skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always. There are many unknowns in research you can't control for. Some assays / models just aren't that reliable even though they are gold standard. Sometimes the equipment and reagents you use produce unexplainable results. For example, a lab I worked with was trying to make a particular type of immune cell less "aggressive". They tried all kinds of genetic modifications, hit it with different cytokines, changed its nutrients, etc, but nothing worked.

Then they used a different flask, and the results were amazing. This was a reproducible phenomenon. They had no way of knowing the equipment they used would change the immunological phenotype of their cells, but it did. There are so many confounding factors like this: reagent source, air quality in animal facilities, how you use a pipette, etc
Even so - if 'cybercrime' and 'industrial espionage' are made possible by the lack of personal identifiers online, how are we supposed to understand telephone scams and pre-digital espionage?

Landlines may have been unique identifiers in common usage, but they weren't identifiable when someone was seeking to misbehave. Which is exactly the problem with the metaphor.
Interesting! It would appear that religiousness and impirialistic warmongering make a splendid match. Of course, we must not forget that that was the time when a completely insane Nixon proposed nuking North Vietnam.
Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices
It does seem a little odd that every comment about Rust gushes about its progress and stability without discussing any downsides. One would be similarly suspicious if, e.g., Perl6 were discussed this way.
I still remember one of the first HN stories that caught my eye was the developer who created bingo cards and was making a good living selling his cards online and to bingo parlors.

He did the same thing. Found a niche industry which needed this service and he was doing well all by himself with nearly zero overhead.

It really made me start looking at very small niches for opportunities since there's already a ton of people trying to disrupt large entrenched technologies.
What are metal button covers? I can't picture it
Seriously. I can handle most NYC driving but I'd be absolutely ruined in Jersey or even Westchester without lane guidance.
As a matter of fact, you can do the same in assembly if you want to.

Notice how you can always have that answer when it comes to programming languages: you can do the same in. The point is that, the way it's made in go, is awfully handy.
Either that or do the Minecraft model and sell the alpha for less than the final product.
Yo man, maybe ease up on the George Soros shtick. You might as well put the echo around his name.
The typical comparison of college to today to that from 20 or 30 years ago is just poorly considered. "Where does the money go?" Consider the things that didn't exist at many colleges 30 years ago:

- IT

- Any type of student welfare services.

- Title IX and any other regulatory offices.

- Diversity offices and other efforts.

- Disability services.

- Dedicated police departments.

- Advising, Counseling, and Academic support (because more and lower-qualified students than ever are going to college).

- In the case of state schools, typically significant budget cuts from the state.

I'm not saying these rationally explain the increase in cost, but it's a significant expansion in responsibility and functionality that brought with it administration and bureaucracy.
It's defined in the article. Around 4-5 standard drinks a day for Men or 3 for Women. Which is quite a bit of drinking.
The title doesn't seem accurate. The summary says:"Alcohol use disorders are the most important preventable risk factors... "

Furthermore, the article states:"This study looked specifically at the effect of alcohol use disorders, and included people who had been diagnosed with mental and behavioural disorders or chronic diseases that were attributable to chronic harmful use of alcohol."

So while I'm quite convinced that prolonged alcohol abuse has serious consequences, I don't think the claim that it is the single biggest risk factor of dementia across the population is supported by this study, as described by the article linked anyway.
History is full of atrocities (and milder bad behavior) committed “by the people currently in power” with strong popular support.
DNA Data Storage Gets Random Access
You have to have an idea if you have the ability to make it right with your customers. For some products if you ship a bunch of faulty ones it will be very expensive to replace them.
> You're like that person who laughed about Hotmail when it came out, because why would you want someone else to host your e-mail, and why would you want to access it in a browser instead of via a full-featured client?

And, to this day, Hotmail is still significantly slower and harder to use compared to Thunderbird. The only advantage is that it still has emails that I received almost 20 years ago.

> IRC will never be used for corporate communication.

As recently as last year, we were using IRC for corporate communication where I work. Fortunately, I'm still able to use the IRC gateway with Slack, but I really don't see any real advantage to using Slack over IRC on a work computer that's always connected. My client's logging easily beats what Slack provides.

> That's why they today have a market cap of over 500 billion US dollars.

I don't think it's because it solved a problem about keeping in touch. It's just an advertising platform and the reason why it has a market cap of that value.

> Slack made the concept of IRC usable for "normal people".

A decade or so ago, I communicated with many normal people over IRC and Usenet. More normal people were able to use chat clients like ICQ, and the various messenger clients (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Google).

