skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from finishing my last internship (graduating in 2018), my greatest accomplishment would be finding the secret to make connections fast. There was a post here several months ago on how to make friends and in that post, the author details that the fastest way to get social with someone is through self-disclosure. Just talk about your latest adventure, or talk about stuff you're passionate in. Next time you meet them, chances are that they'll ask you about your latest venture. Bam, that's a connection in the making. It was a big leap as I used to always kept my thoughts to myself, thinking that they're nobody's business until I heard that I'm labeled as that "mysterious guy" at the office, that I should talk more. It was perplexing as I knew that I was more social than usual at work: we talk about their day, we talk about the projects extensively, I talk about the latest news in tech, we have lunch together, etc.

Yet through all of these, I forgot to show a piece of myself to them. It was more of a professional relationship. Upon reading that think piece in HN, the next week I began sharing a few details about myself. Things like my plans for vacation, some hobbies I do on weekends, and some tech that excites me. Pretty soon, these folks are messaging me on facebook. We suddenly have a relationship outside of work. Fast forward to now, even though I've finished my internship at the company, my previous boss messages me from time to time about that vacation I'm planning.
The trans pioneer who helped uncover how the brain is wired has died
It's like a game of gladiators... You can't take the fun off of it.
So what happens if you just plug it in yourself?
Nice, I couldn't find anything on Amazon.de and similar. :/
I have the opposite experience with Android. My Nexus 5X now went from version 6 to 7 to 8, and that's not including the minor version updates. It hasn't gotten any slower. Looks like it will last a few more years easily.

Storage degradation is the only thing that worries me, I wish more companies made phones with microSD slots. Modern microSD cards are cheap and fast.

My old Apple devices, for comparison, are useless bricks.
my worry is backing up from FS A to FS B where these file systems are not feature equal. just the fact that you cannot use APFS to backup APFS is worrying to me.
From the article:

> Now the San Joaquin medical examiner, Omalu was featured in the movie, “Concussion.”
140 character JavaScript programs that produce interesting visuals
Then earthquake or something similar comes and those shanty towns burry their occupants. Problem solved.
Who is going to be performing said shooting?

Drones, of course.
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Here in the UK a few years ago, it was popular to increase housing supply through "cutting red tape" [1] i.e. deregulating.

Then there was a tower block fire where 71 people died [2] - most of them poor, where it's widely believed the death toll would have been much lower were regulations stricter and better enforced.

As you can imagine, deregulating building safety is no longer an idea politicians are eager to put their name to.

[1] http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150319093156/htt...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
Honorable, but 99% of the people don't care. They just want their free content with no ads.

(numbers completely made up on the spot)
I don't understand why people still do this type of "X will die" predictions.

You have nothing to gain by making these predictions, just like how everyone who predicted the fall of the Internet are now laughed upon. Furthermore, even if Bitcoin DOES go down, it's not like you'll be applauded for being an 'oracle' just because you predicted this either. Pretty much everyone who's risk-averse or doesn't understand the technology is saying the same thing.

Why not actually learn how the technology works, so that you don't make these shallow snarky remarks that sound exactly the same as the conversation I had with my uber driver last night, and instead maybe yourself could come up with a solution?

Regarding all the reasons you pointed out, except for the transaction fee issue, the rest are really non-problems. Just because fewer people buy mining devices you think it will go down to $300? Just because you lost your Bitcoin because of your carelessness, you think Bitcoin will go down to $300?

Transaction fees are really the biggest issue right now, and there are tons of different approaches people are working on. Just like the Internet had hard time scaling in the early days I'm sure people will figure it out.

One thing I find annoying about mainstream media saying Bitcoin will die is how they think Bitcoin is some fixed thing that's doomed because it won't evolve at all. I expected better from HN audience. Bitcoin is designed to evolve through forks and that's the whole point. People will find various ways to fix all kinds of challenges because financial incentivization is built into the protocol.
If it is any consolation, I had the same reaction. I could look up all those terms, but I'm not interested enough to bother.
IAB is already providing a tool to detect adblockers. https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/AdBlockDetec...
I also really want someone to study the rise in popularity of "gangsta rap" and the decrease in crime.

While listening to the great podcast "Mogul", it struck me how many people were pushed away from gangs due to the success of friends/family in the hip-hop industry.
Is there a practical way to prevent this kind of attack? Also, what the name for this class of exploitation so I can read more?
In Western Europe at least, all faucets, unless labelled otherwise, will provide high quality drinking water. This is appreciated when you see some kid licking and slobbering on the drinking fountain in the USA… https://www.tripsavvy.com/tap-water-in-europe-3150039
Most European countries have a multi-party system, usually due to not using first past the post voting systems.

