skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a thought experiment, if you imagine ring species in time almost anything can "breed" with almost anything else.

Eg each human can breed with a human in the previous generation. Each chimp can breed with a chimp in the previous generation. Right back to their common ancestor.

As long as there's a common ancestor, there should be a viable chain to be followed in most cases.
Would they transfer, say, £1000, or only much larger amounts?

I tried to find brokerage accounts, but either the rates were bad, or the minimum amounts too high.

It could be useful next year though, if I buy a house here.
Previously they ran their own stack based on OSM data, but they're now moving to use Mapbox's stack (which of course is also founded on OSM):

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapquest/
That's an example, not an analogy. It just so happens that the example is completely false.
As an historian of early modern medicine I absolutely love the historical component of this story and I trust the microbiologist's expertise regarding the efficacy of the cure. But I'm extremely skeptical about the resistance claim. First off, what evidence do we have that this cure was ever widely used in Anglo-Saxon times? We'd require not just its presence in Bald's Leechbook but the 9th century equivalent of actual treatment records, or some kind of material/archeological evidence like remains of this specific cure in drug jars (which so far as I know don't exist). Second, Anglo-Saxon England was basically a backwater in terms of the total human population of the time and was not particularly well integrated into larger global networks. If the cure was present in a Tang Chinese text or even something from northern Italy or the Byzantine Empire, it would be more convincing that it would have had far-reaching epidemiological effects, but with the existing evidence I think it's a huge leap to assume that it actually was used to treat enough people successfully that it resulted in widespread resistance.

Anyway, I still really enjoyed the Radiolab piece about this (I love that they met at a Viking re-enactment!) but I think the implications of this have been really distorted in the popular press. We'd need to know an order of magnitude more about the global disease environment in Late Antiquity to actually make any guesses about the impact of this cure at the time it was set down.
How did the car alert you that you were on your own (I don't own a Mercedes)? I'm curious as to how it indicates to you a rather important message about your immediate driving situation.
I don't know if that is exactly how I would describe the problem. It seems as though a majority of my highly skilled coworkers, management or senior engineer, are CONSTANTLY having people come into their office for advice. It's commonly known that if you have a problem or need help understanding something to go ask the resident "expert". These "experts" are bombarded with questions and visits so often it's a wonder they ever get their own work done.
Skylon does have the advantage of burning atmospheric oxygen at low altitudes, meaning it would have a significantly higher payload fraction than the Falcon 9.
I used to work at a place that did this. The only issue we ran into was memory was HELLA expensive on the z series boxes. It was to the point that it was cheaper to buy an hp server with 1TiB ram than get 16g of ram from the zaaps.

That and getting software to run on it was almost impossible. In the end we ended up moving everything to HP servers for a fraction of the cost.
I used to use http://runningmap.com/ to plan out routes for short-distance running in my neighborhood; but they stopped updating the site and my guess is their API key had gotten revoked as well.
Are TSA actions subject to judicial review?
I wouldn't know - I gave up on Haskell because of the cryptic syntax long before I got to the stage of hating on smaller syntactic details... I love a lot of concepts from functional programming, but I wish I could get them in a language with a syntax more like Ruby and very much less than Haskell.
At the "discounted" $275 (2GB version + EU shipping), it's more expensive than embedded x86 solutions (APU2b4 or Celeron N) while being less powerful and flexible (the power consumption is the same).

Still a nice toy to play with, especially with all the connectors it offers and I can see this being a hit with iOS fans since it's supposed to be super easy to administer using their custom GUI and video tutorials, so worth the asking price.
This debate does not even scratch surface. And I find it bit unsettling.

Most Europeans could claim Neanderthal ancestry, because they shared genes. Question if Neanderthals were human is not even theoretical.

Last Neanderthals walked 35K BC. There are tribes which were isolated for 50K or more years. In theory they have a huge genetic difference, also their morphological difference is big, Does that mean they are separate species? Species are often recognized by their shape rather than genes, for example grizzly and polar bear have practically identical genes.

And great apes? I find it insensible to make them humans, when 50% world population does not have even basic human rights. In Western Countries dogs have more rights than many people.

Bet lets assume that great apes are humans. Does it mean they have legal obligations? Could chimpanzee go to prison for torturing animals (bush babies). What if gang of chimpanzee kills other human?
I guess you should want them, if you want to continue moving towards total loss of freedom and privacy.
Well, if the creators are so precious and the "middlemen" - not, why just not stop using the "middlemen"?
You can, but IMO it's not so necessary. The module boundary thing doesn't cause many issues in practice is straightforward to reason about if you're aware of it.