I simply don't see why people keep saying that Slack and hosted chat providers like it are some new innovation that people can finally use when they've been able to do so for the last several decades.
Make an Android App without java
ST is not the monad that should be used for state. You should use State for that.

ST is an optimization trick mainly used by framework implementors. In my professional experience writing Haskell, I’ve never seen st used for anything important
A very big jar of pennies that I had for years that I dumped into a coinstar machine.
Company vs. Freelance for Web Development: What to Choose?
We can't even repair our own machines to the point that they last forever. I doubt we'll reach eternal youth any time soon, so I do think that we can lengthen life span quite a bit (low-hanging fruits) before we hit a wall that take even longer to surpass.
I don't. Most of them get marked as spam and I unsubscribe.

But on the other hand, my bras cost $60-$120. Each. I wear a specialty size. In the US, no physical store near me sold it. Victoria's secret didn't have it. Its the only time I wish I was still overweight.

The store that sells my bras here emails me when they are on sale. At those prices, I usually buy not long after the email. The email marketing that works for me are similar things. Simple advertisement, though, gets blocked.
thanks for sharing this. people need to hear this more. perhaps write up a Medium article that can make its way around to a journalist. pleas continue to fight the good fight. we need more people educators like you. god speed
ssls.com (Namecheap). They're on sale, but even the regular price is only $7 (if you buy two years).
>Microsoft tried really hard to push for single player online DRM too with the launch of the xbox 1.

Another issue with this push is that online DRM really hurts people who live in areas where internet connections are non-existent or extremely limited. Forced updates on dial-up or satellite internet with 2GB a month caps are not compatible. This move discriminates against those who live in these areas, and while for adults it is their choice to live where they do, for children it is not.

I see this in areas of life more important than gaming as well. These days kids get sent home with homework that requires an internet connection to complete, despite these rural areas being so far from any public access that there is no way for the child to do their work. This creates a situation of helplessness for the child, which has the potential to lead them into a situation of learned helplessness with school work because the school system assumes infrastructure that doesn't exist for all.
[OFF TOPIC]

Am I the only one who thinks Black Mirror is not that good?

I've seen around five episodes and the only one I genuinely thought to be good was the very first one.

1 - The technology is extremely vague. There is no way to really gauge it's impact besides what the writer explicitly shows.

2 - The episodes are extremely moralist. They usually take a stance of "Look How Bad This Is", usually using appeals to emotion. They don't show the other side, the good side of that concept.

3 - In my opinion, the story of most of them is uninteresting. The most egregious is the "eye camera" one. The whole episode drops you hints of how that technology affects society, but we are focused on a lovers quarrel.

4 - None of those show anything really new. If you removed the new concept, it would be _really_ easy to replace it with known stuff. In a world with a new disruptive technology they write people acting like they always did!

5 - This is mostly my elitism, but I hate most people's reaction to it. They see the episode, adore it, and just take it at face value. I watch it, think it's crap, and spend the next hour discussing it and thinking about it. Most people don't think beyond what is shown on the episode. I fear that that, coupled with (1) and (2), is making people fear technology [1].

(I have to add that the last minute of the "robot boyfriend" episode are so nuanced, subtle and insidious that I'm amazed the writers managed to slip that through. Especially how dumbed down the whole episode was)

/rant

[1] I think people should be careful with technology. I have a bit of "privacy paranoia". But that should come from reason.
The traditional OS is becoming increasingly irrelevant in these days of virtualisation. I predict that future high-performance systems will be built with unikernels.
therapists/psychiatrists can't really "cure" depression in most cases; they can only blunt some of the worst symptoms with drugs or teach coping skills. this often plays out over the course of years. in the mean time, depressed people might want to make friendships that they can realistically maintain. this probably does not include friendships that depend on mutual participation in activities for which the person has no genuine interest.
Good point about stubbornness, but rationality is not the same as benevolence. You can have rational, even entertaining discussions about the way in which you ruin things for your own self-interest.

I have a hard time believing that anyone in the Bush administration was acting in good faith and invaded a country because nobody raised a solid counter-argument in time.
Thanks! I'll answer this, since Ines doesn't have an account here (I'm Matt).

We're really happy with how Prodigy's being received. It's only been on sale two months, so I'm looking forward to hearing more success stories as people finish their projects (and of course, feedback to change what needs to be changed!).

You can read how FullFact used it to train claim identification models for fact-checking here: https://fullfact.org/blog/2018/feb/how-we-customised-prodigy...

