skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the only settled populations of those groups outside of their home countries, such as Iranian Jews and Druze."

Rural Alberta has Druze communities, let alone Toronto.

"and the remainder is Asian"

Not true, a significant portion of the "other" category in Toronto is Arab and African. Not to mention the fact that "Asian" itself is a highly diverse category.

"Toronto was basically white until a few decades ago"

Exactly. Toronto's hugely diverse population is quite young, meaning it is much less assimilated.
In that case, the training data is the product.

They intentionally built an unfair advantage so that they could sell it.
Yep. If you look at many of the daily tools out there, they do basically the same as was done using CLI or TUI tools back in the day, but now they pile on graphics "assets" to make the experience shinier.
Why do people always over-personalize issues like this. It isn't about you. (It doesn't affect me either, but likewise it isn't about me.)

In many countries, one's address is in fact not a matter of public record. For example, in China.
The surprising part to me is that the new recipes were designed by the old chefs. At least the video gives that impression. Impressive to have individuals pivot that well after 20+ years on the job.
In Japan, we have a "Potato Police" who blame the typical medieval fantasy novels which features the potato. For the potato didn't exist in medieval period.
Great point, they didn't have algorithms deciding our music in the 1990s, instead you had Clear Channel. Radio in the 1990s was the same 40-60 songs played over and over. Then for TV you basically had the 4 major networks,FOX Friday Night, Must See TV, TGIF, and all the rest.

People don't remember how much that sucked.
It's a nice looking product. My main concern with apps like these are that they use very green looking projects. https://github.com/blockstack/gaia has 154 total commits and 6 contributors. The rest of blockstack's stuff has more, but still hardly a lot. I guess my point is, I'd be weary of anything that appears this early on in development - whether it's a dAPP or not
I think the title is fine, but a lot of the comments are applying what the software does to medicine in general.

What this software is used for is very specific, but also very useful in that it is a common medical problem. It is used only to help diagnose diabetic retinopathy (ie eye damage caused by diabetes).

This is AI Vision software used to analyze a photograph of someone's retina to detect damage. In essence it is much more like the programs that are used to analyze chest X rays to detect pneumonia that have been recently published. Where this is useful is that it can probably cut out a lot of human work in diagnosing retinopathy, however it is an incremental step. Even when I was a resident in a primary care clinic years ago the process was somewhat automated like this, with our medical assistants taking a photograph with a special machine, and then this photograph would be digitally sent to a specialist (I presume an opthalmologist but I could be wrong, maybe optometrists can be licensed to do this) for interpretation.

What this isn't, is diagnosing a patient based on taking a history and inputting examination findings and labs, etc... We are still quite a bit of a way from that but I'm sure people are working hard on that as well.

EDIT: In my opinion, where AI could really make a huge difference for my work as a hospitalist (a doctor that admits and rounds on hospital patients) is in voice recognition software, with eventual language processing to help me write notes faster. First, give me a program like dragon dictate but which I can use in the patient's room (obviously one would have to figure out the HIPAA compliance issues) that transcribes my voice and the patient or family member into a readable text file that I can review when I write their note.

Next step would be that same program can give me its attempt to summarize our interview into a reasonable note, which I can edit for accuracy. This would be in effect an AI scribe. A scribe, for those who don't know the medical jargon, is a hired person whose only job is to listen to a doctor interview a patient and help write medical notes, they are usually young pre-medical students. It's a relatively new position that became created as the burden of documenting in electronic medical records limited the amount of time providers could spend with patients. Very common in Emergency Medicine where high output is needed, sometimes also in primary care.

Next step, is you have a company with all this protected medical transcription data and eventual medical outcomes, and you use ML to find algorithms to try and tease out what variables ended up being the most useful for accurate diagnosis. Before that you could have the program prompt the doctor for questions that it thinks would be helpful, etc... Again, huge medico-legal barriers to this but there is a roadmap to becoming a billionaire in my opinion.
This is super fascinating, thanks for the link.

The next time I go on a nature walk I am going to soak myself in a bathtub full of bleach first, I'll be invisible.
apple provides good experience for its users

Clearly what some of us call a good experience differs from others.

Customers who visit some of my sites on Android devices get useful facilities that customers who visit the same sites on iOS devices do not. This is a direct result of Apple's failure to support functionality in Mobile Safari that is available in other browsers and its policy of blocking any other browser from doing better on its platform. I don't really see how you can spin that as being a better experience for iOS users.

The implicit assumption made by a few contributors in this discussion is that if PWAs don't work properly on iOS then developers will write native iOS apps instead, but often a more realistic alternative is that developers just downgrade their expectations on iOS and concentrate on providing more value on better platforms, with the iOS users losing out.
Effectively it is VB for the web age...
I don't run a web agency and make 0 dollars from selling SEO.

