skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is limited and you happened to draft 43 Reanimators
Brilliant. About 75% of our class time is spent doing exercises in class with me roaming about, or at least it would be if I could remember to stop talking at certain points.
>Anecdote here, but I've found that for me the key to weight loss has been exercise-first. [...] It's hard to believe that exercise isn't the key to weight loss when I burn 2,000 calories on my Saturday morning run.

You specified that you were only speaking for yourself but I think that for most people, a healthy steady-state weight is easier to achieve by smart food choices rather than exercise.

Recommending exercise is good advice for overall health such as increasing endurance, bone strength, sexual performance, managing stress, etc. However, saying that exercise is a "key" to weight loss is very misleading because the act of exercise also causes an increase in appetite.

These days, I exercise less than half the amount I did a decade ago and I still weigh 10 pounds less. The difference is that I eat oatmeal for breakfast and vegetables + olive oil for dinner instead of sugary corn flakes and pizzas.

Optimizing eating habits (without causing starvation) is much easier than running an extra 10 miles on a treadmill. This disparity in effort is obvious if you ask obese people if it's easier to eat a glazed donut (consume 200 calories) or run 6 mph for 20 minutes (burns 200 calories).
A huge problem with C#'s Async feature that I hope gets resolved (and, obviously that this failure pattern is not ported to Javascript): Explicitly blocking during a function that uses async somewhere inside (a sub-function) will cause your application to deadlock. It is extremely surprising that .NET does not handle this (abet novice) design mistake in a graceful way. (For example, checking if a thread is blocked before attempting to schedule tasks to it)
Your Old Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator Still Costs a Fortune Here's Why
We need metaphysics mainly because of two things:

1 - Science hasn't yet discovered why something as it is => Metaphysical explanation

2 - Mankind needs an explanation for things they cannot understand => feel better with the unknown

Scientific knowledge is the enemy of any religion as it can eventually explain why something is the way it is.
Clearly you haven't looked into the current state of quantum physics. Lots of unexplained phenomenon.
Only if you have a limited definition of "science."
There is a cost to everything and we try to be pragmatic. Git Annex is causing lots of work for us in the Omnibus packages. Video2000 is also technically better than VHS, but still people stopped producing equipment for it much sooner.
LXD, the Hypervisor for LXC Containers, Part One
Additionally, I don't like the percent increases on absolute numbers. I feel like some normalized data (either per capita, or per capita in specific metropolitan areas) would be very helpful.

Ie. Fake example, The crime in San Francisco shot up by 400% - woah! So much more crime. The population in San Francisco also shot up by 10,000%. Oh, so you're telling me that the ratio of criminals to non-criminals dropped by 95%?
Ask HN: Startups/tech companies on La Palma?
I'm visiting the island La Palma and would like to visit a startup/tech company.

Any HN'ers from there?
A lot of the early academic RDF graph databases used this approach. However, performance was no where near to what is
required.
This let to for the SPARQL/RDF graph databases to now a whole set of independently developed stores. Some on top of existing solutions e.g. Oracle semnet, Virtuoso and DB2 sparql. More on their own solid foundations.

You could test out 3 or 4 different SPARQL solutions in the time that it would take you to develop something graph like on your own.

On the other hand, cutting edge approaches, actually take a graph representation of data and lay it out in a relational manner. http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en96/special/monetdb-rdf-discover... giving the best of both worlds.

In short you can build something yourself. But don't expect that it will be better than something build and supported by someone else.

So investigate the competition: BlazeGraph, Virtuoso, StarDog, Oracle 12c EE/semnet, DB9, Dydra before deciding to build your own. Building your own because its fun to do is great, but unless it pays your bills not a good idea for production environment.

PS. The edge table (EAV) is the major problem, it leads to a lot of self joins and difficult exercises for the query planner.

You can improve a lot on this if you can put "different" edges into different tables or partitions.

Triple stores with support for JSON-LD framing such as Dydra can also make it easier to have a front-end on top of your DB without extensive middle layer code.

A store like StarDog and BlazeGraph on the other hand gives you a lot of flexibility by both supporting SPARQL and TinkerPop. (both cluster and scale out, although BlazeGraph has GPL option. StarDog is only Commercial)
Yeah but that's more tied with the "right wing" than the "Christian". Sure there's overlap between those groups, but you won't find more left-wing Christian groups pressing for harsher sentencing, and you will find right-wing non-christian (non-religious) groups pushing for harsher sentencing, so I think referring to them as " Christian is really a misidentification.
I disagree - prisons bring large numbers of jobs to otherwise economically depressed areas. If your options are working at Burger King or working at a prison with benefits, guaranteed overtime, and opportunity for advancement, you'll take the prison gig.

