skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, plenty of really good legal drugs fail for reasons which might not be relevant to many people-- Strange metabolism in select ethnic groups, possible tox issues after chronic use, etc.

For example, plenty of people involved with developing Vioxx bought tons of it before it was removed from the market, because it was such a good nsaid. These people decided that their mode of use wasn't problematic, or that the benefits of using the drug far outweighed the possibility of adverse reaction. While the Market and the FDA decided the drug should be pulled, the people who stockpiled it are certainly more informed than most medical doctors.

If LSD were trialled for psychotherapy today, it would probably be rejected on the grounds that it could make crazy people experience severe adverse effects.

With most novel recreational drugs, there's plenty of "phase 4" anecdata which suggests safety, at least in the short term and at cautious doses. Really nasty adrs usually show up fairly quickly, albeit at the expense of a few lives. If "legal" (nonrecreational) drugs could be put directly into phase 4 testing, drug development would be so much easier-- Animal models are a really crappy substitute for humans, especially with CNS stuff.

I suppose it's a balance of Bad Big Pharma poisons us vs. Bad Big Pharma doesn't make cheap/new drugs...
Even though I don't FB a lot, the App is quite handy to message someone that's not as tech savvy (or don't have a smartphone), especially in groups, and keep track of the convo history.
I think especially at the early stages it will depend on use case. For something like business meetings/transactions I would certainly not tolerate grievous mis-translations. However, I would happily tolerate some mis-translations if this allowed me to speak with my great-grandmother (I only speak English, she only speaks Albanian). It would be annoying certainly, but well worth it, especially if my mother and/or grandmother were around to correct any odd translations. I'm sure it will take awhile for this type of software to be usable in professional settings, but for more casual applications, bring it on!
heh, a somewhat different style of commentary.
Why would that be worrying? A lot of people wanted to leave the area all at once. There were not enough drivers in the area. To attract more drivers, they need to offer the drivers an incentive to get out there and drive. So they raised the price. It makes perfect sense and I see no ethical issues in what Uber did.

All of this Uber hate is getting ridiculous.
Except that in an open economy you can't control bond prices. The US pays very little to borrow money which would not be the case if they were faking it, unless you believe they have such good propaganda that they have fooled everyone. Seems unlikely.
You could try http://masterpasswordapp.com/.

I like its philosophy, even if some of the versions could use a bit more polish.
> It's seem that it will be really difficult to get translation near the quality of pure text translation

I am fairly suspicious of this new product given that text translation is not exactly a solved problem. My wife and I travel a great deal so we have plenty of opportunities to use google translate in particular.

Currently we are in Spain and translate emails to and from the person who owns the apartment we are staying in. The understandability of the translations is pretty variable. One or two typos seems to be all it takes to see it produce something unintelligible. Also, the locals in the area we are in frequently speak both Spanish and Catalan. I suspect our landlord may be throwing in the occasional Catalan word because some words (that looks Spanish to me) go untranslated or are translated to something nonsensical.

Every email of a few paragraphs requires five minutes of my wife and I sitting with both the original message and the google translation in front of us deciphering them. Occasionally we have to bounce "was this what you meant?" emails back and forth with our landlord.

So yeah, unless their text translation is much much better than google translate, if they are going to layer speech recognition on top of that, good luck to them.
https://github.com/wlaurance/slack-4-linux/commit/66be9fc406...
The movie strange days where experiences are recorded on a personal recorder and can be played back although that movie was from 1999 so an updated version would have those experiences transmitted to the cloud..
Thanks for keeping the bar low for us entry-level types :)
Yes, we plan to add this.
I've been using the highlighting feature on errors in order to appease my OCD. The fact that Amazon has added error reporting seems like a hopeful sign and an admission that there is a widespread problem. The question is, are they actually going to make the fixes?
A 0 ohm resistor typically is only used for places where a different-valued resistor could be substituted or used to exist, or to act as an optional jumper on different revisions of hardware. In those cases, the resistor is in the schematics.

A circuit designed from the start with a 0 ohm resistor that was just used for connecting two points across some board feature would never make it past review where I used to work. Such a situation may come up due to later design changes or board damage, in which case the board is modified by use of a "blue wire", which is an actual blue-insulated wire that makes a point-to-point connection on the surface of the board. Those are not in the schematic.

That said, I used to work on military electronics. Perhaps the consumer electronics world is different.
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Do you know if they've released the android app yet? You can use it without (has a little wheel to set temp), but the monitoring and timing obviously don't work.
You have to also factor in that the G component of GDP (C+I+X+G) has increased dramatically under president Obama [1]. The government can temporarily pull the economy out of a recession by paying people to dig holes and fill them up again. A bigger question is whether all of the government spending has created sustainable economic growth.

