skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of new kind of more complicated instructions, but they very much follow the basic RISC principles. That is, instructions that do any kind of math take in a few register operands, output into a register, and do so quickly and do not touch any external state. They do not do some math, wait on memory, and do more math based on it, they do not access complex internal state, etc. The only exception to this are the x86 string instructions, and even they store all their state in registers during interrupts.

Basically, RISC at some point meant {reduced instruction set} computer, now it means {reduced instruction} set computer.
My writing workflow
Will applying Machine Learning work to protect Computer networks?
You do understand that the profits go partly back into making new drugs? And also partly into paying people with families?

Again: I understand the need for keeping medicines cheap but the removal of patents seems like an overkill with adverse effects.

> If they have no patent, they are forced to keep the price low enough so no one wants to compete.
... And no one feels like inventing a new drug that will immediately be copied and sold at a price near that of the raw materials (the only overhead is the factory) making it impossible to pay all the scientists who are working on the next drug.
I chose 1Password because it works seamlessly across iPhone/MacBook/Windows.

https://agilebits.com/onepassword/windows
This actually sounds like a smart deal for LogMeIn. Purchase price is $110mm of cash with a $15mm earn-out-- seems reasonable considering LastPass has millions of users and is a pretty sticky service (I've been a premium user for the last couple of years, mostly to be able to use their iPhone app).
There is an official 1Password version for Windows: https://agilebits.com/onepassword/windows

They also have bundled licenses for both platforms.
As per your first link, that's a problem with iOS and the brain dead way they implemented third party keyboards, not Swiftkey. All of them are a little bit glitchy.
There are times when it might be better to disable comments on your corporate blog. This was one of those times.
Does anyone know what happens to the people when they get old, so they become gullible? Is there some physiological mechanism, or is it just that older people are less sophisticated about those issues?
> We had drug development before we had patents.

How is that? We've had patents for centuries; we've had drug development for maybe one century.
>I don't believe for a second that there are many people working 11 hours a day.

Clearly haven't been following much of the news on Amazon as a workplace recently then.

11 hours a day is totally believable.
Of course there would. We had drug development before we had patents.

Really? Can you provide an example?

From what I understand patents started in the US shortly after formation of the country. The first drugs discovered didn't happen until the late 1800's.

In fact, the names of many of these drugs were "Dr. Smith's patented flu medication".
Nice idea, but i think a bit too visual.
less visual and more code for 3d design: vim3D [0]

[0] http://www.vim3d.com/
So, use an open source one.
Can you link to an example of this? I've been on gamefaqs since the very beginning and I've never seen that. In fact, the vast majority of FAQs on that site are still text.
This is actually what we did: $5k deductible, filed for this once it was clear it would be well over $5k. But we missed a step: check the policy before you file to confirm that the policy actually does list coverage for the loss.
BlackBerry CEO: company could go software-only by next year
I don't have the time to do the googling right now, but I'm pretty damn sure that I've read somewhere that a relatively small minority of people are genetically incapable of experiencing the runner's high.
LogMeIn purchased, and absolutely ruined, Hamachi back in 2006. That program was the perfect lightweight virtual LAN client in existence with all the necessary features. Within months of acquisition, Hamachi had several "updates" and became bloated beyond recognition, slow, buggy, and downright unreliable. I have the worst taste in my mouth from what LogMeIn did to a perfectly working product and won't use anything they offer because of it.
For that matter, software or algorithms can be under copyright (may not publish), patent (must publish as part of the patent), and trade secret (may publish only if already public knowledge) at the same time.
Putting the Social into Selling
it seems possible that innovations that require high initial investment and low ongoing costs (medications, gene patents, etc.) would be produced at a lower rate

Good point, I don't necessarily disagree. But is a lot of the R&D to get around existing patents, rather than build a new thing entirely? In the software world I think we can safely say yes. Regarding medical research I'm not qualified to say. I'd love to hear from anyone with some insight.
Just a heads up, this is a CNN wire story. The original, properly attributed to Wayne Drash, is here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/us/jamaica-lottery-scam-suicid...
Well, that's the wrong logic. Exposure to mercury is bad and your other health problems will compound this. (Comorbidity).
LogMeIn used to have a free product that they then took to Premium only. I used to use them extensively until then.

Now they also seem to be notorious for price hikes, although I have no first-hand experience. I'm a LastPass Premium subscriber and have enjoyed using it, but I'm worried about what the future holds now.
I'm running el capitan and youtube-dl is complaining about current user access!
Top 50 Ugliest Football Kits
It's, ironically, a case of the "embrace and extinguish" philosophy that Microsoft was reviled for.

