skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large percentage of Americans are not of European descent. In Georgia specifically, 30% of the population[^1] are most likely descendants of individuals that did not "boldly choose" to cross the Atlantic and come to America.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Georgia_%28U.S...
Bill Gates on Jeffrey Sachs's antipoverty program (with reply from Sachs)
It's one of those trick sites, where you never realize you can scroll down (thank you fullscreen image trend). Go back to the site, scroll. First thing you'll see...

Setup is a snap. Simply mount Osmo over your iPad's front‑facing camera. Reflective Artificial Intelligence and a built‑in mirror recognize and respond to your every real‑world move.

Then it goes on to describe the available games, and has other key information that's well summarized. I watched the video, and didn't realize you could scroll until I read your comment, and went back to the site a second time.
$3000 for a "Lexicon" label
> Maybe that’s what streaming games on Twitch is like for the current generation of kids. But even knowing that 60 people from around the world are watching you set new records in Call of Duty, I wonder how it stacks up to an actual crowd of people standing directly behind you, as you listen to them whispering to each other about how good this kid is at this game.

This is still the case depending on the genre. If you go to a fighting game tournament (street fighter, tekken, soul calibur, etc.) you fight in person because at a high level the lag over the internet is not acceptable for competitive play. In that situation, you have people looking at you over your shoulder and thousands of people watching you on twitch at the same time.

Bonus Justin Wong vs Diago Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeM0rH_4ung&feature=kp
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Was that really a "miscalculation", though? I thought it was a never-before-seen aerodynamic effect that nobody could have predicted in advance. It's not as though the engineers incorrectly declared it safe against torsional-mode aerodynamic flutter.
It's not really AR, just reading things through a mirror and camera. It's not actually showing you any reality. Just sayin'.
There are OSes out there that are easy to study, extend and modify even in C. Some are even specially designed for such purposes, like, say, Minix.

Go is not that simpler compared to C -- and the parts where it IS simpler (e.g GC) make it less good for an OS. It would have been a slow, proof-of-concept thing, of little value.
The noob never saw a person get married and change both their last name and email address. There is no such thing as a "natural key" that can never change, that's why auto-incrementing integers are used. Also, users should not rely on the keys being monotonic.
This is a great product. To me, the video (while marketing) showed exactly how kids would react to something like this. Nowadays, all kids know how to use an iPad so throwing in the physical pieces as well brings back the "legacy" way of playing. Plus, it has a nice teaching aspect and i could imagine a dual iPad "versus" mode to encourage a little competition.
>>I worked on these systems on the B-52H for a few years. The systems even felt somewhat archaic back then, but there was a reason: they were probably the most reliable military avionics systems I've come across.

>I'd wager [..] that resilience in the face of EMP was probably a big factor too

The poster was talking about software reliability, which the next poster asked if software reliability was related to EMP hardening.
I hope one of Tom Wheeler's minions prints out this thread for him on the dot matrix printer they use over at the FCC.
FCC Responds to Net Neutrality Ruling
Any chance you can find a reference? Would be interesting to know about the state of the art.
> You used to be able to define your own characters on Amstrads

ah so THAT is how you could make graphics on those machines? wish I had known that back when I was 10 :-P

ah well, good times :)
Well, cost effective programs rarely make the news.

Even the expensive ones that do are often overblown. As I understand it, the infamous $500 hammer was a specialized non-sparking hammer for use in an environment where the atmosphere was explosive. The $500 toilet seat was actually a full fiberglass molded unit (both seats, the thing they went on, and associated other stuff) custom fitted and produced in numbers of just a few dozen for an unusual space in an airplane.

Not that there isn't waste, but it's often different from what gets reported....
Huh?

Seems to be a regular PhD student?
Why we love Jodorowsky’s Dune but not Lynch’s.
The title of this thread is about who killed the reform effort. You're saying its the trial lawyers. But they've opposed this from the beginning. What card did they pull in the last few weeks they couldn't pull before?

