skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's "satelite view" is really a 3D view. You should compare that with "3D" on mapy.cz, not with aerial imagery.

It looks comparable with 3D view on mapy.cz.
Ok. Sorry.
All large multi-national corporations do this. For example, NYT did a piece about Apple doing it[0]. Wikipedia has a list of companies that used the Double Irish setup[1]. The double-irish has been closed (via regulation) and most companies will be moving off of it by 2020.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#US_mu...
You are correct, it does not work so well with very short text. That's an area I'm improving on.

It could be spot on with longer text, especially with book excerpts, which is what I designed the system for originally, for eg: https://goo.gl/Vq4U2p

"Well, a relatively minor operation changed me into a black-skinned Terran, though the surgeon/replacers could do nothing, ironically enough in view of my new color, to increase my resistance to heat. I remember those stirring days of combat sometimes, usually when I am making my semi-annual flight between Churchill, Manitoba, and Tierra Del Fuego. In fact, during those flights when I am practically alone is the only time I have to reflect or remember, because on both of my estates there is nothing but noise, children, and wives."

Match	Location
Manitoba,CA Confidence Score: 0.1
Churchill,CA Confidence Score: 0.1

Sentiment Analysis:
This text is: negative (-0.166666666666667)

ironicallyenoughwellresistancenoise

The full range of sentiments in this text is:
fear 0.1875, negative 0.1875, anticipation 0.125, anger 0.125, trust 0.125, positive 0.125, joy 0.0625, surprise 0, sadness 0, disgust 0,
Up to his death Einstein denied that black holes could physically form.
>A very expensive tool when healthcare systems are strapped for cash. Super unethical of IBM to try and extract profits here.

Do you realize they would have never developed Watson if there weren't profits involved?
Wallaroo 0.5.0 released
Its amazing to see how much people waste in general. I did an analysis the other day and came up with ~ 3 TWh per year wasted just because reddit wants to use "fancy" (annoying to me) layouts:

>"So about 3 TWh extra electricity is being used each year. This is about the total used each year by Papua New Guinea, which is ranked 133/219 in electricity consumption by country."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17449349
Women are twice as likely to get a tenure position in STEM when compared to equally qualified men http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/women-best-men-stem-f...
It isn't that it doesn't exist. No one is saying not to write about inequalities and stuff like that - it happens, and there should be articles about it.

But tone matters, and after a while, tone has an effect on people's attitudes. If you are writing about a scientist's breakthrough technology, just write about that. There isn't a need to write about the scientist being female any more than it is to write about them being male. This way, both sexes are treated more similarly. The article about their personal passions, disadvantages, and so on can be another story altogether, but not the one pretending to be about the discovery.

If you'd give a little background about a straight, white male, it might list some interesting things about the person. Surely the most interesting thing about being female isn't being female. Same for sexual orientation. I know these are true for me. I'm female and bisexual, but these don't tell you anything about me, really. I'm vastly more interesting if folks write about me being an immigrant, that I met my spouse online, or that I'm an artist.

The outcome is that the tone is that x person did y, and treats being female (or whatever) as just a thing that is, a completely normal thing. It rubs off on readers.
That is very accurate... I had an injury that I knew required specific surgery, but when I called the surgeon's office to make an appointment I was told that they only accepted referrals from family doctors, that is, I had to pay to visit a family doctor first.

This applies nowadays to most specialists as well.
I have been looking for this for years. Awesome self promotion.
Seconded. Factorio is the sort of game you can lose a few days to without realizing. Very fun, but also very consuming.
Announcing dep v0.5.0
I use Apple music, simply because my devices are apple and it links with them kinda okay.

There is no difference between these services really, they are all trying to have various playlists, recommendation engines etc and all are absolutely awful.

As an avid music listener, what I want is more control over my music, not for someone else to do that for me.

