skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will believe that someone is trying to improve Siri when the implementation is updated so that the time between when I push the button and when I can start speaking is reduced to the minimum possible with a only a short reliably deterministic delay length.

The inability of Siri to provide me a way to know when I can start talking absolutely (waiting for that horrible beep is just insanely terrible) completely breaks the experience. The fact that no one seems to have noticed this flaw enough to figure out a fix suggests to me that the people developing the project do not have sufficient understanding of the interaction model to ever improve it ...

There should be zero network requests that need to be complete before I can start talking. If Siri is unavailable for network reasons tell me after (or during) my query — but don’t slow down every single interaction and add ridiculous amounts of uncertainty to the responsiveness of the interface for the sake of the uncommon cases ...
Indeed, Marble Madness was the first game I got for my Amiga 500! I think Shadow of the Beast was the most memorable, however. The parallax scrolling effect was amazing for the time...
I think that's definitely part of it. It's very interesting to observe the lifecycle of many of these services.

- The company has a business need.
- Because of the economics of scale, it often makes sense to develop an internal solution. This is true both for fullfilment centres, and for purely internal problems: e.g. a video conferencing system for half a million employees.
- As the product matures, the team or leadership recognises how people beyond Amazon might benefit from it. (think fullfilment, AWS, etc)
- The internal service becomes a public product.
I think bypassing the entire DOM would be ultimately a good thing. There's no real choice in webdev; we are all shackled to a rickety and cobbled together mountain of legacy code.

Browsers should always have been a well defined VM with everything else built on top. I'm hoping we can get away from being shackled to what Microsoft, Google, and even Mozilla think is necessary and important for developing software.

What we'll lose of course is interoperability. But I think it will be worth it.
Do you know of a population segment that makes more than 10% of their monthly purchases in cryptocurrency alone or a major business that receives a greater than 10% revenue from cryptocurrency?

I have heard of people on here living in silicon valley who claim to purchase occasional drinks with cryptocurrency, but I have not heard of practical or regular expenditures with cryptocurrency or anybody that I know offline who uses it for any kind of expense.
Google Bans Bitcoin
That really clever they put the ask for notifications button over the top of the close ad button.
See Through Rotary Engine in Slow Motion – (Wankel Engine)
> I agree that probability notation isn't the best [...]

There is so much hidden context in mapping Bayes' theorem to Kalman filters that I still have to cringe. First we've got the sub-expression "p(x_k)" in the numerator, and you know that is a multivariate PDF for the state estimate, or possibly the density value of that PDF at x_k. However, we've got a very similar looking expression "p(z_k)" in the denominator, and in this case it means "an integral of the product of two PDFs". Those are wildly different substitutions for nearly the same syntax.

That same confusion applies to p(x_k|z_k) and p(z_k|x_k). The first seems to indicate "the PDF of my estimate given this measurement", but the second really says something like "evaluate the PDF in the measurement space at the location which corresponds to my estimate". Essentially, p_Z(h(x_k)).

If you don't already know the solution, this notation is not prescriptive for getting there.
AmigaOS was, overall, the best OS I have ever used. As little technical as possible, but as much as needed. It was an OS, that would gently make you a power-user. I am not going to rant, but my God, was that a good OS! 10 years ahead of its time!
Excellent. There is a delay between when subs first show and the first word is spoken in a line, but I know its tedious work by itself. Great job on this guys.
I always wondered how much of a toll Apple’s multilingual support was compared to the small number that Google and Amazon have.
I saved up my summer job money and got an Amiga 500 (with an actual monitor!) - ordered in November, so it was on our doorstep when I got home from my afterschool (probably senior year of high school) job. My dad warned that I should probably let it warm up overnight, to avoid shorts from condensation. It was torture! I woke up like 2 hours before school to set it up :)

It was glorious! It was shocking to be able to "pull down" the main display and see the OS GUI behind it - like magic!

I was devastated when my parents moved to a new place when I was around 30 and I discovered they had just tossed out my TRS-80 coco, C-64 (and about 3 shoeboxes of disks), and my Amiga :( So sad.
Google Trends has accurately predicted several things in the past, most notably, the rise of Donald Trump[1]. Also obscure things like who'll win Dancing with the Stars, [2], Dancing with the Stars, March Madness and more.

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-dabrowski/how-google-tre...

[2] https://wrightimc.com/use-google-trends-predict-outcomes/
Interesting points, it made me stumble on an article about how much USG regulations generally spend per life saved.

Spoiler: it varies wildly.

Writeup: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/blog/id/93/how-much-are-we...

