skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. But you could take the cancer pill and then get a heart attack, or dementia, or become suicidally depressed etc. Will we make a pill for all those things as well?

I'm not at all saying we should give up on cancer research (I'm doing a PhD in the field at the moment). My point in the last paragraph is this: prevention is applied to healthy people, but taking pills to prevent a disease is quite an odd notion of 'being healthy'. We should think carefully if the pills4prevention paradigm is going to deliver us the sort of outcomes and lifestyle we really want. I worry that the whole idea encourages an almost absurdly narrow and reductionist view of human health.
Noble intent, but I fear these kids will be in the sights for a long time now.
No. It shows that the four individuals sequenced from this time (~3000 to 4000 years ago) who died in Ireland had significant middle eastern ancestry. It is not a sampling of the Irish population at the time, nor even a likely representivive sampling of the ancestors of the modern Irish population. All it tells us for certain is that some of the people living in Ireland at the time had middle eastern ancestors.
Not to travel.
The central banks were created to bail out commercial banks who got greedy a la Merry Poppins
As a Texas and Dallas native, I am so happy to see stuff from Dallas on HN. Dallas and Fort Worth have some really interesting startups showing up in the biomed area, so it's cool to see something more conventional getting traction. There's the elephant in the room that all of the talent is in Austin, which is quasi-confirmed when you see a 3rd party developed their core tech. Not sure I like that, but hey at least we're on the map.
I also work at OpenCorporates and work alongside NGOs and investigators on stories as the data we have can be essential in tracking chains of corporate control and expose links to corruption. We have a community of botwriters and researchers who specifically go after datasets that are hard to find/scrape but are valuable e.g. financial licenses, businesses licenses etc. We're on slack if you're interested to see what's happening in our community: http://slack.opencorporates.com/
It basically shifts the argumentation from an Audi scandal (more Audi engines than VW engines were involved, and Audi came up with this trick) to Bosch, the maker of the ECU and its model, which is disassembled here. At least that is what I understood from the presentation.

The car makers just adjust the parameters of the ECU via CAN a2l files. The Bosch model already includes the "low temperature cheating" mode, which is probably called "Akustikfunktion". The legal question is who really produces this ECU model SW, Bosch or someone else. The parameters from the car makers just use this cheating mode, bypassing NOx control.

Almost every single car tested had too high NOx emissions, when not being run on the european test cycle on the dyno.
Wasn't me with the downvote, but just as a friendly comment, you do come off a little "if you knew more, you'd feel as I do" with this comment. Maybe, as another suggests, focus more on information and provide some links?
Can you explain this? Why would Microsoft have less incentives to make a good AV for their OS?
Looks like this sends your mails to a remote engine
https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#runn...

--> DO NOT USE IT.

Unless you're fine with it. I'm not!
I just tried install in Ubuntu 15.04 on my new XPS 15 and it turned into a brick--can't even get into BIOS. Nor can I boot from USB because the interwebs told me I needed to disable them to get them working again--somehow they were disabled during the install process.

Hopefully, I can return and get an inspiron or HP.
For a beginner I'd say Pascal is more approachable than Python and even BASIC. Free Pascal 3.0 (http://www.freepascal.org/) runs on lots of platforms and Lazarus (http://www.lazarus-ide.org/) gives you a visual development environment.
I clicked on the extension link earlier and it was still available in the webstore for installation. If they pulled it, I may have had a different opinion.
A support channel is now online at #fastflux on Freenode IRC.
Examples? I gave the homepage a serious and close read, and I still don't understand what I'd do with this.
Your comment suggests you've never lived in a country where you would want/need to exchange your currency.

The smart money (I.e. politically well connected) gets to exchange their money. As soon as every one else finds out, capital controls have been introduced.

The politically well connected, usually, get to continue exchanging their money at an artificial rate.
True, but I think if you made a video shareable by providing a straight up arrow icon that would then show a secondard submenu above it with the word sync as one of the options that would generate a hardlink that you could then email to them, that might be a good interface for our generation.

Then the more aged user would get the link, click on it, and it would open a browser window and inform them that this was a movie being shared with you by (your name) and to click on a link to join the viewing party. It would not be like the normal Netflix interface as you'd not be able to escape the shared viewing to browse, etc. and the title of the window would be "Shared Video: (name)" or similar in case it were bookmarked. You could go back to that shared video at anytime, similar to how Google Hangouts can reuse a hangout.

That should be simple enough in-theory for older people to get, at least as many of them that would be using it.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't work with all of the Netflix-ready devices. :( That's the problem with smart TVs and set top devices vs. browsers- you just can't innovate like that as easily.