I want to be able to like the songs by my favourite artist, so when i browse for them, I see all my favourite songs, not those selected by someone else or an algorithm (ps this is fine for a new artist, in which case it would be nice to see other peoples likes so i can listen to a few to decide if i like the artist)

I want a service and an app that gives me more control over the music that I like. I want to have a giant playlist of all the songs that I have liked and be able to then mix this in with a "currently listening" playlist, so I have my own personal radio station of tracks (personal radio station features on these services do not work this way and suck)

I'd like perhaps to be able to weight (rate) artists as well as my favourite songs and have different options to shuffle be presented such as:

My current listening (Simple playlist top 10-20 tracks that are big for me at the moment)

Current listening + Classics (A mixture of what I am currently listening to from the current listening playlist and all the tracks that I have previously liked maybe with a 60/40 mix)

Artist mix - Playing my favourite songs from my favourite artists with weighted Priority based on what I have rated the artist.

Artist select - Where I can select multiple artists that I am in the mood to listen too and it shuffles through my favourite songs by them.

Playlist select - Option to select multiple playlists that music will be shuffled from, with presets and ability to select priority of the playlists.

Whats new - With notification, when a previously higher rated artist or favourite releases new content.
> I'm pretty surprised of the high number of Apple Music subscribers. As hinted at the end of the article, geographic, but also age distribution would be interesting to see.

Just shows the power of controlling the platform.
I thought about this when Elena Kagan was nominated for the Supreme Court. I think that there's a four-step process society goes through:

1. She's female and hispanic. She can't serve on the Supreme Court.

2. She's female and hispanic, but she's nominated for the Supreme Court anyway! (See how enlightened we are?)

3. She's nominated for the Supreme Court. Nobody bothers to mention that she's female and hispanic.

4. People mention that she's female and hispanic, but only in the same way that they'd mention that she once did ballet or that she's an amateur fencer - as personal interest, not as a statement about her qualification to serve on the Supreme Court.

When Kagan was nominated, we were at step 2. (Which is progress - a generation earlier, we were at step 1). But we should be moving on to step 3, where nobody talks about such stuff because it's irrelevant. Ideally we should wind up at step 4, but I'm not sure that we can without going through step 3 first. And when we do start going to step 4, people are going to get uptight, because mentioning gender and race are going to raise fears that we're going back to step 2...
The original article uses "SF" in several places, including:

> It must have something to do with the perceived audience for SF being young men (presumably unacquainted with women or why would they have time to read SF?). Olden time authors also tended to have firm notions as to what kind of story might be genre-appropriate: if SF is about scientists inventing things, or can-do he-men having adventures, well, that’s not what women do.

10% of the comments to the article use "SF" or "SFF" (for Science Fiction & Fantasy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction attests that "SF" use dates from at least the 1970s, eg. "The earliest organized fandom online was the SF Lovers community, originally a mailing list in the late 1970s with a text archive file that was updated regularly."\

Thus, "SF" is neither a new use nor an unusual use.
Firstly, I'll caveat with this that I'm Canadian - I see different issues in my system than the for profit model. Regarding the cost - I guess that depends on the tests themselves - MRI's and CAT scans are costly machines, especially compared to 15 minutes of a doctors time. Also, how does that affect availability of that equipment for higher priority patients?

There's also the question of ethics - how invasive of a procedure does one do as an extra test before it's an issue? My wife is a sonographer - ultrasounds aren't completely diagnostic, only indicative, and a lot of the time the patient will have to go to a more extreme diagnostic to confirm. Should we be skipping the ultrasound and going straight to the biopsy every time?
Here's a nice review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28233803/

a biopsy from your peripheral plasma, opposed to solid tumor. A big issue in cancer medicine is it's super fucking hard to get any kind of noninvasive measurement. Typically it's done with surgery or with CAT scans, which have extremely low precision.

