skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an extension (Block site) which stops me from visiting some sites by accident (SERPs or links).
One fruitcake died, therefore the entire future of non-institutional science is in question?
Please also add that antibiotics are not risk free. A lot of the post-Lyme stuff people mention sounds a lot like what happens when you obliterate your microbiome, thrash your gut integrity, and your body mounts a big inflammatory response to the mess in your gut. C. Diff and SJS are two other potentially deadly consequences of just throwing powerful antibiotics around without knowing for sure that they're needed.
Is there any reason why people don't buy Concorde for Private jet? Surely there are lot more people who can afford this compare to what was 20 years ago. And those who buy private jet are likely to care about the much shorter trip.

Or is it Concorde, due to its thrust and speed aren't / can't be as comfortable ?
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I too expected to read about people smelling the flash memory. The reason I expected that was exactly because I have smelt new car smell.
The Concorde flew over 40 years ago. Technology has improved just a bit since then.
Working with the Command Line – Day 5
Hmm. Actually it seems to be less effective this week than in the past.
Ask HN: How many hours on the weekend do you actually perform on side projects?
I'm trying to re-manage my time. I've found I may spend the whole weekend putting off ~4 hours of work. I may just build in a 24-hour free/break period, and do the work after this, as I've found that's how it ends up in practice anyways.
The problem is, when you do want to listen to something, if you're a 200+ open tabs across 10 windows in FF/Chrome user like me, tracking down the individual tabs that are playing audio is damn near impossible.

And please someone don't say I'm doing it wrong....why can't browser programmers expose a list of tabs playing audio, and allow navigation to each from that list? (And the same goes for tabs consuming excessive CPU - in FF, I can see the offending websites in about:performance, and I can close the tab from there, but what if I wanted to navigate to the tab instead?)
Wasn't aware that "SJWs" were hanging people from trees and burning them at the stake, thanks for the information
I know many people who studied Marxism. We had entire university dedicated to Marxism.

Trust me it causes brain damage :-)
Understanding reflection in Go using a practical example
A lack of desire and drive makes it very easy to lose a lot of money. The inverse is not really true, though. You'll never be able to afford college if you're flipping burgers through high school. You'll never be a doctor if you aren't smart enough, no matter how much you want it.
It doesn't seem unreasonable at first glance. For recurring costs, I assume the two primary drivers are fuel and maintenance. There's been a lot of advances in fuel efficiency and maintenance costs since the 1960s.
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows:  Evidence from Google [pdf]
That sounds extremely irrational.

Not saying ticks aren't a health risk. But an inactive lifestyle is also a health risk, and very likely a much bigger one.

There are things you can do to protect yourself and reduce the risk, e.g. using insect repellents and removing ticks quickly if you see them. Also for FSME there's a vaccine if you live in a risk area (for Lyme there is none, although a vaccine used to exist...).
The question I want to know is:

Did Uber doctor the camera video to make the road seem darker than it actually was?

If you recall, there was initially a doubt that Uber was at fault because the streets appeared extremely dark, but I think they were buying time to delay the outage at incompetent Uber.

The police initially didn't fault Uber based on this video.
What programming languages did you write? C? Assembly?
I believe Airbus have let the type certificate lapse. Nobody is allowed to fly them...
OS/2 warp was around as well. I never used it so I can't comment on how it compared to the other OS's. There just happens to be a boxed copy on a bunch of floppies staring at me from a shelf at work.
Do you have a script for this?
> but let's not pretend that his biohacking didn't play a role in his demise, because it seems highly likely that it did.

I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but you should cut it out with the ridiculous and baseless speculation. He was found dead in an immersion tank. What sounds more likely: death from biohacking, death from drowning after blacking out?
If there's enough power (solar or otherwise) there won't be any emissions.
A Crash-Course in PHP Namespaces for WordPress Developers
I'm sure a few web shops are quite happy bad code doesn't actually smell
Idea behind modern digits is pretty simple: just count number of angles: http://mathandmultimedia.com/2013/05/23/angles-and-the-hindu...
Israel offended Japan's prime minister by serving him dessert in a shoe
Finding something the whole family can agree on would be great, this could be a fun way to look at the options while training a picker. However... I am not going to mix my watching habits with a Twitter or Facebook sign-in.

Secondly, under "Browse" one of the options is "Available Now". Does that mean everything else is not (available now)?
I don't think LibreOffice has an equivalent to OneNote, and I use the desktop client for that a lot.