(And if you weren't aware of it you would probably not use `UnsafeField` either, since the compiler can't force you to do that)
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It's kind of like conventional depreciating capital assets like buildings. A building requires maintenance, utilities, taxes, repairs and so on. If your building is too large for your needs, the costs can become a debilitating albatross round the neck of the business. There have been plenty of European aristocracy bankrupted by having a house that was too big.

In programming terms, it's very tempting to say, "this room is untidy, I'm going to build a new one." It's certainly more fun than tidying your room. But this is how you get sprawl and bloat.
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Everyone can write code after 6 months of bootcamp. Not everyone can read code. You're complaining about reading code, which is 90% of what developers do on a daily basis. 10% of what developers do is write code. With of course the rare exception that you're architecting something from the ground up.

If you can write code but you can't read, than I'm sorry to say that you are not a good developer.
I recommend taking an active interest in becoming a documentarian. Document things as you go, create wiki pages. While unrewarding, this task usually never goes unnoticed. IMO, understanding why things are the way they are makes one a better programmer.

Not sure about you but when I had history classes in school I was totally bored and could not appreciate it. But these days, I wish I had paid more attention. It really is a lot of fun to know historical facts and why things came to be and why they are the way they are.
The problem is with humans it's fairly clear most of the time who made the error. It's either human 1 or human 2 99% of the time. With self driving cars it becomes software 1 or software 2... And at that point it's extremely difficult where to point the blame.
Read about UXKit; Apple did limited work on porting a small set of UIKit to OS X. But it's hardly complete or ready, and I don't think it's under active development as a possible public framework.
Thanks for clarifying so this is a rework of UIKit for OS X?
Rather than an layer over AppKit to make it "the same" as UIKit.
So a drunk mode that need the drunk to acknowledge that he/she is drunk and voluntarily initiate drunk mode? I don't think drunks are the best judges of whether they are drunk, or their driving ability. The law agrees. For drunk mode to be safe, to properly make a dent in the drunk driving problem, it has to actually prevent them from taking the wheel even when they want to, especially when they want to. Otherwise all the confident drunks, the alcoholics, wil keep taking to the road.

This is important because so many of the "human factor" mistakes cited by autodrive proponents actually begin with alcohol/drug use. If the human really cannot be trusted, the car has to take away his authority.
The result of the symbolic derivation grows faster than linearly, as you can see from the Product rule for example.

As a result, while the evaluation is linear with input tree size, the tree it is evaluating is typically much larger than the input expression.
I was recently wondering how the insurance industry will respond to self-driving cars. When self-driving vehicles are a small percentage of the market, it helps reduce their claims. When the entire grid is self-driving, the industry will be much smaller. We're probably at least 40 years away from that, but it still should happen someday.
>The bigger story I don't see much mention of in the press is the growing dilemma facing Europe. Do they ally themselves with America or the growing East.

From what I see, it looks like they're going to ally themselves with the middle east/north Africa and adopt the culture from there.
Groovy! Nice to see how design tastes and trends have changed in the past years. Would be cool to add more info about each shot (views/likes etc)?
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"You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie!"

As for booting the Republicans, the American people have now happily elected the GOP into power in both houses of Congress, and they've sent a bill to the White House repealing ObamaCara/ACA. Of course, it was vetoed by Obama, but given that the GOP controls most state legislatures and governorships and Congress, I fully expect a Republican to win in the 2016 election, so we can look forward to more Bush-style mismanagement.
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> It is worth keeping in mind that even without automatic vehicles, vehicle deaths have and will continue to fall massively.

Fair enough and I completely agree it's just not falling fast and far enough for me :)
There is a bunch of laws that govern what someone who has innovated, developed, and authored can and can't dictate; they're called "intellectual property laws". Even if they've collected it, Google does not own information about the road system; facts themselves, like "Road A exists at lat X and long Z", cannot be copyrighted.

See Feist v. Rural Telephone for more on this. The only reason application of Feist is generally limited in cases of online access is because we have a theory that accessing a publicly available database containing phone numbers is akin to accessing someone else's private property, and therefore they can dictate whatever they want under theories like trespass to chattels, whereas consulting a printed telephone book in your home is decidely not accessing the phone company's property.

This is a pernicious, subtle issue now that we're becoming so dependent on online access provided by someone else's servers instead of accessing printed documents that we possess in our homes. Possession is 9/10 of the law, as they say. We need to rethink how "possession" applies to digital resources.

