skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created DreamList https://www.dreamlist.com as a parent because I was appalled by the practices of baby registries and wish lists out there. Without naming competitors we saw:

- A major retailer hid the actual wishlist behind an "idea list" page that visitors saw first when they clicked on someone's wishlist link. The "Idea list" was full of high margin items that had nothing to do with the wisher (sometimes even targeted to the wrong gender).

- Multiple major registries indexed your name for SEO and thus a baby registry still showed as top result on google for female founders and executives who had babies in recent years.

- Multiple wikipedia and gossip press links boosting SEO of several universal registries by showcasing the wedding or baby lists of famous people (the SEO boost was substantial too). Privacy was non-existent at that point.

- Popular new baby or wedding specialized registries that are also retailers and would push gift cards for their own stores to registry guests where you'd often find 30%+ markup on common items. Etc...

So, as I was literally nursing a baby in one arm, I wrote code for DreamList with the other. It was architected to be actually private (no lists get SEO, unless users explicitly ask for it; no ads or promotional emails; etc.). It is not tied to a retailer, so you can add the lowest price items from anywhere (and link your other wish lists and registries). It lets you manage wish lists together with your spouse or team (we've served charity and disaster recovery teams in every disaster since Hurricane Harvey). More importantly, you can add large items and dreams you are saving towards such as a big trip to Disney, or 529 plans, so on special occasions family can contribute small amounts to help little ones get there sooner.

It starts with little architectural decisions, but every detail matters in a family product, as it sets a tone for interactions and thus relationships of millions of families that live apart geographically. We've reached a time when we have to take online privacy and quality in our own hands, for the sake of our kids.
Korean company believes they can develop a “faster” blockchain
Math books already exist for that audience.

Indeed, most of the canonical texts for undergrads would likely fit the bill.
An anecdote:

I own a recumbent bike. Learning to ride it wasn't difficult, I was able to wobble around and had to regularly put my foot down the first couple minutes and got my balance for real within a day. I let other people ride it when they ask me about it and my experience seems fairly normal.

By contrast, at one point I went 10 years without riding a bike. When I got back on, I could immediately ride. No wobbling, no learning curve.

I've seen videos of other adults learning to ride bikes and it doesn't take them long to learn how to ride but it's not immediate.
OLED is not the same thing as what they advertise as LED, which is really LED backlit LCD. OLED screens have no backlighting, and so when properly tuned, the picture is 100% perfect. I'm with you though, I love my plasma TV from 2009 and don't plan to give it up any time soon.
“Lots of insects are dying” and “insecticides kill insects” does make it very easy to reach that conclusion.

I know nothing of the relevant biochemistry. Are these insecticides well targeted or highly generic in what they kill?
Off topic, but it's insane to me, people in the US get opioids for small surgeries. Here in Germany I had a motorcycle accident resulting in multiple (around 12) face fractures and later I had to get an incredibly painful eye surgery and both times I was given large doses of ibuprofen for the pain (which didn't do much).

At the time I wished for better painkillers, but maybe it's actually better that way...
> Their analyses also systematically controlled for sex, age, height, socioeconomic status, and population structure, measured using the participant's genetics.

I’m a woefully unqualified armchair researcher/statistician, but I always enjoy speculating on potential confounding variables that weren’t controlled for.

As the article mentions, there is an obvious naive candidate explanation for why people with larger brains would be smarter (more computing hardware). But I find it fun to guess at reasons there might not be a causal relationship.

It’s nice to see the researcher doing the same exercise:

> "However, things could be much more complex in reality. For example, consider the possibility that a bigger brain, which is highly heritable, is associated with being a better parent. In this case, the association between a bigger brain and test performance may simply reflect the influence of parenting on cognition. We won't be able to get to the bottom of this without more research."

I wonder what exactly is meant there. Is he speculating that a larger brain directly provides better parenting ability? Or that perhaps generations ago a family with a useless gene that causes large brains also happened to have another unrelated gene that gave them better parenting abilities, and thus both genes ended up being reproduced a lot? How would you even control for this? Maybe adopted children?
Speech on Twitter: Platform Not Publisher
> how are parallel GPU workloads scheduled?

On a typical Windows PC, pretty simple. OS just throws tasks at hardware, if they take more than a couple of seconds to complete, the OS concludes the GPU has hang and resets the driver.

Virtualization-targeted GPUs have real schedulers, but such systems are rare.

