skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, contrary to opinions often expressed on Hacker News, the demographic data from all countries with good data show that increases in healthy lifespan are occurring at all ages, even age 40, age 60, or age 80. "Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years. Starting in the mid-1800s, human longevity has increased dramatically and life expectancy is increasing by an average of six hours a day."[1]

[1] http://www.prb.org/Multimedia/Video/2010/humanlongevity.aspx
It's easier to rewrite something than it is to produce an MVP that consumers and investors want to buy into. I'm 150% into the anti-monolith approach for serious scale, but meteor is like Rails in the respect that small teams can accomplish rapid prototyping and fast iterations early on.
ESA and NASA – Asteroid Impact Mission [video]
I know that the main author of KSP was a big fan of Orbiter before making KSP, and I think he was aware of other astronomy software.
But there is not usually such a clear motivation. Also there are not usually so many things that are "interesting" about the police's handling of the other evidence.
Because without those "un-needed intermediaries" paying the bill for AP content, the AP couldn't afford to run. And I'm guessing this then makes it OK for there to be only 1 source of news by your claims then as well. No chance for bias there eh?
Cold weather keeps the Californians away.
>your mouse is also a 1-D camera / scanner, and can be used to somewhat digitize something?

On a totally unrelated note, the image sensors in optical mice are actually low-resolution (16x16) 2D arrays.

https://pickandplace.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/2d-positioning...
But how are people going to learn of your product (to either care or not care), if you don't reach out / market to them?
Something can be called "Planet X" without being classified as a planet. Take "Planet Hollywood". Incorporating planet into the name should at least protect against future reclassification.
Unless you do that sort of thing regularly, you'll likely get a phone call from your bank, asking if the transfer is legit. At least that's how I've seen it done in Germany.
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Still profitably selling dial-up services to millions of people.
I don't know about every country, but the article lists some important reasons for Ghana to have the capability, namely combatting illegal mining and assistance with disaster relief.

At the moment Ghana is reliant on foreign satellites, which aren't necessarily available when needed.
Does it mean Voyager hasn't really escaped Sun's influence yet?
I think the narrative that most humans thought the world was flat would be like 600 years hence people thinking most humans in 2016 believed climate change to be a conspiracy.

What we have is surviving evidence from a few people thought the world flat. But that evidence does not necessarily reflect popular belief.

Also for people inland, they may not even have had a reason to entertain the idea at all. That is most people may not have even considered the question.

Obviously lots of early seafaring peoples held no such beliefs. Greeks, Phoenicians, Vikings, middle eastern traders, chinese traders, etc...
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Median household income in SF is 77k, just FYI. Only 16% of SF households make over $200k (this includes 2 earner households, which is probably most of these). This doesn't negate anything in your comment, just adds a little bit.
If you allow the site's ads, you are also allowing the ad network they use to track you.

The point of this browser is to factor out random third-party ad networks. If you elect to see ads on the site, they are presumably served by Brave. The site still gets paid (so it's not like the ISP's replacing ads on the fly), but you don't have to worry about unknown trackers following you around the internet and putting a strain on your CPU.

Whether it will catch on is another question...
In the meantime, a ping of 50ms is an eternity for most financial applications. For normal algorithmic/quant trading you usually want to stay under 10ms roundtrip. For HFT, anything above 100µs is pretty slow. Gives you some perspective.
I get it. It's a nice idea. Also, thanks for JavaScript.
You'd usually make a CHAPS payment for high value payments, instead of through Faster Payments. (There's mention of this in the article, in the Net Settlement section).

CHAPS costs a little bit of money (~£30), and for that sort of value your bank may want to see you in person and check ID, etc.
They already started to move away from the headphone connector completely, well assuming you have NFC or a chip'd card.

https://squareup.com/contactless-chip-reader
This sounds a lot like Whuffie from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow. If you haven't read the book yet, you can download it for free from his site, http://craphound.com/down/download/
Automation doesn't necessarily create a single second of leisure. Automation creates more productivity. The results of that, if well distributed among the population, could create leisure. But there's no reason it must be well distributed, and plenty of observational evidence suggests it isn't.

If robots do all the necessary work in the future, there's no reason to believe that the benefits of this work won't accrue to the 1% (say "ownership class" if you like) and be sold to the rest of the population at whatever the market will bear. The 1% might then have infinite leisure, while the rest of the population would have to do whatever work they demanded (manservant? parasol carrier? masseuse? plenty of frivolous work can be created) in order to earn money to buy those robot-created goods. That's how modern society is set up, currently. There's little prospect of it changing.
The paper seems to show that recurrent networks are Turing Machines, not the other way around.

They are finite state machines, unless the variables stored at the nodes are of unlimited size (so that a pushdown stack or whatever of unlimited depth could be represented in a variable). That goes against the "spirit", if you will, of neural networks, which maintain some small amount of state at each node.

