skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always felt that the English language is somewhat ambivalent, but the construction of the language via writing is not ambivalent. To complete the idea, imagine how language is used. Certainly, we don't think in punctuation-able sentences at all times - we think in streams.

However, when constructing a logical presentation of ideas, we would think in more grammatically anatomically correct forms.

The implications of the writing are a form of protocol in my opinion, and as any good protocol requires, must be interpreted to some standard. Unfortunately, the complexity of the standard for the English language is far and above the complexity for a given programming language, and we unfortunately don't really have a linter for conversation.

Hyperbole, perhaps; but it's true at its core: people only receive meaning if they have some sort of roadmap for the symbol and the symbolized.
I assume the ranges are entirely pulled out of thin air? Or do you really assume anybody who exercises less than 20 hours a week is unhealthy?
Check out the Coursera courses:

https://www.coursera.org/course/automata
https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
>>I think it's reasonable that people who bitch and moan about Google but refuse to seek alternatives (they're out there!) are a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.

Only if you think blaming the victim is reasonable.

Look, everyone knows that alternatives to Google exist. The problem here is that Google has pulled a massive bait and switch on its entire userbase. They started as a company that put its users first, and over time turned into one that tries to extract as much money from users as possible. And while it is possible to switch to other services, for a lot of people and companies this involves a significant time investment as well as an upheaval of processes and resources.

Heck, as a single individual, my Gmail address is listed in at least 25 different locations. Remembering what those are and then changing them alone would take me hours. And then there's static documents with my email address on them - resumes, cover letters, business letters, business cards, and more. Finally, there is the question of whether my new email provider offers integrated solutions for instant messaging, content sharing and collaboration, calendar, and more.

Basically, Google is a monopoly -- not in the sense of market-share but rather in terms of the completeness of their offering, and they are abusing the shit out of this. That's what's making people angry, and they have every right to be angry.
RE: word recall - it might not be related. It's just something I've noticed of myself. I probably attribute it to the concussions since I never really explored other alternatives.

I didn't play sports for about two years. It was very frustrating when I thought I was close, but still had some lingering effects. Around the time I stopped having bad headaches, I would try to play basketball once every two weeks hoping everything was okay, but would come home with terrible headaches. I kept trying, hoping something would change, and after a while ,the headaches subsided in intensity. At that point, I started increasing the frequency of playing, and things, over time, became normal again. Now I play sports normally.

There's a few odd things that I really can't stand now. Fans blowing in my face (sometimes treadmills at my gym have automatic fans that turn on). I can't headbang to heavy metal music because it hurts me later on. I think it's the specific movement when I do.

The worst part about the concussion is that it took away my way of life. Before it, I was playing sports or exercising at least five days a week. It was a part of my identity. I had a really tough year trying to move my passions from sports to startups and business. It worked out; however, and now I am able to enjoy all of them.
I say "You're welcome" or "Stop!" when people sneeze, and everyone seems to get a kick out of it.
They'd probably feel a hundred times worse if they found out by observing the symptoms in those future children.
As a point of order, you cannot refute a "there exists" assertion with any number of counterexamples.

My point was that it doesn't have to work in the way that the FDA (and other examples of other regulatory agencies) currently function, and your response did not address that.
Makes you have to wonder about the assisted suicide debate, either way.
this is usually just called an 'executive summary'
Address of the stolen funds: https://blockchain.info/address/1LuG91tcSQxKj32BsCoRkX7yQLfj...
To take it one step further, I don't necessarily trust studies linking genomic variants with disease significance. A subset derive correlations using oversimplified models:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23770567
> considering that pre-existing conditions can no longer be considered for health-care service, there's less things to worry about.

They can't be considered now. There's nothing to say that a few years down the line that won't change.
Notice how it doesn't explicitly say that it's an OTA update to cover TVs currently in use. It also doesn't say if it will happen automatically in the background or if the user will be prompted to update (or not). Given how close it is to Black Friday, what are the odds that the update doesn't roll out until well after Christmas, when all those new TVs are plugged in?
That's a really good point, and something I'll have to think about in the future. I suppose an awful lot of online "discussions" are really sequential attempts at having the last word.
Most certainly not because I understand that 23AM is not infallible. I'd still take up regular checkups with my doctor and discuss my findings from 23AM with her.
too bad they are not as rigorous with the food we eat. One example is that they don't even have the resources to check if the food manufacturers claims are true (you can't be sure what type of fish you eat nowadays).
In Bitcoin a block can be up to 1 MB, yet mining pools are only generating 150-250 KB blocks and leaving many transactions unconfirmed.
I hold a degree in Sociology but I lack the teary eyed outlook on life which seems a requirement if one if going to make a name for themselves in the field of Sociology in this era. For that reason I also earned a degree in engineering and opted for a steady income instead. But, like so many other sociology majors, I read nearly everything Erving Goffman ever published. For a time I was a nearly complete fanatic of his work and style. Unfortunately, Alice Goffman's writing lacks the depth of her father's studies; indeed American Police State is just another Martinique Hotel handwringer complete with all the hopelessnes and despair as the subtext. Why can't sociology majors ever concentrate on the individuals who grow up in ghettos and get on with life? Surely they must represent the majority.

