skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire concept of a "symbol" is a very human thing -- there are no natural symbols outside the human mind (except maybe inside of a computer, a human invention). Do you need to use symbols in order to organize matter into "technology"?

Edit: it occurs to me that DNA/RNA are made of natural symbols, which is a pretty good argument for symbols being important.
That sounds crazy fun. I am in awe both of your tracking down the solution and the work 1o57 put into setting it up!
We're glad you don't live here either. We have enough people moving in without you.
Huh, I hadn't seen that until just now, but I looked up this paper (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11557177) and a more recent one that cited that one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110174/

Notes for below:

* CHB/CHC -> chronic hepatitis B/C

* NAFLD -> Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

When discussing possible mechanisms for their findings:

"We postulate that the observation of the benefit of coffee on the progression of liver disease may be due to its effects on the oxidative stress/lipotoxicity pathway, which underlie the pathogenesis of cirrhosis related to alcohol, NAFLD and possibly, in part, CHC. However, since oxidative stress is not the predominant mechanism of injury seen in CHB, coffee has no beneficial effect. Polyphenols and melanoidins, which are major components of coffee, have been shown to mediate multiple protective mechanisms in a rat model of steatohepatitis, ranging from increased fatty acid β oxidation, mitigating oxidative stress and curtailing liver inflammation (47). The other components of coffee, cafestol and kahwoel, can induce phase II detoxifying enzymes, including sulfotransferase, UDP-glucuronosyl transferase, glutathione transferase and peroxidase, and thus contribute to the anti-oxidant properties of coffee (14, 48). In addition, chemicals in coffee such as polyphenols and the diterpenes have been shown to down-regulate proinflammatory, fibrogenic cytokines such as transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) and its downstream modulator, connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), collagen and stellate cell activation (13–16).

Epidemiologic studies on caffeine have been inconsistent in demonstrating a protective effect in liver disease since other caffeine-containing beverages such as tea have not shown to be protective (19–21). Similarly, in our study, the inverse association with caffeine became null after adjustment for coffee, suggesting that ingredients of coffee other than caffeine appear to be responsible for this beverage’s effect on risk reduction. Furthermore, other caffeine-containing beverages like green tea and black tea had no significant effects with cirrhosis mortality in this study."
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No, I mean to know what is clean.
California farmers are moving in that direction, at various speeds but not to minimal footprint, efficient production. What I'd like to see is a produce supply chain that uses the least resources and organically delivers for look and taste while depending less on monocultural GMO. It's entirely possible with applied ingenuity.
True, type inference would make an ideal solution difficult. But I'm totally fine with the compiler failing to apply implicit casting when type inference is involved. This code is just as readable, if not better:

fn required_bytes(width: u16, height: u16) -> u64 {
let size: u64 = width * height;
size + 12
}

I just really don't want to have to write this all the time:

fn required_bytes(width: u16, height: u16) -> u64 {
let size = (width as u64) * (height as u64);
size + 12
}
>But being able to produce an infinite set of linguistic expressions which express the same idea is atomically indicative of a higher order of linguistic creativity than anything any other species is capable of. I'd say that qualifies as intelligence.

The key ingredient in this kind of activity is using existing terms in new ways through analogy. It's not just introducing new linguistic expressions. That non bulgero sammi solon be intelligence, because new words don't mean anything unless there's an understanding already backing them.

>But they do not have grammar. That's huge.

Do they need it? Do we need it? How much of it do we need? Have you made proper consideration for non-verbal grammars (like possibly in bees?)

People like to talk about human intelligence like you could drop a baby in the jungle and it'd develop nuclear physics and ride out on a hovercraft. Just consider how frequently people claim quantum physics is unintuitive (as though classical physics didn't take many millennia to understand!) If you strip away our current environment and culture, you are left with a creature who has a slight advantage over apes -- and if you run that advantage for 200,000 years, the difference between humans and apes will magnify into vast differences in behavior, even if the underlying machinery doesn't change.

>Feral humans lack language because [...]

There were first humans who had language. There were early humans who had not yet started to use grammar and had proper socialization. Would you consider them significantly more intelligent than apes? Why or why not?
> (`f""` is explicit, unlike Ruby or Bash's magic `"` vs. `'`)

Both are equally explicit, though f"" is perhaps marginally more clear because it is somewhat mnemonic.
What would be the equivalent for cellphone use? Because the biggest threat for me while biking is not drunk drivers but those texting and fiddling with their phones.
I see a few questionable decisions in the type system:

* Why is char equivalent to int8? If C2 is keeping 8-bit chars, why not use uint8?

