skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really curious about how the piano example works too, apparently it uses a camera in the controller -

"The right Joy-Con’s motion IR camera reads the back of each key in order to tell the piano which note to play. "

http://time.com/5106363/nintendo-switch-labo-toy-cons/

It does seem a really interesting system, look forward to hearing more about it!
Url changed from https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/01/apple-accelerates-us-.... Some of the comments below make a bit more sense if you know they were replying to that one.

This is a bit of an exception to the HN guidelines' call for original sources. We generally prefer a high quality third party report on news like this to a corporate press release. The latter tend to read like press releases.
It depends on whether the ethanol is generating net positive energy. If I burn one joule of petroleum to get two joules of ethanol, it's a net success. If I burn two joules of petroleum to get one joule of ethanol, it's a net failure.

I very much doubt it would have survived as long as it has as a technology if it were a net energy loss.
That is good news, my only complaint now is that Education Edition has a Mac OS version which is the platform I prefer.
'Flipping'/'flippers' is another term commonly used
That's really interesting, did you used to hear it in 3D? Were the sounds coming from a certain position and then increasing volume as you approached that position? or was it just plain?
I know you mentioned it - you just weren't correct. Hope the clarification was helpful. Here's some additional reading if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
Good points. But for some types of apps, you might have groups of users (a company, team, municipality) that you might be able to afford the cost of "everyone log in again". Or you might be able to safely log out everyone after business hours (if in the same timezone).
Note that often prison officials will come up with reasons to move weak/nerdy/awkward inmates into solitary to "protect" them from more violent inmates. Sometimes that detention requires coming up with "violations" of prison rules that can lead to denial or delay of probation release.
T-mobile has better plans than this though the deals keep on changing. My current family plan works out to $30/person in my family for 4G unlimited voice/messaging and 20GB data. They do have a unlimited data plan but I hardly ever exceed 5GB myself. Also I get roaming into Canada/Mexico. And messaging/data when traveling abroad (no voice for free abroad.)
Maybe you should try the Kensington Expert Trackball. I have a Macbook Pro at work and an iMac at home and use the Kensington on both for over 8 years. A great trackball, IMHO better than Logitechs.

I've tried and sometimes use a Touchpad, which is hard to beat when I'm mobile. But I still prefer the stability of the ball, its inertia, fine control, and especially its clearer semantics for compound operations. Too often, I find that TrackPad multibutton ops (esp. Force Touch) will miss the mark.
I feel fortunate that I happened to check into HN today because this is an area where I have a lot of experience and I have made something similar (albeit much less advanced) that is currently in use by some physicians.

Quick background: I am an internal medicine physician, and my focus is hospital medicine, so I actually see a lot of cancer patients suffering from complications related to progression of their disease, treatment, and have lots of end-of-life discussions.

A couple years ago I had a case where I wished I had more data to drive me to make a prediction for a family who wanted to know when their loved one was going to die, and I felt like I didn't do a good job. I ended up contacting an oncologist Dr. David Hui who has done a lot of research into predicting end of life care.

There are dozens if not hundreds of "prognostic calculators" out there that different groups have made over the years to try and find which variables X, Y, Z, can be used to better predict how a patient with cancer A, B or C will do.

Most of them are not great and very specific. Some of them are general to all cancers, some are only for "advanced cancer" etc... So this isn't really a new idea, it's just that this is the first time someone has applied AI to it as far as I'm aware.

The problem is these calculators are all buried in journals and have different inputs. What we did was collate some of the best validated ones and make it easier to check multiple prognostic calculators at once, with the idea that you could get more of a range or gestalt on the patient and use that info to help guide further decisions.

In case anyone is interested the site is www.predictsurvival.com but it isn't for lay use so may not be of much interest to most here. I built it using Python and Flask and it's what I'm most proud of in my programming.

Anyways, I knew someone would eventually use AI to try and tackle this question. I'll read their paper later tonight and I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being far better than what I've done. I hope they make it open source.

I'd be happy to try and answer any questions people might have about medicine and end of life care
It does actually. Blizzard has successfully pursued legacy WoW servers because of their usage of protocols, and an imitation of their copy righted content.
Sedans in general all look sooo similar. For the person not too deeply interested in cars, how will their lives be different if they chose a focus, civic, or corolla?

It seems like car safety standards, which aren't a bad thing, have just led to an uninspiring and very similar collection of sedans here. Would be refreshing to see a 4-door car that is interesting without being a muscle car or a sports car.
Adele – repository of design systems
Will Nintendo fight copycats who provide cheap replacements?

You've already purchased the console and software - and Nintendo doesn't sell either at a loss. The cardboard is a trivial part of the picture.

Kids could also just cut another pattern out of their own boxes, and I bet Nintendo would love to see kids doing that.
But I do not say society in general is "on the take."