Also, this might sound shallow to some, but the latest version of Office just looks a lot better than LibreOffice and I enjoy that.
Yeah, a lot of apps do this by being persistent. Though it doesn't explain the low rating.
Finally an amazing encyclopedia
To be fair it has been over 40 years since the Concorde was designed and built. While I'm pretty skeptical that a start-up is going to somehow design, build and deliver a supersonic plane I don't think such improvements necessarily have to be "magic". Plain ole iterative improvements over 40 years could probably handle much of that.
Actually I don’t think there is anyone who can afford it tbh.

You’ll need to build a whole supporting infrastructure around it which doesn’t exist.

No pilots, no crew to serve no parts, it can’t land or take off from most airports and it can’t fly over most areas due to ban on supersonic flight.

At this point you’ll need to start a whole aerospace company to support it, recertify it with civilian air transport authorities and possibly even build new airports or runways for it.
Even if you have 50 billion net worth that would be out of your reach.
I believe he meant their product will be open-sourced so it will have home at github.
I think you've hit on the mark with this comment. When I first saw the headline I thought it related to the death of someone like Lepht Anonym who is the first person I ever read about in the biohacking scene. Implanted RFID chips and magnets in their hands, etc. Really neat stuff even if the thought of self-surgery makes my skin crawl.

In my opinion, simply ignoring industry regulations aka "pulling an Uber" is not hacking by any sense of the word.
From an AMD PR:
“The cryptocurrency market is unstable and demand could change quickly. For example, China and South Korea have recently instituted restrictions on cryptocurrency trading. If we are unable to manage the risks related to a decrease in the demand for cryptocurrency mining, our GPU business could be materially adversely affected.”[1]

The mining market is too unstable to bet trillions of dollars expanding fab capacity, which is why they haven't been able to increase production to match demand. So while they are currently sitting atop thrones of cash, they cannot accurately forecast demand. If either a) ethereum tanks or b) someone cracks ASIC mining for ETH & curriencies mined w/ GPUs, then all of a sudden they will see a huge drop in demand. Additionally, there would likely be a massive surge of fairly new used cards hitting the market, further dropping demand. That's a scary thought for a manufacturer, they could potentially end up sitting on large stocks of unsold inventory.

[1]:https://usethebitcoin.com/amd-worried-business-cryptocurrenc...
What was your educational and professional background that got you the job at the bank?
> It's just giving some people money. It would be very surprising if this didn't yield positive outcomes for that group.

It would be not surprising at all. It all depends on how you give the money and in what context. There are a lot of stories about people winning the lottery or getting an inheritance and ending up broke and in rehab (or worse). There is statistics that only a small percentage of people who found gold in various gold rushes managed to keep it long-term.

There's a concept of "poverty trap", where combination of means-tested welfare programs and wage structure essentially makes stopping being poor unaffordable to the poor, because there's a summary income drop when moving up the scale of earned income, and the person can not afford taking that drop.

There's also a concept of external dependency ruining local business, so that if you flood local marked with foreign aid and money, local businesses can not compete or sustain traditional price/market structure and once they are gone, there's no means to sustain the economy but continuing the stream of foreign aid forever.

Giving people money is not always unquestionably positive, all depends on how. That's why real-life testing is important to know if UBI can work or not.

> Anything short of UNIVERSAL experimentation will not address these.

True but one can argue some insight can be gained from small-scale testing. When we test new drug, we do not test it on every person, even though every person's body is different. We test it on limited set of people, and hope they are representative. Sometimes it fails, but it's better than not having any drugs until we can test it on everyone, isn't it?
But their own site is not customized to me when I go there to shop(sure its cusotmized based on referrer from adwords but it knows nothing else about how I got to liking that particular brand or what youtube reviews I've watched ect). Neither is their inventory/new item research predictions using this information.
5 9s sounds impressive, until you think that's 1 failure per 100,000 interactions.

There are individual intersections in the US that have that many vehicles pass each day.

I haven't seen estimates on number of specifically vehicle-pedestrian interactions, but 5 9s is nowhere nearly safe enough.
It needs to be a big difference in price for me to take a stop vs. non-stop even for personal travel. Every stop is an additional opportunity for missed connections, flight problems, etc. I rarely make stops voluntarily.
Google I/O 2018
Does anyone have a badge they would be willing to let me barrow (Willing to Pay) to attend a Lab and a few Officer Hours?
I understood that part of the reference, but "tech" is ambiguous. If it meant "technician", then it would imply to me that the "new memory smell" was both figurative and something that a human nose could detect, in a literal sense.

Reading the article makes it clear that "tech" refers to "technology", making it more likely that the "smell" is purely figurative.
India is now poised to be the only country in the world with a two way fight between Amazon and Alibaba.

