skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another ugly trick is to create a junction (mklink /j) to some inner dir and then renaming the file or dirs making the path too long.
We definitely didn't start these conflicts in the Middle East.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état
"Healthiest" is pretty vague in this context, as we're tracking a particular result - mental ability, and possibly neurogenesis.
It's wrong to say that there is no formal science behind them. It's true that practice is ahead of theory in the field of randomized search heuristics like evolutionary and genetic algorithms, but there are researchers working on it. For example it has been proven that crossover can be beneficial

http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~doerr/papers/gecco2008_1.pdf

There is also a book on the topic that summarizes some of the current research

http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7438
The point is not really about the difficulty of conversion, but about having to do it at all. Whether hearing about a 1.42m high man brings up a vivid image immediately, or only after conversion to imperial measures. Not unlike how becoming fluent in a given second language means there are no longer any intermediates. Rather than having to think consciously of a certain sentence in your own native language and then converting that consciously to a sentence in the given second language, you can just immediately think of the sentence in the given second language.

This happens gradually of course, there are a few length measurements in feet & inches that immediately give me a clear/rich image of the intended length: 6 feet, my own height in feet/inches, etc. However, the set of imperial length measures for which this happens is much, much smaller than that for metric length measures. For instance, I have absolutely no clue how long a yard is, let alone a hundred yards, and how that relates to a mile. Only after conversion, and doing the conversion enough times, will it become clear(er) to me.
Even though they weren't able to see the offline arguments, it's still telling about a project when the arguments are brought out into the open.
> I do think the police should have the ability to, after a court ruling, to hack a phone

How do you think the smartphone would be secured against unlawful hacking?
How would it discriminate against lawful vs. unlawful attempts?

Phones should be unhackable to anybody, and any loophole should be treated as
what it is in fact: an error that should be fixed.

Or maybe you meant that police should have computer security hacking forces,
that is, personnel trained in breaking computer protection. In this case it
would be OK.
Highly debatable, other explications possible not cited nor discarded, and citing nazi experiments as a "proof" of epigenetics [and implicitly that the grandsons of the jews that suffered in the WW2 are borning still traumatised today and maybe should be also compensated by Germany by this alleged damage?] do not improves my opinion about the article.
John McDonnell to unveil 'socialism with an iPad' economic plan
I agree, but even if you considered that a good intangible, there are many students who have to work to support themselves and their families. By definition, the things the 1% do to be impressive will always be more unusual and stand out. You pilot your own hot air balloon, are fluent in Farsi, and put in 500 hours helping the underprivileged(a) write resumes? Impressive.

(a) If you are underprivileged, you might have time to volunteer somewhere, but typically supporting your family doesn't count as helping the underprivileged. Changing grandma's bedpans isn't volunteer work, and it's kind of exploitative to make that a major portion of your college application.
Crowdsource: the software can pick alternate urls and people can vote for them.
It really bothers me that VICE Motherboard (I've not read much from their other sections), who markets themselves as a controversial, alternative news source, distinguishes themselves by publishing more reasonable and better researched articles.

I've never gotten the impression from any other reporting (Wired, CNN) on this issue that they so much as skimmed Moxie Marlinspike, Michael Green, or anyone else's criticisms of Telegram.
The thing is that as a random user, you might want to keep the content of your message secret for various reason (like ad profiling for example).

Once you are more or less identified as a terrorist, from the point of view of an intelligence organization, they might be sad to not get the content of the messages, but is they can have the graph of your contact, they'll be more than happy (and find the weakest link in there).

Incidentally I have also checked that the Telegram and Signal app are requesting a Location permission on Android. I don't know if it is sent to some sort of central server, but this does seem not safe if youe life depends on it.
You don't have to wait for requests to complete, so slow or broken connections don't cause hangs. IIRC, zmap[1] takes this approach. This allows the "probe" stage to be executed essentially as quickly as you can send packets, while you lazy load the results

[1] https://zmap.io/
Lately there had been a comparison of Javascript, Perl and Python regex machinery posted here iirc (can't find right now) and the external regex module was found to be much better regarding unicode support.
> I bet that thinking about the problem more would allow you to find an algorithm that works better than genetic algorithms all the time.

This is true. It's been formalized as the No Free Lunch theorem by Wolpert and Macready.

> Genetic algorithms aren't really that brilliant. They are simple, and that's what makes them popular among researchers. There's no formal science behind them.

There is a formal science behind them -- conferences, journals, the whole nine yards. The problem is, there's a dominant notion of genetic algorithms that's 25 years out of date, and nobody's been able (or tried too hard) to break through the noise.