Meanwhile, in the last month, these companies come out and endorse the status quo, and criticize the motivation behind the proposed reforms if not the specific terms. They come out and say, just in the last month, that "we think the current system is fine." Now, everyone opposed to the reform can wave these comments in front of the faces of everyone still on the fence. "See, we told you, the system is fine!" When you're talking about a reform bill, an endorsement of the status quo is almost the same as outright opposition to reform.

If PAI didn't intend to kill the bill, they sure as hell handed the trial lawyers a gift-wrapped present.
The insight this author provides into the market-focused side of consumer electronics is interesting. He mentions that Apple tends to lock up the high-end side of tablets and phones, leaving everyone else to chase the low- and middle-end of the market.

Although this makes sense, it is immensely disappointing. I would love to see more high-quality alternatives to Apple products, if only to encourage competition. We need more HTC Ones, not fewer.
I wasn't aware of Association Rule Learning, which seems like a very interesting and useful concept.
Budweiser, Coinbase Partner to Give Free Bitcoin to Concert Attendees
I'd say it makes sense to choose the language based on the team and project as well. There's really no reason to limit yourself to a single language.
> An email address is a piece of information that is guaranteed to be unique to each user because everybody has their own email address.

I once let myself in for a lot of headaches by designing a system around this unwarranted assumption.
When I went to go back and see if I could find a link to the actual CDC paper the NYT layout did not seem familiar; and then it occurred to me "I bet dang changed the link and I bet he took the additional time to let us know he changed the link." As always thank you for your transparency.
I agree with the negative comments about the surface mini, but the new surface 3 looks good to me. It has been a very long time since I have bought a windows PC, but I am very tempted by the surface 3.

With a 4K monitor capable docking station, it seems like a device that could do it all, except for also having a smartphone.
sagichmal, could you elaborate on "we were able to map a fan-in-on-read stream product to a data model that could be implemented with a specific type of CRDT"? The post (which is awesome btw) glosses over exactly how Roshi is used to solve the problem presented in the first half of the post - or at least it seems that way to me as I am unfamiliar with CRDTs.
Personal anecdote, since there are some comments here by people claiming an early ADHD diagnosis might have changed their life: I was "diagnosed" with ADHD about five years ago, at around age 25, and it was a horrible experience. I'm not sure if I have ADHD, but at the very least was very depressed at the time, and they gave me some self-evaluation asking a bunch of questions like, "Do you have trouble concentrating? Does your mind wander?" Of course being very depressed I tended to be pretty hard on myself answering, they gave me the diagnosis, and at the first sign I gave of skepticism about it they basically ridiculed and humiliated me, telling me I was in denial and nothing in my life would ever change unless I started taking medication. They completely ignored any other problems I was having and other possible explanations once they pinned the ADHD label on me. In a conversation that lasted an hour, I didn't get a single word in after making the comment, "Well I'm not really sure if I have this..."

A few years later I did try taking some Adderall, unofficially acquired from a friend, and in three days it caused me to start having all kinds of mental health problems (OCD and Tourette's type symptoms, fyi) that I'm still not fully recovered from. Admittedly I think I took a bit too high of a dosage, but I'm scared to even try again if only three days of something could basically turn me halfway insane. Maybe if I'd started on only a half dose it wouldn't have happened, but I'm worried about the fact that such people were trying so hard to push a drug that ended up having those kinds of effects in only three days from only a slightly elevated dosage.

So I definitely think this whole thing is a huge pharma scam at this point. I'd be highly skeptical of any ADHD diagnoses, especially when they're all based on self-reporting (notoriously unreliable) and a bunch of therapists, teachers, etc. who are quick to jump to whatever explanation fits with their prejudices about a person. It scares me that they're pushing these drugs on people, especially at such young ages, not to mention how it prevents the real underlying problems from being solved.
Time Inc. Starts Selling Ads on Magazine Covers
Soap, by virtue of being soap, has antibacterial properties because it disrupts fat layers by making them dissolvable in water, iirc.
On top of hiking, walking the dogs, bicycling and other after-hours hobbies, I keep a home made stepping box next to my desk. When I need to really think through something, instead of sitting or pacing, I do steps. Seems to help get the creativity working or serves as a good wake up if I'm getting that mid-afternoon drowsiness.
This is one of the frightening thing about ADHD prescriptions. With children with ADHD the amphetamines are supposed to work as a depressant.
If your kid is getting focus from the drugs they don't have ADHD. You have a kid on speed.
Well, 2 weeks were a starting offer from once the most valuable company on the planet for a senior SW engineer position in California, with automatic extension by 1 week after the first year, and another week after a promotion to a staff engineer.

