skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Just a couple weeks ago we bought Chemex coffee filters - the "Amazon's Choice" ones! We got a counterfeit that didn't even try to replicate the actual product (it was just sheets of tissue paper in the completely wrong shape). Looking at the reviews, we weren't the only ones who got these either.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017OFOP68/ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_c_Yo...

They've apparently since taken off the "Amazon's Choice" label here.
The magic words for the task are "Named Entity Disambiguation" and "Named Entity Linking"

https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=named%20entity%20li...

This survey paper I coauthored is outdated now, but it's not the worst place to start: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Evaluating-Entity-Link...
Give them to friends and kids, see them smile.
Apple is a hardware company that doesn't provide advertising.

And I wouldn't buy a TomTom GPS these days... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16257811
Helium, on the other hand...
Counterpoint: Ng's Coursera machine learning course is outdated now, unlikely to ever be updated, and focuses on applications of old algorithms without teaching the underlying fundamentals.
Inside the Growing Guest Worker Program Trapping Indian Students
Before I list everything: posting gifs is garbage. Things like giphy integration degrade the signal-to-noise ratio, and I rage against it in every chat app I use. Even in off-topic rooms it'll random make following a conversation annoying at best.

Anyway, hipchat's faults:

Search is garbage.

Editing a message is garbage.

Joining a room/messaging a specific person on mobile is annoying.

I'm not sure about how Slack handles it, but when a person leaves our company, our Hipchat chat history completely disappears. All those decisions we made with our old Product Manager via private message? Into the ether.

Want to delete a file you uploaded? Too bad. Maybe you can do it via the web interface?

Want to delete a message? Same deal.
Why did your fighting sticks have firmware?
Agreed, it's one of the few "popular comments" that irks me enough to force someone into an argument when it's quipped in ignorance.

Specifically because Gore has been a supporter of science in general as a politician.

Makes me sad to think that if a Supreme Court decision had gone another way, or Florida had had a different ballot, then the US would have ended up with a technocrat in office and probably not invading Iraq. Missed opportunities...
Setting Up a Python Development Environment with and Without Docker
The eleventh rule should be: understand exactly why all of these rules exist, so you can know when it's possible (or necessary) to break them.
Slightly similar, when I was younger I had one of these Teifoc building sets which were cool - http://www.eitechtoys.com/teifoc/
I wonder why that one was flagged? I'm a programmer and a Christian, I truly hope it is not HN policy to flag articles like that one.
Another possibility is that aging is actually a side effect of some other important process. This would make it difficult to evolve ways to slow down aging without affecting the original process. My guess is that aging is somehow related to growth rates since organisms with longer life spans like humans or turtles often take a long time to reach maturity. Most forms of life need to reach full size as quickly as possible followed by a rapid stop in growth once full size is reached. Perhaps the rapid stop in growth causes problems with the body's repair mechanisms which ultimately lead to aging. This would be kind of like a business or city which experiences a sudden stop in growth that eventually leads to breakdowns as there is no longer enough money to maintain the infrastructure built up during the growth phase. The physics based theory in the article can't explain why similar forms of life age at very different rates (i.e. dogs aging 7x faster than humans) so something else must be going on.
You can actually find citations. The real question is much the funding from alcohol companies influenced the direction of their research.
I came to this thread to try and find the "hacker news-acceptable" way of saying he was an utterly horrible person and you've delivered :)
Okay, but it's important to note that studying the evolutionary and neurological bases for morality give us a description of morality, not a prescription for morality. In other words, Haidt can only describe how people behave, he can't prescribe how people should behave.

There's a big logical leap between (for example) observing that many cultures proscribe lying, and saying that one shouldn't lie.
Additional commentary from Derek Lowe here

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/02/21/dow...
I finish at 4...

But everything else you say is correct. Headphones are a must in a shared office.
It's about telephony traffic, not data traffic from phones.

Some national regulators publish the numbers every year.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/past-point-peak-telephony-dea... has some discussion and links.
Scientists discover a new way to use DNA as a storage device
If memory serves, in standard Nd-B-Fe magnets the neodymium also concentrates at the grain boundary in the same way. My guess is that the Ce/La is acting as a stabilizer for the internal structure replacing Nd that would otherwise have been stuck inside the crystallite.
Mapping the electric grid
It's more like a narcissistic frat than a co-working space. Or maybe more of a "co-space", since actually getting work done in a WeWork can be a challenge.

(Note: I've actually spent a good deal of time in a WeWork.)
An idea: is there any way to pause JavaScript on a page? I would be more okay with letting JavaScript run long enough to load the page, and then stop it executing after a couple seconds
But I can easily see a retired man downing 4-5 beers a day, especially when hanging around a pub or social or country club all day.
Yep, Mozilla Prism - there have been plenty of similar efforts both first- and third-party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser

They may even retain some use - on OS X, for example, you used to get issues with PWAs being considered part of the main browser process for cmd+tab and cmd+`. I've had to use SSBs to overcome this in the past.
> "Nice stereotype though!"