(Disclaimer: I work in the field.)
The problem is that the US is using drones to kill people inside countries with whom they are not at war. If you declare war on a country, that does give you certain rights under the laws of war. But if there is no declaration of war, you can't go around abducting or killing people in foreign countries just because they are deemed suspicious.

And declaring war "on terror" won't cut it either; that's basically equivalent to saying, "we are potentially at war with any country any time, when it suits us." Nor will saying "they're the bad guys and we are good," which is kindergarten-level argumentation. Or "we know they're terrorists but we can't share the evidence, just trust us."

The media discusses the details of drone operations all the times, but omits to have this much more fundamental discussion about violating the borders of sovereign countries.
What I'd like to know is how this boils down wrt work.

If an increase in mental ability represent a greater work-done-per hour; But the cost is time spent exercising -> less time working (maybe somewhat compensated for other positive non-work benefits), Then what would be the perfect amount of exercise to boost productivity?

i.e. would an hour spent exercising pay for itself in productivity boost?
Shh, you'll hurt the feelings of the perfect beautiful snowflakes.
Modest and good perl programmer spotted.
Six Years of Commits Visualized
I think parent is making the point that Orwell's insight applies to today's consumer choices - and that it was an understood phenomenon even ~80 years ago.
An affordable alternative... for single people without families. You can perform most of the basic functions of life, but reproduction is a major one, too.

I'm not even sure you could design a space for a young family. Things change so fast, you'd need a whole economy to support it. You'd need to rent a lot of things, like high chairs, cribs, extra linen storage, etc. because you can't store anything in your home.
I worked on building a school in Uganda. There our main issue was being able to afford the cement and corrugated roofing.

The bricks were made from baked clay and basic tools were the same as used in small agriculture. We took rocks from the ground and smashed them up to give us hardcore. Labour wasn't a problem as the entire community pitched in.

Prefabricated structures just weren't affordable at all. Taking free building materials from nature was key. The transport and cost of cement was our constraint.

This project uses a prefab structure, either on a prefab or poured slab foundation. That doesn't seem readily transportable by boat as they state.

Rather than just using local materials for finishing a better solution would surely be to come up with ways to use modern construction methods with locally sourced materials.
You run out of the ability to be able to do practical mental work long before you run out of the ability to do physical exercise, so I think you're making a false zero-sum comparison of the two.
My impression is that the author wants this to be a bigger deal than it is. You found a bug, well there's hundreds of thousands of bugs in OS X, just like any other commercial OS. Maybe the author should file a bug report, and give readers the radar # so we can add impact.

Not that it's wrong to alert users to the problem, but it's more important, and not difficult, to alert Apple that this bug exists and users care about it.
Correlated as in 'have a mutual relationship or connection'.

I wrote it just because the title was suggesting that stronger legs lead to healthier brain. Whereas the study suggests that healthy lifestyle (better diet, more exercises) lead to healthier brain. Which is to be honest, nothing new.
It's a little dead, but there's a few more similar natural selection simulators over at https://www.reddit.com/r/NSIP/top/?sort=top&t=all
Yay, this will bring so much wealth to the people of Botswana!
Urs Hozle wrote the memo about being left behind in social.
Can't speak for the parent, but the entire US offering is hosted at a single datacenter, allegedly with 3 zones, but there were a couple times during our evaluation of them when all zones went unavailable.

They really need a us-east and a us-west. Not just for availability, but for latency-critical applications, too.
I could've sworn I've already seen this same topic written about at least once over the past several years. Why does the Guardian think this is new?
Doom on Ubuntu Phone
A list of western abuses in the Middle East would be a very long and bloody one, that's fair enough. We have a lot to account for, and Iran in particular has plenty of very good reasons to be hostile to the west. But we are not fighting wars against Iran, instead we are negotiating treaties and slowly building trust.

These terrorist attacks are not because we are in a war with Islamic nations. They are designed to create and draw us into wars with Islamic nations. They are provocations to start wars which ISIS and Al Qaeda want to have. They are as much a response to us withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan as anything else. Check out ISIS and Al Qaeda's published literature. If we withdrew completely from the Middle East and all Moslem states the attacks would not stop, they would intensify because by deliberate policy they are dedicated to creating a situation in which conflict with the west is unavoidable. I'm afraid that anyone who thinks we can just walk away from this fight and everything will be fine, just doesn't have clue 1 why we are in this to start with.

The Wahabi/Salafist world view is one of inevitable and necessary warfare with all non-Muslims, leading to global conquest and a worldwide Caliphate. It's non-negotiable and inimical to democracy, freedom and liberal values. You either convert or die and they way to achieve this is by provoking as much division and strife between westerners and Muslims as possible.
Unity3d 5.2 build for linux is out
> There's no formal science behind them.

