skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody's advocating lock-in. What is being advocated is using the right tool for the job. What has been brought up--by you--is the completely laughable notion that "abstractions don't fail" when the overwhelming majority of people involved with high-performance graphics are pretty sure that the abstractions have failed. Which is why they're going exactly the other way from your ideological wishcasting and building libraries and frameworks that are tailored to the hardware rather than using a driver to overcome the impedance mismatch at the cost of performance.

You don't know what you don't know but it isn't stopping you from talking shit. Stop.
It’s frankly pretty offensive that the author considers men who keep their promises to their wives (e.g. who promise to be home by a certain time and then won’t break that promise for their poker buddies) to be only half persons. It seems to discount the personhood of the wives, or not recognize that the marriage relationship is one between two “persons” who negotiate with each-other.

Or perhaps the author doesn’t himself feel that way, but still finds it unremarkable that this community of poker buddies does (i.e. it’s not worth mentioning how dysfunctional this situation is). He’s so casual about totally dismissing the obligations of a husband to his wife, when any other arbitrary external obligation would have presumably had similar concrete effects. (For example, if the man had to leave to visit his sick parent, help a work colleague, see an old friend in town for the day, or even if he just needed some time alone, would he still be considered a half person?)
First, a snark admission. I read the article and the comments concurrently. I was not disappointed in how quickly the reductionists came out to defend their favorite theory of caloric thermodynamics.

That said, I will provide an personal anecdote for your perusal and make one suggestion. First, the anecdote:
I dropped from a weight of 205 - 210 pounds to a weight of 145 pounds over the course of three years. I am back up to 155 pounds. Yes, that last detail is important to my story. I am 5-foot-8-inches, so this is a radical change of BMI. Why did I lose so much weight? A radical change in diet.

I have a medical condition for which I was trying to avoid the most expensive treatments. I moved (not overnight) to a diet that removed virtually all grain-based and tuber-based carbohydrates. My carbohydrates came from fruits and leafy vegetables. No, I do not advise this diet for anyone unless they are trying to avoid the drugs that comes with my condition.

It worked. I went off the over-priced 1890's-era anti-inflammatory medication and stayed it for three years. Then, my symptoms returned.

New doctor, who said nothing about my diet and threw steroids and more anti-inflammatory meds at me. Those did not work. I lost even more weight, down to 135 pounds. I even went off my diet. Yes, it was good to eat bread, potatoes, and rice again.

Finally, I gave in and accepted that I would be on a ludicrously priced biological. Symptoms arrested. Now, back to my old diet. I have ten pounds to lose to get to my target weight.

What I am suggesting is that reductionism works. My diet notebooks shows a slight reduction in calories by removing grain-and-tuber carbs. However, it only takes you so far. There is room for wholism and seeking an understanding of exactly how a given source of nutrients is metabolized.
Yes, I agree -- seeing our best minds work on our lamest problems is distressing. Though arguably, it's an improvement from the previous condition, in in which our best technology was primarily used to produce weapons of war.

At least some of the products of the social media & web advertising era give people access to information and one another, two fundamental human drives. That's a bit better than "better technology to persuade people to buy stuff."
Sad that they fail to mention the lower left corner of their chart is anchored by 'prostitution' and the upper right corner by 'flying cars' :-)

Most of the venture folks I've talked with over the years talk about "stacking risk" rather than uncertainty but its the same thing. Trying to figure out if you can eliminate the risk of something before the big investment pays huge dividends. A lot of the 'create a signup page' kinds of ideas are built around this.
I was 32 when I had a stroke (March 4th, 2003). It was a different kind of stroke, affecting a different part of my brain, essentially related to vision. I was half blind, but I only realized something was "strange" when I saw myself in the mirror: I had only one eye. My brain knew I should have two: I was half blind.

The first diagnosis was migraine with aura (blindness in my case). But the aura should have lasted no more than an hour. Two days later, the aura (blindness) was still there (a sign of infarct but my doctor didn't know it).

