skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a prejudicial "assumption" adopted ahead of experience that JavaScript is a terribly flawed language. It is something one sees by experience with JavaScript. Actually, the existence of all these transpilers makes no sense if JavaScript is already so wonderful as it is.

It seems excessively defensive to tell people who express a
desire for better solutions to get out of the industry. If everybody accepts bad tools out of learned helplessness then there is no impetus to make things better.
If it's so classic, care to explain why the autism rate has risen so much(long term)? If a disease that gets diagnosed based on a spectrum of behavioral cues is on the rise, could you maybe consider that people are just quicker to blame autism?(and cover a larger, milder range of behaviors)
For what it's worth, that's not me and I'm surprised that someone is already trying to scam on the idea. Lol.
I understand and agree with, to some extent, the argument against centralisation. However, I don't see how this fork solves it - it's switching from one form of centralisation (ASICs) to another (huge clusters of mining rigs).

GPUs may be ubiquitous but it's not viable to run a mining rig with just one, which means that all those GPU miners are basically running "specialised hardware" too. Joe schmoe does not just happen to have an 8-GPU tower computer lying around.
Upvotes almost by definition (assuming they're genuine) make this not spam.
Studying academic outcomes would be a worthwhile goal here. But that's a 20 year goal - i.e. does the jump in diagnoses correlate with serious conditions, or are we looking at problems which might simply blur out had they not been diagnosed (perhaps with the offset that academic performance improves because we focus our efforts for people who are diagnosed vs not).
+1 nice!

I don't usually use Python (favoring Clojure, Java 8, JavaScript, and Ruby) but I am installing IPython right now so I can play with this interactively. As someone else already pointed out these are Peter Norvig's notes.
It has gone from 1:150 to 1:68 over about 10 years, and another study from last year (1) had the rate at 1:50. Saying that an increase this dramatic is based on changing diagnostic criteria and awareness seems disingenuous, and intended not to alarm the public.

1 http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/April-2013/CDC-Reports...
What do you suggest he acquired the company for, then? To keep it out of the hands of Microsoft, as has been suggested?
Or change the user agent to a search robot.
From the perspective of the officer that had put him in that situation, ignoring the question she just asked and instead addressing the other officer made that implication.
> And specifically the manufactured fructose isolates vs. natural fructose found in fruit.

Is there an explanation as to why this would be the case (if it is)? With a lot of vitamins the argument is over absorbability of different forms, e.g. there are various forms of dietary calcium, and various kinds of calcium supplements, and they may not be equivalent. But my understanding was that fructose in fruit is pretty much just fructose, readily absorbable just like the isolated version is. The only plausible difference I can come up is concentration; there's a limit on how much fructose you can get from fruits because the average person is not going to scarf down a half-dozen pears in a sitting. But if high concentrations are the issue, it would also apply to concentrated "natural" fructose, e.g. the pear-juice concentrate that some "naturally sweetened" products use.
The poster child is the flashlight, sounds stupid now but I remember how much shit it stirred back then. The rest I don't remember off the top of my head, and don't feel like scrubbing through days and days of Bombcast to find.

"Carmack has also admitted that the flashlight was not attached to the weapons in the original version of Doom 3 due to performance issues" ... http://www.dsogaming.com/news/john-carmack-speaks-30fps-on-c...
The glycemic index is a totally broken concept. Your body and tissues are made to happily work with surges of insulin and there is absolutely nothing problematic about that.

From a weight loss perspective sugars, such as in fruit juice, are superior to starches for two reasons. The fructose is thermogenic and raises base metabolic rate. Secondly, starches tend to reach lower lengths of the intestine undigested where they can feed bacteria that generate endotoxins.

Low starch, high sugar, low fat, and 80 grams of protein a day is a very good formula for weight loss.
You're not calling those methods on the car. You're calling them on https://portal.vn.teslamotors.com/ which has no particular limitations. Likely the web service communicates with the car over their VPN using an internal protocol (though it could well be similar, since there are web servers running in the car.)

So there's no particular excuse based on "embedded systems". I do agree it should use POST, but it's not quite as bad as it looks. Besides it being an authenticated API (so bots aren't a real problem), the calls are almost all set up to create a certain state, and repeating that call once the car is in that state (or working on it, I presume) seems quite safe. 'auto_conditioning_start' and 'auto_conditioning_stop' are okay to repeat; 'auto_conditioning_toggle' not so much. Though one does kinda wonder about the horn honk one.
Yes: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-you-...

I wish I were joking.
> glucose is still really bad for you

Every cell in your body runs on glucose. To say glucose is "bad for you" is simply idiotic.
That's because that's all "data science" is. A buzzword (phrase?) used to make people who like the sexy sound of "big data" but don't want to put in the effort to become computer scientists or exert the time and effort to learn technical skills beyond whatever trendy statistics software they can find.
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FWIW, IAAAL.