As a result you have more parties, more diversity of choice and less polarization and of course more competition. Parties can actually go away and they do, usually every few decades.

The downside is that you can get deadlocks as no party can get a majority sometimes, even after making coalitions with smaller parties.

Still better end result than the US end result, in my opinion.
> […] especially since the old OS is optimized for you and you can use it just fine.

This is inaccurate. The fundamental issue is that Apple doesn’t backport security fixes to old iOS versions. This makes it untenable to use older iOS versions, unless you don’t care about the security of your data/device. If Apple changed their policy on backporting security fixes, they’d be able to offer iOS downgrades without compromising user security.
If you're like me who's read enough from enough sources, you'll have likely arrived at the same conclusion.

To be healthy (which can have many implications,including and not limited to better memory, thinking skills, lifespan etc.), You need to master a few basic principles in life.

Those basic principles seem to be

Body - adequate rest (sleep), regular exercise (activity) etc. & Mind - less stress/destress, positive mind, happiness etc.

Huh. Rocket science?
Hopefully robots will eventually be intelligent enough not to willfully damage their central processing unit.
My Samsung is definitely slower than it was few OS upgrades ago. It's becoming an annoyance. My at-the-time-google-owned-Motorola did't receive any updates. My Google Nexus tablet became completely unusable (like, really, really unusable, not just slow). With older devices, Android 2.x was horrible from the go, so I don't know if it could get worse (and there were only minor updates anyway).

A very small sample, I know. But part of my post was to point out that Apple users can consider themselves lucky at least in the regard that they do receive updates.
>What is interesting however is that neither rugby union, league or AFL have anywhere near the level of concussive damage, maybe because the lack of protection leads to a different approach to bodily harm

This is often cited as the cause for the discrepancy, but it doesn't consider the actual rules of each game. Like you said, games like rugby union, league, and AFL are more about fluidity and flexibility than American football. American football is about getting set, lining up, and going at your opponent as fast as you can. The end result is that the number of full speed collisions in American football is much higher since the players are often charging directly at each other. In the other sports the two opposing teams are often moving in the same direction so high impact head on collisions are rarer.

A lot of the head trauma in American football is really just from the brain rattling around in the skull as people collide at full speed. The helmets basically act as air bags in a car crash. They are there to prevent fractured skulls, but they do very little to prevent concussions and other head trauma.
Bitcoin is going to grow to 50.000 - 100.000 USD within the next year:

* The limit of coins will increase the value of each individual coin (deflation), while the USD's value will still inflate. For miners this doesn't have to be a problem in the long term, since money can still be earned on processing transactions.

* The problems with high transaction fees and slow transaction times will hopefully be solved with the Lightning Network. I know people have been working on the Lightning Network for a long time, but I truly believe it will be introduced for Bitcoin in 2018, because there is a huge need. If Bitcoin will not adopt the Lightning Network by 2018, perhaps some other crypto currency could take over as the number 1 crypto.

* Lost coins will push the value of the existing coins higher.

Do I think block-chain will take over? I do believe so. We should take a very good look at Asia, I believe the most important developments regarding blockchain tech will happen over there. One of the projects that is of great interest to me (I've bought some coins) is Omise GO. Omise GO could give banking capabilities to people without needing them to sign up to bank accounts. It means people without bank accounts might be able to purchase products over the internet using their Omise GO wallets. It also means people can receive money easily without needing a bank account. Asia still has a lot of people without bank accounts. Of course many other interesting applications with block chain tech are developed as well. For example software to track inventory for shipping companies like Maersk.

If some important economy destabilises, look for more common people move into crypto as trust into central banks erode as has been seen already in e.g. Venezuela and Zimbabwe. I believe this could happen in the Eurozone as I believe the Eurozone's economy is still very weak and a small event could evolve into a big crisis over there.

Look for increased efficiency in the block chain and decreased power of governments and banks in the longer term future.
Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown; offer $29 battery replacements for a year
Little snitch! (OSX) https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

no i don't work for or get paid in anyway by little snitch, i just love the product.
The thing is that both activities were always clearly likely to be harmful, if you took a step back from the cultural perspective that accepted them so thoroughly.

Smoking tobacco is inhaling an acrid a mix of chemicals that makes you cough, kind of feel sick and lightheaded, smells awful and leaves a tan stain - it’s not hard to guess that it’s not healthy. Remember that half of people who die from tobacco die from heart disease, too, not cancer.

Same with football. I was never attracted to sports where participants beat each other in the head repeatedly, whether it’s boxing or football. I don’t think it’s surprising to find out that people who experience concussions every week as part of their jobs and hobbies end up damaging their brains.