I'm not sure what that means. Science is empiricism, and genetic algorithms are a wide field of research with a lot of experimentation behind them. There are many hypothesis about how they work, why they work and what their limitations are. These hypothesis are tested through experimentation, just like in other scientific fields.

> Smart heuristics beat these hybrid-genetic-memetic-algorithms all the time.

Sure, this is almost guaranteed by the "no free-lunch theorem":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem

There might be some exotic cases where genetic algorithms are actually the best solution, but nobody knows that.

But that's not the point of genetic algorithms. The point is having a generic solution that can be applied with some success when you don't have the time or the resources to find those "smart heuristics". And there might be cases where we are just not smart enough to find them. Some of these cases might be related to the effort towards developing generic AI. You can also claim that it is always possible to write a more efficient computer program directly in machine code, if you ignore time and resources.

Another interesting property of evolutionary computation is enabling some form of artificial creativity. Check out this antenna, created by NASA using evolutionary computation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna

Also, if you will forgive me a bit of self promotion, check out my own work on the discovery of complex network generators:

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep06284
Wow! That seems like a biased study. Would they have prefered the ad say "will help make your penis erect when you are appropriately aroused"?

One of the repeat offenders, said Faerber, were erectile dysfunction drugs. “The various drug companies phrase it differently, but they all play on the idea of being “ready” when the moment is right,” but Faerber said readiness is about more than a physical reaction, it’s an emotional state – especially where sex is concerned. “They implied more than a physiological response.”
EndNote X7 Product Key and Crack Full Free Download
Since the main difference between coal and diamonds is some expensive processing (currently it's usually done by natural processes but that detail can be changed)

So diamonds might have a fair price of, to be generous, 1000 * times the cost of coal. So diamonds cost the ballpark of $50 per kilogram.

Obviously they don't right now, but it gets you thinking about the intrinsic value of diamond and how that price might move in the future.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317003 (37 comments)

================================

Other submissions with little or no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10214167

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10084484

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9938481

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799272

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321591

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9316025 (Oldest, at 230 days)
Genetic algorithms are not brilliant, but their results sometimes can be. I remember reading and article[0] about a researcher using genetic algorithms on FPGAs. One paragraph stuck with me through all these years:

"Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its methods, but what he found inside was baffling. The plucky chip was utilizing only thirty-seven of its one hundred logic gates, and most of them were arranged in a curious collection of feedback loops. Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest— with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output— yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones. Furthermore, the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of the same type."

Now, I agree with you that, even for a problem as simple as that one (or specially because it's a simple problem, maybe) a "normal" algorithm would perform better. But the fact that the genetic algorithm was able to find the effects of magnetic flux (those five disconnected logic cells) in that specific FPGA is nothing short of brilliant.

The problem I've always seen (not an expert, by any means, but I've played around with them a bit) with genetic algorithms is that they require a weird balance. For simple problems, a normal algorithm will probably work better. As the complexity of the problem increases, the scoring and evaluating rules' complexity increases as well (I've got no hard data, of course, but my feeling is that the complexity of the scoring process increases much faster than the complexity of the problem), making a well thought algorithm a better/easier solution. This, and that any mistake in the scoring process might throw away thousands and thousands of generations.

[0]http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
Introducing the Microsoft Graph
That is probably because you almost never see those couch potatoes on the street.
Transmitting with a blank SSID apparently. It just adds to the congestion on 2.4 GHz for no reason. For myself, it interferes with my wireless development activities. See this thread on the Comcast forum where folks are seeing all sorts of bad behavior.

http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Home-Networking-Router-WiFi/Xfi...
This is a very beautiful illustration of a woefully outdated algorithm. Its proportional selection operator was superseded in 1994 (at the latest) when Bäck published his comparison of selection operators. Its approach to crossover looks like an ad-hoc extension of binary crossover, which Deb improved on in the same year. It's using uniform mutation, although better options have been demonstrated by Evolution Strategies since the '70s, if not earlier.

But it's really fun to watch. I'll give it that.
Vuvuzela: Scalable Private Messaging Resistant to Traffic Analysis
You can get in a decent intense squat session in only 15 minutes.

The really big time sinks associated with lifting include:
- commute to/from gym
- changing clothes
- another shower

If you don't live in cramped quarters such as SF/NYC, I recommend a small home/garage gym to address these.
Yeah, just ask Stephen Hawkings
WinHex 18.5 Crack with Serial Keygen Full Free Download
At least a convenience feature for you: Enter a new URL, automatically post a message.

