skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Why is it a better alternative? And what makes you think it is rarely used?
Quite right. But it's not just the USA.

A small group of industrialized countries are responsible for holding together what we call Western Civilization. Lose that and the world economy collapses by at least 90%.

When the world economy collapses, the world population will also collapse. The world goes back to tribalism. That's OK for places like Afghanistan, that haven't really advanced past tribalism. But not so good for first world countries. E.g. about 99% of the jobs of HN readers will no longer exist.
We're not born with the knowledge of how to operate things, but we do learn it very quickly. A two year old can use a touch screen because the way you interact with it is largely the same as the way you interact with the world - touch something and see things change. With most real world devices that you put pressure on to use it's the distance you push them that selects the input - e.g. a car accelerator pedal doesn't take more pressure to make the car go faster, it's dependent on how far you move it. They're not really pressure sensitive but pressure actuated. Pressure sensitive interfaces are unusual. Most people don't learn how to use them.
I once read a story (I think in the Washington Post) about two people meeting up in similar circumstances sometime in the 60s or 70s, and then, when parting, promising to meet again at a specific location and time far into future.

And so after decades, one party went to the arranged meeting point with great anticipation having told their family about the story, etc. But the other party didn't turn up. Eventually the reporter tracked them down, and they couldn't remember anything about the original meeting.

Unfortunately, I've never been able to find this story again, despite spending quite some time looking! But, going by this story, I think it's quite possible that often when something like this happens it's far more significant to one person than the other, partly because some people have more drama in their lives than others.
Well, here the kindergarten with child-led play isn't that much part of the education system. Even the pre-school year is fundamentally just preparing kids for the school, which is still very much teacher-led.

The written Finnish being very easy to spell and read also probably contributes. There are only very few peculiarities that differentiate from the logical 1-1 mapping between letter symbols and vocal sounds. Practically all children all able to attain at least the basic functional literacy skills in a couple of years. (I really couldn't understand the concept of spelling bee competitions in US TV shows, like that one Peanuts animated film, until we started English.)
Looks cool, would love to have someone contribute this to GitLab.
My flatmate's (at the time) girlfriend (at the time) worked there.

But none of us were cybergoths, really ;-)
And Taigai: https://taiga.io/ :D
The site does have per state responses though?
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That's really interesting. Especially the search websites and the internet white pages considering what we have now.

The "what's new" section was good too. Do we have anything similar now? Probably Reddit.. but it would be good to have a "what's new" about websites and their content rather than news articles/pictures.
The scipy.misc.derivative() function uses a central difference formula, rather than exploiting the fact that a function is analytic: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.m...

Applying the Cauchy–Riemann equations to essentially take finite differences in the imaginary direction is an interesting trick I hadn't seen before, so I appreciated an article introducing it.

Edit: A separate python package, Numdifftools, does seem to support complex-step differentiation https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Numdifftools
I went by an apple store today and I thought the force-touch on a Macbook felt much, much more realistic than 3D touch.

Anyone know why that is? I thought it was the same tech.
Even though some software does replace the password, it would be better not to use passwords like that at all anyway. Just to be sure.
If you ignore the title, the article is interesting.

They identified 66 "types" of proteins that are unique to virus and are not presents in bacteria, archea or eukaryotes (animals, plant, fungi, ...).

They use 66 "types" of proteins to classify some of the virus, make a phylogenic tree, and see evolution in the tree. This evolution is independent of the evolution of the cells.

So they propose that this new phylogenic tree must be included in THE phylogenic tree along with the trees of the bacteria, archea or eukaryotes (animals, plant, fungi, ...).

The non-virus tress are connected, I'm not sure how this will connect this new tree.

I didn't look at the details and I'm not a biologist, but this sounds like good science. (I guess it's overhyped as usual, and I'd wait five year just to be sure, but I think this has only the standard overhype in a press release.)

Does it mind that the viruses are alive? Cows are alive, rocks are not alive. IIRC trees were classified as not alive until a few thousands years ago. Life is an arbitrary label for a set of atoms, it's useful but the threshold is arbitrary.
> Though isn't that part of a more complex calculation?
It is, but it's not a big problem. The vehicle/bus will have to be serviced every N Kms, at this point, the garage will know either to put a bigger battery in it or to put a smaller one -- this decision would be generated from a sophisticated algorithm which crunches all the measurement data taken from that route, and measuring these KPI nowadays are proven to be cheap.