Citing: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=424523

Here are some illustrative examples:

* Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC's) regulation on childproof lighters = $100k

* Federal Aviation Administration rules on airplane cabin fire protection = $300K

* National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration rules on passive restraints and seat belts = $500K

* CPSC's rules on children's sleepwear flammability = $2.2MM

* EPA's rules on fugitive benzene emissions = $3.7MM
Sure, but everyone is accumulating mutations all the time, so you need a control on the ground to see if space itself is affecting the mutation rate.
Some accounting for a year of aging. Though the news press is probably more scientifically significant.
Hawking is survived by his children.
Well, consider the counterfactual of what would have happened to the astronaut's DNA if he hadn't gone to space. We don't know how it would have changed, so we can't compare it directly. Since we needed to do the experiment I'm guessing our knowledge DNA was not sufficient to predict that, so it makes sense to use a twin to get the closest proxy to the counterfactual that we can.
"Answer a question in this survey to continue reading this content" Really? no thanks
Also not an investor, but intuitively reinvesting revenue to grow future revenues seems more valuable than being profitable without taking steps to (substantially) grow revenues. Can anyone to speak whether this intuition is reasonable or not?
Eh, I still don't buy the hyperventilating.

The breathless narrative is that Amazon is some all-consuming all dominating monster that is just going to crush everyone everywhere.

I don't see any justification for this.

(1) Walmart is much bigger. Not to mention Tencent and Alibaba who.

(2) They have well-funded competition and no monopoly power in any of their sectors.

(3) They only have 4% of all retail (online and off) hardly a stranglehold.

Yes, they will do well and grow, but I don't think they will just effortlessly win in every market like this article is implying.
Ask HN: Am I the only one getting spammed by pro-CCP Quora questions?
I've been getting a ton of emails from Quora with the top question being about China, and specifically or indirectly about the CCP. The answers lead me to believe their is some sort of astroturfing campaign underway.

Perhaps I'm getting ever more of these due to clicking through to them? That's almost scarier..
What a disgrace for a (former) leader to trash his team like this.
Are people in the future going to find bootleg copies of other peoples' consciousness on torrents? When will we be able to check ourselves into Github? After you see that particularly horrifying youtube video, you might be able to roll yourself back to a previous commit and literally unsee what you have seen!
Want to Be Happy? Try Moving to Finland
> 93% of Scott's genetic expression returned to normal once he returned to Earth,

How much was abnormal during the trip?
strcpy has no access to the "allocator". It doesn't know about malloc, realloc, or free.
One of the nice things about my current job is they are still with hg -- we are going to have to switch to start using Bitbucket. I expect Git will be easier to understand the second time around, but I'll never forgive it for making itself so hard to use.
The article headline is practically fake news. The article isn't very clear on it either. It's not someone's DNA that changes, that would be astounding if all the trillions of cells in your body underwent the same genetic mutations. No, this is a change in epigenetics. The things that change what parts of your DNA are expressed and are much easier to coordinate, change, and adapt in the short-term.

Epigenetics are not that foreign a concept that people should assume the average reader won't understand them or will find it any less amazing.
There is a shop in my city that will just sell you computer parts. You walk in there, tell them 'I want a basic mouse' or whatever, they will hand you one they approve of, you give them money and walk out. By now this is faster than trying to find one online, including the ride there. It will not even be significantly more expensive.
Does the recipient team of an internal transfer at Google not conduct any kind of interview? (I'm not talking about your traditional whiteboard interview, but surely people meet up and make sure that the transfer meets the bar of the new team?) I've noticed that expected skill for a job level depends strongly on location, so trying to sync up with a transfer doesn't feel strange to me.
Besides anti-matter that people already commented, the neutrino was kind of taken from an equation, the Higgs bosson was taken from an equation, the high mass quarks were also first predicted on equations.

The independence of the speed of light from the speed of the observer was predicted on an equation. The quantization of light was first predicted by an equation.

But there is the other side too. Tachions, for example were also predicted by a widely accepted equation. I guess it's more common for things predicted on equations to not exist than for them exist, but a lot of what we know came from theory.
Wikipedia is going to have to lock a lot of pages.
Believe their larger point is that these types of companies get disrupted eventually.
Ask HN: Validate my startup idea
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There's more ways to allocate memory than the heap and stack.
Aside from the lessened intensity of the main shock, distance saves you from even feeling many of the aftershocks.

During LP, my then-pregnant sister lived in Aptos less than one mile from the epicenter. They were getting meaningful aftershocks by the dozens through the evening.

The surface waves were amazing directional. I was at work when it hit, and we had those suspended, noise-absorbing foam panels in the ceiling... and you could see the rippling of the surface wave propagate along the ceiling.