I spent 2 days alone in the dark. I forgot to eat but I knew I had to call a taxi to take me to the hospital. I wasn't scared, I though it was just a migraine. It really looked and felt like my usual migraines. So my doctor had me take anti-migraine pills, which are vasoconstrictors. That might have caused the actual stroke: extreme vasoconstriction. Never take anti-migraine treatment during the aura. Never.

It took 2 days before I was diagnosed at the hospital, but they just told me "I see a shadow on the CT scan"... so I spent the next 2 days wondering what kind of shadow? stroke or cancer? And no, I didn't think about asking.

It took one week to be hospitalized for 10 days (my mother called the hospital, harassed them until she could talk to a doctor, who said it was an emergency... one week after the stroke).

It took 15 days before I woke up in the morning and thought "Wow! WOW! I'm back now!". Before that, I spent most of my time sleeping, reading half a page between two naps. I was sleeping more than I was awake.

It took 3 months before I could look at everything I wanted. Before that, looking at trees (and other complex objects) was "painful", and watching movies was too exhausting (especially action movies). During these 3 months, I recovered from blindness, but not completely. I still have a blind spot in my field of view today.

It took 6 months before my mood was really restored. Before that, I needed a daily nap, lots of soothing music, and no pressure at all.

I took aspirin daily for 3 years, after which my neurologist told me I could stop.

I had a few migraines after that, and even ended under oxygen at the hospital once, but I always recovered within 15 days.

It was 10 years ago, and it changed my life. I quit my job as a developer, spent 2 years wondering what to do next, then became a wedding photographer. In february this year, almost 10 years after, I got a new job as a developer.

I'm back on rails (node.js to be precise :-)
Oh shut up.

<eats french fry>
If you don't mind my asking -- what is your condition? I've got Ulcerative Colitis, and tried a similar diet (the Specific Carbohydrate Diet) to reasonable success. I've also had a few rounds of Infliximab (Remicade), which has helped me reach remission.
If you're interested in modular synths and fancy audio devices generally, the place to check out is http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/

Prepare to spend all of your money.
It's a shame someone down-voted you. I'm not sure if you were being rhetorical, but this question is easily answered because the answer is, quite simply, "just about anything".

Want to add anything new to the page? Well, at Amazon-scale, your little widget is going to have to go through some pretty intense design review and load testing, because at over 150 million page views per day, tiny time penalties can add up to significant capacity issues.

Amazon is also notorious for deep introspection of user behavior, so any little thing you want to add is going to have to go in to the big bin of factors that might influence a customer to "click the button" (or not). Data about your new feature will have to be integrated in to the models that are used to evaluate user behavior, or at a minimum, the group who handles that will have to sign off on not tracking the impact of your new feature on user behavior.

The whole concept of "the group that manages that" isn't unique to Amazon, but once you pass a certain size, you don't simply add features or new products without a involving lots of people. That is a challenge unique to Amazon-sized companies.
I went surfing around the Homebrew docs to see if there was an option, or at least consideration, for your objective. Turns out it's in the FAQ (as well it should be):

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/FAQ#why-does-homeb...

Their claim is that a lot of software is poorly written and does not tolerate non-standard include or lib paths aligns with my own experiences.

Also, FWIW, they allege a few questions further down in the same FAQ that they do not own /usr/local and thus you can put your own items there willy-nilly; just be cautious about rebuilding libs that are shipped by Apple and sticking them in /usr/local.
Short examples would greatly enhance comprehension for me
I am not sure if you are the OP or know her, but this story touched my heart. It is beautiful. I am only imagine how strong she has to be, and the people around her must be to get through this. My sister and her husband are going through the very same thing -- He was progressing very well in his career and they just had their first child when he suffered his from the same reason - a hole in the heart. All the best. You and all the stroke victims have my prayers tonight.
Many health insurance plans have a yearly cap on how much you pay out of pocket. So you might pay 20% up to a few thousand dollars, and then get 100% coverage after that.
In high school I decided I was going to build my own analog synthesizer, I spent hours designing various oscillator circuits and patch panels. At school I took an Electronic Music class and got to use the Moog Model 15 to do various compositions. It wasn't until much later on Usenet after a big hoax had gone around about a 'new' Analog synth did I find out that Roger Arrick, I guy I knew from robotics work, was building synthesizers[1]. I got a smaller one from him (22 slots) about 10 years ago and have had so much fun with it.