I suspect not many readers understand the above facts.

If you purchase a US patent, this is what you get: a right to sue.

Nothing more and nothing less.

If you have any doubts that the above is true, ask your lawyer.

Knowing exactly what a patent is should make you think more carefully about what a patent may or may not "incentivize".
Why Thomas Piketty's Global Wealth Tax Won't Work
Dropbox definitely deduplicates. There used to be a cladstine app out there called "Dropship" or "Airship"; it would extract the hash of a file from your local Dropbox SQLite database; you would provide that to someone else, which the app would then insert into their database. Dropbox would immediately start syncing the file.

Dropbox asked the author to take down the app, and now Dropbox does additional consistency checks to prevent this use case.

EDIT: Dropship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropship_(software)
Police brutality will never go away unless the the police themselves hold officers accountable for such actions. Sadly, they just don't, or give them a slap on the wrist when they cross the line.
(Chicago startup) puts "Photoshop" behind CDN
I was quoting from earlier CDC reports. No study has looked at all 50 states to my knowledge (though tell me if you know of one), and even between participating states there are irregularities due to what kinds of records the CDC has access to.
Possibly something to do with arrest quotas?
Immutability has jumped the shark, right?
When cop 1 says to cop 2 "I think he's going to be a problem" cop 2 probably says "oh yeah, he's going to be a problem" regardless of what the suspect says.
yeah, i should have said in high quantities, but I was just paraphrasing the video. The point was, in the video, he did not say it was just fructose, glucose can also be a problem.
I can't read the original article because it is behind a paywall...BUT...abstract ideas do not get patents.

This is not my opinion, it is fact. Look it up.
The police report is now posted in the story (it wasn't there when this was posted a few weeks ago after the incident).

It sounds like the cops told him to leave (aka cross the street) and he didn't, so they pushed him down and cuffed him for refusing to leave. Sounds like excessive force to me, and wtf @ arresting him and putting him in jail for that.

But really, it sounds like the whole thing could have been avoided if he just walked a ways away from the scene and let everyone do their job. Why make a big deal out of being told to cross the street? That's the part that smells funny to me.
I don't understand why it's okay to so glibly classify HN's quality as "good" or "bad" at any given time.

Who are we, as individuals, to judge the quality of content on a website devoted entirely to collective rankings?
You can be certain now, that's exactly how it works!
I think this is basically what Kickstarter is. It gives you a defined set of goals and a deadline. You do a pitch and get money. But instead of that money buying equity, it buys your product or service, validates your idea, and hooks you into advice from the best advisors of all - your customers.
The cops' account is in the police report:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/779439/police_report_ann...
With a bit of imagination, you can create scenes that look like they belong in a movie. This thing is wonderful

http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgcAAOAdEA6wHRAVVjUiUB0QDsAi...
I don't think so. The video says that there is nothing wrong with glucose, it is the fuel of life. Fructose is the problem. More specifically, refined fructose.

This by the way reflects real life. You can find populations that live on mostly bread and pasta, or mostly rice and noodles and they do not have obesity problems. It is only when refined sugar enters the diet that obesity shows up.
There is absolutely no explanation. It's just neo-puritanical mystical thinking. The only problem with eating refined sugars is the paucity of vitamins and minerals. Fruit juice is loaded with both of these, yet the lustigites still try to claim fruit sugars without the fiber are bad for you, with no sound basis.
If you can express your workflow as a set of dependencies (granted, not all workflows are easily expressed this way), make gives you parallel and incremental computation "for free".

Imagine that you needed to download a tar archive, unpack it, then run several simulations followed by regressions followed by figure plotting on the data. You could write a shell script to do this, but it would be hard to make the shell script simulate the capabilities of `make -j', and you'd have to do a lot of timestamping and file existence checking to simulate the incremental computation capabilities of make.
I think that's a good idea, but as a separate story.
I note that this is from Dec 15, 2013. Is this supposed to be one of those historical interest posts?
Were anti-vaxxers bound by the rules of valid inference, this would be a problem for anti-vax. Thimerosal, the compound supposedly responsible for the vaccine/autism link, has been phased out in the west but incidence rates continue to increase.
Isn't 40k still squarely in the luxury car range? But more like the beginning of it?
Anyone care to conjecture the practical effects of invalidating software patents beyond saving everyone involved time and money to litigate those patents? It may be valuable for that reason alone, but I'm trying to imagine a world where suddenly, overnight, all software patents are eliminated.
Is this because of work e.g. random shifts? because of family commitments? Or just time drifts?