> exporting each frame with `glReadPixels`

I recommend researching how to stop doing that and switch to the hardware video encoder (intel quick sync, nvidia nvenc, amd has one, too). Unfortunately for you, integrating them with OpenGL can be very hard. Quite easy for Direct3D BTW, because media foundation.
There is no easy way to tell whether something is real or pseudoscience. A lot of things that we consider real today where perceived as pseudoscience in their time. Science is largly a gigantic collection of dead ends that look silly in hindsight and finding out what's good science and what's not is an integral part of the scientific process. The idea that there can be a science of just Newtons, Einsteins, and Feynmans is naive.
I just can't believe this. Watching Mad Max in 4k on a 65" from 12 feet away there's still an obvious difference in detail and texture. You can see the bumps on skin, and grains in the sand.

So many ppl ITT throwing around equations but I have both 4k and 1080p content and all I can say is the difference is very real. Planet Earth II vs Planet Earth I is another example. Netflix 4k vs 1080p shows. Things like forest scapes, schools of fish, snowy mountain ranges all have just awesome differences in detail.
From the scene in India, Orkut was so firmly entrenched here, but slowly Facebook won over, it may have taken years.
Schools that don’t do this still have the same money problems.
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But those words don't mean the same thing.
> assuming a company doing at least minimum of security practices

This is not a sound assumption. SQL injection is still pretty common in practice. Even frameworks that try to sanitize input may have a "roll your own" approach that has flaws in it.
Additionally, the 206 suggestion fails to take into account basic use cases such as having more than one queued job.
Can FF also play audio in locked screen mode?
Just went hunting for a goodreads link to post the same, then found your comment. Really great book!
No experience with purses or bags but what I see a lot with homewares, where I do have experience, is that something starts to become a big seller and within a few weeks there are 4 or 5 versions of the same thing from different fba sellers.

What happens then is that either one brand becomes dominant or sales start to decline because there is a lot of confusion and reviews for the poorest version get mingled with the original.

Then there is the ultimate accolade, which happens from time to time, it becomes an amazonbasics product. The rest is history.
Also buy my book

... but use my affiliate tag.
Show HN: Advent of Pixels
No. Fentanyl is 25-50 times stronger than Heroin, where Vodka is 3-4 times stronger than wine.

If you drank a glass of wine and discovered it was 3-4 times stronger than you expected, that would suck. If you drank a bottle of wine, and it was 3-4 times stronger, you’d be in a lot of trouble, but you’d probably live. 25 to 50 times stronger? You’re fucked.
VR interested people needed to help with my research
Of mice and honey bees

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29635013

http://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305
I don't think it's alarmism fatigue so much as the culture war having smashed lots of people's trust in institutions and elites. It's hard to care about pressing real problems when society's energy had been spent on nasty, petty, and vicious disputes that don't matter much, but that for the participants, feels like the apocalypse. What is everyone going to do when the real apocalypse shows up?
The startup scene in Pakistan
Hey everyone,

I am writing my bachelor thesis on repeated immersion in 360° experiences and the aspects that influence user perception towards these experiences.
I'd be very grateful if you could answer my survey, it won't take up more than 3-5 minutes of your time and it is absolutely anonymous.

Thank you!
I'm sure the author would have liked for you to enjoy his book, but if you've already read Spivak and Landau, then you are most definitely not his intended audience.

Your criticism is like that of a professional mathematician complaining of the elementary results presented in some high school math book.
Personally, I'm very disappointed that the higher frame rate of The Hobbit has been interpreted as bad. For 3D, in my opinion, it was a much better experience than using a lower frame rate for 3D. In my opinion, using a lower frame rate for 3D has been a bug ever since.
The site seems to be down.
>This author misses a key algorithm design option: the API does NOT offer a CREATE on such a resource, the API offers a CREATE on a JOB which generates the long-time-to-create resource. So the API client simply creates the Job, receives an ID immediately, which can be queried for status, forever.

You should read the article because that's the approach it describes.
They’re trivially confirmed with a bit of Googling?
The "Thanksgiving build" is just the Halloween build with the version bump and the copyright date change for standard time. Plus the removal of the suspected harasser from the credits.
Agree, if you are vulnerable to this attack, you are probably vulnerable to a good old ' or '1'; drop databases :D
I have an ominous feeling when I think about how the changes in the topsoil's mycology could affect the crops we rely on.
I cleared all the caches from your wallet!
Wealth begats more wealth, and this trend accelerates when unchecked. Many of the themes of this article reminded me of data from Capitol in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty.

edit: formatting
Clojure vs. the static typing world
Dart has a sound type system. Why would someone voluntarily deal with TypeScript unless forced to by the browser environment?
It's funny, because I discuss Lamport's view in the book as well in a later chapter. I think some folks are annoyed that the first chapter is slow, but I promise it ramps up :)
Could be, but I'm not old and I feel the same way GP does. Google of ~8 years ago was about creating powerful new tools. Google of today is about bloating them, removing features, and ruining the UX with unnecessary redesigns.

