skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're describing is my experience with them as well. My parent's town in Ohio added one [1] and there was an uproar, but it's worked surprisingly well.

It replaced a very dangerous 4 way stop/traffic light intersection that very regularly saw accidents due to the geography (hilly) and the road layout (straight into the intersection after a mile of rural road).

1 - https://goo.gl/maps/NmyMpNEqn8A2
I love this idea, but one big idea just popped into my head: can you add on actual people in those segments to review the writing and give feedback?

A lot of content marketing teams would pay $5, $10, even $25 per person to read the article and give feedback meeting whatever criteria is set.

It would eassentially be just like UserTesting.com but for articles.

As Google’s algo has improved to the point where they’re getting closer to mimicking real human signals on judging an article’s quality, this would help bridge that gap.

I know it adds a ton more labor costs and work, but you could train your own algorithm over time based on the real human feedback.
> But now it means something more like "making choices someone personally disagrees with or thinks is unfair to a certain preferred group".

Your definition of discrimination in the second sense (which is actually listed first in the dictionary) is off. Let's consult that:

"The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex."

It goes a lot further than merely making disagreeable choices or being unfair.
I don't think so. I mean, maybe, but not that I've heard of.
We don't know if it is an emergent property. That's what we think it is likely. but we won't know until we find out what consciousness is. And we won't find that out until we crack the secrets of the brain.

There once was a time when we thought our bodies moved because there was an "emergent property" called the soul that instructed our bodies to move. It took a very long time for humans to discover how our bodies through the science of physiology.
The bigger questions is why do any software developers agree to take part in app stores that attempt to lock users and developers into their operating system?
But it uses electron (I.e. chromium.)
Yep. This is what I mean by my second paragraph -- when I believe something else to be free-willed is exactly when I cannot predict its actions, but believe it to be capable of doing so (i.e., it believes itself to have free will). So, a pachinko ball, while its haphazard movement is unpredictable by me, does not have free will, because it does not have the capability to predict its own movement. Nor does an individual ant, since I can predict its actions in response to chemical stimuli, regardless of whether it can.

Whereas myself... I know people in general can have a variety of responses to any given stimuli. But I know exactly what response I will have to a stimuli that has just occurred. From my point of view, I am very free-willed! After all, I'm "choosing" one out of a multitude of possible responses to this stimuli. But really, my "choice" is determined by physics, and the illusion of free will is exactly that I -- as the sole entity with the capability to observe my own internal state -- can predict my response, and no-one else can.

I think also, an additional factor is that of volition: the actions I take should somehow derive from, and act to fulfill, what I consider to be my (chemically deterministically determined) desires. Otherwise I might perceive "someone else" to be in control of my person.
Agreed. I use Evil exclusively (effectively pretending that I’m using Vim, except that I get to use the awesome features that Emacs has for programming in Lispy languages) and would love to start learning Emacs proper, except that Evil is so good that I really don’t need to.

Atom feels sort of like Emacs except that you have to deal with JavaScript instead of Lisp. I prefer using Elisp over JS, and Emacs is much faster, and Emacs works without an X server, and Emacs has a better Vim mode. Until one of the Electron editors can compete, I’ll stick to Emacs with Evil.
Maybe. It's hard to prove that a quick big revolution followed by a civilization is better or worse than a long-term slow suffering-ridden development.
I don't think so. In Maryland anyone can vote early at their convenience. That rules out work since you can just fill out the ballot at your leisure.
That's really a matter of Intel's 10nm process (which is roughly equivalent to TSMC 7nm).

AMD used 128-bit and simulated 256-bit by doing 2 passes. This reduced peak power consumption and allowed them to keep clock consistently high. That matters because while your AVX is going slowly, your non-AVX is also going slowly. There was simply no way x86 could do vectors that wide on 14nm without throttling.

With the 7nm shift, AMD can use the reduced size to increase to native 256 at full speed (and they may do 512 in 2 parts). I expect Intel to do the same when they get replace their 10nm process with something that works. It'll probably be a couple more shrinks though, before 512 can be run at full-speed.
Completely agree. This news fits perfectly with the book "innovator's dilemma".
Considering that Python 3 is barely getting installed by default on OSes (Arch were the pioneers, doing it very early, but everyone else either did it 5+ years after the Python 3 launch or haven't done it yet, 10+ years after the launch), I wouldn't hold my breath.

And Python is a much popular language, compared with Perl, plus the Python 2 -> 3 changes were much smaller than Perl 5 -> 6.

