skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you happen to be in the Stuttgart / Tübingen area of Germany, you should visit the experimental reactor in Haigerloch, now a museum [1]. You really get the impression that the team around Heisenberg was trying to build a reactor to generate energy, but you have to be careful: I am not sure that if they would've gotten to a state where a bomb was also feasible, they would've been openly (or even secretly) against building it. This quote by Heisenberg makes it seem like he thought about this quite a bit during his time at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut, and maybe came to a personal conclusion:

HEISENBERG: One can't say that. One could equally well say "That's the quickest way of
ending the war.”

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forschungsreaktor_Haigerloch
Eh, it happened pretty quickly and in the middle of a bunch of "we're making our search experience better!" stuff around the same time. I only gave a range because I'm fuzzy on the exact year it went to hell. Notably, the failure mode isn't that it finds a bunch of spam sites that happen to contain the keywords I want or have great SEO for those keywords, which is what one might expect if it were a wheat/chaff thing. In fact the more obscure and specific I get the more Google's results seem to try to wrestle me back to the middle, and the more it shows me page after page of blogging-as-income and similar lowish-value sites that are wildly far from what I was trying to get, and are in no way trying to masquerade as anything like the content I was looking for.

I think the others don't go against this trend because they also don't want to spend more money fighting spam to try to salvage a use case / usage pattern that is at this point so old that a lot of Web users have never seen it work, and that many users even back then didn't use effectively.

Those of us who relied on it heavily disagree strongly with the notion that Google only improves their search, though. For me it's much worse today—to the point of being entirely useless, in fact—for a significant percentage of queries I'd like to try against it, and noticeably worse though still usable for a bunch of others. It is definitely better at sending me to Wikipedia and at finding local restaurants or whatever, though, which is the kind of thing that probably constitutes 95+% of all queries against it (throw in people typing "example.com" into search rather than the address bar and it's more like 99%), so I'm sure their metrics look great.
Use Kodi and plugins. Or rent good old DVDs for movies.
Absolutist thinking is not good for you and I think that it often clashes with reality.

The only browser on your server should be the one you need to run there. How about a server to automate some Windows GUI thing or to run mobile OS emulators like BrowserStack does? You're gonna need a GUI there because going "headless" is not always an option depending on how interesting your work is.

I've also used server editions of Linux and Windows as my workstation throughout my career because they have features that I needed or just the convenience of having the same exact setup as production.
Well, now were' playing Trump's semantics, aren't we? It's not the INS, it's ICE. AS if they'll lay off 20k and then what? Nope. They may temper some things, do the dreamer things they promised, accommodate and redefine what refugee means (to include some poor economic migrants, but probably not rich economic migrants, etc.)
This is a common but dangerous misconception. The human body needs insulin to function, even without dietary carbohydrate. This is why insulin dosing includes basal (continuous background) as well as mealtime insulin.
What's it going to cost, though? A big problem with insulin now is the cost...
"What doctors and researchers get wrong about diabetes is that pin-pricks and injections are not even remotely bad. I don't know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. You get used to that within the first week of diagnosis."

Dude, you don't know many diabetics then. Companies spend billions of dollars to solve this problem.
Both can be true. Entitled people and bad design can coexist.

But the sense of entitlement theory explains a lot of things about dumb, like brain-dead-level dumb, holes in many of Google’s services.
If I doubt you are conscious, are you then, by definition, not conscious?
Exactly. I use an ad blocker (usually I disable it when a site asks nicely, but I turn it right back on if their ads are intrusive) but I don't get the sense of entitlement that seems to come with ad blocking for some people. If I want to use an ad blocker, that's my right; if a service wants to block me for it, that's theirs.
We are in the medical / research field - also selling a physical product. We are using chatbot to answer sometimes really narrow questions about customer-specific cases (they just would not fit the Help/FAQ page). LiveChat is where most of our leads come from.
I'm not aware of one but I'm no longer in an environment where I keep tabs on things like that.
Honestly, this would be an amazing way to take out Spotify.

Denial of Service at the ad provider, cripple the user base, advertise your service with a "don't get spoti-screwed"
Well yes if you're stupid enough to directly expose your DB to the world then it's technically possible, but barring such idiocy there's arguably more risk of a DB hack through PHP than client side JS in most architectures.
Thanks! We've updated it from https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/mits-insulin-pill-could-re....
> It's not like I'm offended at there being an ad for an adult store or anything, but it's just really offputting? I guess? to hear about some buy one get one on adult toys or whatever while I'm eating.

It sounds like you are offended. How else would you characterize being "offput" by something? We also use Spotify in our household and I vaguely recall hearing A&E ads as well, but they just jumble together in my subconscious with all the other ads.
Yeah, which feels like a slippery slope into political takeovers, especially since the speaker of the house is 3rd in line.

