skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems we are using terms meant for manufactured items that probably don't apply to the brain. Neurons do what neurons do, regardless of the label. You can model them (in sufficient approximation) using both analog and digital means. If forced to classify neurons with "analog versus digital", I'd say they resemble our analog machinery more than our digital machines. A cup of coffee may change the "calculations" our brain makes, which is not a typical feature of our digital machines (unless they have what we'd call a defect).
He's unrealistic, cantankerous, awesome, and more.
"The longer a company has been in business – or the less good a founder is at telling a story – the more concrete and certain the metrics of that business need to be. Part of the challenge companies that have raised too much seed money face is that the requirements they face for an A are significantly higher than for those who raise less. They generally wait longer for their As, so investors expect to see associated progress."

The tension that investors look at between time to executve and how much progress has been made is really interesting. Is the the time horizon (and thus expectation) very different for different industries? Is it relative to existing incumbents and competitors?
Yeah, as a layman on the biological side of this paper, some of the reasoning feels circular or to embed additional assumptions.

The 1.99 ~= 2.00 is one example. The authors intend to determine whether any continuous model could account for a difference in behavior, but their example only rules out models where that one cent difference is considered trivial. A continuous model might be preturbed in a way that makes those prices subjectively far apart.

The same goes for the information retrieval task. They are saying that biology can't perform a discreet classification task without having a discreet representation somewhere.
Tyler Schultz is the reason we know any of this. Without that brave man, Theranos would still be faking it and very likely hurting real people with real families. Tyler Schultz blew the whistle on this fantastic scam. When the news and the net have you feeling really down, just remember, people like Tyler Schultz are still here, doing the right thing.

Be brave. Be like Tyler Schultz.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-whistleblower-shook-th...
I know whether this game is intended to be a recruiting campaign, but if it is it seems like a pretty clever one.
There are articles about really interesting subjects, but I can't get through them because of the way they're written. Conversely, there are articles about not very interesting subjects that I devour because they're well written. Don't worry about what others write about, just pick subjects you enjoy and keep writing and practicing. Those are the things that show.
> Jacob was ‘‘absolutely humiliated,’’ Koscinski said.

Oh please.

> the Charleston, S.C., student graduated from his Christian-based homeschool program with a 4.89 grade point average

OK, now it makes sense.
I first tried Magento back in 2008. Past 2000 products it was unusable. We needed to have 50000 products. Magento was out and we built our own store. So what is "lots of products" now ?
>low-fat + loads of sugar is an oxymoron

What! Are sugar cubes oxymorons to you?
Working on an elm project now and a few months in I believe I might see the main wart if elm which is the amount of boilerplate required. I suppose that should shock no one because elm might be many things but feature rich is not one of them. I still like it though. And boilerplate might be easier to read than some bad abstraction. Still it ends up less dry than I would have liked.
Interesting. Could these be extended to support recursion using these new recursive CTEs? Or would they miss some fundamental mechanism, such as the ability to pass parameters down the recursive queries?
> Well, it would be if you imagine a perfectly competitive market for prisoner placement.

That's a nearly impossible situation, the start up costs alone would be enough to dissuade most from entering the market. Most private prisons don't operate in their own facilities but instead manage or lease existing facilitates from the government.
I dislike starbucks but tried it there anyways. Actually really nice as a foam on top of a nitro cold brew. Won't be getting it again but I'd say it is worth having one time.
I can't read most of the article because of the paywall, but I'm glad Oracle's greed is catching up to it. Besides its database and Java (which is still really Sun), every of their products I've been forced to use have been overpriced, poorly supported crap.

Also, their cloud pricing must be really bad. My employer has been 100% Oracle database for decades, but it's now officially banned from all cloud projects due to licensing cost.
"...It’s better to have a strong connection to a small niche of people, than a shallow connection to the general public...."

Strong connections to a small group of people is exactly what the article is getting at. It's a members only wealth club effectively, much like what you find in New England. (If I'm being honest, it's EXACTLY like what we've had in New England since our inception.)

At any rate, these people already have extremely strong connections to their small group. What we're trying to do is get them to have some, at lest shallow, connections to the rest of us.
I wouldn't provide free support for free services either.

I was trying to purchase a $600 phone..
Speculative Store Buffer Bypass in 3 Minutes
Why would you need this company if you've got the necessary income already? Just want to spend more than necessary?

Or is this a marketing post?

