. It's a long series of function approximation papers. That said, I don't know the authors involved or what inspired them to write these papers. However, given that we have a documented history of dry function approximation papers that give us the mathematical power that we need to begin to justify these models, I tend to feel that the biological connections are oversold.
Finally something that has "gopher" in the name and is actually about the gopher protocol.

I've seen a dozen or so submission here in the last year that had "gopher" in the name but where actually about golang.
So many processes in modern civilization have no feedback mechanism. They have to operate open-loop sync'd only with the wall clock. The clock is a crutch. Where variable speed manufacturing will have problems is in large batch chemical processes that occur at their own rate but still need input/output power to maintain the proper reaction.

All of this parallels clockless computing [1]

I think rapid prototyping tech will lead to smaller, more async factories where things are built on demand, not via an assembly line. These can naturally be run on available power. Imagine a milling machine or robot that could be start/stopped at will and could be dialed down to different power consumption curves all while not losing track of the work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit
Synthetic muscle breakthrough could lead to 'lifelike' robots
Sure, that is fair. I probably didn't word it correctly. I mean if you keep repeating that it is "unsexy" people will probably believe it to be true. Why choose to send that message instead of hey we are this sexy logistics company? It's a minor detail, so I don't mean to make too big of a deal out of it. Just seems odd.
Are you suggesting that Bosch would have had no knowledge, or that outbreaks during his life would have had no influence on his work? He was from a town with a church dedicated to Saint Anthony, who was associated at the time with ergot poisoning. The paper isn't even suggesting that he consumed ergot (as that would have likely killed him), but that feverish hallucinations of its victims may have influenced his visions of hell.
Wi-Fi Pal: Connect to Wi-Fi without typing in any long passwords
"The Mughal's did bad things too, but some of their kings like Akbar at least tried to integrate society and not cause religious strife."

I wouldn't be so sure of that. A lot of Akbar's praises can be attributed to 'creative' history writing after the 1950s.
I would recommend this book, http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/xyiEMg/RESTful-Web-Services-...
smart ass response is smart ass.
This should be on page 1.

Would need to thoroughly test this to truly evaluate but based on quick glance, a few coments/suggestions:

[ ] results should be numbered
[ ] purpose of "relevant domains" not clear
[ ] ranking methodology should be explained, e.g., stackoverflow and wikipedia being more heavily weighted
[ ] need to attach tld when using inurl, e.g. inurl:-wikipedia does not work
[ ] open source the code, like gigablast
[ ] does not appear to be "internet" search engine i.e. only searches web
[ ] provide export of list all results to CSV or some open text based format making ranking irrelevant and enabling user to resort according to own criteria
[ ] what is the name of the crawler and do some sites block it
[ ] publish the rate limits on queries if any

Overall it looks very nice i.e. simplicity of design compared to other alternative public web search engines and faster than some.

EDIT: Found blog post at https://medium.com/tsignal with more info.
Take a look at https://github.com/tibru/tibru for an explanation of why the underlying technology is poorly chosen and how systems of this type don't need to be esoteric
Not using the system compositor for Web content doesn't mean you can't use it for OS integration: for example, WR could use DirectComposition to blend locally composited Web content over the desktop.

As for scrolling, it is more work for us to match the OS scrolling behavior, for sure. But it can be overcome with effort and attention to detail.

It's also important to note that adapting the CSS 2.1 Appendix E painting model to an OS compositor is itself an impedance mismatch. I wouldn't be surprised if WR's approach ends up being less code overall, simply by avoiding the need to shoehorn CSS into the OS compositor (which is also platform specific code). That's before you get into the large performance benefits you get from global optimizations like Z-culling, which generally aren't available when using the system compositor.
I live in Vancouver we're so dumb that we protest dams so we can keep fossil fuel plants open. It must be nice to live in an area where people would choose hydro if it were available to them. The funny thing is the reservoir for the new dam is so tightly packed it will flow right to the base of the upstream dam. I think we've got 8 dams on that river already we just constantly reuse the same water.

