skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing what you now know about mercury toxicity, would you have done that? Would you have done that with your young child in the house?
I should also say that if you're designing a core for a specific workload there are always ways you can optimize it but that doesn't have anything to do with high or low level languages. See the presentation on the M6 at Hot Chips for the way they tuned their cache hierarchy to work with their database.

The talk is on the Day 2 track here:
http://www.hotchips.org/archives/2010s/hc26/
I don't think Many Worlds/Universal Wave Function is actually unpopular amongst physicists. There was a survey (I'll have to find it) that showed it was one of the most popular interpretations.

It's appealing for its mathematical simplicity, giving unitary wave function evolution with the reasonable assumption that the universe has a wave function. It eliminates wave function collapse from the axioms, and possibly eliminates the Born rule.

Talking about its 'complexity' in the 'creation' of parallel worlds isn't much of an issue, you can look at simple systems like the von Neumann measurement model to see how they naturally arise through superposition.

The main issue is how the Born rule arises. That is, why the probability of an 'observer' ending up in a particular branch of the wave function is |psi|^2 isn't clear, but then it isn't clear what probability means in this context...
Consider using Resource Groups in the AWS Console (when you have to use it!) to limit which environment's resources are displayed.
Security updates perhaps: If e.g. OpenSSL is shared, a single security update will fix all applications using it. And a single update will most likely be out more quickly than updates to a dozen or so applications.
UX:

1. You have big rectangular elements that represent repositories, but 90% of that rectangle is dead space. Apply the click event to the whole rectangle, not just the title of the repo.

2. As a user, I am solely a member of an organization. I don't need to see a dashboard with just 3 starred project, 3 random projects from my org, and 3 of my personal projects (of which there are 0). Just let me start at my org's page, or let me see every project from my org on the dashboard.

3. Wtf is the "list view" link on my dashboard? It appears to just show me 3 random projects out of the 9 in my organization, and completely hide the "starred" and "personal" sections?

Bugs:

1. Until recently, the Sign Out link 100% always threw an HTTP 500 error. Today, that is not happening? Who knows. Weird.

2. My IT guy created an account for me. As a result, I received an email with a login link. However, 24 hours later, I was logged out and could not log back in, because I never had a password set. Had to get the IT guy to send me another welcome email. IF PEOPLE NEED TO SET UP A PASSWORD, YOU SHOULD FORCE THEM TO, NOT HOPE THEY EVENTUALLY POKE AROUND AND FIND THE SET PASSWORD SCREEN.
Time to End Monetary Central Planning
Paying LastPass user here.
Not sure how this is going to go down.
TBH I'm hoping that nothing will change. Yes, the UX might not be the best in the world, but to me, the important thing is availability and security (probably not in that order).
A browser extension and a decent android app is what I need, and I already have that.
As a caveat, the VMware image is really for demoing basic functionality. It is a true parallel-distributed database engine, and is not designed to run as a tiny local instance. The VMware instance is a custom build that disables a bunch of things mooted by being non-distributed and to be reasonably well-behaved on a system small enough that almost any GIS database would likely work.
What do you think Solu Machines will present 15/10 2015?
In Japan they've gone so far as to install phone jammers at ATMs to aid against the scam that's common here where people will call elderly people claiming to be their sons saying they need money.
Well this telemarketer is probably out forever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIVfrBFc5og
Ask HN: Where to learn best practices for front end development?
I know this question comes up from time to time but not with the particular angle of best practices.

I know the backend part of the system, but if I want to go about and implement HTML/CSS/JS from a Photoshop image, then I'm totally lost.

Any good resources? It seems to me that all good frontend devs just learn by experience/empirically -- there's little "formal training" (in some sense).
if she does not discuss the reason why Facebook settled in that Sun campus and why the new building is not a skyscraper... It is not hard to find out

It's actually illegal to build skyscrapers in SV (see, e.g., here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... although one could cite many further articles on the subject). FB can't build skyscrapers (or even in many cases mid-rises) because local municipalities won't let it.
> I'm still not convinced that this form of protectionism is the only avenue to innovation.

Protections of inventions (as loose as the term "invention" might be) isn't the only avenue to innovation, but it is an avenue.

There is always going to be a pull between free/open and paid/private. It's a good thing that multiple avenues exist, because some public-good innovations may happen under one regime but not the other.

Also, I take issue with the terms of the "it should be free" conversation here. The patent isn't for the gene: the company does not hold the rights to your DNA. The patent is for the discovery of it's link to cancer.

