skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has not been until recent times that any form of messing around the body was for any reason other than self preservation or the improvement of quality of life.
I am talking post-enlightenment/age of reason medicine here, not dark ages blood letting. And we still get it wrong, and still do things without enough of an evidence base, but when it comes to removal of adenoids, the reason it is done is because in those it is affecting it is having a harmful effect on.

Whether that be the formation of peritonsilar abscesses (potentially fatal), difficulty breathing (watching a 6 yo struggle to get air into their lungs due to enormous tonsils is not a sight I enjoy seeing) or just missing large numbers of days of school due to repeated illness, with knock on effects to child wellbeing and performance, there is a firm reason why we do this procedure
I wish I hadn't looked. It doesn't look anywhere near as good as Doom 3 in my memory looked. I've had this when playing old games from my childhood before. In my memory they were perfect, beautiful. Then I looked again and my memories were shattered. I didn't expect it to happen with Doom 3.
Yes, because walking into a hospital filled with sick people to be cut open is default a dangerous thing to do. Even visiting a hospital is a terrible idea for anyone even remotely at risk (older, immune compromised, etc) due to infections.
>That's slow to HFT firms.

That's because we allow them to trade at such rates and compete on speed.

A mere few decades to half a century ago we have 1/10 to 1/1000 the speed, and trading was going on just fine...

I'd opt for a "turn based" trading system (with a small, but not tiny turn window), to eliminate any transmission speedup advantage from different traders.
Ask HN: Google PM looking to find a technical co-founder
Hi, I'm a strong Google technical product manager, who is ready to leave the good life at Google, go to zero and build a successful company with a technical co-founder.

What do I bring to the table?

- BS, MS in CS; Ex-SWE at FANG

- Deep understanding of how to ship products

- Expertise in being able to ruthlessly prioritize features

- Deep understanding of Computer Science, System software and the state of the art

- Understanding of what it takes to build and ship software

- Deep understanding of what it takes to build a successful product

- Deep understanding of building a business around the product

- Excellent communication & presentation skills

- Knows limitations and will delegate / request help when necessary

- Ability to get people excited and rally around a cause

- The will to win.

- Ability to get funding from a top notch investor

What am I looking for?

- A technical co-founder who can jump in and write high performance code in any language, any stack, and do it fast

- An equal who will bounce ideas off me

- Live in the California Bay Area

- Have 3 years of cashflow / runway. We'll be on $0 salary for about 6 months as we try to find the elusive product / market find.

- A co-founder who wants to win (finding product market fit; getting funding; possibly getting acquired; taking our company to IPO)

My philosophy

- If smart & hardworking people get together and focus on a problem that has a business need, then you will find gold.

- We tend to worry about the downside (Failure) than focus on the upside (Taste: Discover Product / Market fit; What does that taste like, I'd like to know!)

If you find this interesting and are serious about building something we should talk.
Email me: oranges.bananas.apples@gmail.com
Could it be that Comcast is just trying to increase the price of Fox to stop Disney from buying it or at least make them pay a lot more for it?
Who said it was harmless? I'm sure any surgery isn't without risk. The mechanism for the most obvious short-term risk is very well known - infection. For that reason alone one has to weigh the benefits and really consider whether surgery is worth it.

Anyway, my skepticism is not so much with this particular result, it's the experimental design generally. How do we know the sample represents the population when it's not randomly selected? At best, it's the starting point of a possibly interesting research tangent, not something I'd be publishing as a stand alone paper.
Weird to hear tonsilectomies being spoken of in thw present tense. It stopped being routine in Australia in the 80s.
“the extreme brevity of the financial memory.”

Yes. It's only been since 2008 since the US economy tanked, it took five years to dig out of that one, and real wages never fully came back. That wasn't long ago.

It's about time for Silicon Valley to tank. There's nothing big in the pipeline comparable to the Internet or smartphones. Laptops, notebooks, tablets, and phones have all passed peak sales. The businesses that assume endless growth are maxing out.

