skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, like oasisbob says, the "treated" in my sentence is significant. Federal regulations prohibit dumping untreated sewage, but allow dumping it if it's treated (chemically broken down, I think roughly similar to what you'd do in a septic tank). Call me crazy, but I'm still not super keen on eating oysters that have had treated sewage raining down on them either.
I (and many others) would take a 33% increase in core count over a 10-15% advantage in single core workloads. Even the gaming comparison is most of the time overemphasized. Does it really matter if you are getting 88FPS or 80FPS if your monitor refresh rate is capped at 60FPS?

I feel that most of these attacks at AMD and their CPU-s tend to bend the truth a lot, and that isn't surprising, given the shady tactics that Intel has employed previously.
How many cash transactions have no economic value?
That's hard to argue with, because it's undeniably true. :) I'll be more careful.
That's a pretty reasonable filter to have. Sure, there'll be some cases like yours where you've got enough knowledge to request a specific surgery, but for every one of those there's likely to be several "your back pain is caused by weight and posture, surgery isn't indicated" (and the occasional "why don't we see a psychiatrist about that radio the CIA put in your brain instead of a neurosurgeon...") that the GP can winnow out at a quarter of the cost and without tying up an already in-demand specialist.
That's not enough - you also have to be able to deliver the warhead to the satellite.

It's not very easy to do.
I've got a bunch of static routes on my linux boxen using iproute2 tables to send traffic down the correct interfaces, do you think there's a better way using dynamic routing? If so what should I start googling?
How about "proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern". From https://www.dictionary.com/browse/random .
Stripe Starts Issuing Credit Cards
Today, there's no difference. In the future, there may be: threading and SIMD are two examples.
Lucky you.

Even with family as law enforcement, I've never trusted police. As a vet I'm disgusted by their lack of training and quickness to shoot first and ask questions later. Last I checked the average is 32 dogs shot by US cops a day. I don't even need to delve into the refusal to wear body cams, race issues, etc. etc. American police have not given Americans any reason to assume they are ever on the same side.

Eighteen year old infantrymen, who have an infinitely greater chance of danger, have more resolve and professionalism than American cops. I'd trust that 18 year old ground pounder over a cop any day over any thing.
With a large enough differential between customer #1 and customer #2 it becomes a lot of cash to leave on the table if you don't renegotiate. But I don't know the numbers and you're right to point out that everything could potentially go wrong, but IMO it's not a sure thing and at least this report is a step in the right direction not the wrong one.
Java to WebAssembly Compiler
> I suspect that's a difference between thing- vs. people-oriented readers. I assume the former are in the minority.

Might be also because you know that most of the "people-oriented" content in such articles is bullshit, misrepresented to create story progression? That it has negative educational value? Are people who like such articles aware of this?
I'd be curious about the figures for a similar analysis with the US dollar.

Ex. for a credit card transaction, the 'economic value' of the transaction (purchase price) would be half or less of the total amount of dollars moving (price from CC to merchant, payments from customer to CC). Even if a customer pays off the balance instantly, two transfers of the amount of the purchase price are made: 50% economic value transactions. If making minimum payments, economic value seems like it could constitute less than a third of total amount transferred.

If CC, merchant, and customer all use different banks, there may be more transfers necessary behind the scenes.
Out of interest (and this isn't a sarcastic question), how to you propose they should choose instead?

I think removing little used features is a good idea, else you slowly build up more and more things, and one thing I've learnt is that these little used features can end up upsetting more users who accidentally activate them, and are confused, than they have happy users.
That's fine if that's what the experts think, but as I pointed out, that would be a departure from the stance taken in the Microsoft case. I don't think such a departure is likely to happen. But again, I'm no expert on this stuff.
Thanks, that makes sense. I haven't built web servers with Rust as yet; so it was a bit difficult to follow the code.
RadioShack is back. Kinda
The sun could be used as well, the problem is that the focus would be outside the solar system.
I never honestly noticed the difference here, but now you point it out... it looks like they're pushing advertising no matter what kind of user you are.

What made me notice that is how subtle the payola is. I follow my best friend's Discover Weekly playlist too because we share similar tastes, and every now and then I would spot that we get the exact same songs (typically some new release but not always from a big band), at the exact same position in each of our playlists.

I still enjoy Spotify greatly, but it's a shame that they're trading serendipity for marketing. The Release Radar thing is practically useless.
remember there was an article about how Watson was recommending treatments that doctors were never considering and that they were more effective.

i guess no, they were not even relevant, which is why doctors were not recommending them
Look up elsewhere, but IIRC Tesla bars use of its SuperChargers for vehicles being used commercially. Not sure if that just slows charging or if it fully restricts the vehicle to home and other private chargers.
I've engineered a 20kbp yac in my kitchen, but also I have a PhD in chemistry and real molecular biology experience.
>That's an explanation but not a justification. People like celebrity gossip too, but newspapers feel a duty (due to both external social pressure and an internal code) to not include updates on the opinion of the Kardashians as part of their war coverage.

