skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only semi-reasonable viewpoint out of the stuff you listed is #4.

Economic policy on a global scale is obviously going to be hard to get right, so they are right to be skeptical. But to use the "it's hard" as an excuse to do nothing is worse than just being skeptical.
I have the same question, but I'm not grasping whatever it is you're trying to say. What does it mean to be a "linear" measurement of time? (or even "graphs better"? That sounds subjective. I thought "up and to the right" was better /s)

> for people who actually deal with timing of performance sensitive code

While it is — at least in my experience — true that code segments are usually profiled in time / operation, aren't CPUs typically measured in IPS (instructions/sec), since clock speed is now somewhat decoupled from performance given optimizations present in modern CPUs, such as instruction pipelining?
This is very cool. The fact that it handles load balancing, clustering, and SSL is great. I started with Rancher, but I currently use AWS ecs (ec2 container service) and setting up the elb was a pain. Nice job! This is legit! Maybe move this to Show HN so more people can see it
Original title: Google’s Dominance in Washington Faces a Reckoning

Techmeme summary: Wall Street Journal: Source: Google, Facebook, and other tech companies met to discuss congressional concerns ahead of this week's hearings amid populist turn against Silicon Valley
I've taken that same guess after the new fancy effects and animations for iMessage got fully implemented in iOS 10 and barely supported at all in macOS Messages. It seemed like an afterthought on the Mac.
Microservices boundaries
What are your microservices boundaries?

https://medium.com/@jefersonm/https-medium-com-jefersonm-what-are-your-microservices-boundaries-9601c5dcbd6d
You don't want to go there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2015%E2%80%9...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/23/in-yemen-a-saudi-war-fou...
This seems to be meant as an AMP killer.
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> EU has been nothing but sand in the gears in the meantime.

> USA has way over-active, busybody, annoying and wasteful government.

Take a look at the cellular and cable markets in the USA for how 'we don't need no gubmint telling us what to do' is working out for you. Or the fact that much of your people are drinking water laden with heavy metals. Or the fact that you are having ten to twenty mass shootings a year. Your lovely Equifax breach that will probably go largely unpunished. Non-existant privacy protection.

So yeah, considering the EU actually and actively fights for its citizens whereas the USA has largely become a toy of corporations, you and I both know once we cross over from ideology (yours is obviously libertarian) to reality your comment and stance become absurd. If I had to distill it - you're the individual version of the Tea Party: libertarian ideals co-opted by corporate brainwashing.
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I was thinking the same thing. I think it would be interesting to explore this area more and try to model it computationally.

Your point about physical features made me think of how physical attractiveness plays into human development as well.

Research has shown that beauty in humans is defined as physical symmetry. So "novelty" in our case might be defined as someone who is really ugly - the elephant man.

So in this case, beauty wouldn't really fit into the robot walking example as it's neither fitness (moving the foot forward) or novelty. More a different type of fitness that increases the odds of reproduction.
I mean I’m not recommending it for production, but wasm is right around the corner, perhaps C# Xamarin on the web is closer than we think.
It seems that the primary contribution of this technique is that it uses specific assumptions supported by neuroscience research in order to allow for composability of learning and better generalization. By introducing these specific assumptions (e.g. contours define objects), they are able to reduce the complexity that the model has to learn and thereby reduce the amount of data that it needs.

Obviously, the question then becomes: what happens when you have visual situations that violate or come close to violating the assumptions made?

I'm not familiar enough with the specifics of RCNs to be able to answer this; maybe someone else can. Very interesting paper and approach regardless.
If you are on an iPhone (maybe any Safari browser?) clicking on the top left reader button makes it legible.
True, but to be fair, it's possible to clean it up by running the power through storage first and have the consistent energy on the other side of the storage. No different than using a UPS to clean up electricity with a lot of spikes in it (something that will kill most pc power supplies over time).
Oh thank you, that's wonderful news! I'll definitely look in to that if I have any frustrations with configuring SS myself. Even if I use Streisand for the SS side and Algo for the IPSec side, that would be a reasonable solution.
Recode source: https://www.recode.net/2017/10/30/16571598/read-full-testimo...

Recode title: Facebook says 126 million people in the U.S. may have seen posts produced by Russian-government-backed agents

Techmeme summary: Tony Romm / Recode: Sources: Facebook, Google, Twitter to tell Congress that Russian election meddling wider than reported; source says 126M Facebook users may have seen content
Not sure why you are getting downvoted but if this device becomes popular in developing countries like India there will be a lot of aborted female babies.
Sounds about right....

Credit Union all the way. Never looked back!

