skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish authors of papers like this would publish an online tool to demonstrate their findings. I think a demonstration of this particular paper would be much less impressive then their misleading charts[1] try and make it out to be.

For example, they excluded retweets but what about replies? When your friend asks you about [TOPIC] in a tweet, of course your reply is going to be related to [TOPIC].

What about Twitter users who mostly use it to comment on breaking news? Of course 90% of the words are going to be predictable, but it's the 10% that are different and important.

[1] - None of their charts have y-axis starting at 0, leading to a much more extreme-looking difference in results. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.04575.pdf
Like the other poster mentioned crypto currencies. I've hit many jackpots like this in my life. I have also seen big opportunities that are specific to another person, asked why they don't pursue X or Y, and the responses are quite often non-responses.

I literally begged several of my friends to just put $10 into a specific crypto that went up nearly 500 times. I did put about $100 myself into that one, and of course 20 similar parcels of money into about 20 others.

Of course just citing one example like crypto is not helpful. I had another idea for a totally passive income business, that I for whatever reason didn't feel like pursuing, I tried to convince others of the merits of doing this things. Eventually after about 2 years of failing to convince anyone else to try it, I did it, and made really lucrative money that came in like clockwork with about 2 hrs of effort per month. That thing ran for quite a while and eventually the market changed to not make it work anymore.

I have had some other successes too. I also lost of lot of thr easy money made along the way, but now I am wizer, and my latest money maker (post early crypto buying) I have taken a serious amount of thought about not ever letting it dissapate. I have also had many failures because I have tried many things. But some things really are no brainers.

Another example is buying massive bargains when shopping second hand. The trick to capitalise on a bargain is just 2 steps - step 1 make sure there is no catch (or a sufficient margin of safety) - step 2 - pull the trigger FAST - exceptional bargains don't hang around indefinitely.
Until HN gives us better formatting for block quotes, don’t expect people to stop using code formatting. Or they can fix code format rendering on mobiles. Or they don’t see a problem with the current setup.
Bayh-Dole is more complex than that. The university gets a part of the proceeds if they manage to license the IP. More important: a university (or even a startup) do not at all have the means to take anything pharmaceutical through clinical testing, once it reaches Stage 2 it's up to Big Pharma, no one else has the means and the financial resources.
That's not quite true. I pay for streaming services, and when it comes to music, I can find 99% of what I want on said streaming services. For video though, even if you have Netflix, Amazon video, Google Play and HBO now, there are still a number of movies and TV shows you don't legally have access to. That, and last I checked, the software for HBO now was pretty crap, I couldn't get it to stream on my Chromecast. Amazon video also refused to build in Chromecast support because they want to sell you their own device.
It's not your fault that you are not autistic. Remember that.

(If that statement sounded weird, that's the point.)
Interesting. I bought it when it was $20 and felt it was well worth it. I was worried when they dropped the price to $10 about the company going out of business.

I guess there are probably better deals out there, but I'm happy to pay $10 for a game this well-done that provides this many hours of entertainment.

I'd hate to see good games like this disappear because there are too many free ones on the app stores and people don't want to pay for games anymore.
Why do you take issue with that? Who is not influenced at all? And based on what exactly?
An physics postdoc should pull in 40-60k (mean 49k) without an NYC CoL so I'm not sure subway conductor is better. Adjunct salaries can be disgustingly low but that's mostly in the humanities AFAIK.
I seriously hope you're joking and you're just being provocative right? In what world or lifestyle $2.5M after-tax is just a "head start" or "a chance to retire at 60 vs 65"? By investing it in traditional index funds, at a relatively safe withdrawal rate of 4% it would allow you to pull $100k a year in perpetuity (adjusting from inflation each onward year), most of which taxed at a ridiculously low rate, or none at all.
I don't agree with the premise that some amount of deception is necessary to pitch a company. Founders should say both what they plan to do, and what they actually have working today.

I think it's a partly a dysfunction of some investors, that they get excited by the plan and forget to drill into what actually works. Investors who consistently drill into the current situation aren't surprised when things are a little broken, because that's true of every startup.
While an interesting argument, the article is very muddled due to a confused philosophical foundation. Kant already made it clear that our experience of the world by definition is something different from the world in itself. For example, EM radiation of certain wavelengths hit the eyes which cause us to experience colors. So strictly speaking colors do not exist in "the world in itself", they are a function of the human mind.