[1] http://synthesizers.com -- the plural is important!
The linked article is entitled "Why is the Chinese government against Falun Gong?" and doesn't have any reference to Tim Cook.
Yes, there can be some differences. E.g., a user might search for something that does not exist. So, they can do the search, that is, attempt, but not find the results.

Or, there's a lot of content on the Internet; a lot of it, a lot of people want; to get it they want to do searches that promise to be able to find that content. Nothing more obscure than that.
Up from Pain
I had a couple of ECGs recently. I'm not sure if they could get anything approaching the same graph through a watch some distance from the heart (the ECG has 8 or so contact points around the chest) but I did notice that a good portion of the cardiologists judgement came from inspecting the graph rather than anything more complex.
What is a near match is an issue.
Why old versions of 286 Xenix did not run on 386s
If you're using chrome, you can share your screen using WebRTC to other browsers that support it. Right now, that's just Firefox and Chrome.

Check out talky for an example.
https://talky.io
This is predated by Switched-On Bach, one of the most successful classical music albums in history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6I33iW1kmw
Passing On: 100 years ago, the last passenger pigeon died
iOS 8 Bugs Roundup: Top Reasons Why You Need to Downgrade
Instructive, but the design of the website itself is not that great - eg. FAQ link takes you nowhere.

Just by reading what's on the site I'm not 100% sure what the thing does - is it like Spotify and Grooveshark?

I'd like to have a more unambiguous idea of what I would be installing :)
Wow. Scary trend in corporate control of the local news.

I have been concerned for a long time about corporate control of the few large news outlets like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, etc. I think that they all filter the news and enforce a slanted version of the news not in the public interest. There are some organizations like Democracy Now that do a much better job.
While other cities and regions may poach auto manufacturing jobs and plants from Detroit, the idea that any significant amount of manufacturing will be done in the SV is unlikely, based on real estate prices alone. Not to say that a large part of research and innovation cannot be done here rather than in Detroit.
> I do have health insurance but it only covers around 47% of my medical costs (at least when I go for a primary care visit, I suspect they might even cover less for a more expensive procedure).

Actually, it's the opposite. For the vast majority of insurance plans, there's an annual limit to your copay.

To be honest, if there weren't that limit there would be no purpose to insurance at all.
Search for "great chef" in that page.
I was terrified after reading this. Reminded me that I should live a bit healthier, not drink more coffee then water, got to sleep earlier, wake up earlier, maybe even exercise. But more important, it got me thinking. The non-routine kind of thinking. Read some old diary entries. Wrote a new one, after almost a year.
There are countless efforts to reach people with this sort of information. Official medical sources, highbrow papers, trashy sites. What's to say that this isn't the best option to reach a certain segment and that, as a bonus, it reached beyond that?

Buzzfeed may well be a Trojan to get better content to those typically reading vapid junk? Or, more likely, a way of building a financially-secure publication from trashy beginnings.
Presumably, if prices are driven down enough by competition, then price vs quality differentiation. Cheaper prices vs better/nicer drivers.
“Nancy Grows Up,” the Media Age, and the Historian’s Craft
Perhaps the US tax code should stop subsidizing corn syrup and other processed food inputs. As it is now, the tax payers pay twice -- once for the subsidy, and then again for healthcare.
The big problem with iPhone 6 Plus: why I can barely use my new phone
The Commodore 64 made me who I am today. I was 10, we had one, I spent my Saturdays with BASIC and a box of doughnuts.
If you haven't already you should read his book, Avoiding the Fall, there are a number of prescriptions inside it on how to go about rebalancing the Chinese economy. It's really well written (as is his blog, especially this post). The central thesis of the book is that the Chinese economy has low consumption as a total proportion of their GDP due to a number of hidden subsidies that transfer wealth from households to businesses and governments in China.

