skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From this article[1]:

There’s still a million crazy things that happen with
people, and there’s a long journey to put medicines into
people, and it has to be done in the open because we’re
going to do experiments— people will be wearing these
devices at our Baseline Study.

And:

Yeah. That’s part of the reason we had to talk about this.
There’s a pretty substantial body of patents that describe
what we’re talking about in great detail that will be
publicly noticeable in the next month or so.

[1]: https://medium.com/backchannel/were-hoping-to-build-the-tric...
Some content creators enable a donation button on youtube (which was officialized a few weeks back). Hit that for the creators you like, and install adblock. At this point, I don't see any other choice.
If they do the same thing as Hulu, which is to still show ads on content only available to subscribers, they might get the same backlash. Not like the viewers can make a serious movement against that though..
What happened to 'Click to play'? Shouldn't HTML5 videos have similar restrictions? (guess you could get around that with javascript though...)
It is really green, which is strange to me as well. I uploaded the same image to two simulators. The second feels more yellow and less green.

http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simula...
http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis/uploaded_images/newfac...

http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator/
http://www.etre.com/simulate.php?image=8778d93252474b4f76497...
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Fun to see ten years later that this approach by AMD won.

AMD's x86-64 approach is a lot more interesting not so much because of any technical issues, but because AMD _can_ try to avoid the "irrelevant" part. By having a part that _can_ potentially compete in the market against a P4, AMD has something that is worth hoping for. Something that can make a difference.
Fun! Starting with one of the fiddles I came up with this: http://jsfiddle.net/q8jt8o36/22/
I admit I was thinking of a different happy ending.
Considering the same thing apply's to math books, I am not really sure there is a difference. Basically, if you don't mind listing math proofs with errors it's a much easier exercise.

In the end Math has a more restrictive syntax, but it's just as valid to prove say X+44.217 > X vs X + 1 > X. So the 'elegance' of math IMO has more to do with us selecting for it vs some innate property.

Or to get back to the parent's argument about the Mandelbrot set, you can draw plenty of pictures with Math. The tiny fraction of equations that are both simple and cool looking are what we select for. Worse, the equation works just fine in black and white we add false color and select for a small subset of the space that's interesting all of which is designed to make pretty pictures, and then say look how many 'simple' math equations make pretty pictures. Despite the fact it takes a fair amount of code for the equation to end up looking like that.
A lot of that infrastructure was build with municipal grants and other forms of taxpayer money, an advantage a new competitor probably would not get
I can only offer anec-data from the Atlanta area, but I know multiple people (including myself) that either sold a car or removed buy a car from their plans solely due to Uber. I've heard a lot of people state they used to risk a DUI driving home now take Uber instead.

It's nothing to do with the app being "so cool", but being able to get a clean car that actually shows up and being able to pay with a credit card. If you call a taxi in ATL, you expect at least a 15-30 minute wait if they show up at all. 90% of the time the driver will be blaring music or talking on their cell the entire ride. Some times they will refuse to take you to places, or refuse to run the meter but demand $xx for the trip. (Happened multiple times to me, all my friends have similar stories.) If the meter is running you have to carefully watch that they don't drive longer routes or even literally in circles (happened to me). And at the end of the trip, it's guaranteed they will only want cash and to take a CC will likely result in a screaming match and attempts to charge extra fees.

When Uber hit Atlanta, it was awesome. A car that actually shows up in 5 minutes? Clean, quiet, with a friendly driver? Map of your gps tracked trip emailed in receipt and card on file charged? The reasons people avoided cabs were removed. I personally take far more uber rides than I ever did taxis, and I know many friends for who it's the same.

It's not that demand for rides wasn't there, it's just there was no supply of quality rides before Uber. Taxis in ATL do not provide an acceptable experience, and are used only if there are no other options. People who before might have crashed on a couch, drove home after drinking, not attended an event with limited parking, asked a friend for a ride, etc. are using Uber because it's easy and economical. I have no idea how big of a percent this is nationally, but among the city dwellers in Atlanta I know of, Uber has been immensely popular and used for trips people would previously avoid with taxis.
Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Which will retailers choose?
Saving the consumer the time it takes to put down his or her iPhone to pull out a credit card is Apple Pay’s only advantage. Expensive for retailers, Apple Pay, like credit cards, offers little more than customer convenience.

