skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parasites (round worms) in Africa boost fertility in women since they seem to suppress imuno-reactions paving the way for sperms.
(see Aaron Blackwell University of California)

Probably one reason why their fertility is with 4,7 children/women (2015) higher than 1,6 in EU.
http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1724/umfrage/w...
Prof. McIntosh passed away on Nov. 30 (as per the comments) hence my post
I agree. PHP isn't as sexy as node.js or rails. Though the project is using PHP 5.5.9, composer and the Laravel framework. It seems like author is making an effort to make good PHP code. The only thing he could have done to make the code base cooler for PHP was to use HHVM.
Have you checked out iiNet's VDSL2 (using the fibre they acquired with TransACT)? I had no clue it existed and only recently stumbled across it. Getting about 60/20 now.
Believe it or not, the science subreddits often contain high-quality comments that range from beginner/simplest to probably peer-level language.
It's a contest. It has specific rules to prevent a very specific type of synthetic advantage (training to the test set). This was about as cheating as it gets. That's why the company fired the guy in charge of the group that cheated.
Indeed. This is how I describe Subsonic to people as well. In fact there's quite a few of these solutions out there: Subsonic (and clones, eg Madsonic), Plex, Ampache, PlayOn, mpd (which has a plethora of supported web frontends). A lot of standalone players also support web frontends too, eg VLC. So it's quite an established market this is joining - which is great for us given the variety of choices we have available to us.
You can redirect dns names to localhost in your hosts file. Super simple.
I have an old Silicon Dust device and a couple scripts that record the shows I watch each week, transcode them and put them on the plex server. It's a _really_ simple setup, but for the two or three OTA broadcast shows we watch, it's not bad.
Acquiring ad clicks by deceiving people into thinking they aren't ads isn't an ethical business model.
Facebook also has 968 Million daily active users.

I just don't understand PHP bashers always using Facebook as a metric to bash PHP. "Oh PHP is so horrible, the second (sometimes even first ranked) most visited site on the internet had to write their own PHP-to-C++ transpiler to handle the load. Clearly PHP isn't a good choice for my 3 user site! I need that performance!"

Get over yourselves already. Every language has it's strengths and weaknesses.
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It makes upgrading them easy too.
Ipv6 traffic just shy of 10% of total
How good are you at guessing correlations from scatter plots? Test your skills
I keep thinking this fight is just a game of whack-a-mole. It's nice to reduce the impact but there's some really core issues with the model in the first place:

Embedding ads means embedding dynamic content from a third party server that was submitted by other people.

On top of that, Windows users having to download software off websites instead of common software being distributed through a repository doesn't help. The repository (aka "store") model has shown itself to work really well even in the mainstream, unfortunately the Windows store is atrocious.
Relevant:
"DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E
That's not any more unethical than Bacardi showing up at a bar and handing out Bacardi shirts for the staff and free rum to the patrons.
I see encapsulation as being more or less orthogonal to mutability. The main benefit is helping to preserve a consistent interface that doesn't expose much implementation structure. Functional languages are at least as capable of encapsulation as oo. It's just accomplished through namespaces instead of objects.
Honestly, the biggest and best move Google could make is to have certain categories of search results ad-free. No search result for a financial institution should include AdWords. There's too many phishing sites that get into AdWords. Same for specific download categories. If you search for "Adobe Flash Player download", you shouldn't get any results or ads that aren't adobe.com at this point.
Just for fun - in this image:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fP2f-Ru84xk/Vmdt_a1ebLI/AAAAAAAAA...

I'm pretty sure the domain is appspot.com, aka Google App Engine. I wonder how hard it would be to recover the rest...
Did you respond to the wrong comment? He says it's rubbish that the Clojure community is NOT into testing.
> I think the larger lesson here is that confidence is a good thing, but relying on it solely can fail miserably as a substitute for having actual knowledge about something.

Key word here is "can". In many leadership circumstances, it is impossible to know the right answer definitively. In those cases, it is best to choose what appears to be the best answer, and stick with it until you have overwhelming evidence otherwise. You need confidence to do that -- and in many cases, unwarranted confidence.

Leadership is all about putting yourself out there to be wrong. Many people are very risk-averse without someone else giving them permission, so you give them permission. But ultimately, who gave you permission? At some point down the chain, the answer has to be "I give myself the permission".

Like it or not, leadership is 90% confidence, 10% competence (and the 10% competence is largely around how well you learn from failure).
Hey @joeyspn - we might be able to get you the MIDI. Any chance you could email me at hello at [our company name] dot com?
Interesting this came up today. I was looking at maps of Greenland and then became reminded of how most of the maps we normally look at are wrong. (proportion-wise) Including the one in the article. Here is a Peter's map - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection

My point is Africa is huge.
I will go ahead and dislike this stupid comment instead.
I understand, suggestions still have issues. I listen to a lot of more obscurely specific genres, and sometimes will get just a couple of repeated songs if I make a radio based on a lesser-known artist.

