skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. In the early 2000s, I learned about animation through Flash. I remember working on a 9th grade project that I illustrated through Flash. I remember learning what frames were, what keyframes were, what vectors were, etc. It was just the right amount of non-technical for me to make sense of it.

Taking a step back, man what a different world it was back then. I'd fire up MS Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver and go to town. The expectations have changed on the maintainability, usability, and functionality parts so I understand why we are where we are today. Both I do miss those simple days.
>>If free will doesn't exist (in the universe), then nothing that happens after our birth can influence it.

>This is false. If the sun were to explode right now it would influence the earth. Neither of them have free will.

I didn't mean "nothing can influence the universe".

I meant nothing can influence someone's will (if free will doesn't exist).

Hence the "after our birth" qualifier.
> no CRISPR involved

Please see my follow-up comment: I was able to find the protocol of the kit that the author likely used and it looks like a CRISPR experiment after all. Its description just didn’t sound like it (the actual steps are somewhat similar between the two experiments).
Optimal performance  with two or more  computer screens [pdf]
Yep. We used to use this to work around dumb HTTP content filters/firewalls with IP blacklists. Just convert the IP to decimal and try your request again. (Doesn't work so well now that the internet is huge and every IP hosts multiple virtual hosts)
For Some Value Of (presumably)
I hope feed rendering will still work. Live bookmarks where a bit cumbersome anyway, but feeds should still be properly rendered. They are an important part of the web.

Maybe this cleanup can be used to bring back the rss icon in the url bar and to link it with a better way to subscribe to feeds in a web based rss reader?
Bazel comes with an installer package that you click and run. I didn't find it that complicated. It comes out of the box with CROSSTOOL support for GCC, clang, and MSVC on Windows, among dozens of other toolchains.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/tools/cpp/CR...
With a slightly different approach to the question:

I've learned a lot from coding board/puzzle games into playable programs/solvers: Boggle, Scrabble, Kakuro, etc.
"Just business" (aka profit maximization or capitalism) is frequently crooked and corrupt
Sounds very similar to the problem of accurately assessing performance of software developers working as a team.

Sure, you have people who write a ton of code and implement a lot of features, and fix a lot of bugs, who clearly are contributing a lot. But you also have people who, though other means (code reviews, refactoring and other code-health work, etc) ensure that a project is maintainable and sustainable.

How do you measure the value of 100 bugs that never made it to production because of high quality code-reviews? Or those 5 high-value features which were a snap to implement because somebody took the time to clean up all the cruft from Mr Rockstar Bro who made a gigantic mess?
We're putting a lot of faith in tools that can best be described as immature. I don't think it's out of the question to get A.I. (not speaking of Watson, which is A.I. adjacent) to the point where it can perform perfectly at human intelligence tasks. The point is to have these systems perform better than their human counterparts (at least, I think that should be aim for something like Watson for Health). The people who built these things are learning themselves. As we make more progress in technology and AI, I don't doubt that we could break that barrier. There may be an upper limit because maybe the human brain is incapable of solving some problems, but even there I think it's not difficult to imagine workarounds. Simply put, I don't think the answer is to think these problems could never be solved.

Additionally, human-assisted A.I. is not the solution, it's a non-answer to the problem of creating systems that can think and perform at human levels of intelligence. It's okay to admit if we don't have the ability to make these things, but its disingenuous to believe that human involvement in helping computers get to the right answer is the right answer. Though yes, we need this right now to move things along where they otherwise might stand still.
I don't get your point? It's common so we shouldn't discuss or challenge it?
That's funny, my conservative friends say that the BBC is biased and full of lefties against the government.
If you look at the comment where he makes that recommendation, it starts with:

> "I'm the author, so feel free to discount appropriately."

The process of consolidating all the recommendations into a list didn't leave room to say that sort of thing, though.
People completely misread my comment about doing concurrency with only synchronous code. Basically, channels let you do concurrency with only synchronous code as in Node JS, but without using callbacks.
Zachtronics and Kerbal were already mentioned, but I accidentally learned to recognize several types of plants from playing Skyrim. We visited the Red Rock Canyon in Nevada at about the same time as I had reached mid game in Skyrim. I saw a shrub and immediately knew it was a juniper. I don’t think I’d ever seen a real one in my life before that.
The author did, though you may not find it satisfactory. In particular, people attacked him for recommending his book, with little specific counterargument ("it's terrible" isn't good enough). If they had engaged him in a dialog instead of insulting, maybe we'd have a better justification in the list.
"Watson" is a marketing term for a bunch of slap-dash and half-assed analytics products that don't work.

