skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disney actually made a movie out of this; they touch on it briefly at the end of the article. I watched it as a kid in once in school. It was called "Night Crossing" [0]. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's on any streaming service, but if you look around you might be able to find a DVD copy somewhere.

Also, as a side note, it's nice to see Damn Interesting on here. It's one of the better blogs out there even if they don't update as much as they used to. The article about the race to liquefy helium and chasing the lowest temperature ever was really, really good [1].

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082810/

[1] http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/
Yes, from [1], I would never support return free filing. The tax code is far too complicated, and the IRS far too inept for me to trust that they would not screw my taxes up.

That said, if we went to a flat tax, or a national sales tax, or something else that drastically simplifies the tax code, then the issue would be moot. And most of those simplifications would be supported by Conservatives. (Note, I mean real Conservatives, many of the politicians who say they are conservative really aren't.)

[1]http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/improve/return-...
Lovely, I'm currently taking Stanford's Criptography course on Coursera and it's both entertaining and enlightening.
I highly recommend it.
https://class.coursera.org/crypto-015/
It's more accurate to say, CRISPR represents a technology which makes it easier to change genes in living organisms, possibly in a heritable way.

It makes no changes to the delivery mechanism, that is, you still have to make the genomic changes in the cells that matter.

I'm greatly appreciative of CRISPR because it elegantly solves the "specific template problem": by providing a generalized sequence non-specific mechanism, any target sequence can be addressed using DNA synthesis. previously, you would have to engineer a unique protein to locate a specific sequence, and because peoples genomes differ, you'd have to reengineer the protein for individuals.
Another great read for debugging that was recommended to me years ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Indispensable-Software-Hardw...
Dan Carlin in his Common Sense podcast aired the episode [Kickstarting the Revolution](http://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-282-kickstarti...) where he suggests that, being that the game is what it is (regarding campaign financing, lobbying and other such means of influencing political outcomes and the use of money), while we may not agree with the game, we should at least, as citizens, play the game.

If people have donated over $65 million to get Star Citizen developed, one would imagine the public could easily finance...broader causes. And considering $2.3 million over 5 years is enough to influence lawmakers to continually reject tax code reform, it seems getting something passed would be less costly and a one-time affair.

I almost like to imagine a political party or super pac with public causes (you name it) itemized its willing to support, with a donation page for each, taking that money and doing the very same thing corporations do, but effectively on behalf of citizens.
I agree that, in general, the likely outcome is progress. The question in most cases is how fast progress will "progress" :) Open source has (I think at this point) proven that openness and transparency accelerates progress. But openness only thrives when the entire cycle is not fulfilling a single entity's net worth. In fact my theory on the fate of money in general is that accumulating large sums of it will become far less important in the future, and so will the likelihood that a CEO would feel compelled to push their company toward that end.

I'm certainly not net-negative on my outlook / perspective on human nature. I am, however, one who would promote a "trust but verify" philosophy.
Maybe. An SGI Workstation level device that fits in the palm of your hand and costs <$30,000 may have something to do with it. I don't think that this is necessarily evil patent squatting stuff. I was at Motorola for a while in the 90s, we looked at the patent landscape - knew how to go around them - and we just couldn't make the numbers work for a consumer play.
"even integers are boxed by default"

Um... why? For example, 2 is.. 2. 2 is not 3. If I "box" 2, can I then make it 3?

Some very old FORTRAN implementations actually allowed this:

subroutine x(j)

write(,)j

j = 3

return

do 1 i = 1,2

1 x(4)

4

3

(sorry... it's been years). Note that the reference is
immutable (j refers to a single location) -- but the value
is boxed (4 is put into a memory location). And this is
why this can even work.

FredW
Does it have any kind of calendar integration? If it can integrate with our teams google calendar this is perfect for us.
I came here to post the same thing - an awesome listen.
With all respect, but does that means the back-story for Assassin's Creed could be true? Maybe someday we can do archeology by gene-sequencing?
Please retitle. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

"For example, blog posts, email signups, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs."
I wonder if this has implications for the higher levels of hypertension found specifically in African Americans.
Grew up in Alberta and never heard two-four until I went to university and met some people from Ontario. It was actually a bit of a meme that they could tell where you were from based on whether you said flat or two-four. As I said elsewhere, it may be generational, but two four definitely started in the East.
But price changes supply, no?

Some oil is $1 a barrel to pump. It will always be worth pumping.