One Seattle-based eCommerce company forced you to keep pager with you all the times, even on a vacation, if you were an unlucky part of operations.

This can't happen in most European countries, unless the company desperately wants to lose plenty of court cases.

One member of my US family in the midwest worked in an unionized menial job with 1 week of paid vacation including sick days. The rest was unpaid.
Nanotech: Charge Your Smartphone In Just 30 Seconds
I don't really get this desire to kill "ineffective" things.

He writes it like Surface costs MS a fortune or distracts customers. Yep, Surface is probably not a win (don't own one, and not an MS customer, although it happened to me to use Windows 8 on some occasions), but who said MS can't have their toy projects?
Does anyone have a link to the actual CDC paper? I found some ADHD publications from Dr. Visser but they do not seem like they are related to the material presented at the conference.
What could you possibly need that many individual yet mostly similar languages to accomplish? Even if we grouped things like XSD, XSLT into the XML category or Groovy and JSP into the Java category it feels silly to need this many languages in a single app.

I can only imagine what kind of things all the long tail files are doing. A smattering of Perl and Python, then a lonely VB and ASP.NET page?
UUIDs are wonderful: they're fairly small (16 bytes), and can be generated on multiple servers independently with no coordination. If you use version 4 or 5 UUIDs, the first couple of bytes are random, so short-circuiting comparisons should in theory bail quickly… but I've never had a need to measure.

Perhaps the only gotcha I've run into is that JS can't reliably generate them. (You need a decent RNG, and while JS has an RNG, no guarantees are made about it.) (Trivially work-aroundable with an AJAX endpoint on the server, of course.)
It was quite clear to me that he was talking about hardware reliability, what with the explicit mentions of CRTs, fragility, and resistance to vibration and shock.

The only mention of software in the whole comment is a brief comment about "upgrades to both the system and the software".
Sorry to be so blunt, but that's pretty snobby and I would be seriously concerned if Google actually used that criteria.
I know it's not exactly the same, but couldn't you achieve the same thing with getters and setters?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#o...
I second that. If you actually read "The Innovator's Dilemma" it defines disruption narrowly as when a start-up overtakes an incumbent with an inferior product that appeals to a new market. If you really want to "disrupt" a company, don't look for problems with the big competitors. Look for potential markets they're ignoring.

But all you start-up people use "disrupt" to describe any competition between start-ups and big business. Worse, you all seem to think start-ups have the advantage, because the incumbents are big and old and you are nimble and young.

Sorry, but history has shown that market leaders will almost always crush you. If you innovate, they will just copy your innovation and throw more marketing dollars behind it. Historically, start-ups only prevail when they reach out to new markets ignored by the competition. Big, successful businesses are totally beholden to their current customers. They can't reach out to new markets without cannibalizing profits of their current product line.
Which ML book would you recommend?
'cause it looks like total B.S. from people who don't know what they're talking about or what kids will really play with in the long term.

For the same money you can get a something much healthier and long lasting in the form of a bike or, hell, a bunch of cardboard boxes and some art supplies and then let them go wild. Build themselves a transmogrifier or something. Make their own freakin' puzzles.

My most beloved set of toys as a child was a bunch of plastic dinosaurs, a tiny pair of pliers, a trashed bike I was free to do whatever I liked to (bottle rocket launchers on the handlebars - oh yeah), and a really nice set of crayons and a giant roll of butcher paper. I'm not quite at the "get off my lawn" stage, but that isn't a toy, it's a product. Hence, the hate.
U.S. moves to end door-to-door mail delivery
With all the healthcare.gov hate, I've been wondering why there's barely any scrutiny towards coveredca.com -- at least I haven't seen any.
I scrolled all the way down, but nothing tells me what it is. I didn't watch the video, though.