Based on the lack of information, I'm going with marketing.
The pros and cons of fractional reserve banking are way beyond the scope of an HN conversation :). I'm aware that some people are intensely uncomfortable with the concept, and I know that there is a good argument to be made that we have created vastly more wealth with it than we would have without. Even if there seems to be some downside risks.
GDPR is bigger than Beyoncé
RoutePerfect
A megathread on breaking away from Google
> If Rekognition is not reined in, its use is also certain to spread

The tech isn't new and certainly not limited to Amazon, it's going to exist regardless of whether Amazon wants to be the one providing the APIs
> his primary strategy is to say "we're sorry we have to do better". It's lots of excuses, that's not good leadership material in my book.

Actually, to me, that is incredibly powerful. I can't really evaluate Zuckerberg's effectiveness, but you can't fix problems if you can't admit fault, and many in leadership positions never admit fault.
https://www.honeybadger.io/ is GDPR compliant
Mirror:

https://archive.li/P2au0
Microsoft: We're giving you all Euro-style GDPR rights over how we use your data
You keep using the present tense, I'm not sure you're aware that Tillerson is not the SoS anymore.
Bombardier effectively went broke trying to break into the the low-end of the Boeing-Airbus market with the CSeries, no?

I found that odd because, as you say, they certainly have the expertise and track record for seemingly comparable projects. To provide evidence for the hypothesis (which is a larger theme in political economics) it would be interesting to see what the precise engineering and management hurdles were as compared to smaller aircraft, especially the marginal cost. The crux of the hypothesis would be that techniques needed to remain competitive in Boeing's market--e.g. foldable wings--would be regulated in a way that made them especially costly to develop and gain regulatory approval.
Just press the 'Reader view' button. The whole article is 3.5 paragraphs
This is interesting, but how accessible / semantic is the markup it produces? Is it smart enough to see that I'm iterating over a list and producing an element for each item, and output <li>, for example?
Haha, we've long joked that Plaid should launch a line of flannel shirts...
Using AspectJ for Component Integration in Middleware
The most important thing I ever got from blogging is that it helped me learn topics. One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it, and that is more or less what a technical blog is. You're trying to teach your readers something.

Find a topic you want to learn (or understand at a much deeper level) and blog about it.
Yeah, I'm nowhere near good enough at the game - I've never even landed on another planet. I absolutely don't know how to set up gravity assists.
Exactly.

The question isn’t whether something is discrete so much as whether it is sampling a continuous function. Can you have arbitrarily large jumps, or not?

See Buridan’s Principle :)
Oracle always does high pressure high priced sales. It does not catch up with them generally. They push their customers hard and there has always been backlash but then Oracle adjusts slightly so it is still high pressure, high priced, but not too high.

I sort of respect them from a sales perspective, they push it to the margin on the sales front. From a pure sales perspective, few are as good as Oracle for extracting value from their customers. I am not that ballsy personally and it isn't my style but I am not anywhere as financially as successful as Oracle.
I live in the Bible Belt, so not very common here.

Reminds me of "liberal" SF/Bay Area. Everyone talks the talk, but no one walks the walk. It's quite sad really.
Our colonial history to paraphrase Orwell was "all countries are created equal, it's just some are more equal than others".

During the age of empires British foreign policy was swaggering arrogance backed up by gun boat diplomacy.

It's weird been British in 2018, we are now a small damp mostly irrelevant island in the North Atlantic.
I've been playing with this, and it's mostly good. It solves the key forwarding problem in nested Linux VMs (-A forwarding is kind of bad).

I do find it a bit silly that they don't support any iOS or android ssh clients, so they only way to authenticate ssh from an iphone is to connect to a VM first where the linux client is installed.
Spectre Variant 3a PoC
obviously it was a bit of hyperbole
I've seen similar. No more Oracle licenses at any price.
Getting the counters spinning
This is far beyond Telcos. Lots of apps are selling location data to data intermediaries (e.g. GroundTruth and FourSquare) without user awareness or consent.
I think the idea is that people generally say "low fat" to mean healthy (even though that's not true). The "+ sugar" just makes it doubly more unhealthy. The drink itself is the oxymoron.
Candy Crash is just entry level arcade game.
Siempo's new app will break your smartphone addiction
It's definitely not "totally random". DNA (and more importantly, RNA since that's probably where replication started) have their own chemistry and physics - i.e. it's not like toggling bits in a computer, particular combinations act very different to others. In the case of RNA this is notable because RNA sequences can fold and work as enzymes (ribozymes) on their own.

This means you're definitely not throwing random combinations together until something works - there are favored paths all the way down to the base-pair level.

It's worth reading about the RNA world hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world) to get a feel for this idea. It's unproven (and hell, panspermia still might speed everything up since dumping a truckload of ribozymes from the dessicated remnants of another planets biosphere would be a hell of a kickstart) but it's based on different observed properties of these compounds today.
When you say "pre-Trump-era industrial region", do you mean that there is now more industry there, or less?
Unless I'm mistaken, the Testing tier only allows the use of "sandbox" banking credentials, whereas the Development tier actually lets you connect to real bank accounts. In either case, it's free to get your own transaction history.
From TFA:

let _rows = sql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username=?", &[username]);

The statement is static, but the [username] part is not, it's just a variable that can have whatever username you want.
I really liked Elm a lot, but the issue for me was that composing components is a shit show. You have to add variants to the root Msg type for every single subpage and have it dispatch to the right update/view functions.