Apple Pay, like Uber, is a good product with a great user experience, but unlike Uber, Apple Pay is not disruptive. Apple Pay won’t reduce costs or improve efficiency in the credit card payments industry, which taxes merchants 2% to 5% of top-line revenues to pay transaction fees. Merchants’ acceptance of Apple Pay is for their consumers’ convenience, no different than accepting cash, checks, and credit cards.
Hmm, personally I wouldn't pay for that, but I do pay for Netflix. I suppose the difference is that I find the content on Netflix to be much more valuable. I don't visit youtube regularly, and every time I do I find it's getting more and more polluted with trash. Of course there is some good content somewhere, but you have to know what you're looking for.
It's accepted wisdom that election ads only work with repetition. So I suspect the targeting is perfect.
Not unless you want to. Anything in a `server/` or `private/` directory is not sent to the client. This pattern is sometimes used to group similar functions in a single file.

Relevant section of the docs: https://docs.meteor.com/#/basic/filestructure
Thanks, very nice little software.
In the first branch, you are assuming the existence of uncountably continuous time and space with perfect precision. Scientific observation is not on your side. (Plancks constant, QM, for example)

For the second, if the universe were somehow rational, there is no need to drag in irrational numbers to describe it.
I don't know why this is downvoted, because it's interesting if it's true.
So, uh, why would anyone bulldoze dead almond trees if they're not going to replace them with another crop yet? Seems like it would just increase soil erosion problems.
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Also check out http://colororacle.org/ , which is a FOSS tool for Windows, Linux and MacOS for CVD simulation.
To compare to the top supercomputers, Cray Titan cost around $160m at the end of 2013 and has 17 petaflops. Met Office also use Cray, so it might be that they ordered Titan with a little less flops, a lot less memory.
A few different ways: we have no-code integration, as well as a copy & paste JavaScript snippet, and a full fledged API.

There is an exposed admin panel. We are currently rebuilding the service to make it even more easier to use and robust than our previous iteration. We are just a few weeks out from reopening the doors but we'll be letting a bunch of folks use it while we build it.

Our first iteration, while somewhat successful, left a lot on the table as far as the potential for the product. So we went back to the drawing board to make it even better.
I will take a look. Did you try refreshing the page?
Give me a couple of youtube videos that display adds for you.
I find precisely the opposite: YouTube is just about the only venue where you can skip ads after just 5 seconds.
"If you do still want or need to make a terminal application that is interactive rather than just being a command-line tool, what is the best way to go about it? You should write it inside Emacs, using Emacs Lisp, and run it as an application by invoking Emacs to run the function that is the entry point for your application. This way you can have legacy terminal support to make use of ssh and tmux, by running Emacs in a terminal, and modern graphical support to display fancy graphics and use more keybindings, by running Emacs in a graphical environment."

Though the latter point is interesting, I find the suggestion unexpected. Isn't curses-based applications a possibility for the author? Why would you limit your users to those that use Emacs, unless the application is just for you?

I'm working on a ClojureScript on Node.js (i.e. instant boot) functional UI library[1] and I find it pretty empowering. I also kept the Node.js touchpoints very separate so I can soon provide a JS Canvas implementation so the same UI code runs on terminal and browser for free. I was suprised how easy it was to implement vi/Emacs-like sequence keybinds, with prefixes and all that. I'm really liking the ability to easily whip up terminal user interfaces for various simple and complex applications.

1: https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n
If you have two google accounts, you should use browser profiles. In chrome, I have two windows one for work and one for home which both have their own settings, plugins, cookies, history etc. You can set that up by going to Chrome's settings and adding a new user.
The summary of this well written page is:

If you do still want or need to make a terminal application
that is interactive rather than just being a command-line
tool, what is the best way to go about it? You should write
it inside Emacs, using Emacs Lisp...
We'll get fancy soon, but currently our focus is making the admin panel fancy and the product solid. :) For now... you're looking at developer art.
I'm not going to downvote you because I disagree, but agreeable people like you are why we as a society are where we are.

Excusing misconduct with excuses like "oh, they are just executives acting rationally in their shareholders best interests" is a moral hazard and despicable position.

Just the notion that we're casually comparing and excusing away mercenaries & war criminals and contrasting it to a telecom company is disgusting.
> AT&T is pretty good about notifying you when you are close to or over the limit.

I am currently and have been for years on an unlimited data plan with AT&T, easily use over 5GB a month, and have never been notified of any limit ever.

My wife is on a standard plan and gets notified when she goes over. AT&T does not notify unlimited users.
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That way you'll get loads of crap research too. In fact if you evaluate scientists on criteria such as "motivation and leadership" you make it more political not less. In your system there is absolutely no incentive to actually do the research, so you'll give all the money to a bunch of people who are great at writing proposals but who don't actually do science. Every second spent doing science is a second not spent writing the research proposals.