But this does not mean "reality does not exist" - how would that statement even make sense? Or that our experience is an "illusion" or "wrong". This supposes there is some "correct" way to experience the world which might be different from how the human mind experiences it. The human mind process input and generates a model of the world which helps us survive. Other models are possible (eg. different animal species experience the world in different ways), but who is to say which model is correct?
No offense, code blocks are easier and HN can fix them so they render properly.
Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Experimentation
You're mostly wrong. Any research done under a university usually includes at least a partial ownership of any patents or licensing by the university.
Vint Cerf Continues to Influence the Internet
How about credit card companies, who refuse to allow opting out?
The feeling is mutual; not exclusively :)
Twitter CEO Believes Bitcoin Will Be the First Global Currency
This is an awesome idea, I just installed and tried it out. A few things jump out at me: if you have fifty tabs open, the first use experience is a little painful--you want to be able to create workspaces and quickly file things away, but it's a very slow process. Opening a workspace pops you into a new view, and it's not immediately obvious what to do from there.

I get that the first use may not be the case you're optimizing for, but it was a bit frustrating.
Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers
Even with heterogenous workload there normally is a uniform distribution of request types. Instead of generating complex statistics for average latency or tail latencies, especially for multimodal distributions, we just look at the minimum latencies as a proxy to identify queuing. So, when there is any queuing for whatever reason (increased RPS or latency in a dependent service) all latency measurements will show an increase, especially the minimum.
I can't wait until prices come down for all this stuff. The future of entertainment sure does seem bright.
While it’s not proper to use code indenting for this, it would be nice to have block quotes (>) for large quotes like this.

> This is a markdown block
> quote, which could be styled
> differently than a long italic
> block.
I have a lingering suspicion that a good amount of monks during the middle ages had some form of ASD. Monastic life involved repetitive activities that are usually enjoyed by people with ASD, and monks often had intellectual hobbies that made them probably the closest thing to nerds that existed in the middle ages, which is linked to ASD.
Do you not think anyone recreationally shoots an FN P90?
Not wanting to go to clubs or watch sports on TV doesn't mean you have Aspergers, nor does enjoying science reading.
> There is really no way to know in advance whether initiating a conversation with a stranger is welcome or not, the only way to find out is to try.

I am just massively inhibited in this regard; I don't want to intrude and is it really worth it to them? Not just in line, but even before a talk (i.e. a "networking event") or at a party.

I had a colleague who was the opposite: he could not only strike up a conversation with any random person he happened to be next to, but those often turned into real conversations (e.g. repeated email, contained talking, etc). I could never get the hang of it. (Sad to say this was his only redeeming quality).
I couldn't find anything new in this article. Sure the version of reality that gave us maximum advantage sustained. Organism who had color vision had an advantage over organism s that only had monochrome vision...Sure. We understand that. But what is new here?
That article was a long winded way to say "Serve an underserved market efficiently, and execute sooner, better than competitors."

You don't say!!!!
LevelCards: move up in your career using this smart todo list
Netflix Banned from Competing at Cannes Film Festival
Why can't we expect people to stop doing the one thing that makes it really hard to read?

If you want to quote something, the best way to do that right now is to write it like

> *This is a quote*

which renders like

> This is a quote
I want to know what they consider the limitations of the cargo/rust approach. It has been really nice to use as a user.
>TLS is required in Mastodon for all transport.

Citation needed. I was told it's optional in a recent thread.

>They're not "really private" in...

Doesn't address the argument you quoted:

>The average joe expects direct messages to really be private. If they're not, that's bad.
Great to see open source tooling around Step Functions. Personally I'm still holding out for someone taking the States language spec (https://states-language.net/spec.html) and turning out higher-level tooling for writing/inspecting/manipulating state machines.

Agree w/ bpicolo (hi Ben!) that the tooling still can come a long way for those who can't use Lambdas directly. This code is interesting, but it misses my major use case for Step Functions -- running a workflow across several services transparently.

If I had to guess the future, I suspect that tools like Step Functions will become more and more crucial as we realize that in a FaaS world the job of coordination is complex and essential.

Interesting video from Tim Bray showing off the variety of Step Function uses in the wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMaqd5J69Ns. Lots of Lambda, but not solely!
Thanks, I've already considered switching to Pass once but don't remember what stopped me. May reconsider it again when I have time during my holidays.
Please don't bring politics into HN.
Baidu gets the green light to test self-driving cars in China
Mental Retardation is not autism, though it is often correlated.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1088357606021002...

> "Overall, the findings indicate that more empirical evidence is needed before conclusions can be made about the percentages of children With autism Who are mentally retarded."

Diagnosis isn't a scapegoat, it's a doorway to effective engagements and improved quality of life.
I seem to recall that LOC correlated just as heavily with bugs and other problems as any other measure it was put up against. And, just like every other measure, gaming it leads to a degenerative case. (Can't remember where I saw this, or I would provide a citation.)

I'll repeat my current gut feeling. Intrinsic measures of software quality are terrible as guides for how to write code. They are decent at predicting quality, but are not usable in a prescriptive way to write quality code.
Keep code blocks and block quotes separate.