I'd venture to say that besides some very niche distributions, Perl 6 will never be included in the base installations, unless it gets some killer app.
> In no country ever is private healthcare and competition banned. There is a free* hospital across the street from me and I have private healthcare.

Thats not factually true: there are many places that ban private healthcare, including canada.
Then there are other conditions that punish private disproportionately: like funding public healthcare with taxes, but private healthcare with private funds: that means a person would have to pay 2 insurances to get private services.
Also single payer really means there is only 1 insurance, so yes, it bans all other insurances.

> It’s about acknowledging that a) it is cheaper for everyone if people with no money go to the doctor early, because a GP is 1k% less expensive to society than a hospital bed runout. This is one of the reasons healthcare in single payer countries is ~50% per capita.

There are multiple issues why healthcare in the US is more expensive than "single payer systems", and preventative medicine is a small part.

> people without money don’t deserve to die because they are poor and should have basic treatments, even when it is their own fault they are poor and make bad decisions.

Is this moral line of yours defined by the country? Because if you want to save people's lives, single payer systems are very expensive. Its a lot better to open immigration and bring poor people from abroad.
> especially since we're told that there's no actual difference between men and women?

Who is telling you this? This runs contrary to decades of research findings (however distasteful some might find that).
There are also companies designing "smart toilets" to understand the gut microbiome and changes in it for the user, e.g. https://www.ted.com/speakers/jun_wang
Your argument is that criminals will stop being criminals if they notice their victims suffering a bit more?
French government report says thousands approached by Chinese spies on LinkedIn
> Mandatory voting? How would you propose enforcing it?

With a financial penalty if you don't submit a ballot. The simplest method would probably be a per-election tax credit.

> I'm not necessarily against mandatory voting, but it would be very hard to convince the American public that mandatory voting is a good idea when a huge part of the population would see that as an attack on their freedom to not vote.

Most mandatory voting regimes require submitting a ballot, but they tend to accept explicit abstention (usually, just by submitting a blank ballot.)

> This doesn't even begin to discuss the situations where voting only occurs on a Tuesday (aside from mail-ins) and some people can't take that time off work. There would have to be some clause to force employers to let employees go vote, at a loss of money somewhere.

Almost every state already does that, and the exceptions (IIRC) have long early voting periods and/or all mail-in elections which avoid the Tuesday-only problem. So that's not really a problem.
I like this a lot. It's immediately giving me a selection of alternative options, many of which are better than what I wrote. When the suggested options suck it often seems better to delete that fragment entirely. For zero effort it gives me prompts that help constructively question exactly what it is that I'm trying to say. And that bring to mind concrete ideas for communicating more effectively.

Privacy is a serious concern. I don't feel great handing my thoughts to a third party for analysis. If I could pay anonymously I'd feel a lot better about that.

Pricing is also a concern. "Sign up now for a 30-day free trial. Once your trial is over, we'll work with you to set up a subscription plan that works for you and your business."

Seems like the plan is to analyze what I'm submitting and judge what I'm worth. I'd be more likely to purchase with transparent pricing. Otherwise I'm thinking it's better to query this in a privacy preserving way with repeated free trials.
Autonomy isn't a meaningful principle when it comes to medicine. Even patients who are doctors can't really give informed consent since they won't necessarily be knowledgeable in the specialty relevant to their treatment. And the vast majority of patients aren't doctors.
Same here, I steer clear of Adobe where I can. I have licenses for Pixelmator, Affinty Photo, Sketch, and Affinity Designer. Between the four my needs are always met and their combined cost is both static and lower than what a CC subscription would mount up to.
Also important is that startups today are largely built in the hopes that someone will buy them, whereas the startups for the 50s and 60s were built in the hopes of remaining successful, independent companies.
The Mnemosyne Atlas of Aby Warburg, 1924-29 (2013)
It makes sense, but is it always true? Especially with antidepressant drugs. There are lots of studies like 'Placebo patients had the same result as patients on drug X', but how do we find out if X is not needed for everyone? How do we get our minds to cope with the thought of X being useless?
I am not really sure. Only my feeling says that i would love to get lied to in this situation
Possible to share or point to where to learn about that? Have been having a lot of fun and success with query and always looking to push it further!
I think cycle-accurate simulation is critical for developing a RISC-V chip and/or toolchain -- being able to get real feedback from benchmarks, etc.

For functionality testing (to port your software to RISC-V) you probably don't care quite as much about the cycle accurate simulation. An inaccurate simulator would probably just behave the way that a target with a much faster or slower clock speed would behave.
Where do you live that walls are transparent to infrared radiation?
> If you want people to vote make it mandatory like Australia.