There is a very simple solution to the problem that completely eliminates gaming research results and publishing bias. Require that the statistical methodology is completely specified prior to any data acquisition. The paper is written before the data is acquired and it has some blank spots where the data will be filled in with a method that is completely mechanical (e.g. with a computer program that processes the data and spits out the figures that will be used to fill the blanks). Journals should decide whether to publish a paper or not based on the version without the data.
Yes, the amount of Internet I can buy with a given amount of money depends on the price of Internet in my area.
Nice idea, I could see myself using the compressed javascript / css feature. Wouldn't this be better done by focusing on git commits rather than dropbox, though?

Edit: I'd rather it just minified and gzipped the files, and uploaded them to my existing storage (e.g S3) rather than setup a new CDN.
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Always really happy to see a ton of breaking changes in a pre-1.0 release, and very pleased that they're all moving towards simplifying the public API.
Around 100,000 Hungarians rally for democracy as Internet tax hits nerve
A few things you can do:
a) Ask HR what entity is paying you (probably still A)
b) Ask your Boss which company s(he) is working for (reporting lines are important in HR's eye's)
c) Once you know what organization is paying you and what reporting lines you report into, then you can have a better idea of where you actually work.
d) If it's all A and you are doing a whole bunch of work for B, then it's time to have a sit-down with boss to clarify things.
e) You can always ask for a legal (sometimes free) consultation about what your rights are, what your tax implications are, etc...
Why not take the matter in your own hands, embrace your freedom and install some ad-blocking addon? Or use a tool like youtube-dl, mpv or VLC to simply watch Youtube (and other hosts) videos outside your browser.
The ironic moment when the video starts with an ad...
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> I would sign up for a subscription immediately

Oh really? How about every other site on the net you visit? nytimes? buzzfeed? facebook? other-random-content-site? You're telling me you'd rather pay for each and every site you visit? If not, tell me how else they can make money without ads?
Not only why, but also how they work in some more detail. Only after reading this I understood, for example, why C-u works in the terminal even if right/left arrows do not in this particular moment (like after using read builtin or cat without arguments). Very good read.
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> Where I live, it's been nothing but the same negative political attack ads for the last 4+ months.

Its been much the same with broadcast TV where I live.

> It's gotten to the point that I want to NOT vote for any of these people because I've heard the same ad from them 50+ times to the point of annoyance.

Political attack ads are intended to make you not want to vote for people. Political ads that are intended to make you want to vote for people aren't attack ads.

This is not because Youtube is mistargetting, it is because political campaigns are deliberately (perhaps mistakenly, or perhaps because they have a really good understanding of the overall effect of doing that on the behavior they care about then) conducting saturation campaigns through a variety of media channels.

> In theory, with appropriate targeting, I should see stuff that I'm actually interested in, or care about.

That assumes you are paying for the targeting. If the advertisers are paying for the targeting -- which, to be clear, they are -- then with "appropriate targeting" you will hear what someone wants you to hear about. Now, with typical commercial targeting, there is a considerable overlap between what people want you to hear about and what you want to hear about. That's less true with political advertising, and especially less true with political attack ads.
I've spent a considerable time in and associated with academia. It is certainly a system that "works" at all in spite of the process because of the talented and passionate folks involved and would benefit from some large structural changes.

I think that academia could make large steps forward by adopting some of the wonderful collaboration tools created by open source projects. Basic things like wikis, version control, accountability through open peer review, and open standards for data if required could really change the quality and the pace of innovation.

The current model was set up for an incredibly smaller community where everybody literally knew each other and the economics were different. What is needed now is more like a github for results/collaboration and python notebooks for analysis so others can reproduce and test.
Ftp(1) can be made to execute arbitrary commands by a malicious webserver
Odd — just tried Amazon Instant Video (from the Amazon app) on my Nexus 10 and it works.
> Uh, didn't it compromise security by making it possible for someone else to MITM the rest of the emails Snowden received?

Yes. The solution is to make him repeat his original message as well, which couldn't have been intercepted because it was encrypted with our own key.
Wow, the example in that gist:

var component = <Component {...props} foo={'override'} />;

Wha?? For me, there's a point in a language where the benefits of syntactic sugar are outweighed by readability concerns.
"Political attack ads are intended to make you not want to vote for people. "

Are you saying attack ads are actually designed to keep you away from the polls altogether? That's what the OP was getting at, I think.
Very cool! I've been interested in this area for quite some time. Here's one guy to built a hedge fund around the quantification of investor sentiment using online data (http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-02/money-minded-h...)

