skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read (er, skimmed) that article too, while trying to get an idea of just how many prokaryotics species there were. :) I quickly realized I was way out of my depth, but given the 5,000 described species and the "hitherto classified prokaryotic species account for a very small portion of the real prokaryote diversity", I figured it as safe to assume there were a lot more.

> I wonder if they will get plutoed eventually.

... No? Though I'm not sure what 'plutoed' means, with 5,000 described species, making up both the Archaea and Bacteria domains (the third domain is Eukaryota), it's hard to imagine any sort of demotion or additional reclassificaton.
On the plus side, you can always stick a bulky battery case onto a thin phone.

Now if only there were more variety in phones with small screens; now that iPhones are big, what are people with small hands supposed to buy?
I wonder if outcome would've been different if she didn't bring any new outsiders, but instead worked with the team that was already in place. Perhaps skip a level or two, to tap closer into lower level managers and give them more autonomy.

Yahoo has plenty of smart people itching to do the right thing.
Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth Is Special After All
> Imagine if you couldnt name your website with a short term because it looks like it is spelled incorrectly.

This would prevent some domain scams, which I would consider as an advantage.
I will guess you are native German speaker :P

English is far from perfect and is not well suited to things where precision is required - laws, for example, probably should not be written in English - that is unless your aim is to provide lifetime employment to lawyers.
Most similar language to English, except for Frisian, is Dutch. Here's an admittedly imperfect graph showing this : https://alternativetransport.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/lex... . French, Spanish, Italian , Portugese and Romanians can often understand each other to a limited degree as all are modern mutations from Latin. English speakers might be a little surprised that,if they listen very carefully, can understand a just a little Dutch.

The Dutch not liking English is probably just a little neighborhood rivalry. As I understand it, they don't like the Germans for some more recent transgressions.
There were reasons for the way the fighting was conducted too, and the popular idea of "trench warfare" being the norm on the Western Front for the whole 1914-1918 stretch is misleading. As with pretty much everything in life, things were a little more complicated than that.

The excellent /r/askhistorians forum has had some good coverage of this area in the past. Try this overview for a start:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/37epxy/i_kep...

Or this seven-part epic answer regarding Verdun and the Somme more specifically:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/32t8bn/world...

or more from the Western Front section of their FAQ:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/wwi#wiki_western...
Even though Alibaba is Chinese owned, and based in a country whose attitude toward free speech is not something I'd like to spread, somehow I'm more comfortable with them as a suitor for Yahoo than I am with Comcast or Verizon (shudder).
"I didn't want to run the gauntlet of fakes/scams that is trying to buy a replacement battery"

I felt the same way when I had to replace a phone battery...which then made me wonder what the point of having a replaceable battery is when you worry that a replacement battery might explode. So my next phone, HTC One, did not have a replaceable battery and I did not miss it. Replacements are too hard to find and besides it's easier to just plug in an external battery anyway.

I see why Samsung went with the non-removable battery on the new phones.
If no people want or will use IoT connected devices, what motivation do companies have to sell only IoT devices? I don't understand the logic behind this prediction (only IoT products available, but no one wants them). It seems a bit like predicting that in the future people will still prefer to write on paper, but no companies will sell paper anymore, only tablets. Maybe there's a key motivating factor I'm missing?
Ithkuil is a fairly interesting language to explore for efficient communications http://www.ithkuil.net/ with a great back story http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beg...
Chinese characters aren't totally devoid of phonetic meaning. They are often structured so that their pronunciation is hinted towards.

Nevertheless, Chinese people already know pinyin but choose to use characters anyway. You could compare the urgency of completely switching Chinese to a phonetic system to standardizing English spelling or French verb conjugations, but that's ignoring the cultural factor.

Overall I'd be very skeptical and suspicious of the view that the Chinese writing system needs to change. Mao Zedong forced a switch to simplified characters on the mainland ostensibly to improve literacy, but the comparably more prosperous and educated Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau seem to be doing just fine with traditional characters. In my view, this switch was a needless violence against Chinese heritage by the CCP and I'd hate to see anything like that repeated without a very very good reason.
Well Occulus is in trouble...
My main beef is that English is, for lack of better words, imprecise.