If Republicans were guaranteed to keep the President and VP slot, you'd see an impeachment much more easily. I don't think any Republican will want Pelosi a heartbeat away from the Presidency unless Trump's crime was so clear and egregious that 2/3 of the country wanted him gone.
Rent Your Parking Spaces
Can't say I have this fear. What's it a fear of?
> I'm guessing you're not a developer.

Senior software engineer at Google.

> Nobody suggested "notepad".

The thing is, if you've never written a line of code in your life, you don't have an editor set up. You don't know what an editor or an IDE is. By "entry points", the post is talking about what is the shortest, easiest path to get someone from "has never done anything resembling programming" to "feels good about their experience creating a software thing".

> A basic HTML structure can be achieved in 5 minutes in your code editor.

I'm currently authoring my second book on the web [1]. Each bit of HTML and CSS was lovingly hand-crafted from scratch. I know exactly how quickly you can slap a web page together. I also know how shitty it looks before you spend hours and hours tweaking the CSS, and that's assuming you already know CSS.

A bare bones HTML page still looks like a physics website from the 90s. No person who is taking their first steps in computing is going to look at that and think, "Programming is awesome! I want to do more of this!"

> When it comes to doing interesting polished "modern" things with transitions, nested flexbox layouts, interactivity, and custom light-weight modules, there's no better way to control the quality and details of a web product than with raw coding.

Quality and polish aren't relevant to this discussion. The article is not "what's the best way for a professional to make web sites?" It's "how do people get into making software as easily as possible?"

[1]: http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
notepad is a terrible editor for anything other than simple property files. For example, editing JSON that has any sort of complexity would be just as painful.
Oops there is encryption. Sorry for that.
You do load however code from the website and from another repo. Account creation is random so losing the config seems to be bad.

You have no payment option.

You have no physical address.

No idea on what continent my data ends up though, or what guarantee there is that the data persists.

Why in the name of <random deity> would I trust this to run let alone trust you with my data?
emacs has had M-x spook for a long long time....
Anyone interested in a Company-as-a-Service (CaaS) to help them to get started? A lot of things can be automated away (including cognitive load) these days and when you think about it, there are repetitive patterns in almost all businesses one has to do (but often doesn't want to) - for a modest fee e.g. $20-50/month?
Students are $5 a month. Same as one Starbucks coffee a month. It is cheap already.
Wouldn't a pontoon boat be able to float on top of the water? I mean, not perfectly, but it should work.
They're not "completely unrelated" — they are an absolute and a relative deficiency of insulin production respectively. They do have significantly different aetiologies though, and the conflation is very unhelpful.
Yeah, I think employee #2 would be in the range of 50 - 300 basis points. (0.5% - 3%)
I suspect this is an inseparable part of the wide open Internet we love to talk about. Changing revenue to something more direct and less invasive is an extremely difficult task. I wonder if we will see the return of big walled gardens (e.g. Prodigy, Compuserve, etc from the old days) with all-you-can eat subscriptions to content within.
Sorry, I don't think so. Getting someone to swallow a pill sounds strictly harder then getting them to swallow a liquid.
(edited for clarity) they're the world's sixth largest arms exporter, immediately after China on the list:
https://www.businessinsider.com/top-countries-exporting-weap...

Interestingly, half of those sales are to Saudi Arabia.
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(Edited to add that I'm a hardware product designer, providing mechanical and systems engineering services for medical devices and other mission critical hardware)
>> There is a defacto standard

> Yes, for TV news announcers.

and for everything else on TV, netflix, etc. What else would define a standard?
Your first paragraph was quite enlightening! In my experience as a Czech, the guilt over WWII and the holocaust is the recurrent unifying theme for Germans. On one hand I do appreciate the sentiment. On the other, I think it's a bit of an overreaction that just displaying the German flag is often seen as a form of radical nationalism.

Also, this bit made me laugh:

> Germany [...] quite exposed geographically

Yes, squeezed between Poland and Belgium? Or perhaps Czech Republic and the Netherlands? Austria and Denmark? All these scary countries around! I can promise you the Czechs aren't planning any attacks on the exposed Germany just yet :)
My reading of that is that they compared apples and oranges. They didn't use NLP there at all (stemming, parts of speech tagging, etc); they just relaxed handling of whitespace. The Nevod 'equivalent' was a less general expression to make it seem more maintainable.