That said, if you haven't given the Spotify Weekly Recommendations a shot -- you should. Maybe it's because it has more data to work with than song/artist/playlist-specific radios, but for me that feature has been extremely spot-on. In fact, I hadn't used spotify for a while because I kept hearing the same songs, but now I religiously keep on top of my discoveries each week.
Hey @m1sta_ - as I said to @joeyspn, we might be able to get you the MIDI! Could you email me at hello at [our company name] dot com?
I honestly don't know. It never crossed my mind. That's something I'm going to have to ask about. I don't know if this helps but the extra $1 is added to final price and we take commission of the final price. But thanks for bringing that up. Good to know early on before getting into legal problems. Don't want to be in trouble like Fan Duel and Draft Kings.
Rust also has Haskell's typeclasses in the form of its traits. I don't think anyone would go around claiming it's "Haskell based".

When I think Haskell, I think lazy evaluation and only providing purely functional type patternmatching predicates.
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> but I don't know how dynamic FP languages would help without sacrificing the benefits of OO?

Are the comparisons are hard to find online, or are they not addressing your exact issue? What benefits of OO do you think you'd be losing?
Hey @anigbrowl - great to hear. We can get you the MIDI - could you email me at hello at [our company name] dot com?
"No racism here."

Really?
> Lots of people are unhappy with the NBA and their heavy focus on superstars. Ticket sales are down, and fewer people are watching it on TV as well.

That's completely false on both counts. Ticket sales are at record levels [1] and last years NBA finals broadcast had the highest ratings since 1998 [2].

[1] http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2015/10/26...
[2] http://www.sbnation.com/2015/6/17/8795971/2015-nba-finals-tv...
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Nchan, a pub/sub module for Nginx: 64K websockets in .2sec
Once it gets bad enough, internet prices with skyrocket to compensate. or they'll link internet data caps to prices of cable tiers or some other such nonsense.
No, because automation has been replacing jobs for 150 years now, and the positive correlation with job creation could not be more clear.
Lets not speak of the fact the "West" had the Berlin conference in 1884-85 to divvy up Africa between themselves. And committed lots of atrocities against the native populations (see atrocities by Belgium in the Congo as an example). So much for high IQ and education.
Exactly. This is machine learning chapter 0 stuff. To think a team of machine learning (most likely) PhDs innocently misinterpreted the rules is naive. More likely, I imagine the researchers felt pressured to obtain results significantly enough to let their morals take the sidecar.
My experience is on high-performance sailboats rather than acrobatics, but single-rope seems to be the standard. You could imagine having two ropes for redundancy, but then not only would swiveling become more complex (at the sheaves, not the swivel), you would have something like twice the rope weight damping the movements of the acrobat.

Coming from a sailing background, another question would be: could they use synthetic/polymer ropes? Where cost is not much of a concern, things like Dyneema have taken over in a lot of roles.
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> Might have been an incorrect content-type header?

Thought that as well, and it seems like there are multiple type headers for ogg. But none worked :/ Also not those that worked on other sites, so I thought about Content-Length and errors in my logic when to transcode. Went nowhere.

> I'm looking into https://github.com/audiocogs to add AAC/other codecs to browsers with no support

If you can install that clientside, that is a great feature. I tried to transcode and stream stuff on the server using ffmpeg, and the big problem was content-length – when streaming I could only estimate the correct setting, leading to some songs being ended too soon. Could've changed by now ofc in the new browser version.
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> "The whole paid mod thing was really frustrating for us.
> Basically some people thought we kept it free for the wrong reasons.
> I know it's just a case of those who shout the loudest are the ones
> you'll hear but it was frustrating because we were certain people
> appreciated our work and now we're not so certain anymore.
> It feels like they only appreciated it as long as it they
> get it for free.
>
> "Even at the thought of players paying just one dollar - some began
> threatening us and some of the reactions were so over board.
> We heard the creator of SkyUI got death threats for what he proposed!"

It's sad that modding is limited to only the people that make a bunch of personal sacrifice like these guys who work 40-60 hour weeks full-time for free.

"Just add a tip jar", the first comment reads. Right, mate. You can head over to Wikipedia right now to see how hard it is to get people to give you money:

http://i.imgur.com/rOyVz43.png

I'd like to see Valve take another shot at baking mod monetization into the Steam platform.
But when you can request a copy of a cctv video, does that not become publishing? Seems very wooly to me.
After last week's discussion [1], I've made some improvements and bumped up this project from alpha to beta status. I've also run some benchmarks, and they're reasonably impressive. New subscribers, HTTP multipart/mixed and chunked-encoding, have also been added.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10685946
The racist part was the lack of sourcing for the statements above. I'm sure if the poster in question had stated sources for the various claims you would... Still call it racist?
Linux has had network audio support in various forms for a long time.

