skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also a little confused as to why colorizations always aim to restore color to the equivalent of a faded color negative, with muted tonality and grain. Human logic is funny.

Well, as a professional photo editor, you know that if the original b+w photo captures an image with say, a 50% grey value, you don't know if the original color was bright red, or closer to that 50% gray. Bright red has a much higher chroma value, but chroma isn't recorded in a b+w photo - color saturation is lost. Easily demonstrated by making an image in your favorite image editing program that's just straight up red, then changing the image mode to grayscale, then asking someone else entirely to guess the original color.

That, and I think the style is to mimic hand tinting photographs, where you would paint right on a b+w photo. The colors would look "faded" because whatever was used to tint the photograph needed to have a transparent medium, for the information of the photograph itself to shine through. That, and there's just so many colors you could use when hand-tinting. Back to our 50% gray. What if that was... bright yellow? You can't tint "bright yellow" onto a 50% gray area of a photograph. Yellow is highly transparent, and the grey would be too powerful to let its chroma value shine through.
This is what the breakdown of working competitive markets look like, and in this case it takes both government monopolies, as well as well as overwhelming short-term greed on the part of the private companies.

Long term don't these companies think that charging outrageous prices for drugs will cause a future voter/government backlash of some sort... or maybe they think they should extract profits now because of a chance of drug price regulation coming to the US in the future?
If a reasonably person has to ask is this torture its probably torture.
Wall Street hasn't gone nuts-- it hasn't started buying it and the mechanisms by which they buy are not yet in place. This recent rally is bitcoin enthusiasts anticipating the upcoming hard forks.
Out of the frustration with AMQP I've started my own ZeroMQ project.

I doubt that Martin was the sole initiator of ZeroMQ project. I think that late Pieter Hintjens, the original author of AMQP, deserves some credit as well, at least out of respect[1][2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroMQ
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens

Disclaimer: I knew Pieter personally and met him several times at his home and at conferences.
ctags are practically dead on twitter. Good luck searching for something like $LTC or $PTOY without crawling through pages of ctag spam with russian names linking to telegram accounts. It really shouldn't be that hard to fix.
Culture is often local, not global (to a company). A single team may have a great culture, and the team sitting right next to them might be horrible.

Culture is also completely different from direction. Some place may have a great culture but a lack of direction, or vice versa.

I would say you should really see if there are reviews from all departments and if the number of reviews correlates to number of employees to paint a realistic picture.
Oh man. I agree with your sentiment, but this is a remarkable over simplification!

The sequence may cost 700$ to synthesise. But it's delivery vector is a virus. Synthesizing the DNA, encapsulating the DNA in the virus.. not trivial stuff.

While I agree that drug prices in the US are absurd beyond comprehension or justification, and I've had a ring side view of life sci research, drug development as well as the drug pricing; to posit that, hah, a path breaking gene therapy product just costs a few hundreds or a couple of thousands to produce is misrepresenting the complexity as well as the significance of the achievement.

The amount of research (largely public funded but for the clinical trials, which may also have been public funded: no idea) to get to this point is staggering. the company also likely invested large amounts to Shepard a lab possibility into a viable treatment. FDA approval is a big deal because they are, justifiably, exceedingly strict. It is an arduous process.

There has to be a better solution, which would start with allowing the US CMS / Medicare & Medicaid to negotiate drug prices with the manufacturers. The problem is policy.
IIRC, it still uses Python's weird ideas of scope. That is to say, no.
This is exactly why I haven't picked up a video doorbell doorbell yet.

Currently I have a bunch of cheap WiFi cameras, all made by D-Link. The thing I like about D-Link cameras is that when you put them on a WiFi network that isn't allowed to access the internet they still work as expected.

The cameras themselves have all of the smarts to do motion detection and email short recordings, they can also FTP images somewhere or you can use something like Zoneminder to handle things. None of this requires them to phone home or make use of some kind of cloud service.

Of course, D-Link does have a cloud service, but it's not required. To me it seems like the best of both worlds - the easy-to-use cloud service for those who want it, plus the ability to work standalone for those who don't want to use their service.

Why doesn't someone build a video doorbell that works like this? D-Link keeps making and selling these cameras, so clearly there's some kind of market for products that have a cloud service but don't require it.
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> Wealth is a spectrum, as are integrity and personality. How is squishy “science” going to “measure” take those nuances or mentally-compartmentalized/hidden wealth transfer into account?

