skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to say much the same. I've had a Meyer's Parrot for 14 years--she was a 2 year-old rescue when I got her--and it's nearly impossible to keep a parrot entertained and socialized. These animals really need to be in the wild, among their kind and with daily foraging/nesting tasks to keep them busy.

Second, if you really really don't want to take my advice, at least consider buying a second-hand bird. Birds can form new bonds; you don't need to buy a chick to have it bond with you. Mine bonded to me almost instantly.
This is always going to happen given the nature of democracy. For afflictions that have a well-defined demographic (HIV, breast cancer) you get an easily-organized voting bloc, and diffuse costs across a broad population. But when the afflicted are themselves more diverse, it's much more difficult to mount the same activism.

I don't mean to get political, but this is a danger of governmental involvement in health care. Given scarcity of resources, it's necessary to prioritize their allocation. Somebody's got to decide where that funding goes, and this is the kernel of truth that was exaggerated into the "death panel" meme.
Though I find his understanding of statistics to be off sometimes, I am very grateful to Russ Roberts for this podcast, which as taught me an enormous amount.
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Martin Hector (@marcan42) from the established hardware hacking group fail0verflow has to say about the situation: https://marcan.st/2016/03/untangling-ios-pin-code-security/

Essentially you can just automate the backup/restore of the eMMC flash storage and brute force the PIN. :)
This is a particularly interesting comment to me.

I've been around a few years prior to this account...

But your comments are interesting, I cannot tell if you understand/agree with my viewpoint (and it's totally ok if you even vehemtly disagree with me); I just think that HN in general, should allow for deeper meta-discussion. We have a TON of brilliant people in this community. But they appear to have a cloistered view of the world.

Shills exist. My opinion of Rayiner is based on nearly four years of commentary. I stand by my point, and unless you have read HN daily for nearly eight years, I don't give credence to your view over mine.

Just look at her whole position re Snowden when that shitstorm broke.

Do you have any single denial regarding the nefarious actions of the USG and the NSA? If you do, then I doubt various aspect of your make up.
No, read Stack Overflow's survey. Just over half of the developers use Windows.
Yes.
Prisons should be first to rehabilitate the offender if it's possible, if there is no punishment of being away from society people will be more willing to commit crimes.

The main problem with prisons is that they seem like a waste of tax payer funds.

Why should I sentence someone for pre-meditated murder for 20 years? Wouldn't it be better to just off him? Same with rapists. If the crime was done to intentionally harm another person that person is a danger to society.
The economics are also not in favor of keeping criminals like that.

For all other crimes the prison should help rehabilitate that person and if possible pay for his incarceration to offload the burden on the tax payer.
Ah, Nautilus at it again. One of my favorite magazines! Any other proud subscribers out thete?
Yep, there is. Personally, I like Elm. It still doesn't get me entirely away from Javascript though.
Wet team? (Are you referring to "wet-work", aka murder?)
I really liked the Wyse 320? and used it for years until CRT died. It seemed to have the most diverse emulation support. Same deal with vt320 and HP 700/96 I just got tried of working on the CRTs all the time. Now I just use ZOC.
because simple spreadsheets are: simple spreadsheets. humans are a complex asset that floats relative to the market dynamics. paysa.com models the underlying asset uniquely using ai, machine learning, and signal processing bc "simple" spreadsheets or rows of a database does not accurately reverse engineer the compensation landscape for you, uniquely.
I think you might be interested in SemanticMD.
http://www.semantic.md/

We provide a medical image analysis platform.
I work at SemanticMD.
Personally I don't think bleaching is as big of a problem as acidification. The natural selection process they are attempting to speed up happens naturally anyways. Corals bleach, then the more robust ones which didn't bleach overgrow them and the reef lives on.

Acidification is much worse, because you can't build calcium carbonate without carbonate ions, and acidification lowers the quantity of carbonate ions in the water. There is no natural selection for this, you can't build coral skeleton without the proper building blocks. It just makes all corals grow much more slowly, and thus when negative events happen it takes the reef much longer to recover. If the pH goes down low enough, at some point corals just can't build their structure anymore, which would be the end of the coral reefs as we know them.