The Nevod example translates to (ruby):

pattern = Regexp.new( "(?<Name>ejection fraction|LVEF)( by visual inspection)?
(?<Qualifier>(is|of)( (at least|about|greater than|less than|equal to))?)
(?<Value>[0-9]+(-[0-9]+)?|normal|moderate|severe)".gsub(/\s+/, "\\s+"),
Regexp::IGNORECASE)

["ejection fraction is at least 70-75",
"ejection fraction of about 20",
"ejection fraction of 60",
"ejection fraction of greater than 65",
"ejection fraction of 55",
"ejection fraction by visual inspection is 65",
"LVEF is normal"].each do |line|
puts line
puts pattern.match(line).inspect
end

The only trick I used was to substitute literal whitespace in the regex with a whitespace pattern, so that the typed regex was more readable.
This is a great point. Jargon can be really intimidating and make the simplest statements impossible to understand for the unfamiliar. But is often trivial to learn with a little study.
Have you tried alternative test site meters? I test on my forearm and it doesn't hurt and mostly takes a couple of quick lanceting. I use Freestyle lite test meter with a multiclix lancet. No finger damage, no mess, just have to have forearms visible. Easier for your wife to do too since lancet placement is trivial (anywhere on forearms). Hope the CGM works for you ofc
BBC Visual and Data Journalism Cookbook for R Graphics
Translation:
"He was - uniquely to this day for the Federal Republic - the intellectual counterbalance to the Chancellor [Kohl?], and happily played this role. In private life, he was often uncontrolled, arrogant and overbearing. He sometimes bullied his staff for trivial reasons. But Weizsäcker played his public appearances flawlessly."
You're not replying to my points...
The authors conveniently forget to mention the false positive rate with their approach.
Science does not support the claim that humans have consciousness! You know that you are conscious, but you have no way to falsify the hypothesis that everyone OTHER than you is a philosophical zombie. (If you discover such a test, then congratulations, you are now a scientist up there with Aristotle, Newton and Einstein.)
Technically the CO was in bed at the time of the collision. OOD "had the conn" and certainly should not have wrecked the vessel. Still, we could imagine extenuating circumstances that would excuse an OOD's failure. No one ever imagined the CO's career would survive a collision like this.
Popsockets founder on fighting counterfeits
My complaint still stands, but OTOH I just realized I now have a way to turn German into English at least in one aspect.
There is no real substance to this article, i feel.
Right. It comes down to “can’t” or “won’t”. It makes little sense imo for Twitter for demolish their user stats.

The last big round of fake bot purges saw significant percentages of users removed from prominent accounts like Obama’s.

If normal people don’t know it’s a problem - why would Twitter want to fix it? Add that to a real financial hit if they do. Not “can’t”, “won’t”.
I see two novel aspects of this language:

1. the ability to easily break patterns into named subpatterns which can be referenced later on

2. the `@` operator which gives you the ability to talk about things inside these subpatterns

These seem like worthwhile additions which would make regex more manageable. I don't see any reason why the whole of regex would need to be abandoned for some completely new, potentially proprietary technology, though.

It also reminds me of parser combinators (in the form they are popular in Haskell, for instance).
By and large, humans are sympathetic when they can empathise - or in other words when they can see themselves in another's shoes. At this point, I'd wager most adults in the developed world have learned that they too have an impressive capacity to grow skeletons in their own digital closet, and adjust their worldview and morality slider accordingly.
Yeah, I hate paying for things too -- but scientists have to realize that typesetting, formatting and archiving information cost MONEY. The people who do this need to eat.

I'm happy to live in a world with author-circulated preprints, but if everyone wants the benefits of journals and the whole publication rigamarole, we're all going to need to pay for it. And that means you tenured socialist slackers who think that everything can be free.
But Spotify is only $10 a month....Your time spent pirating vs. time saved on Spotify has to be worth something.
Yeah, that's a pretty strong signal that your account got used for some nefarious shit.
Facebook's Algorithmic Puritans: Women's nipples still regarded as 'obscene'?
How to Build a Basic PWA with HTML and JavaScript
Insulin is pretty temperature stable these days: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF00277482.pd...
Shame on You, Devil: A 1959 Challenge to Technologists-In-Training
I watched that video a while ago, and although it presents a lot of facts, I would carefully weigh and consider the conclusion.

Bear in mind also that the author of that video is a 21-year-old college student who is an enthusiast -- not that that should lessen the weight of the facts presented, but merely that its conclusion may not be the authoritative airline industry view from a grizzled veteran that some might perceive it to be. There's plenty of room for debate there.

Point-to-point was actually the past, and hub-and-spoke became dominant for many reasons, and now fuel-efficient long-range aircraft makes it possible to shift some routes back to point-to-point, so it does appear to be on an uptrend. What's old is new again.

Any categorical claim that point-to-point is the future has to be examined critically. My belief is that neither will be the exclusive routing model -- it will all be determined by the economics and constraints of flying in the future, and no one can predict that. There are operations research people at airlines that tune models for optimal routing based on various conditions, and when the environment changes, the optimum shifts as well and the airline will have to shift with it.
So as soon as you start questioning your own consciousness you are immediately no longer considered "conscious"...