I'm saying you are, which is why you contest that my property is not mine.

That's a pretty narrow, twisty way of defining property, and it's not upheld by US case law.
It also supports compiling to ARM Thumb.

https://makecode.com/language
A library, by definition, is full of flammable materials anyway :)
The local homeless shelter here doesn't accept coats.
I do, and I'm not even that poor.
I think it's because hatchbacks just aren't that popular in the US. Or at least I don't see remotely as many hatchbacks in the US as I do in Europe.
Isn't Tether incorporated in Hong Kong? How lax is HK on financial fraud?
I don’t think it is viable currently either. I just think it is the ideal we should strive towards.

Paradoxically, I don’t believe an anarchist society could work without private property rights. And if you are familiar with anarchist thought, you are probably also aware of and have considered the arguments for privatizing courts and so on, so I won’t bore you with that.
Does Firefox "Reader View" feature help you in any kind of way? Or is it that reading isn't the issue, but browsing around is?
Sugar. The US has very highvpunitive tariffs on global sugar, and massive subsidies on American alternatives (beet sugar and high fructose corn syrup), enough that it is one of the top sticking points in trade agreements.
Just because it's private doesn't mean it's decentralized in a protocol sense. The nodes in the private blockchain would still be distrustful of each other and would still undergo decentralized consensus.

As for compensation, rather than receiving a coin as a reward for doing proof of work mining, you would gain a key to enable you to read certain encrypted data on the blockchain, for instance.
Good writeup here: http://webassembly.org/docs/security/

It runs in existing browser VMs, which have been pretty battle tested.

Another interesting note is that threads are now on hold for WebAssembly due to Spectre, that is, SharedBufferArray has been disabled. Hopefully it can be enabled in the future.
I automated this and other standard nginx configurations with ansible for ubuntu 16.04. Here's the role: https://github.com/naggie/nginx-https-base

It uses webroot + certbot for zero downtime deployment, and provides neater error pages. Also gets an A+ on https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ .

Hopefully it's useful to someone.
I'm pretty sure Swype did explain it, and I know SwiftKey has this gesture as well (though I don't remember if it was ever explained to the user or just assumed they'd remember it from Swype).
> As a concrete box, usually windowless and monotone

I did not know this (as a non-native speaker of English I just knew "solitary" - "alone"). It is well-known to me that lack of daylight cycle etc. for a longer time can cause medical conditions.

> Two, it renders prisoners even more vulnerable to abuse by officers than even regular inmates.

A really good argument. Accepted.

> Four, just as an empirical matter, there are a pile of studies on the negative mental health effects of solitary confinement. Much like a math proof, “it’s true because it’s true.”

This only shows that for the "average person" it causes problems.
You're right, it's all stimulus. If we carry this further, would it be okay to one day feed a VR of some very disturbing experience as "prison"? Or for that matter, administer some drug that frightens you enough to induce negative feedback?

Drugs are already used for the death penalty. It's not that far off.
The problem with the by-the-ballot approach is that, if voters had reasonably considered that acts of eminent domain might be or would be pursued to complete the project, there is at least some reasonable likelihood that it would not have received enough votes for its funding.

It’s speculative, of course, but “well they voted for it” is not necessarily cause for “well we’ll force out landowners with a fair market value price”. These are often someone’s homes — places for families, their memories, and their sense of pride and security — for which fair market value does not fully appreciate.
Exactly. X% of something is better than (X+Y)% of nothing.
Not only that, but they're incentivizing the creation of a network of fraudsters. Small-time content creators are already banding together to form subscriber pools.

I remember when Google was known for actually thinking things through.
Maybe an Arduboy then.

https://arduboy.com/
My takeaway from having worked on both traditional webapps, and SPAs (2 with homegrown frameworks built on backbone.js, and 1 with ember.js): SPAs, being more complex, demand a higher standard of coding and code review to not have eisenbugs. I have seen a lot of effort wasted on making SPAs work, when the customer would have been happier to have a more reliable traditional webapp.

In one of these companies, SPA architecture was chosen because the backend was unacceptably slow. Instead of fixing that problem, we adopted more complexity by transitioning to SPA. When I left, the backend was still slow, and the SPA was breaking all the time. It felt like a waste of effort and I would never do an SPA by choice again.
Education Edition is based off Bedrock Edition, which is the console/UWP codebase (as opposed to the Java version available already). You'll have to wait for that to come to macOS first before seeing EE there.
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I've been trying to get "caspaicious" to catch on. (from "caspaicin")

That's not currently a real English word. But it could be!
Your comment gave me an extra insight into Sichuan pepper, which I love, given one of my favourite dishes is Kung Pao Chicken [0].