By measuring on a spectrum of wealth and integrity, and choosing a sample size so as to to ameliorate personality to p < .05. They have graphs of socioeconomic class vs. unethical behavior. A few studies also included priming the subjects to think in "greed is good" ways and measure the impact.
I understand that Rich Hickey is a fantastic developer, a productivity multiplier, and an industry leader, but I have a few issues with his portrayal of types.

In this talk he has repeatedly cherry-picked the most negative examples from every type system, while ignoring the more positive, simple, and elegant type system features. E.g., he talks about languages which represent product types as `int * int * string * string * ...`, i.e. as nameless clumps of data, while ignoring that those same languages usually support much richer record types which are of course product types with field labels.

Then he talks about Java types being non-composable while ignoring generics and row polymorphism in other languages. He talks about Clojure maps being powerful while ignoring the same maps with the same power in static languages. He talks about type system complexity while ignoring the mental burden of keeping the types in your head in a totally dynamic system like Clojure. Ironically, he even talks about how you can handle five to seven arguments mentally before getting lost, while ignoring that in a dynamically-typed system you're left to your own devices handling much higher cognitive loads.

Another beef I have here is he repeatedly talks about pattern-matching in 500 different places, and having to go and update them, while ignoring the fact that _no one does that,_ we actually do write modular code with data structures as abstract as possible and try to provide powerful, general-purpose functions which manipulate them instead of exposing all the variant cases for raw pattern-matching. PM is great, but it's still important to limit its use for scalability reasons.

I don't know to what extent he has explored the type systems of ML-family languages. But he certainly does not present them accurately here. I would love to see him just do a debate-style talk with someone really well-versed in type theory as well as practical systems, say, Yaron Minsky of Jane Street.
What on earth would give a person that impression?
Any thoughts on what that would look like? I'm very much a fan of bite sized lessons (think Duolingo style), but am curious to how well that would translate to other subjects.
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> On stage, he proceeded to make Deraprim (The pharma bro's jacked up price anti-toxiplasmosis drug) live on stage and then throw it in the audience

I'm not familiar with the case, but I feel like probably NurdRages "cake mix" comment probably applies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd7hXFnSHZc

The question always is that when you are making something, what are your dependencies, where are you starting from. Afterall, to make an apple pie from scratch you need to invent the universe.
The research opportunity certainly increases the ROI
The guarantee means that if the package doesn't arrive after that point it's their responsibility to assume it's not going to arrive and make alternate arrangements.

In other words, if they "guarantee" tomorrow at 5 PM and it doesn't show then it's late, whereas if they "estimate" tomorrow at 5 PM and it doesn't show then it's whatever, call back tomorrow.
> Pretending to be neutral is a huge issue, because it means as a person you can't see your own biases.

There is a difference between making an effort to remain as unbiased as possible and pretending to not be biased or partisan. There is a difference between making a good faith effort at objectivity and claiming complete objectivity. Saying 'well everyone is biased so holding ourselves and others accountable to a standard of objectivity is bad and we should stop it" is a great way to make sure that the Kelleyanne Conways of the world get a platform.
off chain how? wouldn't that compromise decentralization and censorship resistance?
I still can't believe how casually people talk about one of the shameful human rights abuses in recent history as if torturing a person would still be okay if worked.

The point is that this guy took some actual risk (even if it's "just" career risk) to at least make a noticeable dent in the problem. While you and I just sit here and type about it.

Meanwhile, your imputation above is simply illogical, and doesn't exactly do very much to help to solve the underlying problem, either.
If it's an accident the person is not a danger to society and we gain nothing by locking them away.

What else would be a suitable punishment for this freshly minted felon?
The New York Times should shut down. Affiliation with social media is equivalent to drinking poison.
Why would a house thief waste time delivering packages?

Not only would that not help your thieving at all, but the company that hired you having all your info on file would make you much more likely to get caught. Assuming you are robbing houses you can deliver too.

Putting on a fake delivery uniform and carrying around boxes that aren't meant to be delivered makes a lot more sense if you just need to case the houses before robbing.
Sure. Also, no one on china trusts each others apartment renovations for this reason, which is why you are expected to re-renovate every time you buy (and your own renovations do nothing for the resale value).

That stuff is actually easy to track down is what I meant. It is the day to day stuff that isn't.
Really big apps have existed since the early 70s. I'd argue that the average application size gets lower every year due to the increasing number of specialized libs every year.

And C++ has supported generics long before the boom in popularity for dynamic scripting languages...
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You can't teach children proper mathematics. That's what's different. Children are not in general ready for math before 8'th or 9'th grade. That's why they are just pestered with arithmetic until the majority becomes numberfobes. And then have difficulties with real mathematics later.
Bitcoins capacity is growing all the time, Segwit is a big jump, and MAST and other technologies will increase it further.