Well, they don't include the opinion of the Kardashians in the science articles either. Just the stories and opinions of people involved.

And inversely, the media also write their war coverage in the form of human interest stories.
"Putting sysadmins out of work?"
Why not just make computers illegal and use pen and paper to create jobs?
Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any information on a similar analysis of fiat currencies? My Google-foo is failing me.
Border Wall Could Disrupt Hundreds of Species
Does CSS grid support size transition animations?
Still waiting here for ADP and weather.gov to get their shit together and enter the 21st century.
> Their findings, published in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal, showed that approximately 800 million viruses may be deposited per square meter of land.

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/billions-of-viruses-ar...
Introducing Facebook Graph API v3.1, Marketing API v3.1 and Graph API Explorer
That's the difference between Oracles and Agents.

Oracle = make suggestion

Agent = Act on your behalf.

Waze might be starting off as an Oracle. but once you tie it into self driving cars, it'll become an agent acting on your behalf.

At a certain tipping point, creates really interesting questions. For example, if you re-direct 100% of traffic to less congested route, you end up creating traffic jams, so then you have to decide who goes on which route... maybe people who pay more get faster routing, or people deemed more important or busier by the algorithm...
> If I can't run asynchronous APIs in the frozen or terminated states, how can I save data to IndexedDB?

[In the future, we will add a commit() method to perform write-only transactions that don't require callbacks. (assuming the IndexedDB database is already open).]

This seems like a strange design. So there is a callback specifically for persisting data before freeze, but when it runs, the main persistance API isn't actually available.

Wouldn't it have been possible to mark IndexedDB callbacks as "non-freezable tasks" - or allow a promise to be returned from the freeze callback? (Subject to a timeout)

> For code that needs to work today, however, developers have two options:

- Use Session Storage [...]

- Use IndexedDB from your service worker [...]

I guess session storage is technically a workaround - but it seems odd, as almost everywhere else you get the recommendation to use IndexedDB instead.

I guess a strategy could be to simply dump all your unsaved data into session storage on freeze, and then "properly" load it into IndexedDB on the next load or unfreeze. Still, this seems complicated and subject to problems if your data exceeds the maximum storage size.
It probably depends what one means by "black hole". Physical singularities are predicted by GR+other theorems but haven't been established.
This is what an Einstein ring looks like, caused by lensing:

https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hire...

Anyway, the test of GR in the actual article does not appear to use or reference lensing at all. It's about looking at the orbit of a star in an extreme gravitational environment and comparing it to what Newtonian models would predict.
I tried Spotify once but it was too complex for my tastes... I liked Pandora's simplicity of training a station and being able to be hands off.
> what are the chances that the people involved also happen to have a compelling life story? Pretty low.

Fear not. Journalists know that the way around this is to cherry-pick quotes, add some weasel world, and misrepresent the reality so that that person's life story suddenly sounds like a script for a Hollywood movie.
Spotify are about to loose me as a customer after the better part of a decade as a paying premium subscriber for one reason: putting videos in the form of mini documentaries and puff pieces in curated playlists and not adding a way to auto skip them.

I have had Spotify in the background of pretty much all aspects of my life for years but these videos discussing the inspiration of a song through to an artist designing his own sneakers breaks my concentration and is driving me mad.

Spotify don’t care, an option to block these videos has been asked for, a “Community Idea” for the feature to block them has over 2,000 votes (the threshold for Spotify paying attention is 100) so I am off to Deezer.

Spotify was in the category of non negotiable and alongside heating and internet as a household bill so I’m pretty bummed they now want to be YouTube but in portrait only.
> Spoofed trades are obviously non-economic.

In a model where Bitcoin is the only available currency, you could certainly assign an economic value to a mixer - the value of the created privacy (yes, I know that mixers are flawed).

There are also cryptocurrencies that have (a higher level of) built-in privacy, like ZCash, and that people are using it should also be an indicator that there is economic value in those transactions since the only real reason to use ZCash is to get that additional bit of privacy.
>On any given day, as much as two-thirds of the transaction activity registered on the Bitcoin network has nothing to do with buying goods and services or trading the virtual currency.

Is this two-thirds of the amount transacted? Two-thirds of total transaction count? Two-thirds of bytes written to the blockchain?

I assume this doesn't involve economic activity transacted in bitcoin which isn't recorded on the blockchain; for instance payments made between users on coinbase or trades on cryptocurrency exchanges.
It's a much smaller claim than the one in the article.
Do you actually use that tool?