Some oil is $50 a barrel to pump. It is only worth it when oil price is greater than $50 a barrel.
Because it's the topic at hand?
Thanks for the joke. I assume all the Soviet bloc countries were like this. Having lived in Romania during its communist years, it seemed that every single person who was not a communist wanted to leave or at least thought about it. After my parents managed to get out and get to the US, we met a lot of others from various Eastern European countries as well as Russia who all had pretty incredible stories of escape. I think for others who had not been there, it's incredibly difficult to imagine the conditions that would lead people, including people with families and small children, to literally risk their lives (or at least torture and jail) to get out, oftentimes without their children, not knowing if they would ever make it or see their family ever again. If there is a "hell," I doubt it's worse than communism.
is there a good reason why burying scraps of paper in soil is inherently better?

That should read: "burying scraps in Sicilian soil"

The messages never travel outside of the country, which may bolster a case that no other country may have jurisdiction in helping to track down the mafia members.

Recent Intel leaks have shown us that every government in the world has their fingers tapping all of the telecom links in the world. When we talk about using farm land as a messaging platform, the playing field is a bit more even.

The government doesn't have cameras hiding under every rock, or soldiers posted every 5 feet across the land. Imaging satellites perhaps may not be able to be tasked full-time for years to monitor all of Sicily to the required resolution for the purposes of finding one man, yet.

Balled-up pieces of paper are very much off-the-grid.
I would love to see something similar to tame on linux. Just because linux also has SELinux doesn't mean it can't also have tame.

I love the approach.
> My only hope, with regard to genetic engineering, is that the people who are actually discovering this stuff are strong enough to prevent large corps from patenting all of the most important intellectual property that will empower future generations.

Why? If you ever want this technology to be accessible to the public then someone somewhere is going to have to be making money on it. Drug manufacturing isn't done by colleges or governments.
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Escape by swimming caught on camera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CWajaOx4E
YNAB is definitely a good product. I use it, and got my brother and parents to use it as well.

My only complaint is that I'd rather not rely on a third party like dropbox for sync, and I'd like a Linux version.
I started working on the same idea with the same stack this weekend. Would like to start contributing to this project but the non-commercial clause in the license is a showstopper, as it won't meet Debian Free Software Guidelines.
> I live in Germany, and health care at a bare minimum is around 150-200€/month, which is the "social" tariff. We also have a pension system, but you also need to pay a monthly contribution, depending on your income.

How much do you pay into those if you're not earning anything?

Do you still get health benefits when unemployed?
If this were built on top of Node instead of JavaScriptCore, wouldn't a lot of the host integration come for free? Is there a benefit that building on JavaScriptCore yields?

Of course, being a fun project to work on is benefit enough. Just trying to make sure I'm not missing something.
A bank? No. Some random person out there in an oppressive government? Infinitely more likely.

Crypto is a bit of a special case in programming in that's it's ridiculously easy to do wrong, and failures could have catastrophic consequences on people's real lives. If you want to play with it yourself, more power to ya, but for the love of all things good in the world don't put it out there without sufficient disclaimer that it's a hobby, untested project.
Using the word 'survive' instead of 'buy our dream house in a perfect location' is what's causing the level of scorn. People on minimum wage try to survive. At 400K there is no chance this couple is going to have to choose between eating and paying rent.
We're seeing VR now because smartphones have made the access to small HD screens abundant and relatively cheap.
There is still much suspicion in Germany. Families still remember their 'missing' members.

One the way home, stopped in Germany early 1991 to see a good friend. While sitting at sidewalk table, my friend abruptly arose and got in the face of another patron. Words were exchanged, and they went behind the building. My friend returned later, with blood on his sleeves and hands, with his pocket notebook out. With a grim smile, he indicated that he now has a "list of people to talk to...".

The wounds of Germany will not heal until their people of my generation have been buried.
I tried it and no it does not (or I did not found it).
"This tutorial assumes that you know the basics of speech recognition using the HMM-GMM approach."

So basically, not for beginners or hobbyists.
Does this override require() and runs the code normally?

I have require calls that are dynamic and/or in functions and not top-level. So, to get the whole graph, it seems necessary to really run the app.
Sorry for any noise but: ||users.telenet.be^ is reported as 'Malware domains (long-lived) • Malware domains' for me while using microblock.
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Certainly, the weight of the factors of production have changed. Land to factories to paying the salaries of knowledge workers. Who could decide to cooperatively own their own work product and pay themselves out of cash flows.

I don't know that I am a "trust but verify" person as much as a "don't solve problems before they occur" person, because: 1) The solution may cause more problems than the problem, 2) We had a different problem than the one expected occur.

If anything, the world seems to be progressing at a pretty good clip and not slowing down. In almost every fundamental field - bio, materials, physics etc. And it does so in the presence of a patent system that may or may not be retarding progress, but if it is, it's not doing a very good job of it.