The next big thing may be solar, wind, and storage taking over the energy industry, which is a good thing. That's a slow, capital-intensive, heavy-industry infrastructure upgrade, driven by manufacturing cost reduction. It's going to happen, but it's not a go-go business.
You won't have to worry about it if you get them addicted to books from a young age!
Article was not paywalled for me the first time I looked. As I recall, it claimed that the measured fall in IQ test results cannot be explained by genetics because the same fall was observed within particular families. In any case, the fall seems far too big to be explained by genetics, so probably it's caused by education, I would guess.

There probably is a much smaller, perhaps not yet measurable, fall caused by genetics. I tried to submit an Economist article on that. (Can you see it under https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bloak ?)
So for states which have net debt position (including the US), it is to their advantage to have steady price inflation (i.e. currency value steadily being worth less and less in purchasing power), so that the debt is steadily reduced in "real terms" size. And this is in fact exactly what many/most governments seek to do, using a combination of fiscal policy levers, including issuing debt (government bonds) and also measures such as QE.

Note the "steady" in the above - part of the value of a fiat currency is in its price stability (which is linked/coupled to the confidence people have in it and in the issuing government).

In both direction (inflationary Vs deflationary) and in stability, this is markedly different from what is happening with BTC.
My favorite is Google, Larry/Sergey, and the ad bubble. It is so complex I even wrote an entire essay about it.
Damn, glad to see this, but they're also kinda encroaching on my territory! :P

I've been working on something like this that's language agnostic and works with not only tables but also trees, graphs, lists, hashmaps, etc., and animates the visuals as the data structures are modified in real time (and you can pause, playback, step, etc.): http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

The api I was conceiving earlier was more complex, but if you read the copy there, you'll notice it's essentially the same now: `MObject.monitor(...)` or MTable.monitor() MStateMachine.monitor() etc.

Edit: really am happy to see some other projects like this in total, partly because I want to use 'em now if possible—but also because I've had a surprisingly hard time communicating to other developers why it might be desirable to do something like this in the first place, so I'll be very happy to have general awareness raised.

I read the first line of their docs as rather dry humor, "Displays tabular data as a table." —like yeah, of course you would want to see tabular data as a table, and hierarchical data as a tree, etc.!
no, it is the stereotypes that are inaccurate. not the article.

it would be more accurate if people stopped believing in stereotypes.
Do you mean that he was at Data General at the time?

The subject of the book was the machine itself (the so-called "bag on the side of the Eclipse", IIRC).
How to be a wine snob
To an extent, yes. Basically you have three possibilities: a) daycare is close to home, b) daycare is close to work, c) daycare is in random place.

Of these, b) is the least common, but for these people public transport works well. From our previous house, we did this, I took both kids (5 and 2) by bus with a jogging stroller to and from daycare every day. This was approx. 15 minutes faster than going by car, due to dense traffic and very limited parking spaces. Now we live close enough that we bicycle instead.a
> Care to name some benefits?

The benefit for me personally is being presented with ads based on retargeting. I have found many interesting products and services I wouldn't otherwise have seen. The ads on Facebook are my personal recommendation system.
Paywalled link.

Source seems to be: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/06/05/1718793115

Key piece from abstract: "Using administrative register data and cognitive ability scores from military conscription data covering three decades of Norwegian birth cohorts (1962–1991), we show that [...]"

There may be some changes in what kinds of people sign up for the military as the cold war cooled down and disappeared.
Well, we're not so sure the reversal is " just a changing definition of intelligence" either...
> Their concerns are generally valid, but they should keep in mind a lot of people using do not have a software development background and do not care that the language is not elegantly designed: they just want to get analytical work done.