Those bookshelves/cabinets, dressers and other tallish rectangular objects that were perpendicular to the wave fell over; those parallel to it tended to be fine.

Almost everywhere along El Camino from Menlo to the Sunnyvale border had power outages, with one exception: a half-block of El Camino just "north" of Grant. Yet that half-block just happened to have a gas station and a 24-hour restaurant (where Los Charros is now) that remained up and running throughout.
Digg changed the design (to digg v4) and interface and alienated it's userbase (august 2010). After years of other poor decisions this broke the camels back.
Digg was then flooded with links to reddit.
Reddit was there and caught all the users that all looked for a new home to "migrate" to. After a month 30% digg users or so moved to reddit and the rest is history.

Let's see what happens when reddit tries to do a redesign ;)
Yes, that was discussed here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10042050
How would you rule out age-related changes since this specific astronaut was in space for a year? DNA is not fixed, they change all the time.

It is always better to have more data points to rule out several variables, especially considering that it is rare to have an astronaut with a twin sibling.
If you weren’t around at the time it’s hard to understand just how much beyond every other home computer platform the Amiga was. Yet another data point that “best” doesn’t always win.
More information:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amaz...

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/6m0z8e/amazon_banne...

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Amazon-Bans-Woman-For-...

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9695332
30 pull-ups is way outside average for any woman, though it's achievable by the median woman with a lot of sweat and time and effort put in.

But what on Earth does that have to do with sociopathy?
You make great points, but I think 1) reasonable people can disagree and 2) your definition is overly pedantic. For example, a doctor can still discuss, in clinical terms, smokers (as individuals, as a class) who suffer from no discernible impairment warranting treatment. Without actual impairment such clinical vocabulary may ultimately be more fluid and hand-wavy than it otherwise might be if anchored by concrete presentations, but it's no less clinical in the sense of 1) a professional vocabulary with well-defined denotations and connotations 2) useful in the application of and study of clinical treatment of actual impairment. So, for example, doctors and researchers may use terms like diffuse intimal thickening (DTI) or nicotine dependence. Much like "lack of empathy" they beg many questions, but even so they raise the same questions among those familiar with the subjects.

Regarding the literature,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=sociopathy

I'll let those search results speak for themselves. If we're being pedantic I think many of them make my case. But in fairness those results taken as a whole probably augur in favor of the term "sociopathy" being, at best, borderline clinical.
Too few? Too few in tech maybe, because more than 2/3 of tech workers moved here. Most of the natives above a certain age have a decent grasp of the dangers, but also know how remote they are.

With the exception of '93-'98, I've experienced every event in the Bay Area since 1971.

Many local water systems are reinforced against earthquake damage. It's really the loss of electricity and gas leaks that are the problem.

That said, you should always have drinking and non-drinking water on hand that will last a few days. If you're smart, own some coolers and keep ice packs on hand to preserve your food. There are more cases than just natural disasters, when that could come in handy.

Even Loma Prieta only caused loss of power and/or gas in a few select areas, mostly the areas that got wrecked, where there were bigger problems to worry about. The epicenter was West of Gilroy, but there was no significant damage South of Oakland and SF. That's 90 miles away from the epicenter.

There are only a few really dangerous faults running through the area. If you're near one, you should seriously prepare and have safety plans. The East Bay from Hayward to El Cerrito or so, for instance, is really dangerous. The Greater San Jose is pretty tame.

That's my take, at least.
At https://chunkhost.com about 25% of our revenue per month has been in Bitcoin since 2014.

Since the price spike it's actually increased to more like 40% (from new accounts, not old ones switching away from credit cards or Paypal).
Do you plan on addressing the other four citations he provides? Or, even better, providing a citation of your own?
Imagine if the response to the invention of rail were "well we just built all those canals."
Some stores had a combo when you bought an Amiga they'd throw in a game or two. We got Artic Fox and Speedball I think. Used our Atari 2600 joysticks so we didn't have to buy more. I got the Amiga 1000 with the PC Transformer software and 5.25 inch 1020 drive to boot MS-DOS in monochrome mode for college that only had IBM P cs and software.
Say what you will about Siri, but it was the watershed product that unleashed a new generation of mass-market voice assistants, including later bloomers such as Alexa, Google Assistant, etc. Yes, it was (is?) relatively rudimentary technology, but the founding team was visionary. As for the mismanagement, Apple's bureaucracy is to blame.
We're releasing these outside the paywall available to watch at no cost until Friday, March 23rd. I'm pretty sure there's no creative commons license attached, so the intended use is streaming on our domain which would preclude downloading or embeding on a different domain.