I remember reading posts by several people which said they weren't going to build a RSS reader because they didn't want to compete with Google Reader.. and then they went ahead and killed it.

RSS didn't really "take off" with mainstream users (I guess today's equivalent is Twitter), but it filled an interesting niche.

RSS -> Twitter

Usenet -> many proprietary platforms

IRC -> Slack

XMPP never took off

Many open, interoperable services died off or never took off, but companies built similar services and are enjoying success.
This is exactly the reason. Big-name insurers trade in volume business. The more they standardize the product, the cheaper they can sell it - not a whole lot different to any other industry. That's not to say they don't attempt to have sophisticated pricing models that ingest all kinds of underwriting data points, but there are costs to that complexity too.

There is a broad market in specialist insurance which caters to the non-volume cases. It just costs more because you have to expend more effort-per-sale (and of course because non-volume also tends to mean that the risks genuinely are higher - e.g. homeowners with prior subsidence claims).
California’s ‘Fair Pay’ Act Harms Women, Men, and Businesses (but Not Lawyers)
No harm ever came to us as a result.

I think you're probably right, but how do you know? It's very hard to compare yourself to a version of you who didn't have that kind of exposure as a kid.
What Open Source one was a convenient or as feature complete? Serious I love LastPass and I use it for everything BUT my banking. I just install the plugin on any device or open the webpage and I am all set with all my passwords.
Probably because some people get rich. Also, many people appropriately view the options as a lottery ticket and just like to be in a company building something new.
Linux?
>I can't understand why you say it's not a Google project if it's being funded by google and made by a google employee.

For the same way that tons of open/collaborative projects with multiple partners are not "X projects" even if they started and/or are hosted by X.

Heck, even something like Webkit is not an "Apple project"...

Downvotes? Are you kidding me? What part of "open source initiative" containing multiple industry leaders (like Twitter, and lots of others) don't people understand?
See, those things I could get behind because they protect the ranked experience.

The LoL community has this idea that dodging is an important part of climbing BECAUSE of how often you auto-lose games from circumstances outside of your control. And they're right, but only because of how badly Riot protects the ranked experience. I personally hate dodging, but I hate wasting an hour or two due to trolls and AFK's even more.

It kills me to watch riot spend so many resources trying to "fix toxicity" when the real problem is how they give other players so much control over your time in league.
https://www.google.com/search?q=phone+scam+sentencing
This article brings up something that HF traders have been bemoaning for a long time: the fragmented US market structure. In US equities, you need to monitor almost a dozen exchanges to be competitive. The popular book "Flash Boys" gave the impression that HF traders loved this market structure and used it to extract more money out of the market. In the majority of cases, this is wrong.

In fact, the fragmented market results in huge costs (4 datacenters worth of infrastructure, low latency connectivity, etc) In reality, most market makers would vastly prefer to simplify this away. This is one of the reasons many traders have moved to alternative markets that have fewer trading venues (for example, many futures and options trade primarily on a single venue)
After about 20 years, I just assumed that was the case. For all of the 90s and most of the early 2000s (aka before clickbait was a thing) I had a sneaking suspicion the entire world actually enjoyed the taste of soap in their food from adding cilantro, too.

But according to the other posters here on HN, I've just been doing it wrong.
I can put $10K on my CC and not have to pay for 30 days which is plenty of time to cash out investments. I'd rather take the hit on selling low in an emergency then proactively give up gains by having cash sit idle for years.
Software Development in Cuba
Surely, but then you have to subtract 20% from the number in the headline.
That's an interesting counterpoint. I honestly don't know the answer either.
No. You won't get hired to do machine learning just because you did a Coursera course and read a few books. If you do, you know you're working at a dead end.
That may be true, but the current setup in the US at least cost us 500 billion over a decade in litigation alone. Something in our system has to be reworked to minimize the social cost of innovation.
QML (part of Qt) did this right. Unfortunately, it did a bunch of other shit wrong. In particular, if you could just apply the QML object model to the web, you'd get nicer code.
I use opensource keepass. Sync my password db via dropbox. Totally works for me.
California law will not trump any law at the federal level. This will only affect the local police and not the FBI, NSA or anyone else who wants your data. Of course if they happen to share it with the police just for grins...
This Week in Data (October 9, 2015)
"Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid."

Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
"Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard's Rules. He is using the first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do."

— Chapter 36, p.560, U.S. paperback edition of Terry Goodkind's awesome book with the same title.
I can't exactly agree with you. First, lots of acquisitions are good for the user because they often mean backing by a larger entity with deeper pockets, ensuring that the service you use will be around for longer.

