skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they still have a shot in cereal commercials where the announcer says "part of this complete breakfast" while the screen flashes a place setting with a small bowl of cereal, eggs, toast, half a grapefruit, orange juice, and milk?

I remember thinking that breakfast would be just as "complete" if you left out the cereal.
Archive.org has a few links, but they are all short (and sometimes just "cold chills".

https://web.archive.org/web/20060515000000*/https://en.wikip...

20060913 includes this content:

An experience, commonly associated with especially moving or Ecstatic_listening moments, where a sensation of "shivers" occurs. The frisson experience begins as a flexing of the skin in the lower back, rising upward, inward from the shoulders, up the neck, and sometimes across to the cheeks and onto the scalp. The face may become flush, hair follicles flex the hairs into standing position, and goose bumps may appear (Piloerection). Frequently, a series of `waves' will rise up the back in rapid succession. The experience lasts no more than four or five seconds. The listener feels the music to have elicited an ecstatic moment and tends to regard the experience as involuntary. Http://www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu/Music838/glossary.html
I hear this from many people, and experienced it myself, lose weight to a certain point, then level out. My theory: when you are over weight, you burn more calories just doing daily activities. As the weight comes off, your normal movements burn fewer calories. I guess a way to test this is once you plateau, start wearing a 30 pound weight around your waist. Then see if that makes you plateau at 30 pounds lighter.
I wrote a free spaced-repetition app for iOS a while back:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/memorize-me!/id578975798?mt=...

My plan was to release packs of things to memorize (e.g. Famous Quotes, Ten Commandments, etc.), but with 0-10 downloads a week, I just gave up on it. If there's some interest, I'll consider releasing an update.
it is nice to watch someone who is good at what they do. I like to watch Franklin Barbecue videos on that basis.
This reminds me of [1], where scratch-off games were founded to be using PRNG output improperly, allowing winning tickets to be identified without playing them.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/
Is there any part of a computer that could actually be considered imprecise? Perhaps only if there is a hardware malfunction.
It looks like this article requires a paid subscription. sigh…
When I'm searching Japanese yes. Jisho splits up English and Japanese so that I don't have to filter through completely unrelated results if an English word just happens to be made up letters that could be romaji. I also usually type into both boxes if I have an idea of the word or I want a sentence example of the word used in a specific way
A little sad it doesn't cover gearman. Dead simple, easy to use, easy to get going, super flexible.
Maybe so, but you would have a more convincing (counter-)argument if you offered some counterexamples.
SwarmCombat http://swarmcombat.herokuapp.com/ - coding strategy game inspired by swarm robotics AI. The concept hasn't been abandoned, but the existing version has been. Ideally it should allow you to face any existing bots, but right now it's designed for 1v1 matchups because one AI is really not suited to any situation.

Slice Station https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slicestati... - abandoned Android music exploration app when our provider fell through. Not going to lie, this is pretty outdated given the foundation was built in 2010 on Android 1.6. But the exploration concept is still very good and worth trying to revive.

PyKRP Engine https://github.com/keerthik/KRPEngine - A python game engine dependent on pygame targeted at rapid prototyping 2D game mechanics. Provides easy menus, game loop, screen setup, etc. Abandoned when I broke up with Python 3 years ago.

I have a couple of Unity game projects lying around on hard drives, someday I'll push them to github and share next time this Ask HN comes around...
You can try finding the old page via the WayBack machine.
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A doctor also might theorize about possible causes of the issue while trying not to implanting ideas of symptoms in the patients head. When I did computer repair, I was very careful not to put my own words in the clients vocabulary when I was still trying to gather information, as I wanted to keep from coloring their memory / experience. Same thing would apply here. Maybe a good compromise would be for the doc to summarize their notes at the end and ask for feedback.
I took words from my reading. When I was at a bit lower-level I worked through a newspaper, highlighting words I didn't know making flash cards of them and then practicing the flash cards during free time and then reading the newspaper selection later. Here's an entry I wrote about that process:
http://toshuo.com/2007/learn-a-language-by-taking-advantage-...

