skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One doesn't need to attempt to delegitimatize professional journalists in order to stick up for independent or new media, or bloggers. I don't think the distinctions you're making in the questions you asked there are even useful (plenty of professionals focus on a niche, plenty of bloggers are affiliated with a "big name" in media today, etc.). I guess the answer to your questions is "no, I'm not saying those things."

I think maybe Taleb's critique is perhaps meant to be aimed at the sort of elite tier of celebrity journalists, who are pretty easy to dislike. I tend to think the critique is way too heavy-handed, though. There's a great deal of crap being produced today but, if we're candid about it, in terms of pure volume there's more high-quality reporting today than there has ever been. People are fatigued by the effort of filtering out the garbage but it's intellectually lazy to dismiss the whole thing.
One "simple" thing that could be done is to make it easier to build python statically, and improve the freezing toolchain.

When I used to care about the problem, I looked into it (https://cournape.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/distributing-pytho...) and got somewhere. It improves somewhat startup times, and allow distribution of a single binary.

Lots of libraries are terribly slow to import (e.g. requests), but right now there is little incentive to fix it as there is no toolchain to build good, self-contained python CLI apps.
> Also, it comes from Google so I can only assume it's doing some sort of tracking of me and/or my machine resources. No thank you.

Electron was developed by GitHub for their Atom editor, actually.
What's the latency?
Wirelessly Transfer Photos from iPhone to Android: What Are the Options?
TallyGo is a startup offering a routing SDK for Android & iOS. The pricing is much more affordable and capability for app integration is strong. It has realtime traffic & advanced routing. (Disclaimer: I work as a developer at TallyGo)

https://tallygo.com/
The moment you say something that resembles even slightly to politically incorrect, you’re suddenly off of everything...
Elon has promised things that didn't happen quarter after quarter. Nobody trusts forward-looking statement from Tesla anymore.

I say that Tesla has to raise money in Q4 and you can trust me more than Elon.
Bonds pay a coupon, or interest, directly rather than accruing face value.
> Which kind of sucks now that single SSD's are commonly capable of speeds at multiple Gb/s.

Single SSDs are often capable of multiple (low) tens of Gb/s. Like Samsung 960 Evo, about 25 Gbps reads (== 3.2 GB/s).
Not really. In a conventional business revenue tells you how big it is so should be reported in absolute terms. And traditionally, dividends matter to the shareholders and that is directly related to earnings per share. Profits may increase in absolute terms but earnings per share could decrease as a result of issuing more shares (also known as stock dilution).
>and measure the evolution of moles and skin issues

be still my heart!
Realistic 3D reconstructions of physical spaces
Treadmills Were Meant to Be Atonement Machines
That doesn't really diminish the results in my book. If you're trying to publish something it's basically assumed that you're going to try out several methods and show the one with better performance even if the performance difference is not statistically different.

As per the number of features and data points: In this field you generally don't have a ton of subjects to sample from and the high dimensional features are a natural result of the array based recordings. It should be possible to perform dimensional reduction on the data, however the ML methods are already implicitly doing that step so it's not necessarily that important.

My normal gripe is when the tested subjects have some data in the training fold and some data in the testing fold (even if the data points are separate). In those cases then the ML method can fit the statistics of a particular subject rather than the true target class (e.g. target movement of a cursor in a BCI). In this paper they explicitly are testing on a subject which was never trained. So, even though the data + particular supervised layer is going to budge the results around some, it should not be a night and day difference from what's expected in reality.
We have integrated Alexa with our RFID Sensor tag and reader infrastructure.

We place sensor tags in an environment and then ask Alexa "whats wrong" and she will reply with any events the infra has.

We have some other neat things we did with it...

Ill ping you off HN - we are also in SF-Bay.
Uber, Lyft and other gig jobs may face a shakeup under new California work rules
What? 95% accuracy is outstanding. I see that you're saying if you said "No" for all babies, that'd be 95%, so that's a legitimate point.

However, it sounds like it's better than that "We were also able to predict ASD severity, as indicated by the ADOS Calibrated Severity Score, with quite high reliability, also by 9 months of age."

I imagine the intervention is ABA therapy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis#Effi...) or similar, which is costly, but otherwise not a risk.
I don’t know how competitive the pricing is, but it is interesting how the comments go when Google does try and charge a high price for something over simply monetizing via advertising.