Second, why do they owe you anything? Either you are a free user, at which point you don't really have a whole lot of say in what they do with their own company, or you are paying $12 for a stellar password manager, which I would say is definitely worth it.

I am not exactly a fan of LogMeIn, and I do really like LastPass and use it every day, but if they chose to sell their company and cash out, good for them. If the service somehow becomes bad, I will move onto one of many alternatives, though this time probably an open source one.
Science won’t stop until it beats AIDS, says HIV pioneer
I don't know what features you like or find important. But you have to consider the licensing model as a feature when choosing your software. What happens if the software is sold or no longer maintained?

For me, I use a plaintext file in a Truecrypt archive because I'm a massive dweeb.
and going further to the source > http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap961008.html

sadly from that page many links are dead.
>And did you just say "few tens of millions" of users is insignificant?

Yes.

>How many users are we here on Hacker News again?

I'd say well under a million (or around that at most). What does that have to do with anything? Did anybody say that HN has a significant amount of users web-wise?

Slashdot and then Digg, which were both something like 100 times HN in size fell off the side and nobody much cared.
Yeah, that's definitely a concern. I made it deliberately difficult to delete to at least stop people from destroying what is there already. But of course if you are there while someone is making something, you could still ruin it
YouPronounceIt: Search for a word, get videos of YouTube speakers pronouncing it
The problem is that publishers want to know everything about their users, so they add tons of "spyware" that slow down the site.

Who does already know EVERYTHING about your users? But can they sell it?

startup idea: Make a blazingly fast CMS that tracks everything and show pretty graphs.
Patents are a trade: you get an 18 year monopoly for public disclosure of how your innovation works.

In societies that lack patent protection, much innovation becomes a trade secret guarded against public use for generations, think China and the silk trade.

By removing patents, you remove the incentive to make public how your medicine works. That, actually sounds scarier to me than temporary price mark ups.
Confirmed - 39 comments. All negative.
>It's not as if sunlight is a sparse resource (on a global scale).

Water is though, especially water that is fit for food production. This process (and others like it) makes a huge improvement on the amount of water required in comparison to traditional outdoor farming.

>The lights give them the ability to control temperature, humidity and irrigation, allowing it to cut its water usage to 1 per cent of that needed by outdoor fields, while also growing lettuces two-and-a-half times faster, the experts claim.
Will a Self-Driving Car Kill You?
>But we've seen the result of that. It's not some sort of blindingly beautiful laboratory of democracy, it's a whole bunch of barely-literate people chanting slogans at each other between the trolls.

So? Who has the right to tell those people they shouldn't be discussing?

And with what moral authority? (apart from the sheer power of "I'm the owner of this site, and I will close the forum down").

>There's a fundamental structural problem here. Imagine a full stadium of people all trying to talk to each other about the same thing, on the same topic, through the same pipe. What do you expect to happen? No real-world conversations work like that.

Few real-world stuff works like tech-stuff works. That's kind of the point. You don't have to engage with everybody in the same pipe anyway -- you can just focus on the comments you find interesting.

Besides, I've had wonderful conversations on Slashdot, and Reddit and other places, even places like 9gag.

As for the crap, well I can ignore trolls and bypass opinions I consider uninformed or bad. I can also (if I'm bored and want to pass the time) engage with them.

And that's important too. Not hiding unpopular opinions and people we consider "uninformed" under the carpet and pretending they don't exist, because those are parts of life too. Dealing with these is still better than living in an echo chamber.
Pretty key to have high quality mobile apps. Another big use case is having my teams be able to share passwords.

Highly useful to be able to have access groups like "team" (everyone, things like Zendesk) "team-secure" (stuff with CC's, like Amazon), "dev" (general dev accounts), and "dev-secure" (compose.io access and the like).

Makes it way faster to onboard new folks, and when people leave, to cleanly strip access and change passwords.

The open source tools don't solve for those kinds of use cases, as far as I know. Just "I have one computer, and want to store my passwords on that one computer."
I came here to say exactly this. I can only imagine how the news will look after being through the ringer a few times. Also, do these systems have any cycle detection so that the same story is not retold over and over?
Speaking out against Sarah Sharp (2013)
We did have a home inspection, but the only way to find this would have been to rip up the floor or bring in a mercury vapor analyzer, neither of which are customary (in the US or UK).
> Seeing everyone on here so dismissive is simply shocking to me.

