skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm alone but I personally prefer my screens to be dumb. Do one thing and one thing well applies here. I like being in charge of the computer side of the equation.
When I had Hulu Plus, it was actually worse than cable because it forced you to sit through commercials. If I recorded the show on cable, I could fast forward through them at least.
Can't wait to see some comments on this one. Posts like these are dividing HN.
Blue cheese.
*oracle licensing for one modern 32 core server
Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
I believe you got the hierarchy backwards.
To clarify, I am counting on the social network effect.

One person has several social connections, at church, work, gym and so on.

Your contacts have their own contacts and so on.

At some point, this network crosses borders. Being a country with so many migrants, this happens real close to you at USA.

If a Brazilian living in USA wants to talk to his family or friends in Brazil, he must use the same channel everybody here uses (or he will felt excluded).

I don't know the numbers, but this can indeed happen with WeChat, but I think whatts is used in more countries.
Mushrooms are popular enough in western cuisine to be ingredients in canned soup (I don't just mean cream of mushroom soup). In the US fresh mushrooms are available in any medium sized grocery store and many people have the hobby of collecting wild mushrooms (notably morels). I'm pretty sure Europe is similar.
Well, the thought that leaps to my mind is that smell isn't like most of the rest of the senses. Eyes and ears are so easy to quantify and abstract with quantities that we've been doing it for decades now. Even if our eyes are not literally CCDs and our ears are not literally microphones, they're close enough for the quantifications to be useful. Touch and proprioception back to a geometric shape (our body) which provides obvious spatial abstractions (higher, lower, harder, softer, etc). Taste (considered separately from smell, which is normally a bad idea but bear with me here) is based on a small number of types of sensors (sweet/salt/sour/bitter/umami, if there's one or two missing it doesn't change things much).

Smell is hundreds or thousands of distinct sensor types for various chemical characteristics, with no particular relationship to each other. We don't have a systematic coverage of some vector space of X dimensions, we have quasi-random point samplings that poorly populate an n-dimensional space. If it's hard to get abstract concepts out of that, it could be because it really is mathematically demonstrably difficult to get useful abstraction out of that source of data. It sounds to me like even those cultures that happen to have them are still very, very weakly covered compared to vision or sound.
Treesort, or how I learned to keep trying and avoid Google
Ok, the title of the article might be misleading, but I suggest you actually read the article, because it talks about the evolution of the microbial community that lives inside you, not your genome at all.

To paraphrase the study by Sonnenburg: It is theorized that a depletion of the microbial biodiversity caused by a low-fiber diet is responsible for many chronic diseases. Mice that were fed a low-fiber diet developed less microbial diversity, but if they were put back on a high fiber diet, their microbial community recovered quickly. However, and most revealingly, if they gave birth to a litter while on a low-fiber diet (and therefore with a weak microbial community) the second generation mice were unable to develop a strong microbial community regardless of diet.

The conclusion is that microbes already present in one's body can adapt according to diet. If a microbial species metabolizes fiber and the host does not consume fiber, the microbe will possibly enter a "dormant" (my invented term) state, but it can be recovered to full strength. Still, "dormant" microbes will not be prevalent in the birth canal to ensure transmission to the next generation, so that generation will not have that microbe species regardless of diet. Over generations, this could lead to extinction of entire microbial species.

THIS is the evolution that the article talks about, NOT genome evolution.

> In that time [decades] we'll start altering the general human genome, and likely remove countless inherited conditions out of it either directly or indirectly.

What's the rush? You're talking about altering the human genome, something COMPLETELY IRREVERSIBLE in a single generation. This article asserts that an enormous part of our bodies was barely beginning to be researched five years ago! The reason this hubris is so common is that a few parts of our bodies are relatively simple and easily understood: the circulatory, respiratory and other systems that exist as meat. On the other hand we barely understand the many systems that live in a complex state of delicate equilibrium: endocrine, immune, and microbial which seems to be apart of both of them.
To the best of my knowledge, healthy food is in fact more expensive. This is not only the conventional wisdom, here[0] is a meta-analysis of studies from 29 countries which supports the hypothesis. For many people, eating healthy is just out of reach.

You may have been a college student on a tight budget, but presumably a) you were only feeding yourself, b) you had ready access to healthy options, which many people in poorer parts of the US in particular do not, thus increasing the price dramatically when you factor in travel, and c) while you may have had limited funds, I'd wager they were largely discretionary, i.e. you also had a meal plan, or some other form of financial support so that if you exceeded your means you would not go hungry. Most college students are fairly well insulated from immediate financial ruin, via parental support and government aid. When you are living paycheck to paycheck, and not making much at that, the difference of a few dollars can be huge.