I believe that as long as sociologists continue to write in the Martinique Hotel manner an undue number of tears will be shed without any real work being done. In physics such a machine would be one-hundred percent entropic, i.e. fuel in, nothing out. Or, in the case of Alice Goffman's piece, tears in, nothing out. It is time for a new generation of sociology majors to concentrate on the winners and do research on them to see what makes them different, i.e. such as making the right decisions before acting.

Pitiless in Seattle
Well, sure. That's because dispositive results are valuable to their customers. It's not a marketing problem: they have someone (some) people want. Saying that it would be "better" that they not provide this service seems to be an odd usage of "better".

The liability concern is real: they aren't perfect, they'll goof up tests, and in some measure (though IMHO largely overstated -- the real risk here is a little fear and a needless diagnostic procedure) people will suffer when they do. But that doesn't seem to me to be insoluble. If no one insures that kind of thing right now then maybe they could be induced to, or 23AndMe could work up something on their own via investors.

But arguing that the only viable solution is to shut down a comparatively cheap and (full disclosure: I'm a customer) really quite entertaining service seems wrong to me. It's a net good; some people (hi!) like it.
Watson - an inline issue manager
I have been writing a scheme interpreter in c, and for me the most interesting aspect so far has been the level at which I am programming.

At the beginning it was very traditional c; symbol and AST manipulation were a PITA (at that point it was a malloc'd arrays of `expressions`).
After I had a base language working I started to use the language I had implemented so far to further the implementation, this finally peaked where this weekend I did a large refactor to remove most of my c arrays and instead replace them with scheme pairs and lists.

For example, here [1] I implement define function form in terms of lambda, specifically new_lambda(env, cons(args, cons(body, null))).

In hindsight this seems so obvious, but I have found the whole process extremely interesting, specifically looking at how the implemented languages starts to influence the implementation language.

I really cannot stress enough how enjoyable the process of writing my interpreter has been, I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who is interesting in programming languages.

[1] https://github.com/mkfifo/plot/commit/07272bd69e51979ab71fa0...
There was very interesting presentation by one professor. I'm not sure about what university, but he seemed to know his work.

He talked about how databse world is about to change. ACID is really expensive in terms of resources, and so are the more difficult things about relational schema (foreign keys, checks, etc). And architecture of classic RDBMSes is pretty wasteful -- they use on-disk format but cache it in memory.

He talked about how there are basically three new paths for DBMSes to follow.
1) Some drop the restrictions to become faster. This is the NoSql stuff, because you don't really need ACID for writing to Facebook wall.

This is called NoSql database.

2) OLAP, in data warehousing, the usual way to do things is that you load ridiculous amount of data into database, and then run analytical queries, that tend to heavily use aggregation and sometimes use just few dimmensions, while the DWH data tend to be pretty wide.

For this, column store makes perfect sense. It is not very quick on writes, but it can do very fast aggregation and selection of just few columns.

This is called Column store.

3) In OLTP, you need throughtput, but the question is, how big are your data, and how fast do they grow? Because RAM tends to get bigger exponentially, while how many customers you have will probably grow linearly or maybe fuster, but not much. So your data could fit into memory, now, or in future.

This allows you to make very fast database. All you need to do is to switch the architecture to memory-based, store data in memory format in memory and on disk. You don't read the disk, you just use it to store the data on shutdown.

This is called Main memory database.

No, that was the presentation. It was awesome, and if someone can find it, please give us a link! My search-fu was not strong enouhg.

...

What interests me is that we have NoSql databases for some time already, and we have at least one huge (are very expensive) column store: Teradata. But this seems to be first actual Main memory database.

My dream would be to switch Postgres to main memory or column store mode, but I guess that's not happening very soon :)
I'm a fan of the Lenovo U4xx, however, it's 14" and not 15". In terms of size it's about the same size as the 15" MBP. NO numpad either. My config is i7/16GB RAM.
Google nixes the whitelist, releases Glass Mirror API to developers
Then they can keep their TVs as well.

Shameless.
Not the parent, but I can't be the only guy who uses "guy" as a synonym for "person" (i.e., not necessarily "male person").
Yeah LG, cut the newsspeak: it's not an OR, it's an AND.
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It's a mistake to think of "correct punctuation" as some sort of abstract goal to attain. Communication is about making yourself understood, and punctuation is a means to that end. When people expect a period to mean one thing because most people use a period in that fashion then what do you accomplish by defecting from that common usage?