Code tends to have short lines and are easy to read with the current formatting (even on mobile). Quotes can have long lines which should be wrapped (especially on mobile).
“STEM gender-equality paradox”, fairer societies have fewer women in STEM
These are complex machines with many moving parts, parts wear out all the time, there is a large after market for custom parts too...

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable can chronicle the use of polymer frames in firearms, which maybe really caught on in the 1990s?

Failure to improve on old designs seems like a good thing to me as a consumer, it's preferable to churn
Functionally, yes, in terms of readability, not really. But, yes, for really simple cases like the example under discussion:

return (a>=b) ? a : b

is probably the best option in those languages. The level of complexity at which the C ternary operator ceases to be ideal, I think, is lower than that of expression-if.
I'm excited to see Go trying something new here. Something just feels clunky about the current "manifest+lockfile" approach. There are a couple of ideas in vgo that I really like, e.g. "incompatible versions must have different import paths." I think rsc is justified when he compares these conventions to upper-casing exported identifiers in Go packages: for a while it seemed weird, but now it feels natural and obvious. In other words, Go has a history of breaking from conventional approaches, with surprisingly consistent positive outcomes. Some bikeshedding is inevitable if this proposal is accepted, but I hope that the main ideas are preserved.
Ammo jams, rusting, poor MOA, that kind of thing. Firearms tend to fail around the moving parts, you need something close to criminal irresponsibility or stupid end users to blow it up. If you load your shotgun with a 4oz slug and a high brass load, you might actually blow it up, but otherwise the receiver or ejector jamming is far more likely.

Rust is also a problem when you’re dealing with lots of heat, and corrosive gasses. Good question!
Poor tolerances (or "bad quality") lead to jamming, misfeeds, excessive wear, ect. In really bad cases (famous on the Remmington 700) the gun can actually fire when you close the bolt or drop the weapon.
I think you're under the impression that facebook's job is to be good at showing you what you want and being useful. I'm pretty sure they think their job is to balance being just useful enough that you don't quit while maximizing revenue from you, which might entail being pretty crappy to use overall.
It's unfair I think, to group Theranos - a total lie and fraud - with Zenefits, offering a useful service but cutting corners illegally.
You don't, but relaxing and talking are also not going to change your luck according to the ancient mystery traditions. Visualization, vibration, meditation are some keys, but most atheist-materialists view the belief that one can use those to impact reality the same way they view Thor--as hogwash.

I personally believe all personifications of esoteric laws are man-made and should not be taken literally, so I'm not a big Thor guy, myself.
"Some people see a formal diagnosis as an unhelpful label, but for many, getting a timely and thorough assessment and diagnosis may be helpful because:

it helps people with Asperger syndrome (and their families, partners, employers, colleagues, teachers and friends) to understand why they may experience certain difficulties and what they can do about them
it allows people to access services and support." - http://www.autism.org.uk/about/what-is/asperger.aspx

Also, if you read the article, you will see, that for people with ASD usually find the diagnosis as a relief.

Also, I'm not sure, if you talked to any parents with kid(s) with ASD diagnosis, ask them about what is different since the diagnosis.

Also, please try to show a little more empathy because your comment is hurtful to Aspies who felt that the diagnosis changed their life.
This argument is not very good. The researchers apply for Federal grants (funded by the taxpayer) to do the research. The University takes a ~30% admin fee off of that grant and usually gets the patent rights. Then the university will license the IP to someone else to develop commercially. Sometimes this is the researcher, other times it is not.

Another example, we pay taxes for roads, roads are built buy private companies who "turn more tax payer money into private wealth". Same with defense spending.. taxes go to companies to produce weapons which they sell and... increases private wealth.
Government science funding is politics. Stormy Daniels' relation to the President is something else.
If you neuter/break Digg, and reddit is right there, well...

That case is about an almost identical twin, but I would also consider sites that are not so similar but serving the same function. I haven't had a Facebook account so not sure what it is exactly, but people are happy as long as I have Whatsapp.
Between "go get", Godep, Govendor, Glide, gb, Dep, and this — and I'm actually omitting a bunch of other, less popular utilities [1] — there's certainly been churn.

There's definitely a feeling among Go developers that this problem should have been solved much earlier, and that the Go team's years-long refusal to address it caused the proliferation of mediocre tools (looking at you, Glide) that in many ways made the whole situation worse.

When Dep came along, a lot of people breathed a sigh a of relief, because we finally have something okay, and we can go back to being productive instead of fighting dependency management problems all day.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
Dockless bike share floods US cities with rides and clutter
Let's pretend a thought or experience is in fact just memories, or rather recombinations and interactions of memories.