Second thing. In the future when people become more aware/educated about carbon footprint and pollution this wouldn't be a problem. And that future is more near than ever, look at the VW scandal.
Geo coverage ≠ completeness in terms of technology. Early stage investors would be more interested in the latter I think. In that regard Uber is 100% complete and long past the early stage.
People don't pay for web servers now?

Who do we call "unicorns" now? (serious question)
I believe there's a lot of evidence we're collectively morons. Consider how close we are to a transformed world. Hunger, wage slavery, environmental destruction, etc could be a thing of the past if enough of us decided right now to be serious... countering absurd ways of thinking.

Are people really afraid of death? Then we should invite people to organize to solve that. Support each other regardless of gender or other insignificant differences, to accomplish such goals; any menial work can be shared equally. What huge percentage of humanity would go for that?

But currently we organize ourselves in moronic ways. Alan Kay's vision seems actually quite narrow and corporate-friendly; many go further in seeking to liberate imagination. http://thebaffler.com/blog/david-graeber-defiantly-having-fu...
Memory is a wonderful thing. If you still have papers from your time at school, I suggest to go through them and press yourself to remember details.

I learned Latin for 3 or 4 years, and from the top of my head could come up with maybe 100 latin words. But when I look at a latin text we translated back than, it comes back bit by bit. I might remember the ending of a meaningless story I translated 10 years ago in a rush before class started. Maybe I will remember specific mistakes I made in translating the text, or I will remember the picture that was next to the text in the course book. It is remarkable that memory is able to do. Granted, we know that a good part part of these memories are in fact incorrect. But as long as I don't have to talk to a court or write a memoir, it does not bother me.
There are still internet cafes in most countries. Obviously not as much but they are still useful sometimes.
To be honest, they don't seem to be very proficient at using Rust properly.

Of course, this means that the documentation or other instruction materials might need to be improved.
Good point.
I think we should be caeful what we do, while administrating the server.

Maybe we could build some automatism which stops the screenshot service while an ssh session is established.
Same tech ? No completely different implementation and name.

You can change the sensitivity settings but they will always be different.
The most experienced guy in Denmark is also the least payed. Hope this encourages some people to start job hunting!
Simply beautiful thoughts.

I love the idea that the atoms of our bodies are replaced over the years - that no part of me today was a part of me in my twenties - and this concept, the braid in spacetime, puts it more eloquently and more bravely than I could think.

It's great to be able to take words written by some guy on another part of the world and have them rearrange my brain and my thoughts - this is beautiful.
Would be more interesting if the background is live, like updating itself every second or half a second.
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I'm unsure on this. Long pressing at least has the description of "press, wait for X".

"Press this, no, hmm try harder, no not that hard, no the other one you need to press lightly, wait maybe that's too light..."

Some things obviously lend themselves well to this. The piano example is good, as is drawing. However, things with a threshold sound less obvious.

> “There was a physical thing on the screen,” he says. “You had to select the button and move it over.” It was better than the existing ideas, sure, but what was that button? It moved too freely, you didn’t know how it would move or how to make it stop.

You didn't know how it would move or how to make it stop? Really?
Agreed, but I saw (and see) actual benefit for slightly smaller companies as well. I think any 200+ employee company should have both innovation and invention deps. Even services companies benefit from this imho.
It's the hipster term for "technology" companies valued at over $1Bn. But AirBnB, Uber et al don't make money by making technology.
They call the MacBook Pro Force Touch and the iPhone 6S 3D Touch.

I have a MacBook Pro with Force Touch and honestly haven't used it much yet. I think it's for the same reason as another poster says. I'm not sure where it's available and what it will do? In safari it previews links and gives definitions.