[1] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/FGEXPND
Wrap your head around optionals in Swift
AI Recognizes Cats the Same Way Physicists Calculate the Cosmos
Arstechnica defaced
While it seems your father had his reason for informing you of that fact at that particular time, he was likely correct[0]. ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrageenan
Pointer to pointer clarification
1. We want to be both (and have a website coming soon!) but started with app because it's so important to get these notifications on the go and ideally be able to book immediately. and 2. we're working on it!
You can keep track of where we are if you have any interest by subscribing at blog.hitlistapp.com.
Yeah - I've had plenty of steak tartar, and it is delicious. The difference here is that with steak tartar, you know you are eating raw meat. With Sous Vide, you assume you'll be eating safe meat. It is doubly important in sous vide to reach pasteurization because of the extended period of time spent in the bacterially friendly temperatures.

Its a good point about the exterior surface, but the blog post also shows him cooking a hamburger.
I simply refuse to believe, that the _only_ effective way to tell drivers of any service (Uber, Lyft, regular cabs) that there is a huge demand somewhere is to hike the price x times.

Of course I might be wrong - I haven't tried to run a cab service ever.

Edit: Or asked differently - why is surge pricing 4x or sometimes even 5x? Why isn't it like 1.10x? My guess it's profits 101.
Not much of a target at that, otherwise they'd still be flying the SR-71, which doesn't need as many... unproven technologies.
> e.g. when Stephen Fry succeeded in remembering the childhood trauma that prevented him from singing

That sounds fascinating, does anyone have a reference for this?
Just noticed. At least they left it with some nice music and no malware.
I did check out stripe. Maybe this is something I should have added in Q. I don't live in US though I am building the app for customers in US and Stripe is not supported from where I am.
I was once a true believer in all this "free everything!" stuff too, but once I saw what it was really all about -- the sacrifice of the artist to the passive consumer and the content aggregators -- I couldn't un-see it. Now I'm an atheist at a tent revival. I've lost the faith.

That's never popular, but I really think I'm right about this and I think with time other people are going to see it too.

I'm not intending to insult artists, but I am insulting the Internet's popular trash culture of memes and throwaway junk. I see "free" as being partly responsible for that. There's no money in creating online culture, therefore nobody can spend any real time or effort on it. As a result you get a lot of totally disposable superficial noise and ad-driven marketing gimmickry.

I am supporting your right to have control over your work -- not only a right to earn something from it or to give it away if you so choose, but also to have some say over how it's used.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26055297

If "information is free," what right would these guys have to protest their music being used in torture chambers? None, of course.

That's an extreme example but it illustrates my point. Copyrights aren't just about money. They're also about creators having some kind of say about what can be done with their work.

I believe that the creators of things should have more rights over their creations -- yes more -- than those that just "consume" them. Anything else strikes me as a grotesque value inversion. Disempowering the creator in favor of the consumer de-funds culture creation, impoverishes creators, and encourages a society of utterly passive consumption and triviality.

It's the ultimate in passive consumerism. Value flows one way -- downhill -- until the snow's all melted and the streams run dry.

That's not what free culture was supposed to do, either. Free culture was supposed to lead to a gift culture, not a culture of take-take-take. Part of why I've lost the faith is that the promised land hasn't come. Taking is all I see... take, take, take, gimme, gimme, gimme...
hah i dont understand why this was (even temporarily) downvoted. You do realize that the CPU & GPU industries are at war with each other, right?

I read the article now, cool technical overview -- but basically all of these processor arch articles have a slant in all the paragraphs where they wax poetic (abstract, analysis/conclusion). I think it would be helpful for people to be aware of this...

AFAIK Nvidia (their company name is at the top of this paper btw in case u weren't paying attention) are trying to generalize their chips to the point where they can enter the CPU market, and Intel chips can render 3D graphics well enough to handle most games that are ~5 years old (since Haswell or maybe one or 2 gens before).

So this isn't a particularly slanted article but there is a fair amount of propaganda / contrived performance studies in this market... NVIDIA & Intel are vying for each other's core customer bases. Anyone interested in the field should dig up the articles that try to debunk perfomance myths as well as studying architecture overview.

(Some of the sentences in the last few paragraphs, for example, made me sorta queasy & would get shredded on Wikipedia.)
This study uses 2007 as it's baseline which is like saying that lake levels are 40% lower than they were at the height of the last flood. Asset prices were overinflated in 2007, so you'd probably want to baseline somewhere between 2003 (the end of the early 2000s recession and 2007 to get a sense of how much worse off people actual are.
This app would be pretty useful when the new bigger iPad comes out.
GDP is going up. We are not in a recession. That's not what I'm talking about.