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

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/site-c-un-pan...
Where the Wild Warnings Are: Root Causes of Chrome HTTPS Certificate Errors [pdf]
Even at 100% eradication would be very difficult. As far as I am aware, smallpox is the only disease we have successfully eradicated. If you count non-human diseases, this number climbs to 2 with rinderpest.

This is assuming that we can get the vaccine to everyone. In first world countries with developed and trusted this is mostly possible, but would still be a massive undertaking.
Internet Society Statement on Internet Blocking Measures in Catalonia, Spain
Inline Comments in GitHub for Visual Studio
Thanks for educating me. I updated my post.
Ignorance of STDs was okay in 1960s, because antibiotics worked really great back then and just about every STD was easily curable.
It is a hostile approach instead of trying to understand how globalization is shifting the grounds. As Nestle gets more global and expand sales abroad, the % of its sales in the US gets smaller. By pushing its' operations outside the US, you are giving it more reason to fight.

Think about it. Corps have paid taxes to government because it mainly provided infrastructure to operations and protection. If you are building your product aboard, selling it abroad, keeping the profit aboard, trading the stocks abroad (if you push WallStreet out too), etc... Why would these mega-corps still wants to pay taxes to the US gov?
Do you happen to remember what device that was? On my crappiest Android device (Moto E LTE 2015), the Flutter Gallery app runs fairly smooth.
"Take problem from one domain you know and make a business by being really good at solving it with something from another domain you know" is a pretty tried and true business strategy.
I know this is getting down into the weeds of accounting, but what would be an administrative cost that is not payroll?

I just know from my own business that most of the big numbers that go through admin (like benefits, insurance, etc) end up itemized in other columns, and admin itself is all payroll.
Ah, the irony...

gopher://hngopher.com/1/live/items/15313838
Ask HN: What's the best way to manage passwords within a small company?
We're a small dev and design firm of 10 people. Currently, we manage our passwords in the worst way possible - we have a single document that everyone has access to, which has all of the logins for the various 3rd-party websites and services that we have accounts for. Obviously, we're looking for a better way to do this that is more secure/partitioned, yet manageable.

Any tools or methods that I should know about?
>Just buy a new laptop.

Yeah, shure....

Buy a new SSD, put the old in a USB case and install the OS and the apps. I don't know what apps a lawyer needs but it shouldn't take longer than 3 hours while watching TV and 130$.
Totally agree with all of this. Also it's getting more and more closed every day
I hope that palm rejection will be as good as in new Macbook Pro 15 inch with giant trackpad.
I suspect that the use cases for WebAssembly will be something like this:

- < 10% user-beneficial compute in the browser

- 60% ad and tracking obfuscation

- 20% annoying scrolling and transitions

- 10% hostile code
It is complex in intricacy but simple in form.
IMO, HN interface may be one of the best I've encountered online. I feel nothing tedious in its layout or functionality.
The 'need' for change can be a destructive compulsion.

except how quotes of comments are displayed.
You're just claiming it's impractical today, not technically infeasible for any reason.

1. Pensions don't currently work like this

There are many thousands of different pension systems across the world.

It stands to reason that you could create new system, and if it had significantly attractive advantages, people would use it.

2. Trusted oracles are a problem

Yup, we need more decentralized services that smart contracts can take advantage of. Wait a few years, they're coming.

3. Smart contracts are only useful for deterministic changes

Making deterministic change is precisely what you want. Do you mean statically defined? Because that's obviously not correct. And are you considering a new system specifically designed for pensions?

Virtually all innovative technology is "hype" until it isn't. I agree we have a ways to go.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad 25 anniversary edition laptop leaks
Ski U Mah!
Not rebutting but just breaking the claims in this story down:

* The Osceola pump is supposedly hydrologically isolated from the surrounding wetlands.

* Geologically, it may be possible that the site they selected might not be isolated, and so high-intensity pumping could have a material impact on those wetlands.

* Nestle is loathe to acknowledge that geological claim and further, stipulating it, says that any impact it would actually have on those wetlands would be marginal.

* Residents claim significant impact to marshlands near their homes.