And the only way to prevent ocean acidification is to lower the amount of co2 in the atmosphere, which isn't happening and wont happen for a very long time. It is going to be a tough century for the coral reefs.

Not-fun fact: The atmosphere is around 0.04% CO2, yet dissolved CO2 (either as CO2 or carbonic acid) is by far the largest dissolved gas in the ocean because of the reaction which forms carbonic acid. See the graph of atmospheric co2 vs ocean pH [1] to see how large the impact is.

1: http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-photos/ocean-acidification-graph
The reason you wouldn't feel it was only for female use is that (I imagine, I'm sorry if I misinterpret your life) you have not been made to feel that a field you love (computing) is mainly "not for you", but for the other gender (or another group).

While it's not nice to accept, most women I know well in computing have had bad experiences with "bro"-type people, saying they shouldn't / can't use a computer because they are a woman. On an at least monthly basis. For years. It grinds slowly over time.

If you think CS is professional, I've got some bad news for you -- there are quite a lot of toxic badly behaved people around unfortunately.
http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/ is an interactive viewer with configurable pausing on 'interesting' frames.
Help me out here, I don't know much about Rust. Which bad programs does Rust rule out?

I know about the borrow checker, but I don't think ownership bugs is a type of bug that Mr. Hipp frequently produces. It's a program design issue -- not something you think about at every single line you write. A well-designed program does not do many ownership transfers.

As someone else noted, out-of-bounds errors are sadly a pain to debug in C. For testing code, C has at least valgrind (and certainly many less well-known tools). For production code, you might not want dynamic index checking. It would invalidate performance arguments for Rust.

I think the real nasty cases of UB in C, which frequently occur as not statically refutable, are signed arithmetic overflow and shifts. As with out-of-bounds errors, I don't think Rust has a better story here -- only better built-in tooling.
Applied there last year - didn't know they were going through YC. Good luck to them!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-game_(philosophy)

Contrast with his ideas in the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, his first great work, where he boldly (arrogantly?) claimed that all philosophical problems are pseudo-problems caused by misuse of language.
I get the gluten-free craze; are people seriously suggesting they have celiacs when they avoid gluten? It's easily tested for and basically impossible to ignore.
Or GMO's, or vaccines (for a subset of those folks).
Helps when you prounounce the assignment operator as "becomes" rather than "equals", too.
Can you elaborate on this? What exactly do you mean with unrelated source and might you give a concrete example what a company could NOT do if this code would be GPL'ed.
The OP kind of was when they brushed away the burglary they experienced as, not much monetary loss and the lost feeling of security was back went away after a few weeks. To feel secure in one's home is f*&(ing important. I'm not equating it to rape, but it's that intangible feeling of lost of trust you cannot quickly brush away.
Addy Pross wrote a similar paper in 2011, but the neologism then was "dynamic kinetic stability"

https://aeon.co/essays/paradoxes-of-stability-how-life-began...

http://www.bgu.ac.il/~pross/PDF-10.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843823/

The upshot is that life is its own state of matter, essentially a self-stabilizing repeating pattern of matter and energy, like a waterfall or a chemical clock.
> you're considered tainted from an intellectual property perspective.

No you're not. The law has exactly zero to say about this. The idea of "clean room" development is nothing more than a legal tactic used to ward off potential lawsuits from an aggressive adversary. It's in no way necessary to do this.
for example: https://wit.ai/
I think you're right. I've avoided networking so far in my career but I have to overcome that silly sense of pride, because if anything is going to help, it's the personal references of those who do have the trust/pedigree. Honestly, I'm amazed I've even gotten this far purely on the strength of technical skills and moderate charisma.
The key to this product, as I've always seen it, is to subvert all of the enterprise-style incumbent timing systems with a system that costs 80% less and is 200% easier to use. If you've seen any of the current stuff out there that's used at races, then you know that the latter requirement is, in fact, a low bar. TRAC looks to be satisfying both of these stipulations. I like their prospects.
> Shills exist. My opinion of Rayiner

You just can't make this accusation without evidence, and opposing opinions aren't evidence. I've posted this perhaps a hundred times in the last year.