The preview links thing is a bit redundant because clicking a link and swiping back is just as fast.
I wonder how https://github.com/ansilove/AnsiLove-C would fare for generating the PNG compared to the current solution.
Why Apple's Artificial Intelligence Acquisition Is Much Bigger Than Siri
I've not been able to figure out the benefits. Stability by increasing the stakeholders in the value of the dollar? It gives people more reason to buy dollars => raises the value of dollars => and makes US exports less competitive => makes the US poorer.
But when it doesn't work it usually kills the patient, so there's that
The article comments: "In a lot of respects, it’s quite amazing how accurate many calculations can be made with floating numbers, like orbital mechanics and heat equations"

I'm not sure it is so surprising. In Nick Trefethen's Numerical Analysis entry in The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, he notes:

"Thus, on a computer, the interval [1 , 2] , for example, is approximated by about 10^16 numbers. It is interesting to compare the fineness of this discretization with that of the discretizations of physics. In a handful of solid or liquid or a balloonful of gas, the number of atoms or molecules in a line from one point to another is on the order of 10^8 (the cube root of Avogadro’s number). Such a system behaves enough like a continuum to justify our definitions of physical quantities such as density, pressure, stress, strain, and temperature. Computer arithmetic, however, is more than a million times finer than this. Another comparison with physics concerns the precision to which fundamental constants are known, such as (roughly) 4 digits for the gravitational constant G, 7 digits for Planck’s constant h and the elementary charge e, and 12 digits for the ratio μ_e/μ_B of the magnetic moment of the electron to the Bohr magneton. At present, almost nothing in physics is known to more than 12 or 13 digits of accuracy. Thus IEEE numbers are orders of magnitude more precise than any number in science. (Of course, purely mathematical quantities like π are another matter.)"
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/NAessay.pdf
US government bonds would need higher interest rates to convince people to hold their wealth in dollars. Higher interest rates means the price of bonds would go down.
I have an idea for a different test method.

You take your cheating Volkswagen TDI without software fix to the local dragstrip on a day with little wind and do a series of test runs, you document your 1/4 mile time.

Then you send in your car for a fix to Volkswagen most likely a ECU software update as that is cheapest fix.

You retest your car at the drag racing strip, record the same number of runs.

If the numbers between the test run differ much you can sue Volkswagen as the car may have worse performance with the legal Nox emission software.

Here is a device that will let you test your car perfomance on normal roads. http://www.vboxmotorsport.co.uk/index.php/en/products/perfor...

Disclaimer I own a car with the affected engine.
It will only become a truly new interface if Apple let Samsung et al implement it.
I find it interesting that both Apple[1] and Samsung[2] applied for patents early last year regarding pressure sensitive touch screens.

Apple at the end of January, and Samsung at the end of February.

I also noticed that the Android API has had a getPressure[3] call since really early API versions, so I assume they were aware this was an option a long time ago.

Any ideas why this is suddenly being touted as "the Start of a New Interface"? Has the accuracy / latency / sensitivity finally become good enough to be useful? Or is this just the Apple PR juggernaut pushing an old idea as a new feature?

[1]: http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20140028575

[2]: http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20140055407

[3]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEv...
Alpine Linux still uses OpenSSL since LibreSSL releases is only supported for 1 year while Alpine releases is supported for 2 years. Void Linux has switched to LibreSSL though.
The problem is really a semantic one, I'd say. The issue is what is defined as "a virus". Typically a virion is used as the canonical representation of a virus, but this is no more accurate than calling an egg a chicken. This is merely an infectious particle, one part of the viral lifecycle. Properly, the virus when it is operating after infecting a host is just as much "the virus", and in that phase is very much easier to see as alive.
Compare the sizes of real economy vs financing in US. There's your answer.
The problem that it's still a piece of flat glass. What I really want (and see as the next big thing) is not glass, but a material that can take form controlled by software. Imagine all those buttons that really pop up from your screen so you can feel them. Just think about how software defined tactile interfaces can benefit gaming, accessibility, music production, etc...

Too bad the tech isn't there yet :(
My team likes Celery to do stuff like this always which is indeed better/necessary for tasks which need to be executed always even when web server dies/restarts. For a lot of jobs that is not needed (where the background is directly related to the foreground and without the foreground process working properly the background processes make no sense anymore) however and then Celery is a pain in the ... to setup & maintain properly and, frankly, overkill, even with the simple setup solutions like Redis. I would recommend in process schedulers for those cases as they require no setup.
"Whoever invites or welcomes immigrants to Europe and Germany is my enemy."

This guy sound like an uber asshole..hope his shitty software gets burin to be never seen again.
No. Automatic differentiation is superior to the complex step method in every way.

The only reason to use the complex step method is if you're using legacy languages where it's difficult to implement dual numbers but you have good support for complex numbers. I don't think anybody should be using the complex step method in new applications.

