skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I look at it is the selection/mutation mechanism is where the strength lies, the rest can be applied in all manner of ways. There's no reason why you can't generate the candidate generations in intelligent ways, in fact evolutionary models would be an excellent platform for error prone heuristics. Any cases where the heuristic fails are just discarded with the rest of the failures.

I'm currently putting together a shader based polygon evolver and one of the things that I want to implement is smarter mutations where it weighs the relative importance of each gene and can more aggressively mutate genes that contribute the least.
This is a rather ridiculous myth, in the same tradition as moon-landing denial or Korean fan death. You get minerals from food, not water. You (presumably) have kidneys and other organs that maintain the mineral balance in your body. A few micrograms more or less in your water isn't going to make much difference.
Don't be obtuse. You know it is not a binary thing. Work ebbs and flows throughout a day. No one works exactly from 8-12 then 1-5 and goes home. So working and hanging out can happen at work.
Environment context switches can have cognitive load too. Going from Win 8 to Cygwin is like that. So is Win 8 to a Linux VM.

That's probably one of the biggest reliefs of the Linux switch as the host OS. To work with a vagrant box or ssh into a cloud server actually requires LESS wrestling and tweaking with the host OS. The transition from one context to another is a lot smoother. So that's one less distraction when it comes to the actual projects I'm tackling.
Another one for Netherlands: http://code.waag.org/buildings
I had no idea that GPS was based upon the locations of quasars. Fascinating.
I'm an NRA member, and not totally opposed to multipliers for carrying a gun while committing a crime. With great power comes great responsibility, and all that.

Although I do think 55 years is excessive in this case.
>> By this reasoning, the only thing completely determined by genetics is genes, since every manifestation of genotype could be called a phenotype.

I would say half half. Obviously a lot comes from genes, but then environment takes its toll as well.
FAA Shrinks Washington DC's No-Drone Zone
I've only ridden super-light bikes rarely. Still, among the ones that I've ridden, lighter bikes seem more responsive and fun to ride. Is it a big deal? Probably not. Will it win me a race? No, that would still require a much better motor.

And like you say, better components can make a difference, within reason.
I wonder what was the technical limitation that prevented bikes being invented much earlier...unless it was simply that no-one did it. Steel piping? Lightweight wheels? Affordability?
Aereo Founder’s New Startup Wants to Bring You Wi-Fi–And Cut Out the Providers
According to the article, every employee gets the team perk you seem so upset about...
I use RO with a mineralization filter stage and absolutely love the taste of the water. I'm using the 7-stage RO system by iSpring.
Rarely, maybe twice in the last year (that I kinda remember). The real question is: do the few intentional clicks are a coincidence (I happen to see it and it happens to be relevant) or my brain rapidly sees/scans all/most ads with a background process and just puts the relevant ones on my attention/awareness?
The "news" on this is vague to the point of being useless FUD. No information whatsoever on the phone hardware, operating system, or encryption used, let alone the methods they've tried to bypass it (although one can hardly expect the latter, in the "interests of national security").

This isn't journalism -- this is parroting a boilerplate anti-crypto talking point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
The Sad State of C Strings
User Acquistion / Growth Marketing Opportunity at Everlane
Possibly because you are "loyal" and respect the blog author, I doubt websites/blogs that are not of this caliber would get away with it.
During normal operation, RethinkDB uses the standard Raft protocol for managing configuration operations. The Raft protocol only uses the clock for heartbeats and election timeouts. So we're not using the clock as a trusted source of truth.

However, a Raft cluster will get stuck if half or more of the members are permanently lost. RethinkDB offers a manual recovery mechanism called "emergency repair" in this case. When the administrator executes an emergency repair, RethinkDB discards the old Raft cluster and starts a completely new Raft cluster, with an empty log and so on. However, some servers might not find out about the emergency repair operation immediately. So we would end up with some servers that were in the new Raft cluster and some that were still in the old Raft cluster. We want the ones in the old Raft cluster to discard their old Raft metadata and join the new Raft cluster.

The process of having those servers join the new Raft cluster is managed using the epoch_t struct. An epoch_t is a unique identifier for a Raft cluster. It contains a wall-clock timestamp and a random UUID. When the user runs an emergency repair, the wall-clock time is initialized to max(current_time(), prev_epoch.timestamp+1). When two servers detect that they are in different Raft clusters, the one that has the lower epoch timestamp discards its data and joins the other one's Raft cluster. The UUID is used for tiebreaking in the unlikely event that the timestamps are the same.

So the clock isn't being used as a trusted source of truth; it's being used as part of a quick-and-dirty emergency repair mechanism for the case where the Raft cluster is permanently broken. The emergency repair mechanism isn't guaranteed to preserve any consistency invariants (as the documentation clearly warns).
Indeed - and playing Devil's Advocate:

Google is likely to have more legal resources to fend off unjust requests to access to your data.
The point was that if housing prices were going to drive people out to the country, it would also drive them to tier 2 affordable metros.