Research in the last few years has been pointing to the idea that we can detect tumor derived DNA fragments in plasma. The challenge being, healthy dna makes up 99.9% of it, this means that currently the methods only work when the tumor burden (metastatic for instance) is high. Not ideal for early detection or treatment monitoring. But if the computational tools improve (rn none assume such a low mixture), you could see sensitivity and precision increase to the point that it's useful for predicting therapeutic outcomes and for early detection.
Possibly even 100% of transactions amirite!?
Just to be clear, PANDAS is not just "controversial". Widely, it is not accepted as a specific condition. The sudden onset of childhood psychosis is a recognized syndrome but including any mention of autoimmune or strep in naming the syndrome is getting way ahead of ourselves.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-pandas-story/
I’m afraid this is being done for the wrong reasons though, more to protect the interests of newspapers:

> Teachout said tech companies are to blame for dominating the online advertising market — drawing revenue from newspapers and publishers.

If so then this is more like our new EPA favoring coal industries over solar, or hypothetically breaking Netflix up so blockbuster can still exist in 2018.
Are the two most recent images _actually_ the same, as in a per-pixel match, or are you going to get random noise from dithering etc? If they are literally the same, then this becomes a lot easier.

You could easily set up a simple node.js program that uses fs.watcher to watch for new files, and https://github.com/lovell/sharp to process the two most recent images and see if the pixels are identical. If you need to package this into a standalone executable, you could use https://www.npmjs.com/package/pkg. Then you could use the built-in SMTP sender (if it is not blocked on your network) or mailgun or something of that nature to send the email.

You can do the same thing in other languages, like ruby, python, etc as well.

If the two images files are literally identical as in the same jpeg with all the same bytes, you could do this with a bash script that compares the sha1 or md5 hash of the two files and then consult https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5155923/sending-a-mail-f... for how to send an email from a bash script.
Hmm... both Messiah and Sakurai are usually at the graduate level. If you're fairly strong in math I'd recommend Messiah, but I can't recall off the top of my head whether there is a good chunk of physical knowledge expected. IIRC, it's a more axiomatic approach than most QM textbooks, so I'd pick this up (I believe Dover has a cheap version, but it's also available on PDF in most places).

The usual undergraduate textbook that people recommend is Griffiths, though I definitely disagree with its usefulness (the book often opts for doing a bunch of calculations to 'get the intuition,' as opposed to explaining some points clearly, which is fine but I dislike this approach).

If you're up for a fantastic, but quite dense, reading, Bohm's Quantum Theory holds a special place in my heart for its brilliant motivation and fairly clear exposition of foundational QM (note that it doesn't concern itself with the notion of Bohmian mechanics at all). This book sits on my bookshelf with hundreds of notes all over its pages. Of course, there is a good chunk of physics expected to be able to read this book, but you should skim it and skip to the chapters of interest as a good reference !
Meaning offer free VoIP?
Your entire submission history appears to be almost solely PR releases from/regarding Dr Bredesen and his claimed Alzheimer cure.[1]

May I ask what your interest in this is? Is there any relationship you should disclose?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mhkool
> People of color were disproportionately falsely matched in our test.

They are trying to make this racially charged without giving enough information to verify their claims. If you use a dataset of mugshots, that's statistically going to have more data on people of color. If you have more data on people of color, it is more likely to match people of color. Claiming the algorithm is racist because your data is racist is inflammatory bullshit.
> Without spreading the achievements of science and technology to everyone on the planet, humanity is doomed.

Forget ethics/morals for a second - this is just patently _false_. It depends on your definition of "doomed", but humanity as a whole needs only a few people to survive in order to not be doomed (defined as extinct).