This implies we strive for good design in languages just because it appeases some ideal we have about how languages should be. But really we strive for good design in languages because it makes them more powerful, more expressive, easier to use, etc. Sure, maybe Python doesn't have all the right abstractions to be perfectly suited to statistical tasks, whereas R has more natural abstractions for that kind of stuff. But that doesn't mean that R doesn't also have many objectively bad design decisions even for statistical uses.
When I dropped out of school I thought the odds on the outcome of staying and graduating were worse than leaving. The bad outcome having been getting an average salary at a job I was unhappy with. I dropped out with a tiny income from my business, and the extra free time made a massive difference within 12 months.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned was to think through problems myself. There are a lot of degrees and dimensions to success. If you live in a first world country, are physically healthy, and everything is working with your brain, you are 90% of the way there. Exceptionalism is not a requirement to success.
When I was a computer science undergrad, this is the one video that made algorithmic complexity stick in my head, hopefully someone else finds it as useful as I did;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbu-K4tlQg
That has to be a deliberate choice on the part of Microsoft.
> Fair enough - can I say somewhere between the two?

Yes, absolutely. I didn't mean it as a challenge, just (as another eternally on the verge of reading Ulysses) was curious how definitively I could take your recommendation.
This is more like an all-in-one trial package for various XaaS. I thought this would be neat development software..
There are more than 35,000 tonsillectomies done in Australia every year (and more than half a million in the US). This is a highly routine procedure. In fact there is very clear guidelines on when GPS should refer for tonsillectomy:

Tonsillectomy is indicated When young children have had >7 episodes in one year or >5 episodes in either of the last 2 years, or quinsys, or obstructive sleep apnoea.

Tcj_pcx for some reason I can’t reply to your comment, but there’s almost nothing in it that actually makes sense:

I'll just pass straight over the emotional comments.

Massage doesn’t cure tonsillectomy; and frankly this thing that people say, that ‘doctors treat the symptoms not the cause’ is actually a vein of deep ignorance in the general populace.

The treatment cures (in around 97% of cases) tonsilitis. Which may have lead to (in the above scenarios) a 6-10 year old child missing up to 30-40 days of school a year. And therefore having a severe impact on that child’s learning and progression. It is not treating a symptom: giving analgesia or an ice cream would be an example of that. Is modifying the mechanism by which the condition unfolds and therefore preventing the condition from occurring again.

[0] https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/...
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I guarantee you that if they start tampering with netflix traffic there will be riots.
5G might end up cheaper than FTTP, but I wouldn't get my hopes up on it being massively cheaper.

Higher frequencies will require either line of sight or very short distances to the small cell. The small cells themselves will incur costs both CAPEX and OPEX.

Basically the only part 5G will replace in a FTTP network is the drop. And that's where the density and the topography is cooperating. Whereas if you install a fiber drop, you'll be set for 20+ years and you won't have to install, maintain and power a small cell forever.
>Yes there might be a corellation between how good you do on an IQ test and how “smart” you are but I think over and over again your background/upbringing had been show to influence that more than your “smartness”.

The background/upbringing influences one's performance in IQ tests too, so the point is moot.

>If the question is: do we think in different way than we did 50 years ago? I think the answer is a stong yes.

Not in the slightest.

>The technology and the tools we have today enable us to do things that were unconcievable 50 years ago.

Which is neither here not there when it comes to intelligence. Plus we still do things we did 50 and 100 and 100000 years ago and still need to be good at them...
Are you even talking about GNU/Linux? Most of the comments in this thread have been about MacOS and Windows, and I made no claim regarding those.

FDE with LUKS/dmcrypt has been an out-of-box installer-supported mode in all the major distros for a long time now.
The short version:

If you're a PHP developer, here's why you should use a package manager instead of downloading zip-files.
Ubuntu doesn't ship with pip or virtualenv. In fact it ships with a version of Python where the built-in equivalent to virtualenv, pyvenv, is explicitly disabled.