Yes, there are people who specifically want to live in the country, but that's even more of an edge case than the folks who just want to live in a cheaper town.

Frankly, most people want to live where they are.
This!

Related gripe: WTH is there no full-track buffering mode for any web players (looking at You, Tube!) and apps like Pandora or Spotify, for low- or sparse- bandwidth travel?!

I don't care if you limit it geographically or only make it work with bandwidth throttling or whatever...

...just make it work.

Then your apps would work and I would not be cursing and throwing my phone out the window every road trip.

This is costing me a fortune in phones.
> What you said isn't even pop science

What I said was an attempt to explain how the basic model cosmologists use works in layman's terms. It wasn't intended to be "pop science" or even "real science"; that would be building the model, not trying to explain how it works.

The references you give are not "real science" either. Try looking in a cosmology textbook or a peer-reviewed paper. Or, even better, work out the science for yourself instead of arguing from authority.
Power bill 100x what it would be in the Bay Area, too! First few times I visited Austin I thought "you know, I could live here". Third time it was over 100 for 5 days straight. And humid like a sauna. In May.

If you can deal, though, more power to ya. I loved Austin.
Introducing Vector Networks: Generalized path editing for graphics
This just convinced to just don't bother with using github pages and use the README.md file instead
> Food for thought for those who think the drug war was/is driven by the "establishment" rather than by the grass roots of ordinary voters.

Are you implying that grassroots voters have been dictating drug policy despite the concerns of the "establishment"?

I'm curious to hear more about this history.
Stop Asking Me to "Sign Up" (2014)
We actually got a nice place for that kind of money in Redwood City. I love it here. I wish I had a 10 car garage instead of a 0.5 car garage, but frankly, I have no desire to own a lot of land. I don't get the lust for acreage that so many profess. If anything, it seems like folks living in more remote areas complain about their neighbors MORE than folks in the suburbs.

Nor do I have a desire to clean 3000sqft of house.
You don't build "good credit (record)" by carrying balances long-term.
Ridiculous. First off, evidence that Seattle water is unsafe?

Second, brita is useless http://www.naturalnews.com/046536_water_filters_heavy_metals...
> the decline of family values and traditional roles in Western countries

> With problems due to what is known as feminism, SWJs and the like, everything is being watered down and wishy washy.

Rad-fems are loud but they don't run the show. Corporations, Brands do. Corporation and Brands want to make more money. In order to do that, they need to find new segments of the population they will sell stuff to (stuff that are less and less useful).

Yesterday the "traditional christian white family" got that new fridge or car like in the ad, today gays get this or that product from brand X. Tomorrow Brands will target Trans, Muslims or whatever but in order to do that and not piss off old customers they need to control the narrative thus social influence. Is that bad? that's just how things are. Rad-fems, SJW and co are a fad and a tool,they are working for corporations for free. Proof is they don't question the foundations of modern western societies. They are narcissistic. Brands and corporations need them in order to sell more stuff, period.

Basically changes in modern western society are directly related to capitalism and the consumer society. They are not really driven by ideology anymore. Ideologues are just puppets. Watch that whole "islamophobia" finger pointing thing for instance. I bet a few years from now most brands will sell hijabs. They can't today because they'd risk a consumer backlash.

edit: sorry for my broken english.
It's perfectly possible they can get into the phone just fine -- it's been suggested that the shooting incident is being used as a convenient soapbox from which to attack civilian use of crypto.
Quite the opposite. Comparing anything with net pay is pretty pointless. Your total tax rate depends on many factors: total household income, number of kids, deductibles, filling jointly or separately, etc. Plus, the exact amount varies over the year, depending on how much you've already contributed in sales and federal taxes. On the other hand, gross pay is a single, round, fixed number.

I understand this may sound a weird concept for people in some countries outside the US, but it's a much simpler concept once you get used to it.
I used to use Evernote, now I use Microsoft OneNote. I can't imagine GitHub would be any easier to use. Your problem is likely one of consistency rather than the medium itself.
Oh, well, then I understand. I wouldn't expect someone to actually read the description. Even I wouldn't underestimate laziness by that much :) I'm glad the VLC folks learned their lesson.
pneumatic tire.
For the longest time, voters were the ones supporting the war on drugs.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/14/6-facts-abou...

"A slim majority (53%) of Americans say the drug should be made legal, compared with 44% who want it to be illegal. Opinions have changed drastically since 1969, when Gallup first asked the question and found that just 12% favored legalizing marijuana use. Much of the change in opinion has occurred over the past few years — support rose 11 points between 2010 and 2013 (although it has remained relatively unchanged since then)."
> Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an
> acronym

I really wish people would stop posting this - I feel like I only ever see it posted here, too.

