skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sound very impressive and i'm very curious.

A few questions:

1. It feels a lot like literature-based-discovery. Is it ? if so , how is watson better than current literature based discovery methods that did create some scientific hypothesis AFAIK?

If not please share more details(if you can of course) about how it reaches hypothesis).

2. Does it work well in non biological literature ? Are there any examples ?
Of course. One possible source could be a family lawyer or descendants. I could imagine this being a viable method within 100 years, but beyond that, it might not be so reliable.

The first method (contracts) is dependent upon people. The second method (money) is dependent upon your currency remaining relevant as well as finding some way of managing the fund. People and money are both fallible, but I included them for completeness. I personally think that the last two reasons are much more likely if we're talking about hundreds (or thousands) of years. At those intervals though, a more relevant question might be, "who would store and maintain the bodies?"
I have had to work on this, because what used to be a personal problem is now an occupational hazard. Here is what I've found. The compulsion to comment is trying to get rid of a feeling of irritation. That doesn't work, because the other side—probably just as irritated as you are—pushes back harder, irritating you more.

You can interrupt this compulsion simply by feeling the irritation without trying to get rid of it or channel it into something else, such as a proof of rightness. The more aware you are of how it's agitating you, the less likely you are to lash out.

It might seem like being more aware of something uncomfortable can't help, but in pratice it does. It gives space and time for the irritation to subside, and lessens the habit for next time.

This has given me a new perspective on tolerance. Tolerance is closer than we realize to the physical sense of "to tolerate", i.e. to bear a pain or stress internally without snapping. This capacity increases with practice. The best thing for tolerance is to experience the irritation, that buttons-being-pushed feeling, as a physical sensation and not an intellectual reaction. That somehow metabolizes it.
Ask HN: Need IP legal advice
(I am using a throwaway for obvious reasons and pardon stilted English & style ... ;)

I joined a high end tech a few months ago. This is a established startup. We have SV presence and elsewhere. At least on its way up if not already arrived. None of the big names but well known in its niche. Smallish company in the low 3 digit head count range. The technical bench is solid and known stars here and there. Not public. Well financed, and pretty deep pockets.

When I joined, I was asked to sign a IP and confidentiality agreement, per norm. The agreement provided for my listing what I had done and been working on. This I did. A project that has been in the works for almost 5 years and is pretty novel in the general space was listed.

I never have been given back my counter signed copy and when I asked I was told it was being considered. (not exact words again for obvious reasons.) That was news to me as nothing was said verbally or in writing regarding that. I have reviewed the contract (and I am not a lawyer) and it says nothing about that. My recent email to an executive level about this has not been answered.

I have no idea what to make of this but as my work before joining and this company's crown jewels are in the same ballpark (distributed stuff) the idea that I should be talking to a lawyer keeps coming up in my head. This and bunch other things has kind of brought the decision to say my goodbyes to this company. I have started the process of making a transition.

I have written records and notebooks and some public comments (in social nets) and partial open source aspects of my work. I like to work to a state of completion before release so the entire project has never been out in the open.

I need advice. How to make the transition and also maybe leads to solid and aggressive lawyers in the valley who know how to deal with these matters. I am not rich, far from it. Thank you.
That looks interesting, thanks for sharing.
How does the math work for paying let's say 60 years times <$100 and cashing out $150k at the end?
Well its #TBT so every second of downtime limit the amount of likes I can get. /s
> "Vets applying for benefits face a laborious process using an outdated interface written in Delphi"

Great article, but why the Delphi hate? I use Delphi 7 daily at my current job, and I actually quite like it.
Second all of this, thanks for the wonderful book. I can truthfully say it was a major positive factor in advancing my career in software development, and for that I'm quite grateful! So thank you for the book and all the hard work and effort that goes into writing and maintaining it.
Thanks. I don't deserve too much of the credit there, though -- I think a bunch of people started realizing it at the same time. It was just too weird to go unnoticed forever.

Someone should see if they can dig up transaction volume data to estimate how much the Bytecoin people made. :)
How do you know what types are hashable?
As others have said, I would at least like an option for when I do want to take a route immediately. Sometimes I look up routes for later, but usually if I'm using Citymapper it's because I want to go somewhere right now (and am often quite tight for time).

I guess the problem with doing this automatically for queries for journeys starting 'now', is that people will often just look up general journey times with the default options (eg the current time).
Is this interoperable with WebRTC nodes, or is it a fork?
I found this library very promising. Really, there is no other library that logs the performance.
You have just fabricated this, they were open about it at launch.
The quality of these recordings is very good! Seems like very sturdy and long-lasting technology. Also, what kind of homemade microphone did he make?
>'I think exclusive contracts should be abandoned anywhere they can be. Why should there only be one monolithic Healthcare.gov?'