Things like Uber and Open Source and the like make me inclined towards: "Leave it alone, and see what happens".
Planck’s main benefits compared to Node.js seem to be the fast startup time for small bash-like scripts, and the potential to be embedded in C-based apps:
https://gist.github.com/mfikes/c7da1e7dfded26c7ceb9
The level of productivity in so many megacorporations is so low it's just plain alarming. I've commented before at work that if this is all I was able to do in the time I've had at most smaller companies we'd either have gone bankrupt or I'd have been fired. When something as simple and necessary to do your job as "I need access to a gig repo to fix a defect, here's the patch" takes weeks or months, you may get some work done but the rate of actual accomplishments would become basically negative.

Enabling users to get something done while adhering to corporate policies effectively is a problem I don't believe anyone has solved for the Fortune 500 as a whole. If they did, I assure you that several billion of a market cap would be a small fraction of their likely valuation. Slack isn't allowed in most places in the F500 as shadow IT goes, for example, but they hit the billion dollar club within months practically because they approached chat in a small manner that Salesforce did. Even a small, tiny win is a billion dollars across these kinds of companies.
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PowerShell's object pipeline only exists within the PowerShell/.NET runtime and is functionally analogous to method/function chaining in languages like JavaScript and Ruby. The object pipeline does not exist outside of the PowerShell/.NET runtime.

Pipelines in Unix shells use OS-level functionality to connect standard streams of data, often encoded as text, between arbitrary executables written in any language.

The reason this is confusing is because one of the main tactics used in PowerShell promotion is to disingenuously compare PowerShell's "object pipeline" to Unix pipelines in order to try to make it appear to be more novel than it is, when they should be comparing it to what it's functionally equivalent to, which is function chaining within a single runtime.
"I ... wonder how there are so many people making so much more money than I do."

I've thought about this a great deal, and there are at least four responses:

1.) As pointed out by others, I suspect a majority of households living in these expensive areas could not actually afford to 'rebuy' their house on the basis of current income.

2.) As a corollary, the prices you are seeing are only paid by marginal actors who happen to have the income or savings needed to get a mortgage. Thus only a minority of people living in the expensive area can actually 'afford' it.

3.) Lots of people are willing to commit to paying 50% or more of their gross income to a mortgage. They win (at the margin) and drive up housing prices.

4.) The money lent for residential housing is 'backed' by the government, which essentially means it is printed (not in the sense that it is printed at origination time, but it is instead printed when then entire housing market goes south and the Fed needs to bail out the Treasury/GSEs.). I would note that printing a dollar is the same as thieving a dollar from the sum of all dollars held.

So in conclusion, the reason housing is expensive is because people are willing to take risks with other people's money. If you aren't that kind of person, you probably don't belong in one of these expensive housing markets.
The Queen was and is a big thing in the part of Canada I grew up in. People descended from United Empire Loyalists sometimes write 'U.E.L.' after their names, you see a lot of Queen Elizabeth memorabilia in shops, tourists go on 'loyalist tours', and the biggest bit of pomp and circumstance from my childhood was when the Queen's local representative, the lieutenant-governor of Ontario, visited town. I wasn't particularly impressed and made the mistake of sarcastically saying 'wow, what an honor' when one of the local farmboys was going on about the handshake he'd received from 'the Queen's representative'. He backhanded me hard enough to knock my glasses thirty feet.

Canada, like the United States, is a little too large and varied to easily generalize about.
I'm not a conservative ("Do what is best for the public school system shalt be the whole of the law" comes close to what I believe), and I do not believe yours is a remotely reasonable summary of what conservatives believe, let alone a charitable one.

I feel comfortable at this point saying directly: you have misunderstood the point Patrick was trying to make.
I'd forgotten about monotone - my focus was on today's choices, and monotone isn't exactly alive nowadays ;-).

git+hg share the same model for history; that's a DAG of commits. Sure, there are differences, but they're rather superficial. One such difference is in how you, as a human, categorize commits in that dag - what git calls a branch isn't what hg calls a branch. But so what?

In day-to-day use I can't imagine that the vast majority of git users would really notice a ifference if they used hg instead; and I suspect the same thing holds for bzr too. There's no meaningful performance difference. But the point is also that reverse is mostly true too - why not choose git it it's good enough?

And then git's real advantage shines through - it's by far the most common, and that lets you cooperate with a large number of other developers simply because lots of people know git. Oh, and github is popular too and git-only. Then there's the fact that bzr seems dead, as does monotone. The advantage is largely social - though if the currect pace of development continues it way well become technical.
I always wonder... How did they start a life from scratch in another country? Without a job and roof for a few days you can quickly turn into a poorness cycle.
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Similar plant is near my home in Central Europe. It uses the same turbine to generate electricity and push water up 1,670 ft (reversing turbine). Startup time from zero to 650MW is 150 seconds.
If "flat tax" only means go to a single income bracket and percentage, it would not simplify the tax code much at all. The progressive part of tax code involves a single lookup at the end.