This leads to many examples of miscommunication that take so longer to unravel.
To be sure, NumPy is the third implementation (Numeric, numarray, NumPy) of the basic array data type, so getting it right isn't as easy to achieve even in Python.
The book is absolutely great, independently of the level. And also incredibly enjoyable to read and full of useful and well thought exercises and remarks
67.000$ for a great looking light source seems too much. You can buy small houses at that price point where I live. With real windows, you know.
Couldn't agree more about the standard. The iPhone accessories market has been huge for many years now, solely because of standardized connections. I think what LG is doing is exciting, but I fear that if its not standardized it will be yet another Android phone with a cool feature that doesn't gain wide adoption.
HTC Vive Will Cost $799, Gets Last-Minute Hardware Updates
The "report" you're referring to is a blog post, which appears to:

(a) confirm no sources

(b) never have been fact-checked

(c) received no editorial scrutiny

Its author is offended that Hersh didn't give credit for the following claims, which the blogger claims to have broken herself:

* The US cover story of how they found bin Laden was fiction

* OBL was turned in by a walk-in informant, a mid-level ISI officer seeking to claim $25 million under the "Rewards for Justice" program.

* The Pakistani Intelligence Service -- ISI -- was sheltering bin Laden

* Saudi cash was financing the ISI operation keeping bin Laden captive

* The US presented an ultimatum to Pakistan that they would lose US funding if they did not cooperate with a US operation against bin Laden

* Pakistani generals Kiyani and Pasha were involved in the US operation that killed OBL

* Pakistan pulled out its troops from the area of Abottabad to facilitate the American raid

* The Obama administration betrayed the cooperating Pakistani officials

* The Obama administration scrambled to explain the crashed helicopter when their original drone strike cover story collapsed

But if you look carefully at these claims, you'll see that they're not particularly specific (the closest they get to "specific" is "knowing the names of two Pakistani generals who are so well-known they have Wikipedia pages"), have been corroborated nowhere, and, most importantly, are all predictable points in any narrative about Pakistan deliberately sheltering Bin Laden.

I think there's a reason nobody reported on Hillhouse originally.
You achieve enlightenment and use up your 7 free sessions
(Original author here). I suspect the 2008 strangeness may be an artifact of my corpus: I have two email collections, both for the same address, but with different spam-filtering etc. I'd be interested to see if it is replicated in other email collections.
Now prices have fallen. We have installed about 50 systems till now
Marissa Mayer's been at the top for 2012, and really is responsible for the direction that Yahoo has taken in the past four years. I have to wonder -- will Yahoo's sale (and inevitable downsizing) play out worse for her, or the people who were merely following her direction?
I'm sure that most of the benefit of using this tool is derived from the fact that the music is consistently low-tempo and relaxing ambient music. Comparing that to an album of ambient music, it might not be so consistent in its style and so could distract from the focus.

Still, the generated music is quite nice. I still feel that I'd rather listen to a real album, though, created with artistic intent and not computer generated. Music (as a listener and creator) is very important to me and I'm not ready to concede its creation to the machines just yet. Perhaps in a few more years...
I'm telling you, 100%, that you did not find a trace of Canada's secret customs spyware program.
Oneliner: automate the creation of certs/keys to secure docker daemon over TLS
Neurological disorders are often related to periodicity of body rhythms and I think its generally accepted that resonance theory on internal oscillators are still in an infant stage, especially regarding their long term and cross cultural capability for variance. All the promises stated are possible.
But, I'd also like to see a simple summary of the theory underpinning this music, even just defining the type of entrainment would make the product far more interesting and valuable.
This coupled with the in-your-face-sales, promises and gimmicks whilst casually alluding to studies (with no reference for technical points) makes me get the feeling I'm being duped.
Yahoo is only selling the non-Alibaba core businesses (e.g. Yahoo Finance).
I'm pretty sure that phrase is not meant to be taken so seriously.
"the HTC One runs rings around the Galaxy S4 in night shots"

Maybe Samsung is doing something right here...but the HTC One had an awful camera. I bought it for the low-light camera performance. But it had some sort of hardware flaw that caused low light photos to have a purple haze. HTC had a replacement program, which would have required me to go without a phone for weeks. So I got Verizon to replace my phone with a refurb, which was actually worse. I just sent the refurb back and kept the purple haze phone.

After this I switched to iPhone, not least because if it is defective an exchange just takes a trip to a retail store.
Last question first: no.

Second: because the implication is that the New Yorker was unwilling to publish a piece that didn't fact-check out, and the London Review of Books was.
I just want to point out to all those who believe that "with minimal effort you can get your point across in English" that it simply isn't true.

You think you can do it with just a few years of learning, but talking in English to someone you share a language with is entirely different than talking to someone of a very distant origin. I remember trying to do it with my classmates in our very similar accents, with our common lexicon, as opposed to talking to Asian people during visits abroad (I am European).

Even with fellow Europeans from a different country it's not easy to get the message across, even between similar languages like Spanish and Italian, to the point that if you're from Spain and need to get something in an Italian shop, you're probably better off by speaking Spanish, statistically it will be understood much easier than English.