This is not true. Google has been gamed for well over a decade.

On a past enterprise, I believed the lie "write good content and it will magically rank" and paid a content writer for about 9 months. She posted lengthy original content about 3 times per week, all highly relevant to the search terms we cared about. I did the same about once a week.

A competitor with a private blog network and professional spam apparatus started outranking us just with "link building", i.e., posting links on the PBN they controlled, within 1 month of launching (we had about 15 months of content at this point). They had no content on their site at all, just a landing page that included a few of the keywords they were using in their link building. There was no blog, there was no "well-written, honest content for humans".

Google had no qualms ranking them based on the link text despite their lack of supporting content. This competitor brutally beat us in organic search traffic until both businesses were shut down due to legal threats from a F500 cowering behind the CFAA.

Our blog is still online. There is no significant search traffic to speak of. While the content may have aged some, it's still the best resource for a lot of the things we posted about. It's buried pretty deep on Google's search.

Transparent spam and plagiarized content are easy for Google to detect, but private blog networks are a major component of modern SEO, as are several other non-organic schemes that Google has no simple algorithmic method to detect (barring slip-ups that make it obvious, though even in those cases, Google seems reluctant to punish domestic PBNs). I know of entire offices staffed with "link builders" whose entire job is to figure out how to get backlinks, and to be fair, "write really good original content" is somewhere on their list, but it's not very close to the top.

Just a counterpoint. "SEO" is still a thing. Google is a high-value target and it's worth a lot of money to game them. It is quite naive to believe that they're impervious to it. You can rank OK with "honest, well-written content for humans" as long as no professionals are competing with you.
Thank you for saying this! This is a common view I see outside academia, where people interpret a single paper to mean that something is definitively shown.

I think news organizations make this worse. Whenever a new paper comes out they'll champion it as fact if doing so leads to clicks.

Peer reviewers can only hope to validate that the science was done well, not that it is inarguably correct. It requires a body of work around a topic before it's fair to say at all that something is "for sure" proven.
>I think when statistics is involved, the results are inherently untrustworthy.

Ummm...are you kidding? Statistically vetted results are inherently UNCERTAIN, but how could they possibly be inherently untrustworthy?

Even if a mechanistic effect is observed, its relationship to a particular cause or influence is only established statistically. In fact, the very observation is often performed u Dee the umbrella of statistical calibration of appropriate instruments.

As Pearson said, "Statistics is the grammar of science".
This company is working on an acne treatment based on bacteria: http://www.nakedbiome.com
I'm a film buff and I think so. A lot of people don't seem to go out of their way to obtain films aside from looking at Netflix recommendations. Back when I used OkCupid I could tell when something older went on because it immediately got listed under "favorite movies" by a certain type of hipster ;)

(I distinctly remember how overnight everyone looooovveeed Amelie when it went up)

Sadly it's a lot harder to find new (or new to me) films serendipitously. With the closing of rental shops, the last bastion seems to be the DVD section at local libraries.
Yes, of course the rules are the same. Figuring this out was the event that launched the entire modern scientific endeavor. But nonetheless, the experimental data that went into this discovery was largely non-reproducible. The stars and planets go where they go and only very rarely does a given configuration repeat itself. In fact, no configuration ever really repeats itself in every detail.

So, for example, we can predict with ridiculous accuracy where the next total solar eclipse is going to happen. But once it happens, we can't roll back the clock and make it happen again.
TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint. They're all owned by Intuit and not open source.
Not a "SEO person" and can't say if it works or not in 2018 but I've helped with a couple of web projects and it has surprised me how little work it took to get ahead of local competition (basically write something meaningful) - and how unenthusiastic business owners are to do this.
Web platforms are governments.

"Facebook is a government. Facebook's users are citizens,
and Facebook's applications developers are the private
companies that drive much of the economy. Apple. Twitter,
Myspace, Craigslist, Foursquare, Tumblr and every other
large network of engaged users (including some services of
Google) plays a similar role. We have always tacitly
acknowledged this. We talk about these networks as
communities, communities have governments."

"Once you start thinking about large web platforms as
governments, the logical question is what kind of government
are they. One thing is for sure - none of these platforms
are democracies. They are oligarchies controlled by
founders, investors or shareholders. That may not be at all
bad. As long as citizens (users) can move freely from one
government to another with little switching cost, there is
no reason to burden these polities with the inherent
inefficiencies of popular democracy. But that does put a
special premium on emigration policies and property rights.
Do I own my data, can I export it freely? It also suggests
that large networks that have strong network effects may
someday need other incentives to act in the best interests
of their citizens."

http://www.usv.com/blog/web-services-as-governments
They might not have been aware, but to me, that just indicates that they didn't think about the consequences. Other people, who did, fairly accurately predicted that something like CA would happen.
Visual Studio. By far best editor, JetBrains just copied the Visual Studio concept, and they still rocks on any non-visual-studio supported (by plugins or by default) programming language.
the entitlement and whats unsustainable is the employer guaranteeing ALL of the downsides of market returns not being high enough, management risk (underfunding), rising cost of healthcare, and longer life times.