In this exact circumstance, I question how long it would take for this gene to be identified as a causal-link to breast cancer if there was not the bait of a financial windfall. Is there a smoking gun that shows this company beat out a public institution to this discovery?
Apple pulls ad blockers that install root certificates from App Store
I'm not trying to argue that the TPP isn't bad. It is. Nor am I trying to conceal the truth on anything regarding the mechanisms of government. I just wanted to state that there are ways to control the TPP should it get voted in.
I think it's a couple of things.

The first is the sunk cost falacity / escalation of commitment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment ) - if you've already given the scammers $500, your choices are either to admit that you've been scammed and will never see that money again. The alternative is to convince yourself that you really are going to get the money (and you haven't been scammed) if you just send them a little bit more...

The second factor is that at a certain age most people begin to lose their judgement. You don't have to have full on dementia, just slightly less good judgement than you had when you were younger, in order to fall for on of these scams.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/your-money/as-cognitivity-... - "As Cognition Slips, Financial Skills Are Often the First to Go". Interestingly, financially savvy people who actively manage their money are at a much higher risk of losing everything to bad decisions at an older age.
For decades, government ______ only to find out later that it was really bad.

The social engineering has got to stop. A free people should not be subject to the latest schemes of self-appointed masterminds. The most evident and dangerous venue for such engineering is the public schools, in which the government subjects our children to every sort of social experiment, and what have we to show for it?
If you have enough on the ball to do something like that, instead of operating on pure emotion, you're not going to fall for a lot of these scams anyway.
I love Dashlane
Yep, and Verizon does. They will overwrite your header.
A more interesting question is why there are any non-tonal languages. From the standpoint of communication in noise, it seems one would want to put as much information as possible into the part of the signal with the most power, i.e. vowels, and tones are acoustically a property of vowels. Yet in most languages (as far as I know), consonants are much more informative than vowels.
Intercepting method calls via ES6 Proxies
I think the fears that this will stifle innovation are greatly exaggerated. In fact, this patent was stifling innovation. Because of the expense, we have tested far fewer patients than we could have for BRCA1/2 mutations, and there thus remain many mutations of unknown significance that can only be resolved with more detailed clinical annotation from testing many more people. It's a classic case of a patent hampering the usefulness of an invention, so that someone can make money.

Myriad really were relentless opportunists with very well fed lawyers. The idea of a patent on a gene is completely nonsensical to anybody working in genomics these days. I can pay $1000 and sequence all 3 billion base pairs of my DNA. Using open source software and publicly available databases funded by governments and charities I can analyse my own DNA. What role does a gene patent have in any of this? What if I discover that I have an unreported variant in the patented gene? Can I now patent my own version of the gene, and charge my offspring a license fee for reproducing this gene each time one of their cells divide? Do they pay extra if they are homozygous?

Soul-destroying patent disputes have become a feature of the life sciences, it drives me mad. The story is always the same. A scientist performing research in a seemingly unimpressive field discovers something interesting. They generously publish their rough results because that's how science works. Then someone else comes along and refines it a bit before slapping a patent on it, because nobody else has yet. 20 years of legal battles ensue. Companies are still fighting over the PCR patents for example, even AFTER the patents have expired [1]. Now it looks like the same crap is going to transpire with CRISPR. The funny thing about these cases is that most of the research and innovation happens at the beginning, before the patents are even in operation, again questioning the notion that patents foster innovation.

As has been pointed out many times before, it is rare for a biotech/life sciences company to generate the kind of profit that permits them to do blue sky research. Most of that happens from government funded work. Big pharma doesn't really count, it costs them too much to develop each drug. They certainly don't have anything akin to Bell Labs, Xerox PARC or Google X.

Anyway, Myriad actually doesn't have any products any more. All the extremely simple tests they do can be run by anyone. They offer a whole lot of 'services' like genetic counselling and patient education, but that's all to create a veneer of legitimacy and hide the fact they are patent trolls. I feel sorry for their scientists trying to do research in this environment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Paten...
This is a pretty good introduction to the Austrian School's criticism of central banking. Seems to me it's getting harder and harder to ignore.
As Cognition Slips, Financial Skills Are Often the First to Go: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/your-money/as-cognitivity-...
The issue appears to be, that lab testing does not emulate real-world driving conditions. So in the field, emissions are higher than in the lab.

These four car makers involved in the report differ from VW: they do not have a defeat device in their design. Their results are solely because of the lab-vs-road issue.

Its not clear this is any kind of problem. Reducing emissions in lab tests may very well result in car designs that have reduced road emissions. That was the hope when lab standards were introduced. Auto pollution in our cities has indeed gone down as (lab) emissions standards have been tightened over the years.
It's not that right-wingers are innately more reactive than left-wing voters. It's that left-wing voters are only now getting genuinely angry about being told, for the past four decades, to just shut up and take whatever the Establishment gives us.