Every single word encountered this way should make its way into your SRS after learning it.

As far as deck strategies, I was an Anki user and didn't like getting too many decks going at once. I tried doing separate decks for each book, video game, etc I was working my way through but it turned out to be huge pain. Now I favor only one deck per language for recognition, one for writing and one for ear training.
They won't be native apps anyway but browser based apps, so as new Shoes is going to use Javascript (via Opal) and HTML as a rendering engine, then yes you can. Any other actual differences or points of strength worth noting?
One nice thing about the PC's parallel port was that it was bidirectional, relatively straightforward to program, could be programmed at a reasonable rate, and supplies/accepts a standard TTL +0V/+5V. This allows interfacing with a reasonable range of devices using a cable that's relatively simple to make up. Doing the same thing over USB is possible, but you need a microcontroller, which means more programming (i.e., more things to go wrong).

But this isn't a common problem. I don't rue the passing of all the nonsense that USB replaced.
Editorial power? I must have missed that in my reading of the article. As far as I understood it, patients weren't able to redact/change their notes.

Reported symptoms and complaints are listed comprehensively, but the doctor is not compelled to do any unnecessary testing, or even falsify test results.

Because of the outrageous amount of data that is dumped into a doctor's head, he is able to recognize "hypochondriac" at a glance on the record, without that term or any other negative comments to that nature being in there.
Safari's Reader Mode is a godsend for these sites.
Clustering CoreOS with Vagrant, core-1 boot failure
I am following the guide at
https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/platforms/vagrant/

But I am having problem to start the coreOS instances, with the following error:

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: Machine
Interface: IMachine {480cf695-2d8d-4256-9c7c-cce4184fa048}

My configuration is windows 8.1 with virtualbox, vagrant and git all
installed as described in the guide.

I'd appreciate if anyone can help.

==> core-01: Checking if box 'coreos-alpha' is up to date...
==> core-01: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
==> core-01: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> core-01: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
core-01: Adapter 1: nat
core-01: Adapter 2: hostonly
==> core-01: Forwarding ports...
core-01: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
==> core-01: Running 'pre-boot' VM customizations...
==> core-01: Booting VM...
==> core-01: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
The guest machine entered an invalid state while waiting for it
to boot. Valid states are 'starting, running'. The machine is in the
'poweroff' state. Please verify everything is configured
properly and try again.

If the provider you're using has a GUI that comes with it,
it is often helpful to open that and watch the machine, since the
GUI often has more helpful error messages than Vagrant can retrieve.
For example, if you're using VirtualBox, run `vagrant up` while the
VirtualBox GUI is open.

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine coreos-vagrant_core-01_1408322570242_93586.

The virtual machine 'coreos-vagrant_core-01_1408322570242_93586' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: Machine
Interface: IMachine {480cf695-2d8d-4256-9c7c-cce4184fa048}
I feel more like American milk is extremely homogenized, so all milk tastes exactly the same. However, I really enjoy the taste of it, so I haven't had any problem so far.

In contrast, Indian milk tastes different when you buy from different vendors. You also have a choice between cow and buffalo milk.
Once again we are talking about having an email retrieval function while not storing the email address in plaintext. A "global salt" or "pepper" (as we are apparently calling it now) just prevents enormous pre-generated rainbow tables but admittedly in today's gpu dominated cracking environment it probably doesn't get you much.