It'd be easier to argue your case without hyperbole.
Does that risk pushing their spending to low tax jurisdictions?
من در حدود 2 سال پیش به دنبال دریافت نرم افزاری مجبور شدم فیس بوک را نصب کنم تا از طریق ان به برنامه ای که دنبالش بودم دسترسی پیدا کنم.و چون حرفه ای نبودم نتوانستم برنامه دوربین از منبع باز را دریافت کنم.ولی متوجه چیز مهمی در مورد فیس بوک شدم و این بود که این برنامه خیلی فراتر و وسیع تر از این است که فقط یک نرم افزار در ان پیدا کنم و نصب کنم.و به این ترتیب روز به روز علاقمند تر شدم به این برنامه.خیلی از دوستان و همکارانی که سالها از انها بی خبر بودم را پیدا کردم.و از انجاییکه ادم کنجکاوی هستم به دنبال کشف ویژگی های بیشتر در این برنامه هستم و ارزوی من این است که جهانی بدون نزاع و جنگ و درگیری داشته باشیم که همه با هم دوست هستند.و اینکه هیچ بی سوادی در دنیا نباشد.
we have to address the inherent sexism

If it's inherent, then what can we do about it?
Just no. I'm on latest chrome on android 6 and when I browse search results on YouTube, then click a video and hit back I expect that the scroll position within the results is restored. Instead when I hit back I only see the red top bar and a loading spinner and a moment later the results show up again and I'm at the top of them. Because we don't have nice paged results anymore, but this hip and ubercool dynamically extending page of results and everything.

And this is not some student's first approach at modern web technologies, its fucking YouTube from google. They can't get their shit working on their own browser. I have yet to see an SPA with a convincing UX that's more than just some wannabe webdev's "about" page.
I've read some interesting news about how people giving people with Alzheimer given a regular dose of coconut oil, maybe due to also some findings about how this could be related to a type 3 diabetes, maybe the lack of ketones in the blood, maybe the brain needs alternative energy sources, or the fat provided by those foods provides a nutrient pathway that is currently dormant or unblocks the neuronal damage in their brain. I'm not any kind of expert, but I've been reading about people who gained some benefit / therapeutic value from doing that. Saw someone post this which was interesting, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24244584 so the claim is, maybe damaged metabolism using glucose, and the body needing to switch to ketone, but if someone has a compromised metabolism, say being insulin resistant, this practically shuts down ketone distribution, it also can be found to have heart implications for the future, but if the brain switches to needing fatty acids, and insulin prevents this, it might help understand how Alzheimer progresses and gets worse over time.
Facebook Had an Impressively Bad Day
It would be cool if that website was updated then.
lol what does this even mean
Wasn't that the case for most of the internet's history?
To be fair, even if a solid 100% of wealth gains went to tech companies, it's doubtful that this solid 100% of wealth gains went to Google and Facebook alone.

And in any case, that's not the argument being made for breaking them up. The argument is that Google and Facebook are controlling the online ad market. That the ad market on the internet is effectively a duopoly. I would say, from a layman's perspective, that the ad market duopoly argument has some merit. But not being an expert, I don't know A - how deeply Google and Facebook concert to control the market? (if at all?) Nor do I know B - Is a duopoly as dangerous as a monopoly in the eyes of the Supreme Court? (ie - What is the magic number of majority market participants necessary for the courts to say a market is "competitive"? Is it 3? or 5? Or 2?) For instance, when this talk surfaced about Microsoft, it never went anywhere in part because 2 participants in the consumer desktop OS market were thought to be more than enough. Even though the second participant was relatively weak. (Apple).
Beats1 is free to listen to though.
An app for protecting kids online is growing popular with autocrats
It is also a little tempting to divide that $150 billion number by another number disclosed yesterday, Facebook’s 2.5 billion monthly active users across its various platforms.

Like: If yesterday’s results are an indication that Facebook is going to grow more slowly by being less rapacious with user data and privacy and targeting, then the cost to Facebook’s shareholders of that reduced rapacity looks to be about $60 per user.

Is that … a good trade? Would you pay $60 (once) to use a somewhat more chill version of Facebook? Is the right way to think of yesterday’s results as a $60-per-user transfer from Facebook’s shareholders to its users?
> Again, I agree, although I don't how you'd go about justly identifying such behavior, let alone enforcing and punishing it fairly.

It's a difficult problem and I'm not sure what even approaches a good - and stable over time - solution; naïve approaches would quickly degenerate into totalitarianism...

