skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely had an effect on me.

To elaborate... prior to reading TSG, I thought of myself as an atheist, but I held open a (very) small amount of willingness to consider the idea of some sort of creator, mainly because I'd not heard a convincing counter to the "irreducible complexity" idea. After reading TSG, I felt convinced that there is a reasonable way for, say, the eye, optic nerve, etc., to evolve, that doesn't require the entire thing to appear at once.

Once I crossed that hurdle, I felt a lot more confident in publicly declaring myself an "atheist" instead of just saying "agnostic" which always felt like something of a weasel term.

Of course, having grown up in the "Bible Belt" and having many family members who are devout Christians, this led to some interesting, erm, "discussions" over the years.

I also appreciated TSG for introducing me to things like the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and the works of Robert Axelrod, Robert Trivers, etc. and ideas like "kin altruism", "reciprocal altruism", etc. A lot of things make more sense after reading that book.
Enable sourcemaps, click on the selector, and it literally tells you what line to edit. Then go to sublime, cmd+p -> filename:line number -> enter. in 5 seconds you went from finding a css problem and finding its exact line.

What that guy posted is fine (only if you have SOME sort of rules around nesting - our team has been getting along great ever since using rscss.io methodology)
That's not an acceptable argument to the question. Just because it hasn't happened in the past does not mean it can't or wont happen once the service begins to grow, or not even if it begins to grow.. If it continues to operate into the future as someone else said the chance is non-zero.
If selfishness is driving genes, why do they mutate?
It is still encryption it's like calling a caesar cipher not encryption.

It still uses a key and some sort of an encryption algorithm the problem with all of these encryption (or call it scrambling algorithms) is that the persevere the integrity of the video frame so basically you are still getting a video frame which can be broadcast and received as any standard video signal while only the image it self will be "encrypted/scrambled".
Because of this there are several brute force methods that can reconstruct the image without having to even know which algorithm was actually used in the encryption because the elements are always the as the video frame maintains the scan lines and even if you use pixels it's not that big of a deal.

Live sensory image from drones is still fairly low res usually in the 400-600 scan lines range (interlaced video is still quite often used because then for example you can multiplex 2 sensory images e.g. FLIR/SWIR and normal visible elctrooptical sensor into a single channel and switch between them without any delay or without any sync issues).

Because every frame is scrambled on it's own and is still a valid frame we know 3 things 1) all of the data to reconstruct the image is present within the frame 2) all of the data to reconstruct the image is still in the same basic format as the encrypted frame is still a valid video frame 3) we know exactly how many possible combinations there can be based on the resolution of the image.

Combine that knowledge with a basic brute force algorithms without knowing anything about how the encryption actually works you usually tie it with something like Fast Fourier transform to detect edges in the frequency domain (because in our case high frequency = edge) because once you get enough of them you know that you actually have a valid image. This results in a relatively very fast algorithm that can produce images (even if not perfect) from any raw scrambled/encrypted video.
Topics around climate change:

For example, why is it that many people doubt that humanity is responsible for global warming? Some work has been done on agnotology -- the study of the spread of doubt and ignorance -- already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology And then: how can we offset the forces propagating doubt and ignorance? One of the goals of adding annotations to news with tools like https://hypothes.is/ would be to fact-check misinformation.

Energy: The cost of energy is asymptotically approaching zero particularly in solar. While free energy in itself is great, more interesting questions are: what are the limits of what we can make with it? What are the social repercussions of free energy and its corollaries? To what extent can we subsidize yeast factories -- which we know can manufacture everything from methyl halids (gasoline) to LSD -- to create other substances necessary to society?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16989-yeast-and-bacte...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jun/21/scienti...

Geoengineering: Let's assume we can't stop the forces creating the CO2 that is warming the planet in time to avert catastrophic ecological collapse. What can we do to remove that CO2 from the atmosphere? Let's get serious about studying man-made carbon sinks via the iron fertilization of algae blooms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
Same; it was utterly convincing and revolutionary for me.

I'm still perplexed by those who saw it as an argument for selfishness. I watched a TV interview of Dawkins about 10 years back where one of the interviewer's first questions was along these lines. It must be so frustrating for him.

Dawkins says he regrets the title, but perhaps the perceived controversy also helped its fame.
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Typo in fox.com and an Akamai squatter
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This and the parent comment confuse me.

It's not the nesting in the SASS that's the problem per se, its the fact that it makes it easy to create the kind of code that you list that's the problem.

Modern good practice suggests a single classname for each item, so you're not fighting with specificity too much.

The original "bad" example doesn't even do that, its just using :before and :after etc. not nested selectors.
The article is mostly separate of my point--this is quite alright. HN would be boring if every comment was only to be directly related to whatever article was being discussed.