OED's first entry on "acronym, n":

> A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for
> a name or expression, each letter or part being
> pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS)

OED's second entry on "acronym, n":

> A word formed from the initial letters of other words
> or (occas.) from the initial parts of syllables taken
> from other words, the whole being pronounced as a single
> word (such as NATO, RADA)

OED's entry on "initialism, n":

> The use of initials; a significative group of initial
> letters. Now spec. a group of initial letters used as
> an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter
> or part being pronounced separately

SQL is both an acronym and an initialism. The Wikipedia article on "initialism" it is guilty of using very selective quotes in its "citation".
Yes - it is common knowledge that Google (and others) use email for advertising.

But you (or perhaps upthread) are implying that Google willingly hands over data to government authorities.

The evidence would point to the contrary: Google (and Microsoft I might add) are complying with the law, but are not simply rolling over and handing out whatever is asked of them.

Their ability to fight back against unwarranted requests is probably much better than someone running their own mail server in their basement.
'Netflix tax' for GST on digital products introduced in Australian Parliament
Wikipedia seems to have modern steelmaking start in 1855 with the Bessemer process. I suspect that a decent quality of steel is needed for spokes, if nothing else. The safety bicycle seems like just a spontaneous invention, but was a huge boost to a already popular activity.
I have actually seen this happen.

In the private sector there is a bias to cut out
overqualified candidates ex: MS or several years experience for entry level work. The assumption is someone may need a job now in a downturn, but that would move on quickly or have higher salary expectations.

Asking about it someone also said "People also flat out lie which makes a significant qualification / role mismatch suspicious."

And finally, I suspect there may be some jealousy involved.
That's smart money. It turns out he's already suspended his campaign [1].

[1] http://live.mprnews.org/Event/2016_election_breaking_news (just search for the word "suspend")
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Yeah and they knew that was bad too. Probably if they had a good way of testing for lead acetate, they'd probably have thrown the occasional wine merchant to the lions.

I have a copy of De re Metallica[1] it has a whole chapter on stuff like this and that's 1500's Europe. Lead is kinda tricky since it tends to get passivized most of the time by sulfate and phosphate. Except when it doesn't and then it's insidiously bad.

[1] Translated Herbert Hoover (yes that one).
This is the third aspect I post on the subject and I'm surprised that there's zero engagement regarding such a great scientific achievement!
The other side of the equation involves at least:

1) Video provider pays for bytes sent to the user that are not used. If the cache policy is "cache the whole thing", you would find yourself paying (a guestimate) 2x for bandwidth. This is because most people do not watch even nearly the entirety of every video that they start loading.

2) Using server bandwidth for bytes that are not used. This increases contention for bandwidth at the origin. Perhaps less of an issue if your site is small and you're using a giant CDN. This does become an issue if you are youtube or you are serving the bytes yourself.

3) Using client bandwidth for bytes that are not used. This slows down any other download that might be happening on the client computer, even when the video is paused. This could be, a different video in a different tab that the user is trying to watch, other assets on the page, other pages, or even other programs on the computer.

Of course adding an option for the user to cache the whole thing wouldn't be so bad, as opposed to having this behavior by default for everyone.
Kasich would have a better chance of winning the Democratic primary than the Republican primary this year, but he isn't going to be the Republican nominee[1]. This is hilarious to me given that he'd be the most competitive Republican in the general election.

[1] http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/now-the-fun-starts
you're using 'natural news' as a source? this is one of the worst sites on the internet, literally riddled with unproven BS.
At least he lives somewhat in reality compared to the other guys.
you pull that from the source or are you a wizard?
And yet the quantity-over-quality potters were not making any effort to identify the failure and the causes of that failure.
Steel for spokes.

Rubber pneumatic tires.

Ball bearings.

Then if you want to get a safety bicycle rather than a penny farthing, you need a cheap process for bike chains.
And broken easier and required to be replaced. So I doubt that they would have preferred it without reason.
This looks like a question that actually looks like two questions; namely, 'is the universe infinite' (and as a side question, what is the actual dimensional and geometric configuration of the universe), and if the first question is true, 'why do we not observe an infinite flux of photons, or really any other type or radiation, bathing our chunk of the universe'.

This one's easy. The first, foundational, assumtion is way easy to knock down, via all the accumulated evidence that we erupted from a singularity 13-some billion years ago. So.. no infinite time.

But we could probably get by with, even with an infinite universe, if we just assume a universal speed, which is most definitely supported by current academic consensus. This is because of the concept of the light cone, which says that you can't be illuminated by things that lie outside your temporal and spacial vicinity, as defined by how long it takes light in a vacuum to reach you. That's a stronger statement than just how bright the sky is... it applies to any conceivable mechanism of information transfer, and it's universally supported by any experiments that we've tried (note: wormholes... possible, super crazy loop hole here... maybe an infinite universe has infinitely many wormholes to pump radiation into our light cone, so basicly multiverse, but we've already talked about the universe having an age).