So using this definition of consciousness, and looking at Plato's most famous quote: The unexamined life... is apparently the only conscious one. Huh.
Here's what an ADA working group[0] had to say about possible causes for Novo Nordisk's insulin price increase:

> Novo Nordisk also published data for two of their insulin products, NovoLog and NovoLog FlexPen. Since the early 2000s, the CAGRs for the list prices for NovoLog and NovoLog FlexPen (Fig. 7) have been in the range of 9.8–9.9% (22). This translated into large total increases in the list prices: 353% (2001–2016) for a NovoLog vial and 270% (2003–2016) for a FlexPen. In contrast, net prices received by the manufacturer increased at a more modest rate (3–36%) with CAGRs of 0.2–2.1%. Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi have reported that rebates have grown rapidly in recent years, representing more than 40% of U.S. gross sales in some cases

[0] - http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/diacare/41/6/1299.f...
What makes it a PITA?

I use go for building websites and it was the first time web development really made any sense. All the other systems out there require tons of tools, and lock you into doing things their way.

So, what makes GO so much of a pain? Maybe ignorance is bliss for me?
fun idea :)
There are so many complaints about Amazon's power and reach, but does anyone else here see an in for Amazon Music? I've been a Spotify paying member for years, but even though it only affects free members it makes me raise my eyebrows.
Because non-paying customers have the potential to become paying ones.
Only for those that don't use a JVM with either AOT compilation or JIT caching.
When it comes to any kind of programming library:ish thing, there's no bigger turn-off than "patent pending technology".

No thanks. Off you go.
I was primarily responding to the OP that used WordPress as an example of how easily you can add plugins (third-party PHP code). I see that as an anti-pattern, because it encourages non-developers to add PHP code into the system, much of it poorly written and insecure (or not performant).

But that plugin system also is one of WordPress' greatest assets. And you can add PHP code to any part of a "theme" too. If you turned off the ability for themes and plugins to be "added live" then I don't think WordPress would be nearly as successful as it has become.
Sell something you don't want which has value to someone else. (eg. gold coins)
Qindom Extends Boundaries of Quantum Machine Learning to Application
Because running a museum requires a constant input of money and there are already many measuems that house manufacturing equipment.

She's probably contacted museums already and they've probably either told her that none of the equipment she has is of historical significance or that they'd love it but they don't really have a budget for acquiring stuff. There is somewhat of a surplus of old machine shop (basically what this business was) equipment. People retire, sell most of their stuff to other shops or individuals and keep a few of their most versatile machines for themselves (and their kids then sell or scrap them). Stuff doesn't usually get scrapped until it's a) totally clapped out or b) inherited by someone wealthy enough that they're not gonna bother selling old machines for a grand or two and would rather just call a scrapper to clean everything out. Also, the larger size machines that most production shops like this aren't worth much because the market is basically limited to other shops and a few industrious individuals and other shops already have equipment (and if they don't they're rarely buying old stuff).
It's a beautiful sentiment.

Who's going to pay for the layout and editing and filtering? The people at Elsevier do something for their money.

I'm happy with going to all author-circulated preprints, but I'm afraid that all of the archival work of the journals is a pretty good thing.
I'm not really clear what Chalmers means by 'rich information processing' though, and yes I have read some of his stuff and IMHO he doesn't seem to either. He's super smart and well worth reading, but I happen to disagree on this.

>It's also possible that consciousness is something more fundamental that strongly emerges when the right sort of physical activity takes place

Since brains seem to be physical and are conscious, yes they seem to be performing the right sort of activity but that's pretty much tautological. At least the idea that self image and self awareness are key is a concrete theory that we have a chance of testing.

Maybe it's a sort of self-modeling feedback loop. Our brains model our physical bodies, mental state and the mental state of others. At some point, this modeling becomes sophisticated enough to become recursive. The model includes cruder approximations of those models, etc like being between two mirrors facing each other. The symbolic representations expand beyond our ability to perceive them. We become aware of our awareness. Bang! You're conscious.
If you use macOS, I made an offline only, open source password manager https://github.com/swlkr/allyourpasswords
how long did you work in that space and how much income you got over that span?
If bootlegs and unreleased tracks were officially released, they would become official and released tracks.

If there's a specific unreleased track you want, fine, pirate that. I don't think there's anything wrong with pirating content that's not available for sale (as long as you buy it if/when it does become available for sale). However, the existence of some unreleased tracks do not give you license to pirate tracks which are released.

Outside of specific, exceptional circumstances, I have zero sympathy for anyone pirating music in 2018. Music is finally being distributed in the DRM Free, affordable, and unencumbered formats consumers have been asking for.
Dürrenmatt's famous play The Physicists has a very similar setting, I wonder if he was inspired by this at all.