skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be simpler to say that the interaction between the reviewer's motivation to believe that 50% of everything is crap and the fact that 90% of everything is crap has emergent effects.

The major one is that bad qualities that randomly happened to occur more commonly in products that have previously made the 50% cut become misindicators of quality, distorting the evaluation of a constantly drifting subset of products that have or lack those misindicators. This occurs asymetrically (between misindicators of positive quality and misindicators of negative quality) because there are more products misidentified as being good, therefore it's relatively far more common for particular bad qualities to randomly be more associated with works above the median then the opposite. Works that fall below the median in a world of 90% crap would have very few good qualities at all.
why bother ?
Would you mind sharing what kind of applications you are working on? Defense, aerospace, mobile phones, other?

I've heard worse things about the defense and aerospace industries than I have about semiconductor industry, so I'm just curious.
Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store
Cause it's not very micro?
What can be absorbed through the skin depends on various factors:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_(skin)

People with CF are prone to aquagenic wrinkling. In layman's terms, they get extremely pruney when they bath. This suggests they absorb the water at a higher rate than is normal due to their genetic disorder impacting epidermal function.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/fullarticle...

No one is positing that saline inhalations are going to preserve pancreatic function, but that’s not because they forgot about the pancreas.

What I recall reading is that when people with CF surfed, their general prognosis was overall better. So if no one is positing that it has any impact on pancreatic function, then it seems to me they are viewing the data in highly selective terms and assuming it only impacts lung function and nothing else when the data does not suggest that.

Granted, I haven't dug deeply into the original data because it wasn't important to me. I was only trying to understand the positive results I was getting for my own edification. My recollection is the study was done in Australia if you want to try to find it.

I will add that it isn't actually necessary to prove people with CF absorb it through the skin. The article we are discussing states that surfers swallow a great deal more sea water than swimmers, 10x iirc. So surfers are, in fact, consuming sea salt.
Pretty good progress. It's aimed as a drop in replacement for Wine's D3D11 over OpenGL implementation.

Meanwhile Wine developers are working on vkd3d for D3D12 → Vulkan translation: https://source.winehq.org/git/vkd3d.git/
Is there no adverse environmental impact from dumping battery packs into the atmosphere to burn up?
Bad or good, this is an admission of failure. Facebook just flat out said "screw it, you all decide what's real...because we sure as shit can't."
...meh? Unless it was relevant to his impacts on society or the topic at hand, it isn't relevant. Save it for the Wikipedia page or biography, or when talking about those specific views of his
At least it would be honest.
And can deal with the racism towards "kaijin"
Ah. I thought the problems with this country stemmed from monopolists and the corrupt financial sector where individuals amass enough private wealth to send every kid in the country to college.

Good to know it's really the fault of nurse anesthesiologists, people with union jobs, and tech people in parts of the country that pay large wages.

Just kidding. And I know there is injustice in the way we professionals live in exclusive areas and become blind to the plight of the poor. But the way the Koch brothers reshape the entire republican party, or the way business interests dictate the agenda of the democrats COMPLETELY OVERSHADOWS our ability to afford a freaking house.
They would be better off auto-blending articles at the other end of users' opinion spectrum into their news feeds (or comment threads) to try and burst the echo chambers.

"Here are some articles at the polar opposite to your norms."
Microservices (in practice) are like polyglot: throwing away type safety for no good reason. This shit needs to stop.
I can't wait till 4chan gets wind of this one!
Design the app to work in smart phone. Families might benefit have cheap smart phone for multi purposes. Cheap smart phones will help students as they grow up to familiarize the mobile technology.
I always liked the way Bryan Cantrill defined it in one of his wonderful talks, which was basically that the difference between 'hard' real-time systems (eg missile guidance) and 'soft' real-time systems (eg whatsapp) boils down to the consequences of being late.
You think CNN is 100% honest and credible? The same could be said of liberals or any arbitrary group of people.
>I also have a published board game

Link that stuff up! (Assuming you don't mind being associated with it here.)
> Vulkan is only supported in desktop mode using the same ICD driver mechanism used by OpenGL drivers, which is not currently supported in UWP sandbox model.

Another reason for developers to avoid UWP.
Directed acyclic graph
microservices bring more advantages for management than technical people.

- easier to manage (smaller team)
- easier to hire (we can hire good people with different skillset)
- easier to scale
- and so on...
Slightly off-topic: are there any social networks out there not polluted by news -- fake or otherwise? Is there room for a new social network that's for, you know, people?

Snapchat's a tabloid, Facebook is basically a news RSS feed, and I'm even starting to get news "stories" when browsing hashtags on Instagram. I just want to discover people and talk to people. Apart from dating apps (Tinder/Bumble/etc.), it seems that all social networks have become news networks.
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Meh, that's a stawman argument.