Consider the current two Presidential primaries. Among the Republican Party, there's a contest to see who's the most conservative, and candidates are competing to come up with a platform that appeals to the party base. Among the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton is presumed to be the obvious, inevitable, entitled winner, and so there's a deliberate attempt to suppress actual competition for the nomination, most especially competition from the insurgent left-populist Bernie Sanders.
Everything is being conserved perfectly well in MW/UWF, since you're just evolving a pure wave function with the Hamiltonian operator, guaranteeing conservation of everything that's meant to be conserved.
Wow, they managed to make a web site that doesn't support client-side scroll bars or a scroll wheel. That is special.
It's a legal distinction. Economically the effect is the same.
If I can't communicate effectively with a candidate, why would I pick them over someone I can communicate effectively with? How can I communicate complicated technical concepts? It's an English-language forum, I assume people reaching out to me can communicate well in English
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

gratuitous- uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted.

I feel that my comment falls into what I consider a fair statement about the severity of the situation. They have my passwords and could easily hike up their rates. This change may add features I didn't know I wanted, but thus far I'm happy with the way LastPass has been operating and I don't want a change.
"The bigger picture is that almost all hard R&D takes place under the umbrella of some sort of protection from copying."

There is a huge difference between protection from copying, and protection from building similar things that achieve the same goal. Patents are not simply "protection from copying".

Drug patents often cover things like "using the same body mechanism to achieve a desired result".

(Now, you can argue this is necessary to protect them, but let's be clear - it's not straight copying if i make a pill with a completely different chemical composition that ends up triggering the same mechanisms. However, it likely runs afoul of their carefully drafted patents.

I'm also aware there are chemical compound patents that would not cover me doing this, but usually, when the drug companies can, they get both)

"Intel spends billions a year on semiconductor R&D, and protects it with trade secrets"

and design mask protection (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desi...)

"Pharma companies spend billions on drug R&D and protect them with patents. "

They are also heavily subsidized, unlike your intel example. Tax payers, for example, pay about 50% of pharma's R&D costs (and pharma includes a lot more than actual R&D in R&D cost).
http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/02/the-costly-myths-abo...

and
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/02/16/What-Those-...

"Hard R&D that isn't protected from copying is usually subsidized. "

Pharma, one of your examples, is both heavily protected and heavily subsidized. Heck, Intel gets huge R&D tax breaks too.

In truth, most of the heavily protected stuff is subsidized by tax payers in various forms anyway.

The idea that these companies are out there, doing it on their own, without essentially getting most of the R&D cost subsidized through tax breaks/etc, is a huge myth.

We don't have the model you propose. We have a model where it is both heavily protected and heavily subsidized.
Only thing I can think of is operating a website that allows the uploading and sharing of copyrighted material with no protection or discretion (Mega*). Or creating something like a Napster, or a Grooveshark, maybe.
That's not how dementia works.
I bet Windows 95 is older than you.

So, you're OK with communist massacres?
Yeah, also got a call from one of these guys telling me me Windows PC was infected. I asked him if I could have his coordinates so I could call the police and confirm if this was a scam or not (obviously I knew this was a scam). So the guy at the other end of the phone tells me: "No problem, I can connect you to the police right now.." and proceeds to pause a bit and starts "Yes, Police chief here..." prentending to be the Police using the same voice and not even trying to disguise his voice ... good times!
Well, you are piping remote code directly into a python kernel,[0] so the user can always run arbitrary code with local rights. It is possible to limit the local rights far enough to prevent anybody from doing something bad, so use cgroups to limit network bandwidth, file io and memory and cpu usage. (So that you can prevent users from DDoS your server or attack others through the IPython service.)

Second, defense in depth, you want to have some defense in place even in the presence of an exploit and the usual first line of defense would normally be, don't run arbitrary code. So that line is broken by design for IPython-a-a-S, the user can just copy the latest exploit into the IPython notebook. This suggests virtualization, so that you have one VM per user and the user needs to break out of the virtualization and out of the cgroups jail mentioned above, before he can do anything interesting. (It has also the benefit, that user management is somewhat simplified.)

So overall, I guess it can be done, but needs a focus on security.

[0] this suggests the notion of an interpreter breakout. Yes this is a joke.
How do I access my CLUE report?

My house insurance company recently sent me their updated privacy notice and I'll have to reread it. I don't remember them saying they would share my claim history with third parties.
This is especially interesting in light of Ashley Vance's biography of Musk, since Musk is apparently notorious for firing people over minor oversights, and for driving otherwise excellent people to quit because of his harsh criticism. One could probably assemble a dream team of Tesla and SpaceX staff who've been fired for superficial reasons or who've quit because of the tone, culture, and attitude in those companies.
"Here you have an industry that has undercut the business of the big banks, irritated hedge fund managers and been great for small investors. Why would cracking down on that business be populist? Why would it alienate wealthy donors?"