To sum up, English is not easy at all. It's just a bit easier and surely worth the effort given the great amount of resources already available in English, including the giant pool of speakers.
This was an almost all-English collection of emails. I'd be very interested to see if the trend is similar in other languages. If you're interested, the accompanying code for the blog post should be able to parse mbox, Maildir and notmuch databases of emails. https://github.com/dannyob/lengthysubject
It's not a tricky corner of C. It's the most basic C thing ever if you are not not negligent and actually check the standard for what happens when you overflow a signed int.

I mean, the C standard isn't that long nor complicated.
There aren't many basic types in C, learning how they behave in basic situations like division by 0, overflow etc. is an hour long task.
We can change the URL to that one if people agree that it's better.
well it's obviously helping me concentrate because I'm posting this comment.
Wiktionary lists bi, buy, and by as homophones to bye

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bye

IPA: /baɪ/
Usually my friends don't pay me to drive them (or if they do it is to cover cost and not make profit).
The sort of people willing to drop $599 for an Oculus Rift are probably the same sort of people willing to drop $799 for a Vive. The Vive certainly looks like a more attractive bit of kit to me. I am glad I held off on placing the Rift pre-order now.
Agreed -- personally I'm against offensive use of patents like this as well, and it's my understanding that Cloudera doesn't intend to use this patent offensively. If it did, I would be upset and would consider leaving the company - I know many other employees feel the same way. The reason I agree to help write patent applications as an engineer is that I've seen the distraction and damages caused by patent trolls (or even other companies) and the importance of having a defensive portfolio.

Disclaimer: Obviously I'm not speaking for the company or making any promises here :)

-Todd
> "Expert knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS" (which i do not have). i have great breadth and depth of javascript and jquery.

Which is it really? You are confusing me :P

> i want this job.

This is what makes you the best candidate. Show them you're really interested. Don't falter.

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Long story short: You'll be fine, and here's why:

That job posting you saw is a generic HR post. Typical "big net hiring" - HR throws very broad job post to attract people. If the company was really serious in finding "experts", they'd post the specific technologies used. If I were looking for an expert, I'd put in "Looking for front-end dev, specifically React and SASS". That would already imply that you know a lot of the front end to end up using SASS and React. Without this, you'll probably end up doing front-end design, layouting, a few dabs of JS here and there, nothing really serious.

There's usually an implicit message with job postings. "a year" is not enough to become an expert in the technology, but is enough to experience handling the kind of work. By that, it means you know how to handle the management, the clients, the sudden changes of schedules, the policies, the extra hours of work, deadlines and so forth. A few months is all it needs to drive away someone who can't take it. If you managed several years already, congratulations!
Petition to support Apple and other manufacturers against backdoors
> my experience comes from studying International Relations at Princeton

If you want to hold forth as an expert, it's fair to ask: Did you take a couple online classes? Get a Ph.D. in international relations?
I have always wondered if it's a cultural thing? Apple is a US company and times its releases so they are ready for Western winter holidays. As a Korean company is there something significant about spring?
Have you ever been to Martin's beach? We tried to go one day but the gate was closed, were nervous about tickets since the status of it seems up in the air.

I fear Khosla has enough legal resources to just try and drag this out forever. It's really a shame.
Escapism will be a new/enhanced gaming category with VR, IMO.
that's a fair answer.

It seems like there's overlap beyond lack of HTTP/2 support, where some of Finagle's features are handled by GRPC in different ways. I'd quite like to use the GRPC way, since Google is maintaining the bindings to many languages, and doing a decent job.
To try to understand what this feels like, there are some movies I can do this with, like Star Wars or The Matrix because I've seen them so many times.

Can't imagine being able to do this for everything I've watched though!
The early French officers were professional army men, who cultivated the tradition of charging the enemy directly, a suicidal exercise at the age of machine guns. But they not only forced their men to do so, they charged the enemy themselves too. As a result most of them died in the first year of the conflict. They were then replaced with drafted civilians who didn't share this chivalrous conception of war.

One historian I heard (not sure how accurate this is) said the British Army had a parallel but somewhat inverted experience. Before the war the British Army was much smaller than eg the French or German armies, but was very professional and had adapted well to modern weaponry and tactics in both attack and defence.

The trouble was that at the beginning of the war, the war was expected to be over quickly so the British command didn't worry about sending nearly all its officers (and their institutional knowledge) to France for the experience and 'adventure'.