We grudgingly accept the emissions from cars because of their other usefulness.

If we could make cars with no emissions and no other negatives, gas-powered vehicles would surely be outlawed very soon.

Smoking has no useful purpose and frankly it's ridiculous that some people feel they are entitled to put other people's health at risk because of their own addiction.
What do you think is the long term prospects of frontend development?

I have come to terms with continuous learning in frontend but I can't help but feel that I am standing on unstable ground. That one day, all the knowledge that I have accumulated would become irrelevant.

I have come to the point that I am learning backend using Python just to have a fallback.
Product Thinking helps us to build a diet planner application
Wow, autocorrect really did a number on that. Sorry.

Third parties can’t actually design a UI for CarPlay. It seems there are a few templates that they can make the tiniest changes to and that’s the extent of their customization.

So every podcast player and music app looks basically the same. They use the standard car playlist for you for selecting things and the standard now playing type screen for controlling play back.

Want to add extra buttons to be able to skip between chapters on a podcast? You can’t. Want to rearrange where the buttons are? You can’t. What people to be able to select a podcast by choosing from cover art instead of a list? You can’t.

Basically even the kind of apps Apple does allow our EXTREMELY restricted.
And yet someone had enough time to enter all the IMEIs from the stolen lot into the surveillance apparatus.
The author's iPhone 6+ does not age well with apps consuming significant power. That anecdote is not useful, because that is a particular issue with the author's phone and not general enough to be useful. If you abuse your phone battery, it will not maintain capacity. My 6 plus's battery is at 89% capacity after 3+ years.

The author complains about Apple technical support, but brings up a anecdote about a laptop (I thought this was about a phone). Can you bring a Samsung phone to a Samsung store to get it repaired? I remember needing to mail my Samsung phone in for warranty repair and the screen coming back with a diagonal slice where they cut the packaging open. That sucked, but I am not going to blame all of Samsung for that (it was probably an unfortunate mistake) or blame the Android ecosystem.
I agree. I hate this idea of "removing social interaction." People complain about everyone on their cellphones in the mornings. However if you look at videos from the 1970s and 80s, no one interacts on the trains back then either. They've all got their newspapers and magazines and the nerdy kids have their walkmans.

Today it's no longer nerdy to listen to music, everyone has earbuds in and your newspaper and magazines are all easily accessible on tiny little screens which use a lot less paper.
"Best of all worlds" in your opinion is a world where people have to deal with unnecessary and unwanted toxic gases in only a minority of establishments?
In-memory Computing on a Photonic platform
Is their policy of letting you return anything anytime without a receipt also consumer hostile?
You must be the life of every party.
Mobile Machine Learning Hardware at ARM: A Systems-On-Chip (SoC) Perspective
The Recruitment Program for Innovative Talents targets people under 55 years of age

... because people over 54 can't innovate?
The same author on similar themes in 2015:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/unassailable-virtue-victims/ar...
> Arabs like to say that there are two conflicting narratives of the conflict. The facts are far simpler.

I'm aware that the conflict is old and complicated and there are good and bad people on both sides, but by your own account, the basis of it is that Brits decided that a group of people scattered across the world all had a natural right to live in roughly the same place their ancestors came from 2000 years previous, regardless of the feelings of the people who were already living there.

And, granted, their neighbors could have reacted less violently. But it still doesn't make much sense to begin with. I can trace my ancestry to medieval Britain, and I might be able to figure out exactly where some of my ancestors lived, but that doesn't give me or anyone the right to evict the people living there now.
Well, given that people tend to perceive swings in things rather than absolute values of things, wouldn't you expect to feel 'normal' unless things are getting noticeably better or worse at that point? And given the coarse granularity of the inputs, a drop of 0.5 seems well within what you'd expect just from random noise.
Hum, I think there are many factors to that. Just a couple who come to my mind:
-The population is way smaller than USA even if you regroup all countries of the Nordic area. It would be nice to have a number per capita which would paint a better picture.
-I believe the right conditions for a tech scene to emerge were recently met in most of those countries. I see a lot of nordic fintech and fintech is a relatively recent phenomena.
-I think that there were not many VC around a couple of years ago. Even though it is better now, it might not be as easy to get founding than it is in the Valley.
-Regulation is way more restrictive in those countries. You can't just arrive and break what I would call the social contracts (like Uber is doing for example).
- etc etc
Seed/ Initial round- make sure you are getting money from the investors who believe in your business idea, else its becomes an distraction

Your focus should be having
1) product ready for market
2) market startegy
3) Sales/ Sales - Get the customer pipeline ready. This is market validation and revenue
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Less Than 1% of All Bitcoin Transactions Linked to Illicit Activity
I don't have a strong argument for DPI in gaming, I find DPI to be more noticeable when watching movies/reading text.