Some reading ~ http://aero-comlab.stanford.edu/Papers/martins.aiaa.01-0921....
Nice idea although a bit dangerous! I wonder if it would be better to use as background the output of a program like gotty, which streams a terminal's output as a web page.
Well it's ansi text, so why not just copy the text directly to a DIV, convert the ansi to html (or css) and update it via javascript polling ?
By the accidents of history I've never actually used it. I've used TCL and Python in similar "embed in C" cases (which worked pretty well); these days I'm mostly on the JVM.
Basic Income can be a great stepping block to cultural improvements which include things like tech. It is true that some things need allocation of resources which Basic Income doesn’t directly address, but a society with Basic Income might be more reliably capable of getting it done.
Rust's rules here aren't purely for multithreading, though. For example, even in a single-threaded context, disallowing mutable aliasing prevents things like iterator invalidation.

At the same time, I noticed this paper late last night, and just woke up, so haven't fully let it all sink in yet.
Graduate education is a mess. Shouldn’t universities fix it?
It reads as "If finns can't become doctors or lawyers or engineers, they'd like to become french". She/He probably wanted to write Finance, but the autocorrect did its thing.
Well, it's been about a week, lets see how the fragmentation is doing in a month or two once people have had time to write the code :)
Effects of strong dollar and its global reserve status:

--> Americans can buy stuff / take international vacations more cheaply --> Better lifestyle

--> American corporations can use their stocks valued in dollars to takeover foreign companies/assets and expand more cheaply.

--> Power to punish enemies with financial sanctions/manipulations.

--> QE over and over again with near perfect impunity. Ability to rescue itself from certain kinds of financial crises.
If you think a mozilla review is good enough, you are going to be disappointed.

Pretty easy to do code obfuscation that a human will miss and automated testing will have no idea how to handle.
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It's a simple matter of inability to prove a negative.
I suspect you may find artists will disagree with you there. They've been using pressure sensitive interfaces for thousands of years.
A strong dollar means they can import raw materials very cheaply, so that's how they balance out any risk of being "less competitive". And many American products compete on quality and brand recognition (see e.g Apple's iPhone) not on price.
I've only watched videos online, but it does look like it is possible to play through levels curated into a "world"

This video is titled "The worlds surprising stages" and plays out as a world:

https://youtu.be/A7Au7saKF1g?list=PLPUGXakMkjRHrGwYf2lHwO5rd...
It's called research. There are good well researched standards of diet for use by prisons, the military and space exploration that have enough real world use to have some level of verification.
Is that the one without ads?
Sad story. I guess the girl was interested in the guy at first, but then lost interest when he started talking about his emotional problems.
I wonder if the upcoming Apple TV remote is pressure sensitive, or if it just does touches. If it was pressure sensitive, that may drive a lot of games to adopt it in some fashion.
If you're looking for a quick tool to serve static files from a directory, darkhttpd[1] is also pretty good.

[1]: https://www.unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/
They really are different products. Is skeptical fit a while, but after dinner research I found that they really are not comparable.
Apple prices are all but stable outside of the US actually.
Germany isn't "much older" - there wasn't a unified German state until well after the founding of the USA.
Ctrl-F in Outlook wants to forward your message - that's f@cking annoying.

Slightly related: I'm a long way from being a vi guru, but even so it's possible to astound people who only know the basic commands; I remember using 'xp' to swap two chars over that completely blew someone away, had to explain that it wasn't in fact some secret incantation
Looks neat! Was this developed to solve some internal project? I'm always a little curious when I see open source projects with such fancy landing pages etc that don't mention really what parent org they're from.

What would you say the advantage of this is over Spring Data REST, which automagically configures rest API for repositories (JPA or nosql).

Spring data is obviously a large dependenacy to have on an existing non-spring project, so I can see why this might be useful there. I'm not sure if Spring Data REST is JSON:API compliant but I'm assuming it might not be.

Also, on a side note, side takes 9 seconds to load for me from fresh cache, just a note to dev in case they hadn't realized.
Get a free credit card, put a little spend on it every month, and pay it down every month. Yes, it will take a little bit of discipline, but showing discipline is what having a good credit rating is all about.

You won't pay any interest or fees, and it will go a long way to establish a positive credit record which will come in handy if you will need real credit down the line. Even if you think you won't, having options is always better than not having them,
Long press already has a meaning on iOS though.

It means "rearrange". For example apps on the home screen, movies in my streaming app etc.