It was never more than a cool Jeopardy robot and some sweet Bob Dylan ads
Next everyone hosting his/her own website from his/her own smartphone.

I am loving this era.
> I meant nothing can influence someone's will (if free will doesn't exist).

But it's still wrong. Just because will isn't free doesn't mean it isn't influenced by events in the physical universe (in fact, the alternative to free will is will completely determined by events in the physical universe.)
The article isn't saying that we shouldn't focus on women in science or that we shouldn't be writing articles about them. It says we shouldn't emphasise stereotypes about their femininity, but it still talks about how we have to address the inherent sexism that exists.

> The issue, she says, is that when you emphasize a woman’s sex, you inevitably end up dismissing her science.

That's the point. Write about women. We need to hear about more women. Just don't emphasise how exceptional their sex is. That's how you normalise women in science.
I spent a little bit of time trying to understand exactly what DeePhi provides, but couldn't find any whitepapers or anything. Do you know any documentation on which of these approximations are supported by DeePhi?
And yet, anyone assuming this position might be wise to ask themselves whether, if the suggestions were actually implemented, many women would be up in arms about a _lack_ of special recognition of their gender-distinctive qualities, "doing it all" and the rest.

I'm sure I'll be downvoted, but I'm coming from a place of sincere intellectual commitment to this concern. There is a rift among the feminist-minded about whether women should be "neutered" in this way in our observational language. The way this polemic shakes out overall seems to be opportunistic; sometimes women receive distinctive treatment, when it's convenient, and other times not, when it's (reputedly) oppressive.
I don't really see why it would imply that. That problem only really shows up if you start treating successful people as gods or somehow fundamentally superior people, which is not really required when writing a scientist bio.

Sometimes not bringing something up is powerful. If you achieved something, would you really want people talking about your relationship status in your bio?
(Main Dev of site here: Sorry for that! I should really get around to setting up autoscaling. Site should now be properly available again.)
I actually use this feature quite a bit, I have various sites (HN included) in my toolbar so it makes it nice and easy to have a quick look and see if there is something interesting.

Hopefully there will be a nice simple replacement extension (or maybe it will give me a chance to make something myself!)
Thanks for your reply. Is your blog still going?
If you're a small-time indie dev, do what works so that you can ship. If you're a well-funded co. like Spotify, GitHub, or Slack, however...
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Oh god I've sunk some time into that game! Definitely recommend it, but set a timer!
Oh I get it. I have heard the same stuff about cancer, heart disease, and every other major disease. And yet the people who take the natural route end up dying sooner on average. Once a disease progresses to a certain point, diet and exercise stop working as a treatment because the disease has already done too much damage.

Is it possible that there is a natural cure for Alzheimer's? Given we don't know the cause yet, sure it is possible. But one study with 10 people is not enough evidence to claim there is one. If you simply said "hey I found this interesting, published study that suggests there may be a natural treatment", then you probably wouldn't have been down voted to hell. Instead you asserted that there is a natural treatment with very little evidence.
We've banned this account for breaking the HN guidelines. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
VLC is unavailable on some Huawei smartphones
> You can't create additional instances of module-level state. For example, if your app server uses a module-level global for the server listening socket, you can't run two app server instances in the same process.

So a global variable should not be used for such cases. That doesn’t mean it is inherently bad. People writing the code are supposed to think about what constructs to use for a given scenario.
If they don't find your data, they will likely use your relative's data to infer the risk. I doubt your cousins, uncles and aunts would think twice before signing up with their real names to one of the "find where your ancestors came from for $69.99!" adverts.

This industry should be heavily regulated and have engineered security layers making sure you always know where your data is, who has or had access to it and how it can be used.
Facebook’s user growth has hit a wall
It's very simple actually, some would call it insecure but it's just a means of sending an expiring link to someone where they can view the password temporarily.

Because people were sending so many passwords over e-mail or text messages so it was a necessity.
This is why I hate identity politics and why I believe all jobs for a given role should pay identically. Men/women are created equal but different. Praise people for their merit, not their sex. I know women who can run circles around men in coding and sysadmin work. I sometimes have to remind myself that I'm working with a woman when we're sat together working on something. I just tend to notice that this person is smart, often smarter than me in a given area, and I can learn. One of my favorite team leads is a woman from Ethiopia. Smart, pretty, funny, able to handle the BS some of the guys give her. The guys quickly realize she's better than most of them and they defer to her where her knowledge exceeds their own. Let's be honest, it's refreshing to see women excel in an area where men are usually dominant, and let's not forget, programming in the beginning years was mostly women.