Going from 60 => 100 fps on the other hand makes fast-paced games feel much more fluid and responsive.
Yeah, I think "I can turn my brain off and just trust anything this source says" is probably the wrong approach to news.
I call this the painting problem. Painting the walls of a room seems easy to an amateur: You just buy a few gallons at Home Depot and slap it on. But a professional knows that prep, trim, and cleanup are 80% of the job and they take skill. Anybody can slap paint onto the middle of a wall. What's difficult and time-consuming are making the edges sharp and keeping paint off the damn carpet.
I don’t think that was the point.

The point is that even credible sources are going to be voted down as “idealogically biased“ no matter how neutral the story is.

Headline says candidate Johnson lost by 15%? Better vote it down. After all, you hate candidate Johnson. Doesn’t matter if he actually lost.
It's hard to understand what the SFPD were thinking. Imagine if the phone was actually one of the 300 stolen in the heist. Did the SFPD actually think that the person using the phone, with their Apple ID attached, was one of the thieves? It isn't like they stole 300 phones to keep for themselves.

If it was stolen it would have been someone who bought stolen merchandise, knowingly or unknowingly. Knock on the dude's door, and nicely say "hey, sorry to bother you, but we think your iPhone is one that was stolen in a big heist. Do you have a receipt for the purchase?"
I can't see why that would help.
Not exactly new. Apple swatted the gizmodo reporter over an iPhone prototype. I honestly don't feel sorry for him after I read he works for Apple. Help bad people prosper and bad things happen to you.
I think I'm happier with Floppy's than an iPhone app.
Candy Wrappers Are Listening (2014)
So nix free speech (and rely on unknown propietary algorithms)? I don't think that's a good idea either. Much of the time, there's more value in the comments than you could gain from an article, video, etc - as is the case here.
I mean there's no reason you can't do that, I think that's a fine approach personally. I'm not really sure you gain much from focusing on developing tons of microservices at that point though. In general it's going to add complexity to your project, and at the end of the day you're still deploying it as one big single service so I'm not really sure you gain much from the added complexity. That said, I'm not really huge on microservices to being with, so I may not be the best one to talk to about them ;)
That might be because "the news" isn't some abstract thing that has no effect on people's lives, so people want to talk to people about the news and politics.
If we're going to cite reddit threads, here is the /r/philosophy take on this very article:

https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/7jl826/the_afri...

Basically exactly what I thought, it's claptrap using a lot of bad philosophy and bad history to push an afro-centrist narrative for the Enlightenment.

If the shoe was on the other foot, and this was a case of an African invention being attributed elsewhere, I would call that out too. I have no stomach for people who put politics above the truth.
That ship in their example,the Seneca (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., has a super interesting history: https://archive.org/details/logbookofsenecab00unse
I agree with you, but I'm sure they will never remove those metrics.

You might like the extension Facebook Demetricator: http://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/

Personally I block the entire news feed with uBlock Origin which has made my experience of Facebook tolerable.
The succinctly noted

"The tension in any of these systems is between performance and isolation. "

Also caught my attention. In my mind it is a bit analogues to discussion about 'microservices'.

Although micro services, are probably at the peak of the Hype Cycle.
Where isolation is projected as 'productivity enabler', across teams.

Very difficult to challenge this, especially if you work for a company where revenue is declining/not growing because of lack of ideation/innovation/market conditions.

So, when company fails to ideate and grow revenue, the product management/CIO will be turning onto the productivity.

I suspect the next move for the company, where the above is discussed, -- is moving Development to a lower cost area.

Especially if the 'hiring problem HR is noting' is not just with requirements, but also salary ceilings.
That's the SFMTA, they are a completely different city department.
Sure, but replace each instance of "homosexual" in the above with "person who does not want children" or "barren person" and see if you think that's why the author is distressed.
I think this is a much less effective way of changing minds than the genteel David Brookses of the world would like to admit.
Exactly, the only people who’d continue surfing would be the ones whose immune systems could cope with the shock. If you kept getting sick after surfing you’d probably quit pretty quickly.
WTF is GDPR?
It would be an okay game if it taught about the "X of Y" in which X is anything and Y is anything. But really it's just a game of "who can roll the dice best?" where the players influence the outcome of the game as much as in Candyland. (Of course, the players do have to play "correctly", which means "purchase everything you land on".)
What do you mean by "anti-oncogene systems? That makes me think of stuff like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor_suppressor_gene#Function...

Those functions are pretty much the same as what I mentioned above (adhesion isn't included in my list):

"obviously the ultimate solution needs to be either reducing the number of cell divisions or the rate of junk/error accumulation per division"
That's true but that seems like the easiest issue to deal with, considering how much information you have about user's political preferences if you're Facebook.
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> The same criticism has also engulfed other social media companies such as Twitter, which on Friday said it was emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States that they had interacted with Russian propaganda accounts around the time of the 2016 election.

