skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently the BBC use exact-quotes instead of scare-quotes. More details in this previous thread about an article in The Guardian: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6446811
>>But since I like to feel full and I enjoy eating I only ate foods with low calories/gram ratio. These foods are generell also healthy as well.

Yes. Berries are great for this, especially blackberries. They have very low sugar compared to other fruits, and high fiber. So they are good for satiety. They go bad relatively quickly though, and tend to be expensive out of season. :)
Substituting "Russia" for "Mordor" is oddly specific if this algorithm issue was caused without direct human input though.
That's totally true
Fake Minecraft Sequel Tops iTunes Charts
Thats the diagnosis, which is correct. The interpretation is that the price are insecure, racist (or discriminate in other way), and so on.
BLAKE was pretty close to becoming SHA3. The only reason Keccak was chosen is that BLAKE was too similar to SHA2 (which has no known weaknesses).
What size of city?
Huh, I had a very rough prototype of a similar project, but never actually moved much past that. Congrats on bringing readlang to the world!
I didn't have time to cover it in the video but ray tracing makes a huge difference for foveated rendering in VR. Maybe I'll write about it when I have some time.
Curious, if you're willing to share, what was the good deal?
Steve - For the love of god, do not listen to any of this! You should 2x or 3x your prices.

Focus on the users that get the most utility out of the product, and relentlessly focus and optimize for them. There's plenty of value there for people that truly want to learn another language. These price comparisons to Netflix are comically misleading.
One thing I wonder about, as password hashes get both processor and memory-hard -- are we presenting a trivial DoS attack on our servers, by basically letting any IP submit a request for a server to dedicate this (non-trivial) level of RAM and processor to a given task (hashing a random string to verify that this login is not correct)?

I suppose the answer is yes, but it's worth it. It's possible to fix this sort of hole (partially, at least) by capping the number of hashes processed concurrently. But most simple implementations will just assume "we're not likely to have more than X users every signing in concurrently, so we can set the work factors based on that plus some headrooom".
I grew up around motorcycle drag racing, which exposed me to the sound of both motorcycle and car race engines at extremes. Top Fuel and Funnycar auto engines can really only be experienced in person - you can't get that sound from any sound system. They make the ground shake!

I was fortunate enough to hear motorcycle drag racing during the diverse design days of the 1970s. The choppy thrum of a Kawasaki Z1, the shrill buzz of three cylinder two stroke Kawasaki 750s, the intense bass of a twin-engine top fuel Harley... these sounds are still part of my consciousness, decades later.
I know you Silicon Valley people think that farmers are a bunch of hicks and an easy target to be disrupted.

No f-ing way.

Cornell University has many departments that are good, but when I look at the agriculture and vet school they are beyond anybody else.

Ag schools do research which is relevant to the technological and business problems of their industry. They do plenty of work on genetic engineering, chemistry and work closely with the likes of Monsanto. They are doing a lot for big ag. They also do research to help small farmers beat pests without pesticides, produce and market (delicious!) Halal meat, even help householders same money and have a better lawn. "Organic" and "Alternative" innovations diffuse into the mainstream. Pesticides are expensive to buy and to apply; if there is a cultural tweak that's cheaper, they'll do it in a flash. When corn prices got high, Cornell promoted dairy farmers to plant cabbages and other crops as an alternative forage.

They are always beta testing new crops in our area; Cornell and UNH are finding variants of plants that perform well in the cold Northeast climate, have expanded Wine production and are commercializing new fruits such as the Paw Paw.

Their research is relevant, and it is also communicated directly to the public and industry. Cornell Agricultural Extension has an office in every county of the state that you can walk up to and call and get questions answered, go to an event, etc. They work with trade publications, local government.

And it is not just New York, they do research on tropical agriculture and run a program to get access to agricultural literature to anyone in poor countries that need it.

I would point to that as being a much more real "technology transfer" than the people who are concerned about copyrights and patents.
What's even more unbelive is that the US is allies with Germany and Japan after WWII, and relations with Cuba reversed after they allied themselves with the USSR.