The bit you quoted raises more questions than it answers. Why is there a mirror? What the hell is "reflective artificial intelligence"? What does it do with the recognition of your real-world moves?
The world's largest wood and glue structure. Built to EMP test aircraft
I'm not sure that I agree with the author's premise. The way it reads is like "Microsoft had a few bad runs, so they should stop trying."

In fact, I wholly disagree with some of the author's content analysis. Example:

>The hardware capability that Nadella claims Surface leverages only exists because of the decision to make Surface. Nadella is basically saying Microsoft needs to make Surface because Microsoft makes Surface.

BUT, in the quote, the first thing that Nadella says IS "We are not building hardware for hardware’s sake." What Nadella DID say is that essentially, they're trying to build a complete ecosystem. Furthermore, this wasn't even listed as one of the goals that the author identified, although I feel that it was certainly one of Microsoft's primary goals with the surface. I don't think that Microsoft was thinking "think of all of the money we'll make off of hardware," especially when all of these hardware companies are flailing. Business decisions at a large company like Microsoft are calculated, if nothing else.

Personally, I think Microsoft should keep going. The only reason that I'm buying Macbook Airs at this point is because I like having a BSD environment at my fingertips. The Surface's hardware is actually better than a MBA's[0], and Microsoft seems committed to the product.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6630053 - though, note that the hardware has been refreshed. Arguably just as fast, but much lighter and slimmer, too.
I had breaks. That's what I meant. What did you think I meant? Something other than that? Or where you just being a pedant?
I'm surprised nobody in the private sector has tried to fix the lack of street names by inventing them, and then sticking fairly robust sponsored street/district name signs everywhere.

My question is how much of the OKHi functionality can be achieved with dumbphones, assuming that a significant proportion of the Kenyan population sticks with them for the foreseeable future?
JavaScript PC Emulator, booting Linux
If you get a commercial account/connection then you should be fine.

Even if it is not technical, it might be like garbage services in my area where commercial operations subsidize residential operations. Residential connections might be getting a discount that is paid by commercial entities and you would be cheating their pricing model.
As someone who doesn't live with dogs, the smell of a home with dogs (or cats, for that matter) is, in most cases, immediately apparent to me. If you're not habitualized to the smell, it does actually stink. Not terribly, but it's there.
I guess that as soon as the Go compiler introduces more expensive optimization passes to the code the more it makes sense to ensure that these passes are run only once (i.e. when the source is compiled) and not many times (i.e. when the whole binary is "linked", which in the Go toolchain up to 1.2.x includes a translation from pseudo-instructions to actual instructions).

TBH I don't know how much of the optimizations are currently doable before emitting pseudo-instructions, but I guess that moving the actual code generation in liblink makes sense nevertheless.
Why hasn't eBay emailed customers about the attack?
Names are Important
Apparently I'm the only one. I used to play this over at a neighbors house all the time when I was a little ankle biter.
> Every version of Surface has been a high quality device, on the same general level as Apple. So I guess reason 2 is a win.

As an owner of a Surface RT, lol. That piece of junk has turned me of to the brand forever. Whether it was apps taking 5-10 seconds to load or having to unattach and reattach the keyboard 1 out of ever 5 uses, I can't imagine ever wanting to own a Surface again.
This is a really nice story, but I have to react to all the people swooning over this - Nokia (Symbian) had a lot of these functions back in the day, but it was never popular in the US so people often forget about it.
Holy shit, that was gruesome:

> Those people who could walk were instructed to leave the hotel to simplify the rescue effort; those mortally injured were told they were going to die and given morphine. Often, rescuers had to dismember bodies in order to reach survivors among the wreckage. One victim's right leg was trapped under an I-beam and had to be amputated by a surgeon, a task which was completed with a chain saw.