So you have to install extra Python packages, as root. You have to have that Python experience that guides you to install as few of them as you can, just enough so you can get started with a virtualenv, so you don't end up relying on your system Python environment.

And this is really hard to explain to people who aren't deeply familiar with Python. "Never use sudo to install Python packages! Oh, you got errors. We obviously meant use sudo for two particular packages and never again after that."

In the terrible case where you don't have root, you have to ignore Ubuntu's version of Python and compile it yourself from scratch. Hope the right development libraries are installed!

Maybe I'm wrong and there's a method I've overlooked. If there is: please show me how to install a Python package on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04, without ever using sudo, and I will happily spread the good news.
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Analytics with smart arrays: adaptive and efficient language-independent data
It's kinda weird, that some of the greatest minds in the world, are gathered in Silicon Valley, solely working on how to make us click on more advertisements on the internet.

As far as hiding your online fingerprint, I feel that having a clean-slate browser container[1], while certainly a hassle, can go some way towards protecting yourself, but...these great minds will find another way.

[1] https://tpaschalis.github.io/sandboxed-browser-with-docker/
Neither language requires an isolated dev environment, but it can help with avoiding headaches. As python has things like virtualenv and buildout, fortunately R has 'packrat' available, which provides a similar isolated/reproducible dev environment solution.

https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/
And it would be interesting too to correlate it with analysis of our DNA.
maybe they haven't yet got unions in their work.
At first, I thought this might be about the Cusco song of the same name:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpPXh_dLESk
>after answering a few short problems administered in a high-pressure situation

So like the kind of situations a person finds themselves all the time throughout their lives?
Thank you so much for posting this. Really, THANK YOU, kind stranger. Here in the Czech Republic we're always forced by doctors to do AE/TE to our son despite being mildly affected by strep as we are fighting PANDAS. The latest research converges on that AE/TE is not effective, and that we're doing the right thing by not doing the operation. It looks like doctors even in the most advanced medical institutions are blindly following old books here and still recommend to take the tonsils out at every occasion and eat bags of antibiotics "just for any case." The level of medicine here is so abysmal (except, probably, surgery) that we now have to rely mostly on our own heads and collect the latest research. Thank you.
Firstly most of the London Underground was built cut-and-cover which is no longer practical in modern cities. Secondly, this will be much smaller than even the Tube. Crossrail’s tunnels will be about 6 meters, most existing are more like 4. BoringCo is talking about something like 2 meters. Note that a 2m tunnel requires excavating 4x less earth than a 4m tunnel and 9x less than a 6m tunnel.

Most modern tunnels built for existing transit systems are built to fit existing rolling stock, so the idea of smaller tunnels gets ruled out early on. In the past, smaller tunnels were used. In fact, one of the most extensive small tunnel transit networks was in Chicago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
It's pretty simple to remove tonsil stones. Just get a lighted tongue depressor and a tonsil stone tool.

Think of it as another maintenance task. Like brushing your teeth.
As a boy I began working my way through Ian Fleming's "James Bond" series. After a few I noticed that they followed a formula, and abandoned the rest.
Lessons from Lessing
Don't forget the acknowledged end of Moore's Law... which may well lead to reduced investment (due to lower perceived ROI), which is a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'd also say that the mobile and Internet Ad spending may peak by 2020...or not.

OTOH, Big Deep Artificial Learning Data Intelligence.
JP has a test you can take to determine your Big Five personality traits (and aspects), it's pretty fine grained (from 0 to 100 on each one) and outputs a significant amount of explanation afterwards, highly recommended.

https://understandmyself.com/

I took this a few months ago and it was very eye opening for me, explaining much of my struggles over the years.

This one's $10. There are free alternatives but they don't come with thousands of words of custom in depth explanation on each point, which is certainly the most valuable part.
The Economist had a good piece on how this consolidation is impacting prices and fueling corporate profits.
Your fingerprint and her fingerprint are stored as highly related by advertisers. Because you shared so many things in the past. IP, Location etc.