But, it shouldn't stop Netflix from providing this feature in their browser and app versions that they have the ability to update.
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Will check that out!
It will be a huge loss (not monetary) for a lot of people if foursquare closed the shop.

Their database is pretty much unbeatable when you want to search for meaningful places - a.k.a places people actually go to.

In addition, that database can be used for accurate analysis of different vectors, like product sales predictions[1].

It really seems like they waited too long to monetize, and unfortunately decided to go all-in on the social & gamified route. The problem is that even some Xcorp buys them, it's only a matter of (short) time until all that data will be practically stale, and getting people into the check-in frenzy will be difficult.

EDIT: With that being said, I'm glad they're at least taking a down-round since it means them, and investors, actually believe they can turn things around.

[1] https://medium.com/foursquare-direct/right-on-target-foursqu...
Good news then. There is no shortage of speedup when we stop considering all memory being equal.
Subtitles are available on both web and mobile apps, most (if not all) titles have subtitles available.
From the myths of the Gods to the Sci-Fi of the modern age. Stories inspire and give life to technological advancement just as much as technological advancement gives rise to stories.
Thanks for the Judea Pearl reference.
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Meet the People on Team Human
I agree that politicians make some terrible and downright malicious decisions (namely TTIP) and citizens should have more power (stop NSA, anyone?), but some decisions are best left to the specialists. Utopian government should be some kind of a mix between democracy and technocracy imho.
An anecdote to answer your question: in Lithuania (where I live), few elections ago, the most vote received a party consisting of the local TV and pop stars that, no need to say, had absolutely no clue about politics. Of course, they didn't last long and only caused few months of turmoil.
Both the ruling class and the public of the 21st Century United States have a great deal of emotional investment in pretending that we are some sort of hyper-equitable nation, governed wisely by the public in the interests of freedom and the general good, instead of our government being a plutocratic shit-show.
Tech Innovation in China
Don't know why, but I got a particularly special giggle from the Rdio mention. Thanks :)
Since the author of the article did not even bother linking to the teenagers' website or even showing some screenshots of the app, here are some links:

- The Five-O app on Pinetart Inc. (the teenagers' company) website: http://pinetartinc.com/?p=44

- The Five-O app on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.five_o

- The "international contest for justice-related initiatives" mentioned in the article: https://innovatingjustice.com/en/pages/innovating-justice-fo...
As someone with basic knowledge of FPGA structure and how HDLs work, does anyone have a link on the limitations of FPGA-implemented processing vs traditional CPU/GPU architecture?

I get the sense there's a hole in my knowledge as to exactly what kinds of limits the structure of FPGAs places on the end result. And more importantly, why.
If you have a team with 10 programmers, only 1 of them needs to be smart enough to pick the right tools for the other 9.

Also, I think tools are converging in the most important areas. So eventually it will not matter much which tools you use.
Very happy memories. I spent so much time in Radio Shack when I was a teenager that it started to feel like home. Friend of mine wrote the first machine-language program I ever saw, "Mountain Mission". You basically controlled the elevation of a cannon and it shot at things on a mountain. Radio Shack put it in their software catalog. I think he made several hundred bucks.

I feel sorry for folks learning to code today. I was thinking about creating a course to teach folks to program, and it occurred to me that a more useful course might be along the lines of "How to set up and run 'hello world' in various configurations" You could have a section on each O/S, and then exercises would cover the top 5 or 6 languages.
The lack of FTL and time required to get anywhere in the outer reaches of the solar system, the hypothetical but plausible antimatter-beamed power, the rogue sub-dwarf planet, are lots of similar small details. (I won't say more lest I risk spoiling the plot.)
Maybe in mechanical engineering, but definitely not in physics ;-)
Then you should educate yourself, as they are running JIT and AOT code.

I can provide links for product documentation and real products if you wish.
It's not their business, it doesn't make them money. They don't need to be competitive. They do what they need to do to protect their users (from clogging their hotline). I don't mean to say they do poor AV on purpose (or that it's poor in the first place). They just don't invest that much in it and as a result the protection is on a different level when compared to other major AVs.
I remember as a teenager in the mid 2000s my sweet old grandmother gave me this book she found lying around because she didn't understand it but she knows I'm into "those computer things". It was the manual that came with the TRS 80 explaining how to use BASIC. It came with some example programs. It was an amusing glimpse into a bygone era but ultimately I declared the book to be hopelessly outdated trash. I kind of wish I had kept it.
As far as a researched opinion can tell. I recall not knowing what differences would be and if it would be more inconvenient or demand other changes in my interaction in the future. I ultimately decided it wasn't worth it, and an app experience I used occasionally became never.
- DBeaver: Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MongoDB, etc.
http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/
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Colorado's pot industry is a cash business. A credit union wants to change that
Target Will Buy, Exchange Unwanted Gift Cards
If MarkZ is really serious of providing free Internet in India. He has 2 options:

1. Provide free access to non-profit sites like Wikipedia & Indian Govt sites that will help the people. This is in a gray area as Wikipedia in non profit org and Govt sites do not profit from the access of people.