The default sound server for most distros (PulseAudio) supports TCP or RTP streaming. RTP supports multicast (and multiple multicast groups so you can break down your endpoints into multiple groups).

If you want airplay streaming, then there's shairport-sync ( https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync ) that also has multi-room support; each room can map to an ALSA target (which could be a virtual PulseAudio device pointing to a network target). Reportedly (at least when I last checked a few years back) there were some issues experienced compiling with PulseAudio - alternatively you could just run shairport-sync and native ALSA on each of your targets.

Just add a few Raspberry Pis, (and maybe some dedicated DAC boards if you're bothered about sound quality) and you're good to go.
There's two categories of bloatware, both of which Google can control:

- Google's bloatware. Google insists OEMs include like 20 Google services on every phone. Get rid of it. All of it. People want the Play Store, and if they want any other Google service, they can download it themselves.

- Third party bloatware. Google places dozens of branding and so-called 'quality' restrictions on how Android is shipped. At the very least, all pre-installed software should be uninstallable, and that's a reasonable consumer protection they could insist upon in the MADA. As another commenter said though, Google only uses the MADA to protect it's illegal monopoly, not to protect consumers.
I've been following this for months, and by my projection it should have cleared 10% this past weekend, but it didn't...
Recent weekly increases have been very impressive.
"The UN reckons that the share of Ethiopian women aged 15-49 who use some form of contraception has risen from 6% in 2000 to 40% last year."

What a remarkable statistic. While 40% is still far from ideal, it does show that the push for sexual education has been at least somewhat successful.
I'm happy to see Laravel being used for more and more projects and getting the credit it deserves as truly first-class framework -- regardless of language.
I think ideological conviction played a large part as well. You have to have a certain set of political beliefs to forsee interest in a deflationary currency without government backing.
Sorry to hear about your experience. We take abuse like this seriously. If possible, could you email me the names of the companies at amit@angel.co?
We were a group of mostly undergrads. Computer Science students.

What we did was meet once a week to discuss the reading and the exercises, or work through the exercises together. During the week we'd read the next few sections and try the exercises. Especially at first it was really slow and took a lot of effort as we weren't very comfortable with that form of logic (most of us had only previously taken an undergrad intro to discrete math class).

I personally like Isabelle very much, and if I were to start this with a new group of people I'd do it in Isabelle. Its Prover IDE in the form of Isabelle/jEdit is much nicer than Proof General or CoqIDE. I also think its presentation is a bit more immediately understandable for someone familiar with classical logic but not necessarily type theory. Isabelle/HOL is very natural from that perspective, imo.
> Apple's bread and butter are media consumers and not developers, in my experience it shows in the OS.

I mean, have you been to a developer conference lately? That wasn't a Microsoft conference? Did you happen to see any Macs there?

> Mac OS is primarily geared towards providing a "safe" home computer experience to the computer illiterate media consumers where user is protected from destroying their system by being passively prohibitive.

OS X has shipped with a complete Unix shell since 2001. Pretty much every dangerous command you can think of on Linux will execute the same way in Terminal.
It's an odd thing. Over the past year my wife has gotten a ton of stuff for free or near free. She just posts a review, indicating she was paid to do it (important). One example site is amzreviewtrader.com. It's so awesome to get so much stuff for free/cheap.

However I'm not sure it is good for consumers. She is honest in her reviews. But you are evaluated for each item you request to review, and it would be easy for an unscrupulous reviewer to only post positive reviews to appear as a better candidate.

At this point, it is so prevalent, maybe it's time for Amazon to offer something similar with tighter restrictions.
TL;DR: if you're not retired before QC becomes useful (which is likely), the "API" will have changed so much from now till then that you shouldn't worry about it.

Think of this as an algorithm on specific hardware for solving a specific problem. You can encode other problems into the specific problem, at a cost. Currently this algorithm on specific hardware is not as fast as state-of-the art algorithms on ordinary hardware (namely Selby's). But the people making this special hardware claim (no proof) that when the special hardware (and the problem size) is scaled up, the special hardware will be much faster than ordinary hardware. So far no-one has disproved this assertion, but no-one has proven or demonstrated it either.

Meanwhile, many other scientists and some companies, who refer to this type of special hardware as "dirty QC", are working on another class of special hardware they call "clean QC". This is mathematically proven to be much faster than ordinary hardware when it is scaled up, but it's very very very difficult to scale it up. But they're working on it and showing progress.