Not to me. China bashing on HN is surprisingly common and rewarded with karma. Given that the average HNer doesn't know much about China, I assume the typical cognitive process goes something like "I want to believe this comment => up vote". I personally look forward to the day where we can put nationalism behind us. Also, props to Tsinghua.
Some of us need would need to run for an hour just to get away from the city blocks. Well, I'm currently fortunate enough to have a park just nearby, though it's a rather small and boring park... nothing like living next door to a vast forest full of trails (as I did when growing up).
Git 2.6 Brings Many New Features and Improvements
I don't give a shit about che guevara. I care about understanding history and context and why things happen and stopping modern-day massacres by capitalism, not communist boogeyman arguments that are older and tireder than me.
As you grow up, you calibrate to the world. My theory is that ability to change your calibration once it's developed is difficult, and probably gets more difficult as you get older. These scams weren't around at this scale, and with this much potential for damage, when older people were growing up. It's probably quite hard to shake the instinct that when someone says they're from the bank on the phone, they probably are.

I'm sure there will be new things that I will be susceptible to in a few decades.

Also, people tend to abandon the old and vulnerable. It's just what happens. They're left alone. If the only voices they hear are the guy on the phone and their internal monologue, with no 'sensible' moderating force, and a potentially unlimited amount of time, it can be very easy for things to get skewed.
Sorry, typo for "dusty". Fixed.
Don, what do you think about the eForth Model and the F18 instruction sets? I've been thinking a lot lately about minimal practical instruction sets. I'll check out the NOVIX, which I had of course heard of but never dug into — thanks for the recommendation!
Honestly if you're a security / privacy company, can you please just not get acquired? You can't 'transfer' your customers' trust to a third party like you transfer cash.
> Beetle Blocks is alpha software, currently in development. Only the Chrome browser is currently supported

Interestingly it seems to 100% work in Edge.
This is a fun idea and it's pretty clever. It would be handy if you could specify (or be informed about) which accent was used.

Also, the page does a nasty flash when it renders in Chrome.
This is kind of orthogonal to RSS. AMP and RSS work great together. Your feed reader can detect that the feed item URL has an AMP alternate and chose to display that instead.
> I don't think the people that got cured from metastatic cancer would agree that they would be better of without Merck and their PD-L1 antibodies.

Of course they wouldn't; its the relatives of all those who could not afford the drug and died who would be all-in for this!

And you seem to believe that the Free Hand of Market does magically fix every problem. Not so. It is just a Hand after all, with no eyes and no brain.

Big companies have their own share of inefficiencies. Maybe is not as bad as in the public sector, but they are far from working at full capacity. And whatever advantage private sector has you have to offset against the potential for corporate malfeasance. With corrupt public officials at least you know they limit themselves to trying to get rich and providing good paying jobs for their friends. In the private sector you give executives the chance to do the same thing legally, and then they go on to weaponize the patent system and actively block any progress (in house AND from external competitors) that is perceived to threaten a revenue stream.

Ultimately the people that count, the intellectual powerhouses that carry the weight of everybody else, are the same ones that you've dismissed as hobbyist. They are the only ones that care about the drugs themselves, and they care enough to do it even if nobody pays them, as long as they are not busy trying not to starve to dead. They usually don't care where their paycheck comes from (grants, profits, venture capital, etc), and as long as all their needs and reasonable wants are provided for they continue to perform their magic.
Huh. This would certainly explain a lot. I can't get high from cannabis, and I've never ever gotten a runner's high despite doing a weekly 6 mile run for the past 3 years and training hard for boxing.
I was very excited until I saw: "Supporting graphical applications such as those based on GTK, Qt, SDL, OpenGL etc is outside the scope of this project."
I used Lastpass for random web passwords (everything except banking/shopping) but moved to 1Password, mainly because they could sync between desktop and mobile without using the cloud.
Here's what I did to stop various scammers calling, I talked to them endlessly. They seem to almost never hang up, they'll just keep going and going. So I was bored one day and decided to see how the scam played out:

http://41j.com/blog/2015/08/phonecall-from-a-scammer/

They did call again, I picked them up on the fact that it was a scam and asked them how they justify their actions to themselves and ask questions about how the scam works. I'll see how it goes but I seem to have got myself on some kind of blacklist as nobody has called in a month (used to get some kind of scam call at least one a week). It's unfortunate that wasting their time is the most effective defense I can think of.
logmein has almost ruined my current favorite password manager Meldium. After they acquired it the service has become gradually to the point it does not work on half the sites stored in it. This week I finally decided to start migrating to LastPass (a few clients use it and it appeared a more dependable alternate). Guess will continue my search for alternates.
Genomics. Organisms from current Earth and early Earth should have vastly different genome.

It would be more tricky to determine if life originates from Earth or Mars if we make an assumption that early life went through many iterations.