For the same reason that people don't generally cheer when a gang war happens. Just because the gangsters are mainly shooting other gangsters doesn't mean the violence isn't costly to society. The same with Wall Street. Just because people don't trust big banks and suspect them of rooking the common man doesn't mean that they want to legitimize said rooking, or that it isn't costly to society when banks rip each other off.
KeePass [http://keepass.info/] has worked well for me across Firefox and Android, though I haven't tried it on Chrome.
Grocery store owners don't want vegetables either. They just want to hold them a little while before they sell them to you.

Are they zero sum?
Interesting how on the HN link it says:

> The page you are currently reading is an AMP HTML document.

Yet it has a proper doctype of "<!doctype html>"
I cannot, unfortunately. But it is still up & running after the acquisition (2/3 years ago). Basically it lets people search and download YT videos. Very simple, nothing else.

One smart thing he did was to create a new page every time someone downloaded a video, and at some point he was getting hundreds of thousands of daily visitors (I saw the Analytics charts).
This comment meets the standard. Negativity without any explanation was the issue. Thanks for clarifying.
Most economists agree that the sane policy is to tax the production of Greenhouse Gases and other pollutants. This prices in the externalities correctly for coal, gas and oil and then the free market does the rest by providing alternative electricity sources with less pollution, people and companies being less wasteful and more efficient, and new markets and products becoming viable (e.g. battery storage on the grid).

As part of that, all the existing subsidies given to fossil fuels should be removed, because subsidising and taxing them at the same time is silly.

(Some kind of measures should be take to return some of this tax money to the poor, as they pay proportionately more of their money on tax, and have the least ability to change their behaviour in the short term)

If this is done then renewables can thrive without any subsidy because they are already, in an economic literate reality, the better choice in large numbers of situations, and as their uptake grows this range will increase.

Why is this not done? Look at all the people in this thread who don't understand what an externality is and think taxes are evil. Hilariously, this has mostly just meant that the changes are still being implemented, but in a far more "big government" manner, with lots of rules, regulations and central control and money going to special interests.
I don't think it's greed. I think it's hope. Most of the people I know who fall for these scams are not any dumber or greedier than other people I know. They do seem to be much more optimistic and positive though.

Think if this same person has late stage cancer and believed they were gonna make it despite all odds it would be an inspiring lifetime movie. But unfortunately I think these are the same people who also believe that a Nigerian prince needs them to transfer some money before they will be handsomely rewarded against all odds.
Paying LastPass (Enterprise) user here too. I hope the extension gets a complete overhaul. I've experienced dataloss multiple times due to inconsistent interface issues. Support just shrugs and points me to 3rd party backup solutions. I see the UX problems as critical, but yes...just below security.
Just one more reason why password management by a company is a bad idea. The company may be good now, but companies can be acquired or evaporate on short notice.
Let's not reduce this argument to innovation for companies. Individuals innovate and patent as well.

There is a tendency to focus purely on the negative effects of a system that seems to be failing it's purpose. It's important to understand the system as a whole, and it's history. Has the patent system ever functioned for the purpose it was designed for? If it isn't functioning correctly now, is that in part or in whole? Is it not functioning because it has been changed, because the world has changed, or both.

Finally, is there a way to alter the system, whether that be to curtail it, expand it, or just change how it operates, that might yield a better functioning system?

Personally, I'm not for abolishing patents. They had a very clearly defined purpose (innovation encouragement) when they were first created. I think they've been mostly perverted into another purpose (wealth protection), more-so in some industries than others. They've been expanded from court rulings to cover things which were not originally thought patentable. What we need here is a well reasoned legislative overhaul. What we'll get if we're extremely lucky is a hole-ridden clusterfuck of revisions, but if we're lucky, it will somewhat address the current problems. The new problems will be something we discover and address tomorrow.
I don't understand why his son or someone couldn't change his landline number. It is heartbreaking to see old people being bullied like this.
No one wants actual stock. They want to gain money on price differences in stock, or get the dividends that owning stock gives rights to, or I suppose they want to be able to have the voting rights stocks grant.

The difference is all about timing. I may want something else more than you do but am willing to sell now. If at the time you close out your trade (that is sell the shares from me) the price may have risen or fallen. If it rose you won and I lost by not holding longer.

This time mitigation is precisely what market makers have always done and what HFT market makers have driven the profits (and thus the costs to outside participants) out of.