Right now, no-one knows if the "dirty" or the "clean" special hardware will be the first to be actually useful in the real world. It's likely the first useful real world application is more than ten years away. We don't know exactly what the application will be, or how the special hardware then will be programmed. It's also quite likely that most the people commenting here will be retired before access to the special hardware will be given to anyone but scientists.
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There is a actually a really nice program for startup founders the Australian government runs called NEIS (https://www.employment.gov.au/self-employment-new-enterprise...), but very few people know about it.

It's basically welfare for those starting their own company. You get paid the normal welfare rates (~$225AU per week in QLD) to start your company. You have to provide a basic business plan and meet up with a mentor once a month to ensure you're actually working on it, but other than that it's a free income stream.
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Wasn't Singapore also a a colony? How come it succeeded?

Genuine question.
A typical high rise building will experience some small fires during its lifetime that aren't structurally threatening. Is the wood building going to require more repairs or inspections in these cases?
It was probably more about vaccinations. Vaccinations in Africa started around WWII and that's also when the population started to climb.
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That doesn't scare me, it's about the same here in Austria - on top of 25% corporate tax, 25% tax on dividends (capital income).
Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch
I want to know this as well. I work on several different servers running SQL databases. I would like to install this on my dev machine and access my own local sql server database, the dev servers db and several others that I access via a VPN.
Spotify is all about Music Discovery. It is:

1. a music recommendation engine

2. social sharing of playlists

3. a music subscription service

To me, those are more important than the player itself -- in fact, I'd say #2 and #3 on that list are the defining aspects of Spotify for the general user, where #1 is more of a personal killer-feature for me.
I'm and american and I've never paid that much for even my combined internet and TV.
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Chris Kirk, the author of this piece, interviewed me briefly. I have to admit that when he told me he was writing his own email client for the story, he became my tech journalism hero.
Very detailed, recent article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/06/the-sports-...

ESPN costs cable subscribers about $40/month whether they watch sports or not. That's the real bubble; when those viewers cut the cable, that income will never come back.
> the benefits of OO?

For me understanding the greatness of FP was build on the understanding that there are no "benefits of OO".

Once I realized that the "abstractions of classes and inheritance" and "encapsulations of state in objects" (and other OO-paradigm pillars) where harmful, I started truly researching the alternatives.

I could go back to C --imperative, state-all-over-the-place, self-managed memory-- but it seemed like an impossible step in web development.

Quickly I found promise in languages like Clojure and Haskell. High-level enough for web development, yet faster them my trusted Ruby code, and seemingly more maintainable.

The main benefit of OO I know experience is it's popularity. Going from Java to Ruby is a lot easier then from Ruby to Clojure or Haskell. The good news: many OO languages are incorporating FP'isms, and allowing a functional approach to solve problems, this helps FP like myself newcomers quite a bit.

TL;DR: I came to the realisation that the benefits of OO where mainly theoretical and did not hold in practice. Main 'real' benefit of OO is its popularity.
Please don't resort to personal insults on HN.
While i also would like a world where i could host my own email server, you have to realize that the "nasty" labeling google is doing is the only reasonable way for a free service.
My prof told me about the university receiving about a terrabyte spam mail a day. Imagine what gmail gets with 90% of mail traffic being spam.
I don't know man, I visit sometimes hundreds of sites a day, if I had to pay even $1/day to visit a site, I'd be paying hundreds of dollars a day. I'd rather view an ad. I already pay out the ass for internet. I don't need to pay to view content on the internet too.
From the article:

>The declining birth rate elsewhere has brought the world to the verge of what Hans Rosling, a Swedish demographer, calls “peak child”

But then:

>The revision of population predictions for Africa partly reflects the fact that HIV/AIDS has not proved quite as catastrophic for the continent as seemed likely ten years ago.
Maybe they can all be refugees and flood the rest of the world.
There are a few industry options for the sciences but less so for the humanities, where tenure is intended to protect scholars who investigate and question things that the wealthy and powerful might find dangerous to their interests (e.g. Marxism).
As always, the article is a lot more nuanced than the headline. Stability, liberal government, and prosperity increase demand for and access to contraception. Eventually population stabilizes. The explosion from the headline is simply a forecast for growth to slow later than expected. But the message is that nobody really knows what's going to happen in Africa. News at 11.
RIP. He wrote Entanglement, one of the best books on the subject and highly recommend. Entanglement tells the astounding story of the scientists who set out to complete Einstein's work. With accesible language and a highly entertaining tone, Amir Aczel shows us a world where the improbable—from unbreakable codes to teleportation—becomes possible.
A hundred pages of brain dump here (the thesis for the project):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/02adjyvrsc4pdof/report.pdf?dl=0
To explain to non-Americans: $175 for "TV" doesn't mean just the typical channels you would receive over an antenna or clear satellite.

$175 is typically the largest premium package, which includes about 100-200 specialty/sports channels plus about 20-30 movie channels.