It looks promising but I really don't like having to download software to make a web layout.
No thanks. I want accountable organizations running the financial networks of major economies (Visa/MC/Disc/Amex do just fine).

To normalize return policies requires legislation (see Europe for how this is done).

Yes to emailed receipts for all transactions though. You’ll be happy to hear all payment networks in the US are deprecating signature requirements.
It's kind of insane to modify e coli with crispr anyways, that's kind of like using kubernetes to get a list of files on your hard drive.
And I think that is a valid issue. But I think the real answer is, unfortunately, that people don't really care about science articles. The human interest angle is the only thing that sells ads.
It's a trust issue. Too many companies cannot be trusted to make software that truly, effectively, anonymizes data before it leaves your device. I trust Mozilla, but I understand others don't. And it's part of the way that we lose trust in general when abuse is so common.
> and I wasn't even aware that it existed as a paid service

If you have an iPhone and tried to use the music app to play your songs, you should be well aware that apple music exists. One of the more blatant up sells on ios.

I use iTunes-match and the built in music on ios ("upload" and stream all your music) and eventually figured out you can tone down the apple music reminders by turning of settings->music->show_apple_music
It's on my reading list. I'm currently reading Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, and it's up next.
And his disciples going around yakking about throwing away crutches by playing their oh so fancy narrativist games.

More like throwing the baby, the role, out with the bathwater.

All because Ron got pissed because the marketing blurb on the back of a White Wolf game didn't quite deliver what he expected.
> You must pay workers where they live and buy resources from where they are produced.

If tax law provides the incentives, companies can do all sorts of gymnastics to obfuscate those two things. There is always a loophole if you look hard enough for it.

Pay workers where they live? Why not hire them through an offshore firm that pays them as international contractors?

Buy resources where they are produced? Buy the rights to the resources from an offshore company who owns the IP rights to the method of production.

These are convoluted examples but the point is, companies can always add a level of misdirection to fit within a loophole.
That’s awesome. I wonder how easy would it be to code an easy service that generates a different card for every subscriptions. No more hassle to cancel this gym membership!
Any word on pricing? fees? cashback?
I would love to see the pitch and yaw of the barge as part of their livestream instrument cluster.
Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for quickly prototyping a working product?
What tools would you use if you have very little time(24 hours or similar) to build something. The product don't have to be scalable or anything fancy. It just need to be a bare minimum MVP that you can show to someone else to convey the idea.
Putting some Spotify addresses in your /etc/hosts file will block those - I haven't seen one of those videos on my desktop ever.
It's also nice that we apparently can "take" a black hole millions of times as massive as our own system, and use it for our purposes.

It's likely the single biggest part of a scientific instrument. (Not of an industrial tool... yet.)
is he risking his family, and possibly neighbors, with this setup in his bathroom?

asking with genuine concern - i have no idea how contagious e-coli would be and what its medium of spreading is.
The Dangers of Being Nice
You took that out of context, I said "software developers and sysadmins out of work, McDonalds-icizing software with proprietary, walled-garden service stacks." Implying that the result is lower-quality and disempowering of software businesses who aren't Amazon, Google, or Microsoft.

So, pen and paper vs. the computer is not a fitting analogy. The PC vs. the mainframe is a better one.
Apple ships 3.5M Apple Watch units in Q2 as LTE model proves to be a global hit
One way I tend to view ML is that, when its wrong, its catastrophically wrong. Because it doesn't actually understand anything its doing, and simply looking at a probability model and picking based off it, you end up with the issue that a few carefully selected pixel changes in a picture of a cat takes the model from a cat to an ostrich.

The model does not see a significant difference between the cat/ostrich, or cancer/cold, whereas we do; this implies that, when the model is wrong, it is likely to not just provide an incorrect treatment, but a catastrophically incorrect treatment.

Where the human sees a cat-like creature, and if not guess a cat, then something similar to a cat (4 legged, furry, etc), the ML model is willing to jump anywhere, in the worst case.

So its not just rate of misdiagnosis, but by how much as well.
ISABEL DOS SANTOS: THE FALL OF AFRICA’S RICHEST WOMAN
Really makes me wonder if AI will every be able to model the heuristics which domain experts uses on a daily basis.
Literally google Aaron Nevins. He openly discusses it.
Yes, it's bad news. The article states that their losses have more than doubled in the past year from $220M to $460M. Their average revenue per user has dropped 12% to $5.72 and Spotify says that won't be getting better anytime soon. Most of their "new" customers are the result of family deals and promotions. Spotify thinks they can grow their way to profitability, but they are competing with Apple Music, which doesn't have to be profitable.
Show HN: Pony Programming Workshop
On the thought of improving tabbing UI and not using bookmarks, there are some non-mainstream browsers that work differently. uzbl-browser, I think it was, combines the two and makes no distinction between them.
Ask HN: Are there any benchmarks of performance of ports from C++ to Rust?
I have heard the Rust is trying to go after the systems programming crowd, which is cool since it seems safer to me.

