skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UEFI stands for "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface", where "Firmware"
is an ancient African word meaning "Why do something right when you can
do it so wrong that children will weep and brave adults will cower before
you", and "UEI" is Celtic for "We missed DOS so we burned it into your
ROMs".

(From the excellent https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/228)
Do you have a link for this?
I really hope they get their tooling problems solved and that they now have some more breathing space.

Is the editors always that tight coupled with the rendering engine or can it be used by different map editors?
I mean, or they changed their minds. It does happen occasionally.
Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
It sounds like archivists could image the disks and transport those across mediums, in the interest of archival, as long as they didn't distribute them, though. Am I mistaken?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10461526
I went through this recently. I don't think it's hard to get started. Pandas is a great library for getting your data into the necessary format. And the from there you can pretty much just pick different machine learning models off the shelf from the scikit-learn library and see what works. For most problems I've applied it to are classification tasks. The part of the code where you actually run the machine learning model is usually only like 2 lines, and you can swap-in different models easily.

Two terms that come up when you're testing the model: recall and precision. I found these terms a bit unintuitive. Basically 'recall' is how many of the real matches did you manage to capture (accurately classify/predict), and 'precision' is how wasteful your model was (how many false alarms). Depending on what you're doing one of those things may be much more important than the other.

I can actually imagine a world where running a machine learning model is a kind of mundane office task that most people can do, like creating a pivot table.
Nearly nothing has entered the public domain in the U.S. in decades, and likely nearly nothing ever will again.
the main problem with Destiny is the repetitive game-play. It'd be fine for a single-player campaign, but you're expected to do essentially the same things over and over again to level up. The saving grace is that grinding with your friends makes the experience much less dull.

the first time we finished the vault of glass raid, I was ecstatic. The next time we pushed Atheon off a cliff due to a damage-avoidance bug in the enemy ai, it was hilarious. After the 10th time it just became work - you wanted to just get it over with to get that last piece of gear for max level.
I hope so!

I mean what would buy apart from a phone and a watch (& a car) thats worth more than $500?

Smart Shoes? :)
You'd think it wouldn't be mandatory for providers to offer international service at all. But that might leave a few loopholes so I'm not sure.
This is actually a good thing, it gives more opportunity for smaller, up-and-coming businesses to recruit elite students from non-elite schools.
What I was pointing out is there is a lot of inertia that would prevent any telephone company from changing the practice. Particularly since the consolidation of mobile carriers means most people rarely are in a roaming area.
Walgreens announces deal to buy Rite Aid for $9 a share
Thanks! So there is more time to voice concerns with elected representatives.
Excuse the bafflement. But wouldn't your uncles brother be your father? Unless you meant to use brother-in-law instead of brother in your post?

Also it sounds like you have some good tech, but need a partner who is able and experienced in dealing with investors.
What is a contract, and why would people want one called periodically?
Look, make up your mind, is it:

> in my view there is a clearly obvious biological fact that there are distinct races

Or is it:

> Oh, I'm definitely not saying that different races are distinct [...] But that doesn't mean that the concept itself isn't useful

Because you started with the first, retreated to the second in the face of evidence that the first wasn't true, and then have come around to this weird position where you seem to say that the second justifies the first (despite the fact that they directly contradict each other.)
The more dirty it is, the faster the support will drop from these ex-officials, so it's actually the opposite.
Why Businesses Should Take Advantage of Instagram Marketing Now
I'm definitely concerned about where this might head. Even the idea of early diagnosis is problematic as it carries with it all the baggage of mental health diagnostics---disorders defined by committee, lack of objectivity and reliability, lack of apparent physical reality backing up many disorders.

Much of what we call mental health diagnosis can actually be reinterpreted as institutionalized societal judgments of non-conforming behaviors. The fact that (in my personal experience and the experience of many others) "treatment" often directly inhibits recovery makes an enhanced diagnosis->treatment pipeline a frightening thing indeed.
The core business is their most relevant line of business. Again if you're defining Amazon's core business as the largest percentage of their revenues, you're missing the point.
We need to raise hell on all of those politicians including the White House months from now, when there will inevitably be another breach where tens of millions of people's data is hacked and their beloved CISA didn't stop it.

Shame them into admitting it's not only a useless, but harmful law, and force them to repeal it.
I'm not positive whether it counts as a "new line" if you swap existing lines of existing users, but maybe there's some way to arrange it to avoid triggering the tax every day for every single user.
I remember half-day Saturdays!

It was more of a global thing in Japan. Many workers actually did half a day on Saturday, so naturally were schools. Most of companies adopted 5 working day per week perhaps around the end of 80th.

School was a bit late on this one, when I was in Japan (1st year in middle school; 1992) was when they were start transitioning from 5.5 to 5. Although, I have only experienced having only second Saturday of a month off.