"MarketPsych ran an audited hedge fund (MarketPsy Long-Short Fund LP) from 2008 through 2010, which beat the S&P benchmark by 25% during its lifetime."
It's interesting to see how the rise of ARM has vindicated Linus' point in some ways (as it rose to success despite accruing a fair amount of the cruft in x86) and refuted it in other ways (as the effects of the cruft on x86—notably power consumption—seem to have had real effects in Intel's ability to make headway in the mobile market).
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Here's something that we have been working upon: http://horntell.com.

Looks like there's some overlap over there!
Is there actually a secure way to add support for other languages to the web? No matter what it will need to run in a hardware agnostic VM. So let's say for the sake of argument they added built-in support for Java (just the language not the APIs) in browsers. Would that come free of any security costs or would the added schematics grow the attack barrier or make vulnerability testing more difficult?
On my Wear watch the history disappeared, but at least the past week (or so) was synced to the app
That is great.

If anyone knows of anything like this for set theory or probability/statistics, I would love to see them.
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I run adblock, noscript and a none chromium based browser; I also never see adverts on youtube.
I don't get the React.isValidComponent -> React.isValidElement change. Wasn't "class" the name of the abstract idea of component and "component" the name of the actually rendered component, the class materialized in a DOM?
I normally don't mind ads, especially if they are well done, but what is really annoying is that most Czech ads are unreasonably loud. I really have to skip those, because it tears my ears through headphones, even though I usually wouldn't skip.
Actually, let me revise that. The fact that Verizon is a Tier 1 provider does have an effect -- it's the motive for Verizon's anti-competitive behavior.

The traditional arrangement is that you have a last mile provider in each region and a collection of Tier 1 providers who they pay to provide transit between them. If a last mile provider is also a Tier 1 network then the relationship is different. Rather than a monopoly last mile network shopping for a transit provider and the transit providers all competing with and peering with each other, you have a large monopoly last mile provider who doesn't need a transit provider and is in competition with the other transit providers.

The situation changes from one where Standard Oil is buying trucks from Ford and Chevy to one where Standard Oil starts making their own trucks and can charge prohibitively high prices for fuel to Ford and Chevy customers to destroy their business and force customers to buy the monopolist's trucks.
That's a bleak outlook to have. Like the author said, you can always just go for graphical toolkits and ignore terminals. Whereas, embracing unix and terminals, I personally find it an empowering and frugal part of the computing stack: predictable, works everywhere, light and simple. Limiting factors can be a positive thing.
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Why wasn't this story deduped?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8519585
Yes, it makes sense if you think about that "tax" as the payment for the lottery ticket of a functioning body and brain.

Every person here won that lottery ticket, when we could have just as easily suffered from any number of horrible diseases and disorders. Not wanting to pay higher premiums b/c the "lotto losers" are included is like not wanting to pay for a lotto ticket after the fact because you know the rare outcome won't hit you.
I tried out a DirectX hack that could simulate color blindness in basically all 3d games. Very interesting. It also had a mode that moved the colors around to help color blind folks.

I can't find it anymore, but I did find another DirectX hack which at least has the assist feature: http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/sweetfx_shader_suite_dow...
I don't believe I'm assuming anything. I asked specific questions. The answers to those questions are relevant to what the OP wrote. Your last sentence does not make sense to me. The universe is not a number and therefore is not a rational number. It is not rational in the sense of thought either since it does not think (as far as I can tell). I have not idea what is meant by the statement, "if the universe were somehow rational...".
For Linus things are always black and white and people who disagree with him are "stupid". That's a shame. It's amusing to read this today because x86 compatibility is obviously of declining value; that is, his "XScale" (ARM) prediction came true but markets do not change overnight.

I would invite some factual data on the "cold cache" issue of RISC. With the switch to solid state storage, is the binary load time still really an issue? (I assume the L2 -> L1 transport can be made arbitrarily fast).
Could this be, hmm, not so much lying as willful ignorance?

There are probably middle-men in the Uber industry just as there are middle-men in the taxi industry, who own a car and pay people to drive it with Uber. If they have one account per car, the account could me making $100k / year via driving 24/7, and Uber could be choosing to believe that these accounts represent a single self-employed driver.
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Before I commented I wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy, so I actually tested it with ABP off. This video [1] played a 30s Coors Lite commercial for me after I disabled ABP and refreshed. Any corporate/official type channel will likely be heavily monetized and feature ads prior to starting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRN_LkCa_o
Last year I saw Bjarne Stroustrup give a talk about C++ and one of the things he pointed out was that a modern C++ compiler can still compile 40 year old C code. He thought the backwards compatibility was a strength and was one of the reasons C++ is so popular. It was a good talk and I wish I could find a video of it somewhere.
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