Personally I think not having a password retrieval function while simultaneously forcing all of your users to reset their password is a pretty user unfriendly tactic for the protection of an ostensibly public piece of information.
Another reason that these videos are so popular is because of copyright protections. While searching for "McQueen" and Disney Cars related content on YouTube, you will find little else other than toys being unwrapped and played with by adults. The copyright holders are not putting any official content on YouTube, any bootlegged stuff gets pulled, so the only remaining content is these toy videos. I for one am sick of this content but I understand the appeal to the child.
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You're a developer but you can't even attempt anything without VC? Sorry but the answer's either get a job doing something else, or some self-esteem and cracking open your IDE and starting.
This is not about hypochondria, but people who knowingly fake illness. They can be extremely manipulative.
This is an elegant solution for sequences, but it doesn't work for arbitrary iterables (which need not support slicing). While this generalization might not be needed for language ngrams, the general problem of taking n items at a time from an iterable pops up in various places.

Here's a generator that yields ngrams from an arbitrary iterable:

from collections import deque
from itertools import islice

def ngram_generator(iterable, n):
iterator = iter(iterable)
d = deque(islice(iterator, n-1), maxlen=n)
for item in iterator:
d.append(item)
yield tuple(d)
> I don't understand second-degree entertainment [..]

I guess you have a lot to learn about humans. (Not saying, you have to enjoy it.)

By the way, do you like stories?
Giving patients a copy of doctors' notes != giving them editorial power over doctors' notes.

They're doctors' notes, after all. Both the doctor and the patient can look at the screen, but only the doctor has the keyboard.

Of course, the psychological pressure to bend to the patient's wishes might be stronger if the patient can see what is being written down. But that's a kind of problem that rigorously trained professionals can learn to avoid to some extent. As you said, most doctors already know how to tell when a patient is seeking unnecessary drugs and/or procedures. Refusing to make unwarranted modifications to the records shouldn't be too different from refusing to prescribe unnecessary drugs and/or procedures. Liars gonna lie. Their ability and determination to lie is not one bit hampered by their inability to read the doctors' notes.

If someone tries to turn doctors' notes into some sort of wiki that both sides can edit, I'd be concerned. But not yet.
[I]n August 2010 ... a group led by a 2007 MIT graduate named Yuran Lu found a way to win virtually all the prizes themselves. ... During a four-day stretch between Aug. 13 and Aug. 16, 2010, Lu and his MIT classmate James Harvey ... bought nearly $1.4 million in tickets.

Yuran Lu and James Harvey are co-founders of QuicklyChat (YC S12 - http://www.quicklychat.com/about.html) http://blog.ycombinator.com/quicklychat-yc-s12-brings-push-t...

I guess they had no trouble with question 3 on the YC application: Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.
Toys are expensive and it's really useful to see what's inside the box.

There's a bunch of stuff that I haven't bought because I saw it in use on YouTube.
ngrams from the book NLP for the Working Programmer:

ngrams' :: Int -> [b] -> [[b]]
ngrams' n = filter ((==) n . length) . map (take n) . tails

ghci session:

λ> let ngrams' n = filter ((==) n . length) . map (take n) . tails

λ> inputList
["all","this","happened","more","or","less"]

λ> tails inputList
[["all","this","happened","more","or","less"],["this","happened","more","or","less"],["happened","more","or","less"],["more","or","less"],["or","less"],["less"],[]]

λ> map (take 2) (tails inputList)
[["all","this"],["this","happened"],["happened","more"], ["more","or"],["or","less"],["less"],[]]

λ> filter ((==) 2 . length) (map (take 2) (tails inputList))
[["all","this"],["this","happened"],["happened","more"],["more","or"],["or","less"]]

Pointfree Haskell code oftens ends up being a lot like piping together Unix commands.