In meatspace you can rely on nonverbal cues, online you cannot. So if we can overload the semantics of a period and of capital letters to help compensate for the lack of nonverbal communication, all the better. Full sentences and proper grammar don't go away -- they just take on a different meaning. Clear communication is hard enough as is, why complicate matters further by limiting yourself to perfect sentences and lose out on the extra nuance?
What does that even mean? Am I missing something, or is that a serious non sequitur made worse by the 'either way'.
Difference between Statisticians and Data Scientists
A friend of mine tried to do this with a browser plugin. He replaced ads for profit with ads for "good".

The newspapers obviously got pissed :)
There are obviously a number of issues with this idea (as others have mentioned), but as a member of your 'target population' (a firefighter and paramedic), here's something that hasn't been mentioned yet:

>What if the $ went directly to the first responder?

I'm assuming you mean for these people to respond when they're off duty. It varies from state to state, but generally speaking I'm covered by Good Samaritan laws as long as I'm doing what I'm doing without expectation of compensation (if I'm on duty, I'm covered by my employer's insurance). So as soon as you offer to pay me, I'm no longer covered, and I'm not going to touch you with a ten foot pole.
>Who knows what kind of discriminatory practices will be undertaken by service providers, insurers, or even employers in the future?

FYI, This is illegal in the United States. It is prohibited by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimi...

You can thank Rep. Louise Slaughter for that one, she tried to get the bill passed for 12.5 years, and never gave up. She declared it "the greatest thing she has done in her time in Congress." She is the only scientist in Congress.
I would say this article was surprising well written for a tech piece for the Guardian, though, I think it could have been a little deeper.

Love (do people love him?) or hate Dotcom, he is an interesting man. Aside from a heart attack, I seem him being a pain in side of the music industry for years to come.
It's also known for launching ETFs, buying subway sandwhiches, buying real estate, storing wealth, and feeding the homeless among other things.
So by default your name and DNA are not visible to anyone.
You'd have to make your profile public in order for other people to see any information about you. All it shows in the relative finder is that there is a match. The person just follows the "contact" link and sends you a message. They don't really expire, so you can just sit on them until you feel like responding/granting access-- at which point they can then see your name.
At that point they can't see your DNA either-- you have to go through another process to grant them access to your DNA.
All in all it's a pretty good system.
Well, I still like it, too, in a way. It's just a bit unnerving sometimes. I have this feeling that the technology is still a bit in its infancy.
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Hopefully they can recycle the raw materials, and can build upon the designs.
One of her doctors tapped her for more than $1 million in loans that he would never repay.

Because that sure is working for free right?
Badly. But scaling in dataset size, and scaling in performance are not the same thing. Busy eshop might need no more than 5 GB of space (growing 100 MB per month or something) but require very high speed.
Funny. I had the same argument with someone about this months ago. I told him to google 'argyria'.
> considering that pre-existing conditions can no longer be considered for health-care service,

They can no longer be grounds for refusing coverage. They certainly are used in determining the price of your premiums.

The ACA is not the panacea that people sometimes seem to think it is. There are tons of ways the insurance company can use any data they have on you in their own best interest[0], making your life miserable in the process. Jacking up premiums is just the tip of the iceberg.

EDIT: As pointed out by aestra, there are other laws protecting use of particular types of information (eg. genetic information). My comment is simply a response to the quoted statement that "pre-existing conditions can no longer be considered for heath-care service [due to the ACA]", which is false.

[0] Which may or may no coincide with your best interest
I think there is an evolution to an idea :

1.) Ideas - usually some solution to a market problem.

2.) prototype - physical manifestation of your idea to show to customers..

3.) validated idea - some group of customers agree your solution will work for them.

4.) product market fit - you can make the product and sell it for a cost that will make a profit.

4a.) successful company - customer lifetime value greater than customer aqusition costs for some marketing channel.

5.) scalable business - CLTV>CAC for big marketing channel(s)
Am I the only one who is rationally skeptical of DDG claim it doesn't track? surely NSA could have already infiltrated. Or: doesn't track at a -corporate- level.
Why is he an unpleasant man?
That is a possible explanation. In the US the FBI's investigative powers supercedes that of the local police, and they are centrally managed from Washington DC with satellite offices in the various cities around the country. They are chartered with investigations that would cross state boundaries typically and are the investigative arm of the Department of Justice. The Russians and Canadians have similar services (examples of 'large countries') as does China.
I'm surprised at the negativity here. There is nothing conclusive about this test and from what I've seen it does a pretty good job. So one guy got some bad indicators that proved to be nothing, who cares?

