skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to conveniently forget that the liver is the most easy to repair tissue in your body. We regularly remove 2/3rds of a person liver during live donors transplants and it regrows in a couple of months.
Nice. This would actually make for a nice iPad app.
> slashing police budgets to increase the crime rate [to reduce housing prices]

That sounds interesting -- can you point me to any documentation about this practice, or are you just brainstorming?
indeed. thanks for pointing this out. I have now fixed that typo.

https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32/commit/f8c96d6d37b6...
Uber has low overhead for a $50bn company.

They've already won vs taxis. Now they're going for courier services, buses, food delivery and even cleaning services. They aren't part of the sharing economy, they're trying to be the sharing economy.
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No no they aren't a taxi company. They are a marketplace that matches people selling space in their car with people who need space in a car.

Until they get their self driving cars, and then the are a transportation and logistics company.

But they definitely aren't a taxi company
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At first I thought this was bad news for Groupon, but after reading about it, it seems like a logical strategy. Groupon recently exited Turkey and Greece, which makes a lot of sense considering the economic turmoil in those countries and in the region in general. The 7 countries that were affected in this news were fairly small markets. Since when was Uruguay a major player in the global economy? The layoffs of 1100 mostly in sales and customer service seems reasonable when operations in 7 countries are shut down. Groupon has over 10,000 employees. A 10% reduction in staff trims some of the low performers. Microsoft and Amazon probably cut more staff each year with their stack rankings. (I know MS supposedly killed off their stack rankings, but I have a feeling it still exists albeit in a less visible capacity.) Overall, I think these moves make Groupon stronger, more competitive, more focused and more capable in a cutthroat market.
It's been a long while ago now, but I recall reading some actuarial studies that indicated that moderate drinking improved life expectancy. Did these fall victim to the same bias mentioned in the OP article? Did they not account properly for people that stopped drinking at some point due to health issues?

IIRC, I recall reading that the over/under on life expectancy was 6(!) drinks per day for regular drinkers. I recall thinking how high that was at the time. Now I wonder if it was just another case of lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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I'd like to get a more comprehensive look at FarmLogs, hopefully they'll be more available in Australia soon. Although until then, after just browsing through the interface, I'd like to make a few points. I should point out I'm from a broad-acre farm of > 10'000acres, and we have single fields nearly 2.5x bigger than the 600acre size mentioned..

There's still seems to be to much of a focus on farmers having to manually enter data. Our machinery already records everything that happens in the paddock, there's no reason why we should have to sit down and manually enter everything we do. Farmlogs should connect to whichever machinery provider we use's API, and pull all the data straight from the machine. It's now possible to do that in real time, and it opens up far more interesting opportunities, (for example optimising variable rate maps in real time) as we can also push data back to the machines.

How do I connect and use my local weather station data within FarmLogs? One limitation of our current yield prediction software is that it's weather data feed comes from a BOM station nearly 30km away, that isn't nearly good enough, so we're seeing a transition to on farm weather stations. Ultimately we need to be able to collect weather info on a field by field basis, not only for crop modelling and yield prediction, but to better optimise harvesting/swathing schedules, and make more effective N applications (we can create better application maps based on the yield models + predicted weather).

Can I import my all my soil data? We've had extensive EM38 mapping, radio-metrics and soil testing done over the farm to better calibrate our yield models, and improve nutrient application, how do I put that data into FarmLogs? If I can, how do you use it? Can you generate my VR maps based on soil data + predicted weather information?

I'm also seeing some features that most farmers I know will never use. We don't need "another" calendar. We don't need to keep a record of all the grain we have stored in silos, or upload information about every piece of machinery we have on farm. What benefit does that give us? It seems like your almost trying to gameify farming with all the graphics..

I think tools like FarmLogs need to move away from just data collection/consolidation and much more towards yield prediction/modelling, and giving recommendations/optimising nutrient applications. We spend more than $500'000 a year on fert/chemicals, so if you can help me make a more precise variable rate map and save me 10% of that figure, thats something I'm going to use. Even if your charging me $5000/10'000/x'000 a year for it.
I don't even see any connection how could this be the next docker in the nosql world... in other words i didn't get at all what you mean...
The economics of farming certainly do seem different in the US. Is land really that much cheaper/higher-yielding? Is that why hobby farms in the US can break-even on such small areas? Or is the difference just in the subsidies they get? Or is high/consistent-yielding farmland simply locked away from smaller operators in Australia nowadays? A combination of everything?
I don't want a system like this to become the standard. It's horribly authoritarian and pro-surveillance.
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But in the case of Happy Birthday licenses the contract would have been agreed to on false pretense, wouldn't that count for something?
If it only covers the words, then can we still sing Paljon Onnea Vaan in Finnish?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FI6c_r3dKg
Culture is usually neither better or worse. Some subsets of cultures promote one thing over another and sometimes some outsiders fetishize some of those things (i.e. non-mainstreamers might fetishize upward mobility, consumerism, etc, mainstreamers might fetishize grit, hard-knock lives, etc. Some mainstreamers believe their culture is fraudulent, as if any culture can be classified as "genuine". Only ossified cultures can be genuine. And Non mainstreamers will, naturally seek to enter the mainstream but with a wish to hold on to the familiar (ie. culture)