Except typed and pure. With global type inference, so you have an objective type in mind, you can slap together and query the type with :t in ghci and see if it looks like what you wanted.
I think it's common in Europe for people to consider muesli healthy, even though many of the common brands are not really that healthy either. Depends on how much dried fruit and other such stuff you have in it (some varieties also have sugar or honey added). But it's true that I don't think anybody considers things closer to the Froot Loops end of the spectrum to be healthy.
Unfortunately, you're at the mercy of the end provider for technical expertise, in my case Verizon. I tried DSL from another provider a while back. Of my 30 day trial, it was down for 7 days because a Verizon tech randomly unplugged something in our neighborhood box.
For other readers, like me, who are not doctors, I will share that I have discovered that EMR means Electronic Medical Record.
Well, you probably used a calorie budget based on a few simple statistics like your sex, height, and weight. With individual differences is metabolic rates, it's very possible that your "slight calorie deficit" was actually breaking even for your individual calorie usage. Just as likely is that the nutrition info on labels is imprecise or even systematically inaccurate. For example, I believe there are penalties if your box says it contains 1 pound and it actually contains less, but there's no penalty for putting in more, since only in the former case is the consumer getting shortchanged, and this asymmetry probably creates an incentive for systematic underestimation of net weights, and therefore underestimation of calories per food package.

Probably some combination of these factors explains why you need to "ear FAR less than you should need to" based on how the math works out. I still think counting calories can be useful, but only in relative terms, not absolute.
Here's an example of something that truly works: git. I don't think git was adopted because Linus is a silver-tongued salesman. I think the cost-benefit analysis was just lopsided in git's favor, and everyone adopted it. The reason it doesn't happen more often is that there aren't that many truly good, production-ready ideas out there that haven't already been done.
> In the process, I've stopped medications and have had to teach my doctor certain things (like why I'm not gong to either worry about my cholesterol or take any drugs for it).

People have many values, one of which is health. Deciding not to worry about cholesterol may fit with your value system, but is unlikely to benefit your health. As a doctor, it would be reasonable to try to convince you of the benefit of caring about cholesterol, and then working with you to improve your health along the axes in which you are interested in making changes. If cholesterol is not one of them, that shouldn't sever the remainder of the therapeutic relationship. In other words, your physician may have recognized that global optimization sometimes requiring abandoning local optimizations (such as cholesterol control, in this case).

Obviously I don't know anything of the specifics of your case, but yours is an interesting comment.
Displaying a video or photo in an incorrect aspect ratio is unequivocally a loss of quality.
Sure it is. If Firefox and Chrome have similar UI, similar performance, similar functionality, but Firefox also has the added benefit of respecting your privacy, the only reason to use Chrome over Firefox is an emotional one.
Thank you. Have emailed you with the details of what I am doing.
This is nice work, but I'll go ahead and be the token negative nancy HN poster and say:

Fuck GIF; just because the patent expired doesn't mean we should use this piece of shit (by modern standards) format for things it was never really intended for and for which there are far better solutions, like just linking to the actual video.
Hey! I saw someone in a coffee shop in LA working on this. I regretted not asking about it. This looks really cool.
I saw this video posted on reddit somewhere a couple of days ago, and didn't bother to comment, but this video makes the fallacious equivalency that "computers are faster" with "computers can do more things".

A lot of current techniques work especially well when the objectives are well defined ("capture the king" or "make the most money possible"), but these are basically techniques discovered 50 years ago, it's not like there's been quantum leaps in AI research in the past decade or so (at least not to my knowledge, apologies to researchers who might have done things).

But since these techniques revolve around defining objective functions, when the notion of "best" is fuzzy or subjective none of this is going to be super useful. And search problems will game the system: if you ask a computer to design the fastest plane possible it will probably design one that has no space for a pilot, unless you specifically ask it to.

I used to think that the best example of fuzziness is that people are way better than computers at deciding whether something is a chair, but then I found out about LEVAN.

Then I saw what it thought were beanbag chairs : http://levan.cs.washington.edu/?state=fetchNGrams&concept=ch...

I'm not too scared of the computer apocalypse yet.
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Perhaps could it be that you have never had properly ripe, healthy cantaloupe? In US supermarkets at least most fruits are unripe, or rotten, or unripe and rotten at the same time.