If you don't like the example I gave, you can have another example, looking at Ikaria:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171116-the-greek-island-wi...

Quoting the article (note this was said by a Greek person, not an expat):

"Retired doctor Christodoulos Xenakis has another theory about how Ikarians avoid unnecessary anxiety. We met briefly during my first hour on the island and we had agreed to meet again, though tracking him down wasn’t easy.

“No-one really sets appointments here,” he shrugged when I greeted the 81 year old – who is considered a young man by Ikaria standards – a few days later in the village. Time is an important part of life on Ikaria, Xenakis explained, but not the way most people think. “It’s more like ‘see you in the morning, afternoon or evening’. We don’t stress.”"
Well maybe that makes it all the more impressive because it got him notarity in a community which he parlayed into a great job with a unicorn startup company.
I'll trade my great guy who's hard of hearing telephonic tech support dude in adjacent cube for your music but you're right about the lappie.
Is Corbyn Moving ‘Crab-Like’ Toward a Second Brexit Referendum?
I would go even further and say that competition is vital to innovation. Without it, too few are willing to take risks and progress stagnates.
Evolution isn't "interested" in any outcome. There's no need to anthropomorphize it.

There doesn't need to exist some conspiracy in a species to explain death.

The new compete with the old for resources, mates and avoiding predators ( don't need to be faster than a bear, just faster than your friends ). The old have a lifetime of cellular damage, injuries, diseases etc having done damage to their bodies. These things make them more susceptible to predators and dying, being unable to mate do to body problems, being unable to compete for mates and being unable to compete for resources and dying.

Evolution can only select for that which leads to reproduction and survival of progeny. Whatever happens to an animals body after it passes on genetic material is of no matter to the new animal, excepting where interactions with the existing creature can be of benefit and detriment to the young. A mother crocodile protecting her young will have more surviving young than one that eats them, and the former will tend to out-compete the latter and continue existing.

Assuming a long-lived effectively-immortal species that only reproduces when resources are available for doing so exists, what would happen if a single gene for fast reproduction arose? Resources would run out, and animals would have to start competing with one another over them. Assuming the old and the young are both 50/50 for living or dying in any given fight, the creatures that reproduce slower would be at a disadvantage because there would always be more and more of the fast reproducers.

The only stay for the fast reproducers would be whether they can keep their young alive. So perhaps if they have young one or two at a time instead of twelve at a time, their one or two might be more likely to survive to adulthood whereas the twelve would tend to die well before then.

In the end a balance would emerge where members of the species would tend to reproduce as much as possible where they expect to be able to properly nuture the offspring. Those reproducing slower would fail to compete for resources. Those reproducing faster would fail to keep their offspring alive.

But certainly, those that are steadfastly not reproducing for "the good of the species"? These would be out-competed in short order by the rest.
I am by far most productive when working alone from home. It isn't even close.
The world is teamed up more than ever: as soon as there was result it was published on internet. The ongoing study was published on a U.S. website. The lots of interesting trials that are going on is the opposite of what was happening in the last 30 years when it took many years for a drug company to publish any result of any interesting test that it had made.
I "work" in an open office type space. My ears are filled with people on the phone or just talking about work they could do. In my peripheral vision is a colleague and various other movements. I'm here to do only very simple work because I can't think very deeply. Any serious work is done at home where I am many times more productive. For some work this type of setup might be fine, but for anything resembling engineering it's impossible.
And in Haskell https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-10.6/parallel-3.2.1.1/C...

And in .NET https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading...

And in Java https://blog.oio.de/2016/01/22/parallel-stream-processing-in...

Rayon is notable because Rust is a native-compiled, no-GC language.
I can recommend the book Anatomy of Friendship [1] by Reisman. It's an old book but dispels the myth that things are more difficult now than in days gone by, since he quotes ancient Greeks/Romans lamenting the difficulties of friendship.

It really made me understand friendship, how to make friends, and how friendship varies throughout our lives. Definitely worth digging up a copy. It's a shame it's no longer in print.

[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Anatomy_of_Friendship...
https://www.amazon.de/Anker-2041735-ANKER-58812-Steinbaukast...
I’m wondering seeing the same.
You may be trying to save face, but if you did know that then your initial comment wouldn’t make sense. An organism who is cold blooded has to expose themselves to heat sources and thus take on more heat damage than a warm-blooded animal.
I have no other option, but to agree with you fully. Thanks for giving me a perspective :) Have a nice day!!!
Web Development Session Guide to the 2018 Esri Developer Summit (Palm Springs)
Excess Federal Debt Means No Safety Net in Coming Recession
Black Mirror takes Frederik Pohl's advice in directions I've never seen it taken before in a series:

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
I never forget when I had an interview at a WeWork location, my first exposure to "co-sharing" workspaces, it was in Boston and the place was so loud and annoying I honestly thought I was in a mess hall for a university. It was an immediate pass.