If I live twice as long my 401k doesn't magically double.
I bet those gas prices are fixed to some point in time. Might be too much work to keep up to date gas prices but not instantaneously update other parameters.
Wonder if this will hurt production?
Sounds like you need to open up a pizza shop in your neighborhood. Setup costs are pretty low.
"Not really, only the basis of the entire business."
At my university's astronomy dept we've developed gpu software and used it to discover many new objects in the kuiper belt. It's robust enough that it can also be used to detect airplanes.

https://github.com/DiracInstitute/kbmod
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
>"I think when statistics is involved, the results are inherently untrustworthy. This is not really surprising because there is a whole bunch of ways these studies that involve statistics could go wrong. And we are still finding new ways on how this could go wrong."

Another very real issue here is that malicious use of statistics can be used to show nearly anything in ways that can be extremely difficult to detect, even when the maliciousness is hidden in plain sight. And then going a step beyond that there's plain old number fudging which is almost impossible to prove since variance works as sufficient plausible deniability. And finally there is of course plain old ineptitude. Like you mention even when trying to do things completely by the book, statistics are incredibly difficult to get right.

Something that comes to mind here is the recent MIT study stating that Uber drivers earned $3.37/hour. That study was completely broken. [1] It's debatable whether the cause was maliciousness or ineptitude, but the point is that these problems arise, with a disturbing regularity, even when the most reputable of names are attached to them.

[1] - https://qz.com/1222744/mits-uber-study-couldnt-possibly-have...
I think what the parent is saying is that with a basic income only for researchers that creates a scenario where ‘Well you need to ensure there's nobody just completely gaming the system and so inextricably you'll end up with some sort of qualifier for results.’ That you don’t have ‘fake researchers’ gaming the ‘basic income only for researchers’ reward.
They have data centers of their own and distribute all of their own content. AWS powers the UI requests and their back office number crunching stuff. Everything after you push play is done via Netflix's own hardware.
a 90x increase in stock value, but only a 2x increase in revenue 2010-2018. that's just about what the average company did. that's compared to 10-100x increases in revenue at these startups it's being compared to.

the only reason for the 90x increase is because the stock was basically worthless, assumed eventual bankruptcy, liquidation of assets style valuation.

then they successfully turned it around and doubled revenue in a reliable and sustainable fashion, which made it actually worth something (90x more than almost-zero)

dominos is definitely not growing like a startup
The PEG comments seems to be a bit bitter and I would like to hear the story behind the frustration.
For item #3, it was awkward to me at first, since it was a little bit different concept in desktop app. But sooner, I realize that it was another aid to let people be aware of credit card spending more precisely.
Microsoft announces preview of Azure Sphere
If you won't stop posting this off-topic meta noise that we've asked you many times before to cut out, we'll ban the account. Post according to the guidelines or not at all. Fulminate elsewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> When did this become a "standard"?

I think this depends on the field. In some areas of neuroscience for example, brain data can have extremely high variability and is very expensive to collect a lot of, so p<0.05 is not uncommon.
Somewhat related: Marpa is a fantastic piece of software. I used it once for implementing a custom query language for a DCIM I was working on. If I'd still be using Perl, I'm sure I would've put it to good use again.
This is a bit of a tangent, but if you don't get in, don't read into it too much. The rejection could be due to many factors. One thing that pops out is the stage of your company. You may not have built out enough, or haven't had enough validation. I know a solo founder who didn't get in, but went on to raise 20m plus for his company (tuition.io). The fact that he was a solo founder and that he was still developing the product could have been the issue. You really have to develop the idea and see where your traction is to validate your idea. YC is a great organization to have backing you, but it's not always perfect in selecting great companies
IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before midnight deadline
ALB has HTTP2 support.
There's more diverse people, which makes it more diverse. At least, according to modern corporate thought.
Apparently South Michigan is the safest place to live from natural disasters: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-safest-place-to-live-in-th...
Ledger can import GnuCash databases, so in theory you could do the the insertion in GC and processing in Ledger :)
Probably for a party. Based on the recipe I would guess an outdoor party in the midsummer.
> I would never trust my secret management to some random block chain.

Me neither. ;)
Reserved instances always make money because you make profit without depreciation kicking in.
Shameless plug: If you enjoy that, you may like a version that I made that sinks the audio and transcripts with puppies[1], available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1ibFnn3NcXjQHY47o0yWg/vid... Though this particular case is not available yet.