BoA = Bend Over America. Take all your money out and put into local credit union.
Whoa that read like a Tom Clancy novel. I started reading right before we had to go somewhere so I told my wife when we got into the car (I was driving) “please read this out loud”. At the end she and my daughter were completely captivated and wrapped up in the drama.

Then from the backseat I hear my daughter say, “What’s a Bitcoin?”
I haven't used C++ in years. That may be true.

In that case, it may be even more puzzling to claim that C++ has dependent types.
I read somewhere about a curious service(not in US). They offered Listeners. Someone who would just listen to you. I assume the cost would be far less expensive than a psychologist while the benefits would be not much different.

There most be a way to provide some kind of similar service that could close the gap (at least in the US) between the people in need of such services and the high costs.

Mental Health services in general have a problem: high cost. To make it cheap, some just prescribe drugs, which in the long run probably do more harm than good. Most people just need to talk, but one or two hours a week is simply not enough.
I don't think I understand your argument. What would change such that immediate bankruptcy filing after graduation would no longer be the obviously correct move? A degree would have to be astoundingly cheap for this to not work out - bankruptcy typically costs <$3000. Add in the cost of it being on your credit report, which is fairly low given that few people need large sources of credit in their 20's beside student loans, and its hard to imagine it costing all-in more than $10k. Just living expenses on a 2-year degree are going to run higher than that, even if tuition somehow drops to near $0.
After reading the paper you will see why Simplicity is not the right language for this semantics. Lisps are better fit for such tasks.
1) yes, if a large order has to be fulfilled across multiple exchanges then there’s a race which HF can win
Not clear how it will behave in an MRI
> Why not just build more windfarms there?

They are. Indiana is being filled with wind farms. A break of the visual monotony during the day, annoying by night.
To my mind a cliche refers to an archaic metaphor. Archaic because it out-lives the discarded conceptual framework it describes, and therefore no longer communicates anything of substance. Worse, such cliches often perpetuates err in conceptualizing an issue.

Qualitatively and quantitatively, working memory capacity strongly reflects limitations of so-called executive attention and, more generally, executive function. See, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2852635/ ("Based on the finding that WMC and EF tasks shared substantial common variance, we argue that the current data provide evidence for reciprocal validity for both of those constructs. Reciprocal validity can be defined as a particularly strong form of construct validity, such that two constructs that are strongly empirically related to one another lend support to the theoretical reality of each other.").

AFAIU, the 7±2 quantity is still both valid in its original context and in communicating something substantive about more complex phenomena. Of course, depending on how you "chunk" a "concept" the number quickly becomes meaningless, but that's a game of semantics. The more sophisticated definitions of chunking that one would use to invalidate 7±2 necessarily invoke broader, more speculative models, given that so much about cognition is still unknown. I can't see how one could fairly use such models to invalidate the 7±2 rule, which remains literally and meaningfully true for "chunks" as originally defined. 7±2 communicates something both qualitatively and quantitatively true about something very specific--words, letters, numbers, etc--and about larger phenomena in cognition--constraints on higher-order cognitive processes are reflected by a phenomenon which has a fixed absolute limit, 7±2, in relation to these easily identifiable and measurable inputs--words, letter, etc.

In other words, referring to 7±2 is saying something both concrete and meaningful. Moreover, the conceptual model it invokes is still the dominant framework, if only because the rule circumscribes what it purports to describe, even in common usage. Nobody mistakes a heuristic for determining the length of a phone number (a derivative "rule" which is far more susceptible to the monicker, cliche) with a limit on our innate capacity for conceptualizing Relativity. Examples which invalidate the rule actually muddy the waters by drawing in more incomplete and uncertain premises, exemplifying what the 7±2 rule gets right about how best to communicate something of substance about such a complex and incomplete field of study. Of course, there are limitations to what you can extrapolate from 7±2, but that would be understood.

That's why I think it unfair to disparage application of the "7±2" phenomenon as cliche. Whatever one's specific definition of cliche, I think it's fair to say that labeling such usage "cliche" is to disparage it. I think such disparagement is unfair. It's rare for a simplified anchor to a complex field to retain such validity and power. But ultimately I guess my point rests on what might be an idiosyncratic definition of cliche.
Why? What gap do you think it fills in the routine assessment?

I'm all for expanding access to US, but I'm very wary of throwing gadgets for the sake of gadgets at doctors...
You could also add <link rel="stylesheet"> tags to achieve a similar effect, so it doesn't really introduce anything new
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it’s pronounced “decem”, not “ten.”
Upper floors in this case are cooler.
Medical devices kill people when they break. Hopefully IoT devices don't, and the liability will be correspondingly lower.

If your company makes no attempt to patch vulnerabilities, and your devices become one more bot in the botnet, there should be some liability for this.
Yeah, that's a really dispiriting sentiment to read.