I completely agree with the first sentence conceptually, but think the second is a terrible fit for that concept.

A monolithic healthcare.gov actually makes a lot of sense as every implementation will necessarily have loads of shared functionality.

There's a reason state exchanges have spent multiples of what healthcare.gov has per sign-up. [1]

>'Every single company that wants to should be able to build their own solution to this. They can be rewarded based on how many users they get, or the best one can win a bounty.'

This isn't a throwaway chat app. The tacit Government approval of free-for-all collection of the SSNs, income and health coverage information that go into a marketplace application would not be wise.

1: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/08/310721495/healthc...
Meta Prediction: As has occurred everywhere else on the web, two-sided discussion of this topic will be buried and censored rapidly here, as well.
Does not work on my iphone 3Gs using safari. Can't scroll, can't pull down the menu.
Trying the inertia scroll, only scrolls the page of the browser, but not the entire text conversation.
The Scientific American article about this experiment has a much better analysis of the pros and cons of seeding the ocean with iron - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fertilizing-ocean-...

"But such fallen carbon only resides in the deep for a few centuries at best. Eventually, it makes its way back to the surface as the ocean's bottom water circulates and rises anew near the equator (although carbon buried in sediment might stay buried longer)."
i think its the myspace of cities. i dont mean that as a snarky comment. I think once a city has an outflow of a certain magnitude, even if there are good things about the city it has already lost its ability to sustain structure.
Well the number of hourly paid tape ops or punch card operators is probably not that many any more.

And don't forget those special laws that where passed to categorise hourly paid IT workers as exempt.
It's fascinating, and personally a bit disturbing, to read about his death as an announcement of cryopreservation ("being cryopreserved now") instead of the sad news it is anyway ("died today"). Also the discussion here revolves around he coming back, not he leaving.

Maybe it impresses me because he seemed so hopeful to be able to choose life in his post back then when he was diagnosed: "I may even still be able to write code, and my dream is to contribute to open source software projects even from within an immobile body. That will be a life very much worth living." http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ab/dying_outside/

I guess one can argue it is a good thing about cryonics, less mourning, more hope. Anyway, I'd like to write down a regular epitaph:

Hal Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014), second PGP developer after Zimmerman, first Bitcoin recipient, cypherpunk who wrote code.
Have a look at the sourcecode [1].
It is just implemented with an associative array (implemented as hash table) from argument tuples to the return type.
This means that keys have to be atomic or provide their to_hash and equality check themselves.
Check out the D template system, it is quite impressive what you can express with it.

1: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master...
Putting the science in computer science
doubtful, even if they rename it Delta City.

This piece came across as a feel good piece, if anything its a familiar story. Town goes down the tubes, yuppies move in and renovate old housing and such pushing what few remaining stragglers there are left out and help recreate a few revitalized islands amongst the rest. Usually led by a few strong business interest who promote the idea to get further concessions and good will all the while the decaying neighborhoods on the perimeter of these areas just stagnate
Would you mind sharing some of that evidence? I certainly understand the desire to be cryopreserved, but given the lack of proof of concept (I'd love to be contradicted here!) and how little we know about the brain, it seems like a desperate Hail Mary marketed to wealthy tech folks as sound science.
The thought hand't actually occurred to me to keep my car keys on my key ring. They're gigantic these days. But I guess a lot of people do.
How power works in Britain
You could probably spin something about cheapening the brand with insufficiently awesome experience. Of course the actual reason is probably that they don't want the hosting or support overhead.

Cynically, if the app supported SF no one on HN would care about the rest of the world ;)
Anecdotally I know some artists who have moved out that way for an abundance of cheap space - not empty office buildings as another poster pointed out, actual cheap art space.

There's a real potential for Detroit to develop major bohemian settlements now that every major urban center in the US is squeezing that demographic out rapidly (SF, Brooklyn, Seattle, Portland, etc). There can be a spectacular cultural resurgence for the city.

Speculators are probably hoping they can turn this into a Brooklyn-type situation. Get an influx of artists and creatives attracted by cheap, plentiful space, and then flip said property to wealthy professionals who are more bohemian in their own heads than in reality.

The problem is that Detroit doesn't really have that strong of a white collar job base. You can get the broke artists in, but there isn't really a ready pool of professionals to flip to. In that sense it might be ideal - it's possibly an ungentrifiable fortress for creatives.
History as a Service. Scheduled notifications about historical events relayed in "virtual real time" from a start date of your choosing.

Like a DVR (or Netflix streaming) for history.
I know other folks active on HN actually work in the insurance industry, and hopefully they'll jump in. But there are different types of life insurance. For most HN readers term life insurance (pay $100 a year for 10 years for $150K in death benefits, and then the policy ends) makes the most sense. There's no "cash out" at the end...

