skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much did you smoke when you decided to cut it?

I find the extra creativity, and sometimes vastly different viewpoint on many matters in life (probably all of them) is invaluable. Another thing is (in some circumstances) almost constant stream of out-of-blue ideas, solutions to situations/problems etc coming from subconsciousness. In life as usual, these are much more scarce. Some of best ideas/decisions in my life came from those places, often Inception style (you get some basic idea, and explore more and more after it).

This fades away significantly if I smoke often and comes back in full strength when having a week or two breaks in between.

working out feels great, the harder the better (well till certain breaking point), but mentally those states are worlds apart, something around clarity vs expanded consiousness.

If I could cut the smoking part (don't smoke cigarettes/tobacco since that's a net lose for consumer on many levels), and have something like eye drops that would be something.
The Chinese businesses you talk about are led by western educated people. I don't know why you even bring the military up...
Actually, yes. Global atmospheric CO2 concentrations will (probably) stabilize if we reduce output to about 5% of the current level, by outflow to the deep ocean (which is a vast reservoir). But that is still very difficult to reach, especially with business as usual.
I'm still confused should I use:
#!/usr/bin/env python
#!/usr/bin/python

And why?
Around the Earth-moon system orbit, and far away, would be less infeasible. Something that big can't be stable on Moon orbit…

Firstly the Moon has mascons¹ which makes it a pain to orbit around even for small satellites.

Secondly, I don't what the Roche limit² of Pluto around the Moon would be, but I wouldn't be surprised if it overlapped with the Roche limit of Pluto around the Earth. That means that in order to not disintegrate and become a ring system of the Moon or outright crash on the surface, the body would have to be so far away from the Moon that it would disintegrate and crash or form a ring system around Earth. Tidal forces.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_%28astronom...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
I own a non-warrantable property where Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not buy the mortgage. The bank still requires property insurance. Property insurance is not something invented by them that banks would not require otherwise.
Also, if one needs quality not acheivable on current cheap machines there are still valid reasons to get one:
- Use your cheap printer to prototype/iterate/validate your model
- Then send it off to a printing service, to have it made in high-quality plastic/metal/clay

This way you can combine rapid iteration with high-quality production. When designing new parts, I often do up to 5 iterations a day. Sometimes engaging up 3x 500 USD printers at the same time, to keep iteration time down.
LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
The course for cost lowering is crossing lots of diminishing return points nowadays.
It is? Can you provide some evidence?
Make that a few cases for FPGAs. Modern desktop CPUs are incredibly fast and run circles around modern FPGAs, even for many specialized, repetitive, parallel, integer-computation-bound algorithms.

Of course, there are a couple of applications where FPGAs are actually faster than CPUs.

Source: I'm an FPGA developer with a software engineering background.
It's a game of numbers. Even if the response rate to spam email is like 0.00001%, it is still economically viable to send out 10 million spam emails.

Scammer groups that have survived for this long got to hone their skills of manipulation and persuasion (and have the money to continue operations). We are all to a degree vulnerable to persuasion, and it used by scammers, but also businesses: "Temporarily free version of Microsoft 10. Get yours now! It's easy. 10 million people have already upgraded."

Older people have trusted phones for all their lives. They are more vulnerable to these than email scams. Locally there is now a scam involving people who dress up as home care, visit one hour before the real home care person, tell them they are the new replacement, then proceed to ransack the place for valuables. I could see myself falling victim to that.

They played on this old man's hope and financial worries ("greed" in less positive terms). Stories like these gravely sadden me. Hits close to home too: Both my father and mother were targeted, one over email (cloud backup scam), the other over the phone (helpdesk scam). I hope to build a product in the future to help combat these online and offline scams.
When memory bandwidth was not the bottleneck, it was a good idea.

That plus the earlier period in VLSI when there was an extreme premium on the number of gates you put on a single die. If you could fit an entire simplified CPU on a small die you could win big, and this advantage continued as FPUs, cache, and more and more cache were added.

Nowadays gates aren't exactly free, but dies are constrained by other considerations like power and size (yield) balanced against what more gates will gain you. Outside of tiny microcontrollers, I don't think any one is obsessing over the issues that limited the 1978 8086 to 29,000 transistors, or the 1979 68000 to 68,000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count).
Ask HN: Which is best React or Angular?
Hi HN,

We are going to migrate our vanilla js application to either React or Angular world. Given that our application is an CRUD based application, we need to know which one is good/best.

I know React is not "MVC" pattern in itself, but with Flux it is comparable to Angular ( correct me if I'm wrong here). I have seen Angular 2 is coming up which is going to remove the existing feature that are in Angular 1.x versions. So we fear whether angular is right choice "now" for us! Because our UI is already an complex, we don't want to change our code-base when Angular 2 comes up. We don't want to do that at all.