Yes, I am more cynical these days, but I attribute it to stopping paying attention to what tech could be, and instead observing what it is, and how it actually gets used.
You will report for diversity conditioning first thing Monday.
Neil deGrasse Tyson under investigation after accusations of sexual misconduct
Yeah, getting
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Flopnax is the plural.
Thank you for this book. There is a huge need for this.

It saddens me that schools may be handing out CS degrees without having first required students to at least have taken linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and discrete math that covers basic counting, sets, graphs and groups. How can this be?

Probability and statistics should also be a required part of every CS program.
How we made the OneSoil map with AI detected fields and crops
The commentator to whom you're replying isn't denying climate change. He's proposing that the insect die off is happening on too short a time scale to attribute it entirely to climate change. That you're attacking him as if he were a climate denier is an example of the sort of behavior that creates climate deniers.
I think the parent point was that there is currently insufficient bandwidth to even make 576p look good for many channels. Given even a high bandwidth slot, 4K with low compression might look better than 8K with high compression. Specifying just "8K", is no guarantee of a quality picture.
flopnar and ropjax fail to support shallow typing

You shallow types will never progress beyond flopnax, I bet.
I was teaching a college class for high schoolers last year and thought it would be great to record my lectures for them. Then I put it up as an entire youtube channel for everyone:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCuge8p-oYsKSU0rDMy7jJlA

It basically builds up mathematics rigorously from basic definitions, while trying to stay very accessible.

If anyone has the time, or desire to learn math this way, let me know what you think, and if I should make more in this series!
Okay, so now your signup form has "first name", "last name" , plus "preferred name". Seems pretty minor, doesn't it, yet adding that next question drops signups say 4%. Is it really worth asking the question if you're going to scare away 4% of your customers? Or do you try to make due with what you have?
Primary usecase is hacking. A keylogger without any software or trace on the target computer.
If you don't mind the inherent Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, fine, have at it
If infants can develop brain mass in the womb, why can't they once born?
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575586 (99 points/127 comments)
You realize someone has to write all those rules - and correctly - right? Are you saying that we literally didn't have the computing power to run all the rules we could actually write? I think you need to support this idea that symbolic approaches failed to lack of computing power.
The graphics are misleading in that both values are actually the same but we ran out of toner, so later we changed the numbers to fit the partial graphic. As long as the visuals agree, the datumses are unimportant.
Only on little-endian implementations.
A typical dose is 25 mcg, I certainly wouldn’t give an opioid naive person 100mcg in a go. Dose low and go again if relief not adequate
In this day and age I would've expected any non-secured printer to be flooded by spam on a continuous basis, to the point where they have to be secured if you don't want them to run out of paper printing spam every single day.

I'm surprised that these companies managed to get by with non-secure printers without being overwhelmed by spam.
If #metoo is about sexual harassment, then going after people who once said something creepy seems to make the term less strong.

To me, it feels like an insult to all people who were actual victims of sexual harassment.
Yes, they have. I only saw numbers, but 50% of new sellers on Amazon Europe is Chinese. I expect the same for the US.

I also read an interview once where they got analysed on the US store, with frequent typos, but better images then in the past.
Femtoseconds are an inappropriate metric due to the inherent gender-inflexible naming.
I’m a musician, so I considered the example of playing an instrument. It’s an interesting example, because it certainly requires a lot of muscle memory that becomes “automatic” with practice, but it also usually requires conscious thought about what you’re playing (which basic bicycling does not). I would expect that the basic muscle memory parts would be hard to forget, but that the conscious decisions would be easy to forget.

I’ve never taken long breaks from my main instruments, but it sounds like you forgot both aspects of playing. I did play trombone for a few years starting in middle school, but haven’t played in over a decade. I definitely remember the basic slide positions for notes and a few of the common scales, but I wonder how well I would be able to play the trombone now.
TLDR; Why GitLab instead of GitHub? From their discussion group thread:

- Good multi-platform hosted CI or at least workable integration
with other (existing) CI solutions

- Hosted review tool that we don't have to maintain ourselves (though
a little bit less good than Phabricator, allegedly)

- familiar GitHub-like workflow with no requirement to install extra
software locally

- Reuse of GitHub credentials

- Realistic path forward for migrating tickets from Trac

CI is becoming Achilles heels for GitHub. Personally I would probably also add lack of fine grained permissions for contributors, inflexible diff, very basic code review tool as well.
Sentences like "It similarly follows that..." , "It is left as an exercise to the reader to show that..." , "Clearly, ..." always leave me dumbfounded.
tos:

> You may use our Services only as permitted in these Terms, and you consent to our Privacy Policy at https://www.logmeininc.com/legal/privacy, which is incorporated by reference.

pp:

> When you use our Services, we receive information generated through the use of the Service, either entered by you or others who use the Services with you (for example, schedules, attendee info, etc.), or from the Service infrastructure itself, (for example, duration of session, use of webcams, connection information, etc.) We may also collect usage and log data about how the services are accessed and used, including information about the device you are using the Services on, IP addresses, location information, language settings, what operating system you are using, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data to help us support the Services.