I can see the benefits for small teams/companies but at that point why not just commute from home and save the money?
There might be uncontrolled factors specific to French drinkers. E.g. Government policies (taxes on types of alcohol, licensing laws), cultural difference (like drinking later in the evening, with food, or regularly vs binge drinking) etc. etc.

It's not that those things make this completely irrelevant to you, it's that the blanket statement "Alcohol use largest risk factor for dementia" is not proven by this study, due to the earlier commentor's points.
That's definitely deployed in production, e.g. to link entities to a summary page in news articles, or in information extraction systems.

In practice it's very driven by information retrieval, especially the coverage of the synonym list provided in the ontology. Relevance scores for each ontology entry are also super important.

Disambiguation is getting better with neural networks, but it's still really hard. If you have two entities matching for some text, picking the most frequent one gives you a very strong baseline.
Also alcohol flowing at work? I’m no teetotaler but isn’t that a recipe for trouble? Assuming we’re not just talking about sharing a few beers after hours. I’ve worked with people who drank on the job to the point where they were working totally shitfaced, and it’s not pretty. If they’re meeting with other teams or customers, they’re going to be an embarrassment, and if they’re checking in code... let’s not even go there. Not to mention how Silicon Valley is now all wrapped around the axle in “harassment this” and “inclusion that” and sexual bad behavior and so on. I doubt alcohol would help with any of that. Just seems like an overall bad idea.
I can find weak citations for cardiovascular health, and citations for neural atrophy. I can’t find the citations you’re claiming are there to find.
> (part time)

That is a too important distinction to be left on a small parenthesis without relevance.

Yes, part time shared/open offices are good. I would still argue that real offices let you create a better interactive environment than those, but they are perfectly ok for the amount of time you must go out and talk to somebody.

Just don't expect anybody to create anything when forced to work on one of those full time.
That's a good argument, but in this case they did send him a 1099.

So it seems like either the options are they sent him a 1099 by mistake, or they didn't, and they should therefore be able to say where the money was sent or help him access the account.
Server4You ( despite negative reviews i have seen ) has served me well ( very fair price for an unmetered 100Mbps link ) for over 5 years now.
On the really cheap VPS options, just make sure to have your services running under a supervisor-daemon ( i use monit ) to preserve your sleep.
for me, i'm more comfortable asking a girl out on a date than hanging out with a guy
I don't think it would be that easy to hide. It would be easy to dragnet and find suspects by getting Amazon to report % of purchases by gift card by author, and then following up manually with a few customers should be enough to filter out any false positives and snare the scammers.
appeal to theory: The issue with education is rarely the currency of content. To assert that models education primarily as an information transfer process, which it isn't...or at least shouldn't be.
Maybe that's just WeWork, maybe it's a culture that develops in certain places. I've worked at CrossCampus in Pasadena for awhile and there are a bunch of programmers, writers, and other types who need to be able to concentrate who have made the shared-table space work for us. Together we've made it more of a "study hall" atmosphere. We asked management to turn the music down to an acceptable volume in our part of the floor, and we apply social pressure on people who talk too loud or are otherwise too distracting.

In my experience shared-table or open-plan offices didn't work when I was at a company, but they work pretty well in a coworking space. One aspect of this is the lack of a power dynamic: you're not sharing an open-plan office with your manager. You can also leave (or threaten to leave) a coworking space if it doesn't work for you. Members have more power over their environment if they can organize. WeWork is a huge chain now, so maybe this works better at smaller coworking spaces that have less corporate inertia.
To me I'm wondering why it's here just because it's off-topic. If it were about a Christian programmer, or maybe about being a Christian in Silicon Valley, and it got flagged, then I would agree with you. I guess cultural issues do get discussed on here, but it depends on whether there's an angle that's of interest here.

EDIT: Then again, that would only account for downvoting. You're right, I don't know why it would get _flagged_. But I'd think that's based on user reports, not yc policy.
I like borders too. They often help make it easier to understand the layout from a quick glance.
I’ve lived up and down the peninsula and haven’t relied on a car in 10 years. Thanks to a mix of choosing strategic locations, biking, BART, Caltrain, Lyft, Zipcar / Getaround, and friends with cars. Anecdotal, I know, but just chiming in to say it’s definitely possible.
The seeming incompatibility of PWAs with Progressive Enhancement is something that's been bugging me for a while now.