I'm attempting to teach my own teenage daughter some programming basics, not to get her into the industry, but to show her cause and effect, abstract thinking, building something from nothing, critical thinking, etc.
I like the export to codepen feature. Anyone know how that works?
That doesn't really give us free will, otherwise the NPCs in videogames would have free will (since they experience and react to events in-universe which are effectively absolutely unpredictable since they come from outside the universe).

Maybe the universe is a simulation and the randomness we observe when we look at quantum fluctuations comes from /dev/urandom in God's computer. That doesn't really get us anywhere when it comes to the nature of consciousness and free will.
I don’t think banks report data to local authorities. They report anything over a fixed amount( I think $5,000 or more) to the irs and/or the fed.
My thoughts exactly about n-gate.

There's this funny assumption that the Earth might get hit by an asteroid but such an event can't happen to Mars. I'd like to know why Mars is asteroid-safe. Also what's the rationale in going to what in fact is an extinct planet to deal with the possibility of extinction in this of ours, which despite the bad press has been sustaining life continuously for billions of years.
Or to use OP's example to make your point:

> I use Mozilla now for multimedia and that's about it

Why should Firefox support multimedia playback? Your media player can do that.
What phone? And what scope, local or global?

Maybe a firewall would be prudent ;)
This article asserts that Donald Trump is the Kremlin’s Executive in Charge of U.S. Operations. That makes it very difficult for me to take seriously.
Yes, let's ban lunch pails too, so you can't bring your own lunch
Mueller Examining Trump’s Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry
Critically, "Tether" and the dollars that back it would have to be held in a transparent, auditable manner by the company who of course would comply with all regulations. Otherwise, no US bank or major retailer would touch them.
> Sometimes "business" must bow down to things like ethics, otherwise it tends towards corruption and exploitation.

That's if you get caught. On paper I completely agree with you, but in reality I think you'll find many many many businesses and industry that skirt ethically and moral behavior to cement their bottom line.

I keep repeating its just business because it is, ultimately everything comes down to money especially in business. Is it inappropriate to charge people a higher price for an airline ticket because they browse your website with a macbook? It happens. What about amazon raising the price for an item because you've browsed it several times in the past already? Recommending your own book because you believe in its contents but also helps to put a roof over your head? It's all just business.
That's a horrible font choice
its part of the gawker family so its not surprising that it uses non-professional language
We likely agree on the larger sentiment here, but in fairness to the author I think the context of the post makes this more acceptable. The textbook recommendations are all submitted in the comments below the compiled list, and the author's own submission[0] includes at least a disclaimer and a justification for why the author felt the need to write the book.

0: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...

Edit: I have not read this book or any others in the domain, just wanted to add some context I did not already see in this thread.
They didn't get rid of it, they just removed it from the interface by default.

Now they're getting rid of it, i.e. you can't simply add it to the button back in. But of course, there will probably be an extension that does that.
What does the link have to do with sketches? It's about name similarity on the no fly list.

Regarding sketches, they're actually interesting because they force a human to exercise judgement, being ambiguous by nature. This is fine - any law enforcement officer stopping someone who looks like a sketch is going to give them the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, if a computer tells an officer a person ahead is an 89% match with a known killer, the conversation will start with guns drawn, and that will greatly increase the likelyhood of things going south.

You really don't want to be scanned by a trigger happy cop having a bad day. God knows who you happen to look like from that angle.
>Out of something from science fiction.. would an "issue" like this ever be the type of problem where the AI can "understand" the cancer better

Ever? I don't see why not. In our lifetime? Probably not and especially not with current technology.
To be honest, I've always been "good" at math (cue memories of learning how to cont to 100 as a 3 year old, being forced to memorize multiplication tables at age 6) so I never "got good".

That said, years of math competition did teach me how to study. You don't just go through problems blindly - you have to first diagnose what is at the cusp of your knowledge and then do those problems over and over again, reading the answers if need be until you understand that "class" of problems.

Sadly, the"over and over again" bit is the part that I seem to have issues with these days...
Not to mention that even if the AI technology here was decent (which it doesn't appear to be) it suffered greatly from a dearth of samples. Machine learning requires big data, and cancer treatment data is, in many instances, just not big enough. An AI solution would need millions of well-labeled, perfectly formatted cases to learn from; there may be thousands of those for a particular subtype of cancer, but there's not millions.
>The iron law of prohibition is a term coined by Richard Cowan in 1986 which posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases.[1] Cowan put it this way: "the harder the enforcement, the harder the drugs."[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition
At the risk of being down voted....it recognizes 28 members of congress as criminals....i’d Call that a good start.
> These could assist GPS location rather than replace it entirely.