There are other types tied to investment vehicles that go by names like universal and variable life insurance. Those can have certain tax advantages and can let you build that "cash value" you mentioned.
So we have special circuitry for recognizing written words and letters, that seems to be specialized from part of our facial-recognition circuitry? Very cool. :)
Now if only I could easily set up waypoints on my navigation, so that I can plan a trip. (Leave in the AM, stop at X in 150 miles, stop at Y or Z in 2 hours, stop at Q for lunch, arrive at destination)
I really don't like lumping Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkisian together just because they are female.

I could be ignorant but I don't think Quinn has made anything that could attract attention on its own merit.
On the other hand, Sarkisian has produced content for years and is established. I've met men-children who hate Sarkisian because she criticized their precious video games. But what has Quinn ever done to become a lightning rod?
Presumably the 140 characters is more like a git revision number than reversible compression.
I wish there were more incubators with global reach. I am a Microsoft alum who moved to Pakistan for personal reasons and had to start out with zero funding, which is a painful exercise.

I first about Rocket Internet through a local company that was making great strides in marketing localised copies of the same products highlighted in the article (Zalando and Lazada). I never bothered to look up the company until just now and realise it's an incubator which owns the products. When the localised versions of these products launched, I was quite envious of the fact that they were flush with capital and managed to corner the market very easily using that capital.

It seems like an easy win for Rocket Internet or other similar VCs with a global mindset, especially since Pakistan doesn't post much competition for these companies due to the local of local VCs (some exist but only in namesake) or entrepreneurs in software. OLX is another company that has recently (less than 1 year) entered the market and shaken up decades old newspaper classifieds (my startup services one of the largest local newspapers).

I have always felt YC was out of reach.
I was a bit turned off by the term 'isomorphic javascript' when I first read it mostly because of how it is so fundamental to mathematics and we can say the term isomorphic definitely earned its keep there. In programming I'm not so sure. The term does fit but it's a mouthful, almost as bad as XMLHttpRequest. Is there a cool word like AJAX to take the place of Isomorphic Javascript? Airbnb has a certain coolest factor and they've been using the term so it's most likely here to stay.
I agree. I've been through the book multiple time, and while excellent, nothing seemed to stick because the details of building the application itself seemed to get lost in the weeds. I'm really looking forward to diving into the new edition!
I get around this by having a work profile on chrome (in case you didn't know that already). I know it's still bad when you do some lunchtime browsing, etc, but after about a year, my work profile cannot even auto-suggest facebook when i type 'fac'.
Unfortunately most city transport is covered by a different transit authority in every city, which will each offer vastly different levels of data access (or none at all). In London we have TfL which have only recently opened up a public API which covers all the transport options in the city, but it's very complex, and implementing that API alone into an app would be quite a task.

If you start looking at all of the UK, there are different APIs for trains and buses, and then various local services which have no API at all, so you'd have to manually input timetables.

Google probably have transit authorities begging them to include data on their transport into Maps, but for an independent app it's not that easy, and takes a lot of work.
Trust me, someone very likely would take you seriously.

Then later credit you for your advice.
I assume that your rates go up as you age and get more likely to die. In your 20's it's only covering improbably illnesses and events like car accidents. But nobody's going to extend those same rates to you once you're 85 and already had two heart attacks.
I know it switches from live timetable to "every 10 minutes" style estimates when:

- day bus service ends and night buses begin

- your phone signal dies

Does it do it at other times too?
There are lots of folks, who are not developers, who would want to send a linkedin invite to every new twitter follower, or get emails about the top apps in the app store, or log all your text messages to google drive. Heck, developers who don't want to spend the time to build and maintain a system would use it also.

Check out their recipes for a better understanding of how people are using the service: https://ifttt.com/recipes

Agreed on your second point.
Here's an interesting discussion results about near-term studies on inducing hypothermia was a way to save gun shot victims from brain death:

The article --
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129623.000-gunshot-v...

HN discussion with some insightful commentary -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7477801
It is. The trifecta of three letter agencies can expropirate and generate valid certificates for .com domains today. But they can't do this for most of the other TLDs.

No cryptography in the world can protect you from a fully legal domain trasfer. So, who better to be your CA than the registrar who have this power anyway?
The do no evil line is bullshit. This is not a benevolent company by any standard. The services are not free, you are just paying in a different currency.

Here is more on loon and look further up for links to the PRISM slides and documentation showing the companies involved including google were compensated financially by the NSA. The evidence is damning.

http://m.slashdot.org/story/194413

Look the bottom line here is these guys betrayed us. They are traitors, and we need to cut them out of our future.
Is there an API for Watson? Is it possible as a developer to obtain access?