And interestingly we yet to "learn" Angular / React given the choice; So learning curve also going to be an matter for us.

Given these facts, which framework HN will be suggesting for us and why?

Thanks a lot for all your reply.
Cve-search – collect, search and analyze common vulnerabilities [pdf]
Thanks! There're a few similar services, but they are more like travel blogs, overloaded with features. I wanted to keep things simple and develop a service just for keeping places and notes, also with basic community features.
Seeing everyone on here so dismissive is simply shocking to me. If you don't like these results or don't believe them look at the overall trend folks. A decade ago there wouldn't have been the Chinese University in the top 10. Now they have half the top rankings. I take my hat off to them; I respect their achievements and if you follow the trend forward they look unstoppable.and of the people at these universities they or their parents grew up in villages without electricity with nothing. they've built out of that the ability to scratch the stars quickly. much respect let's hope this doesn't turn into a latent Cold War
Hmm, interesting.

Has anyone here access to the referenced paper [1] and can confirm that "Anthony Loera" worked on it?

[1] http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S014296121200323...

Ref.: Baati T, et al., The prolongation of the lifespan of rats by repeated oral administration of [60]fullerene, Biomaterials (2012), doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.03.036
For some Indians who may be invested in knowing the rankings, there are 9 of them with the first one starting at 100th position (IIT-D). Ouch.
9 habits you should give up yesterday
Well, that's turn that around: how would not staying in a small pocket of the city expose me other types of Seattleites?

Or better yet: How would typecasting what Seattle folks are like give me insight into myself, or into the city, or improve my life?
Piston – A modular game engine written in Rust
Ah, the good old No True Scotsman.
You're taking received wisdom from Wikipedia, and it's wrong. Common User Access was for normalizing IBM applications, across its then hardware platforms: the PC, System/3x, and System/370. Indeed, it's most promiment PC success was 32-bit IBM OS/2, which implemented the later CUA 91 and which most definitely wasn't DOS.
You Can Actually Drive This Lexus Made Out of Cardboard
Julia 0.4 Release Announcement
First comment on the blog so far: 'Oh no.'

My first reaction was to chuckle. I wonder how LastPass will change given the new ownership. We switched over to this at work almost a year ago, after trying to determine a password management strategy for years, and it's worked fairly well, although it hasn't sold me on switching from Keepass for personal use.

I'll be interested in what the Hacker News community thinks about this.
Not true. Patents increase the incentive for people to do hard research and development. Whether or not that increased incentive is necessary is debatable.
It's arguable that limited monopoly promotes the first innovation. But it should be obvious, it prevents all the possible third party innovations that riff off the first.

It's easy to miss the dog that didn't bark, or the improvement that couldn't be sold.
(I dont know much about Kissinger so putting him aside)

I think you misunderstand the purpose of the prize. Its not about "these are saintly people who have never hurt a fly" nor is it "here are organizations whose politics we agree with".

Its a real world reward for people and organizations that try to pull peace from the midst of violence. It shouldn't be a surprise that a lot of the people who get it have been heavily involved in violence simply because those are the people that have the power to change the path they and their followers are on.

Yasser Arafat shared it with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, tried to move the Israel/Palestine situation onto the road for peace, they may not have achieved it but for a while it appeared they might, and at least they showed that an agreement wasn't entirely impossible.

The EU was set up to prevent war in western Europe (cradle of two world wars in less then 30 years), form that point of view it was entirely successful, if only because we spent the next 50 years discussing the exact definition of a banana.

The UN has been the place every country in the world goes to to present its case against other countries, arms is now no longer the only resort in a dispute. Its also the place where peace is negotiated and that provides neutral 3rd party troops to enforce it. Sure its not prevented every war ever but its done a lot better job then anything else in the history of the world ever.

The weakest case is for Barack Obama but people all over the world looked at him and said "look, a non-white man is the most powerful man in the world, maybe there is hope for a fairer world after all!" and so as an example to people world wide who know nothing about US politics and care less, that a fairer more equal world might be acheivable he is still not a bad choice.

It also shouldn't be a surprise that sometimes the recipients fail, the world is a messy place, but its not about rewarding perfection its about rewarding the trying, and through the reward encouraging others to do the same.

Don't think of the prize as being for believing in peace, think of it as being a reward for having the guts to try and change the old ways of violence and it makes much more sense.

Of course sometimes they get it wrong, but at least the prize committee tries.
Yeah but before it didn't launch anything. The browser was embedded to explorer.exe
Custom elements are a part of HTML, they can be part of a subset.