People with straight hair want curly and curly haired want straight hair.
Thank you for the clarification. That's helpful, having not had time to find and read the filing.

It would be helpful if you could link to the filing, for those of us interested to read it. I regularly read them when the case is interesting (e.g., Oracle v. Google). If the documents are public domain (with no public link), then presumably you could host them for sharing as well.
> What possible reason is there not to open the source for these apps?

They don't own the right to distribute all the source for the apps? (I mean, it's possible.)
Thanks your feedback is really helpful for me, I opened an issue on the repo hoping to verify it soon https://github.com/GianlucaGuarini/parallax/issues/2
Any ideas why they don't replace the existing tracks? The parallel tracks make sense: it seems rational to reuse the existing rights-of-way.
But the point I made with the story is what the end user has in his hands. Although a handful of website owners can change their own perspective to use valid ads in their own house but for the end user. .? Should be made with some better solutions for the end user.
I agree as well, on the networking aspect since based on their diagram they are utilizing Intel NICs which Intel provides this DPDK to bypass the kernel space and access the hardware from the application itself.

Now my question is how portable Scylla be in terms of NIC vendors?
Over the last decade, the distributed system nature of modern server hardware internals has become painfully evident in how software architectures scale on a single machine. The traditional approaches -- multithreading, locking, lock-free structures, etc -- are all forms of coordination and agreement in a distributed system, with the attendant scalability problems if not used very carefully.

At some point several years ago, a few people noticed that if you attack the problem of scalable distribution within a single server the same way you would in large distributed systems (e.g. shared nothing architectures) that you could realize huge performance increases on a single machine. The caveat is that the software architectures look unorthodox.

The general model looks like this:

- one process per core, each locked to a single core

- use locked local RAM only (effectively limiting NUMA)

- direct dedicated network queue (bypass kernel)

- direct storage I/O (bypass kernel)

If you do it right, you minimize the amount of silicon that is shared between processes which has surprisingly large performance benefits. Linux has facilities that make this relatively straightforward too.

As a consequence, adjacent cores on the same CPU have only marginally more interaction with each other than cores on different machines entirely. Treating a single server as a distributed cluster of 1-core machines, and writing the software in such a way that the operating system behavior reflects that model to the extent possible, is a great architecture for extreme performance but you rarely see it outside of closed source software.

As a corollary, garbage-collected languages do not work for this at all.
Except Dr. King didn't write the speech. From Wikipedia:

"The speech was drafted with the assistance of Stanley Levison and Clarence Benjamin Jones[17] in Riverdale, New York City. Jones has said that "the logistical preparations for the march were so burdensome that the speech was not a priority for us" and that, "on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 27, [12 hours before the March] Martin still didn't know what he was going to say"."

I'm not so sure these people would appreciate the fact that you think they should work without being compensated for it, or that somehow, compensation and/or ownership isn't a good reason to do something.
Another user reported completely the opposite https://twitter.com/syropian/status/645735377291096064
But I have tried my best I swear ;)
Is there any relationship between SSL v2 and TLS v1.0?
Thanks! That's helpful for clarifying what your target market is.
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For those who don't know about DigiCash:

http://www.chaum.com

http://cryptome.org/jya/digicrash.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

http://www.hit.bme.hu/~buttyan/courses/BMEVIHIM219/2009/Chau...
put captchas in front of ads.
Funny. If you talk to a heart specialist, they will tell you that regular, moderate consumption of alcohol improves blood pressure, reduces cholesterol build-up, and reduces the chance of heart problems.

Specialists will tell you all about the topic of which they are a specialist. That doesn't mean that they will be experts in other areas outside their specialty.
My understanding of American politics is that often then amendments have very little to do with the law being enacted beyond their being the pay representatives get for voting the law in. I may be completely wrong on that, but if it is the case then I can't help feeling American politics is utterly corrupt.
Well, good thing you're not my client. :)
I kind of agree, but since there will be clients requiring this feature we can not do a lot! I have tried my best to get a script enough flexible that will help me (and I hope other devs) wasting hours to configure a smooth parallax site
Could this technique be used to optimise graph traversal in a postgresql table? Or are recursive queries still the way to go?
Probably because the have not yet used my script :)
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This method is not really for product affiliate ads (unless you have a whole shopping section of your site devoted for that...). Amazon links are for penny-chasers anyways.