I was mostly curious if someone has experience porting over a big-ish piece of code from C++ to Rust, and what the performance characteristics of this were. Does Rust perform better due to the easier multithreading?
The conservation of information means that the phase space of a system is incompressable. I believe this is equivalent to saying we can just stretch the image out, within the limits of our ability to resolve detail.
I learnt it mostly for the sake of learning something new, I didn't really think at the time whether it would be worthwhile. It's a very specific tool developed by people in very specific fields of CS (type theory, compiler verification, but I could be wrong about this), so I just never felt bad about not having a use for it myself.

Encoding (a subset of) the puzzles as SAT problems for something like z3 would be an alternative to Coq.
I am partway through reading The Personal MBA, and the book of quotes you mentions sound very, very different. Sure, The Personal MBA is not a deep dive into any subject (it's not meant to be) but it's got a lot more meat than just quotes from other textbooks.
Please get a grip on reality. The average American has access to vastly better products, services, and health care than past kings couldn't even have dreamt of. Even the amazingly wealthy Rockefeller did not have access to the modern bounty that the average American can easily buy and use today, the bounty that is being created by entrepreneurs and people in the corporations you apparently envy so much.
Hehe yes I remember putting silent audio loops in Flash animations so the FPS wouldn't drift too much.
> Obama threatened Assad repeatedly in public as part of his role as commander in chief.

No, he didn't. Aside from anything else, the “Commander in Chief” role is solely commanding the military under the laws prescribed by Congress. Public diplomatic threats (even threats that, were they carried through, would involve acting in the C-in-C role) are not part of that role.
How is the balance of the card established? Is it just paid from a connected bank account similar to a chargeback after a payout has been already paid into a bank account?
Be careful of the "cancel this gym membership" approach. Gyms in particular have a reputation for sending you to collections if you try to end your contract that way, as the contracts generally specify a specific way you have to end the plan.
Here's a (real) video of the stars orbiting.

https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/videos/eso1825e/
I disagree with the conclusion though. In US it’s still kind of behind but in several European countries (Iceland, Norway and Sweden come to mind, Iceland the most so) its way easier to pay. NFC payment means that I am done paying for my groceries within 5 seconds of when the cashier swipes the last item. I can’t think of a single place I went to in Iceland that didn’t have NFC payment.
"Get started making music" by Ableton is really good !

https://learningmusic.ableton.com
Yeah, Burning Wheel is crazy. Later games dropped that over the top simulation side and went all out for story.
A frivolous lawsuit costs the patient (or patient's lawyer) a lot. Hospitals get sued all the time and they have an entire legal department staffed and ready to handle subpoenas.

You still have to prove damages. Which means getting treatment from another hospital for whatever mistake was made, then proving that the mistake was caused by the treatment you received at another hospital.

As stated elsewhere, my partner has been named in dozens of malpractice lawsuits and every one she was deposed for she felt was legitimate. There were a few where she told me privately that she hopes the people win.
Love it, unfortunately it is currently by invitation only though. Anyone have any information about what the qualifying criteria is?
Ten Differences Between Successful Designers and Average Designers
I can't even imagine how much work went into this. Stripe does a great job of tackling the toughest problems and making it looks easy!
Do you see it everywhere?
"I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!"

-- Brother Cavil
It's the first thing I use whenever I open Firefox since years. Feeling sad about it
Agreed. With Spotify I find the songs are far too similar to be enjoyable.
Watson was probably right but it didn't fall in line with BigPharma's $$$ plans.
it's being downvoted because it's not a relevant reply to the original comment, and has potential to provide a flamewar on a topic entirely different than the original article.
There is utility in using a CC for consumer protection. CC companies get paid for this as a cut from the merchant which requires a transaction of some kind.

AKA you to CC = X, CC to merchant X - Y. No way to move money like that without 2 simple transactions as 3 accounts are updated.
(I work on Issuing.)

The cards draw from a Stripe balance, which can be funded from a connected bank account (or ordinary Stripe charges).
That may be a bad idea — you have entered into a contract, one that likely doesn't account for that sort of "cancellation" and so gyms could legally keep charging you, consider the account delinquent for awhile, then close it and sell that debt to a collection agency. On the other hand 24h fitness auto-canceled my membership when I didn't go for a little while, so at least some have some kind of incentive to not have people hate them.
In the news today: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/398967-us-t...