The word "remember" [as in 'recall to mind'] is etymologically composed of "re-" [as in again, over time] and "memorari" ['being mindfull of'].

Instead of focussing on consciousness, let's focus on the "first-person"-ness.

Everyone else is an "I" too...

Imagine [part of] your memory is dysfunctional in a similar way to amnesia. You are playing chess, and write down the moves on a piece of paper with some "private" notes like "beware of the horse on E5". After every move, your nurse turns the chess board and notes around, and "reminds" you with "it is your turn". You forgot you were black a few minutes ago, and then you forgot you were playing white after and so on. You would insist you don't have amnesia: indeed by looking at your paper you can "recall" every move, and how you felt about the moves.

In physics forces and fields fall as 1/r^2 or faster (say dipoles). So as _I_ (your "I" or my "I" alike) evaluate how _I_ the universe could move say this electron, or fire that neuron, we predominantly take into account the 'local' information. So we all are under the impression that we are merely part of the universe, instead of an amnesiac decision process on the total universe.

Even though we don't, suppose we all agreed with the statement "I am the universe", are we in agreement, or total conflict? Or is it only a paradox: a linguistic illusion of contradiction?

Edit: I lost the cadence of my comment: intead of re-member to indicate carrying information over time, we could call the subjective "first-person"-ness here-member, carying information across space [but falling offf quickly]...
The mask really slips when they mention Fred Meyer (the grocery chain)'s PR about no longer selling guns, as if that has any measurable effect on the gun economy
Ask HN: Is #deleteFacebook an opportunity for a startup?
I remember when we were in college how super dependent we were on our blackberrys to arrange study groups and get updates on our courses. No one really used whatsapp back then because we were reluctant to give out our phone numbers

One day the blackberry servers crashed and we were at the end of the semester, we really suffered... everyone was looking for an alternative. A bunch of us moved to whatsapp as a temporary fix, until a couple of months later the blackberry servers crashed again. That’s when the rest of the bunch moved to whatsapp. Never went back to blackberry again.

Do you think there another social media platform out there benefiting from the deletefacebook move? Or is this the perfect time to start one?
I apologize for not going down the list but there are numerous things that count towards being a quality product when it comes to firearms that have nothing to do with its safety. These qualities can even vary across the range of gun owners such as plinkers, hunters, and collectors that look for different things based on their needs.
>> come back and visit us in the next 5 days and take 15% off your order

Ugh, I hate this tactic. I understand why it's done - a customer is expensive to acquire, and it's cheaper to give a discount to an inactive customer than to acquire a new one. Yet it effectively rewards non-loyal customers, while loyal customers who provide a steady stream of repeat business are taken for granted. How many businesses who use this strategy also email their best customers with "Thank you for your loyalty - here's 15% off your next order within [some reasonable, non-manipulative, number of days]"?
At least over here, one of the requirements for diagnosis is that it impacts your life negatively enough to benefit from being labeled and receiving treatment. What makes you think this is not the case?
> The right types of questions to ask are along the lines of whether we're sure competitors have sufficient ground to catch up to massive incumbents and keep them honest (and in this case specifically, whether certain misrepresentations or violations occurred that should be made to materially affect market standing through government intervention).

I don't see how there could ever be any viable competition. Facebook already has many of the top engineering minds in the world who are pushing the edge of what computers are capable of, not to mention the largest database and neural network of human behavior ever created.
I really like this idea. I use Pocket pretty heavily for bookmarking, but there has been something off about it and nearly any other solution that I used that I couldn't quite pinpoint. I think this is part of the issue. I save a set of bookmarks on a topic over a period of time, but it isn't easy to get access to all of those bookmarks again. Searching doesn't quite accomplish the goal because I might have been looking into a similar topic months ago, but a search will return results from both "mental sessions" together and I have to separate them myself.

I have tried saving all of my bookmarks also, but then I usually have to remove my pinned tabs that are part of my overall workflow and not part of the mental session.
Google is rolling out a fact-check feature in its search and news results
Only times I ever use a discount code is for stuff I have every intention of buying anyway.

The amount of profit some companies throw away because of some half-assed split-testing experiment is unbelievable.
Yeah true. I guess it's a wide spectrum, and it depends on what effect the condition has. I guess I mainly said that with regard to more milder symptoms, where that person would be fine but are in a sense held back by the diagnosis.
I agree! The secret to code readability isn't squeezing out all whitespace, vertical or horizontal.
The client did not convince me compared to 1Password.
And then you either use their cloud or need to host a .net container yourself - which was a no go for me.
Then I can also stay with 1PW. But a matter of taste of course in the end...
Basically, a regulation is like a law. It’s directly binding as law.

A directive is something member states have to implement themselves, probably also by passing a law using their own national process for doing so. As such there can be (greater) differences in the different national implementations of the directives.