After I left Japan, in 1995, they've transitioned to 2nd and 4th Saturdays off, but It was not until 2002 schools in Japan transitioned to complete 5 day a week schedule.
So Theranos definitely worked with Pfizer and probably worked with GSK.

I am not a Theranos apologist but this is lousy reporting.
The ideas of Rubinius X will be added to Rubinius 3.0 over time, see the following articles for more info:

http://rubini.us/2014/11/10/rubinius-3-0-part-1-the-rubinius...

http://rubini.us/2014/11/11/rubinius-3-0-part-2-the-process/

http://rubini.us/2014/11/12/rubinius-3-0-part-3-the-instruct...

http://rubini.us/2014/11/13/rubinius-3-0-part-4-the-system-a...

http://rubini.us/2014/11/14/rubinius-3-0-part-5-the-language...
Show HN: PhoneNumberKit – a Swift take on libphonenumber
SXSW’s Astounding Ideals of Cowardice
Ack, sorry. The two programs are equally likely to save lives, but one is currently funded, and the other isn't. That's the reason for the would/could distinction.
I can only speculate but there is some prior work in this area, for instance SkyJack (http://samy.pl/skyjack/).

Quote: SkyJack (available from github) is primarily a perl application which runs off of a Linux machine, runs aircrack-ng in order to get its wifi card into monitor mode, detects all wireless networks and clients around, deactivates any clients connected to Parrot AR.drones, connects to the now free Parrot AR.Drone as its owner, then uses node.js with node-ar-drone to control zombie drones.

There is also some info/links regarding DJI's Phantom line of drones on https://github.com/noahwilliamsson/dji-phantom-vision

Quote: The Range Extender is essentially a small Linux system based on OpenWRT which provides a WiFi-network used by the Phantom and the DJI Vision App. It's reachable over SSH at 192.168.1.2 (root / 19881209).
The WiFi-network has no security by default and neither the Phantom nor the DJI Vision app supports password protecting it. Additionally, it is required that the network name is prefixed with "Phantom_" in order for the Phantom to find and associate with it.
There are so many interesting dynamics going on with tablets that it's really hard to read the tea leaves about where things are going. You seem to have long (in part because unsubsidized) upgrade cycles, larger phones, questions of reconvergence(?) with laptops, indirect competitors like Chromebooks in areas like education, very cheap entrants like the $50 Amazon Fire--the list goes on. I'm neither bearish nor bullish on tablets as a category simply because I find it so hard to really get my head around the space.
I learned Javascript from a desktop app background. I started by just reading the Javascript docs. Memorizing the available functions, and then I focused on learning how to write things javascripty.

Personally I find learning more rewarding when I move faster, so I dove into frameworks first instead of learning the low-level javascript (prototypical inheritance, etc).
I can't imagine that being the fault of anything other than your carrier -- I'm Norwegian, and I don't think I pay any more for roaming (about 0.05 USD per MB) in the EU than EU citizens do. I visited Switzerland a few years back, and I don't remember roaming charges being much higher than in Germany or France.
A contract is the term for an application that has been deployed on Ethereum.

Contracts expose functions as an API that others can use to interact with them.
Why do you consider them a fad?

I've found it immensely useful to not go through the rigamarole of newing up a ton of objects manually in my web controllers and queue/batch processing frameworks. Just choose your composition roots properly and you can easily add new endpoints/jobs/event processors without all the worry of resolving all the dependencies manually.

It also allows you to reduce footprints (setting non-stateful code/configuration objects as singletons), transparently cache and instrument(dynamic proxies, or application specific caching/logging wrappers), and other similar application-level concerns without it infecting consuming code or otherwise independent modules.
Apple Pacemakers. Apple Aerospace. Apple Commercial Jumbo Jets. Apple Aircraft Carriers.
Note, these are dramatic situations not plots. Self improvement in not dramatic. So, stealing the money bag was dramatic, pretending to be an old classmate was comedic not dramatic.

Self sacrifice for an ideal was dramatic in the case of catching the kid who fell from a tree, but also played for laughs.
I read an interesting article on how excess sugar clogs the tiny blood vessels and tissues where there aren't really any blood vessels.

Circulation in these areas won't be as great by the nature of things so clogging them up has a greater impact. It prevents nutrient/waste flow to tissues. Just think about that for a bit. Accumulating waste and blocking delivery of nutrients.

Balancing sugar intake and moving around, even if it's just walking, on a regular basis will fix you up real fast.
I imagine the "carbs" label extends to both processed/unprocessed/simple/complex carbohydrates, which I think potato belongs to "simple" and "unprocessed" (according to this[1] website).