More abstract: Watson, based on this article (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/11/ibm-watson-me...), can already diagnose cancer better than a human doctor. Will we see more of this functionality rolled out publicly? Or will it be reserved for use by healthcare organizations?
Is this not the case for all "emerging markets"? This wouldn't be a story if Detroit had low crime, great infrastructure, low taxes, superb public transport, immaculate roads, and prestigious schools. All of the aforementioned would translate to increased costs of living. Is Dan Gilbert making money from this? Absolutely, but he's also the one that took on the initial risk.

The cost for cheap, spacious housing and office space in Detroit is having to tolerate a phoenix city in the midst of an identity crisis; expecting something which resembles NYC or SF is silly. I grew up in Michigan and have been to Detroit numerous times, and what I've witnessed lately (in concentrated locations, of course) is exciting -- see http://techtowndetroit.org/. Granted, there are certainly depressing and desolate areas of the city, but again that should be expected for a city that has seen massive emigration and decreased revenue. I am optimistic about the future of Detroit.
Live mapping an invasion for the first time isn't an "interesting new phenomenon"?
If I remove all the tiles on new tab page, I just have a bunch of empty tiles (using just updated Nightly). Is there a page showing all sponsored tiles that I can go to user/browser-independent?
Section 4 ("Radios, we have Radios") really dates this article.

DARPA purchased four of the Spectracom WWVB receivers [...] The radios were redeployed in 1986 in the NSF Phase I backbone network, which used Fuzzball routers [26]. It is a tribute to the manufacturer that all four radios are serviceable today

Those receivers almost certainly aren't in use anymore.

There's a real problem with WWVB reception here on the east coast of the United States, especially in urban areas. NIST investigated several possibilities for improving reception, including building a second WWVB-like transmitter site in Alabama. (That plan ended up dying because of a dispute with NASA that never got resolved before the funding expired.) So they went with Plan B, a public-private partnership with a company named Xtendwave, where Xtendwave worked with NIST to design a phase modulated signal format for WWVB, NIST implemented the new phase modulated signal, and Xtendwave filed for and received patents on it all.

So NIST is currently broadcasting two signals on WWVB's carrier: the old amplitude modulated signal, which is prone to interference, and a new phase modulated signal that's more resistant to interference and has error-correction built-in. Unfortunately, when the phase modulated signal appeared, all of the "laboratory grade" carrier tracking WWVB receivers in the world (like Dave Mills' Spectracom receivers and a Kinemetrics/TrueTime receiver I had at ${PREVIOUS_JOB}) became instantly obsolete — they can't lock onto a carrier that's constantly, unexpectedly going 180° out of phase.

It's worth noting that Xtendwave has been saying that their line of receiver chips for the new phase modulated WWVB signal will be available Real Soon Now™ since at least late 2012, but you still can't buy them. Also, no one seems to know if you can build your own receiver for WWVB's phase modulated signal without running afoul of Xtendwave's patents.

So, yeah, NIST obsoleted working equipment actively used in industry in order to provide a "better" time signal that nobody can actually make use of. Yay.

These four radios, together with a Heath WWV receiver at COMSAT Laboratories and a pair of TrueTime GOES satellite receivers at Ford Motor Headquarters and later at Digital Western Research Laboratories

GOES is NOAA's geostationary weather satellite program, and NOAA used to broadcast a publicly documented timecode from those satellites. NOAA finally killed the time service a decade ago because GPS existed, there was almost no funding to keep the GOES timecode going, and the ground hardware used to drive the service was obsolete.

There's a nice GOES retrospective at http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2013.pdf
1. Sheer comparison for equality is used. (It is user definable.) For e.g. built-in hashes, contents must compare equal.

2. The store is a hashtable.

3. Multiple arguments are grouped in a tuple - no major complication.

4. Where memoization doesn't make sense you'll get a compile-time error because e.g. comparison for equality is't defined. At least most of the time :o).

5. The memory is thread-local.

6. memoize takes the name of the memoized argument and creates a distinct type for each memoized function.

TL;DR: business as usual
I find that it's become a bit worse as I've become more familiar with London. For someone who doesn't know the city at all it's perfect, but once you know the tube map and various local details, some of the options do seem a little odd.

One of the devs posted in this thread that they favour routes with more frequent services, as people often don't want to travel immediately. I'm not entirely sure I agree with this thinking in a mobile app, but it could explain some of the less optimal routes.
There was an experiment in 2009 that ended up seeding algae and plankton instead of diatoms, but it didn't sequester carbon as hoped: http://www.awi.de/en/news/press_releases/detail/item/lohafex...

It seems the larger diatoms seeded in the more recent experiment may actually be better at sequestering carbon.

We need to be doing more experiments like this so we understand the processes and potential fallout before we get to a point where our survival depends on it succeeding.
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