He argues that by removing these subsidies China can rebalance their economy from an investment driven one to a more consumption driven one and achieve a 'rebalancing'. Some subsidies are governments fixing bank interest rates for lenders and depositors (in a way that takes money from depositors to subsidise borrowers) and artificially pegging the exchange rate, which penalises households (who typically in urban settings rely on imported goods) and subsidises businesses (many of whom export their goods).

My economics knowledge is generally self-taught and I don't have the book in front of me so you'll have to forgive any errors - but hope that helps!
https://ello.co/budnitz/post/cwGa3WXn4xz3zUsxcwCouQ
I think its a relevant description. Technology like deep learning shouldn't be the domain of large companies and graduate researchers.

A friend is working on DeepLearning4J (http://deeplearning4j.org/) which is an open source distributed deep learning package.
Some HN readers wonder why people don't simply demolish my psychology posts using evidence, instead of anonymously downvoting them (the preferred approach). The answer is simple: they can't -- the evidence is overwhelming that psychology is not a scientific enterprise. It's a matter of choosing which piece of evidence to present on a given day, from a wide array of possibilities.
This seems to be the wrangling Bruce Sterling is recently talking about[1]. John Carmack is brilliant, but a lot of what he's doing here is using his reputation and technical skill to get people and companies all pulling in the same direction. This isn't something a start-up in a garage could do.

[1] http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/bruce-sterlings-the-epic-s....
I'd rather they lose it to Silicon Valley than Shanghai or Tokyo.
There is literally 1 billion possible reasons why that could be. Smaller size. Higher bitrate. Simpler format. Faster/more power efficient decoding. More than 2 audio channels. Separation of single tracks within a song (so that e.g. you can mute vocals). These just off the top of my head.
Moving Down the Career Ladder
Organic and non-GMO have specific definitions (which are in scientific terms). That does not imply there is a scientific justification for believing that they are better in any way.
I'm a skeptic. But this article rings way too much like what the tobacco industry published back in the 50s and 60s. And what climate change deniers published more openly in recent times. Ask any dietician, in particular pediatrics. Ask any obesity researcher. They are super clear on what's going on with the current obesity epidemic. And they squarely blame soft drinks and processed foods with their multibillion dollar advertising budgets.

Confusion and distraction. That's what trillion-dollar industries do when they are cornered.

Remember, many contrarian science authors were later exposed as shills. Like Malcolm Gladwell. Also, it might not be a matter of influence. Contrarian articles get a lot more viewers by people in denial, guilt-shifting and all.

So, I'm very skeptical to this skeptical piece. But it's worth reading.
I'm the writer of the story--thank you so much for reading. I'm glad to know that my experience helps people gain further understanding of strokes/brain injuries. I hope your girlfriend is in a better place, now.
Welcome to the strange, upside-down world of Yahoo after the Alibaba IPO
You quite correctly diagnosed my ailment and diet. I wasn't (and still am not) wild about being on Infliximab, but it's better than the alternative. I'm also quite thankful for my University position and the very good insurance that comes with it.
This is a good perspective -- pointing out e.g. how when the media even tries to report on how casual sexism affect the industry, it usually mangles the real issues beyond recognition. The title doesn't really do the article justice.
The single most depressing quote from the article, understandably lifted even on the page itself:

> "For every working journalist in America there, are now 4.6 PR people, up from 3.2 a decade ago"

We can respin (pun intended) that in slightly different way: journalists in US are outnumbered by spin doctors more than 4 to 1. That's a sad figure for anyone who cares about finding out the truth.
The real issue is nobody wants the slow and steady option.