Nearly all of the gain is being captured by a very small and apparently shrinking number of winners, while the majority are seeing flat to negative real growth.

It's not all bad news. There's never been more opportunity for entrepreneurs and people at the higher end of the skill or wealth curve. But the death of the middle is a trend that can't continue much longer until it drags down the rest of the economy and our entire civilization with it. How can you be an entrepreneur if there are no customers?
Even though pvnick was incorrect about their claim that the recession isn't over, we should try to look past that.

Their more important claim was that people have forgotten what it's like to have enough money. It's hard to dispute that. In the tech sector, most of us have "enough" money, but it's not the case anymore for the vast majority of people in the US.
What is Beyond Apollo?
How about Uber can charge what they want, and if you don't want to use them then don't. Stop whining. Uber doesn't owe people fucking rides.
Except the question was not about living in India, it was about living in the United States.

If you live in the United States and you say you are working from India, you are committing fraud AND violating immigration laws.

If you live in the United States and you say you are working from the United States, you are just violating immigration laws.

Its about where you are physically located and as the original comment I replied to was referring to being physically located in the U.S., it would be illegal.
"WFH is a trick to make employees work longer" -- the term
for this is "Living at Work" rather than "Working from Home".
Some days work gets WAY more time than 8 hours, some days it
gets WAY less time.

Programming is a lot like art work. I've watched my wife (an
artist) spend hours mixing paint, stretching canvas, washing
brushes ... and have not a stroke of paint on the canvas.
Then the next day she spends 12 hours doing nothing but
painting. Programmers also have to do "setup" time work
which does not result in code and appears unproductive.
When working from home it appears that you're not working
because bad managers only count lines of code.

In the office environment setup work still looks like work
because you are "at your desk". Learn to live with the fact
that you appear to be slacking when working remote.

Also be aware that NOBODY does more that 70% of their
total possible output on a continuous basis. NOBODY.
Even bricklayers, where you can count the bricks laid,
take time for lunch, use their cell phone, drive to the
hardware store, mix cement, and everything but lay bricks.
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This article, linked in the Wired piece, actually does the reporting that you're looking for: http://inthesetimes.com/article/17403/reports_from_inside_fi...
So as long as one persons wage is falling that's a recession? That makes the word meaningless.
Thank you very much for the speedy response. Shot you an email.
Sure looks that way to me.
Yeah I was just about to check it for my daily tech update, guess I'll have to wait a couple more hours :/
Arstechnica Hacked
5 Simple Rules for Working with Data Scientists
Nope. It has a maximum number of tags that it will use for autocompletion. If you have a couple of thousand tags then it only uses the most popular ones.
Quantum networks are highly sought after by governments around the world because they can make communication between two computers impenetrable to hackers.

I think impenetrable is the wrong word. . . Maybe uneavesdropable?
In case folks were wondering, from their wiki: "Dolphin is an open-source Nintendo GameCube, Wii, and Triforce emulator for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (Intel-based)."
We can demand that suppliers respect the labour laws along the whole production chain. That would go a long way. And when that's not enough, we can write stronger labour laws, and enforce them too.
Consumer Pressure: Why a Huge U.S. Sustainability Alliance Is Forged
In events like this it is a good idea to avoid sites that have apparently been compromised in case they start serving up malware.
Tight coupling is generally considered bad practice, it leads to more accidental variance and complexity. In general adding either polymorphism, or additional methods to a class are considered safer. I'm not saying in your case it was the wrong choice, or that cleaning up design is bad.

Generally if you have to change a whole bunch of related files when you change one, it's an issue with the design.
> - supersonic flight wears out airframes.

Given conventional materials. The SR-71's skin is reported to get harder with all those heating cycles.
I wrote a IPython kernel so that you can mochi in your notebooks. source: https://github.com/Carreau/mochi-kernel and example: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/carreau/mochi-kernel/blob...
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Typical_mind_fallacy
> However after noticing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6621560) that LastPass' vault is easily broken into when open

So to use an analogy, you're unlocking your front door, showing a stranger into your home, and then are upset because they can steal stuff once inside?

They've already defeated all of your security if they have complete unrestricted access to your LastPass vault. The fact they can hit F12 and use the developer bar to inspect the DOM or restrive passwords from behind ###### is both expected and not a security issue.

> even with strict reprompt settings

That wasn't in your link. How do you bypass reprompt?