Edit to add, It’s a bit frustrating, because surely if one was to stand up 30 years ago and say “hey, I don’t think this high school football program is a good idea because I’m worried about all these young people knocking their heads together with full force”... The response would have been to mock you and dispute it, if they paid any attention at all.
It seems to be the same as Return on investment. Could that be used interchangeably?
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I noticed something interresting. Bitcoin price almost precisely follows how much it is trending:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin

As you can see, the media hype is wearing off, less people are getting involved with bitcoin.

I guess there is really more reasons, like BCH insider controversy, people getting involved with other cryptos like XRP (Which seems to be the new trending coin)
Sigh. I'm building these into a "kiosk"-like application where the great touchscreen, nvidia graphics, and good cpu are awesome.

We sort of knew this would eventually happen but it still sucks.

Developing on Android in Java is pretty gross, esp without rooting.

I would love some sort of vanilla Linux tablet that had something like a 10 year SLA and basic support. Ideally a system with PC architecture hardware that has great support by vanilla linux kernel.

The idea is to reduce your dependency on a Big company that only cares about consumer whims for a couple years at a time.
I recently bought a Lenovo Tab 8 Plus as a Nexus 7 replacement, and am fairly happy with it. The screen is excellent and sound is good. It's slightly bigger, but I got used to that quickly.

I disliked the slippery glass back, but a homemade skin (plastic stickyback film) worked great.
> Firstly, none of those examples are subtle.

Who mentioned subtle? That's not even moving a goalpost, that's conjuring one out of thin air.

> However the association of candy bars and decadence didn't come from advertisers originally.

Again: so? The point is they use it. The point of many ads being "inherently psychologically abusive" stands, and I count the space wasted on sophistry to try and wriggle out of that as further damage caused by it.
I got a new job with much better pay and benefits. In the process I learned how much I'm worth in the jobs market. I also learned how to write good cover letters and cvs and how to sell myself in interviews.
Google Brain chief: Deep learning takes at least 100,000 examples
If science advances one funeral at a time, what can be done about institutions that insist on bing wrong? The American Heart Association has a lot to answer for.

Sometimes doctors do good work, sometimes their training leaves much to be desired.
D doesn't run code at compile time as an optimisation. It only runs code at compile time in certain constructs like variable declarations or static if statements. If you need your code to run at runtime simply stick it in your code where it needs to run.
What is ICO? A killer and definitive explanation
If the NAACP was selling sex trafficking to cheer leaders to profit from them, we'd care.

But because we're destroying the brains and bodies of males with illusions of fame and fortunem and brainwashing them into thinking they're "heroes" and "warriors", it's all the young adult boys fault--even though they're still trying to find their place in the world and the brain clearly still develops until at least 25-years old.

And if a major college was teaching students that global warming is false and the Earth was 3,000 years old, and that coal and lead were good for the lungs, the public would be outraged. Don't brainwash out kids! But again... brainwashing football players... they must be jocks... so to hell with them. They "chose" their lives and their eventual crippling diseases. ... But did they?

"Disposable male" culture, indeed.
Ambient.ai (YC W17) Is Hiring Software Engineers (Founding Team)
At Ambient.ai, we're looking for exceptional software engineers, both on-site (San Francisco Bay Area) and remote, to join our engineering team and change the future of computer vision.

Ambient.ai is an early-stage, stealth-mode company founded by Stanford alumni with a mission to solve general vision AI and achieve human-level visual intelligence. We're using cutting-edge deep learning and computer vision to solve an incredibly important real-world problem. We're backed by YC (W17), Stanford StartX, SV Angel, Inevitable Ventures, among others.

We’re hiring in two roles for our early engineering team:

1) Full-Stack Software Engineer: You take pride in the breadth of your skills and work across the whole stack: frontend, backend, microservices and databases. You can design and implement complex backend architectures, write clean and maintainable APIs, design database schemas, implement and deploy distributed systems and have the ability to learn new web frameworks quickly and often.

2) Applied Deep Learning Engineer: You have a penchant for turning research ideas into products. You are well versed with latest computer vision research and have the ability to prototype and productionize deep neural networks under strict time constraints.

(You can read more about the roles here: https://ambient.ai/careers)

This is a unique opportunity to be a part of our journey early on and build a breakthrough product in the computer vision space. Apply by sending your resume to careers@ambient.ai
> deck of cards for prototype game

Do tell
The $54 B doesn't include cost overruns which are already happening!
This is the only type of internet ad that has ever worked on me. They read-out a promo code unique to their channel that gave me a 10% off discount upon purchase. Not just that, but the channel got a kick-back for promoting relevant content, and the advertiser got data telling it exactly how effective money-spent on this channel was by virtue of the promo code.