2. Provide very Indian user free 200mb internet connection. The user can access any site they want. With some browser like Opera Mini that takes less bandwidth.

The point MZ refuses to understand or acts like he does not understand is that if his version of service starts, the "next-Facebook" will not have any chance in India. Hope he does not forget that Facebook itself was the "next-Orkut" & "next-myspace".
I remember ordering the information kit on the Rekursiv somewhere around the end of the eighties and going through the material.

In hindsight I am glad we didn't proceed ;)

[edit]

As an aside, this was in the time of the Transputer which also originated in Great Britain, so it was not too far fetched that the Rekursiv could be able to fly.

The Transputer OTOH did fly -- onboard the JAS 39 Gripen ;)
I'm all for conventional treatment - I'm a medical oncologist, administering conventional treatment is my day job. But prevention isn't a treatment for a disease, it's supposed to keep us healthy, which is a fundamentally different goal.
IfItWereMyHome.com: Your Life in a Different Country
Oh, I don't mean to besmirch the quality of the content of their books. It's not the books that people dislike, it's the company and some of their business practices - epecially the journal publishing side of things.
Germany gives green light to bicycle highways
Google Glass 2.0: first pictures emerge
It all depends on the value of your Bitcoin and what you use is for. Are you saving Bitcoin for hopes of future increase in value, do you trade it frequently or do you use Bitcoin to purchase goods and services. With that said the safest method is a paper wallet. But a paper wallet makes it difficult to buy,sell and use Bitcoin frequently. I have found that the solution that works best for me is a combination of storage alternatives. A paper wallet for saving your bitcoin (think of it like money in a bank vault), a coinbase account for buying and selling frequently (like a brokerage account) and a iPhone app for small purchases (like pocket money).
Google Glass: Has Google learned from its past mistakes?
The economist podcast covered similar issues, and noted that there is ~4% credit card penetration in India - that the local delivery services had had to work out how to take cash on delivery as the main means on income - I shudder to think of Amazons CFO shuddering to think of that.

I will be surprised if Amazon can do more than maintain a token presence outside of major cities, but I am sure they have plans.
IMHO, the issue is that Corel's and Samsung's products were clearly and intentionally designed to imitate other successful products in order to mislead consumers. There are different opinions on whether this should be acceptable or not (obviously, the corporation that just had their flagship product ripped off thinks it completely unacceptable). Trade dress and seemingly stupid patents are just ways for corporations to fight this in court.
This is not as it seems. http://www.businessinsider.com/baml-warns-of-gaps-in-sales-a...
Majority of Android smartphones bought over holidays were phablets
Show HN: TurboRLE – Turbo Run Length Encoding using SIMD
Higher education has been ripe for disruption since the 90s, but that disruption hasn't happened.

A lot of the ideas that are currently being floated around in the online space are pretty well-worn. In fact, I've seen very little progress in this space, compared to other industries. Not much has changed aside from self-driven 'autodidact learning'. And, that's kind of mind-boggling considering the supply and demand curves. There's huge inelastic demand for higher education and very limited supply (capacity).

The toughest nut to crack is the accreditation and pedigree issue. If you can figure out how to get most (or even some) hiring managers (or grant-funding bodies, or even moms and dads) to give more weight to credentials that aren't the traditional diplomas, you'll be in a good spot.
Tweaking Max Block Length and Block Length Interval for SelfControl App
The parent commenter for my post was seemingly talking about how English orthography is non-phonemic as an example of why "any language" has the property that you described, so I was just trying to point out that this isn't always the case.

I guess the odds are extremely low that people who don't speak a language will get much benefit from access to names (etc.) in its writing system or from the fact that an orthography is regular enough that they could learn it quickly. And I didn't mean to contradict you directly on your original point, but I think I would disagree on a narrow point. Learning a language, speaking a language, and so on, are not binary propositions, and providing information like native spellings can help current and prospective language learners, as well as people who are just curious about a language. I don't speak Italian, Japanese, Bulgarian, or Chinese, but I've spent some time studying their writing systems and could sometimes gain information from non-transliterated written information in those languages. (But it's true that most people don't exhibit much curiosity about languages they don't speak, nor propensity to learn more about them or their writing systems, so it's not clear that these possibilities are a strong argument for an editorial policy of presenting native scripts.)
In SAS model w/ no voip, a call needs to be made from call center to SAS system that manages call. They both need one to connect customer to call center and another call center software to agent.
This CEO thinks the biggest problem facing European entrepreneurs is bad advice
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processing may be a nice alternative. very small boilerplate to have a graphical/interactive program running, and a cute ide to keep your sketches. https://processing.org/
If that Dallas to Houston bullet train goes through, it'll be a huge win for Texas tech. Especially if it beats Musk's / Cali's hyperloop plans.
Interestingly enough, ancient Scottish legends do claim that they came from the Middle East via Spain and Ireland - this is mentioned in the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath:

"They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous.

Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today."

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/the-text-of-the-declaratio...
The Internet Archived has referenced this full scan of the book on PDF.yt: http://pdf.yt/d/KIkLrSPi_3lzPl5v

No idea how legal this is though, download at your own risk.
Microsoft maintains the recovery key of your new PC
GWT widgets are no longer recommended, and they plan to stop including them in GWT 3.0. The good side of GWT is using it for evwrything else. You can use it with GWTPolymerElements and make your app more mothern. Or you can use it with Errai for some serious enterprise capabilities.
Cool lifestyle. Done some of that kind myself.

>I noticed when I focus for 3-4 hours on some tough problem, then interrupt and do something completely unrelated or sleep, I get surprisingly many ideas quickly leading me to a solution. If I just sit in front of a monitor, it might take a week to solve the same. Weird, but works for me.

I don't think it's weird. There are many anecdotes of that sort of thing being helpful with work, particularly mental work involving problem-solving.

E.g.

>"and do something completely unrelated or sleep"

The German chemist Kekulé discovering the structure of benzene in a dream - read about it in school chemistry class:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9#The_ourobor...
Its an AOT compiler which does qualify as a JVM of sort. It takes Java bytecode and allows you to run it which is really the main "concept" of the JVM. It includes a GC and the basic semantics of the Java language (e.g. like GWT).
I do wonder if the app becomes popular and then an officer recognizes the kid in a pull over or situation how it will influence the interaction.
The article discusses "why" they created the app, but other than the fact that they're mostly self-taught, there's nothing on the "how". Information on their tech stack or how they're aggregating information would have been interesting to read about.
I'm glad to see that a lens flare photoshop filter is still a rite-of-passage in design just like it was back in late 90s :)

Joking aside, this will have same terrible bias as BBB - bad reviews will be the only ones making it in. I am right up there with thinking cops significantly (and often) overstep their bounds but this is treating a symptom not the root cause.
A cop's going to mess with a couple of kids because he might recognize them as having created an app? That makes no sense at all.
"Well, you sleep 8 hours a day. Then you play 2 hours with your children, spend 1 hour with your wife. Wtf do you do the remaining 13 hours?"

8 hours sleep, 2 hours with children, 1 hour with wife, 10 hours doing work and commuting to support them? 3 hours extra to exercise, doing various errands, and maybe more quality time with your wife. Not that I don't understand what original quote meant to say, but you operate a little different when don't have a shitload of money.
The real reason they couldn't find anything when Googling the language in the future is because of the inconvenient naming. Every time I search for Crystal, I have to pick out the results from SAP Crystal Reports.

I wish more people took this aspect of their projects seriously. You don't need a short domain name, but your project does at least need to be Googlable.
the best way to police the police is to be aware of your local wire tapping laws and roll video.
> Both of you are correct. The problem with direct democracy these days is that it ignores the power of mass media, which is to say it ignores the influence of money on a statistically significant portion of the voters.

That's why the example of the 2005 French referendum is so important. All of mainstream politics were campaigning for "Yes". All of media, papers, TV, radios were exclusively campaigning for "Yes". However, the "No" vote won by a comfortable margin 55% to 45%, and the campaign for the "No" almost entirely took place on the internet and social networks.
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There are online tutorial portals dime a dozen. What is the assurance that the one that you have zeroed in is the best one for you? www.facetofacestudy.com
They did make money, but in the later years most of them moved on to consoles where money was at.
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This is a great article focusing on the same new possibilities I wanted to cover creating What Web Can Do Today (https://whatwebcando.today). The gap between native apps and the web exists and probably will exist, especially until Apple's strategy doesn't change dramatically, but that's quite unlikely now.

The set of APIs available is quite broad, though, not limited to what was mentioned here, and growing quickly. The hybrid apps are the option, but I find it a bit half-arsed workaround with all the cons of the installed apps and all the cons of the web. Investing in the web is the way to go!
Scratch is the only thing I've gotten my kids interested in: https://scratch.mit.edu/

Unfortunately, it didn't last long.