But the good news is that it's rooted in the hopefully-soon-to-be-obsolete pricing model. If ultrasound devices really can get down into the $2000 price range, then the good doctors will buy them as a cost of doing business, and just not bill for the ultrasound readings. Wait a decade or so, and that'll percolate from the good doctors to the rest of the field.

Yes, there are perverse incentives etc. etc., but I know a number of doctors who are in it for the love of medicine and helping people. The bureaucracy changes course slowly, but those leaders can and do make a difference over time.
> More education and
> empowerment is the answer,
> not less

More empowerment and more choice is why the US healthcare system is so damn expensive compared to the rest of the world.
Are you looking at Transcrypt https://www.transcrypt.org/ as a replacement for Skulpt at all? Because its here and it already works great for Python 3.6, it just needs more usage to develop workflows and examples around it and tools like Anvil are a great way to get started with any technology.
Not a bootstrapped business, you mean, like Docker (Explicitly used as an example, to which I was providing a counter-example)?

As for signaling, one would not have to use those providers if they felt it did not fit their brand, and could roll their own platform. But if signaling that you want to "play with the big fish" is what one wants, most companies hire sales team who go out and play golf with prospects. Having an open source product and using other forms of funding certainly does not preclude doing that. (Though being a small bootstrapped business might make it more difficult).
Sulfur dioxide pollution tied to lower sperm count
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Inventor of the Web, not the Internet.

However, many of his later ideas, like the Semantic Web, have not taken off. “Own your data” is not a new idea, but it isn’t happening. Most people don’t care. It takes more than a famous name to change that.
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I didn't like the project I was assigned, didn't like the underlying design of the org's charter, didn't like the hours. I also got transferred between managers. I didn't really like it from the director down. It sounded way cooler from the pitch the hiring manager gave me. Team size is not a well-defined concept, TBH -- hierarchies can be structured in very different ways, and a team can be comprised of people with different managers. Also, if you love your director and adjacent teams, it would be unlikely you'd hate your own team.

Once I was inside, I found a few teams that sounded cool. At that point, I could easily meet people on those teams, read survey results on the managers, ask around about the new teams, visit the offices at 6-7 PM and see who was still around. This is somewhere between 10-100x the information I could get as an internal employee than as an external applicant. This led me to joining a team where I'm very happy. And if things went really badly -- I could have switched again! (Might look bad if you switch a ton though)
Interesting, seems somewhat similar to a product the Commonwealth Bank (Australia) offers called 'Albert'. Basically just a tablet in a fancy case with various apps to fulfill various POS needs.

Also quite a lot more expensive than an Albert - 2.5% seems like a lot? Maybe I'm missing some info here though, POS isn't really my forte...
Patients who need an IVC and have brittle veins and peripheral oedema.

It comes up a lot.

I never said anything about routine assessment.
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I have a bunch of them, and I have the ability to execute them, but I need a good team. I haven’t had much luck in the past (and present) with partners.
I’ve started some startups which are running, but for a particular project I need a smart team.
Let’s talk.
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Humans have high lactase at birth but it was a mutation in a lactase-production allele that permanently jammed it "on" for some part of the population.

> it’s unlikely you could trace the mutation back to one person.

But that's how allele mutations work, mostly. Unless you think genetic drift could cause it in a lot of people in a very short period, which AFAIK is considered unlikely. Instead a lot of baby-making was involved.

From The evolution of lactase persistence in Europe. A synthesis of archaeological
and genetic evidence:

> LP [lactase persistence] is an autosomal dominant trait (Enattah et al., 2002). Lactase production is genetically determined by a single gene, LCT, located on chromosome 2

> using long-range haplotype conservation (Bersaglieri et al., 2004) and variation in closely linked microsatellites (Coelho et al., 2005), the 13,910*T variant has been estimated to be between 2188 and 20,650 years old and between 7450 and 12,300 years old, respectively.

> This dramatic change of LP frequency in a relatively short time span cannot be explained by genetic drift alone; very strong natural selection needs to be invoked.

http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Biologie/Anthropologie/MolA/Downl...
Camera Based 2FA Through Mobile and Wearable Devices [pdf]
You could just launch an ICO, doesn't seem to really matter what it does. A platform that helps launch platforms that launch ICOs?
Am I the only one who things this is a really really bad idea?

The world does not need more interpreted languages on the backend.

Visual UI layout is cool for beginners but almost useless for serious projects. Plus if you're a beginner (or a non-programmer) maybe an existing CMS is better? e.g. WordPress.