Disqualifying custom elements from an HTML subset would be like claiming function declarations can't be in subsets of JavaScript.
It's kind of depressing that they wage war on drugs, and then they try to put journalists in jail for nonexistent hacking, but they are incapable of going after phone scammers. I don't think they ever try.

If I would say I expect real protection from police & court, I'll get laughed at these days.
How Do Python Coroutines Work?
It's Gawker Media, of course shlock is their bread and butter.
> There is really no way for a simple program to account for all of those possible edge cases.

The post to linked you contained a piece of boiler-plate code which accounts for said cases.

> Have you considered how your formatting is going to look when people intersperse Right to Left words in your output for example?

There are modules to handle this. It of course means that you have to stop using non-Unicode-aware functions like `sprintf`.
'Generating your ideas'.

This copy made my future hurt.
Yes, custom elements are not fully finalized, but all of the browser vendors are invested in the spec and finalizing it. There is a lot of activity on it right now.
This seems closer to genetic programming than genetic algorithms, although the readme doesn't include any information about the experiment's genotype to really know what's going on.
Absurd, the price of albuterol has gone up 10 fold since patents have been reinforced on it. When companies have patents on life saving drugs they can charge whatever they want. If they have no patent, they are forced to keep the price low enough so no one wants to compete.
Ideally you would sell it to someone with a subprime loan they can walk away from. They never make any payments, the bank repos the house. Somehow the hazmat is discovered and the bank is compelled to fix it in order to sell the house, or at an even steeper discount because of remedied hazmat. Win win!
I can't tell if this is a reputable site but it catalogs drugs as they become generic:

http://www.drugs.com/generic-approvals.html

I know people who have fought not to have generic or bio-similar drugs.

Anyway, can you provide references to validate your claim? Just because someone says something on the Internet doesn't make it true.
I still do, and vaporize a lot(Magic Flight Launch Box FTW). Too much probably but it's at least not that harmful! Pretty much daily/all the time. I agree with all your points.
It also said that it can develop naturally, without human intervention. I think it's a stretch to say that the software we create can develop naturally.
This title is bordering on clickbait. Maybe HN should offer custom subtitles for links, especially for those articles with awful, nondescriptive titles?
Looking at some of the for and against arguments regarding patents, let's play a mental game: would new, valuable things still be created if the patent system didn't exist?

I think yes. The creator wouldn't necessarily benefit directly, but in a way we all indirectly benefit from new technology and ideas. Much the same as it would be better for the poor to have free or affordable essential health care, our society would have more able-bodied and able-minded people to work or even conduct themselves in a way that didn't transmit their illness, whether physically or through dependance.

By leaving the weak weakened, we indirectly transmit that ailment to others by physical and economic forces. You're only as strong as your weakest point.
Absolutely awesome platform. I jumped on when I saw I could chat with Jason Fried, which was a great experience being able to interact with and ask questions I have always wanted answered around startups and culture.

Can't wait for the next one with Boris from TNW.
You're blaming the victim. Don't do that.
I cringed when we got this email since we use LogMeIn Pro at work.

For everyone else, I hope they don't butcher the free version like they did with LogMeIn.
That's unfortunate! I find you have to run pretty hard for it to occur, and it doesn't always happen, but I get it. It's a subtle effect. I think one of the most reliable ways to get this feeling is to hike up a mountain, then take off your backpack and lie down. :-)
My point is that this project is not about providing value to the user. Google could have done that more easily.

It may not be so sinister because it's a badly thought out approach indeed. Although they got quite a few big partners already, this undertake requires rewriting the whole Web which is too much to ask even if you are Google.
Up north the latest nuclear plant guarantees price for its owners at 50 EUR/MWh (37 GBP) or less: http://www.energypost.eu/rosatom-signs-contract-build-nuclea...
Womens
which best the food blog?
Sad sad story. The first thing i'd would do is to change the phone to a voip system where i could control which numbers are allowed to call.
Algolia is a search engine product; https://hn.algolia.com/ is a "side-service" that indexes the HN firehose API. (It works reasonably well (readonly) as a modernized, alternative HN UI, actually.)

This is indeed a link to a search query on the site; it lists all the times "how <....> became <....>".
China only has two prestigious universities, Peking and Tsing Hua. They collect all financial and political support to make these two universities rank higher and higher, not only to save face on the international stage, but also to make sure all intelligence is under the control of Beijing. They may really have reached success in winning global reputation, but the chance for their research to turn into benefit for common people will be very small.
Scottish Higher Crocodile Maths Question 'Was Challenging'
SA: You can watch 100+ movies for free on the Paramount Vault YouTube channel
The story is just an example of a bad outcome to the scamming. Its a way to personalize the description of whats going on behind the scenes.

Getting older is hard and when Alzheimer and dementia are in the early stages, before clearly identified people are vulnerable. What to do with people that can't make good decisions, or just aren't able to drive anymore.