[1] http://www.ehow.com/about_4613535_chemical-makeup-potato.htm...
Show HN: “Automagic” profiling of Perl subroutines
4. There's a plugin for ReSharper called Agent Mulder that examines your AutoFac configuration and knows when something is registered and can take you right to it.
How do you feel about codes of conduct?

Most communities have some unwritten social rules which participants have to adhere to (or be shunned). The open-source software community is open to anyone on the planet with an internet connection, so it's disingenuous to pretend they will all get along without conflict/misunderstandings.
Just pushed the first release of my new project - PhoneNumberKit.

The idea was to write a Swift take on Google's libphonenumber - not a direct port but a smaller, lighter and Swift-ier framework that still uses libphonenumber's best-in-class metadata and regular expressions.

It's still a work in progress and feedback and ideas for improvement are welcome.
"Businesses that try to weasel their way to a higher rating (paying off grumpy clients, for instance) have their Yelp pages branded with a red warning."

If you really hate a place, just give it some scam-looking reviews and watch it burn.
Facebook is killing its most hated feature
Drink the best beer in one go: Algorithmically Routed Brewery Road Trip
No one is using it yet. Still just a side project :)

Seven Bridge & DNAnexus probably have the most complete/thorough system (imo). The challenge though is doing it fast, at scale, and user friendly enough. Seven Bridges is cost effective and can definitely scale but it's not necessarily the fastest solution on the market. While these guys offer the full end-to-end solution, we're just trying to focus specifically on accelerating the pipeline. Maybe in the future we'll get to the full circle, but that's not our focus.

We use a variation of bowtie2 that allows us to scale well. We're able to align a 30x genome right now in about 8 minutes and are doing a couple more tests that might get us down into the <5 min range. The goal is to be able to do multiple at once in <5min with our portion of the pipeline taking less than 10 min total.

There are universities, such as Harvard, that are trying to align 1,000s of these a month but the current providers can't keep up. So, we're seeing if we can provide something that can help them out.
Why This CEO Will Never Hire Another Manager
who is our Charleton Heston?
Put them in the cloning machine! quick!
"I believe the ideal ratio for senior to junior engineers is three senior to one junior engineer"

Either you're defining "senior" in a fairly wacky fashion or you've got a significantly inverted org chart in dev...
Amazon wins ruling on results for searches on brands it doesn’t sell
NASA: Where Will We Land on Mars?
In the case mentioned, the phone was running an older version of iOS where they could, in fact, unlock the phone.

But the recent ones make it impossible, yeah
both senators from both WA and CA, which are the tech-heavy stastes. No good!
So just to be clear, you feel that 2-3 hours of homework is appropriate for a kid, after they spent 7-8 hours in school?
Oh duh. whoops
For me it is the Rebirth: during the course of the story, an important event forces the main character to change their ways, often making them a better person. It is also a Comedy: light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion. But these are from "The Seven Basic Plots" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots)
I recently put a turbo on my van since I live high in the mountains where the atmospheric pressure is low and the performance loss is noticeable.

Of course the ECU needs adjustments to the fuelling tables (you need to run rich under boost to prevent detonation), spark timing tables, as well as a patch to the OS to allow the use of a different manifold pressure sensor (default OS doesn't recognise press above 100kpa).

I guess this was illegal.

I have heard rumblings from the professional engine tuners that the OEMs are already starting to lock down ECUs. Not only via DRM, but by having enough checks in the code that modifying parameters to up performance results in error codes and limp home mode. They expect to be having to go to after market ECUs soon.

Some of them would have cost more than my whole project:

https://www.holley.com/products/fuel_systems/fuel_injection/...

Fortunately there are more DIY friendly set ups:

http://megasquirt.info/products/diy-kits/

But it seems a waste to have to throw away a perfectly good ECU because the OEM (or gov) decided to lock it down.
World class software requires a certain amount of money. But increasing the talent and will for better software is not a problem you can just throw more money at to solve. The number of people who can write software at Apple's level is finite, and you can't just buy your way into owning all of them.
> classList is hacky

How so? I don't think that it's in anyway hackier than its sister dataset.
My observation as a parent of two kids: I think that homework is already moving in that direction. An increasing amount of homework is done at the computer -- hours and hours of it.

Unfortunately, the stuff that's designed for education is Lame -- intellectually superficial, and boring for the kids -- and they know it. The companies that make that stuff are politically connected and mainly good at selling to school administrators.

It's been this way since the birth of the educational software industry.

Now I admit that I've never played video games, but I can't imagine creating an artificial learning environment that's as rich as going outside to play, making things, or writing code.
Calling contracts has to be profitable, otherwise nobody would do it.