> GPS is a special case because of how expensive geosynchronous access is and how few the points of failure are.

Fair enough :). I was just addressing the "created by and for the US armed forces" angle.

Satellites are fragile, but they're also very expensive to shoot down. So I think GNSS systems are pretty safe, as points of failure go. Random rogue actors won't be able to afford destroying them, and if anti-satellite missiles start flying, we'll have much bigger problems than lack of satellite navigation systems.
Tearing Down the Pricing of AMC and MoviePass
Did he try it on those patients alone? Or did he pick the ones that for some reason supported his findings?

Would you call such a small sample as relevant?
Okay sure the full picture isn't all sunshine (I didn't say I'd buy the stock) but it's not bad news either. With the lions share of the streaming market and low churn rate I would expect they can negotiate some better deals (or possibly get enough of an edge to raise prices).
Hey everyone, this is Alex - the main person behind YC Review.

First of all, the response to this has been amazing! Both from volunteer reviewers and applicants.

Trying to address some common points some of you are raising:

1. This is coming from a real desire to help the community - no agenda really behind the project. So, everything is free (nobody pays or gets paid).

2. Aside from having gone through YC Startup School ('17), I'm not affiliated with YC or an alum. I've tried to be open about this in the FAQ (maybe not quite clear?).

3. Re: verification - to begin with, I've personally invited YC alumni directly. I will probably add Twitter/Angellist/other verification as well.

4. Anonymity - this wasn't really intentional but is now fixed. I've added a link to my LinkedIn on the page, so now there's a face behind the project.

Hope this helps!
I don't get it either. People outside of healthcare probably aren't aware of how ridiculously common it is for medical mistakes to be made. Dozens of overworked people are coordinating with one another to take care of you.
In that regard, america just got more European.
Probably some amount but I reason this would be much harder. You must pay workers where they live and buy resources from where they are produced. It's easier to offshore a made up entity like a corporation than a bunch of people and their hardware.
Yeah, remember when IPSec was mandatory? And the two different schemes (never standardized I guess) that would have let you have a "home" IP address and a "network"/real IP address, so if you were streaming a video the source would send to one IP even as you hopped networks? Good times.
Hopefully my tone didn't make it seem like I was spoiling for a fight - I don't know of a dry topic that's not enhanced with stories about the people involved in mainline journalism.
Aren't both of those just examples of pilot error, regardless of autopilot?

In the case of the Asiana flight, the captain chose a visual approach when he could have let the autopilot land it. And from there it's simple pilot error.

In the case of the air France flight, one of the pilots chose to ignore a stall warning and pull up instead of pushing down to gain speed. Sadly, in the case of no pilot input the plane actually would have ended up avoiding the stall on its own.

I of course agree that military pilots with real experience will likely perform better than civilian pilots, I just doubt autopilot had any part to play in either of those accidents, like the comment you replied to implies.
Bruce Lipton. I’ve learned to be reticent about using his name, as determined skeptics inevitably link to the question-begging dismissals of his work and derail the discussion, but so far my experience seems to validate his ideas.

Others have mentioned Sarno before. I haven’t read his work but it seems relevant. I’ve had a lot of intense back tension/pain which is now finally subsiding, but my god it’s taken a lot of time and work.
How is stating a fact- it disproportionately matched people of color- somehow the same as claiming racism?
Spotify is the best there is today, Rdio is the best there ever was
Why is this being downvoted? Perhaps on its face it seems to be anti-technology and regressive, but there's plenty of data to suggest that the industrial efficiencies of modern farms have massive negative externalities in terms of depleted soil health in the form of the narrowing of both macrobiome and microbiome, depleted nutrient content in our plants, depleted health and nutrition of our animals, leading up to depleted health to those at the top of the food chain: humans.
Several rats have been developed which manifest Alzheimer's disease with all the right symptoms: age-dependent cerebral amyloidosis that precedes tauopathy, gliosis, apoptotic loss of neurons in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus, and cognitive disturbance.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4496102/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720142/