My girlfriend has worked corrections at the state and county level. She hated county but enjoyed the state work.
Ps. I don't know why I expect a better analysis from this article since it's in Slate...
> I don't claim to have solved P=NP
> nor do I claim to have an algorithm.

But you know someone who claims to be able to solve subset-sum problems quickly. I have a graph to 3-color, I wonder if I should convert it into a subset-sum problem for them to solve. That would take some time, and I'm pretty sure it won't be worth it. I'll have a think.

> The word "theoretical" was only used
> to distinguish between problems and
> instances.

OK, noted.

> The question is,
> "Solving which instances, in which order,
> would lead to the most positive outcomes?",
> where "positive outcomes" is intentionally
> ill-defined so that the answerer can inject
> their own perspective as well.

Now I'm starting to get some idea of what you're asking. Give me some time (I'm about to go into a string of meetings) and I'll see if I can phrase it differently to see if I really do know what you're asking.

> I think the question is also interesting
> because people often talk about how great
> the world would be if P=NP and we could
> easily solve NP problems.

Actually, people mostly talk about how the world would be much better if NP != P.

> However, this talk is typically only
> "theoretical" (about problems and not
> instances).

Of course - people are researching how to solve the problems, specific instances are specific instances, whereas the research challenge is algorithms for the problem.

> If someone can claim the world would
> be better off with faster solutions,
> they should be able to provide an
> instance whose solution would lead
> to a better world.

Why? Often we don't know the true benefits of an advance in science or technology until well after it's done, dusted, commercialized, and in the hands of ordinary people. Given that there currently are no ways to solve big, hard instances of NPC problems, why should people bother to find specific instances?
Google's Secret Hiring Tool
SolarCity Announces a 22% Module-Level Efficient Solar Panel
IANAL, but I guess the file format itself is not covered by the GPL 3, only the reference implementation.

They specifically say that "FLIF is completely royalty-free and it is not encumbered by software patents". So, I suppose people will be allowed to develop their own libraries with another license.
Don't impugn the ACLU with your lack of understanding of how percentages work.

Edit: LesZedCB just deleted his comment where he adds two different percentage groups from the ACLU site.
Also by far the most populous.

You have to think about this in the context of history. The US has largely been diverse throughout most of its history. Most developed countries are largely dominated by one race.
How can Bluetooth be used as a vector?
>How many are there for crimes that were committed to feed drug habits?

Legalizing drugs will not make them free, and they will still lead to addiction.
Experian Credit Bureau Breached
Thanks. I'm hoping we can see concrete progress, or learn well, by being able to efficiently put our own notes in a system that lets those notes naturally become an object model, then share it with others and collaborate in the data. So at least that much data is computable, or structured enough to grow well together. I'm hoping the network effect can get us going enough to take us to the next level or learn how to move forward from there.

I.e., if several people start putting our notes in a structured, computable model, and we collaborate, then we have all our notes in a possibly single place. That could become a community of practice. That's a step toward having all useful info on that topic, in a single, extremely useful model. Etc.

(At a minimum, I get to use it. :) If there are other effective Free systems for this, I've missed them but am interested.
I cannot imagine it truly is - it uses a variation of CABAC, which sure has patents related to it.

I wonder if they had a real legal person OK that claim.
>unusable license

Pure bullshit. Unusable for whom? Proprietary software developers? That's the intent.
Let's use ( ) for grouping, instead of [ ], so people have to escape them when using find through a Bourne-like shell: \( \). And what better terminating token for -exec than the semicolon!
Okay, who pressed the star button? https://github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js/issues/56
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Experian's statement: http://www.experian.com/data-breach/t-mobilefacts.html?intcm...

Name, address, Social Security number, date of birth taken for 15 million people.

That should end well.
Makes me think of the web of old, where sometimes an image would load in multiple passes.
There are so many complicated variables in this, but one thing that is crucial to point out is that he keeps referring to state prisons, which is intentionally misleading because many many drug offenders end up in federal prisons, where they make up 48.4% (https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...) of the population. That alone makes a lot of this guy's commentary suspect, and since he didn't even mention race or private prisons as a possible factor it really tanks the smell test on this new theory of his.
Quantum physics makes very specific predictions about the probabilities of outcomes. That is not the same as making strict, absolute predictions as with classical physics, but it does not leave it open for anyone to come along and whimsically insert whatever theory they want in there -- unless those whimsical theories are also consistent with the experimental results we have that underpin the predictions made by quantum mechanical theory.
Node.js and Recursion
This is a strange belief to hold, considering we can prove this not to be the case with pure logic.