[0] http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/12/e004277.full?sid=820d6e1...
Also noisome
I've had two pretty bad bike falls. The one was where I flew over the front of the bike with an emergency stop when a car turned right into the bike lane, the second when I managed to overbalance a recumbent at 45 kph (yes, that bike is that fast). In both cases I'm very happy I knew how to fall with minimal damage and I'm pretty sure I would have been off much worse if not for that. It's all about at least trying to prolong the duration of the fall rather than say sticking out your hands because that is what your reflex tells you to do (and which will likely either break a finger hand or arm or at a minimum turn it into hamburger).

So from personal experience: breaking your fall really helps, also in bicycle falls. Can you describe the way you've fallen?
Make a Tech Conference a Success, Not a Waste of Money
I have Time Warner internet-only service in NYC and they are constantly trying to sell me cable as a $10/month addon to my $35 50mbit internet package. I imagine it's a pretty limited set of channels, but they're very much already using that sales tactic.
Inside the drive to collect DNA from 1MM veterans and revolutionize medicine
Apple has a crazy invention for self-drying iPhones
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It is already like this now. The only way to get the fastest internet speeds with Comcast is to also have TV. The base cable TV is very cheap and you're really buying internet access.
Does this seem ironic to anyone else considering CloudFlares SSL offering essentially is a MITM attack?
Dalek Relaxation Tape
+ Open source

+ Not spyware

+ No ads
I categorically deny that I am spreading FUD. You are very unlikely to die in a bike accident. However, if you do, you are vastly more likely to not be wearing a helmet. Even if you have negative anecdata (absence of observed collisions/falls) that doesn't mean it doesn't happen: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/11/fewer_road_dea...

As far as minor falls leading to death... hopefully an EMT/medical professional can jump in or someone else can offer statistics. I wish I had time to find links/data to show you how sadly and tragically incorrect that is (cycling or not).

I will repeat: I favor bike lanes and do not strongly favor helmet laws (even though I strongly favor their use).

edit: also, if anyone can find a way to quantify how many injuries helmets have prevented, it would be awesome. Everything I found involved autopsies/hospital reports/police reports... nothing where someone crashed and the helmet prevented further injury. Also hard to tell non-fatal effects from reported data (where a fall would have been a concussion otherwise, but was not because of a helment)
I'd love to "flail around" while still having two billion in annual profits.
Why not DNSCurve? http://dnscurve.org

I mean, I feel like adoption is so low for DNSSEC already - does it even matter if it's 0% for DNSCurve or 1% adoption for DNSSEC? Why even bother with a 20 year old protocol?
Hulu Plus recently added an option where you can pay a bit extra (like two bucks a month) to make it ad free. It makes it a way more pleasant experience.
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The solution to all wireless problems is... wires.
1. By having a single platform to target, developers can focus on the actual gameplay and a better game. Supporting all PC configurations is a nightmare.

2. Piracy - consoles are locked down so fairness ensues and devs get paid when someone buys their game. Piracy is rampant on the PC because of it's openness, with even indie game studios suffering from ruthless pirating.
Birds, Apps, and Users: Scalable Factorization Machines
I think you mean RDS, which is available for postgresql or Oracle.
I dunno, I write Lisp, Javascript, Python with vanilla Emacs (no paredit), and out of those Python is harder to write than Lisp and Javascript because the latter are indented automatically by Emacs.

Having to indent stuff manually is a drag. Especially when you nest in deep with Python and need to close several levels of indentation. It's just inherently difficult to "measure" white-space with your eyes. With 2-space indentation which is used in Lisp, and naturally deeper nesting, it's probably even harder.
Woah! I had no idea they did that (I live in Australia).

I read the linked Wikipedia page, but I still can't work out what the point is. Is that some form of subliminal missionary tactic? Sure the Snyder family were Christian, but why print bible citations on take-away wrappers? What's the context? What's the so-called "take-away"?
Out of curiosity, has the population realized this to any level? Are there any actions being taken to address this? It seems like an incredibly horrible problem!
Anyone with anything mildly divisive to say left HN long ago.
> Here is something that will help you as a cyclist, pedestrian or pretty much anything else except transportation where you're boxed in: learn how to fall. Take some judo classes and learn how to control how you hit the ground

This really helped me out once. I hit a patch of black ice on a badly maintained bike path while going pretty fast. I took off flying while the bike slid along the ground. My training took over, time expanded, and I had what felt like a full minute to rehearse how I would hit the ground. When I landed, I landed on ice and slid about 10 more feet. I got up with mild bruises. The bike was not so lucky --- when I picked it up I saw ball-bearings rolling around on the ground. Then I realized that one of my pedals had been ripped off the crank. Falling is far and away the most useful thing I got from martial arts training.