I see no paradox here, but then again the Big Bang and Special Relativity are pretty new as ideas and we all benefit from the shoulders of the giants we stand on.

Edit: On further reflection, a truly infinite universe probably would park an infinite number of unstable wormholes on top of our neighborhood, but in that case the the fact that our sky is in fact dark just adds more evidence to the pile that we already have that it's not.
This looks like a question that actually looks like two questions; namely, 'is the universe finite' (and as a side question, what is the actual dimensional and geometric configuration of the universe), and if the first question is true, 'why do we not observe an infinite flux of photons, or really any other type or radiation, bathing our chunk of the universe'.
Work with PDF Documents in Ruby Web Apps Using Aspose.Pdf Cloud SDK for Ruby
That one specifically mentions that the Romans knew about problems with lead?
There's nothing that boggles my mind like astronomy. Nothing delivers the same mix of terror, awe, and resigned bewilderment.
I tried GP's example, and in this particular case both --patience and the default (Myers) work the same, both doing the thing you want them to. Which perplexes me, because I know I've seen the bad case too, but can't seem to find a minimal example of it (I tried a couple variations on the example; they all did the 'right' thing).
In fact, supposing it was a true case of something like misophonia, this attitude towards Person B ought to rightfully be considered a form of physical discrimination. I know that would not hold up in our current system, which is tragic.
Rubio's stackoverflow
> For some reason, though, we don't allow that sort of privacy violations in our actual lives.

Nomi is a startup that does exactly this. They use open WiFi networks to harvest MAC addresses of cell phones and track people's locations that way.

The only way to "opt out" is to register your MAC address with them. (Aside from just disabling WiFi on your phone, of course).
> Unless you're in Flint, or a paranoiac, tap water in the US is safe. Period.

Given the size of the United States that's a very brave statement. Water quality in Europe is typically measured on on commune level and even in countries like Austria which pride themselves for drinkable tap water there are incidents which cause tap water to not be drinkable at times.
In major cities in the US like the ones you name, it would be very unusual to doubt the safety of standard municipal tap water. In my home city, this is based upon my own reading of the annual water quality reports they put out. I filter a lot of my own drinking water for taste reasons, but it's un-necessary and I do not hesitate to drink from taps anywhere.

With the recent worries about BPA and other components of plastics, it's unclear if bottled water from plastic is safer than tap at the 99.9th percentile of paranoia. I don't know about exotic risks from bottled water in glass (radioactive Evian from Chernobyl?), but I assume they are there also.

Nonetheless, in my circle of friends, I do know people who drink bottled water because they think it's more pure. I also know people who don't use microwave ovens because of harmful radio waves, and others who do not use plastic containers or plastic-lined metal cans because of hormone disruptors in plastics. I think they're nuts, and they compensate by thinking I'm naive and complacent.
still not appropriate to refer to it as "Google Ion" or even "Google's Ion"
> I suspect that a decent quality of steel is needed for spokes,

That's a good guess, as "Wire Wheels" were first successfully used commercially for bicycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wheel#On_bicycles

Not much has really changed since then. All my bikes have spoked wheels. Works great, light, relatively inexpensive.
Are there any customers in production using Docker?
Are there any customers in production using Docker?
Once or twice a year, at most.
I'm guessing that lemon and vinegar are not effective at adding alkalinity, seeing as how they are acids...
You can get an RO system with a permeate pump that brings the ratio to 1:1, and a remineralization filter at the end. Even with a ratio of 4:1, avoiding a couple showers or one steak a month would be enough to make up for it for a normal family. Most water usage in a typical household is not from drinking water.
How the Presidential Candidates Spy on Their Supporters
I disagree. When I look at people shouting at their laptop or mobile phone because "this shit doesn't do what I want", I wish they were exposed at least to a little bit of programming. It changes the way you think. You think in a more logical way, you become better at solving problems. So next time when this shit doesn't do what they want, they might think of a way to work around it. Life is more pleasant when you don't fight the technology but try to understand it instead.
If you learn how to drive a car, you should learn how the engine works. Makes you a better driver.
The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
Every version of Windows hit by 'critical' security vulnerability
That's not support for the war on drugs. I think LSD should be illegal, but be a misdemeanor with a minor fine.

Actual support for long prison terms for 'minor' crimes has always been fairly low. But, you can get wide swings based on how you phrase the question. Remember people say tough on crime, not here is what I want to do and this is how much it's going to cost.
My provider has their own copy of speedtest.net. Its simpler but essentially identical.
I think if the team is small and synergy is good, then this could work well. Sometimes a bad apple in the bunch (aka The Talker) can really be a drag on productivity.