* Why isn't there a primitive size type a la size_t or rust (i|u)size to increase portability?

Beyond this, when I first saw this link, I expected to be disappointed with what they'd done. I was pleasantly surprised to find I liked it.
Groundwater is not exploitable as people see fit in Oregon. http://www.water-law.com/water-rights-articles/domestic-grou...

edit: proper link
Given humans are currently causing the 'Sixth' of these major mass extinctions this is relevant. My own view is that there's about to be a massive increase in biodiversity driven by synthetic biology and that this is going to lead to an acceleration in evolution - specifically our newly developed ability to enable horizontal gene transfer between species means improvements nature finds in one evolutionary branch can rapidly be applied to all evolutionary branches.
Here's a radical opinion: obsessing over frameworks is counterproductive; you most certainly should not be evaluating a class on a subject that is so math/concept-intensive by the class's choice of implementation coding framework. Especially since many of these frameworks are more alike than different, in the grand scheme of things.
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1o57 never fails to impress. everyone who attends DEFCON should head down to the 1057 room for at least a little bit each con. there are a ton of people working together to solve the puzzles!
> The hostile rhetoric hasn’t changed. At Friday prayers, as

> on previous visits, I heard thousands chanting “Death to

> America.” This year, twenty times.

> ....

> “ ‘Death to America’? This is politics and not related to

> people’s thinking,”

Or in other words Iran is a country where large portions of the population hold very different conflicting beliefs, like many other countries including the USA.

What I find interesting is that Kerry's willingness to gamble that the future generation/future ruling class will be pro-American (or become pro-America because of this deal).
At least on Linux, PID1's death is an instant kernel panic. As such, it's wise to keep any service management logic out of it.

If the svscan process dies, then your system is still chugging along and you can intervene to restore the supervision tree (otherwise svscan inspects supervise processes at a regular 5s interval). If you have some really critical process, then you could integrate a checkpointer into the run script chain so that you can just pick off from the last image of the process state with minimal interruption.
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I'm a web engineer who has spent some time (5 years total) working in DC and NYC, but is currently in KY because of multiple family health issues that have now played out.

I've noticed, spanning several years, that when I'm in a major market and put my resume out, I get lots of very serious attention (and some offers). When I'm out of such markets, I get some attention... but it always seems to peter out. It's as if my "score" as a candidate, however you want to define it, is weighted with a hefty discount.

But the reality is that aside from my family, I have zero attachment to this city. I am not married, don't have kids, have no significant friendships here, and my rent is negligible. Getting to NYC, or SF or ATL or wherever is literally a matter of packing a suitcase and getting on a plane.

How can I convince potential employers that I'm not a "relocation risk" or whatever it is they're thinking? What is my best course of action, aside from just picking up and moving to a larger market?
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Does anyone know of a dashboard available with key stats about the world in real time. For example, stock markets, population growth, CO2 emissions, etc? I am aware of some rudimentary ones that exist online, but nothing nothing advanced and real time enough.
Thank you. Also they won the Godwin Law second-class merit badge.
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Have you considered wastewater recycling? It's more energy efficient than desalination and doesn't require a pipe to the ocean!
> 2. Security concerns regarding automatic evaluation of expressions inside the strings.

How are there security concerns? Its a kind of string literal that is expanded into a calls to builtin formatting functions at compile time, so there is no more security concern with evaluating expressions in it then there is with evaluating expressions in the non-string parts of your code.

> Also, why was format and % made in such a way as to require an explicit list of variables? What was the reasoning behind it? Is that reason no longer relevant?

You can use those without an explicit list of variables, its optional to use explicit variables for clarity (though in many cases the natural naming will also make it redundant in simple cases.)
It’s great that you link to resources for entering access and secret keys without giving keys to the kingdom, but I’d love it if you’re were more explicit.

Hey! We’ll need read-only access to get started.
If you don’t know how, here’s some guides to help you.

A service like this is built on trust and that kind of direct transparency and guidance will help build that into your brand right from the beginning. Even if it’s at the cost of conversion.

There's a lot of text on that homepage. The most important reason you need to stick in my head is why it's scary NOT to do this regularly and (ideally) automatically. It's too hard to find the info that tells me I can't do this myself...that I need help.
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You don't need to convince. By convincing you only draw attention to the fact you have relocated in the past.
OK, but this article is about California and the article even mentions that California is exceptional among the states in having this approach. Groundwater is freely exploitable here: http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_r...
> Can this level of civil disobedience really be stopped by any Californian authority?