It is strongly hinted (at least in my reading) that the money required to cover the fuckups could've been at least partially covered by the author's pre-divorce wealth; had they written something like "even without the divorce I couldn't have fixed the troubles we were in" then it would've been much clearer.
What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty
Having a computer that wasn't super expensive to take handwritten notes with was a dream for my undergrad. And now the surface offers that. I think that is a more unique benefit for students than in other cases.
Sounds like /r/hailcorporate is leaking!

(but yes, totally agreed)
Oxitec mosquito works to control Aedes aegypti in dengue hotspot (2015)
The site would be better off with an outright ban on meta content.

Aside from one or two outliers like DepthHub, most instances of someone on reddit linking to something on reddit are a variation on "Hey, look at this stupid thing this person did, let's all point and laugh at how stupid they are".
Peer-reviewed paper debunking conspiracy theories has a (deliberate?) flaw
Remittite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
I know the TSG gets lots of attention and lots of people seem to take it as the fundamental word on how evolution works. This is simply not true. TSG presents the rather limited view of a geneticist thinking about genes and is directly at odds with other understandings of how evolution works such as genes as followers [0]. I often have a visceral reaction to such individualistic and incredibly western views of how evolution proceeds because they seem to be wilfully blind to the fact that for 99+% of the time evolution does not operate at the level of individuals, in fact, if you are in one of those rare events where individuals DO matter your likelihood of extinction is incredibly high and as a species you really don't want to be there. If the perspective offered in TSG has a place anywhere in evolution it is long before there were multicellular organisms or perhaps even cells.

I was inspired to this rant the other day when watching a video of tortoises flipping each other over [1]. Early in tortoise evolution there are HUGE benefits to a male that doesn't flip his buddies over and gets all the ladies as a result. No amount of kin selection can prevent this if there is not already a significant latent potential in the organism's behavioral repertoire to cooperate (flip). The notion that a single gene is somehow in control is a complete and utter fiction, SNPs are not robust ways to build behaviors or even to create phenotypic diversity. The variation that leads one tortoise to flip the other over is likely the product of thousands of genes and is far more continuous than a simple 'flipping gene.' In fact, if you see flipping behavior at all it is extremely likely that the developmental program and the genome of the organism as a whole is structured such that the behavior will arise repeatedly in different individuals as a result of a number of different minor changes in gene expression. If a flower grows, its is more likely to be the case that the ground is good for growing flowers than that the flower suddenly innovated.

tl;dr If you want your tortoises to flip, you're going to need more than one gene and you can't think about evolution on an individual basis.

0. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21257223, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva_Jablonka2/publicati...
1. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tortoise+flip
Firebase: Only DB, no push.
Deployd: Open source BaaS (no push).
Countly: Push and analytics (also open source).
Usergrid: Last time I checked, didnt have push.
Kinvey: BaaS but quite complex to understand.
Backendless: Completely free, thus reminds me of Parse.
History of math class... one of the assignments was to find the error in a Babylonian secant table and also reason out how the computing error happened. Fun.
To be totally honest? Yes. Co-locating all the conditions makes it easier to comprehend at a glance. There are obvious drawbacks, but I lean toward this style more and more.

Consider the case below. If I want to understand what conditions are necessary for body, that code is now offscreen. I generally consider overly-nested conditions as code smell.

if wrapper:
... 30 LOC ...
if header:
... 30 LOC ...
if body:
... 30 LOC ...
Thanks for the link: that's a very thorough review. It says:

To begin, from a 24×7 standpoint, the HR values presented are generally accurate when you open the page to view them from within the band. When it does this, it notes that the HR is ‘locked’. I see no issues when standing/sitting/casual walking/etc in this area, it matches other measurement devices here when viewing it at a moment in time.
However, when looking at HR data over the course of the day, it’s largely useless (just like the Vivosmart HR), due to the low update rate.

It's got an amazing number of features, and as a casual user, that's not one that I was particularly interested in. The accepted wisdom seems to be that if you really want HR readings for fitness training, you want a chest strap....
Hey amazon_not, of course there are a number of kinks to be worked out re the security and legality of the shypmate service, and hopefully they can do so in a timely fashion. However, as a resident Nigerian I can attest to the dire need for such a service. On various occasions I have had to wait months on end until someone I am acquainted to, however loosely, is coming back from the states for me to buy items that I otherwise have no access to. From what I can tell, shypmate is looking to open up the american retail market to African consumers in a service that for many, is an answered prayer. Do they need to look more into the safety and legality of the platform? Of Course!! And I am sure they know this. But I am very happy they have gotten this service started. I'm sure they'll figure things out as they go.
American yogurt is bland because if you let it ferment all the way it's got a kick that Americans tend not to like. Has very little to do with the milk, and everything to do with lactic acid.
When I first picked up the book I was not ready for it---I hated it. It took about ten years for me to read the book, and by the time I finished my view of biology/evolution was forever changed.
Yes, for the most part the travelers are people who go back and forth between Nigeria and US, and Ghana and US often and already practice this behavior, but now have an option to make extra money from it and potentially make it safer than the behavior they practice now.
Online flash version playable here: http://www.ridiculopathy.com/games.php?gamename=glider
Open source Crash Reporter tool for Electron based applications
It`s a new website? Am I missing something in this link?
When one argues about income redistribution, he does so it can be done in its own country.