All finite state machines are Turing Machines, of course. Just the reverse isn't true.

I don't see the point of the Example, which clearly shows a representation of a computation in the form of a finite sized matrix with bounded values, iterating on a vector. Such a contraption is not a Universal Turing Machine no matter what values you stuff into it and what initial vector you use.

Ironically, the paper was written on a computer built on sequential logic, which is network of combinational gates which feedback: essentially a recurrent neural network, and its purpose is evidently to argue that such a thing can compute.

Ah, we have this flights of fancy toward the end:

The variables can be continuous, not only integer valued.

Come on, there is no such thing. Continuous variables are not constructable (just some of them). They are only an abstraction in math. A continuous variable effectively consists of infinite bits. Even those that are called computable, like the number pi, still cannot be computed to completion. What "computable means is that there is an algorithm which makes progress toward a more and more accurate value: for any specific integer n, the function "find the n-th digit of pi" completes in a finite number of steps. That doesn't mean we can have a continuously valued variable and stick pi in it.

Moreover, in this fantasy world where we have true continuous variables, why can't we also have them in the original language whose elements are equated with the neural network? After all "for each variable V in the program, there exists a node Nv. If node Nv is continuous, so must be the variable V in the program.

What the paper really shows is that the syntax of some abstract algorithmic, imperative steps can be transliterated into the syntax of a network with feedback which does the same thing.
I really like just replacing my hosts file to block ads.

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

But I can't do that on my phone without jailbreaking it. Stupid phone.
It's an electron shell app from looking at the desktop repo.
I was thinking that they added this delay so that they could profit from everyones money for a few days, continuously.
The latest version of Mongo added support for document validation on insert/update.

https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/document-validation/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzMUrB-Um1Y
There was an article in The Guardian this past weekend about Saudi Aramco which estimated it's value at $10tn, which would definitely put it in a league of it's own when it comes to total value.

Saudi Aramco – the $10tn mystery at the heart of the Gulf state - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/16/saudi-aramco...
Great! AudioKit for Objective-C was awesome. And now for Swift, with playgrounds, eager to test !
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2014/09...

Let's split that and say 50.
How did preferences make it worse? Generally, preferred shares convert to common in the event of an IPO, so preferences are discarded.
That does TCP-over-TCP, though, which provides worse performance.
Mozilla uses that fact to exploit its users. They keep pushing a "clean your browser" button, which reverts the search engine to Yahoo, which pays them for this.
The defense expert tested that the test can only definitely say that EDTA is present, not that it is absent.

Due to the rushed nature of the test and the fact that it has only been used once before, there are definitely questions about the exact procedure used and if that could invalidate the results. There is also the question of the detection limits of the test. Neither of these things were made available at the time of the trial.

Additionally, there were multiple tests performed on blood from the vial. One of the tests came up negative. I do not believe that this was brought up at trial, and I think it should have served to prevent the tests from being presented.

In addition to the tests itself there are two huge problems with the blood.

1) The evidence seal is broken. This is a huge procedural mistake. Maybe the hole in the top is supposed to be there, maybe it isn't. Maybe it was re-used to extract blood from the vial.

2) The FBI tech that testified has been found to have misconstrued evidence in other cases. His statement of certainty that the untested vials did not contain EDTA is either an outright lie or complete incompetence.
FWIW if anyone is evaluating doing a Techstars program, I'm more than happy to talk about my experience or help you find someone from the program you're considering - just reach out!

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Very few HFT firms are routinely operating in the nanosecond range. Under 50 microseconds is where most lie, and under 10 microseconds is where you'll find the fastest algos. Fact is, at that point even if you're colo-ing as a market maker the length of cable makes a difference. FPGA's and even ASIC's are pretty much necessary since even a CPU with off-die memory is going to be too slow

HFT is increasingly harder to make profits in: the real growth is in algos operating in the low milliseconds range capturing real market activity and non simple arbitrage.
I've never experienced VS crashing, but Intellisense stops working EVERY time I use VS! :)
That's pretty much how it works in UK independent local radio (ILR).

There's been a fair bit of change over the past decade, resulting in a lot more network programming and automation amongst stations established prior to 2000 or so. Core programming hours can be 7am-6pm, with local presenters, news, sport, traffic and weather, but that's it. Post-2000 stations seem to be a lot more local, they only appear to serve larger cities - smaller towns are stuck with carbon copy stations. Specialist and talk radio stations are virtually non-existent.

It sounds like Clear Channel's problem is with automation and production. It's really not that hard to automate a station such that it sounds like it's being produced live. I would take a guess that they're using some early 90s - maybe even 80s - tech to drive their automation.