Of course, that was the proposal. There's more datapoints if you're willing to get creative, wifi networks (already used for this), cooperative comparison with other mobile devices in a local meshnet, acoustic cues from the environment, machine analysis of captured images, etc. Obviously dead reckoning without gps is going to require a multi-pronged approach.
> But don’t forget that Coinbase can track all your withdrawal events and notify tax authorities too.

Seems like they're warning you that while it might seem like a good way to avoid taxes, Coinbase has everything necessary to screw you and is willing to share it should you "forget" to report the income.
> That’s not really relevant. If a bank wants to offer, in plain English, a credit service in which overdrafts turn into loans, fine. But part of the problem with the unbanked/underbanked is that people can be quite justifiably worried that the bank will take away their money by nickel-and-diming them.

Anyone should be able to open a bank account without a credit check or abusive fees. A checking account is not credit. Allowing overdrafts to become abusing loads is credit, under terms that could easily be seen as usurious.
Are you talking about these?

https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/contrib/model_...
That's true, but now your pushing into the territory of marketing.

When you are making compelling images to attract attention its more about creating an effective advertisement than a political agenda.
Banks report to state tax authorities. If the California Franchise Tax Board, for instance, thinks you owe them money, they'll find your bank account.
>>> It's just business. Every business does it. Get used to it.

>> The textbook industry is well known for its shady practices that go beyond "just doing business."

> Most industries have practices that can be considered shady. It's not unique to the text book industry is my point.

Ah, the famous "I claim everyone's doing it without proof, so it's OK" argument.
Even with all the negative articles about them on HN? ;)

On a more serious note, I don't have any opposition to the open office layout in themselves... But they do have a feeling of "cows in a cowpin" that rivals the fields of cubicles of old.
Systematic inequality is a subject of statistical science, not personal orthodoxy.

A simple example are the various studies that show that "white" resumes get more attention that minority resumes: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...
Add a star next to the item and a foot note or exclude your book from the list.
No communications satellites orbit at such low altitude, though.
wow! step back and read what you wrote. it sounds like the writings of a total crank.
Windows 10 will try not to reboot when you’re just grabbing a cup of coffee
I played:

* Dungeon World (and World of Dungeons)

* Apocalypse World

* Blades in the Dark

* Scum and Villainy

I blame mostly Steven Lumpkin and Adam Koebels streams with J.P. Mc Daniels on twitch.

One day I would love to play the standard 5E dnd, or maybe Stars Without Numbers, but the games in my list were fast-paced enough to have meaningful 2 hour sessions, which was often a must :-)
Anyone here read the "Thinking in Systems" book? systems thinking seems to be surprisingly absent from many professional developers and engineers. Or, they lack the ability to abstract properly beyond their specific domains. I'm trying to improve this in my office and would like to find some books to hand out to people (particularly some of the more promising young folks, influence them before they get stuck in a bad mode of thought).

Based on the Amazon reviews it seems like it might be the sort of book I'm looking for, I'll continue to check through those and for other reviews later.
My understanding (though it may be out of date) is that reproducibility is tough, at least in part because of closed gpu drivers, and in part because the big frameworks aren't really designed for it (possibly because it's pointless given the driver situation).

On the framework side, you'd want good ways to ensure that random seeds are well distributed across a cluster of workers (and be able to restore state of a machine goes down). Also need to ensure that workers consume training data in a fixed order. This will slow you down, since you've got to wait for the slow poke every time, before updating weights.
Introduction to Probability with Texas Hold'em Examples

Not a game but a book about a game, but learning the game helps you learn probability, permutations and combinations.
It is interesting that you raised that point because "dollars" are Federal Reserve Notes, which, in turn, are debt instruments that fund some of the most unspeakably awful people who commit the most unspeakable acts. It funds the MIC, the war machine, and shitty politicians like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and establishment Republicans.

Interestingly, the fight to eliminate the power structure and restore the US to "by and for the people" is being resisted by idiots who have been conditioned that Trump is a racist, misogynist hatemonger who can't do anything useful for humanity. Meanwhile, the new Administration is working hard to put things right (or right-er) it's just a very hard job with many setbacks.
Honest question: how much top-tier ML research comes out of IBM Research? I feel like they get what they paid for---and they pay shit from what I hear.
Reminds me of the presidential debate gender swap experiment at NYU

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2017/march/...
Just code it right ? I don't find those negative reviews on other background music players like spotify, so I imply that they work fine on those devices. I don't think they pushed an update just for two devices, I think it just worked with huaweis background killing. If VLC is not working on those devices, they deserve the negative reviews.