(Also, how do you format a quotation on HN??)
The BPF VM is suitable for system call arguments, but probably not optimal for performance.

The pcap compiler is not particularly well-suited for system call arguments.

The real reason to use the BPF VM, as opposed to any other VM or decision tree, is the pcap compiler, which doesn't buy much for system calls.
So is this a US made "vehicle?" or designed? the author cites a few chinese clones, so I'm wondering if the chinese manufacturer made them first or what. If the chinese one came second, then its impressive they've cloned this so fast.
It's kind of strange this comes out after the Surface 3 announcement, which from what I've read seems to be extremely well liked. Blogs, Reddit, HN all seemed to have a lot of positive things to say about it (especially considering it's from Microsoft).

That doesn't mean it will DO well but I wouldn't be surprised if it did better than previous surface generations combined.
I'm all for killing Surface along with WinRT, but I believe Surface Pro series is quite useful, especially the latest 12" Pro 3. It's just that MS in its own "cloud and mobile" stupidity keeps marketing the device(s) as media consumption devices with a few "apps", not work tools with full Windows. I would even say that Surface Pro is the best thing MS has come up with since 7.
Ditto. I'm actually really tempted to get the surface 3. It looks like some good engineering work went into it, truly.
I'm in love with the Surface hardware, but the article makes a compelling business argument. As a consumer I hope the surface Succeeds, but I agree that it seems unlikely that Microsoft will see good returns on it.
What's happening with lavabit's certs? I'm getting this error from Chrome:

The certificate that Chrome received during this connection attempt has been revoked.
Error type: Key revocation
Subject: *.lavabit.com
Issuer: Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority
Public key hashes: sha1//dHxYZfXYW3xW7ib88kHFDNZIAg= sha256/hnOeP/93cTcwYUvU+lLtm2Jd6SXWLzr+fO0F/Srdw98= sha1/ui61qD4TI9lTS15lvOejE13QqZY= sha256/MrZLZnJ6IGPkBm87lYywqu5Xal7O/ZUzmbuIdHMdlYc= sha1/7uWfHiqlRMPLJUOmmlvUaiW8u44= sha256/VjLZe/p3W/PJnd6lL8JVNBCGQBZynFLdZSTIqcO0SJ8=
> Pilots have downed airplanes because of a malfunctioning pitot tube or fuel indicator light distracting them.

To be fair, a malfunctioning pitot tube is a class of equipment failure that has had disastrous consequences, so I wouldn't put it in the same category as a distraction. Distraction is usually considered pilot error (or a fault of the design) as in Eastern Air 401 where the pilots were so focused on the landing gear light that they failed to notice one of them had disconnected the autopilot (due in part to a design issue).

I really don't mean to nitpick, but equipment failures are most definitely not analogous in this case. Mostly because you can do many things to reduce the likelihood of equipment failure, but distraction is very nearly impossible to eliminate.
baking soda is amazing for many things. i have a box of it in my bathroom and one in my kitchen.

* deodorizes my dog in between baths
* i put some on my toothpaste and it gets my teeth extra clean
* or use as mouth wash/gargle with a cup of water
* i pour some on my rugs and then vacuum 30 minutes later to de-odorize
* de-odorizes my fridge quite nicely
* cleans my porcelain sinks
* sprinkle some in my hamper to keep my dirty clothes from stinking up while they wait to be washed

if you google uses for baking soda there's about a million more potential uses but this is the stuff that i use it for regularly.
My one year old moves constantly and injures herself unless we hover non-stop. I hear I was the same as an infant/toddler, and I'm sure I could get an ADHD diagnosis now as an adult. I would never consider medicating her even if this kept up for years, though — despite my hyperactivity I'm happy and operate just fine in society. When I got bored in chemistry and math classes as a kid and had trouble paying attention, they put me in advanced classes (or even let me do experiments in the back of the classroom during lecture), where I continued to learn effectively.

Sometimes when a human being and society are misaligned, the society should adapt rather than the human being.