It's almost like nothing in international affairs is static, things change, and things being one way in one decade and another in a different decade doesn't mean anything or anyone is "wrong."
I would throw a wild guess that it tries to replace phrases with ones of equivalent meaning, so that the gist of a sentence is translated.

Things like "raining cats and dogs" doesn't probably translate well literally, for instance. It probably failed to categorise these universities as things that should not be translated in this manner.
Sure, but this is about the new release — I don't see the point of having two threads about the same thing. (The press release links to the release notes, too.)
Unfortunately, the medical industry (and their lack of focus on nutrition) has done a rather poor job illustrating why milk is bad for you. The studies do support that, but due to poor communication, you get people hand waving away the results suggesting it will be shown to be good for you next week, i.e. this thread.
Sometimes you want non-repudiable messaging.
The ability to digest lactose probably spread like wildfire because it was a genetic mutation and those with the mutation had a new source of nutrition they could take advantage of which helped them survive better than those without. So, as a result, most Europeans now are lactose-tolerant.

Personally, as someone of northwestern European ancestry, I seem to do just great with a lot of milk in my diet. But back when I was younger and drank a lot of soda with HFCS, I got fat. But I wouldn't expect someone of, say, Asian ancestry to do so well with a lot of milk; they probably wouldn't even be able to drink it without having a lot of gas problems or needing to add lactase (or buy "Lactaid" brand milk).

What we really need is nutrition advice that's tailored for an individual's genetic profile, and probably also of the genetic profile of their gut bacteria.
Clever and informed people simply have better tools to defend their biases. Auto-gaslighted high-intelligence individuals are more common (in my experience) than not.

Intelligence is no defence against delusion, in fact its the other way around.
The available thrust directions are limited given that the laser is presumably in orbit or perhaps at a Lagrange point.

Of course once you have a multi-mega (or giga) watt laser in orbit you can pretty much dictate terms to anyone else who wants to use space. After all one person's 'space junk' is another persons 'operating surveillance satellite' :-)

I'm a much bigger fan of the idea of using drone space craft with an ion engine which has essentially a gooey blob/harpoon on the front of it, that you attach to/spear the desired object, and then turn on your ion engine to provide enough delta-v to put it where it won't hurt anyone.
Explain Wolfram Inc's value proposition in five seconds, or two complete sentences.
Are you looking to expand into the UK any time soon? I would be interested in using it.
2015: Year in review – pornhub
It already is a great TED talk. I forget by who.

The punchline is that when yo look at earth from space, the places that don't have visible (artificial) light are the places where innovation is happening, leapfrogging legacy wired infrastructure.
And so...

Now it becomes clear...

Now we know who was truly behind the mammoth effort to produce Cyanogen all along.
Do you mean outsurcing the to OAuth regarding the various implementations or outsourcing to an OAuth provider?
How about copying/pasting code, inserting tabs into code, inserting break points into code, how many projects you have, references, when you save, why your code wont compile.

Visual Studio is probably the primary reason I'm even bothering with Microsoft but fuck me they collect a lot of unnecessary shit. They claim its "anonymous"... Some of this doesn't seem so anonymous to me:

"Context.Default.VS.Core.User.Location.GeoId":x,
"Context.Default.VS.Core.BuildNumber":x,
"Context.Solution.LastSolutionBuildID":x,
"Context.DebugSession.VS.Diagnostics.Debugger.DebugSession.StartupProject.UniqueGuid":"{x}",
"Context.DebugSession.VS.Diagnostics.Debugger.DebugSession.UniqueGuid":"{x}",
"Context.Default.VS.Core.User.IsInternal":"False",
"Context.Default.VS.Core.User.IsOptedIn":"True",
"Context.Default.VS.Core.User.IsMicrosoftInternal":"False",
"Context.Default.VS.Core.User.Type":"External",
"Context.Default.VS.Core.User.Id":"x",
"Context.Default.VS.Core.Machine.Id":"x",
"Context.Solution.ActiveProjectGuid":"{x}",
"Context.Solution.SolutionSessionID":"{x}",
"Context.Solution.SolutionID":"{x}"