One thing you've got going for you in the US is local TV. It's something that's only just started to be done in the UK and it's pretty amateurish stuff. I can't see it succeeding - wrong era and stations exist on their own channels, rather than as network affiliates.
Congress Subpoenas Martin Shkreli Over Drug Prices
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I kind of want to make this work in Star Citizen...
Maybe you should give a try at Portia (http://scrapinghub.com/portia/). It does exactly what you mean.

You may also be interested in this library: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely
So, 70% thought the world was round?

http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/am...

You would have thought countries would have claimed the New World a lot earlier.
Can we ignore the article itself for a moment, and talk about the problem of website obesity? Those gifs clock in at over 100mb in total[0], and they have absolutely no reason to be.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/SsurT3W.png
A TV show has to be either recognizably close to reality for the majority of people, or recognizably absurd for the majority of people. I suspect that well-chosen shows could in fact be validly used for this purpose.
Though the team working on Brave seems to have a few ex-Mozilla engineers, they have chosen to fork browsers other Firefox. (Also, nice to see so many Canadians!)

'Brave browser promises faster Web by banishing intrusive ads' | Jan 20, 2016 http://www.cnet.com/news/ex-mozilla-ceo-try-braves-new-brows...

> Eich and his team built Brave out of Chromium, which is the foundation for Google's Chrome browser, which leaves most of the actual development and security support to Google. Why not use Firefox, into which Eich poured so much effort? Because Chrome is more widely used and therefore better tested by developers who want to make sure their websites work properly, he said. "Chromium is the safe bet for us," he said.

* The desktop browser is a cross-platform desktop application created with a fork of Github's Electron framework that is itself based on Node.js and Chromium. https://github.com/brave/electron https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop

* The iOS browser is a fork of Firefox for iOS, which is a Swift app developed from scratch by Mozilla. https://github.com/brave/browser-ios

* The Android browser is Link Bubble, which is a wrapper around the default Android browser https://github.com/brave/browser-android Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7453897 Australian developer Chris Lacy announced its sale in Aug 2015: http://theblerg.net/post/2015/08/05/ive-sold-link-bubble-tap...

* The ad blocking technology is courtesy a Node.js module of Adblock Plus filter that uses a bloom filter and Rabin-Karp algorithm for speed.
https://github.com/bbondy/abp-filter-parser-cpp

* The database is MongoDB. https://github.com/brave/vault

Past news coverage:

​Mystery startup from ex-Mozilla CEO aims to go where tech titans won't | Nov 17, 2015 http://www.cnet.com/news/mystery-startup-from-ex-mozilla-ceo...

Use Link Bubble to open links in the background on Android | Aug 26, 2015 http://www.cnet.com/how-to/use-link-bubble-to-open-links-in-...
Newly Discovered Prime Number Is a Whopping 22M Digits Long
awesome! my company would be able to use this if it:

- supported more streaming platforms (azubu, hitbox, mlg, etc)

- supported more than 3 streams (currently we use http://multitwitch.tv/)
Given that it's so common to present RNNs as feed-forward nets with a layer for each time step, it doesn't seem at all unreasonable to group them in with deep learning.
Ex-Yahoo CIO launching an 'adaptive security' startup
Sam is there a common theme underlying the poorer track record of companies that have been through other accelerators (brakes in this case)?
Drone lands successfully on a moving car
Swift Now Included in FreeBSD
> I wonder what would happen if, as a society, we said, "enough, no more ads". Would it really be the capitalist apocalypse that the ad industry is trying to make us believe it would be?

I'm not sure I agree all ads are associated with capitalism. Propaganda is one example. There are also ads for awareness and for non-profits.

Also I have noticed that the best content that I like is typically ad free or at least doesn't have the buy-product-ads (e.g. PBS TV and NPR). This is the case with most media with the only exception being the Internet.

The only time I have issues with ads is when I'm ironically either trying to buy something or I have decided to go low brow and click on some sleazy news.. (its like the South Park episode on ads.. they trick me..).
Please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can scold you about what looks like astroturfing and then invite you to repost what looks like a good article.

You definitely don't want this thread to get on the front page; HN users would only complain about all the promotional comments by new accounts.
Twitter Shares Jump on Speculation About Takeover Interest
You're confusing need with want. Nobody needs an iPhone, not even after they get one. Plenty of people want an iPhone. To be fair, the statement "advertising makes you want what you don't need" is not a value judgment on whether that is a good or bad thing. It could be that advertising is beneficial to the world. It just seems unlikely.
Depends on what you mean by "primitive". 45,000 years ago, humans were every bit as intelligent as they are today. They may not have had agriculture or other technological advances, but mentally, they were sophisticated.