Clearly keeping them away from firearms and removing financial access is a good idea. Those are hard but necessary discussions.

I get the IRS scam calls on my answering machine from time to time. Anoying. They've switched from the broken english to a computer voice.
You could fit every job in Silicon Valley, in those countless sprawling suburban square miles, into midtown Manhattan.
I'd say Amazon AWS is all about 3rd party services, and their users are doing OK.

You can check http://stackshare.io/stacks to see who's using what
Arguably, the only thing they're good at is convincing the board (and through them, the shareholders) that they're worth their high valuation. Also arguably, this is all they need to do in a capitalist system.
Besides the fascinating number of correlations, I've noticed people tend to double-submit things. I'm curious whether this is accidental or intentional (eg, when two posts are a day apart).
Many ad networks are supported already, all will be. There is no rev share at all.
> "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

The winners apparently write both the history and the idioms. The Trojans would have done well to look a gift horse in the mouth.

A wooden horse can be full of physical soldiers and a digital horse with legal ones.
One person in the story was actually threatened: I assume that happens quite a lot. Just say 'something' to threaten an old person her/his children... Hell, say that to young people; they will get scared but are less likely to take action on it I guess.
So how does property on foreign planets work, for Earth governments?
That all depends on the application, I guess ;-)

Usually I end-up using Python for smaller things that aren't mission-critical or need maximum performance, C++ for almost everything else, and Objective-C for OS X/iOS stuff. Maybe Java for things where both performance, safety and ease-of-development/maintenance matter (the latter would be mostly for other people who would have to work on the same projection who are less skilled in C++, as I'm not at all a fan of the language myself, but I recognize it has some properties that make it a suitable choice for many kinds of applications ;-). I don't have enough experience with any other programming languages that can be deployed easily across Linux and OS X, so I can't comment on those. Rust seems to have some good ideas so I may want to learn more about it in the future.

If I wanted to write something for Windows platforms I'd most likely gravitate towards C#, from what I know about the language it appears to have all the good things of Java without its downsides.
Elon Musk says Apple hires only Tesla's worst engineers
Specifically, the linked paper models indexes on a table as sets of n-dimensional volumes showing where rows aren't. It then gives a join algorithm that is asymptotically instance-optimal (up to a poly-log factor) ie better than any previous result.

Unfortunately it relies on efficiently representing and querying the set of volumes built up during the query process and the data structure used in the paper is ridiculously impractical. I haven't seen an implementation yet that managed to tame the constant factors. Perhaps seeing how the OP models volumes/constraints would help.
I don't see where you're coming from. This article does a great job of showing some of the impact these scumbags have on one of the most vulnerable segments of our society.

And regarding the guy who committed suicide, don't you dare try to shift blame to his family for not limiting his access to money. Even if it were easy to do, which it isn't, the resentment his caretaker would have to deal with might well have been too much for her to bear, and his wife and family already had enough to bear just watching his mental capabilities fade away. Until you've watched it happen to a parent or spouse, you will not understand what the immediate family has to go through.
Which is why I said that it is "attributed" to Bill Gates. I know he didn't say it
I would think that Monsanto's patents are quite different. They use plant breeding to create new varieties. These patents of Myriad Genetics are just using DNA sequencing to find existing genes.
My thought process during running:

Oh great, let's stare at the ground for the next hour. Let's trod the same ground, day after day. Yep, that pile of cigarette butts is still there. Oh look, the street cleaning crew missed that weird children's doll in the gutter again. This is so much fun. Let's do this for the rest of our lives.
My 85 year old grandfather didn't commit suicide, but he was taken for every penny of his meager life savings by the Jamaican lottery scam. My dad discovered what was going on, called the police, but was told there was nothing they could do. My grandfather firmly believed and probably still does that he had won the lottery and was just waiting for a payout. We basically had to revoke his phone privileges to keep him from giving them more money, because he was so convinced. He does't have Alzheimer's or dementia. The scammers are just very convincing.
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https://lobste.rs/ is very similar to HN, but it's invite-only. (If anyone reading this has an account there, I'd appreciate an invite! :P)

http://firespotting.com/ uses the same Arc-based framework HN runs on, but is virtually unknown.
What you and others said, you could also create multiple domains,trusts, set up GPOs for users and user accounts and have fun.

Of course you can always put them on eBay!
IIRC not all distros will put executable binaries in /usr/bin/, but even those that don't will usually provide /usr/bin/env (even as a symlink), which will then search your path for python. In summary: /usr/bin/env is more portable. I'm unsure whether "#!/usr/bin/env python" is equivalent to #!python.
Probably just a very limited set of bootstrap training data. I'm curious what keyception would look like after a few months of using it.