Suppose we observe that when A happens, B occurs. This does not imply that A causes B. In fact, we can never confirm that A causes B, regardless of how closely we measure the reaction. 'Preposterous!' I hear you say on the other end of the intertubes.. but alas, it is true. Beyond the realm of reality and hubris we might observe that in fact X causes Y, and that A is simply an observable effect of X. Similarly, B is just an effect of Y. If you really want to explode that mind, think about how broadly this concept can be applied.
++! When I was in the games industry, it was extremely important to have this feature (and yes, it was a last resort!) This is why, then, we choose Mercurial over Git.

Unfortunately there is a lot of wackyness and far too often assets got out of sync. We ended up regressing, and put large assets (artwork) into a subversion repo instead.

I wish there was a better option, such as truncating the history of largeFiles, but that seems to break the concept of Git/Mercurial even more than the current "fix"
GPLv3 will be a hard sell...
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That part is pretty cool. If this were widely deployed, I could imagine this making the use of responsive images much easier.
> He assumes that "science is done by people", "people are flawed", ergo "the output of science is flawed".

I didn't read this anywhere in the article, nor did I feel it was implied. He is simply arguing that statements about the capability of science must be made outside of science, and that objective reality is independent of the method of discovery (science). I see nothing controversial about this.

> The postulate that "the universe my not be ultimately understandable" should only be taken as a priori at the point where it appears that that is in fact the case. Which it doesn't.

I'm not sure this should be taken as an axiom, but rather could be a characteristic inherent of the system (à la Gödel's theorems).
The poster didn't write that science explains everything. They wrote that science can explain everything.

There are some philosophers like Colin McGinn that think that some features of empirical reality are in principle impossible to explain with human science (it's slightly more complex than that but..) - but they are a distinct minority.
I thought the same thing and I totally agree that this should be covered. Thinking more about it though, the media has kinda clung to The War on Drugs any time they need to fill airtime and any time it comes up, they're pretty hand wavy about the underlying statistics. If someone had hard data on this that clearly supported WoD accusation, I feel like I would have seen it already.
How Patreon (probably) got hacked – Publicly exposed Werkzeug Debugger
I have been working on adding a large amount of information about Star Trek lately. But I will try to figure out how to do that. Thanks
But what about the bus factor?
Windows 10 and .NET Native
Soft robotic gripper can pick up and identify wide array of objects
Does it use a middle out algorithm? :)
Building a graph database is time consuming. Why are you putting edge's children (person, place, friend) in a separate table instead of using a json field? Do you plan to query the person, place, friend table directly? You need to benchmark the different queries.

My understanding is that big5 and others do not use graphdb for all their stuff since they are not as good as rdbms to do queries with a single hop or JOIN. They embrace microservices and maintain a graphdb (in memory, persistent or distributed) to answer domain specific queries. That approach is similar to your schema except that graph queries run on a single node without superfluous network roundtrips.

It would be nice to be able to use a single database for all data related stuff to have atomic writes and simpler architecture. That's what multi-model databases are tackling have a look at OrientDB and ArangoDB [1].

Also, Tinkerpop, already mentioned in the thread, is a ready-to-scale graphdb with much love I recommend you have a look at Tales of the Tinkerpop [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180185

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316140
So, the free world can use this library and the proprietary world will have to develop their own if they want to use the format. Proprietary software developers get to piggy back off of tons of free software, and then when someone decides that they don't want to enable that for their particular program/library, people complain about it. It makes no sense.
I assume you're talking about progressive JPEGs. These are still fairly common in my experience. It's just that with today's typical connection speed, you'll rarely notice.
> The problem runs deeper than UX in plugins for mail clients.

UX runs deeper than software interfaces.

> Identity and key management is really the underlying issue

Yes, that's a UX issue.

So:

- Get GPG key from Facebook (which has them as part of the standard profile today)

- Say to person: you should contact this person by a means you trust and confirm this is their key (since we don't trust anyone by default).

- Once they click OK, they can now send messages to that person.

Nothing stopping other mainstream sites from adding GPG, it's jus that FB is the only one I know of. Obviously GitHub doesn't count since most people aren't software developers.
I've always wondered what happens if a browser extension gets taken over by an entity someday that puts in bad code after millions of people have it installed and it gets auto-updated.

Sure it's open-source and will get noticed eventually, but there will be days if not weeks of exposure.

Same thing for all those android apps you have installed. If it doesn't add permissions, you'll never get a warning that something has really changed.
JPEG 2000 has that same feature.