For anyone unaware the most helpful signal for picking properly ripe melons is smell. Unripe melons will usually have no smell at all, while overly ripe ones will have hints of a rotten fruit odor mixed in, even while still being completely firm in feel. The outside of an uncut melon should smell sweet and fragrant through and through, and just one sniff should be enough to tell which fruits should be passed over without a second thought.

For already chopped melon a lot of times it's a gamble, and odds are bad. In the US at least most fruit salad preparers are barely payed, and likely not even given the basic authority to be selective about what fruit they chop up in the first place. Basically no one cares how properly ripe or palatable the fruit is, and so sadly-often it simply tastes like oh so much disgusting garbage.

Unfortunately melons are some of the worst-affected victims in the race-to-the-bottom world of modern mass-production fruit, along with apples, pears, tomatoes and olives. Like with humans when no one cares to begin with crime is much much more common.
You could argue that float/int arithmetic is inherently imprecise. It is, however, fully deterministic.

Of course as you hint in your comment, at a lower level hardware is prone to failures and lack determinism: bugs in the cpu, ram corruption (ECC-ram is of course better), data corruption everywhere on storage/network/data links, etc. Ever heard a gamer bitching about Windows 7 instability? That's not Windows, but overclocking not quite under control and/or insufficient cooling...

And when all is under control a cosmic ray might still wreak your bits havoc.
So did another HN user :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152267
Ah, I think I get it. When searching for the term "shin" for example, it would ignore any English definition matches such as shin guard, and only match Japanese terms containing it, like 心配.
Oh man, I'd love to be able to do most of my work on the same platform to the extent that I could use a specialized editor.
That's going to be a non-issue once doctors start typing instead of writing. Maybe there should be a rule that requires doctors to type their notes whenever possible.

I'm not even talking about a real computer, which might be too expensive for doctors in rural India to purchase and maintain. Even a 60-year-old mechanical typewriter should be better than most people's handwriting.
It's not about the cost, it's about the tradeoffs. That number is necessarily going to be different for every startup because every founder is going to value design differently, and make different compromises with regards to executing on a particular design versus shipping at a particular time versus developing it in a particular way.

Most recently, SFCD posted examples of their pricing. "Strategy & concept" + "User experience" + "Design" is a quarter to a half of the time spent working on the app. Good design always makes a lot more work for development. http://sfcd.com/blog/cost/

Other examples include Twitterific's response in this StackOverflow question, "Anyone who's done serious iPhone development can tell you there's a lot of design work involved with any project. We had two designers working on that aspect of the product. They worked their asses off dealing with completely new interaction mechanics. Don't forget they didn't have any hardware to touch, either (LOTS of printouts!) Combined they spent at least 25 hours per week on the project. So 225 hours at $150/hr is about $34,000." Other answers are similar. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209170/how-much-does-it-c...

You can reduce the cost and amount of time spent on design if you've done market research and customer development up front. I'm working on an article about that; if you'd like to read a draft, my contact information is discoverable through my profile.
Why should we subsidize peoples' housing choices? And if we do, we should do it directly, instead of creating a regime that makes it unattractive for companies to invest in telecom infrastructure.
Ask HN: How did Steve Ballmer get 8% when he joined Microsoft?
He was employee #30. I'm just wondering why he was given so much?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
Here's another reason why using a free BIOS like Coreboot is a great idea - if malware attempts to reflash it with an infected copy of presumably the original proprietary BIOS, it will be very, very obvious.

Another "tamper detection" idea, if you're OK with using proprietary BIOS and/or Coreboot isn't supported, is to add a small piece of code to the existing BIOS that simply hashes the ROM contents and prints out a human-readable string to the boot screen based on that. If it goes missing or changes, then you can suspect something happened. Of course, the trick is to not have everyone doing this with the same code, or backdoors will just detect and spoof it. I modded the BIOS of an old machine I have to do this, it prints out "Customised by {my handle}".
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