For what it's worth, I was wearing a helmet. It didn't strike the ground. I still wear a helmet.
What food pyramid? The one with excess simple carbs and lack of fats that caused the obesity epidemic?
A Smartphone in Your Bag May Be Able to Track Your Heart
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IANAL and a lot depends on the type of company, where you incorporated (Delaware C Corp?), and whether you have any type of shareholder agreement. (This scenario is the #1 reason to have a shareholder agreement.)

That said, you presently own vested shares in the company, and that means you [likely] have minority shareholder rights. If the company does not act in your best interests as a shareholder, then you have cause for a lawsuit. So, they can't play games with your shares without opening themselves up to a lawsuit.

However, you're bailing after only six months, which implies that you believe you'll be able to create more value for yourself by doing something else rather than seeing it through with a startup. It also means that the company must create all the value while you sit back and pursue something else; there was prior work done, but how does that compare to the work that needs to be done to make your shares worth something? Your shares are essentially deadweight that disincentives the remaining teams (and investors).

A typical shareholder's agreement will specify that the company and/or other shareholders will buy back your shares for the present valuation. It is also pretty typical for such a shareholder's agreement to specify a "method valuation", like a penny/share, in case you have not yet taken outside investment.

If you do not have a shareholder's agreement that covers this scenario and you have not yet taken VC and the company still has a substantial way to go (all of which seems like your scenario, since you're asking on HN rather than acting in accordance with a contract), then the honorable thing to do is sell your shares back to the company for a token amount. You're getting off the bus; in exchange, you don't have to ride the bus, and that's worth a great deal to you.
Easy there tiger. I ordered more than one cable from some small, dodgy Yahoo store that did not use https. It happened (even if you didn't see it).

HTTP over wired is not secure but it requires physical presence rather than proximity to sniff. It's kinda like security by obscurity.
New Plasma Confinement State May Be the Secret to Fusion Energy
Title is so confusing. There is a popular javascript MVVM front-end framework called Knockout.js.

http://knockoutjs.com/
6 Things Successful Leaders Do Differently
Null Link: A Mysterious new link to the internet in 2016
Custom Lightmapping in Unity
DNSCurve also provides integrity. It cryptographically authenticates all DNS responses.

With DNSSEC yes, you can store signed data on a server without having to store the key on the same machine. It does make it even more complicated, however.
With HTTPS, IMAPS, SMTPS etc we're also fine with storing the key on the server, why not with DNS?

If you're worried about the key being stolen you can always store it in a HSM to limit the damage of a server compromise.
I use http://visualthesaurus.com. It provides a graph interface for related words and synonyms.
Writing code because of the details of how some processor does something isn't modernization; it's 1965-ization. (Which is not to say that optimization doesn't take place in a modern contexts: of course you need a fast video codec on your mobile device or whatever; it's just not in an of itself modern).

I'm not going to wreck my programs because of what Intel (of all companies) thinks.

The problem here is that although the chip designers care about how people program at a higher level above the instruction set, and design the hardware accordingly, their scope of what that means is limited to the C language. (For instance, here, this is what Intel are referring to when they say they have a line up of compilers, libraries and debuggers for you.)

Sorry, Intel: "write your code in C (in a 'cache-friendly' way: no linked data structures), with a smattering of such and such libraries for parallelizing it" is not "modernization".
Not the OP but I did have both sides wireless for a while and it couldn't keep the framerate up (playing Portal). I have an i7 920 @3.6Ghz, 680GTX, 12GB RAM on the main machine. I was streaming to my late-2013 MBP 15". I have an AC1750 802.11ac router.

Once I wired my desktop in, I could play wirelessly via my MBP with 60fps constantly.

I suspect if both were wired you'd have excellent performance. However, one caveat is that low-light games really seem to show a lot of artifacts (for example, Amnesia: The Dark Descent was close to unplayable because of compression artifacts, despite being on 'highest quality' stream settings).

I hope this is helpful.
I can count on one hand the number of times my children have sat down and watched network TV. They are 4 and 7 years old. With ~15 minutes of commercials per hour, I've probably saved them from watching thousands of commercials, which I think is a good thing.
> > How about ad-free versions of their channels?