Wonder if they included the part where they (Twitter) went to RT, which is pretty much Moscow's propaganda arm, and offered to sell them $200k worth of adds geared specifically for US elections crowd.
I was going to mention RMI, but couldn't recall the TLA. Does anyone else remember LANS and Windows NetDDE? That got end user machines involved in "distributed" computations.
Not saying you're wrong, but I don't know, I was perfectly happy chatting with friends on AIM messenger a decade ago. Myspace was also super spammy, but never became a (literal) news feed. I don't mind stupid pro/anti-Trump memes or whatnot, but giving news distribution companies (from Breitbart to the Economist) a platform on your social network seems like an anti-pattern.
His quote "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." seems sadly apt these days.
When Bernie and crew start killing people and beating down inter-racial couples, and running a news network staffed by serial sexual abusers, you’ll have a point

Just cause you can write the words to sound the same doesn’t mean it is the same
> We now know that 53,800 people die every year from secondhand smoke exposure.

http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=13 - the first link I found from a google search for "secondhand smoke kills how many"
You could bust the echo chambers by not tailoring content and showing popular content to everyone without telling them why it’s popular. If you saw two popular pieces of content next to each other, one from Fox News and one from CNN but with no indicators (likes, comments, etc.) it would force you to actually read the content and come to your own conclusion.

Instead we show people what they want to see with a number next to it that reinforces the popularity and legitimizes whatever it is. Part of how birtherism became a thing. You only see articles from a source you trust and you see that 100k people also approve of ever post on the topic. “Hmmm. Well, those 100,000 people must be into something!”
I listen to this when working sometimes too, especially if I'm struggling to focus because of other distractions.
There are good organizations out there, at least teams that are good. Problem is most organizations are just in it for the short term...
Huh. Is there a year/source for that data?

It's interesting Boeing out employees Amazon still in Washington. I also didn't realize Intel's Hillsborough office was that big! At least compared to their office in Folsom.
Aurelio is the madman/genius behind Arkanoid in sed[1], Sokoban in sed[2] and sedsed, a sed debugger[3]. I have no trouble believing that he has a few shell tricks up his sleeve.

[1]: http://aurelio.net/projects/sedarkanoid/

[2]: http://aurelio.net/projects/sedsokoban/

[3]: http://aurelio.net/projects/sedsed/
Non American HN member here. It will apply here too. Me and most other people from Europe / Asia I know that are on HN are from big cities.
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Perfect for collecting more user attributes and use them as future "targeted" advertising.

Future Republican candidates can put out FB ads only target Orange County Voters who dislike CNN's news article on Trump.

Democrat party can put FB ads asking for campaign contributions only from folks in SF that like CNN's news article on Trump.
This makes absolutely no sense to me.

For almost all stories you can work out its popularity just by the number of comments. And you can determine the comment count (-/+ an order of magnitude) just by scrolling through the comments. The accurate number isn't important for most people.

None of this will prevent the dissemination of fake news. What will do is (a) not prioritising it and (b) detecting whether it's fake. Facebook just added solutions to do both.
See also: Excitonium

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885404

Sounds like polaritons and excitons are part of the same area of study, that a number of groups are looking at right now.
Kitties walking out of the blockchain into reality! #future
Author here. 2 is much better. And it’s almost done; we’re mostly in editing and bikeshedding the opening paragraph.
I appreciate people posting novel scientific findings on HN. This isn’t that: this is a typically overblown press release from a uni press office. I’m not sure such explicit marketing material masquerading as a science article is a value-add here.
Economics 2.0 from Accelerando here we come.
I played a tiny part in debugging early XML-RPC implementations. XML-RPC had most of the efficiency and representational flexibility of JSON today. Then SOAP came barreling in. Software is full of heartbreaks :/
No, they did not design the actual chips, not did I suggest they did.

But they did design the boxes that hold the chips and I was surprised by the amount of effort they dedicated to hardware matters.
I'd much rather see a news article someone thought was trenchant or interesting than a meme image that serves no purpose but to try and rile people up. Which one is a better basis for conversation?
From the article, it weren't independent sources which were punished, but far-left and far-right sources.

> However, in addition to AlterNet and other left-wing news sites, Rosenfeld said right-wing, alternative media outlets have also seen a reduction in viewership due to the change in Google’s algorithm.
This does not solve the fundamental issue, which is that it is trivial to spoof caller id. I get random numbers every day from scammers. We need a system where callers can certify who the callers are reliably.
Monopoly is a perfectly fine game. The problem is no one bothers to actually play it by the rules (auctions, no dumb house rules like fines go to free parking).