Probably the best place to follow the progress is the support forum: https://support.prodi.gy/

We're also working on more tutorial videos. This video shows the workflow for training a new entity type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4scwf8KeIA . This is one of the bits of the tool we're particularly proud of --- you can start off with a couple of seed terms, use word vectors to build up a larger terminology list, and then turn that list into a set of pattern rules to start boot-strapping a classifier. Prodigy will suggest phrases that match the patterns as entities, and your answers are used to train the statistical model. As you keep annotating, the model will start suggesting phrases too, which you'll say yes or no to. Eventually the model basically takes over, and you're mostly correcting its suggestions.
Yeah we should really stop using the term identity theft as it's not correct. Someone isn't stealing my identity. It's bank fraud where the bank failed to validate someone's identity good enough and try make it out to be your fault by saying identity theft.
Where 1 "Canadian standard drink" is 1 bottle of beer, 1 glass of wine or 1 shot of liquor.

Source: http://www.rethinkyourdrinking.ca/what-is-a-standard-drink/
>>That must be incredibly frustrating.
It's more disheartening for how I look at my field than personally frustrating. One of my favorite anecdotes from this whole process is that, in parallel, to hearing that line of logic from multiple schools I had two different startups express interest in hiring me for technical positions. It has continued to validate my own belief that I'm a reasonably credible person who is well prepared to do what I want to do for a career...the people doing the hiring just can't separate their own beliefs from what the needs of their organization are. It's funny because that is exactly identical to the results of a study we recently published on why engineering students struggle with design thinking - they can't separate their own subjective reality from a shared objective one.

>>I hear that the transition from full-time to grad school is pretty challenging. What were the issues you faced, if any?
Its...interesting. The big issue was ego. I'm sure I have one I'm not super aware of but I make a really itnentional effort not to talk out my ass. I sat in a meeting where people were describing the 'needs' of engineering employers. No one in that room besides me had ever worked as an engineer, hired an engineer, or managed an engineer. But because I was a grad student they didn't see my input as useful. That pattern, of role based power supplanting all, is commonly used. It is also a pretty strong indicator of competence - those who use it are less likely to be so.

I would add that adherence to process (but not formal process, always implicit process) is hugely valued in my experience. Even more so than when I worked in manufacturing.
Clippy, get back in the drawer! No one called for you!
It doesn't matter though. Look at the statistics for life long earning potential for degree vs non degree holders. Even if you have to graduate with $100k of debt, you should definitely go to college.

It's easy to be intimidated by the debt load, but that fear is shortsighted. In the long term college makes sense.

Here's some data on the lifetime earning potential between college grads and non grads, from the US Social Security Administration:

"Men with bachelor's degrees earn approximately $900,000 more in median lifetime earnings than high school graduates. Women with bachelor's degrees earn $630,000 more. Men with graduate degrees earn $1.5 million more in median lifetime earnings than high school graduates. Women with graduate degrees earn $1.1 million more"

>https://www.ssa.gov/retirementpolicy/research/education-earn...
Particularly given you haven't used actors, what advantages does Pony give you over Haskell?
Watching this unfold as a Brit is hilarious. As I've told colleagues, this is the perfect example of a production switchover done completely wrong.

They wouldn't last 5 seconds in the tech industry.
What economic model with higher aspirations actually ends up in more ethical place?
Graham's conversations with Nixon were taped. In at least one of them he has a lot of negative things to say about Jews and the Jewish community:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/us/billy-graham-responds-t...
Sorry to use a meme, but... the hero we don't deserve. Thanks!
The recent "what has HN given you" thread had a few nasty examples.
The usage here clearly refers to what Wikipedia calls "Pejorative Usage"[0]. The clearest definition there is "public, empty gestures intended to convey socially approved attitude without any associated risk or sacrifice". This does not apply, because the $20 million are clearly an "associated sacrifice".

The Dropbox Foundation does better fit the traditional definition in signalling theory, i. e. "costly rituals, performed publicly, as a hard-to-fake sign of commitment.". But OP did not intend to use that definition, clearly shown by their term "cynical virtue signalling".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling#Pejorative_u...
I would get rid of the forcing part, but I think my example shows it does cause a sequential dependency ?
Fellow expat here. This problem had been on my mind for years. Like you said, the main challenge is how to spot the most compatible people in a sea of strangers that are in a similar phase in life.
I built We3 to try to make this easier (and it looks like it's working!). We launched recently and matched around 30k people already.