At the moment you seem to handcraft your comments.
Google+ goes completely responsive
I wonder about the intrinsic value of dollar notes.
The Times produced a great little app for seven-minute workouts, which apparently provide many of the benefits of more intensive exercise regimes and can be done entirely at home. The app: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/projects/workouts/ The science: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi...
http://doc.perl6.org/language/regexes

Read. Recite. Review.
0 is about as cold as you'll ever see? Except in half of the world?
Teaching Real-World Programming (2013)
170 hostages taken in Mali siege
If you're the type of person who read comments first, you might want to access the site via this link:

http://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2015/04/23/makelele-and-li...

It's a text book written as a blog and currently features 24 chapters / posts and for some reason the website really wants you to start at the end, instead of the beginning.

The above link is to the introductory post, where they introduce the course as a new way of looking at an under appreciated discipline, that is usually taught in an uninspired and counterintuitive manner, linear algebra.

More interesting is that the website is a call for phd students, and they have research position available, both paid and scholarships.
Very late in seeing this comment! It's a Netgear WNDR3700v4. DD-WRT is supported on it, and i did successfully get it installed, but I had no connection to the internet with it. There was a wiki page for my specific router model with instructions which I followed. I went back & forth with people on their forums and they were pretty much telling me "oh yeah, don't install that version that the instructions tell you to!" and "well yeah, this whole project is beta, so what do you expect?" All of that combined kind of turned me off to this project from now on :/
This kept reminding me of "Daring Greatly"

http://www.amazon.com/Daring-Greatly-Courage-Vulnerable-Tran...

This book addresses a lot of these issues in broader sense, so it applies to all areas of life.
"I learned how scope worked" does not imply that the author was previously unaware of the concept or didn't understand it at all, it just means that there was some aspect that she didn't fully understand until it was pointed out in the code review. I don't find that hard to believe at all. How many developers have you met that never had any questions or misunderstandings about, for example, the scope of `this` in JavaScript?
I think Azure is the one closest to have a simple service for web sites. I tried a free site with Node and it was really easy to get working. Azure also has a lot of the more advanced things that AWS and Google has which is very important for a lot of customers.
Which re2? I maintain a fork of re2 but it's not in there [1].

If you mention re2 the main cool feature about it is that it is efficient, matching in linear time using DFA. Unfortunately unicode strings need to be encoded to utf8 but if you can design your application to work with utf8 bytestrings you can avoid that cost.

[1] http://github.com/andreasvc/pyre2
Caloric value of paper or textile?
I always had a hard time figuring out how transducers are different "stream transformation" functions like map and filter.

I know that they are more complicated/powerful than that but I can't quite point that out precisely.
Kano: A computer and coding kit for ages 6-12
It would be useful to learn if the BSD folks and their successors, or the original Bell Labs/Unix folks share these personality traits. Has anybody dealt with Bob Cutler, who had much to do with VMS and NT? Bill Joy? Fred Brooks seems to have a different reputation, and he helped create an OS as well. Is it generational?

Being unable to alter one's personal-interaction style to reflect the interaction will shed talent, so it's only safe to do in a talent-rich environment (or an environment where the talent's constrained in some way). People working in what they consider hostile environments act to minimize stress, which results in fewer ideas, fewer discussions, way less criticism and crappier products. Or they walk.

Yeah, Linux development "works". It has sufficient talent to continue. Until it's displaced, we won't be able to tell whether it was run as well as it could have been.
Same as it is for coal - how long it takes to burn it. Which is a lot quicker.

On the other hand, flags, religious symbols, and monuments don't have a ton of intrinsic value either, but humans are funny that way, with their social contrivances.
Don't Blame Snowden for Terror in Paris
Facebook will now offer to hide your exes from you after a breakup
Why Venture Capital Is Toxic for Your Startup
Sure, but AWS don't exactly go out of their way to make themselves comprehensible. The need for an explainer just for their brandnames (https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english) demonstrates the problem.
I wonder what the reason is to include code in a release without documenting it. Maybe this article can form the basis for finally documenting this feature?

There's also the reverse with Python: useful code in the documentation not included in the standard library.
Pamatcher – A pattern matching library for JavaScript iterators
Right you are...

The people of Botswana don't even rate a mention in the article, they're likely not going to see a single dime of the proceeds which will be in the many tens of millions of US$.
Misleading title. This has nothing to do with privacy and encryption. Just to quote a couple of recent Pavel Durov's tweets: "To media covering us this week: Telegram channels are public broadcasts. They are the opposite of private chats. Please don't mix the two."... "Our policy is simple: privacy is paramount. Public channels, however, have nothing to do with privacy. ISIS public channels will be blocked."