>Apparently that was what cable was all about at the beginning

I wish people would stop saying this, as it was much more about difficulty in receiving OTA signals[0]. HBO is and always has been ad-free, however.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United...
Is darronz a CloudFlare employee?
Sharing Secrets in Kubernetes
Are Stephen King films better than the books?
The EnterpriseDB folk http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/produ... and 2ndQuadrant http://2ndquadrant.com/en-us/resources/bdr/ both have multi-master replication.
Has anyone tried Postgres xl? It has this kind of logic at the server level, no?
> We actually noticed these relays when they joined the network, since the DocTor scanner reported them. We considered the set of new relays at the time, and made a decision that it wasn't that large a fraction of the network. It's clear there's room for improvement in terms of how to let the Tor network grow while also ensuring we maintain social connections with the operators of all large groups of relays.

Sounds like they did know?
Already very much the case. All discounts and special offers always apply only to "triple-play" packages. Want Internet only? You end up paying a premium.

I think you're right with one potential exception: sports. And it's hard for me to have a lot of visibility on that because I don't personally follow sports, but sport dedicated networks are probably one of the main reasons people go with more expensive cable packages - at least that's my feeling when I compare line ups, the main difference is always sport networks. As long as some networks manage to keep monopoly on sport broadcasting cable can remain a first citizen.
A radio documentary with a still image for Youtube, it is befittingly an aural work.
I distinctly remember saying "I'm not going to post any more when I hit 2000 karma." Then it was 3000.

I even set noprocrast to something like 100 years, and quit cold turkey for a while... And then got pg to reset it for me.
Loans are created as deposits/accounts receivables which are included in net transaction accounts. Back that loan with a Credit Default Swap and you cant skirt any reserve requirements which was exactly what ripped the world economy in 2008.
Apples are great in an urban environment -- they're a nice looking tree that gives a spectacular flower show in the spring.

But I don't know what relation apples have to the OP, though. A controlled growing environment is generally associated with small vulnerable vegetable crops like lettuce, not huge hardy apple trees.
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It's likely the WordPress Foundation. http://wordpressfoundation.org/
Too late, I'm already done with cable.
The obstruction of free speech at Missouri and Yale is disturbing
The duplicate detector is a bit odd. Not sure what its rules are, but it doesn't always seem to work. One example (only noticed this because I wrote the linked blog post.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860103 : http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908463 : http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html?newpost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927285 : http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9129911 : http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html
Can't the other owners simply do a "squeeze out"?
I find the author’s argument regarding “publications losing their voice and not focusing on the preferences of their audience to meet the preference of the platform’s audience” self-contradictory. Is it not your own audience that is following you on these platforms? More so, the platforms give you real-time feedback and allow your audience to tell you which issues are most important.
I find this to be the real issue here. The author is most interested in telling you what is important, instead of allowing you to decide for yourself. …And this is why certain publications struggle with these platforms.
I just got the announcement through my email so it seems more likely than a HN reader got the same announcement and decided to post about it.
Thanks for the feedback :)
The modern Chinese diet is also relatively new (think decades) and china has high rates of diabetes and heart disease and stomach/colon cancers are on the rise.

Come back in 50 years and we'll see how well the Chinese have coped with their modern diet. I'm guessing it won't be so well.

I once took a cooking class in Beijing for home cooks (I speak mandarin and the class was for locals, not foreigners).

The amount of sugar going in some popular dishes was crazy (literally handfuls).
Makes me hope that "li-fi" pans out.

Basically combo powerline data with rapidly blinking (1000+ hz, iirc) leds to be able to give specific rooms wireless data. And if the light is polarized, a simple coating on the windows that match can let light in, but not data out.
I use this almost daily when I name a variable or function. It's useful to look for a more precise noun or verb, or see if they have other connotations.
>So then it's all about envying those who have more, no matter how comfortable a life you happen to have.

You could use the moralistic conception of "envy", and make it sound bad, like telling kids "you should not envy your brother other".

Or you could:

1) see that envy and egoism is considered a primary motivator for advancement (if you like free market theories, e.g. Adam Smith and the "egoism of the butcher", etc.)

2) accept that humanity should progress in tandem, not just let some people get the majority of the benefits of today, just because the vast majority is also "better off compared to people in the past" (if you prefer socialist theories).

If they take away your internet access, will you be fine with that because people in 1850 lived in log cabins without internet, electricity or running water and you still have it so much better than them?
Yes, mushrooms are sold in virtually every european supermarket and some, like chanterelles, are considered a delicacy. Collecting wild mushrooms is also quite popular in rural regions of Germany. However, please be sure to bring along a local when doing so. There are some poisonous look-alikes to edible mushrooms. Recently, a 16 year old refugee in Münster died because of this [1].

[1]: http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/muenster-16-jaehri...