I'm really excited about a project inspired by Elm called Yew but allows you compose components much more naturally and easily.

https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew
Translated into simple English: For most things, common sense turns out to be fairly common and reliable.
this is what passes for newsworthy? on HN even?
I don't know of an example from BQP, but 3d protein folding is NP-complete and humans have outperformed computers at protein folding. Although I don't know how you'd even directly compare humans and computers. I suppose that's a big part of what this article is grappling with.

The interesting thing to me is not if humans can solve exactly the same problems as quantum computers with lots of qubits (Quantum computers are not the identical to all of quantum theory!) The interesting question to me is if humans can hold and pass around irreducibly probabilistic states without collapsing them.
This is good advice. I too have a personal blog that I mostly neglect. This past week we "cut the cord" on our cable TV service at home and the process has inspired me to blog. I've been composing blog posts "in my head" for the past few days and I take this as a good sign about my future intentions.

I have thoughts on Xfinity's value, YouTube TV's ad policies, Hulu's DVR restrictions, Roku's awesome interface - all good useful resources for those researching the same process.

In contrast, some weekends I'll sit down (without an idea) to compose a new blog post and frequently hit a wall.
It is true that many people do not readily apologize or admit to their mistakes, but California tech culture has managed to flip this around on its head by publishing deep, heartfelt apologies on corporate blogs for everything and anything, making it lose most of its weight. The ultimate goodwill hack.
No, but you can put in on my compost pile for free.
Schmidt loves surveillance, and openly idolizes Henry Kissinger. He's probably the most terrifying possibility of the three people I mentioned.
When I'm trying to solve a technical problem and have to cobble together a solution from two or more piece of content found in Google, that's a signal that there's room in the marketplace for a single, SEO-optimized piece on solving that particular problem.
Insanely great parallax scrolling websites
Tesla needs to sell more expensive Model 3s so the company doesn’t ‘die’
> "Уроки" ("уставы") и "погосты" - законы княгини Ольги по налоговому праву. Введены в 945-947. Учреждение законов было вызвано восстанием древлян. Ольга отправилась в поездку по всему государству и установила везде твёрдые пределы и время сбора полюдья. "Урок" - определённое количество дани в определённом месте с определённого района - "погоста". Появление "уроков" и "погостов" означало перерастанию дани как формы военной контрибуции в дань как форму натурального налога, превращая полюдье (сбор дани) из военной операции в налоговую кампанию.
This reply is so gratuitous.

It would have been enough to say that wing extensions in general (winglets and the 777x ones included) serve to improve the overall efficiency/performance of the wing (so they might not be generating any lift at all, if it's even possible to analyze them in isolation).

It's fine to make the point that we're all unqualified to discuss this because we aren't fluid dynamicists. But dumping a load of technical language on us that you don't expect us to understand is a rude, non-productive, and self-aggrandizing way to do that.
Ask HN: Bloggers you follow for make money online niche?
We have very similar conditions just a few dozens meters under the sea, where sun light doesn't reach. If I remember correctly, creatures that live there still sleep, although their cycles are not linked to 24 hours.
I don't think it's mandatory to write about novel or innovative things. It's your blog, you can write what you want.

Agree with the write for yourself mindset.

I am kind of doing the same thing on my blog https://flaviocopes.com where I write every single day (personal challenge) about some particular thing related to Web programming, and I mainly write for me, because I don't have a good long term memory and every time I need to use X I reference what I learned n months ago about it. That's much better than searching again and again "that post" you remember that clarified the thing for you.

Turns out this is useful for other people too, as I can see in the positive feedback I get.

After some time I started rewriting old posts to improve them / add more things I learned, as your writing style evolves.

So, my advice is, just start and stick to it.
For lots of people (including me), writing is hard.

The people that wrote the better version of your article probably weren't great writers from the start. My advice would be to just start writing. You will get better and you will find along the way what you want to write about or maybe you will find you don't want to write at all.
I agree that it's going to happen with or without Amazon but I'd rather not support this system.
Correction: should be "nodesVisitedCount". Also note that output formatting was sacrificed for brevity of the example.
I didn't expect the paper to be a thriller!
Mosaicism: The genome varies from cell to cell
Because what we really need in the White House is more corporatism and more identity politics.
My wife and I moved out of PA / Menlo partly because of this. Shallow people, spoiled children and the rude entitled behavior of almost everyone.