It's a mobile app where profiles are private. And it connects people in groups of 3, but not only based on interests, but personality, lifestyle, values, etc. It would be awesome if we could connect a bunch of this crowd IRL. What do you think? https://we3.app.link/
I am surprised it's not age...
Good article. And I quote:

> Today, all the hybrids are powered by DC brushless drives, with no exceptions. The only notable uses of induction drives have been the General Motors EV-1; the AC Propulsion vehicles, including the tzero; and the Tesla Roadster.

> Induction machines are more difficult to control. The control laws are more complex and difficult to understand. Achieving stability over the entire torque-speed range and over temperature is more difficult with induction than with DC brushless. This means added development costs, but likely little or no recurring costs.

A hybrid has different characteristics and requirements from the motor than a purely electrical vehicle as well
I’ve hacked on Hbase,c5 and small patches to a few others. The one I’m referring to is spite and it was made by drawn to scale. We mapped sql queries to Kahn process networks. We used Lucene for secondary networks but we looked at hash Joins for performance. All the rage in the 70s
Prism/webxulrunner iirc
But the reason they are considered qualified to serve as credentialing authorities is, in part, due to their perceived reliability. Of course the significance of published work and its influence on the field is perhaps the primary driver of a journal's reputation for readers, but significant work can only be influential if it is also reliable. Were a journal's readership to realize that its publications could not be trusted, it would lose influence and thus the perception that having work published in it is a meaningful professional achievement.
What do people do with them? Store them in mint condition in hope of creating collectors items in the future?
Python Top Open Source Projects (v.Feb 2018)
ICOs via Regulation Crowdfunding
Jesus wasn't violent, but he was not entirely a pacifist either:

- He drove out money changers from the temple with ropes as whips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple

- He said, "I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_10#Verse_34

- He said, "and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sell_your_cloak_and_buy_a_swor...

There are a lot more counter-examples, but we tend to forget he did the above.

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I'm sad that this article was flagged, but if it's going to cause regulars on Hacker News to make mean-spirited comments about Billy Graham, I suppose it's for the better.
It's not really a course but I found InterviewBit [0] a great resource. It structures everything around moving from simpler to more complex data structures and algorithms. It's kind of learning by doing lots and lots of questions. You have to complete enough problems in one section to move onto the next.

I spent a hundred hours going through the various tests and it showed the power of functional programming / recursion. The questions that took me much longer than average were the ones where I had a bug and had to track it down. The recursive problems didn't suffer from this, ie I would get the solution pretty much correct first time. This could just have been the questions / my programming style but I found it eye opening.

[0]: https://www.interviewbit.com/
It's one of those things I'm regularly 'warned off' doing stuff like that because the biggest sin in academia is making observations about the emperors clothes. A friend an I have a draft of something that we plan to submit once we both have jobs.

Schools always want to hire 'collegiality' candidates...who get along with folks. They have warped the definition of collegiality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)) to mean doesn't buck the system rather than respectfully disagree in furtherance of a shared purpose.
Of course, people who drink that much may have other issues that lead to said dementia, and alcohol use was a (poor) self-medication.

Then again, that is a lot of alcohol. Bound to have some negative effect.
Nobody can tell Elon anything.
Experts to call for more secrecy on AI
I remember reading and commenting on this same article when it was posted a few years ago.

I agree with most of the comments posted here.

In a certain sense making friends is really very simple.

But, to paraphrase one of my favorite quotes, that does not mean that it is EASY.

It just requires CONSISTENTLY spending A LOT of time in a collegial atmosphere with someone. If you do that, assuming you have a few things in common and don't annoy the heck out of each other, you will inevitably become friends.

This is why people make such good friends in college or in the army.

But consistently spending a lot of time with someone you just met is not easy for most adults outside of a romantic relationship or a work thing.

It's the paradox of choice, we have so many activities going on and different options on ways to spend our time that we have a hard time being consistent with developing any one specific relationship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
What are the criticisms of lockfiles? I've used lockfiles more or less successfully in Rails, Elixir, and of late, Node. I thought it was a proven (if imperfect) idea...
> Am I the only one who thinks Black Mirror is not that good?

I see it as a collection of short movies and not like a series. With that mindset, I only watch a few of "episodes" each season.

Since I only watch the movies that interest me, I really like Black Mirror.

Seen that way, it makes sense. I wouldn't watch a lot of those episodes if they were feature lentgh movies, so I don't watch them as short movies.

Every episode that interested me at first glance did not disappoint.
> a swift and painless death is ultimately more humane than a lifetime behind bars

Many would argue it's unethical for anyone to make that decision on someone else's behalf. The fact that so many death row convicts appeal their death sentence until the bitter end would imply that they themselves don't agree with your belief.
I would be interested in the research you mention in case you have links handy.