If a project started with this tool was to ever evolve and get big, I can't imagine that maintaining it will be anything but a nightmare.
>Muck like its peers, though, Facebook plans to stress to U.S. lawmakers that the activity represents only a fraction of what happens daily on its site. Russian-generated disinformation during the election amounted to four-thousandths (0.004) of one percent of content in the News Feed, according to a source familiar with the company’s findings.
There's 3.
This is a bit like saying "disrupt the federal contracting business, so much money for such crap software!"

Standardized tests are a highly political product, and in most states the creation of a standardized test has very little to do with creating an optimal (or even good) assessment.

The idea of using teachers as part of the vetting process for questions is a nice one, but your actual customer sit in state capitols, not classrooms.
They've managed to kick or drive out anyone who has disagreed, so yeah, the sheep that are left are not problematic and produce only the appropriate agreeable noises.

Garzik, Hearn, Andresen. Gone.
That depends on how they're applying their "AI technology." Maybe it's to improve the SNR for a given pixel? Maybe it's to interpolate additional resolution between pixels / lines? It seems possible, but not necessarily likely, that they're doing whole-image post-processing / analysis.
That's quite a claim. Maybe it's other things preventing people from being billionaires, like the fact that there are so few CEO positions, for starters.
Where do you see ultrasound being useful in the routine assessment? As a tool to rule in or out certain differentials, sure (like the examples you gave above), but I don't see the case for routine use in the GP's office.

I think "pocket" ultrasound will be (and is being) adopted by EMS well before it makes inroads in primary care.
Someday someone's gonna make a IM <-> FB gateway.
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I agree with your assessment.

In my experience, ultrasound has revolutionized trauma care - basically getting rid of the invasive Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage (where they put a needle in the abdomen, inject liquid, suck it out, and then see if it has blood in it).

Other examples where it can be used in a primary care setting:

1. Carotid stenosis (narrowing) - we know that this can be a cause of stroke and listening by stethoscope is likely useless (the really narrowed arteries don't produce much noise). Having ultrasound that is cheap and accessible might help catch more of these cases in a primary care setting

2. Heart defects resulting in athlete sudden deaths. Having a primary care doctor evaluate an athlete's heart during a sports physical with ultrasound might help catch some of these cases.

3. Outpatient evaluation of deep vein thrombosis in sedentary populations. This is important because this can help stop blood clots to the lungs.

However, as with your examples, these use cases all involve a medically trained operator. Like you, I am not seeing a lot of potential consumer use cases.
The concept of schizophrenia is dying
Making sure ADAS designs function correctly over time will be an huge challenge
Sure, I would love a portable ultrasound in the back of my ambulance for that very reason. I still use my stethoscope _way_ more often than I start an IV where US would be handy.
Why did connecting the IBM PC 3.5“ FDD backwards cause the problems it did?
Counter point to your whole argument: medical professionals without the funding to acquire "proper" hardware. This isn't a DIY solution for hypochondriacs, it's access to technology that might not otherwise be able to afford it. Maybe veterinarians too.
"Hopefully a JavaScript-free Web can still happen."

The phone you're reading this post on has nearly as many CPU cycles available to run code as the web server that generated the html. Why on earth would you not want to distribute the overall application load.
Because if someone gets confused and doesn't/can't make the purchase due to this misunderstanding, this is lost revenue, for no other reason than assuming that a user knows what CVV means.
i was the Lead Product Designer in this space - creating a marketplace for NGOs and remote digital talent ( all cohorts ). Its a noble space to be in. https://Catchafire.org — if you need a 15yr pro that has built solid products ( from ideation > UX > MVP > growth ) hit me up. Also happen to be doing some Ai UX in the DoD app space.

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This paper looks really interesting to me, although after quickly reading the introduction it's evident that I'm going to have to invest quite a bit of time and effort on the paper to grasp its key ideas. I come from more an encoding-decoding, deep/machine-learning background, as opposed to a probabilistic graphical modeling or PGM background, and my knowledge of neuroscience is minimal.

To date, my experience with "deep PGM models" (for lack of a better term) is limited to some tinkering with (a) variational autoencoders using ELBO maximization as the training objective, and to a much lesser extent (b) "bi-directional" GANs using a Jensen-Shannon divergence between two joint distributions as the training loss.

Has anyone here with a similar background to mine had a chance to read this paper? Any thoughts?
I wonder at what point companies decided they could own our data, and we agreed to it.

It's been a boiling frog situation, but it's not so much that they decided they could own it as that it's been established that we don't. It helps to think of these companies as scavengers picking up the data we trail behind us on our travels. Even so, by at least the Target breach (2013) the message has been that we have no claim or recourse.
Is that self-hosted Gitlab or their hosted version? Would you mind sharing details on your setup? Just curious as we're currently building out our own setup.