Each year at my kids school they had a gift tree with cards with things the kids on the other side of the 101 (East PA) wanted. 99% of it was shoes. They just wanted a shoes. Every year we would take a few cards and wait for others to do the same. Every year at the end there where still cards on the tree and my wife and I would take every last one. How f'ing hard is it for someone to do this? Why the hell would there be anything left?!? I never understood that until I realized it would take time out of their schedule to have to do this. Sure people gave money, but god forbid they had to do any work.
If anything, the violent criminals that do reoffend will be more willing to do additional, more severe crimes to avoid capture. Instead of surrendering, the criminal might carjack someone and lead a high-speed chase, where the criminal is more likely to either escape or die than return to prison.

Making prisons low-key torture facilities doesn't help anyone other than the "tough on crime" politicians that encourage such conditions in order to get cheap votes from people whose moral development is at Kohlberg's stage 4 or lower.
No, look at the actual law and you see that is plain wrong:

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The principles of data protection should apply to any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data which have undergone pseudonymisation, which could be attributed to a natural person by the use of additional information should be considered to be information on an identifiable natural person.
I imagine he was embarrassed, but not because of what was on the cake.

> Cara Koscinski said she then had to explain why the grocery store censored ‘‘cum’’ from Jacob’s cake to her 70-year-old mother while Jacob’s friends laughed uncontrollably.
Book about incentives?
Hey HN,
I remember hearing about a book that talks about system design through the lense of incentives. In order to transform a system requires an analysis and design of incentive structure.

What is the book called?
I agree. This is why I wrote: “The church was the main supporter of astronomy because of their interest in maintaining an accurate calendar. Christoph Scheiner mentioned in the article was a Jesuite astronomer respected by Galieleo and the two corresponded.”

But here the subject is astronomy. I am not sure what other science the Church supported. But the fact that the Church was uncompromising about defending its cosmogonic dogmas is also proved by the burning of Giardano Bruno. They did not try to argue with Bruno and they did not try to reach a compromise. They just burned him.

List of people burned as heretics (there are a quite a few of them): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_burned_as_heret...

Not everyone in the list were cosmogonical heretics but my point is that the Church was uncompromising when it came to challenges to its dogmas.
But wont millions of years of chaotic rotation cause a large body to become round?

Thousands of years this sounds realistic, but remember the scale of things is in billions of years.
It's only powerful if you actually change. Otherwise you're just using one of the classic tricks of manipulators.

"I'm sorry, it won't happen this time" is what abusive relationships are made of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4zd7X98eOs

Do people find this sincere? It seems fake/manipulative and too convenient. Facebook has been doing this for a decade+.
You're asking a question that presupposes a position, and your other comments here belie your awareness of that.
My 2 year old does this too every night, uses his arms and legs to feel us. And if it gets a bit cold, tries to cozy up into one of us - feels super awesome.

In the morning, he remains asleep till at least one of us is in bed, as soon as we both are out of the bed, he wakes up.
The Virtual ][ emulator version 8.3 has just been released with WOZ support
I signed up to be a Bird charger in SF and it's been quite difficult to find scooters to charge. All the scooters go offline at 9pm to be charged and then have to be dropped off by 7am the next morning in order to get paid. I've encountered a ton of issues trying to find more "valuable" scooters as they tend to appear to be in unsafe areas that I don't necessarily want to be at night (most of the high value scooters tend to be in the tenderloin and I'm guessing have already been broken down, I can usually tell if it's not there due to the last known location being a few days ago)

I've started to view the expensive Birds as a way for the company to have people try and find their lost scooters, in which case $25 is a pretty great deal...
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I started using the grayscale option on my iPhone a while back and found the same thing. Sites were suddenly way less engaging. It almost felt like going through withdrawal after using it for a few days.

Have you heard about the upcoming Android P? It's got a lot of tools to help you control your browsing, looks pretty helpful - https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17327302/android-p-update-...
In the US it's the government that backs longer term mortgages. They weren't very common before the government stepped in.
I actually didn't include any costs, just revenue.
Exactly. Hierarchies aren't inherently bad (though I think newer forms of organization are increasingly ripe to displace the largest hierarchies. Amazon's success in moving to computer-mediated APIs between departments rather than strict up-the-org-chart, down-the-org-chart communication, "networked" companies like Uber or Bird, etc).

My objection, or I guess social critique, is that we have a lot of undue reverence for decision-making. It's important yes, and can have a big impact, but it's just a skill, not fundamentally different from other skills, and isn't especially more difficult than most.

The Little Dutch Boy had a huge impact too, because of the leverage of the situation he found himself in, but we don't seem to imbue sticking your thumb in things with any special reverence.