If latter, then try planning just one session a day for now, but be definite about it. Google the Pomodoro Method.

Anyone else got any time plan mind tricks?
It can be a problem if you're type I diabetic or are obese, both of which result in impaired insulin sensitivity.

Otherwise, you can quite healthily gorge on starch and sugars and your tissues will happily mop up the glucose and fructose into glycogen. And then if necessary into fat, but lipogensis from sugars is surprisingly inefficient and glycogen capacity is more than you probably think.
You do understand what the current lawsuit is over, right? It boils down to someone has patented an idea, the other guy says "you can't do that." The original pantentee is saying "but it is an implementation running on a computer"
Many Asperger's people themselves have rejected the "disorder" label and ask to be thought of as different in a neutral, not necessarily bad way. For this reason they refer to non-Aspergers people as "neurotypical".

This is reasonable in regard to high-functioning Aspies, but remember that ASD covers a wide range. I think it would be better to retain the separate label for Asperger's, because it is distinguished by normal or better intelligence and language ability (while sharing other traits with classic autism) -- however, even within the Asperger's category there is a wide range.

Another aspect that is often underappreciated is that the HF aspie, if smart enough, can learn to adjust to normal society to such a degree that he/she can often pass for normal, so that a diagnostician would place him/her at a different point on the spectrum at different stages of life.
That was exactly my experience
Sadly, I have many friends with similar stories from police departments in different places. I attribute the officer's behavior to constantly being surrounded by violence. If everyday, most people around you are violent unreasonable delinquents that want to hurt you, then you start developing personality characteristics to compensate and survive that environment. Add to this the types of personalities that are attracted to this line of work, and things start getting a bit more clear.

I am not trying to justify or even imply that it is correct behavior from the police or that "all police officers are [x] or [y]", but from direct and indirect experience this story doesn't fully surprise me ( I don't think it is right though).

I don't think the conclusions at the end of the blog post are correct though. Not calling 911 or even using lyft to go to the hospital seems like bad rules that are imposed to avoid interacting with the police. A better rule of thumb is to just minimize your dialogue with the police to the bare minimum and keep any intellectual/ironic/satirical comment to yourself. All my friends that have experienced something like this is because they made a smart ass comment in an situation prior to them knowing how fast these things can go downhill.
A quote from an industry analyst in the article: "No car company can live off 20,000 to 30,000 sales a year and be profitable in the long term."

Is this true?
Yes, why not a PoW that's all of

ASIC resistant

GPU resistant

botnet resistant

My Cuckoo Cycle PoW (https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo)
configured to require for instance 7GB of memory, is
all of the above. And is very power friendly, since
only 5% of the runtime is computation and 95% is waiting
for main memory random access latency...
As another parent of a child with autism who is barely verbal, I have to agree, this is not the same as Aspergers. In fact, I think you'll agree, we hope our kids will one day only be diagnosed with Aspergers!

The problem with classifying autistic as "intelligent" and "obsessive" and "introverted" hides the truth that there are the other half of autistic people on the low-functioning end of the spectrum cannot live independently. And no, they're not exceptional at counting cards at Blackjack table either.

Young autistic children require many hours of direct speech and behavior therapy everyday just to get them to basic level of communicating what they want. This is the only known effective treatment for autistic children, but it has to happen every day for years, and it is extremely expensive. Trivializing autism causes insurance companies to put caps and limits on covering direct therapy because they don't see it as essential, but parents of autistic kids know that direct intense therapy is essential and makes a big difference.
US Gov't Blocks China's Huawei for having "back doors" in products
So much of "Agile"/Scrum, at least in practice, is passive-aggressive, collective punishment. The team is judged to be underperforming, thus subjected to painful, useless meetings and degrading process that might turn zeros into just-barely-employable 0.5x programmers but bring the 10x down to zombie levels.
The page header mentions "filmic tonemapping", I'd love to hear what that entailed in this case - is it a post-render 3D LUT as some games now do? I couldn't see anything from reading the source... I'm really interested in how we perceive quality of colour in CG renders, and how CG in movies which goes through a print film LUT is helped or harmed by the process.
Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
The important bit for the rest of us:

Mac OS 10.9 or later

LMK when it runs on something open source.
It's a good start but MSFT has a lot of cultural unlearning to do for it to really become the formidable force that it was ..
Years of somber have crept into the culture - and shaking that up in going to be a challenge - good thing though is that they are able to attract great talent.