Also, I don't think shifting labor on poorer country can really be described as income redistribution. Labor isn't income.
I've only found out about it a couple of weeks ago too via some infosec dudes i follow on twitter. It's hugely technical and full of awesome shit and easter eggs like the microdots in this version.
Don't Screw Up When You SSH to Production
Oh right, no one in 1999 went to business school. It was not cool. Nope. Never.
I can't decide whether this is a clever satire, a serious proposal, or a pitch for an episode of Black Mirror.
The cool thing about these is they don't have calcium chloride in them so they properly fall apart when you cook them.
I think it's just another name for Layer 7 DDOS. I.e. crafted HTML-requests, designed to be 'expensive' to compute/process.
Because your vote only applies to what happens inside your borders.
Ask HN: How to Raise Money for Advocacy to Get a Pro-Sanders Congress
So, I just started a 527 advocacy group and I'm sort of in the 'validation' aspect - can I get people around this, can I get donations, can I pay the bills and do this full-time.

I'm wondering what other's are doing, or have done to get campaign donations for grassroots causes like this.

There's a fire in this country behind Bernie Sander's whether you see it or not, people are fed up, and want a TRUE revolution. Getting him elected is great and all, but getting him AND a pro-bernie congress elected would be WAY better.

It's the only way we'll get corruption out of politics, my advocacy's main mission: Find and Vet candidates that are against income inequality essentially, in races where there is NO running candidate reach out to the locals to find someone who will step up and take on that role.

We plan on offering technical assistance, campaign assistance, and advice on how to get the ball rolling and compete with the incumbent who may be running.
It would be desirable if the government followed the agreed upon rules, I'll agree with you there.
Better ways of handling e-waste. Watch documentaries of the Akkra waste dump to see why.

Ways to educate child waste-pickers; ways to give child and adult waste pickers better quality of life.
and the author, in the comments, essentially agrees that a key part of his math is wrong: http://www.plosone.org/annotation/listThread.action?root=881...
Show HN: The Blockchain Backpack – Rebuilding the TF2 Item System on Ethereum
Interesting - I'll have to give that a try!
Once the government choked out online poker's resources for paying people it was all but the end for them.

I imagine it will be similar for DFS. Assuming they cannot find another processor to take the risk (probably also means high withdraw fees).

As for them replacing $ with bitcoin. You think 95% of the people who play DFS even know what bitcoin is or will go through with the trouble? People tried that with online poker, and while I can't tell you how many of those sites are left, they weren't a good alternative..
I love react and react-native ... this kind of announcement is scary though because Facebook is a big part of the ecosystem.
That's my thought too. Looks like terrible technique.
Hands together on the end far too early in the swing.

And standing square on. Where did he swing it from?!
This proposal is a really good example of why people have so much disdain for valley culture..
Could someone explain the downvotes? I'd genuinely like to know what my comment is doing wrong.
Along with clean nuclear fusion (already well funded), this is another great idea. I think there are already a couple of big projects working on this...

http://www.theoceancleanup.com/
Dude. Glider AND Pararena AND Glypha III? Is today Christmas?
More like SCSS coding style guide.
Agreed. Nested selectors in SASS/LESS is a classic case of something that makes writing code easier, but reading (understanding) code harder.

And I think the benefit of the ease-of-writing is minimal (especially if you're using something like BEM where you're trying to avoid cascading anyway), whereas the drawbacks in terms of understandability are super duper high.
I never criticise code unless I know the circumstances it was written under and I can be constructive about it.

I've written some truly horrible code over the years, at the end of a 80 hour week to get something up where marketing decided to book a launch event and there are two paths, the right one which will take two days and you have one or the hack which will do through launch and cause you pain later...yeah I've picked the second option.

There is no such thing as perfect code since it's written by humans and we are all imperfect.
I actually think 18F is pretty distinctive and thus a great name.
Rowhammer. :P
Are you providing your couriers with any documentation stating that they are acting as your transport agents in shipping parcels into the country in an attempt to shield them from any liability?

Do you provide all the necessary documentation for importing and clearing customs and/or do you train your couriers on how to perform these duties?