Cambria is only 6,000 people, so, yeah, it probably could.

> To allow a situation to continue that puts dead trees ahead of human life is totally insane.

Except that fire is a standard part of the lifecycle of those trees. So, that town is in the middle of a known fire hazard area. And, given the population age and that there are practically no jobs other than tourism in the area, most of the people probably chose to buy a house there after they made their money elsewhere.

This is kind of like people who get flooded after they build a house in a flood plain.
The supply chain for the computer and the phones of nearby personnel is hackable, given a sufficiently resourced and un-savory-agency. Which gives you a nice datastream that didn't depend on anyone having done anything obviously stupid, and doesn't depend on social engineering to get usb sticks out of the facility.
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great question, there was some debate on whether or not they were making significant revenue.

we are trying to monetize this by not doing a SaaS model but instead an agency model where we would handle most all the work to then be able to charge a premium to these influencers.
Iran's problem is a completely US manufactured crisis.

I do not understand how people are so myopic to history.

FACT:

# Iran had a democratic secular government in 1950.

# However this govt was not friendly to a British oil company ( BP ).

# The British requested american help to protect the interest of British multinationals.

# The grandson of Theodore Roosevelt personally helped overthrow this democratically legitimate government.

# The hated shan was put in power whom the iranian people really did not like. The shan went back to trading oil for weapons with the Americans/UK.

# From the perceptive of an iranian it must suck to know that your government was overthrown by some foreign entity just for the sake of a oil company. The iranian/persian who are among the oldest of civilizations ( 5,000 years ).

# Of-course this leads to a revolution and a anti-american ayatollah is put in power.

# Americans are nothing but vindictive when it comes to geo-politics and arm Saddam to his teeth giving him chemical weapons.

# Saddam Invades Iraq just while the Iranian are recovering from a revolution to now have to face against a terrible dictator who wants to invade their country.

# Iran had to indure a 8 year war in the 1980s, a war that took a huge toll. The battles fought looked like something out of WW2.

# Next america invades the country to their left and their right and puts a huge amount of ground troops in the south and allies with all of Iran's neighbour. Most of whom hate the Iranians just because they are not the SAME wahhabi muslims as them.

# Iran ofcourse wants a nuclear weapon to stabilize the huge power imbalance they face. They never interfered or invaded a neighbour for 1000s of years and now suddenly they are treated like the scum of the earth.

# The biggest loser in all of this has been the Iranian and poor sunnis civilians who are having to deal with the blunt of ISIS and the likes.
An interesting thought-experiment to accompany this. Suppose that you are writing a program to create the best creature through evolution. One potential way of writing the program is to simply let evolution do its work and have the creatures evolve overtime. The other way is to write the program to simulate mass extinction every few thousand/million generations.

This article would suggest that purposely programming in mass extinctions would help speed up the evolution process. This seems counterintuitive given the amount of genetic diversity that a mass extinction would cause.

Perhaps the researchers should try doing this and see if the results fall in line with their own.
This subthread detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10061894 and marked off topic.
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Why did they force religious rituals on everyone, by force? As far as I am concerned this has no excuses and you can't blame USA for that.

Islamism strips Iran of any but very rudimantary sympathy.

"the year after the Islamic Revolution.., girls were obliged to wear the veil and segregated by gender"

No excuse for that!
> What I'd like to see is a produce supply chain that uses the least resources and organically delivers for look and taste while depending less on monocultural GMO.

You are aware there have to be tradeoffs along those various axes, right? In particular, if you rule out the use of GMOs you're shooting yourself in the foot with regards to achieving other goals in a short timeframe.
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My experience with a microkernel (the Apple Newton, which took a lot of inspiration from Mach) was that

- IPC was pretty slow. We could have improved it, but probably not halved the cycle count. Even with a custom MMU that reduced the amount of MMU frobbing we had to do on a task switch, things weren't totally wonderful.

- Some devices just couldn't go to a process. Well, most of them, really: Inking, modem character traffic and storage needed optimizations to avoid process switches. (The "device driver is just a user process that interrupts defer to" model was used in Windows CE, and the resulting performance was horrible, by the way).