I'll try and have some copyright terms added to the page tomorrow so it is more clear on first glance.
Bitcoin and Digital Currencies Take a Hit from Facebook
i wonder if this is true for neurons in the brain as well.
A Modern Lisp on the Erlang VM
I recently got a certified smart lock, and it's been superb. Any communications outside my network are handled through Apple/HomeKit and I trust them a lot more than some random Chinese IoT supplier.

> That said, for engineers in the crowd I know that I and others get around it by making a HomeKit RPi adapter for things that don't support it...

Yep, they're using HomeBridge. [0]

I'm planning on doing this for my garage door (with a little WiFi dev board) and for a video doorbell (with a RPi with camera). Others have used HomeBridge with a cheap $20 Chinese IP camera to do the same thing, although you have to install an alternate firmware if you don't want the camera to phone home to China... :O

[0]: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge
I use a 10 year old Dell Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz laptop with 4GB of RAM, a 1920x1200 display as a Plex Server running Windows 10 and it only feels when I run too many things at once but that could be alleviated by putting in another 4GB of RAM.

It's a 10 year old computer that can take full advantage of my gigabit home internet connection (940Mbps up and down) - something only dreamed about 10 years ago - can run the latest OS and can be upgraded to have the same amount of RAM as most computers that are sold today.

In 2008, a 10 year old computer would have probably had these specs and be unusable as a modern computer.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266641-28-average-1998-com...

To sum it up, a decent compy around 1998/early 1999 could look likte this:

400Mhz P2
64mb sdram running at 100 mhz
one or two voodoo 2 cards (90mhz core, 8 or 12 mb EDO VRAM)
a 2D card (voodoo 2 was a 3d accelerator only)
ATA-2 HD

In 1998 a 10 year old computer would have been less usable.

How fast improvements come to the smart watch will slow down in time but it's a brand new product.
Of course you are completely wrong:

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/508162/meta

There is a great deal of evidence for dark matter that does not depend on Kepler's laws, please stop spreading misinformation.

Source: assistant editor of a physics journal, know several astrophysicists personally, currently dealing with a MOND paper this very week...
Reading your summary wouldn't mean I've legally read the ToS tho. I like that its sort of when you log in with FB and they clearly summarize what access they'll get.
Google search for AROS it is an open source free alternative to AmigaOS and it runs on PCs and can run old Amiga software on emulators.
Did somebody mention magit? It helps a lot
Netflix decides not to gamify children’s shows after all
GitUp[1] is an excellent alternative to gitx and ungit, for those unhappy with either.

[1]: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp
Can you explain what he means when he says “dont destroy capital”?

to the naive it sounds like obvious, non-actionable advice. Like “you just need to out the basket in the hoop to win in basketball” or “buy low, sell high”
Data center distaster plans always remind me of the Cory Doctorow story, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth.

Long story short: a data center might be a good place to be in a disaster.
> Satoshi told everyone his fork was Bitcoin and Vitalik told everyone his fork was Ethereum. The fact that more people disagreed with Vitalik than people that disagreed with Satoshi doesn't change the fact that the same thing happened in both cases: a central authority told everyone which fork was the right one.

And not everyone listened.

> At the end of the day, when consensus breaks in unforeseen circumstances-- whether through a bug or an attack (the difference is purely syntactic)--people turn to the developers to tell them which consensus ruleset to follow.

Not everyone turns to the developers.

In a decentralized system, people have the ability to disagree with the developers and literally anyone else you might name as a central authority, and have that disagreement make a meaningful difference (a fork). That's obviously significant.

> If you disagree with the developers, your chain gets called something else, as we've seen with Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic.

Who cares?

When the Bitcoin fork happened, I supported the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. I don't give a crap about the name. If I get the blockchain implementation I want, you can call it whatever you want.
What you guys are doing is really awesome! Definitely in the same spirit of Holberton School, a two-year coding program I'm currently attending that's an alternative to a traditional CS degree. Tuition is also deferred
"By putting information on this website you are agreeing to legal arbitration with Equifax", heh I could see this in a TOS somewhere.

Also, more worryingly, there is a good chance that you've signed a contract somewhere that says that in all the paperwork one does in their life.
Good to see I'm not the only one who thought of that idea, although my implementation has a different order of the fields (and IMHO better, since it allows for statically allocated strings with only a length field --- a sort of subclassing.)
I consider myself to be very armchair scientifically literate (zero real applied knowledge but I have consumed just about all of the pop culture created on the subject in the last 30 years).

I have never heard the word epigenetics until now and am still confused about what exactly happened to this guy.