Short of actual source they send everything (and details) you do in VS in real time.
It was the heavy advertising which drove me away. When programming has 16-22 minutes of ads per hour, it becomes unwatchable.
in any asian country. just look at the ads in thailand
Changing Career from Avionics SW Eng to Web Developer
I've been out of work about 2 years where I previously worked developing embedded SW for an Avionics company in the Ada programming language for 9 years. Avionics has pigeon holed me into that field of engineering.

I'm wanting to transition into some form of Web Developer. There are many opportunities for Javascript developers as it is the highest rated keyword on Indeed.com in Denver, where I live. In addition Java keyword is ranked very high as well.

Thus far I've been taking a Full Stack Web Development course on Coursera and getting certificates that I can add to my linked-in profile. (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/full-stack)

I feel lost, in that I am not sure if this will be enough to get a job, let alone an entry-level job (which there isn't many listed). It would be nice to get a job where I could get paid to learn but that seems out of reach.

With my experience as a Software Engineer working on embedded software I am wondering if this will give me any sort of credit towards landing a job in Web Development, whether it is back-end or front-end or both.

What would you guys say I should focus on doing? Almost every job tends to request 2 or more years experience using the various technologies used in full-stack development. Should I focus on just one part (front-end/back-end)? Should I keep taking classes or start working on a project that I can show employers? Any advice is appreciated! Thank you.
Probably, but it'd require nation-state level of resources to build and get the system into orbit, plus months/years of lasering.

It'd become pretty quickly apparent what you're doing and your satellite would fairly rapidly become an expanding cloud of debris.
But KSP does give a false impression. It is very much a "spheres in a vacuum" approach to orbital physics. It doesn't model many/most of the realworld forces.

When dealing with the truly minuscule forces such as would be created by lasers aimed at asteroids, one much accommodate all other similarly-sized forces before taking action. Rocks in space are subject to a force/pressure from the sun, a pressure comparable to that from a earthbound laser. Before trying to deflect, one would have to understand how the sun will be altering the course. That calculation is not easy and requires details (albedo/rotation) that are hard to come by for tiny rocks. You don't want to be countering the force from the sun only to push the rock into an intercept it would otherwise have missed.

Vaporization also need not mean destroying the rock. So long as the vaporized material achieves escape velocity (not hard on an asteroid) vaporizing the surface of an object creates a force, a thrust, which is greater than the pressure directly from the laser.
I can't help but draw parallels to the 60's, when the causal link between smoking and lung cancer was absolutely apparent. Yet, most doctors smoked, so few actually recommended people cut it out. As a result, millions of people perished or had serious health complications. Yes, it's incredibly unfortunate the medical authorities have failed us - but it's not entirely their fault. Doctors receive no nutrition training during their education - none!
We also still see 123456 and friends...
That's not contemporary. Elevator pitches have been a thing for long time. Those companies , at least first three, didn't start out with complex apps.

On top of all that, internet software companies exist in market, where customer ability to switch to competitor is so high and barriers to competitor entry are so low.

There are exceptions, but for most the have to be The Best at one thing or see their market share evaporate.
It very nearly did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
Go ask the Innuit about "excessive protein and fat". That's all they've had in their diet for eons: vegetables don't grow on tundra.

The simple fact is: people are not the same, and have significant genetic differences. What may work great for an Innuit may not work too well for you, and vice-versa.
TV-makers embrace HDR technology
Yeah, there's such a difference between a startup like this and contracting. When contracting, you work, you get paid, nice and predictable. With this kind of startup where it's growing say 4X per year, you may earn very little at first, but if you don't follow through when it looks promising and grow it for a few years, what was the point in starting in the first place? The reward on this kind of project is so delayed. You work, nothing, you work more, minuscule revenue, you work more, some pocket money, you work more, you get paid decently, you work more, you're rich!