If you are overweight you can lose a pound/month with only a few minor changes to your diet. You won't feel any more hungry than you usually do. You won't feel a lack of energy or ability to think.

But a person who is 60 pounds overweight won't do this because it will take 5 years to lose the weight. Instead they will jump from one diet to the next to the next binge to the even stricter diet and in 5 years be no better off than when they started.
Should I apply to YC?
You are quite correct to be skeptical. See my reply below. That said, a single pattern noticed is only correlation. It is far better to ask three questions: What do we know? How do we know it? What does the shape of what we don't know look like? Hence my call for a match on the wholism side to the reductionist methods on weight management.
Helpling Launches Online Cleaning Platform in Australia
Yes. It's that "Polaroid in 1998" moment for them.
Or any profession really - you have to put in the time. Which is why expecting a good designer to be a good dev or vice versa is kind of outlandish.
I believe Apple cares a lot less about what's on my device, and what I do with it, than Google does. (If we're just comparing the two companies.)

In reality you can't truly trust anybody without being able to audit every single thing in every step of the toolchain going from hardware design, software design, assembly, shipping the phone to my house, the service providers, the whole shebang. At some point you have to just accept that the chain is too long to really know what you're getting.

A DIY phone with 100% open source software would go a long way towards solving the issue (because you become a large part of the chain) but it's not really tenable right now, and probably won't be for a very long time.

I don't necessarily trust anyone, but I'm more comfortable with Apple than companies that make money off my information. Apple simply has less reasons to intentionally fuck me over.
Shoot me an email with more info.
Do you mean the insurance company has a limit for what they pay? [1]? I can't find a source for the limited co-pay that I think you're suggesting.

1.http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/rights/limits/
> It's not a mystery to me: OpenGL is a scene description API, not a real-time graphics API.

Rather it originally was such API. I'm saying, why couldn't they draft a new API from the ground up as one of the previous major versions? It looks like only now they are doing exactly that. So why wait so long? That's what I mean I'm unsure of. Probably some organizational problem or lack of some major pushers for such change in the past.
Is it even possible to downgrade from iOS8 to iOS7?
EDNS(0) allows for larger responses and is both commonly implemented and widely deployed.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6891
Yttr, try thinking as a first time user and adjust your UI accordingly. Even better, ask a few friends to try it out and see what is confusing in the workflow.

I tried it on my iPad and I get an error after attempting to upload the file.
Personally, I think this is a good thing, because the more blatant aspect of the propaganda coming out of these outlets will inspire and frighten the people on the other side -- inspiring competitive voices.

We've operated in a world where influence is more subtle and it was easy to pretend that the news was unbiased. It wasn't, especially at the local level. The reporting wasn't propaganda, but the editorial board directs the reporters -- and the juiciest news is always the stuff that isn't in the paper, or is buried in section Z somewhere.

One of my relatives was a cabinet-level official in a mid-sized city in the 80s and 90s, when a hotshot reporter drove a Porsche. Unless it was a personal scandal affecting the Mayor, or people were marching in the streets, my relative could either make a phone call or have his boss make a phone call and kill/neuter a story.

If you look at news in the American Revolutionary era through the Civil War, it was big mess of different news outlets with very well defined biases. It's different than the late 20th century model of Woodward and Bernstein in the paper and a fatherly figure with good hair on TV, but it worked and will work again.
>The notion advertising sells anything is absurd. The notion that not advertising costs you sales is very real.

So in other words, advertising gains sales. Half-full vs. half-empty.
Very impressive work. Do you have any insight into where the performance gains might have come from and how you were able to beat the C++ implementation?
Latexify Matplotlib plots for publishing
Have you considered using Bridgy, http://indiewebcamp.com/Bridgy?