[1]: The idea was originally inspired by Last Week Tonight, I just automatically generate them.
They get CAF. When CAF runs out, pricing shoots up.
What's the law? Are you not allowed to possess unwashed poppy seeds? Or are you just not allowed to put them in brandy?
Haha maybe one day! We have no visibility into the messages that are sent on Stealthy.
"In America today you would say that the clans have polarized, the villages have been decimated and the tribes have become weaponized."

This is an interesting statement, but doesn't really have any facts backing it.
Completely unacceptable response from ICANN. They don't need a special exemption. Turn the service off until you can fix it. And they had plenty of time!
I just got back from NAB and one thing clear was that Google is aggressively trying to get into the broadcast video space with their Cloud Offering.
The article says that PEG handles non-deterministic grammars by becoming non-deterministic itself. I don't know about PEG, but if that's true, it sure sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Microsoft German datacenters are unaffected yeah. They're not connected in any way to the upstream MS Azure network, the only way for MS to control them would be through an infected security update, which they'll never do.
So this is like a decentralized keybase? Are the identities and associated public keys stored in a decentralized manner? It wasn't clear to me when I registered an identity, because I figured if it's decentralized, then I would have to pay for it in some manner with a cryptotoken. I always thought this would be a good use case for Ethereum (and indeed, there seem to be a few projects working on it). It would be extra cool if it could integrate into existing wallet/dapp software so you don't need to juggle extra keys. Anyway, cool stuff. I'm hoping more people adopt end to end encryption

edit* looks like the identities are stored in a decentralized manner, and that all of this should integrate with blockstack's keychain and browser
It does support track the bank transactions. but I don't recommend it, since by entering transactions, you will realize how much you'd spend in your budget to the category.

You could do it on paper. and carry it in your pocket all the way. There's no difference in terms of managing transactions. But you could be easily loose the track of your budget in my opinion.
YNAB helps you to keep remind the budget. That is the key for me to keep using YNAB.
I don't see why you would want to solve this with a researcher basic income (and overhead/bureaucracy of figuring out who is a researcher) and not the simpler solution of an actual universal basic income.
Can you provide a citation for that? Everyone who ever used FB knew exactly what was going on?
I know nothing about GnuCash. How internationalized is it? Taxes are different everywhere.
What's the technical reason to limit the wake words to only "Hey Siri", "OK Google", etc?

Should one be able to "Personalized" to his/her own phase PER Device such as "Hey Commander Data" for Iphone 6, "Hey Counselor Troi " for IPad Pro or "Ok Skynet" for the google phone?

That should also solve the problem where someone said "OK Google" in TV Shows/Podcast and wakeup all the google devices.

With the latest "Deep Voice" tech, the device should be able to response with the actors' voice too.

I remember seeing a clip of Chinese TV show when the actress said (in Chinese) "Honey, Honey where are you?" and the phone on chair wake up and said "Honey, I am here, I am here. " And tons of folks in the youtube comments ask "What kind of phone is that and I want it!". I told my wife that and she immediately said she wanted it too.

I still don't know which brand of Chinese phone actually has that features or if that was just imagination of the TV show writer. Someone should build and and I know my wife wants it.
> The statistical tests currently in widespread use as a criterion for publication in peer-reviewed journals guarantee that at least one result in 20 will be due to chance and not because the hypothesis being tested is actually true.

That's wildly overly pessimistic. That would only be the case if scientists just went around, looking at the world, and came up with null-hypotheses willy nilly. That's generally not the case. There is often a _reason_ for conducting the test and a plausible cause of action. There are two possible reasons for a significant result:

* The null hypothesis is correct but they got "unlucky" data (5% chance or p% chance)

* There is a real effect (and the null hypothesis is actually wrong)

This becomes more problematic in reproducibility tests, though, since that biases my prior towards a correct null hypothesis and now you must be very careful about pre-registration and the numbers of folks worldwide that are trying to reproduce a given experiment.
I don't think most single owner businesses do cash flow forecasting. Do you?
I love namesilo, and I find the interface refreshing/charming. The price is right, too!

As an aside, .us addresses cannot be registered anywhere with privacy controls enabled.
Feynmann said, "The first rule is that you must not fool yourself. And you are the easiest person to fool."

There can be malice, sure. But there can also be desire to believe. And, hey, here's a statistical analysis that shows what the investigator is already biased to believe anyway...
Yeah, but a million Indians don't send me a letter offering me construction services when I buy a plot of land.
sublime text and qtcreator
How come that no one mentions xero? Been using it quite some time and I was sure it was one of the best solutions out there. Thoughts?