Not to mention, we're about a year away from Lightening Networks being deployed into production, and he theoretical capacity of that is infinite, since it happens off chain. (LN will eventually be multiparty-- so you could get paid in your channel and then pay from your channel to various other receivers, though that capability may be more than a year off.)

Further, segwit enables side chains so you can have bitcoin as a hub and any number of side chains with special purposes (including possibly very high transaction velocity) adding... with even less on chain load than lightening network, depending on how they are used.

The tech is advancing rapidly, though it's highly involved and obscure to even most developers, so they propagandists are great at spreading FUD in favor of their particular choices.

All of the above applies to Ethereum as well, to varying degrees of implementation.
Frankly, I'd expect the percentage to be significantly less than 50%. Determining good from bad bots without a manual check is an interesting problem, though, and it's not cool on Twitter's part if they ban legit bots that people find useful/entertaining on top of the bad actors.
Well, if you're dealing with someone on equal terms, it sort of forces you to be fair with them. It's only when you have power over someone that the option of being a total bastard is available, IMHO.
Nor would it be a good idea or helpful in any way to a thief. You would be robbing homes that someone somewhere has a list of, which is tied to your name.
In a decade the hardware may fail (yay today's manufacturing practices). But in 2-3 years, most Pebble fans will probably have broken their current watch, and will be desperately looking for replacement. Since among smartwatches, Pebble was the single least shitty option (by a wide margin) and no company is stepping up with a comparable alternative, people might pay good money to get a working one. I know I probably will.
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I think criminalizing hitting an animal is a terrible idea. Pedestrians, other drivers, and cyclists can be unpredictable, but more often than not they are within a certain range of expected behavior. Not so with animals.

Driving late evening, with high beams on, no one else on the straight road, and right around the speed limit, I came upon a large herd of deer. I slowed down and kept a close eye on them. A small group decided to go from standing to running literally as I was passing them, and one grazed my right rear door with its butt as it did a 180 next to my car. They are not predictable and no amount of attention would prevent that.

That's not mentioning the small animals that can be very hard to see.
Fwiw, at least in the places I've lived in the US,

The informal supply chain for such things is usually well established, and easy to find (and triangulate) quality within.

These mushrooms grow readily and in many places naturally in abundance (though as with all mushrooms of course you wouldn't want to pick them without being certain of your own abilities).

Erowid.org is a great resource for self-education btw.
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How do i make 1M friends who always respond to my messages within 1 min
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Ha. I'll assume you are being sarcastic.
a lot of people create alternate personas for varying reasons. There are a sizable cohort of people that like to create accounts for online fantasy. also, there are many game accounts (some that even produce money)

trying to police them off would be a mistake by facebook.
Funny story, we moved from china to California last year because my wife was pregnant and the environment over there is pretty pllluted. When she saw this warning at the entrance of our new apartment, she began doubting our move (they don't have that in china!).

Kid was born without defects.
It actually is possible to reply to Glassdoor reviews if you claim your company page.
and we all feel stupid we weren't doing it then
Then you split the problem into contained pieces.
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It doesn't have to be a review. It can be a salary or something else.
That's very feasible, as I already have the persistence layer from the server component. So that could be reused easily. It's also portable, so would work on all the currently supported platforms, Linux, macOS and Windows.
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Speculating on the price growth is literally speculating on several things:
1. The technologies future potential.
2. Investing based on the realized potential we have seen in the last year.
3. Speculating that the technology will more widely adopted.

Just because its a currency doesn't mean it's not going thru the technology adoption cycle, like the internet did and the smart phone did.

More people owning bitcoin means more demand means higher price in the face of relatively fixed supply... so "Just speculation" doesn't really make sense as a criticism--- ALL investment is speculation, all investment in early stage technologies is higher risk, and more "speculative".
To the grandparent: people have been trying to colorize black and white photos since the 1840s

True. But there was also tons of skepticism in the medium throughout the mid- to late 1800s. Oliver Wendell Holmes' writing on veracity of photography is a neat reminder that it took the public decades to come to terms that the photographic process was a somewhat-veritable facsimile of "real" life.
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Are there background checks for ups or FedEx drivers? Many FedEx drivers are actually contractors as well.
So it's possible, but impractical?
Walmart does free shipping on most orders over $35 (in some cases 2-day), no price inflation, no membership required. And as far as I know, they don't have Amazon's counterfeiting problems.