Three way if you consider Walmart.
Drive.AI will launch a self-driving car service in Texas starting in July
> This puts the fault squarely on Uber’s doorstep, though there was never much reason to think it belonged anywhere else.

Are you kidding me? At least 80% of the comments I saw online the following week were blaming the woman.

It seems to me like Uber's self-driving system is absolute trash. But they were in a hurry to "go live" with it, because they need it so that the company can become profitable ASAP. And thanks to the deregulation bill from last year (which was almost universally praised online), they could actually do that, too.
Microsoft’s meeting room of the future
I was barely a teenager when windows 95 launched and my father took me to CompUSA which was staying open late for the launch.

We purchased it when it was released at midnight and we then went home to stay up crazy late and install it. It was hands down the most memorable OS launch I have ever been a part of and a defining moment for my childhood.
show me one good thing that came from Walmart Labs.
This almost looks like a job posting from a recruiter. :)
>Your claim is also largely true for drug trials. There is also huge variability due to genetics, cultural placebo response, variations in diet among cultures, cultural or individual symptom expression, and so on.

I work in pharma (biologicals) - though not as a scientist - and you're overstating the differences. The genetic variance of humans is within a very narrow band. The superficial differences are not relevant to the vast majority of pharmaceutical products. In any case, how our human biology reacts to pharmaceutical substances is VASTLY different from humans' economic and social interactions. You know to a very high degree of certainty how an antigen will produce an immune response much much more than how pricing your headphones at 50 dollars will get you more customers, or raising wages by 10% will give you a 20% increase in productivity.

>Every science faces an enormous amount of confounding variables.

I don't think (macro)economics/human psychology are sciences. Aside from my own opinion, it is certainly debatable - Unlike biology and physics which are firmly in the science camp.
Given that the container ecosystem is a huge land rush with many obviously missing pieces, there are going to be multiple projects for every piece.
It's my understanding that, initially, it'll have to be over water but once it's proven safe they can get approval to fly over land. I don't know what that entails but that was my understanding of it last time I looked into it.

A NYC-SF or DC-SF route would be freaking amazing.
There's lots of water near NYC and SF so maybe you do your sonic boom over the water and then turn towards land?
Well RedHat's OpenShift.com is kinda that, have a look at it !
And let's not forget the beheadings of "white ISIS". https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=saudi+beheadings
That's a deeply reductionist way of looking at it.

> At the same time, the researchers are quick to point out that the findings cannot immediately be reduced to simple cause-and-effect explanations. For instance, as social scientists have long observed, it is very hard to say whether having wealth leads to better health — or if health, on aggregate, is a prerequisite for accumulating wealth. Most likely, the two interact in complex ways, something the study cannot resolve.
- https://news.mit.edu/2016/study-rich-poor-huge-mortality-gap...

In other words, this is a chicken-and-egg problem.
I guess thats why im dumb
This was such a wonderful and interesting read!
"If kids are under toxic stress and not sleeping enough to recover, their brains won't develop to their full potential. That science is well-understood from animal models and glimpsed in human neuroimaging studies."

I'm in education. I'd like to learn more about these statements. Can you recommend what/where I should search?
> Older flash, even if it’s only gone through 1 percent of its lifetime, will reliably have more of these flipped bits than new flash will, his team discovered.

Creatively ironic use of "reliably" duly noted. :)
More frustrating than being blown up on the launch pad!?

Mark S. Miller had a site with a list of "adages", here's one I really liked:

"A Computer's Perspective on Moore's Law: Humans are getting more expensive at an exponential rate."

This is true, although slower, for robots.

Look, if you want to risk your life to go to space, I'm fine with that. I do too.

But if NASA or Musk or Bezos or whoever want to unnecessarily risk other peoples' lives to make a buck faster, or even just explore Mars, that's irresponsible and kinda fucked up, is my opinion.

For example, I think Mars One is awesome! (Stupid and doomed, but still awesome.) Colonizing Mars to have a "backup" Earth is important enough (in my opinion) that it's noble to risk your life to achieve it ASAP.

Mining an asteroid, although I personally would love to try it, is not quite so noble, eh?

The less "risk-averse" space program was happening in a very different context: the "Space Race" [1] which was in many ways a continuation or extension of the Cold War, which was in many ways a continuation or extension of WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
It will be interesting to see how useful this will be vs. vanilla Android Auto & CarPlay.

I've had CarPlay for the last couple years, and I use it exclusively now. Even for things like radio, I've started using the Sirius app via CarPlay instead of the native radio interface. I don't use built-in navigation either, I just use my phone's on the same head unit.