I wonder if the perception would be different if Google Maps were a standalone startup developing a world class mapping product. Where the common manta would be along the lines of double your pricing.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16976505
The MoviePass Unlimited Plan Is Back
But you're not giving the nod to it -- you don't even know yet if it's any good or not -- you're only telling them about it because you've got something to gain yourself from doing so.
> cpython startup latency problem

The problem under discussion is that projects that currently use CPython have slow startup. One potential solution is for those projects not to use CPython. (Certainly it's not the only potential solution, but, a language that tries to be all things to all people isn't going to succeed. Python has so far done an extraordinarily good job of being most things to all people, with "I want native-code performance" being one of the few out-of-scope things.)
Thx, that's appreciated.

It's really something I do for my job, I just put them here as well. I think I often get penalized by the HN algorithms because a post can get edited 4-5 times.
On Windows 10, Notepad uses 2 MB and Wordpad 12 MB. I'm quite surprised that the latter can fit a full, Ribbon equiped word processor in so little memory.

Not that I'd be concerned about a few tens of MB nowadays but on the whole we're consuming computing resources at the same rate faster hardware is put out (Gates' law).

I have a Pentium 3 running NT4 sitting on the same desk and it is faster at many tasks than my i5 workstation. Visual Studio 6 especially is super snappy. How then can Slack, on a machine with an order of magnitude more processing power and 64 times (!) as much RAM lag when switching channels?
The bond denomination is 1000 and usually brokers have minimum lot size of 10, so it would be $8900. However many brokers have minimum trade size of $10K on bonds as well, so the "ask your broker" is the best advice :-)
It's actually very useful to know earnings or loss per share as you buy shares not the entire company.

Revenue provides different information, and is useful to figure out market share etc.
Show HN: Canetis – a recursive Python audio/text aligner built on Gentle
IPython's interactive shell is way more convenient than using the default python command line when trying things out. But I just don't get why one would need the whole Jupiter thing on top of that, except for maybe making presentations.

One thing that I think is missing from IPython though is the ability to save a given state of the interpreter, with all the variables in it. So that one could preform a time consuming data loading/parsing once, and restart from that point if some variables get messed up. Jupiter cann't do that either, afaik.
"Anti-authority" seems like a pretty good marketing campaign that WISPs have figured out.

I mean: good for them.
We're two college students who built this as part of our research lab work. In our testing, it aligned more words than other forced aligners we found out there, so we wanted to share it. Please send any feedback our way!
$250k grant program from the Zcash Foundation
> That argument or some other one that is equally dumb on it's face but might work in a court of law

> equally dumb

I was defending why I think there is a 50% shot that Uber could make part B not apply. It seems like you think it is more like a 1% shot which you might be right, I am not a lawyer.
> Could cars could be smarter? I wonder how hard it would be for them to detect the presence of a child still inside?

The passenger seat belt alarm on a car I had rcenetly would trigger considtently with a gallon bottle of milk; to detect a child in a child seat you'd need it to ignore the seat but trigger with child plus seat, which may be a little more involved but shouldn't be impractical.

Alarm UX may be tricky: you ideally want to alarm when the driver exits the car with a child in the back, but to avoid alarm fatigue you probably don't want to do it when entering.
Mapbox no longer guarantees a time (https://twitter.com/Anonymaps/status/913812009547902978) Worst I've read about is 3 months. That surprising because openstreetmap.org's tile servers aim for sub-10 minute updates and often I see my changes even faster. https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=61040
Is ... that faster than CPython? Wow. Maybe I should symlink /usr/bin/python -> pypy on my laptop....
-- get the second page of top-level folders

["Mailbox/query", {
"filter" : {
"parentId" : null
},
"limit" : 30,
"position" : 30
}, "R1"]

It's happened.
Butchered rhino bones place hominids in the Philippines 700,000 years ago
Wait, so this guy is standing up against what he sees as discrimination, and the argument is “ignore him, it’s not the bad kind of discrimination”?
Is something that happened in 1864 or 1964 going to prevent you from identifying a good engineer in front of you?
Some bonds don't but you are correct these bonds do. However it isn't guaranteed that coupons will be paid on time especially if a company is in financial difficulty.
Pytorch release 4.0 core changes
My mistake, it is indeed Node not JavaScriptCore, I posted a correction.
I don't have a better idea, I don't think it's possible.

When a server has multiple identities to choose from, and the client has not previously communicated with (and has no no out of band information), as far as I can tell, either the SNI has to be in plain text, or it could be encrypted with an untrusted DHE key (which only eliminates passive detection).