I concede based on this source that the specific siting of Nestle water pumps can have environmental impact (as I conceded up front that it can have an immediate impact on the residential water supply for well-fed houses).

I restate though my original claim, which is that Nestle stands no chance of draining the underlying aquifer from which it is pumping. It might just as plausibly set out to drain Lake Michigan. It's possible that Nestle will have to move its pumps at perhaps significant expense, to some other place in the same watershed.
That seems wrong... Your x100F has an APS-C sensor and is going to benefit from better dynamic range and low light performance for it. The iPhone can use its auto HDR magic to recover dynamic range but that's gotta have an impact with moving subjects. The noise is accounted for by noise reduction and that will cause mushiness and loss of detail. I haven't seen an analysis, but I'd also imagine that the x100F is going to have a vastly more performant lens in terms of things like overall sharpness, microcontrast, and focal plane performance.

The iPhone 8 is doing some post processor magic to do lighting and bokeh in a way that is difficult to replicate either physically or in post. This is really nice! That said, real bokeh will be hard to beat even with AI as it depends a lot on the three-dimensional information available at the time of capture. AI will have to re-create that stuff and will always be an approximation. Of course, your x100F isn't going to be a bokeh monster, but other cameras at that level compare here.

You're right in that for IG food shots it's never going to matter and that's great because the iPhone created a golden age of photography, tbh. But it's silly to say that this hardware can compare to pro hardware. If you're shooting with pro hardware it's because you're going to push performance in some way or another and those are the times that an iPhone can't keep up.

That said, these AI improvements can help push performance as they improve and I'd love to see Apple work with a camera company to incorporate them.
There's no technical reason gopher cannot act as a proxy to the web.

Some years ago I started writing a gopher server in Java that did dynamic file serving. This would have been a possible use case.
On the prevalence of XSS attacks in modern web applications
I want response from Firefox/Servo devs. They need async http requests and they have experience in using those.
So, what are the best alternatives to Uber in London right now?
Yes. Unfortunately, with the form factor of the PocketBeagle, it was not able to use a standard JTAG connector footprint. I do not know of any standard cables or connectors to connect to those pads. I would also ask on the BeagleBoard forums.

Yes. The OSD335x-SM is a smaller and more optimized module than the original OSD335x. Based on customer feedback from the OSD335x, we optimized the pin out to ease routing and reduced the size to enable more space constrained applications (The OSD335x-SM is 60% smaller than a discrete implementation: https://octavosystems.com/2017/08/30/smaller-cheaper-pcbs/)
The article actually mentions Bernard Loiseau, not Benoit Violier. Loiseau took his life after hearing rumors his restaurant would be demoted from three to two Michelin stars.

There was a book written about the Loiseau event (reads like it was supposed to be a biography at first, of which the suicide obviously overtook the narrative): The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Perfectionist-Life-Death-Haute-Cuisin...
Actually author links to only one article from 2007 by Louis B. Rice, backing his point. Some meta-analysis would be more convincing.
In Pursuit of Mental Plasticity
The second lens also enables the "bokeh".
But if you're doing that, you might as well just use a language with RAII, good scoping and unique pointers. A language like... C++
The rich minority are also the people who pay money for stuff, which is typically the goal of most websites.
Fascinating but it doesn't seem to prove anything besides we struggle to draw complex logos from memory therefore the complex logos of Starbucks and Footlocker are at the bottom and the simpler logos of Target and Ikea at the top.

I don't think anyone will struggle to recognise the Starbucks brand despite the difficulty in drawing mermaids. In someways its quite fitting - they want you to believe their coffee is so complex that its worth >$5 and forget that you could make it at home for $0.20.
That's about the breakdown for Javascript too, right?
Well, I wish you the best. It's possible they're just having QC issues. Yours might be perfect!
> This test will also include online grocery orders, which won’t just be placed inside the house like the packages, but will be put away in the fridge and freezer, when appropriate.

0_0
This is also good news for people with elevated risks of acquiring HIV (such as people with Herpes). Hopefully they can use similar tactics to eradicate HSV and HPV next.
No one here is discussing whether the referendum is legal or not, but you keep bringing this subject up. I am not Catalan or even Spanish, so I don't care a bit for it.