It's a difficult taste to describe, but it's almost like chili that's "cold"/"icy" instead of "hot"/"burning".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Pao_chicken
Old clothes make excellent raw material for the production of shop rags. They can also be used to make high quality paper.
This looks way too good to be true. It's a pretty awesome concept, though kinda like lego mindstorms but more focused on things that you interact with.

Hopefully there's people that come along and create kits with more durable components than the cardboard that this page and the ad show.
I am sure I did not confuse this. But I did not know that other sensory deprivations such as lack of light/daylight cycle or fresh air are also common for solitary confinement.

I also accept arkades' reaaly good argument that solitary confinement makes you a lot more vulnerable to abuse by officers.
Looks like it was added around October: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Announcing-Micro...
That's a strange sort of "choice": if I don't buy things at the store, I starve to death. If I don't buy land (or rant it, or inherit it), I die from exposure.

Like I said above, a mandatory vote does not require individuals to make a political statement any more than taxation does, unless it is coupled with a limited selection of candidates. We can talk about the propriety of a mandatory vote, but the legality of one in the United States seems fairly cut-and-dry.
I'd forgotten about that... thanks for reminding me :D
What you're saying is so obviously true that it's virtually meaningless.

Of course XRP is less liquid than Google common stock and more likely to go to zero. XRP is also more likely than Google stock to increase 10x.

It's so obvious it should go without saying that some assets are more risky than others. Nobody would disagree.

If the price of your Google common stock doubles, is that not a "paper gain"? And if the price of your XRP is cut in half, is that not a "paper loss"?

All gains and losses in typical assets are "paper", so this seems to be a distinction without a difference.
Obama also failed to fulfill many appointments, including a Supreme Court Justice. What, in your opinion, should he have done differently?
It does pops up in physics calculations, but how does that 'indicates continuity/infinite divisibility'? Many things pop up in physics calculations, most of them are just tools to represent a model.
What do you consider a hatchback? The Subaru Outback, for example, I believe is considered a crossover today, as is the Subaru Crosstrek, but both are arguably also hatchbacks.
You can have solitary confinement followed by re-socialization. Confinement, when prepared the right way, is rehabilitative, like people imposing exile on themselves or meditation. It's the freeness of the will that makes the difference, hence preparation.
https://github.com/monobeard/libasmb64
Apple accelerates US investment and job creation
It seems like car safety standards have led

Don't forget about aerodynamics.
Related option for those who are less focused on the JSON API and instead want to make their datasets public and queryable: data.world added SQL support a little while back, joining the original SPARQL. One big advantage there is that folks can write queries that join your datasets to other open datasets on data.world.
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You're on the right track, but getting the wrong conclusion. Green revolution agriculture is about a move from subsistence farming to cash farming. Nobody grows soybeans at scale for subsistence; their value is as a cash crop. It's not just for biofuels. The famed Ethiopian famine of the 1980s? That was caused by the introduction of export cattle farming, fencing off "property" and breaking the traditional grazing cycle that protected the land. Public land got overgrazed, and rivers got silted. And the export cattle? They were for the European pet food market. And European financial interests were all too happy to work with Western governments to put compliant Ethiopian governments in place to do it.
The cars all look the same (like lozenges) these days because of fuel efficiency requirements. The lozenge is the slipperiest.
That already pretty much exists! If you run `./genact -m cargo` it will look pretty much like compiling genact itself.
Last year I ate 100 pounds of food. This year I ate 120 pounds of food. Last year I ate 50 pounds of vegetables and 50 pounds of meat. This yea, I ate 50 pounds of vegetables and 70 pounds of meat.

Is it fair to say that my meat consumption has increased by 20 pounds? Or is it unfair on the grounds that I've not mentioned a big shift from potatoes to carrots within the 50 pounds of vegetables? I mean, my potato consumption is way down, but my carrot consumption is way, way, way up. My carrot consumption has gone up by a bigger percentage than my pork consumption, for sure. Except... it doesn't matter.

My meat consumption went up, and my vegetable consumption remained flat. That's new meat consumption. Shifts from potatoes to carrots and pork to beef are irrelevant to the subject at hand.
True. However assuming the price of high speed rail tickets will be fixed because it is a public service, the government could similarly operate an airline instead of high speed rail using the same fixed price system. What would be the cost then?
My business does this!

http://PaleoMealPlans.com

We're just paleo meals right now, but we're adding keto, low-carb high fat, and AIP iterations of the service as well.
Some trains will run sf-sj-la without further stops. Those will be far faster than air if you are traveling between city centers.
this has kept me happy for the past few years: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/96U1114
Er, "son" and "soon" are both real dictionary words. Swipe-style keyboards use an internal dictionary to find the most likely match to the swiped pattern, and have methods for adding new words (mine for example automatically adds any tapped-out words after you hit space).
If it improves on existing things, then the problem it solves is something like "It's too hard to do X. With our new Y, X is much easier."