You're really supposed to curate display ads. But, this means you'll have to make the call to your local advertisers to actually sell the ads. ("Hey do you want to place an ad on our site for 6 months for $500? I'll take you out for pizza & beer if you're interested so we can talk details.") You're not going to sell display ads to Amazon, but you might for your local gaming shop.
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It certainly looks like Slack develops it's own file service, and pays authors for bashing Dropbox.
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This particular source is apparently well-known -- it is cited in http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/08/05/happy-birthday-to-you-c... as the first publication of "Happy birthday to you". If you could find other works much older than 1922, that would be very interesting.
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So, we need to vote. San Francisco’s stupid direct democracy system means 14% of registered voters voting in an off-year primary election (June 2014) are now forcing everybody else to have to come out to vote yes on Proposition D this November in order for the Mission Rock housing project to get off the ground.

We also need to defeat Proposition I. A moratorium on new housing permits along with more “studies” is exactly not what we need in this housing crisis.

I haven’t looked at the other propositions enough to have an opinion to relay about those, yet. However, you can be sure that the anti-growth voters will be out in force, and we need to come out and vote for more housing.
10x speedup (same algorithms, same architecture) replacing Java with C++ is not possible (~2x at max).

One of the latest benchmarks I've seen is "Comparison of Programming Languages in Economics" [1] for code without any IO just number crunching, has a 1.91 to 2.69 speedup of using C++ compared to Java. So any code involving IO is going to be slower.

Replacing bad Java code with excellent machine aligned C++ a 10x speedup is possible.

[1] https://github.com/jesusfv/Comparison-Programming-Languages-...
I only sort of get it. What does the idea of reining in advertisers run amok have to do with accepting socialism as the one true government? The connection seems tenuous.
> Correction, this is chapter 11 bankruptcy. This isn't the same as standard bankruptcy. This is the same kind of bankruptcy that 50 Cent is going through. It doesn't mean you have no money, it allows you to reasses your finances and protects you.

While it's relatively common for people to associate the word "bankruptcy" with the "we ran out of money so we need to liquidate any assets we have left and walk away from our debts" (Chapter 7) or "we can't pay our debts on time so we need a payment plan" (Chapter 13) types of bankruptcy, and it is true that 50 Cent also filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it's a bit disingenuous to say that it doesn't mean they don't have any money.

A Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a tool to protect a debtor's assets and give it time to come up with a plan to pay back its creditors: in this case, the plan proposed by Quirky is to sell off all of those assets at auction so that it can raise enough money to pay off its debt. The Chapter 11 filing is being used as a way to say to potential buyers "don't worry, these assets won't be taken from the company before the sale can close."

They are otherwise very much broke and are counting on the sale to raise the money to pay off their debts. If they can't sell quickly enough, it'll likely convert into a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Here's a good overview of what's going in: http://www.frostbrowntodd.com/resources-1562.html
> the overhead this adds (in terms of flash/rom and ram) can be fatal.

I know you list the resources, but how does this approach add overhead? (how does it use those resources more than a "C" approach would?) Most of the constructs in C++ only cost anything if you use them, so you only pay if you need the feature; further, the runtime costs of most C++ features are pretty much exactly what's required for that feature… so if you were writing C, and you needed the same functionality, how would you avoid paying the same cost?
Copyright is supposed to be limited, but eh you know, somebody who descends from someone who around the 1911s wrote a one song, honestly, really, still very much deserves money for their hard work.

Otherwise those guys back in 1911 will go back in time and undo what they've done, because it was clearly not worth it.

Back in the real world, modern copyright is pretty messed up.
It's particularly flawed given:

a) IO is such a large portion of the problem
b) Hypertable isn't just way, way faster.
Except that problem has been largely addressed now.
previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10255821
That doesn't make sense given that they have already broken two other antivirus in a similar fashion and they commented

Thanks to Kaspersky for record breaking response times when handling this report, they’ve set a high bar to beat for other vendors!

I wonder how fast they were given the comment about 'high bar'.
Why LOL?
You can still enforce that law against people you don't like..
I really appreciate your insight, but I didn't understand why you keep implying "open source" as some kind of lack-behind design?
As an example, SDL is a large C codebase that employs a very OO paradigm, and I find its APIs very well organized.