My father did 23 and me, without giving any family medical history and it concluded that my father was at a much higher risk factor for things that his mother was ultimately afflicted with. So, it works to some extent.

On the flip side, long story short, I had a CT scan done on my chest that checked out fine, but the doctor that reviewed it said I might have and unrelated problem - Patent Ductus Syndrome. Nothing heart surgery and a lifetime of supply of Coumadin couldn't fix. A few months later I got an Echocardiogram which conclusively said the doctor was wrong.

Quick, stop doing CT scans!!!??? Are we're all so afraid of our own shadow that heroes at the FDA need to protect us?
To add to your list, Vertica (HP) and Paraccel are columnar; TimesTen was a main-memory database bought a number of years ago by Oracle.
Every time I post my failures on HN I get like 3-5 freelance job offers. Posting my successes doesn't get me anything.

===== Psychological Theory on Why =====

- Employers may feel threatened by you if you are successful.

- Employers may feel that you will leave them.

- Employers want a subordinate they can control.

- Employers want YOU to empower THEIR company, not them empowering you and you leaving with the knowledge and experience they helped give you.
Also, Sense About Science had a great piece on the (lack of) accuracy of this kind of ancestry testing. http://www.senseaboutscience.org/data/files/resources/119/Se...
Me and my friends get together and play Streets of Rage, Shinobi, old school Madden and Charles Barkley Shut and Jam!
AS/400 isn't mainframe. It's midrange; smaller than a mainframe, and not as flexible.
I'd love to use a service like 23andme, but am seriously concerned about privacy issues. Do they have any privacy conscious competitors? Any upcoming ones?
The word is "addictive".
How truly sad, it must have been so hard for her only ending up with $310 million at the end of her life.

It's far better to be old and poor in New York City, that way you can get food stamps instead of having to subsist on a paltry quarter billion dollars.
I much prefer communicating without capital letters. I have a hand injury and I find any extra keystrokes to be annoying.

For IRC or chat, it doesn't make sense to use capitalization or most punctuation. The beginning of the line serves as a delimiter between messages; capitalization is redundant in this capacity. Likewise, the end of the line serves a similar purpose, which makes periods (generally) redundant. The addition of a period in this medium adds extra emphasis to the message, which is often interpreted as aggressiveness (hence this article).

Also, it is unfair to associate lack of capitalization with poor grammar and spelling. Poor grammar is associated with lack of education. Lack of capitalization should not be! You probably were not implying an association, but many others I have spoken to over the years have. (For some reason, I've had a lot of conversations about this stuff...)
+1 to your quitting acknowledging sneezes. That has always seemed to me like a pointless injection of politeness that continues only because of cultural inertia. Not sure how much it has improved my life, but it sure feels nice to be one less person doing it.

I'll say it loud and proud: "Bless yourself. I am no longer a sneeze acknowledger." I think I'll get that printed on a t-shirt
> Not that I have heard of it before this post, though.

SongPop does the same thing.
I've used 23andMe and I feel that this is how the information IS presented.

When I click through my profile, it shows me strength of assumptions based on the number of conclusive or inconclusive studies that have been reported. You can easily click through each result and see the studies.

I never once felt that they were making a diagnoses. I don't know where people are getting this from.
Securing traditional monetary systems also had to deal with the fact that we cannot trust each other (enough, in aggregate), and I think that's where most of the expense goes.
I don't really understand your objection - what is it about a cousin, say, knowing they're your cousin a week or so before you know that troubles you so much?

Please note I'm not saying I disagree, I'm simply asking if you can elucidate the problem further.

The same sort of thing happens to non-adoptees all the time - one's cousins who do family history research may know decades before you that they are your [near] relative.

Aside, it's also interesting WRT privacy of sperm/egg donors. I recently commented in a thread (on Reddit I think) that an egg donor should be aware that it may be quite likely, even if not presently possible, for the child to trace them [the biological mother in that instance] in the future either due to tech or legal changes. This was flatly dismissed as an impossibility; little was I to know it might already be quite possible [in the sense of being attainable by the general public].
That sounds very much like Michael Stonebraker's typical pitch these days.
There is a vast gulf that exists between working for free and blatantly defrauding your patients. Most of humanity lives within that gulf. From your tone, I suspect you may not.
1) Pomodoro Technique while working on tasks
2) Running "StayFocused" on the background while doing tasks.
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of an "easter egg"?
Why is this surprising? Punctuation's usage, rules, and meaning have always had a history of differing based on context. The most obvious and similar is the effect of punctuation in poetry.

http://www.brigitsflame.com/litlib/stylistic-suggestions/rie...
Physics Involved in Foaming of Beer Bottles Explained by Researchers
> a pretty powerful engine for computing 'X' for some useful definition of X

Password cracking-as-a-service for China's government/companies?