FLIF claims it will beat the lossless compression ratio of JPEG 2000
I don't think they're particularly informed if they aren't aware of password managers.
No, there are questions you can't answer in general. Look at undecidable problems. There are more questions you can't answer in practice because computing the answer would take too long. For example, it's unlikely that science will ever answer the question "Which string has the sha-512 hash c706680d51e14feef6e97d9b714061facfca91f84cc5d6fb5a8fa6bffe545e0d2eaa686e7eec51b40feb12c1beea9ad9ae805ebef61a28110a343e5ecb90874d".
I'm generally all for esoteric programming stuff, but trying to understand this really hurt my head.

Kudos to these guys to figuring this out.
When I'm shopping for anything, particularly a big-ticket item, I'll gladly trade a few 'cutting-edge' features for solid build & longevity...and pay a lot more for it.

I strongly agree. The trend for ever-cheaper, ever-nastier goods is understandable given the recent economic conditions, but very disappointing all the same.

Personally, I will gladly pay a premium for things like good build quality and longevity. Sometimes that means I have to save up for something I want and can't just make an impulse purchase, but that's life.

I suspect buying cheap and nasty is often a false economy in the long term anyway. If you pay twice as much for your washing machine but it lasts 20 years where the cheaper one would have made it to 5...
Isn't a progressive jpeg loaded from a single file? Or are you referring to a different context of progressive with this file type?
I have found the `find` command and its API to be the hardest to learn. 3+ years on *NIX machine, spending close to 70% time on the command line when not browsing, and yet I still am not comfortable with `find`.
If you want to get employees to lock their workstations, make it a policy and fire the ones who repeatedly break it. If you have to get their attention via childish pranks it's a waste of everyones time.

Also, the IT provider has put a lot effort into security for a reason. The second any employee starts shell coding of any type, it becomes a risk to the company. Management, as always, is blind to this and is probably why they rewarded the author. What they should have done is fire the person for breaching the company's User Access policy. (You do have one, right?)

It may be the employees lunch hour, but it's not their right to abuse company property.
Really? There is no objective reality out there. It makes no sense to talk about reality independent of the physical model. Classical science is based on the belief that there exists a real external world whose properties are definite and independent of the observer who perceives them. According to classical science, certain objects exist and have physical properties, such as speed and mass, that have well-defined values. In this view our theories are attempts to describe those objects and their properties, and our measurements and perceptions correspond to them. Both observer and observed are parts of a world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage. All other observers who look will measure the same properties, and the herd will have those properties whether anyone observes them or not. In philosophy that belief is called realism.

Though realism may be a tempting viewpoint what we know about modern physics makes it a difficult one to defend. For example, according to the principles of quantum physics a particle has neither a definite position nor a definite velocity unless and until those quantities are measured by an observer. It is therefore not correct to say that a measurement gives a certain result because the quantity being measured had that value at the time of the measurement. In fact, in some cases individual objects don’t even have an independent existence but rather exist only as part of an ensemble of many.
The problem with the word "Christians" is that it is a very vague term. For baptists, the term would include the likes MLK and Jimmy Carter but also the Westboro church (which is irrelevantly small, but gets a lot of publicity).

It also includes Catholicism and mainline protestants who are appalled at the US' prison system and have been very vocal working to change it.
I'm placing 80% of my bet on Google (Alphabet). The remaining 20% on Yahoo.
It depends, but a large number of rich kids are completely aware of the saying, "Riches to rags in three generations." If the money isn't coming in anymore, acting like spoiled assholes will gut a fortune as quickly as the family can spend it. There are a lot of lower-middle class families who were rich 100 (or even 50) years ago.

It corrects itself. Most "old money" is perpetuated because education and strong values are passed down from generation to generation. When that stops, so does the money. After all, if Junior is spoiled as shit and needs Daddy's influence to get him a job, he'll do just fine... but what about Junior's kids?
I'm glad to see this here. I saw this update yesterday, and the text was so typical of a company-acquisition-I-should-not-trust.

Excerpt: "I believe this is a great thing for you users". Yet this is not accompanied by anything that suggests how users will possibly benefit from any of this.

Can someone suggest alternatives to Adblock that aren't controlled by dubious/secret/obviously-sketchy third parties?
It's been a thing for at least 20 years, when "wavelet" compression first started being used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000#Progressive_transmis...

And the Digital Cinema formats widely used today rely on this so a 2K or 4K stream can be extracted from the same file.

What's "new" about FLIF is the better lossless compression rate
Get out while you can.
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How Tasteless Suburbs Become Beloved Urban Neighborhoods
> Wow, starting with an unusable license

If you want to use it commercially without publishing source, just buy a licence from the author. Buying licences isn't exactly uncommon. Or are OS X/iOS/Windows also unusable for you?
While offline exchange is needed for proper security, for casual snoopers having a the clients generate the pair, embed the public in every outgoing, grab publics from incoming, and encrypt by default for outgoing from that point on, would be a major step up from the status quo.