The complexity exists almost entirely in tax expenditures -- deductions, exclusions, credits, etc., etc., etc.

I don't know what "real Conservatives" think, but in polling many tax expenditures do very well. For example, 68% of Republicans, 63% of Democrats, and 58% of Independents oppose it eliminating the home mortgage interest deduction. (http://www.scribd.com/doc/117298635/CBS-News-Poll-Fiscal-Cli... Q47)
I do not believe that sweeping US federal tax reform is a matter of a few million dollars of lobbying.

I believe that a few million dollars can get you a bunch of state court judges, and even that the state government that can be influenced by lobbying expenditures might be "where all the real governing is happening".

I do not believe the narrative that Intuit's pitiful lobbying expenditure is stunting our tax system.

If the disclosure in ProPublica had been that Intuit was spending 10x, 20x more than that --- and it has the resources to do that --- I'd believe it more. As it stands, the specifics revealed by ProPublica make me less concerned about Intuit's influence.

For what it's worth: I'd like a return-free IRS.
Here's a thought that's been nagging at me for a while...

There is evidence [1] that PTSD is linked to increased incidence of physiological conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune illnesses.

Given the number of people currently living whose recent ancestors experienced the trauma of war and oppression, I wonder if it could explain part of the growing incidence of these illnesses that we keep hearing is burdening the health systems of Western countries these days.

The reason it's on my mind is due to my own experience. For a few years I've been struggling to get sound diagnosis and treatment for a fatigue illnesses that I now understand has been caused by auto-immunity. Conventional medicine offered little help, but since I've undertaken a treatment to remove subconscious traumas, my health has steadily improved, to the point where "normal" health seems very much within reach.

The thing is, my illnesses can't really be explained by my own traumatic experiences alone. By which I mean, I've had a relatively comfortable, privileged life and I haven't had many experiences that others would consider highly traumatic, but from a young age I've always been highly sensitive and perceived traumas in situations that others would just take in their stride.

But when I reflect on the fact that my parents and grandparents could all be described as having been in a mildly traumatised state, it makes sense that this tendency in me was inherited.

Yes I get that I'm a sample size of one and it's hardly objective. But it feels an idea worthy of further consideration. I'm doing whatever lab tests I can do of inflammation, cardio markers, hormone levels etc, so I can do comparisons as I continue the trauma-release process. I'll also be interested to see how I fare in life on illnesses like arthritis, diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer's, all of which are prevalent in my family.

I'd love to hear from anyone researching this kind of thing.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/annals.1314.011/a...
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Perhaps another benefit for having a desalination plant. Create fresh water to be pumped into these hydro storage facilities?
Pretty nice to handle holidays. However the copy needs a bit of work as well as some prices of the UI/UX. For example:

- First steps you have the text

- Step 1: "Save Step 1"
- Step 2: "Save and Proceed"
- Step 3: "Add employee"

You should align the text of each button such "Next step" and "Finish".

- Provide more text on each of the step to give better context with perhaps an example or an average for a specific country (selecting a country and auto-completing these fields with the average would be nice).

- Lot of lost space in Step 2 Setup Statutory Holidays. You could make the numbers bigger and space out evenly the selected days. Also it was quite weird to have an extra step with the selected days starred.

- Provide integration with 3rd party platforms: Google Calendar, Slack, login with Google account, etc.

- Provide a way to delete an account. How do I do that right now?

All in all it is pretty cool!
> ...the poor need to pay their "fair share"

The basic idea is that the Government should treat everyone equally. Treating someone differently because they have a lower income than others is discriminatory. Just as treating someone with a higher income differently is discriminatory.

Plus, as soon as you open the law up to treating people differently based on some arbitrary criteria, you open it up to corruption. A few "bribes" here and there, and suddenly this company is part of a group that gets special treatment. Or this rich person is able to avoid paying extra taxes because of some loophole created because the Government treats some group differently.

Thus, it's not about the "poor" paying their fair share. It's about everyone paying their fair share.
I expect that poor urban kids from high crime neighborhoods have also experienced this sort of genetic damage...the government needs to pay these kids some sort of reparations, of course. This is america, and we will need to make them whole. Same principle applies to women and minorities. Racial/gender discrimination almost certainly leads to this sort of genetic damage. Again, we have a duty to make them whole.
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To me, the surest sign of a Canadian is when they need to use a "washroom".