Look at it this way... using only stuff they found on the ground, they were able to successfully and repeatably hunt animals that weighed 5-8 tons, were faster than humans, had multiple natural weapons that could easily kill a human, and were both herd-oriented and highly intelligent by herbivore standards. Do you think you could do that? That doesn't sound primitive to me. That sounds really sophisticated.
The other 2 stream might be boring at the moment(streamer afk, in a game queue, etc)
The chinese postal system offers extremely low government subsidized rates. This isn't just Alibaba, almost everybody shipping out of china offers free shipping.

http://www.ems.com.cn/mainservice/ems/e_guo_ji_e_you_bao.htm...

for reference 6RMB=0.91 USD

Larger parties are able to obtain even lower rates.
>Articles that provided practical utility—actionable advice and tips—were shared far more than those that were merely interesting or even surprising.

Reading this gave me a bit of a chuckle, because this is exactly how bad advice spreads too. Like bonsai kitten. At the end of the article, all I could think about was how the post was basically talking about "diversification" without ever using the term outright, even though it's a more suitable concept to employ than "side projects" IMO.
I'd also observe that in terms of prior probability, "There is a ninth planet in the solar system that we have not yet detected" is probably hovering at least in the low-integer percentages, and I imagine some scientists would place it higher than that. The general idea is not a wild, far-out one by any stretch of the imagination.
That's funny. I also use NoScript, just to be extra cautious, and when I go to Brave.com, I don't see ANYTHING. I would hope that somebody claiming to want to fix the web would be able to serve up a page that doesn't need permission to execute a script.
The key is to provide value to the reader or consumer.

Blog posts can be valuable (by educating or entertaining, for example), but writing valuable blog posts is a lot of effort.

Side projects can be valuable, but creating valuable side projects is effort.

So I guess it depends on what you're good at. A side project is usually something you're passionate about, so it's a good starting point. But if you like writing, blogging is still the way to go.
They should call it Pluto.
Is there any way to get/set this UUID so I can allow the user to use the same channel if I have my own way of identifying them?
I just turned down a program yesterday because of this concern. They were surprised to hear it, but good to have this post out there to back me up on it.
Just No. They use HLS, which can be viewed native in Safari. On every other site embedding works in HTML5 and obviously it also works on the Twitch site.
seriously. and what is the threshold of "foreseeable"? like 18 months, tops?
>Uber is competing on even ground. They've apparently designed a system that falls on the legal side of these medallion market protectionist schemes in most/many/a lot of locations. They're operating in the confines of municipal law.

It seems like that's not true in London, even though it would be trivial to comply. There, (my understanding is) you get to obey fewer regulations if you're offering a pre-booking service, and that exception requires that people be able to make a request for "a car at 3pm".

And IMHO, that's a pretty reasonable requirement; it's not saying customers have to specify a time, and it allows requests of the form "3pm or ASAP". It's also a feature many customers have asked for. But for some reason, Uber has this bizarre insistence on not allowing pre-booking:

https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Uber-allow-customers-to-pre...
In addition to being easier to work, ivory is lighter than stone and wears differently / lasts longer than wood: important if you are surviving by nomadic hunting practices in an extremely hostile environment. Skin boats, which were eventually perfected by arctic peoples, used bones or ivory for structure.
China subsidizes shipping for domestic businesses either a) explicitly as a part of economic policy, or b) implicitly/de facto via corruption.

In other words, for the business selling you the item, shipping is free. It's the Chinese citizen/taxpayer that foots the bill. This shouldn't be surprising since China, eg, is notorious for devaluing their own currency as a means of boosting exports. This is effectively a tax on the greater populace for the benefit of their manufacturing sector.
No. Please, no. No, no, no, no, no.

I want FAST user interfaces. I don't want more animations that chew up hundreds of milliseconds and give me that horrible feeling of swimming in syrup.

I know designers think this is brilliant and pretty and all, but as someone who makes heavy use of tablets, phones, laptops etc. doesn't want more crap. My iPhone feels slow and sluggish enough as it is.

If you want to spend your talent on something: figure out how to increase speed, precision and figure out how software gets better at understanding what the user wants.
Your iPhone can now alert you every time police kill someone in the U.S
It's possible but in the context of web design “responsive” has had a specialized meaning for many years, going back to a very influential article in 2010 which grouped older practices under that term:

http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design

It's somewhat unlikely that anyone working in front-end development in 2016 would assume the generic usage.
A lot. A simple google search for "engineer terrorist" without the quotes turns up plenty of references if you want to learn more.
I remember this from way back when it was called WarpPrism, and hosted at WarpPrism.com. I had it bookmarked and used it to watch SC2 streams all the time.

Great to see that it's still in active development!
The world beyond batch: Streaming 102
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find
I never liked it either, but I've worked in places where it was like the eleventh commandment and you better not say anything against it! :) I'm glad to hear it's loosing popularity.
Largest Known Prime, 49th Known Mersenne Prime Found
Here are my take-away items to become a better mobile product manager