What kind of benefits can the deliver through a tighter integration? And will they be able to keep it up-to-date as easily I keep my phone up-to-date? Will be interesting to watch.
Exactly this, this is one of the very reasons I have not invested in bitcoin. Anything relating to a technology and banks that hasn't been stamp of approved is a risk. I luckily got the news before it happened and withdrew all my money from neteller and poker sites before they went down, however I had friends that had a lot of money locked up for months.
When studying UBI isn't it hard to control for the fact that only a small group is receiving funds, rather than every unemployed/underemployed person in the country (which would be the case if UBI became federal legislation)? As jobs are automated, we will need to do something...
> from How do I celebrate the birth of my baby boy? to How can I transfer my own sins onto a live chicken?

The Atlantic seems to have a strong grasp on organized religion.
That's a great point.

My perspective was probably a little impacted from spending the first truly beautiful day of the summer dealing with a failed "high availability" system. :)
Unfortunately I think it's one of those things that is both inexcusable and guaranteed to happen.

It absolutely makes sense to put a human in a car you're testing and don't have full confidence in yet but are sending into real traffic. Not doing so would be ludicrously negligent. However, humans simply don't maintain focus for a long period of time without some sort of extreme, years-long training. The ability of monks to concentrate on a single thought for hours is correctly seen as very, very difficult. There's no way any regular person could deal well with a scenario like "sometime in the next 8 hours, you may or may not need to smash this brake pedal with a second's notice, but other than that you have no task." That's one of the things that most worries me about "almost there" systems like Tesla's.

That said, if you've decided to attempt this anyway, checking your phone is definitely not okay.
It's a real concern with AWS. Dealt with an incident where we had a dev-ops full access api key accidentally get checked in to a public repo. Within a hour, there were hundreds of instances running 100% cpus (presumably a bitcoin farm) in our production account.

We didn't get charged for the work, though we did have to talk to Amazon rep to alert them of what had happened.

It's good architectural design (these days) not to marry yourself to your underlying platform. As a core system design, Lambda is worrisome for me for that vendor lock-in
In case people miss it, there's a link to a fascinating CIA case study: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig... that describes how the CIA reached consensus about the Alfa being made of titanium.
That was a bad call on the part of the police.

You're only allowed to drive as fast as conditions permit. If it's dark enough that you can't avoid an obstacle by the time your headlights illuminate it, you need to slow down.
I don't see what that's got to do with speed of payment.
Oh, great, thanks for the tip!
God that's both depressing and irrefutable
Humans are terrible for supervising mostly functional machines.

This was researched in the context of security guards, who had a 95% missrate after just 20 minutes on the job.

It is entirely unreasonable to expect a human supervise to detect and correct this type of situation in time.
We've published several books, and the author for our latest Vue book earned $20k on the opening weekend.

The economics change completely if you self-publish or publish with a smaller firm that has marketing abilities (and better royalty rates).

Self publishing is awesome because you keep all the money, but it takes years to build an audience.

Honestly, writing the manuscript is the easy part. Building an audience, marketing it, keeping the book up-to-date is just as hard as the original manuscript. But it can really pay off.

I'm ready to share this now: our book on Angular 2 did $400k a revenue, per year, the first two years. BUT the reason this was possible was we had a huge audience that trusted us.

Email marketing is more powerful in this space than you might believe. Even today.

If I could give you one piece of advice, it would be to sign up for Ramit Sethi's emails and watch how he markets. After that, get every book on copywriting you can and learn how to write copy.

(Also, if you're interested in writing books with me for 50% royalties, my email is in my profile. I want to do books on Python and Node this year.)
Does it manage issues, pull requests, etc modeled in a distributed way? I was always dumbfounded as to why you'd take a great distributed collaboration tool like Git and then centralize it around issues, pull requests, comments, etc.

To me all of those things should be Git objects as well either tracked inside the same repo on another branch or something or tracked in a parallel Git repo.
The Decorate-Sort-Undecorate idiom (a.k.a Schwartzian Transform) is useful:

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=decorate+sort+undecorate+i...
Obviously that's a risk, but so is blind faith in trusted experts. I don't think your examples really relate to this situation, because there wasn't a convincing expert argument that the housing bubble was economically sustainable, the arguments that it was unsustainable were simply ignored by trusted experts, for the most part. I mean, I think I found Nouriel Roubini through a post by Brad DeLong, but I don't think DeLong ever actually addressed his concerns.
I'd have thought that the recent accidents would prevent these companies from rushing to market...
Thanks :-) I didn't know they also look for common banner sizes.
Any time I read "serverless", I get a violent allergic reaction.

You're even, then, because I've got the allergy to this trivial monotonous whinging about the by-now-well-understood meaning of the term "serverless". I'm not the only one.