As an earnest question, is Progressive Enhancement (i.e. graceful degradation, "unobtrusive javascript", etc) simply dead now? None of the frameworks out there seem to encourage it, I'm not sure if many even support those paradigms.
Having worked in traditional offices, open offices, at home, at Starbucks, and at various coworking spaces - I still don't know how to feel about shared offices. I am using one right now on trial basis, and I can tell once or twice a week is about right for me. It's great for putting together a marketing presentation, not so great for coding.

I also ran a tech coworking space for a couple of years. I shut it down. I will be happy to share what I learned if anyone is interested.
Not sure that's true about Europe, most mass-built housing globally suffers from the same issues.
I have to disagree. In an absolute sense you are correct, however you're missing the relative benefit of each point.

#2.1: Yes, this would be an issue if overused, especially in paragraph lengths of text. However, inconsistent font sizes are worse.

#4: Why are you worried about white-space? If you have space, you can use it. If you run out, then you have to start rationing and using other visual tools. Borders have their place, but white-space should be preferred as the most neutral and inobtrusive strategy.

#4.3: So create a responsive layout for mobile that uses more borders where necessary.

#7: This is a major (and valid) criticism of flat UX, but slightly adjacent to the point in the article. The article says you don't need a background colour for every button, which is good advice.
In the Rush Toward Cashless Society the Poorest Are at Risk of Further Exclusion
Older man dating a younger woman is still culturally accepted but not vice versa. Statistically, this means that the dating pool for older men just keeps increasing.

For older women, the situation is the exact opposite. Their dating pool, which consists of (say) all older men keeps decreasing with age.

That might explain why your older female friends find relationships harder as they age, rather than a decrease in their physical attractiveness. The latter is what many women attribute their situation to, but IMO its just statistics and preferences.
YMMV, but my current workplace sits in a co-working space (although we are big enough to have our own exclusive office within it) and the noise levels on the common areas from what I have seen are ok most of the time. No music being pumped anywhere. The place described in the article sounds like a dystopian nightmare, but I doubt its the norm...

Also, if you are a freelancer or a tech founder that wants to work on his own thing, what is the alternative? Working on a coffee shop brings pretty much the same noise problems + no guarantee of power supply/fast Wifi. Working from home all the time can get lonely. Renting an office? Too expensive...so co-working spaces fill a nice niche.
I'm not worried about it being out of date. I worry about the misconceptions it leaves in the minds of those who learn from it. They can parrot the words, but the mental models that result from studying it regularly lead people astray. At least, that's my anecdotal observation from as a research biologist.
I don't subscribe to the WSJ or its comments, but I suspect there's also an additional reason:

7. Colleges and universities are ground zero (and a symbol) of a (newish) culture that loudly, strongly, and explicitly rejects and condemns much of the rest of America; and especially the type of American that stereotypically would read the WSJ. Conservatives, libertarians, and increasingly classical liberals are not going to have very warm feelings towards things that they perceive are openly hostile to their values.
That gives me an idea. A law that enforces investment in both sides of the coin. Budweiser should invest in insurance.
Programming a DNA Clock: Engineers have created a DNA-based chemical oscillator
I find it’s doable to attend a college where you won’t pay tuition, but it will most likely be a semi-low-tier, state school and or your estimated family contribution must be zero.

After spending a few years at a community college, I will (I think, I need more for or against opinions) be attending San Francisco State University in the fall. My tuition looks like it will be waived (tuition is about 8k for in-state students, 17k for out-of-state students) since I’m in-state and my estimated family contribution (via FASFA) is zero (family income is about 31k). I will then just have to take out loans for living expenses and hopefully work part-time to lessen them.
Id agree my first job we had 2 or 3 people in each office and that worked well. We had some interesting brainstorm sessions how do you measure the efficiency of a toilet flush.

Though when I was in a portacabin next to the hanger where they tested executive jets it could get a bit loud :-)
The Intuitive Guide to Data Structures And Algorithms, on Interview Cake:
https://www.interviewcake.com/data-structures-and-algorithms...

Disclosure: my company made this :)
Show HN: Emacs Anywhere – Invoke Emacs and get text on clipboard
I’ve been saying this a lot lately, but software needs a professional associstion (like the AMA) with teeth. Ethics are not easy, and without collective governing power, they simply won’t exist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16423328

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16420659
Blur MacOSx Game Full Version Free Download
I tried working from home five days a week for about a year and I hated it. I like being in the office and having spur of the moment conversations that lead to productive brainstorming (rather than the mostly dry Slack or Teams conversations that occur). That being said, I don’t think I’d an enjoy a WeWork setup where there is constant buzz and activity. I think balance is key and finding work that’s flexible where you can possibly even change work contexts whenever you want (which is something I realize I’m very, very fortunate to have).
Make sure you're sleeping enough, eating healthy, and getting enough exercise. I really believe these are directly co-related to your productivity -- and to your ability to focus.

The biggest thing is eating complex carbs -- whole-wheat breads that give you long-lasting energy.