> I'm starting to trust their security model less and less.

Why? None of the reasons you've given are technically sound.

> I opened a support ticket about the obvious password breach detailed above, and they say it's an inevitable consequence of Chrome's broken security model in extensions.

It has nothing to do with Chrome's "security model." If you have completely unrestricted access you have complete unrestricted access. End of.

You are literally accessing a UI that can display all of your passwords in plain text and you're complaing because you can see your passwords in plain text... Well, yeah...

> Well, if that model is broken, I don't want to use it.

You haven't explained how it is.

> I find it misleading that LastPass even offers a reprompt option, since it is so easy to retrieve passwords from the application when it is logged in, even if a reprompt is required.

Huh? Can you explain how you're able to bypass the reprompt prompt?

> Sure, it would slow down unsophisticated attackers, but you don't need to be that sophisticated to change the type of an input.

It shouldn't slow anyone! You've giving the attackers complete unrestricted access to your password database. Nobody should be slowed, everyone should have a complete overview.

> I have been trying to use it with very fast autologout policies but it very annoyingly asks for a password twice (once to login, once as a reprompt) as well as the Yubikey for every single site. The usability is garbage.

Then turn the reprompt off and just have it ask for login...

> What do you use and what do you like/dislike about it?

I use LastPass, but I'd consider something else if any of your complaints had any technical credibility at all.
He's not responsible for everything good that happens to the country during his terms, nor is he responsible for all of the bad. Is that ok?
Sure thing. Your assumption that "it was smashed in the first place" is based on a news report, my assumption being that you are not a Gaza power station employee. In a case where something was fixed nearly a year ahead of the reported schedule, in one of the slowest moving industrial zones on Earth, which is more likely: A) A miraculous feat of engineering happened or B) The damage was not as widespread or destructive as initially reported, if even present at all.

My "logic" was not a value statement on whether the attack was justified - rather a suggestion that before you go posting certain events as fact, you should realize that not everything published is a definite fact.
There are a couple of problems with starting with a strict approach. I predict the performance is going to be worse than something which allows (almost) all characters, because of validation overhead.

More seriously, I wrote a full grammar based parser engine for Biopython along these lines. The Achilles heel was error recovery. Suppose record #123456 in a database contains a syntax error (I can list dozens I found, like a copyright date of 19995 breaking my four-digit definition, or SWISS-PROT record with the copyright lines in the wrong spot.) How do I have the parser ignore that record, report the problem, and continue parsing with the next record?

Error recovery in context free grammars is hard, but doable.

Then how do I say that "if the ID is XYZ and the version number is 12 then use this work-around because that release had a bug which has since been fixed"? In practice and unlike a computer language, the format spec ends up being less important than the actual data, so you end up with lots of tweaks to handle vendor errors.

P.S.: Wouldn't

names = [SQLiteMagician.types.get( type( d ).__name__) for d in data[0]]
types = ["NONE" if t == "NoneType" else t for t in names]

have been less crazy, and to be preferred? Also, and I'm not sure what that code is trying to do, but sys._getframe() and linecache from the standard library should help, as might this example, which I think does what you want without using the ast module:

import sys

def show_me():
caller = sys._getframe(1)
f_code = caller.f_code
names = f_code.co_varnames[:f_code.co_argcount]
local_vars = caller.f_locals
for i, name in enumerate(names):
print repr(name), "=", repr(local_vars[name])

def spam(x, y, z=4):
a = "%s %s %s" % (x, y, z)
show_me()

spam("Hello", 2)

This gives as output:

'x' = 'Hello'
'y' = 2
'z' = 4
In the PR industry, this is called "mediagenic research" and it's been around for decades. The idea is that if you want earned media coverage (what people in marketing/communications call the news), you need to have a story. For times when you don't have a great story, finding some interesting data gives you an excuse to make one up.

Part of the reason it's successful is that people are genuinely interested in it, and will read the articles. They don't particularly care if the methodology used to determine which city has the best sex, or which presidential candidate would perform best in an alien invasion (both real examples) is sound. They just like the story.

Before stories were going viral on the internet, marketers did the same thing through local newspapers and radio. That's why so many studies rank cities or metro areas - because local papers want to report a local story.

Most of this is pretty harmless. Nobody is making public policy decisions based on the data, the people reading it think it's funny or interesting, and it gives time-starved media companies simple content to push out.
I think a machine learning model provides a nice version of Graham's "The same book would get compiled differently at different points in your life."

Using an artificial neural net analogy instead of a compilation analogy: "The same book would optimize your neural net towards a different local minimum at different points in your life."