Since there is no way to reject a transaction, every person who attempts to execute a scheduled call will have to pay some small amount for the transaction. If the service is implemented as a first call wins sort of thing, then all of the people who tried and failed would be out the gas cost of that transaction. For calling contracts to be profitable, these costs would have to be covered somehow, otherwise there is no incentive for people to execute calls.

So, this cost would have to be offloaded onto the people scheduling calls which would cause a significant increase in the overhead of scheduling a function call.

The alternative solution I came up with was having a caller pool. The people executing the calls are guaranteed a window of time where they can call the contract and also incentivized (by their bond) to fulfill that duty lest the next person in the pool claim their bond.

I'm open to alternate solutions to this problem.
If there is any continuity to your phone usage, then that is you as an individual that is being tracked. That's what it means for a person to have an identity: continuity in behavior patterns.

It's safe to assume those several dozen people don't share your phone. And even if they did, that's a level of familiarity that means you are among a group of people that probably operate as an economic unit. Nobody is stealing you identity here: they are assigning you one.
Absent a hardware security module, most users don't pick passwords long enough or secure enough to dissuade offline bruteforcing.
"This white paper shows how not only was it critical that OpenCorporates had this information (much of the information was removed from the official register during the investigation)"

I've been spending a lot of time in Myanmar over the past 3 years. While there is incredible progress on some fronts, corruption and asset grabbing by those in power is so entrenched that I'm pretty sure nothing will change as a result of this investigation, except perhaps removal of some data from public records.

The country is deeply in need of public revenue to fund the most basic public needs, like functional roads and sanitation, but vast amounts of the natural resource wealth are being misappropriated with no end in sight.
Would you have preferred it if I used the original title?
"Tom Sanders, professor emeritus of nutrition and dietetics at King’s College London, said the study needed to be viewed “with some scepticism” because it was uncontrolled. It did not compare the children with a similar group who continued to eat a high-sugar diet. The comparison instead was made with their weight and health before the study while on their usual diet. “But it is well known that obese children underestimate and under-report food intake, particularly of soft drinks and snack foods,” said Sanders.

“This is a fundamental flaw in the study. It is likely that the changes in metabolic outcomes observed can be explained by the experimental diet providing fewer calories than the children’s usual intake.”
Predicting the demographics of Twitter users using website traffic data
The only way to check that is to blindly click the link and give them ad money. I don't have any problems with this site, just pointing that out.
As a point of order, I didn't suggest that Apple wipe out anything.

But, no, you're wrong, and the way you're wrong is doing an excellent job of demonstrating the problems with profit share.

There's not an amount of "profit" out there. There is sort of an amount of "revenue" out there. But Apple takes in a small minority of the revenue associated with smart phones, as demonstrated by their market share, which is something on the general order of 14%. The fact that other vendors are inefficient at turning their revenue into profits is neither here nor there.

Of course, the actual analysis is far more complicated than that, since the market isn't in fact a static thing. If Apple turned say half of their unit profits into price reductions, it would have enormous, chaotic effects on the smartphone market. I don't have the ability to predict what the end result would be, and neither does anyone here. But profit share doesn't tell us that Apple has no opportunity, and in fact it is a metric crafted to draw attention from the fact that Apple has a low market share, which does a better (though certainly imperfect) job of showing the opportunity.
According to the ACM copyright policy at http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Re..., the transfer agreement states that the author retains the right to publish on their home page and on an institutional repository.
And "activate every push notification available on my device Thursday".
> Note, these are dramatic situations not plots. Self improvement in not dramatic.

Rocky was received pretty well.
I think that's a slightly dated view. I don't think that the app market is mainly defined by "I'll pay $1 for an app" anymore. In a few fields, perhaps. But the most important apps are at this point free ones, and their users are monetized in other ways.
I used this at work today. Someone had asked what our webapp's sysreqs were. I said that network connection was very unlikely to be a problem, but it really struggled when set to GPRS. Now, I think it's unlikely that anybody would be using it on that, but it's still good to know that it's an issue.
> What is a contract...

A contract is a group of functions that live in the Ethereum Blockchain (a distributed virtual machine for running decentralized applications)

> Why would people want one called periodically?

For the same reason people need cron to call periodic functions.
and that sort of technology has been used by the Navy since how long?
Huh. Google Maps handles it really well, I frequently use it for bus times.
A prototype device probably costs $150k to $200k to build, so $400M should buy an enormous amount of R&D!
Hi VonGuard,

> and considered fair use

The 1201 exemption process doesn't adjudicate whether things are fair use in a way that's binding on courts, although the Copyright Office does believe that it has to express some opinion about that the uses it approves are noninfringing. But a court doesn't have to agree with that substantive question: if someone sued you for running the server they could argue that it's not a fair use, and the court that they sue you in isn't bound to agree that the Copyright Office was right to view it as noninfringing (or that this is true in the particular circumstances).