Empirically, a more proportional election system not only improves satisfaction with government, but also participation in voting.

People not voting should be a signal that there is something wrong with the voting system’s fitness for purpose. Mandatory voting may treat the symptom, but ignores the underlying problem.
Agreed, I would say query is the strongest reason to use Sheets over Excel
I would love to see some more advanced psychological manipulation experimental results for medicine ... “I proscribe you to not take this pill twice a day. By that I mean, here’s a bottle of pills which have been shown to alleviate your ailment, however I believe your case is best addressed by you deciding not to take this medicine. Therefore, twice a day, please follow these directions: remove a pill from the bottle, place it in your hand, look in the mirror and then put back in the bottle and close the lid.”

Many Trippy effects are possible.
It depends on the troop. I was in the Cub Scouts in Takoma Park, MD (which is where the hippies went who never stopped being hippies), and indeed religion was not a focus there. But in troops elsewhere, it definitely can be. And those troops are being given cover and explicit endorsement to do so by the national organization. Whereas if, say, a local dance class started injecting religion and making some people feel uncomfortable because it's not their religion, the national organization might step in and shut that all down, saying stick to dance instruction and leave religion in church.
I don't see how "the whole [assembling] to make laws" is any more possible now than in the 1700s. Are you thinking drafting laws by wiki, or what?
so if living on a cul-de-sac predicts for relative affluence, it may be a proxy for lower crime?
But the App Store isn’t exclusive. I know that 1Password had multiple version depending on if you download it from the App Store or download it from the web. (ie The license keys were different.) You can always sell the large packages via the web, and the small ones through the App Store.
He did leave the company 13 years ago as far as I can tell
I think this is an awesome idea, but is not executed.

I am writing for women:

"This is not a test of the emergency broadcast system, it's the real thing! I do not like green eggs and ham. This is a test, that do not express my true feelings: I am writing some hateful words about women. Women are awful. "

Score: Average
Bacterial Nanobionics via 3D Printing
I'm not worrying about corner cases here. Theranos is an exception. But someone coming from a startup that died? Yeah, they can talk about it, and I'd like them to talk about how they saw it in an honest way.
You missed the point entirely. When you compose operations in Keras, it automatically generates the backpropagation implementation, you do not need RegisterGradient, custom_gradient or anything else if you are making new operations or layers as the composition of existing operations (whether that is logical indexing, concatenation, math functions, whatever).

In PyTorch, you still do have to define the backward function and worry about bookkeeping the gradient, clearing gradient values at the appropriate time, and explicitly calling to calculate these things in verbose optimizer invocation code.

I encourage you to check out how this works in Keras, because it is simply just factually different than what you are saying, in ways that are specifically designed to remove certain types of boilerplate or overhead or bookkeeping that are required by PyTorch.
You have no idea how frustrated they make me.
"abstain" is an option on every ballot. You are conflating "being able to vote" from "voting for a choice"
I don't think they're saying the wrong choice is a particular candidate. The wrong choice is mistakenly voting for someone who doesn't actually represent you because you were ignorant of the candidate's stances or history.
Not sure how you construed that from my response, but regardless, I'd argue that tackling the "unsolvable" problems is still a worthwhile pursuit. The alternative would be not discovering germ theory or quantum mechanics (well, more relevant examples would be the realm of philosophy and psychotherapy).
non-AMP version https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/before-sale-to-ibm-for-billi...
Politicians, political parties, and governments (from local to national).

For some reason the lure of instant results is so great that every year there is some place in the world where electronic voting is once again strongly pushed for, even though none of the arguments against it are suitably addressed.

Is it a mindset thing? A disdain for an analogue process that they deem outmoded? A lack of understanding of the inherent problems with automatization for this particular task? All I know is that it takes a lot of effort to keep elections free from voting machines.

This is a global phenomenon by the way.
I use it for small utilities, so they are kept up-to-date and I don't need to fish them out when re-installing (which happens unfortunately every year on my corporate Mac)

Just missing a Cloud (Dropbox/iCloud) HomeBrew configuration and I would be set for the essentials.

As parent said big stuff don't need to exposure, and anyway, as a developer most of those stuff wouldn't make it to the appstore anyway.

edit: also forgot licensing. I rather buy it on the AppStore so I'm also avoiding having to fish the license email and/or create an account with whatever utils company.
Are you a fan of the Affinity products?
I'm in the same boat. I've found https://github.com/harc/ohm to be a pretty pleasant grammar and parser to use.

Ohm also has a nice interactive editor: https://ohmlang.github.io/editor/
Upstream thinking
> AutoLayout is verbose and complex, even with helper libraries.