It didn't work out as planned though and after getting bogged down and suffering many casualties very quickly, the huge job of training lots of new officers and soldiers was left to an older generation of ex officers back home who reverted to the older tactics. It didn't take long for the British army to revert to those ineffective suicidal charges too.
Your battery life is great now, but what about 3 years from now? The current ~2 year phone refresh cycle should not last forever, and I think that both the S7 and the nexus have it wrong when it comes to batteries. Even at a gentle 50% Depth of Discharge, a typical li-ion is at only 70% capacity after ~1200 cycles. Bump that to near 100% DoD, and you're at 70% after only 300-500 cycles. Sealed-in batteries in a phone are, IMHO, even a bigger deal than the lack of expandable storage.

Reference:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li...
Excellent summary. Conflicting business interests are probably playing a non-trivial role in the acrimony as well, e.g. limiting the block size makes solutions from businesses like Blockstream a bit more compelling whereas businesses like Coinbase and Bitpay would probably like to see many many more cheap transactions on-chain sooner vs. later.
> That's why it's in everyone's best interest to severly punish anyone who games the system.

That's in the judicial system best interest. A better society would be more impervious to being gamed.
Hi there, we don't use binaural beats. Or isochronic tones.

Our CTO (Adam Hewett) is the founder of Transparent Corp. His older software is used to create the vast majority of isochronic tones, and all those videos you see on youtube, etc.

Any rhythmic audio stimulus will entrain the brain. Actually, the very first research on audio brainwave stimulation used simple clicks. As another example if you had a drummer that could be precise enough, drums could also stimulate the brain.

But, neither clicks nor binaural beats nor isochronic tones sound very good. Yes, you can get used to them. Adam used them for a decade. But he spent all of that decade finding a better way.

And what he found is that if you embed rhythmic modulations into the music in a natural way - disguising it as natural vibrations or vibrato or tremolo - not only is it more pleasant, it is more effective. MUCH more effective. The intensity levels we can get using this method are much higher than what we can get with older methods and still be comfortable for the user.

So in 2005 Adam created a system that could single out instruments in a recording and add natural-sounding "vibrations". He has been perfecting it ever since.

There's a lot more to Brain.fm as well! We've perfected MIT's HRTF technology to create a kind of "3D audio". And that's the real reason we suggest using headphones for the full effect of Brain.fm. It is a vital part. We spatially place sound around you to enhance your goal (for focus it is in front of you, for sleep it mimics the rocking of a hammock, cradle, etc).
And then there's the algorithmic AI-generated music. Believe it or not, all the music in Brain.fm is produced by an algorithm that Adam spent a very long time.

The benefit? Imagine a rain sound for a second. Hundreds of thousands of drops! Imagine now that each and every drop is synchronized to the purpose of the stimulation. Now imagine a symphony... That is Brain.fm.

I'll have Adam hop in the thread soon so we can answer any further questions!
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UK extends copyright of designer furniture to 75 years
FYI on the date issue, lest anyone think we filed the patent trying to steal the work done by others, the patent application says:

"This application claims to the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/911,720, entitled “HYBRIDTIME and HYBRIDCLOCKS FOR CLOCK UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT”, which was filed on Dec. 4, 2013, which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety."

(which predates the creation of the cockroachdb repo and the hybrid logical clock paper).
> But almost nowhere do you see people communicate primarily with images.

I'm not quite sure how humans could communicate primarily with images, at least until neural interfaces are in widespread use... I would argue that, yes, we communicate primarily with text, because we have the innate skill - speech - to do so efficiently and we have no equivalent skill for images. This doesn't tell anything about how knowledge would be best expressed in theory.

> And if you look at the common methods for how knowledge is represented, in [...] any field, it's very roughly around 80% knowledge as text and 20% graphs/diagrams/figures.

Sources, please. But even assuming this is true, this would leave 20% which are better represented visually. And I believe it's a worthwhile goal to integrate visualisations for those 20%. An integration like this seems possible with Luna's approach of offering both, a text and a visual representation.

> Text is king. I think if the programming environment doesn't embrace text as the primary input method, then it's not really good as a general-purpose environment

I agree with you that it's a good idea to have some textual representation - If for nothing else so you can use existing tools. But that seems to be exactly what Luna is going for, if I understand the site correctly.

I don't see why text has to be the primary input method.
As the primary goal is to listen to the music, I do really appreciate the fact that the webpage stops its graphics animations when it loses the focus.

It is great to improve my focus as I am not disturbed by my waving cpu meter.

Great work, love it.
My own attempt to understand the complex relationship between will-power and "happiness" is laid out in this article which I wrote a while ago (2007): http://thinkinghard.com/consciousness/advice.html.
Stochastic Computing: a Design Sciences Driven Approach to Moore's Law
The legislation is already there: If you drive around you need insurance. That is a sensible policy. Uber saves cost because neither they nor their drivers are appropriately insured. It's only a matter of time until something bad happens.

It's not a problem of legislation but a problem with Uber.