When I was (or am) coding C, a lot of the OO principles helped me write better C code, as I understood better what the higher level constructs that I was working with was. (i.e., if there's a base class among essentially hiding among my structs that should perhaps be pulled out into a separate struct; do I need a vtable, or perhaps function pointers on the struct; how is a struct initialized, and how is it destructed, etc.)
Why should a city subsidize housing? That seems like something the market should drive primarily. For that same reason, I'm skeptical about whether zoning and permiting are a good thing in general.
> someone can still come forward and present the evidence that secures them the copyright until the end of its term

You mean with the current copyright regime, whoever manages to produce good enough forged evidence, can collect on this forever?

Because it's well known that copyright no longer expires. And that means there's no end of term either.
His point is that this is a larger symptom of Silicon Valley having a bad sense of how to improve peoples lives or what's important. This was my least favorite part of the talk and it was my least favorite part of the talk when he touched on the same theme in "Web Design: The First 100 Years"[0].

[0]: http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
Just yesterday I was discussing with a friend that I'd like to use Backblaze as backend for our zero-knowledge backup at https://cloudfleet.io and that I'll ask them for a metered pricing model when we're big enough.

And voilá ... here it is.
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Have you tried https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/
> The fraud claim is fraudulent itself...

I don't even think you realize what you're saying at this point.

I empathize with you. I really do. For what it's worth, years ago, I had to fight to regain control of a company I had started that was "stolen" by a former business partner. I was a twenty-something with very little money in the bank and my counsel was a local attorney. I sued a multi-millionaire represented by one of the top 5 law firms in the world. I was able to get what I wanted largely because my attorney gave me good advice and I listened to it.

I'm sure this is an emotional time for you but I would strongly recommend that you retain an attorney you trust before you do or write anything else.
Pretty much this. Anything I want to do, nobody is qualified to go do it on Monday. But they can start figuring out how to do it.
What I'm not hearing is that what that really means. It's not just the buffer overflow thing. It seems that most of these tools (he exploited 3 so far) are disabling protection feature in the OS and are just blind to the risk parsing generally presents and specially for a tool that runs with such privilege.

I wonder if he has failed to exploit any of the antivirus that he tried or it was 3 for 3. What does it really mean, does using any antivirus at this point puts you at even more risk to targeted attack specially if you are a sensible user? What does that mean for corporate roll out of antivirus which I'm guessing would be the most likely candidate of such targeted attacks.
How about more intelligent programs?
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leasing is often cheaper than the alternatives
Strongly agreed. It's great that these HPC techniques are finally starting to trickle down.
Heroin, like pretty much all opioids, is actually the exact opposite of a laxative. Imodium (Loperamide), a common anti-diarrheal, is actually an opioid like heroin, and works by binding to and activating your body's opioid receptors. It just only binds to receptors in your large intestine, so it doesn't get you "high" like other opioids.
From a company point of view, supporting CISA might well make sense in order to avoid the legal problems they are bound to have due to being coerced to cooperate with the government.

From a consumer point of view, it also makes sense to avoid "officially tapped" (read "US") services.

In the long run, it looks to me that gov't is laying the foundation of the demise of its own surveillance program because no one in his right mind would want his data in the US anymore, even less so if you're not an American company. Except for the German government, of course.
What makes it your least favorite part?
I have been silently following FarmLogs for a long time, it is wonderful to see technology being merged with nature. I often thought about what it would be like working for them but the problem is that I'm from mid europe (Hungary).
The majority of our country is farmland, we even have a somewhat similar and quite successful startup here, SmartVineyard who do similar stuff but specifically for grapes. Is it possible for non-US developers to join FarmLogs without relocating?
We have a product that competes with dropbox in enterprise file sharing and Sync space.We know dropbox has its challenges.But what I don't understand is why every dropbox bashing story talks about slack. Who is paying who and how much.The whole tech media is a big joke with zero ethics.

Another Slack post from the same author: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/18/9349425/slack-future-of-co...
The virality doesn't cross the database interface layer.

Modifications to the database software must be shared, yes, but your client application is outside the reach of the AGPL and can remain proprietary.
What crops do you grow? Growing up near the Salinas Valley, I always associated row crops with produce and not grains, so a <600 acre "row crop" farm can generate pretty massive revenue.
I agree with judge
Check out the page: www.cloudflare.com/china Their recent partnership with Baidu might help your slowness from inside China.
It's nonsensical buzzwords.

I guess the poster's underlying question is "will this database become hyped as the Next Big Thing"
Wait, did I read that right? the test was with (1) one server? What's the point of that? Smells like a cooked up test.