> Third Party Data: We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. We may also receive information from other affiliated companies that are a part of our corporate group. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new prospects for marketing, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.

> Location Information: We collect your location-based information for the purpose of providing and supporting the service and for fraud prevention and security monitoring. If you wish to opt-out of the collection and use of your collection information, you may do so by turning it off on your device settings.

> Device Information: When you use our Services, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use, operating system version, and the device identifier (or "UDID").

and

> Some specific examples of how we use the information:

> * Conduct research and analysis

> * Display content based upon your interests

> * Market services of our third-party business partners

and

> 4. Information Sharing

> ... We may share your personal information with (a) third party service providers; (b) business partners; (c) affiliated companies within our corporate structure and (d) as needed for legal purposes.

and

> Examples of how we may share information with service providers include:

> * Sending marketing communications

there's more
Except you know that won't make them happy. Take the shopping example. They had a product that benefited consumers and businesses, but in the middle, a very tiny slice of the population (which who were in the business of making product comparison sites) were losing, and they cost Googling billions. The EU didn't even tell Google /what/ the solution was, because there isn't any, they just blindly asked them to change things.

That shows you that it's not about "respecting" regulation. It's about shoving it in their face and forcing them to comply.
YouTube app itself can't do that, so I assume you're already using something different?

BTW. that's literally the single dumbest thing about YouTube app, and I can't fathom why it's the case.
I'm reading Calculus, Multivariable from William L. Briggs (amazon link: shorturl.at/ltGVY) ; it has the answers at the back of the book ; I'm quiet happy about it for someone who always sucked in maths. If anybody has books to share, i'm especialy interested in linear algebra and signal processing
It's called retail arbitrage
It's just an affiliate link wrapper
> P-values are not good measures for reliability, because they absolutely are not the same thing as the chance that a result is wrong

As an undergrad, I even had tenured professors try to tell me that a p-value is the chance that a result is wrong. Most researchers in psych or bio sciences have a weak understanding of statistics, usually taking a single statistics class in undergrad, then a single one in grad.
Probably because you still want the creators of content to be paid for their efforts.
And what regulation exactly did they break with the shop comparison issue?

It made consumers lives better, as well as business' lives. The only one losing in there were other shopping comparison sites, but no regulations were broken, yet they still had to pay billions, and the EU /didn't even/ bother telling them what they could change to fix the issue, just that they should do something about it.

The whole "follow regulations" excuse is complete bullshit.
Free speech always posed the risk of persecution. This isn't news. The risk is only mitigated if a culture is developed to accept different opinions and frown upon those who feel the need to punish those who express different and opposing viewpoints, but that's a very unstable equilibrium.

In this day and age where all public statements are stored ad eternum, it only takes a change in heart in how free speech is handled for an inoquous statement made in the past to serve as an excuse to punish you in the future.
Opioids are probably ok for short term pain like surgery, where they're given by healthcare professionals in a medical setting.

A lot of the US problem is that those patients will then be given a big box of opioids to take home for the next week. They then have some opioids spare which they keep insecurely in a cupboard. A relative or neighbour gains access to these and starts their addiction.
Does this explain why short, skinny people are smarter then overweight, tall people? /s
I didn't mention Brexit, I was talking about the election that made this Wylie character famous. Nevertheless, again, despite the claims in random Twitter posts here and there, mountains of evidence point to psychographic profiling being largely ineffective regardless of what type of vote it is being used on. “Swinging the vote by a few percent” is a major undertaking. It is not “trivially easy to do,” as you put it, certainly not through scientifically dubious methods that (in the case of the 2016 election) are not even actually used.

Mr. Wylie is a programmer that violated confidentiality agreements with his employer to try to gain notoriety and presumably raise his income. That will make him difficult to employ ever again in any traditional setting, even among those that are sympathetic to his political beliefs. He seems to believe, or at least wants others to believe, that he is today’s Edward Snowden - even though the two couldn’t be more different. I don’t know how well his monetization efforts are working out, but based on the fact that he is now making clickbait-type public statements that can be easily debunked to get media coverage, it seems that it may not have worked out as he planned.