No tracking of my habits was required, and all parties involved probably got detailed-enough feedback as to their campaign's effectiveness.
Running code at compile time in D is not an automatic optimization. Only code in certain constructs are ran at compile time, for example function calls in variable declarations or static if statements. Generally it's not something you even need to think about. This runs foo() at compile time:

int bar=foo();

This runs foo() at runtime:

int bar;
void main(){
bar=foo();
}
The reduction in battery replacement is only for anyone with iPhone 6 or later, not older models.

"Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29 — for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018. Details will be provided soon on apple.com."
Some NIPS workshops use Openreview[1].

(I kind of assumed the poster meant "journals or conference proceedings")

[1] https://openreview.net/group?id=NIPS.cc/2017/Workshop/Autodi...
Speakers in the programming and design communities
> American inefficiency has been a joke in Germany as far as I can think back.

'course now there's BER so the joke is a bit harder to make.
I'm sure it's not impossible to find 'under the radar' rich people - and people who take care to not flaunt their wealth will probably be more likely to try and make the whole thing go away quietly by paying up.
Congratulations, you made it!
You are now, by your own words, too much of an asshole. What an achievement!

Please allow me to explain my reasoning:

I'm of those with no clue about the meaning of SVM, and I came to the comments section looking for an answer to the question "what the ... is SVM anyway?".

Even though I know the way to Google (https://duckduckgo.com, right?), I'm happy someone asked this question and another answered it and as a consequence saved me (and hopefully others) a couple of clicks and taught me something that I might have otherwise been too lazy to investigate myself.

Should I want to be picky, I'd even suggest that having the question answered in the comment section is environmentally more efficient than your suggestion that we should all open a new tab and do the same research.

Save a tree, answer the not-so-obvious questions "for the masses".
No.

The MTA was formed in the 1960s to take over operations of the then–bankrupt privately owned Long Island Railroad, assuming operations of New York City transit in late 1960s. NYCT had itself been formed in the 1940s after the then-private companies running various subway, elevated and bus routes went under.

Specific to today and the article in question: The government of NYC has little to no control over the MTA, including the subways, other than bickering with the governor over funding.
> Omise GO could give banking capabilities to people without needing them to sign up to bank accounts

Assuming you don't count an Omise GO wallet as a bank account, which it obviously is.
>But the culture of increasing hardware requirements beyond the reasonable point of not-that-old phones coupled with the opacity surrounding what is done to support them is systemic (and not Apple-specific of course).

My recollection is that back when you needed a new computer every three years if you wanted to be able to read word processor documents from others in the office is that there was a whole lot less vitriol then. Maybe I am misremembering; it has been a long time.

We did joke. "What Intel gives, Microsoft takes away" - I do remember that every upgrade came with complaints of "Bloat!" - but I remember there being a lot more excitement than complaints, (modulo really bad ideas... Did anyone like Microsoft bob? I mean, I understand where they were coming from, but it was just a really terrible implementation)

I personally find it super amusing that I now have two laptops in front of me; one that is a year old, and one that is seven years old. Both running modern software, and they both work just fine. The new one uses a lot less power, of course, and doesn't get as warm on my lap, and the old one has some physical problems; I need to take apart and clean out the keyboard, but it mostly just works.

I wonder if cellphones will be that way in twenty years?
It integrates with KeePass, which is a proper, OS-level password manager. So, this is a feature, not a limitation. Should be more secure than just making Firefox save them and well, you can make it remember not just passwords from your browser, but rather any password.

It also has password management features, such as a password generator, a reminder to change passwords every so often that you can set up, a search feature, and also just can store your various user-names, throwaway e-mail accounts or just general notes that you might have.

KeePass is open-source and has sort of developed to a standard. For example, there's also KeePassXC, which you should be able to use with this extension as well and which generally works better on Linux or macOS (because the original KeePass is written in C#). There's also various apps for Android and iOS.

It stores the passwords in a .kdbx-file, which is encrypted with one single password that you will have to remember, and then you can safely throw that .kdbx-file into any sort of cloud storage or file sync service to make it available on all your devices.

Mind that theoretically this extension or those various other clients could be malicious and steal your passwords. I'm 99% sure that KeePass itself, KeePassXC and KeePassDroid are not malicious (I do use those myself and they have a reasonably big following), but I really cannot comment at all on this extension's trustworthiness.
Study finds the most prosperous U.S. cities are nearly all in the West