This is exactly what browsing via tor is trying to make harder. To fingerprint you.

You are right that fingerprinting can not be avoided completely. See the recent thread about FB tracking your mousemoves. Advertisers can use anything you do as a fingerprinting signal. It's not possible to use the web without interacting with it.

But your experience is not an example of why using the tor browser would not work. It's an example of why it is developed in the first place. To make fingerprinting harder.
Agreed. I got a library science degree ~20 years ago and it was more about data structures/organization than "libraries" or "books".
While technically feasible, content owners won't allow it, so it's a moot point.
I read that some researchers doubt the results of the re-analysis. However, I failed to catch what was their problem with the re-analysis?

Is it that the approach of the study overall was too naïve and out of control?
It's a high bar to show that encrypted devices enable a new era of unsolvable crimes. Isn't that what you were originally warning about, with the line about search warrants being useless in a paperless society? Such bold claims call for at least a bit of empirical evidence, like statistically significant solve rate declines vs. the immediate pre-mobile era.
Those tricks look like exploits to me. O, russian domain xD
Also, recording raw HTTP requests makes tests difficult to organize. Especially if what you want to mock are requests to a REST server. In that case, all the recorded HTTP headers aren't significant, editing the recorded resources in the responses when the API changes is a pain, and testing scenarios where several REST requests are related (e.g. fetching posts than comments) is also a pain.

A better alternative IMO is to craft a list of resources in JSON, then use this data in a fake REST server that takes over fetch and XHR in the browser.

Something like:

{ posts: [{ id: 1, title: "foo" }, { id: 2, title: "bar"}], comments: [{ id: 1, post_id: 1, body : "lorem ipsum" }] }

Incidentally, that's the way [FakeRest](https://github.com/marmelab/FakeRest) has been working for years (disclaimer: I'm the author of this OSS package).
My original comment was meant for a separate HN article on machine learning and I posted in the wrong tab.

My apologies.
To train machine translation models parallel corpora in many languages are provided on the WMT conference site: http://www.statmt.org/wmt17/translation-task.html and previous years
I guess it's a matter of what she is a librarian of. Maybe she doesn't spend a lot of time in the library, but she is a cultural librarian 100% of the time.
I do. I was not a child prodigy, but still, I was (am) significantly high on the "smartness" scale. My kid is definitely "not like me". I don't see any problem with it; I don't belong to a culture where success in absolute terms is the ultimate goal in life, so, "smartness" (which of course is a narrow definition) is just one of many, many factors.
That's the joke my dad told me. He got a first. We all got seconds. Case closed.
I think your autocorrect mangled up your `dplyer`s :)
In this context, getting "affect" and "effect" straight is important.
Maybe we all show selection bias because I see people who see signals in what I call noise, and people who have moved on from social media leaving it to snarky older people.
Well, while there is an enormous mass of old material - your claim that new material is very rare strikes me as odd.

The technology to create digital images and videos has gotten cheaper. Securely transmitting and storing media, and securely communicats regarding it has become more accessible too.

I'm not advocating for or against iphone unlocks (or the generic abstract backdoor), but I think it is dangerous to think that serious crimes of this nature are extremely rare, or somehow far less common than they were in the past.

On the flipside, if you are right - and identifying material that saves children from this kind of crime is indeed a rare event - then isn't a possible reason the ready encryption of such devices? Food for thought.
That video was impressive. Are you using OpenGL/gpu for the animations?
The analogy is good, but the reasoning is a bit off. Let me fix it - You still lock your door in the morning because you know that your insurance company will not pay out your theft insurance if anything gets stolen. DRM is mandated all the way up the chain (and noone really cares if it works).
Backdoored images downloaded 5M times removed from Docker Hub
Also consider using obfuscation instead. E.g. AdNauseam and Noiszy are two examples I'm aware of.
Yes, they apply full DRM to their own content as well.