PS: I have spent a decade working @ MSFT
So I was supposed to be my parents GPS.
I am not sure that GPUs are "mandated" so much as they are in the sweet spot of flexibility to run different algorithms, and high performance.
I think the "Strangecoin transactions can be nonzero sum" idea is flawed. But did I understand correctly: Would this be a cryptocurrency with a money base that expands/disappears as the 'fait value' rate goes up and down?
That would be cool!
It was a 2009 article.
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> She turned to me and abruptly said that I was not needed as a witness and should leave immediately.

"I then walked home." should have been the next line, and I'm fairly sure the author knows it.

That doesn't excuse what the officers did, but it's not "being a good Samaritan" that backfired. Being nosy is the part that didn't end well.

I'm not even sure the use of force wasn't justified - even in this immensely biased account, he mentions being told to back away by the officers. What are they supposed to do when you ignore them?
This was posted previously and drew a mountain (793) of comments [0], including mine [1].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233730

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7235079
Facebook's biggest blunder? and will the Facebook bubble burst? 
As this is my first blog please give me some advice on what I did wrong and how to improve it!! Thnx
I think they are both wrong. You need better models than just throwing lots of data at something simple which Norvig likes. But they are still statistical models at some level.
I understand the spectrum to be honest, but I think in trying to get the rest of the world to understand ASD, you can't start off too deep. In the article it seems autism is now interchangeable with ASD, so we're losing even a binary terminology.
Coffee-script is awesome but suffers from it's roots as a preprocessed layer on top .. and that essentially leads to poor overall tool chain support .. I actually enjoyed writing code in it .. debugging not so much ..
Would love some of the constructs to make into JS
This article reads exactly why type script will be the answer. With all due respect to Crockford, I have to question his judgement that types are overrated. I've had to clean up probably a hundred issues on typos alone.
Rigged? I don't think so. But if you accept that you can't vote for every single decision because of practical reasons (and because multiple single-issue-votes tend to contradict each other), you can only vote for the general direction, and in the US this means you have a choice of about two directions. In other democracies you might have three or four directions but those countries tend to have more issues with incompetency and corruption.

However the "axis" of these two directions is aligned by the general public. If people care about wars, the parties would align towards "war" and "no war" for an election. But they don't, because beginning and ending a war isn't something that works well with elections or any arbitrarily timed decision process for that matter.

Governments have to be able to start a war or not end it at the wrong time, otherwise you might as well let non-democratic countries take you to the cleaners...
Abrash just left Valve.
He reports doing plenty that would unreasonably "justify" the response he received. The causal void that you object to (which would shed doubt on his story) simply doesn't exist.
Sometimes it’s more easy than you think: App downloads and signup CTR
The way to achieve ASIC,FPGA and even GPU resistance is to require many GB of memory. Better yet, random access to many GB of memory. Then your performance is limited by memory latency. This is what I designed Cuckoo Cycle (https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo) for.
Yes, but there's a significant percentage of people on the autism literally can not follow instructions, or cannot the focus to listen when spoken to, or cannot comprehend language. They require life long care, employable for small tasks perhaps, but not independent.
Flagged. Pirating content from behind a pay-wall isn't ok. If you don't want to pay for the content then don't read/upvote it.

(You can of-course write up your own article based upon what you learnt from the underlying article)
> keep any intellectual/ironic/satirical comment to yourself.

This is generally just good life advice.
Ferrari sells under 8000 cars a year.

Lamborghini sells under 2500 a year.

Chalk this article up to careless punditry, i.e. what you get from an ad-driven internet news model.

Edit: just for kicks, I looked up Rolls Royce, which is kind of the canonical "luxury car". Under 4000 cars a year.
You might want to answer what you want from the accelerator - you seem to be hinting @ growth - you might want to qualify that further since you seem to be covered on market access and possibly money
If Facebook treats it as they've treated some of their hardware work and initiatives, we may find we can live with it.

If they treat it as they've treated their "platform", we are likely to have problems.

Which way will it go? Nobody knows...

I think most of us feel that the technology itself needs to be "open" and platform agnostic. We've just observed a major change that places this in question. Concern is justified.
I agree, my first thought reading this article was, "this is a perfect example of why communication skills are just as important as technical ability".

Also, what was that surface mesh from the beginning of the article? There was no caption, no title, and no axis labels.
Makes perfect sense to me if you don't trust your host not to report you. Keys are small enough to just send in a private chat rather than hosted alongside the encrypted file.
> Being nosy is the part that didn't end well.

Neither did being obnoxious, I imagine: "I told them that it was an early stage startup; I’m doing this because I feel it’s a way to make the world around me better, to bring people joy through better food."

I don't condone the violence and abuse of authority, obviously. But imagine being a cop, and having to deal with this at 1 am after a long day at work.
Excellent article.

New favorite phrases "data exhaust" and "digital exhaust".
I think even yours is over engineered.

I just write them down at home with a mental rule for replacing char position.