Some Walmart brand name items are made specifically for Walmart, in much the same way certain items are made specifically for Massdrop. In effect, they're genuine official counterfeits, not the fly by night kind.
I believe that more 'transactions' will happen off-chain rather than on. I expect to see a rise in merchants and gateways - similar to what PayPal does.
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> less likely ... to engage in drug abuse.

i really doubt this.
I imagine a curate Wiki of credible home non-invasive therapies and management regimens would garner more positive response than "anarchic" direct confrontations. There are tons of such therapies underwritten by medical researchers across countries. These infantile theatrics mostly subtract from sound cost containment.
Because as a citizen I'm entitled to use the road as well. The city decided that cars and bikes can share the lane so that is what I will do.

Also, in my case, it takes the same amount of time to travel by bike as a car and costs a whole lot less.
It is a bit of a simplification - but not by that many orders of magnitude ;). The really hard part (like small molecules) is the R&D to come up with that sequence. Unlike small molecules though, most people have the technological prowess to brew beer, make yoghurt, or buy an espresso. I've encapsidated plasmids into viruses for viral delivery in the lab and it took a day or two of work in a BSL2 hood to produce thousands of units of the virus - delivery in that case was relatively trivial; though you are right, I've never delivered the virus to humans - and that is not (yet) trivial. But neither is it as complicated as even the most basic of surgeries - literally. As far as I've heard, the 'treatment' to cure blindness with the above (and similar therapies) is a puff of air (containing aerosolized AAV) into a patient's eye, once - while alternative treatments are things like a syringe inserted behind the eyeball every few weeks for the rest of one's life.

I'd argue that the significance of the achievement of these modern gene therapies is in just how simple the technology is relative to other medical procedures. In this case 'simple' is very much a result of an astounding amount of knowledge and work. It's so powerful precisely because it is simple.

And to be clear - I don't actually think anyone should be trying to cure their own cancers with garage-built immunotherapies today. Home-grown insulin-kombucha, maybe... But the technologies of today realistically enable that possibility in the nearish future precisely because they are so elegantly built. Recouping the cost of that R&D to produce something so simple & powerful is always a challenge - and that challenge is far more social in nature than scientific.
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You're right, it's inefficient to pay people to look at the screens. But when something's gone wrong and you want to know how to fix it, having your key indicators all in one place can be a big time saver.
Those bots are used inside Russia too, for example, they like and repost pro-government tweets and add agressive comments to tweets from opposition politians to make it look like common people don't like them. They reply to the tweets so there is a real human behind the account. They are not a computer program.

But of course Twitter has no obligation to ban them.

If anyone is interested, here is an example of probably bot account [1]. It was registered in Nov 2013 and has posted 27 000 tweets and retweets which is 18.5 tweets per day on average. Another account [2] has a random user id and has posted 2000 tweets in last 3 months.

And by the way I don't think that bots influenced election results. I watched the debates and Hillary's position was very weak.

[1] https://twitter.com/alexflex777

[2] https://twitter.com/cHprdSiZ8MQONMl
Easy. "ball" = round, "foot" = you play it with your feet, no hand contact allowed

;)
And the benefit of this, over Kubernetes and my own MongoDB / Redis instances is...?

The value of hosted services goes away when they're no long managed.
Lightening network and side chains, are two of the technologies that do this, and neither compromise decentralization or censorship resistance or security. In fact, they enhance those qualities.
Of course it can be. It's all shitty engineering - making roundtrip through cloud with data that should only ever touch your personal devices.
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Sad but there's a lot of truth to that: if you are fighting against a nation state with an army, you have to have your own army to fight it. And on the day when you are victorious, you'll find yourself sitting on a large plot of land and people and the only intact organization around will be.. your army. And the government you form will closely resemble an army in form and function, and the high ranking members of the army will tend to become high ranking members of the new government. Hardly a blueprint for universal freedom. That's what tends to happen to violent revolutions.
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This is true. Follow the money, ignore media noise. And if you follow the money it seems that a lot of investors are cautiously optimistic about brexit.
I believe you're misusing take for granted here. To take for granted is to assume that something is true. So your first sentence would read "This honestly seems like... assuming their readers are intelligent" which seems to be the opposite of your point.
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Insstagram is in exactly the same boat.

Although they technically ban botting, and make cursory efforts to stop it, it's not really stopped.

Here's a good article on Insta botting, which goes info further detail: https://petapixel.com/2017/04/06/spent-two-years-botting-ins...
Thanks. That's a perspective that didn't really dawn on me until your comment. I guess in some ways, the muted colors could be seen less as the colorist's stylistic choice than an appeal to "safe" representation of chroma values that don't offer information about vibrancy.