I'm sure that better people have designed better microkernel-based systems (Microsoft has done some interesting stuff here in the last 10 years or so), but it's still kind of crazy to do several context switches just to handle a device interrupt.
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Nope.
Long before we'll get most people to watch what they eat, we'll have inexpensive, tasty, 'lab grown' meat that uses drastically less water to create. That'll be commercially available within 15-20 years. Soy as a replacement will never end up being a necessity, technology and ingenuity will once again fix our problems.
I think all those people should be investigated and, if there's evidence, prosecuted. I've never said differently. But Hillary Clinton's email server truly has nothing to do with Edward Snowden. She was not involved in the crimes he is alleged to have committed so it has no bearing on his case.
Reprint of the Reuters story, which was extensively discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10060188
This is good - but isn't this problem is now solved with redis cluster?
If you believe in a platonic ideal of evolution, then maybe this means something to you. Otherwise this would be better titled "Computer Scientists Find Simulated Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Simulated Evolution".
No, because if I toss the key into the seat it stops beeping even if I'm not there.
datatau [0] might be worth checking out, if you're not familiar.

since bioscience isn't on my radar i'm not sure if you'd find anything useful there, however, it feels like a more concentrated version of HN which specializes in some of the other stuff that interests you (e.g. learning algos, data analysis, etc.).

[0] http://www.datatau.com/
Dramatic language typically looses attention and respect of most people. Presenting content in less "colorful" terms is more persuasive and more civilized. It's also emotional bullsh!t and laziness to demand the impossible of many other people to not feel a certain way after-the-fact, contrary to the tone of one's presentation. In such situations: an author should have thought about their tone before botching the conversation, because there is no unsaying certain things.
> A perfect example of just how fucked out society/government/agencies have become.

Private corporations aren't any better, honestly. You don't have to look too hard to find examples of greed leading to severe environmental damage, present and future.
As a parent of a difficult child, this is not at all surprising.

What little evidenced-based parenting advice is out there[1] suggests the same thing: taken individually, immediate minor punishments are as effective as major punishments. The big advantage comes with the fact that the parent can be more consistent as minor punishments are typically less work than large ones. Consistent annoyances are better at provoking change than occasional calamity.

1: If you thought the story for evidence-based medicine was bad, just skim through the parenting books at a book store.
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You got the wrong message from my post. I'm not against environmental regulation, in fact I'm in favor of stricter regulation. What does irk me is the foot dragging in an emergency situation. We had to get a signoff from something like a dozen agencies from the town to the state level. Everyone was OK, except the Coastal Commission was the most intransigent and delayed everything nearly three months, imposed water quality standards far beyond those required by law, and meant the desal plant had to be shut down after the drought. The irony is that the whole plant is on CSD land and doesnt come near the beach. The other problem is dealing with hazardous conditions. It was known that the forest was unhealthy 20 years ago. Because it overlaps an urban area, it needs to be actively managed. Old trees need to be cut down to clear space for new trees to grow. They wont if they dont get sunlight. The logs can stay in place. Because of the beetles and fungus, the cant be used. If you dont cut them, you get the current situation. That has been known for 20 years but no one has stepped up to the plate to fix anything. We are unincorporated so we cant even tax ourselves to take care of ourselves. We are a town of 7000, and we cant even incorporate because of a crazy law that says that the town must reimburse the county for any lost tax revenue.

In spite of my grumbling I like living in California. We were in a financial mess because cut taxes and spend Republican governor and Bush's recession. But we took redistricting away from the legislature and threw the republicans out and now we are fiscally sound. We may have some annoying regulations, but everyone has access to health insurance, free if you are poor. Nobody dictates what a woman can do with her body. We have Silicon Valley in the north and lala-land in the south. It aint perfect, but the weather sure is nice. (OK, maybe a little more rain.)
27/80. Asking HN seems like a roundabout way of getting the answer, though.
> Why would you think complex language would be a net advantage for all apes?

Because it's long been a huge advantage for humans over every other animal on this planet?
We can imagine a future in which everyone view this genetic craziness as normal, and people feel sorry for us poor benighted fools who live just before the end of the Age of Heredity. Of course, we can also imagine a future in which the world is populated entirely by a ten-meter carpet of rapidly-adjusting and constantly-warring bacteria.
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Linking to alternatives is not exactly constructive criticism for someone looking for feedback from a Show HN. It feels dismissive and out of spirit of what's trying to be accomplished here. Without any commentary or questions, it's almost like you're saying, "Why did you bother?"

Now, I very much doubt that was your intention, but please have some empathy for the person taking a chance when sharing something on Show HN. It's not easy and I'd hate for someone to give up on something just because someone linked to other things that already existed in the world. We wouldn't have Dropbox or Google under those conditions.

At the very least ask the creator how his project is different from these other projects or ask if he's seen these alternatives or even ask why he might have decided to build his own. A little bit of effort on your end shows you recognize his effort and isn't tone deaf to what's going on here.