Way upthread, bscphil wondered if [big companies] will oppose encrypted SNI to avoid having their IP ranges banned, but their business reasons don't really flow into a decision not to do impossible things.
Why Millions of Californians Eligible for Food Stamps Don't Get Them
Firefox isn’t adding ads, it’s ‘sponsored content’
Ah yet another time to remind US citizens they are needlessly dying at worst or massively overpaying for health at best.

The health care of system of the US is insane and has malignant cost disease. If they scrapped everything and adopted a universal health care system where the government simply pays for health care of everyone up to a standard of care above which there is quickly diminishing returns, they could do so without increasing current federal levels of health spending, since US government health spending is already large by the standards of other countries that take the single payer approach. If you want more health care than this, you can buy private insurance, except now because all consumers are weighing up whether it's actually worth it given they have most of their health care covered by the government, the insurance/health system has much less cost disease.

This is how health care works in sane countries. Countries where rational policy discussions cannot get totally derailed by the magical word "socialism".
> "think different." Okay ... but who doesn't intrinsically understand that this is required for a 'breakthrough'?

Probably almost everyone. Usually people back high status approaches and people. (And you're wrong to assume that the breakthrough must necessarily come from thinking differently).
The New Bloomberg Digital
Company where I work decided it is simpler to buy macbooks for everyone than handle each request separately.

Would never buy it with my own money, but it kind of works although I still could not get macvim to read my font settings from .vimrc
Cyrus IMAPd master is pretty much up to date.

JMAP-Proxy is sitting slightly behind, that's on me.

Less up-to-date, there's a few, atmail, Apache James (via Linagora), a couple that aren't published.
I was kind of amazed how penalized a script could be by collecting all its “import” statements at the top. Once somebody’s command couldn’t even print “--help” output in under 2 seconds, and after measuring the script I told them to move all their imports later and the docs appeared instantly.
I wish it were an isolated instance. For one google storage product we found 2 pricing pages with 2 different billing models and a Google rep who added a 3rd billing model into the mix.

Billing models have become a new competitive frontier and lead funnel strategy in Saas. All but the most cursory usage has become "Enterprise" and begets a sales call.
Very interesting. Way back my old university was also involved in historical document processing https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/40224455/Chapter_7.... they also looked at things like writer identification and trying to automatically date the documents using a wide array of hand crafted features. Curious what would happen with some of the newer deep learning models, but the project has been dead for a while http://application02.target.rug.nl/cgi-bin/monkweb?db=All&cm... … as these things go
Ask HN: What is the best Linux laptop?
I love Apple hardware, but not their software.
I am a dedicated Linux user, not interested in switching OSes. Whatever hardware I choose must run Linux. Bonus points if the OEM ships a flavor of Linux from the factory.

What is the best Linux laptop these days?
The Vue team also just released VuePress, a static site generator based around making documentation sites with Markdown.
I think the OP was asking what ISP walrus1 works for, given they've already identified themselves as a network engineer.
Xerox CEO is out ahead of planned Fujifilm deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16980841
YMMV, but I configured i3, vim and some other stuff years ago and just copy configs from previous laptop to the next one. New laptop usually works just of the box and it is already configured the way I'm used to.
Why Citizenship Matters
While it is true that many white men come from a background where, for any number of reasons, they are not afforded the same opportunities as, say, a white boy from Cupertino, they are still given opportunities and privilege because they were lucky enough to be born a white man. I know this first-hand because I grew up in a rural farming community in Vermont that was more than 95% white and poverty-stricken. Of course, not everyone in my community went to university, but when I did, no one questioned whether I belonged there because I was still a white man. Now that I have a doctorate and work at a big tech company, no one questions whether I belong here either. The same can not be said for a Hispanic or African American man (or even a white woman) who is in my position.
No need for custom parser. Right now, you can use custom format with reviver and serializer functions (2nd arg to serialize / parse). Say, have them serialize as string `^bigint[\d]+$` and revive appropriately.
Sloppy summary: some researcher has trained some NN or whatever to segment and then ocr old handwritten text and hopes to use it on the enormous archive the Vatican has. Apparently because if it's not scanned its almost completely useless to "modern scholars", which I take to mean those historians that only read medieval latin if its printed on a screen...
They ignored published best practices (per OP), why do you think they won't also ignore data? "Admit to colleagues" assumes you roped in other managers, do you really think an individual contributor is going to win the political game at that level? Because I've seen what happens at that time; all the other managers nod their heads politely, and then behind closed doors tell the one you were butting head with "You have to reign in your people". All you end up doing is undercutting your entire team's authority, you don't elevate your own above your manager's.
Using Ruby idle time to perform GC
Watchdog blurts out hipster poetry
The C++ rationale is bizarre. That a 2008 compiler doesn't provide modern features is unsurprising. They've chosen to use Rust is a strange reaction to this limitation, since it would be just as easy, from a toolchain perspective, to just use a modern C++ compiler.
> Every recent new app I can remember installing in the last year is Electron. Native UI is dead.