Likewise, there are laws around how much access a private property owner must grant to members of the public, especially if that property owner is running a business that is generally accessible to the public. Private property owners are allowed to declare some people trespassers, but each jurisdiction has different laws surrounding what the public can do on private property and when a trespass is allowable. For example, California's state constitution guarantees the right to hold reasonable protests in private shopping centers that are generally accessible to the public, whether the property owner likes it or not.

No one is saying there is a requirement for another business "to help invest" in any other; there may be requirements not to interfere with someone else's business by attempting to block what is otherwise public and freely available access to non-copyrightable information.

IANAL.

Routebuilder is fortunate that OpenStreetMap has collected much of the same data and that they can just code against a different API and continue to operate.
It should be quite easy to port your app to use leaflet.js[1] and openstreetmap/mapbox.

[1] http://leafletjs.com/
The fact that you did not know about his existence does not change his impact on music and culture or undermines his significance. There are a lot of people that you do not know that had huge impact on different aspects of culture.

>>Nor do I see a hacker theme.

I am not sure who defines what is "hacker theme" and what is not. Number of up-votes shows that people on HN want to see this topic here. If person of huge cultural significance dies, that impacts all subcultures, including "hackers".
I highly recommend Trading & Exchanges, by Larry Harris. He walks through many kinds of transactions from end to end, with concrete examples, in plain language.
Happy to install the app, just give me a direct apk and don't force me to use Google's Play Store.
There is a decent amount of convergence in game development, since Sprite Kit has SKView, SKColor, etc. (whose base classes vary by platform but most methods are the same) and important frameworks like AVFoundation are identical.

The Mac has shown hints of iOS influence when looking at recent changes to NSViewController and the addition of other standard view-controller-based classes.

Realistically, though, I like Apple's separate-but-similar approach. I don't want Mac applications shoehorned in from iOS by lazy developers, I want applications that were actually written for the desktop.
eBay did a great thing in this regard -- they offered a sabbatical every five years. It was a win for the employee because they got a nice long vacation and it was a win for the organization because it forced everyone to figure out how to get along without that employee for an extended amount of time.
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I couldn't find a free/painless utility to download e-mails from an Outlook Web App (OWA) http://office365.com/owa/ account so I wrote this crude script to do the job.
Not to mention the work of the people around them in the near-ubiquitous open offices.
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There's no real size difference if you gzip it at the webserver.
Typically C++, Java or C#, although the technology in the currencies trading world has generally lagged behind say, US cash equities where exchanges are catering more to electronic customers (a substantial portion of the currency trading user base is still trading manually).

Reuters changed over to a more modern platform around 2013, but prior to that for electronic trading they would basically designate a Windows host for you that ran their GUI application plus a server, which you could connect to and would just forward your requests via COM to the UI.
How does this compare to, say, a Q&A site where one gets positive feedback for answering random questions? Is the reason why people leave because they cannot do the work that they want (time used up in collaboration) or is it because they are not being given credit for the work they are doing?
Brilliant. Cash out now before the music became a stranded asset.
"Also, using Redis as a key-value store for its persistence isn't really a great idea."

Could you please elaborate on this point? I'm thinking of using Redis precisely in that manner and would love know about the drawbacks.
I thought the exact same thinng.
You seem to reason that anything that is not available on your terms is fair game for piracy.

IBM can do whatever they like with their IP.
This comment adds nothing to what was said above. Capitalists started out advantaged at the advent of modern commerce and have accrued gains.
do you care to fill in the logic between your start and end? I don't really follow the leap. It seems the tools we use to determine fault now, frail though they may be, are equally sufficient no matter which bundles of electrical fields are controlling things.
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I used this site, and I have to say, I was impressed. I would have to say that the amount of startup data and jobs they have compiled is unparalleled except by angel.co, but StartupSort has a MUCH better UI that makes it easier to actually find jobs that are of interest and in the right region.
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You are indeed correct, but I fail to see what WebGL support has to do with pointing out another library that uses the Flash display list concept. I wasn't saying one was better than the other.
This is the tool the viusalisations are made with: http://ssz.fr/places/

You can pick different countries and run your own expressions against them.
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VC don't care that much about middleware anymore...
x86 is great if you want to go full UTM with your firewall and need a couple of VPN connections. These "apps" need CPU and RAM.

As mentioned above, check out pfSense and OPNsense.
I'm curious how this will perform in the real world since humans also cannot see the lane markings but, unlike the system described in the article, do not refer to stored or ad hoc environment mapping and instead operate on an entirely improvised "lanes by consensus".
Here is a visualisation comparing the "ingen" towns of Baden-Württemberg and the "ing" towns of Bavaria:

http://ssz.fr/places/?de#ingen$/ing$/
The insurance industry would disappear. If you own and manage your own self-driving vehicle fleet, you're going to self-insure.

https://usinsuranceagents.com/answers/3251/what-is-self-insu...
Why should anyone ever use a Google API ever again?