Or, more likely, at some point the growth stops, and it was all for nothing.

We're actually doing a geek lunch tomorrow, usual time and place, do come along!
CES: What is driving car makers to attend tech show?
You're assuming they'd stop looking out for #1 and stop fighting over whatever limited resources were left. I'd like to believe it would happen, but history doesn't really reflect that.
For the "larger ones" that fitzwatermellow was mentioning, the problem is that your mental model of a big rock starts breaking down. You'd be closer to think "big gravel pile sort of iced together, sort of held together by local gravity because there's nothing else pulling them apart". You shoot a little pulse at the gravel pile and break a piece off and it may simply fly out into space, taking almost all the momentum with it and not affecting the bigger body at all. You apply a big force and you might just send rocks through the pile, with, again, the rocks going through taking most of the momentum you applied with them. (Same for landing a booster on it... there may be nowhere you can boost where the booster doesn't just drill right through and come out the other side.) Hit it harder and it may simply spread out.

The advantage of the gravity towing approach is that gravity affects the entire pile equally; it doesn't matter how tenuously the whole thing is held together. This approach could literally deflect a mountain-sized ball of pure sandbox-grade sand, completely and correctly. That's not something a lot of other approaches can say. It's only downside is that it's miserably slow, so you have to call the problem years in advance.
Have you, at any point, thought "This seems like such a niche^, marginal idea, people will never use it coz it just seems outright unnecessary and useless, perhaps I should just be doing something else"? How did you answer it for yourself while you were working on it? How do you feel about it now after you've spent some time/money and shut it down, in return of getting the experience that you've got?

I'm not trying to berate your project in any way by the way, shipping a real project is one of the highest values any of us can uphold, but the above thought about [random-niche-idea-here] is what keeps me (and I presume many others) from actually executing.

^ "niche" not as in "a specialized but profitable corner of the market.", but as in "something that's sucked out of thumb and doesn't seem to have a wide practical need/use", sorry couldn't find a good word to describe that.
Innuit are incredibly unhealthy, and serve as a poor example when discussing optimal human nutrition. While it's true vegetables don't grow everywhere, for the vast majority of HN readers and beyond, there is no problem shopping for fresh produce.
1. I am not a lawyer but my understanding is: In the US, it would be illegal to pay less than the minimum wage. Many but not all jurisdictions have similar laws.

2. The idea of hiring people smarter is sound and will server you and employers well. Employers are people who actually pay.

3. If funding is as far away as May, the company is underfunded and has difficulty raising capital since it needs capital to pay your salary now. Or maybe the boss plans on replacing an inexperienced CTO with an experienced one once funding is in place...my friend Greg once got hired with no professional experience as the chef for a restaurant a month before it opened. I went to the grand opening party on a Thursday night. Friday there was a new experienced chef and Greg was out of a job. Clearly, none of that was spur of the moment.

4. If the title on your resume seems more valuable than knowledge skills abilities and money, then strongly consider the offer.

Good luck.
Year 2006: Photorealism in video games is around the corner...

Year 2016: Photorealism in video games is around the corner...

Year 2026: Photorealism in video games is around the corner...
Yeah, Vox is losing credibility. This explanation sounds very forced in the face of how communism coöpted the tools of worship to retrain them on the secular state and to some degree the cult of personality.

So, it's like they, vox, want to make this explanation work, because it's plausible. I imagine if they put some effort into it, could find another half dozen plausible explanations.
Acne is thought to be largely genetic [1], which could explain why no one in that study had it.

Anecdotally, I had cystic acne as a teen and was cured after a single cycle of Accutane. It never returned, even though I kept eating the same diet - which included a lot of dairy and a lot of fast food.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjd.12149/abstrac...
London, UK, 6 Million inhabitants.
I think his point is you wouldn't get the same thing. If Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain today, a decade or two from now nobody would know who he was. You might get some cheap Pooh-themed lunchboxes from China early on, but without Disney pumping money into him, Winnie would fade into obscurity. (e.g. Винни-Пух, the people's Winnie)

As for the wealth they create: http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/06/24/disney-gets-1...