Do you provide couriers with legal representation in-country and will you cover all costs for their defense?
> They do it for their own self interests.

What interest is that, to subsidy those export? In short they want to grow their market to weaken competition.
Peaches. Peaches fresh from the tree. Picked when they're fully ripe and ready. Peaches from Southern Illinois. Oh my god. They are, quite literally, the best things you will ever eat.

Calhoun County, Illinois. I suggest you go in August/September just to purchase peaches. It is a backwards, hillbilly part of the country.

But god-damn are they good.
They were probably mainly tracking activity, and not decoding single feeds as much.

This metadata is probably enough to provide adequate intelligence, given obvious US interests in the region.

Other than that, I'd wager that this does not surprise anyone at the IAF.
Would it be possible to rebuild one using 3d printed parts (probably laser sintered metal would be the best)... And then, build an analytical engine... And then make the analytical engine drive a 3d printer...
In economics, "free trade creates additional wealth for all involved" is closer to consensus among economists than is "the Earth is warming" is among climatologists.

Except for, you know, the economists who penned the study that is the topic of this thread, along with plenty of others. On top of which, whenever someone spouts this falsehood, invariably it's economists who are looking at very narrow definitions of free trade, or very narrow definitions of "creating additional wealth". Is free trade good if the only gains in wealth go to a few people while most workers lose their jobs? Maybe the GDP increased, but for your average person it wasn't good.

The study does not say that the conclusion is peculiar to China, just that not all trade agreements are in aggregate harmful. Yes, China benefitted, but if it takes a population to be at starving level poverty to benefit from free trade, then I think your average American would say "no thanks".

Investment is not the same thing as employment. Mexicans may invest in American based companies, but those companies can outsource every last one of their employees if they so desire. Not to mention he says himself I realize that 5 of 21 years is too small a portion of time from which to draw any conclusions. Conservative estimates of job losses from NAFTA are in the realm of at least 700,000. It's pretty obvious that job losses are part of the deal when the government created the NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance Program to help people deal with losing their jobs as result of NAFTA!

There are many regulations in China. Sure there's more corruption there than here, but you seem to be advocating for America to become a more corrupt environment to improve America's "ability to pivot". Do you really think the brown paper bag economy is the way to go?
OpenHarvest - Research into food growth and optimization

There's a lot of research being done currently, but it's all private research so every new company has to rediscover what somebody has already done. For startups that have great potential in this space, this is a major issue as the it takes a very long time to perform testing of plants(each crop cycle is ~4 weeks) and that burn through their runway easily. Another issue here is that some of the openly available information out there is just for conventional soil farming. There's nothing really out there for hydroponics/aquaponics. So when you're direct seeding new crops in hydroponics/aquaponics, you have to completely guess on the density of the seeds and the amount/frequency of the watering. There's no way to convert recommended seeding directions for soil to hydroponics. There's no more rows, access to water isn't the same since water is easily available, density affects lighting and lighting affect density. This is a huge problem keeping the hydroponic and aquaponic community moving forward with innovation because it's hard to compete with yields when the yields haven't been optimized for your new growing medium yet. It's also hard to test your new growing apparatus or technology when you're struggling to find the most optimal way to grow the plants. Not sure if this is making much sense, kind of rambling right now. If you'd like more information you can find my email in my profile. I've been working in hydroponics/aquaponics my whole career and this is a problem I've seen at every facility.
I wouldn't mind upgrading for bugs or features, it's the (in my opinion) gratuitous changes (just for change's sake). For example, on Mac OS-X, there a few apps I run maximized. Pre-El Capitan, it would make the window fill the entire desktop (or screen or place or whatever it's being called these days) while keeping the menu bar across the top and you could use Mission Control (El Capitan name---it was called something else previously---are you beginning to see the picture here?) to see all the windows.

Now? Maximizing the screen causes the window to cover the entire screen, hiding the menu bar, and giving that window its own desktop (or space, or screen or whatever it's called these days) and preventing Mission Control from showing that window (or other windows, depending on which desktop/place/screen you're on). That breaks a workflow I've developed over the past few years, just because some engineers at Apple thought this behavior is what we needed.

THAT'S what I'm ranting against. Arbitrary (to me) changes that break things (work flows, other programs, whatever).

As far as cars go, about the only controls that tend to move about the cabin are the gear shift (either right side of steering column, or just right of the driver), head light controls and wind shield wipers, but there's generally only a few places they'll migrate to. You will never find the break and gas pedals swapped though.
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Well, some bank are using "negative" interest for years. Its called "the annual fee".
An at-home battery to make outdated energy grids more efficient
And if they could hamper the CIA/NSA, even a little bit, they wouldn't bother?