What's being argued here is that seizing the .cat TLD when a page registered in it was hosting "unlawful" content consists in pure and simple censorship. It would be similar to the US government taking control of the .com TLD because some website hosted on a .com domain is selling drugs. This is censorship.

To quote the article (which apparently you didn't read) again:

> Whether it's allegations of sedition or any other form of unlawful or controversial speech, domain name intermediaries should not be held responsible for the content of websites that utilize their domains. If such content is unlawful, a court order directed to the publisher or host of that content is the appropriate way for authorities to deal with that illegality, rather than the blanket removal of entire domains from the Internet.
Google finance upcoming revamp – Deprecating portfolio feature
If they employ people in Germany they have to obey German law.
We say ANNs are "based on how the brain works" because the original mathematical model was an attempt by McCulloch and Pitts to explain how complex behavior arises from networks of simple neurons.

A neuron is either activated or not and each of the many inputs can be either excitatory (encourages activation) or inhibitory (discourages activation). McCulloch and Pitts formalized this as a weighted average of the inputs that was then thresholded to 0 or 1. And they showed some basic theoretical results from that that gave it some credit as a model for how intelligence can arise from neurons. Essentially they said behavior can be described as a classifier.

AFAIK, they didn't go much into how the weights were actually learned. Different strategies were tried, but we ultimately started to soften the threshold function into the logistic function (to make the network differentiable) and solve for the weights by gradient descent.

Modern Deep Learning makes the additional assumption that neurons in the same layer are not interconnected. This assumption, along with the fact that we're just dealing with weighted averages, allows us to describe networks in matrix form, allows us to compute the gradients with backprop, and allows efficient simulation on the GPU. This assumption is more practical than biological.

> show me how it relates to how [...] humans will behave?

[This page][1] attempts to connect the dots between the McCulloch and Pitts model, the resulting classifiers, and behavior. Essentially, the theory was that neurons can be formalized into classifiers, and behavior is just the output of these classifiers. I don't know too much about modern neuroscience, but given the amazing results we are seen these days in vision, language, and planning, I'd say the central ideas of the theory are still credible.

[1]: http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/modOverview.php?modGUI=...
There aren't really any barriers to entry for local taxis.

Uber really can't just put the entire world out of business.

Undercutting competition just meana VC funded cheap rides for consumers.
Common folk everywhere have more in common with each other than they have with people in power. The problem is that they are constantly fooled into believing otherwise. This is why our grandparents shouldn't be left out of this. All too often children are taught blind devotion to one's country, when in reality this means blind devotion to the leaders.

Things have gotten better though. We have elections and the internet. We can more openly sympathize and empathize and learn and hopefully this will make us all better together.
It would be nice to also expose these CSS features for people with extra rugged cases. Frequently they can't touch the edges of the screen or even necessarily see it all.
It's a good recipe but there's no easy way to make sure you nail the ingredients every time! :D
I'd like to get rid of timezones altogether.
This website alienated an engineer with pop-up ad and autoplay video ad.
And how much of that is true today?
That's the home indicator. It's always on the bottom of the screen (so, in portrait, it would not be on the left). It's used to show users where to swipe up in order to close the current app.
Interesting, do you have sources for that?
Not sure how useful any of this will be without a full-fledged GPU-based font renderer.
Why You Should Hire a Junior Developer to Bootstrap Your Startup
Mods, link is incomplete, should probably be:

https://support.google.com/finance/answer/7534448
Here we have a business that is going after a huge existing market. For some perspective, Slack is valued at > 5 Billion
I hope that guy is showing that off as satire to show just how ridiculous the iPhone X's design really is, rather than providing a real-world solution.

The concept of a truly full-screen device is what everyone is waiting for. That's the future. Until the engineering manages to reach that point, Apple should have restrained themselves from releasing this kind of unpolished product. Sometimes, when you can only get to 80% of what you're aiming for, it's better to put the project on the back burner until you can reach the 100%. The iPhone X looks like an unfinished prototype, not the result of professionals who understand that sometimes you need to take a step back.