That's actual college-and-braces money that shareholders are making on the copyright, that otherwise wouldn't exist. And don't say that money is being stolen from us, because first of all, we're all potentially "them", and second, we all get to watch Winnie's Big Adventure on Netflix.
I think it's too late for it and this wouldn't solve that many problems:

- public xmpp servers are shutting down one after the other

- xmpp ties your identity to the server you register with, when there's technology to tie your identity to a cryptographic hash (you can use DHT to find people)

- servers are not optional in xmpp, when in reality most of the time when you message people they're also online, so peer2peer would be fine there (especially for server outages like the server I used frequently had)

- One usecase where you need servers is to save power on mobile devices. XMPP doesn't support push notification

- end-to-end encryption is an total afterthought in xmpp

- basic things like sending pictures, voice or videochat never work

- xmpp is an laughably over complex standard created by a committee

- pgp is totally unusable for normal users
Awesome. This is coming just as VR is reaching mainstream popularity. Coming up to an exciting time in terms of entertainment technology!
I don't necessarily think they should be illegal. I do think that browsers should go out of their way to make life difficult for organizations that want to do this. If Firefox and Chrome both agreed to hold the line on this issue and say "MITM is always wrong", forcing prospective MITMers to maintain local hacks, then at least some organizations would listen, even if others continue to do the wrong thing.
Here is a webcomic drawn by an attourney which explains what entrapment actually is: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633
While it certainly would be nice to outsource this problem,

ph.hash("s3kr3tp4ssw0rd")
ph.verify(hash, "s3kr3tp4ssw0rd")

Is pretty damn easy.
Well, they're only writing about Jesse and not his 3 friends though. ... bad reaction IMHO, given that he bought 4 tickets initially and not 4.
OK, mark is going to something bad, then stop doing it to prove how good it is, to convince people to ask for it back. Because it is bad.
More Benchmarks: Virtual DOM vs. Angular 1/2 vs. Mithril.js vs. Cito.js vs. The Rest
+1 for Github Pages and Mailchimp (or even TinyLetter). If you're looking for pre-built themes, my go-to source is http://html5up.net/.

Good luck!
The value of the robot is that everyone else doesn't need to be set up for video calls. We have a remote worker who uses one in my office periodically (actually two remote workers share it, but I rarely see the other person use it). He can roll into anyone's office and chat with them. I have a camera set up in my office specifically for video conferences, but most people do not. He can still conference with then in an ad hoc manner.
Stubhub does exactly this, but not every organization wants to work with them.

For instance, in my market they partner with the Minnesota Twins. Twins tickets purchased through StubHub are "digitally delivered" just as you suggest: http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/ticketing/stubhub.jsp?c_id=mi...

On the other hand, the Minnesota Timberwolves have partnered with StubHub's competitor Flash Seats.
IPv6 is not a "wildly different network stack". It retains almost everything of the IPv4 stack. It replaces some small parts of the stack (e.g., DHCP by stateless auto-configuration, which doesn't affect applications). Updating an application-layer IPv4 program to support IPv6 is usually just a matter of fixing the structs/API calls.

And how is it "much more complicated"? IPv4 with layers of NAT bolted on top of it in an ad-hoc fashion doesn't strike me as a paragon of simplicity. The IPv6 world seems much cleaner to me.

Also, IPv4 addresses absolutely are complicated enough to have warranted their own Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classful_network, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing. But it doesn't matter - for the most part, applications don't need to care about the structure of an IPv6 address.
What accurate predictions has he made? Just the one about Trump's popularity?

Adams claims Trump is popular because Trump is persuasive. Trump is certainly a good orator, but that's not the only reason.

Do you remember when Trump spearheaded the birthers during the 2008 election? He knew he could channel working class frustration by appealing to xenophobia and racism.