In terms of Electron, I have installed: Slack and VS Code (although I later uninstalled VS Code, and will have to put Slack on a machine with more memory than the VM it's in now).

I can usually spare the memory, at least on my non-crap machines, but I haven't really had the need to.
What is "embed advanced"? A search turns up nothing. I'd hate to make a custom map style, embed a map with it, and suddenly be charged upwards of $14 per thousand calls. Seems pretty steep regardless of what it is. Mapbox doesn't charge that much for anything on a per-call basis.
You can still see to which servers the software connects, ostensibly the only servers would be those for sending and receiving your emails. If you're feeling particularly paranoid you could enforce this behaviour using a firewall. For web based email anything could happen and you would have no way of knowing, even after the fact.
PHEVs seems like a great option the issue is their electric range is not enough. Someone that commutes say 60 miles each way or 120 miles a day might as well get a hybrid as they don't really gain much from that extra battery.

Push the range in the 100-150 mile range and people would see more significant cost savings.

Another option might be to add some solar panels. If you get say 6m^2 * 22% efficiency * ~7.5 hours per day that's ~10kwh for free each day or around 30 miles. Not really a major savings, but would make a smaller battery seem more useful.

PS: I suspect the downside is the IC engine really needs to run fairly regularly or you have issues.
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There is a difference between providing virtual service to providing physical service. There is also a difference between providing a non critical business like wikipedia to providing a critical service which needs to work reliably all the time and the two people who invented a search engine in a garage are charging for it using ads. So people predict that this service will have to charge in some stage and will become like any other ISP only with some technology that does't have much advantage over technologies the other ISPs are using now.
That was a real sad story. I was hoping he had found a family.
Are you saying that going from block to block an individual experiences vastly different worlds, or are you saying that Lahore is in the eyes of the beholder and some may see it as an amazing city and others would view it as a shithole?
Better software support does make Windows better in that circumstance. It doesn't matter what features or strengths Linux has over Windows if I can't run the software I need.
East Germany still exists as an island south of Cuba
I wonder if there's a Kubrick biography or documentary coming out soon. There have been several other articles about him recently, including some focusing on his photography:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/space-odyssey-and-stanley-kubri... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16840863

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/04/13/s... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16835720

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/01/close-tea... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781142

Or maybe it's just commemoration of the 50 year anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Edit: I see from this article that there's an exhibit opening tomorrow, so that's probably the immediate impetus.
Most believe that there is a common source for varying diagnoses like ADD, ADHD and high functioning Autism. What that source is, is not yet known but people have hypothesized about certain genes causing it, or changes in the prenatal environment.

The disorder is much more prevalent in some families than others and even in some ethnic groups which strongly suggests that there are genes involved. One theory suggests that the genetic material came from when Homo Sapiens interbred with Neanderthals.

Autism is in some ways very similar to homosexuality. There is no one true test for it, but if you "look for the signs" you can "diagnose" even very young children. It implies that autism, like homosexuality, can't be cured. People with the disorder have to live with it and those around them have to adapt because they can't change themselves.
Won’t solar city start back up once they get the solar tiles going? Otherwise that seems like big news?
So from what I gather, the developer is leaving the project because LLVM is involved with a project that offers paid internships to women/trans/genderqueer and racial minorities?

Classy.
what paper is this?
Not for me to say, but I suspect the issue is more that they want an internal ticket to ensure the issue doesn't get forgotten. Asking for an email will mean that it goes through their normal support channels. FWIW, I've gotten really good service asking about edge cases like this in the past.
> 5 % is quite a lot of misdiagnosed babies if this is implemented as a mass screening activity

No, because “screening” and “diagnosis” aren't the same thing.

It might be a lot of children identified for diagnostic follow-up that isn't strictly necessary, though, but that may not outweigh the early support and assistance for those who end up being correctly diagnosed earlier because of the screening.
It is being aggregated from every cinema individually.
Mainly logistics. We've had a huge influx of people wanting to be connected since December, so we've had to add stuff like a ticketing system, inventory tracking and also we're training people to lead installs. It's normal scaling problems that fast growing organizations have.
Startup << warmup.
I wish we also had regular word-sized ints as well instead of everything being double precision with all kinds of weird edge cases.