Visicalc: "Doing spreadsheets by hand is too slow and too error-prone. Now you can do it with a computer, which is fast and never makes arithmetic mistakes."

Nintendo: "Our youth are hanging out on street corners annoying their elders. We can get them off the streets with better video games." (Kidding...)
I would argue that both are designed following the principle of least privilege. Netscape haven't had the luck of having correct code. So what would have helped in Netscapes case? How would eliminating trusted code work in this case? Netscape has to do DNS lookups. I'm not sure if there was much more left to do as writing secure correct code. And of course you should prioritize writing secure correct code over implementation of least privilege. That doesn't make the principle of least privilege fundamentally wrong.

My opinion is that if you design your software securely threat modeling should result in the decision of implementing the least privilege principle and whether it makes sense and benefits (complexity vs benefit) or not. Of course you better eliminate trusted code so that there are less case where you have to get to these decisions.
I assume that soon or later, there are situation, where you can't eliminate trusted code and it makes sense to implement least privilege.
Thanks. I may give it a try. I'm pretty happy with current Mac Trackpads (to the point where I see no reason to use a mouse or anything else on my laptop but always looking for more comfortable input devices.
> What if your lawyer rates a 15 (scale 0-100) and simply says that that's what I really believed, given the evidence and resources available

> Who is going to disbar /blame him when he recounts the challenges he faced?

The disciplinary commission of the State Bar, who will be reviewing the information provided, and will be composed aren't 15s.

And, quite possibly, a court hearing a malpractice claim and applying the professional standard of care.
For the train you also need to include the time to get to LA's union station. So the main difference ends up being TSA time.
Searx is a free private internet metasearch engine
Let alone being amazed by compilation speeds that Turbo Pascal was already doing in MS-DOS, with a more feature rich language.
What about Caddy made it easier? It's very simple to set up a basic Nginx site and run certbot... like 'under 5 minutes' simple.
Exactly. The incentives Google is setting up are as perverse as they can be.
It's a bit misleading to say we're adding another MVC app on the client. By adding that complexity, we reduce complexity on the backend. Views on the backend are no longer true views, but rather serializations of the models. And models on the frontend don't duplicate business logic. That's still all on the backend.
Im assuming they weren't stealing so I assume either the charity sold it to her in bulk. It's not a "scam" if the charity decided the best way to put the donations to use was through her business.
I realize that, actually EE is already on Mac OS, it was there even in the beta of EE. I would like to be able to use the Bedrock Edition on Mac OS but EE and being a school is the only way to do that.
Link farms are dead, long live link farms.
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How does denying people the ability to work amount to a deterrent? If anything, it has the opposite effect; if you cannot work legally after being released from prison, how can you possibly live a normal life?
Only half related, but it's kind of neat that we've used such a relatively simple standard of radio for so long. Modern modulation schemes are so complicated that they require dedicated functionality just to interpret. Wasn't always like that.
What you’re leaving out is CO2. California is committed to reducing CO2, but emissions from transportation are the largest component of state emissions, and they are growing. Air travel cannot be done except by burning hydrocarbon fuels. Train travel, while still energy-intensive at high speeds, can be powered by any electric source. Therefore rail, and not air, has the capability to cut the state’s CO2 emissions.
Yes, that's my point. Decoupling it for the purpose of supporting multiple frontends may not be more practical than leaving it coupled and providing an API for other frontends.
It really depends on the size of the cell. I was in a cell at one point that had just enough room for my mat, and room for me to place my foot on either side of the mat. The floor was filthy, so my mat was like my island. I suppose you could do push ups on your mat, but the lack of space is very psychologically oppressive. I did meditate, and it relieved the stress of being confined alone in that small space, but it was pretty rough. The worst part was trying to fall asleep with all of the ambient noise and light. It's not like sitting at home in your bedroom, I do that now and have no problem being alone for long periods of time (hours and days). Solitary confinement is pretty rough.
> ground zero for the best banh mi in the world

Melbourne, Australia, would give Twin Cities a run for their money for banh mis. There's a large Vietnamese community here from the war, South Vietnamese flags flying everywhere.

I can't get enough of the things. Some weekends I'll eat nothing else. When I went to Vietnam a couple of years back, I practically survived on banh mi and pho.
This means something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2JL0xABlrQ
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Which is exactly what others have done before with Node when official Go support wasn't available: Use Node as a shim to launch a Go process in Lambda.
Yeah, I think the thing is though that you have to enforce trademarks early and evenly. You can't enforce for one significant breach and not for another. If you want to allow certain kinds of trademark use then you need to come to a licensing agreement for those specific uses, either by allowing certain forms of use or by allowing specific people to use it. Not a lawyer.