I don't think they can get much shorter than this:

private func addConstraints() {
introduction.attach(sides: [.top, .leading, .trailing], 8.layoutGuideRespecting)
contact
.attach(sides: [.leading, .trailing], 8)
.space(8, .below, introduction)
spinner.center()
error
.attach(sides: [.leading, .trailing], 8)
.space(8, .below, contact)

create.attach(sides: [.top, .bottom, .trailing], 3)
}

And honestly the stuff I needed to do to get CSS working let alone cross-browser until very recently was really not as consistent, clean or predictable as auto layouts. I think you just got used to the suffering.

The only thing I really like about CSS is the arbitrary lines you can draw in the sand like "if it gets over 1000px wide then move the menu to the right".
The two-party fever syndrome.
Why did you correlate those? They're in the same comment, but not dependent or related. I know plenty of assholes with fantastic hobbies.
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

(Other than being an authority, presumably. Notwithstanding authorities on violence, such as Heinlein)
You might also be interested in Perl6's grammars:

https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammars#Creating_grammars
assuming you don't live in an overpriced city, that strikes me as a good pay range in the middle and possibly lower brackets too.
Yes, but it doesn't browse the web.
Scientists find 'clear evidence' that cellphone radiation causes cancer in rats
The Gates Foundation focuses on real problems and how they can be implemented in the real world to actually solve things that work with the environment, economy and culture symbiotically as opposed to paying for porta-potties and drop shipping them. Knowing how to solve something is the point over blind action that has minimal chance of success. For me, this is the charity worth giving to if you must pick one.
Could we use a range of placebos in order to better control for the effect of statistical outliers? I feel like the uniformity implied by “placebo=sugar pill” might not be rich enough to account for the range of effects that might be at work ... I actually agree that the belief that something effective is being done could play a real role in actual healing — but I don’t think it’s been shown by any of these studies that this manner of belief can be meaningfully packaged into a one size fits all sugar pill...
You guys can philosophize until you are blue in the face but the type of free will that laypeople think of when you say free will, libertarian free will, is virtually certain not to exist. Everything else is just semantics.
> if this isn't a broken system, I don't know what is

You are either willfully ignoring the structure of the system or need to study it more. If a billion people vote for democrats in New York and California, it has zero impact on the election of the representative from Wyoming (or any other not CA or NY). Thinking that it should fundamentally misses the point of a federation.
For my money, the most impressive placebo effect ever is the purported improvement in athletic performance using Breathe Right Nasal Strips. The inventors have made many millions of dollars by cleverly repackaging and reframing adhesive tape. See, for example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/06/980609080557.h...
Shouldn’t that be controlled for in a trial?
>> But just like you can add a "Rust 2015" feature after 2015, you can add a "Rust 2018" feature after 2018, right?

> You cannot, no.

So let's assume I think of a new syntax which is compatible with existing Rust 2018 code, but which is syntactic sugar for async code (so not compatible with Rust 2015 code). Are you saying that this can not be added until Rust 2021 comes along? Or are you saying that you can add it but it won't be Rust 2018?

If the latter is the case I think it's really confusing to call impl_header_lifetime_elision a Rust 2015 feature.
Maybe have a look at Davinci Resolve.
Rurban is working on modernizing Perl 5, eg http://perl11.org/cperl/perlclass.html

It is doubtful this will ever be backported into the official distribution, because $drama...
No. Vote buying and vote cohersion attacks have historically been the largest form of attack on voting systems. We need a voting system where you can be sure your vote was counted without being able to prove how you voted, even to yourself.
I've been working with a team* on an open-source analysis pipeline tool to assist researchers and oncologists in identifying specific neoantigens used in cancer immunotherapy. Given a patient's sequenced tumor/normal genome, it uses a set of prediction algorithms and the public Immune Epitope Database to produce candidate neoantigens for synthesizing the vaccines used in clinical interventions or research.

We just released a browser-based client to assist users not comfortable with constructing the long and complex command-line arguments used with most bioinformatics analysis pipelines. It also provides a REST API that makes it easier to integrate into existing research/clinical pipelines.

If you're working in this area of research/treatment please check it out to see if pVACtools can be of use to you!

http://pvactools.org

EDIT: Just received a writeup in GenomeWeb:

https://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/wustl-software-offers-...

* as a user-interface designer/developer
Because the choice is between spending it on your own infrastructure or Apple's infrastructure. There is no free lunch.
You can just delete those apps.
No, it is pretty much entirely that. What other choice do you have as a developer?

Outside of the iOS appstore all you've got is the pittance of jailbreakers.