Because you get a free high quality Maps API to use for a decade? What else would you have used in 2006?
True but those who worked with those systems still have relevant mobile knowledge. Optimizing for various screen resolutions, working with many implementations by OEM providers that have slight differences (Android), etc.
Really looking forward to this dropping! Writing complex data out of spark jobs is super easy, but getting it back into strongly-typed-Scala has been a big pain point.

The experimental release is a bit broken though, encountered a pretty big bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12714
Anyone still finds Google relevant for anything? They are making sure nobody wants to be their friend again. Search got so bad in the past few years ("bbut our metrics show it's more relevant than evar!") that DDG doesn't even have to try. Sad.

Lately if I want to watch YouTube, I have to agree to their privacy policies. If I turn off everything, I have to do the same a few days later. Antipatterns everywhere...

What happened to you guys? We want the great old Google back please!
The problem with that is that Americans are so irrational and polarized that you can't discuss anything with anyone. If you try discussing issues with one person, they'll start ranting about FEMA concentration camps and mass graves and how Obama is going to declare martial law any day now, but with another person they'll rant about microagressions and safe spaces.
Safe software would be a huge accomplishment towards safe systems.
On the flip side, with software you have logs. It's much more clear what actually happened and when, who acted first etc.
Would you pay $20 for a graphic novel inspired by real coding concepts?
> UXKit has not moved at all.

This is speculation, unless you have inside information, UXKit could well be under active development - we don't know.
NSA themselves have used Dual_EC_DRBG (which can be distinguished from a PRF even if you don't have the 'backdoor key': it's not just backdoored and slow, it's bad - and they know that). GCHQ behaves even worse and is at this point almost entirely out of control.

In either case, I feel information assurance and signals intelligence arms really should never have been the same agency: they are roles entirely at odds with each other and do not seem to even have their own governments' equities properly balanced, nor their recommendations always having been given in good faith. So be cautious drawing any conclusions from their advice.

Unfortunately, that is not the sort of 'reform' that either government is interested in, particularly my own. It's quite depressing, really.
Summary: The chip's impressive speed gains are because it uses on-chip SRAM instead of off-chip DRAM.

The chip is able to fit much more into SRAM because the chip uses network compression, pruning, quantization, Huffman encoding, etc.
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My college roommate was the maintainer of Hercules, the z/OS emulator.

See: http://www.hercules-390.eu/hercfaq.html

2.01 Can it run z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE?

Yes. Hercules is a software implementation of z/Architecture, and so it is capable of running z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE. Hercules also implements ESA/390 (including SIE) and so it can run OS/390, VM/ESA, and VSE/ESA, as well as older versions of these operating systems such as MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, MVS/SP, MVS/SE, VM/SP, VSE/SP, and DOS/VSE.

But (and this is a big but), these operating systems are all IBM Licensed Program Products, whose conditions of use generally restrict their usage to specific IBM machine serial numbers. So you cannot just copy these systems from work and run them on your PC, as this would almost certainly be a violation of your company's licensing agreement with IBM.
(With the enormous safety benefits of self-driving cars) Maybe it won't be worth it to assign blame? It's happened before with no-fault insurance.
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Plan9's Acme text editor [1] was based on ideas from Oberon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_%28text_editor%29

That's my screenshot :)

Acme is available for Unix likes via plan9port [2] and for Windows via Acme-sac [3] (Inferno running with Acme instead of the window manager)

[2] https://swtch.com/plan9port/ but also see your distro's package system, it might be in there already

[3] https://code.google.com/p/acme-sac/
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I can add Scheme Bricks:

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Scheme%20Brick...
I'm glad you made this comment because it's important to understand why this attitude is harmful. If people believe what you're saying, then they're less likely to attempt to steer their communities in helpful ways. Strong opinions that are widely distributed act as a frame of reference that lets people start from a common base of knowledge and explain where their opinions differ. I can now say, "I name my Clojure functions like Stuart Sierra, except for two differences..."

More people need to present their opinions as the best way to do things.

Some useful, widely-cited examples:

- https://github.com/airbnb/javascript

- http://12factor.net/
It's pretty easy for those overly successful coworkers (I've been such a folk) to setup a knowledge collaboration platform, like a wiki, and share this way the knowledge and let people read it instead of asking per email or phone.

That's what I did. It doesn't really make sense to answer each and everyone individually.