I'm cutting you a ton of slack here because I know you mean well and (if I may say so affectionately) are a bit of a hothead. But please just don't do this. Otherwise, speaking of lawyers, the moderation-laywer faction among HN users is going to pile on me demanding to know under which subsection we let you off for things we punish others for.
I had a similar viewpoint about indian government funding the tiger reserves to preserve the last few knowns tigers - but I was told by a range officer (people who work at forest) that this preserving tiger plays into the hands of the Food Chain and there by preserving the eco-system as a whole.. Hence, I dont think its fair to say you are funding only endangered species but you are funding for the eco-system..
Text output is chopped at 80 characters unless you specify otherwise, even when directed to a file; I'm probably going to try converto-csv next time I want to input it into python, thanks for the tip.

The output of tee-object can't easily be read back in to a new pipeline. I suppose we're supposed to stash it in a variable which will be good enough for 99% of cases.
What has a dns relay attack to do with windows clients?
I don't especially care what she endorses. I've never read one of her articles. However, if you disagree with someone, you owe it to them to do it without death threats and faking their dead father.

Also, you are absolutely blaming the victim right now. Endorsing left-wing opinions or writing opinionated books does not merit that level of emotional trauma. Saying her writing is equally as complimit in online toxicity as systemic harassment dodges the problem and blames the victim.

Like I said in the other reply, I don't endorse a world where no one disagrees with each other. Don't put up a strawman for my position.

Living with opinions you don't like is part of life. Harassment should not be.
Hah! Found my own email post in an google search.

Planar ELT320

http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/sunhelp/2004-January/019825...
The screenshot thingy was awesome! I wish it had more such examples.
I'm kind of more interested in if HMM's are more viable as a general-purpose tools rather than their applicability in cutting-edge research; or if they should generally be avoided for common tasks unless the domain is simple enough.
Where is your evidence that prison doesn't deter petty crimes, burglary, rape, etc.?
I want my VT50 back. 80x11, capitals only, and cool mechanical keys.
I spent many allnighters on a Datapoint 3300 with TECO as the editor in the early '70s.

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computer...
Then give me a mechanism to PM a user and call them out on their bullshit.

It's pretty easy.

And I openly disagree with your perception: HN is. Core of this industry, do not censor it.

Thanks
Growing up in Davis, CA, there were Magpies that would grab walnuts, drop them in the street, and wait for a car to pass and crush the nut's shell. When the coast was clear, the Magpie would fly over and grab the freshly-cracked nut.
Go re-read his post. Apologizing might be acceptable for some crimes and with some victims, but not all. Others may demand compensation or more punitive measures. There's nothing there about crime having little downside; if the community requires you to repay a victim for everything you stole from him, and wants you to do a bunch of hard labor (community service) in addition, that sounds like a pretty big downside to me. The main idea isn't going soft on crime, it's letting the victims decide on the punishment. It makes a lot of sense: if someone steals my TV, gets caught, and the punishment is for him to buy me a new TV and fix my door that he broke and another 100 hours of lawn care on top of that, that's a lot cheaper and better for society than sticking him a prison for several years. The system we have now is entirely punitive, doesn't give victims much say in the process, and doesn't restore the victims at all (they have to sue the criminal separately in civil court).
As someone who has, and still is struggling a lot with mental health issues, it’s immediately obvious how big the gap is between the impact of mental health, and the amount of attention it gets in the media/social circles. The social stigma of mental illnesses are so strong that you rarely hear sufferers of depression, anxiety, bipolar, etc speak out about it, which is exactly the opposite of what needs to happen.

Making it known that you have a mental illness is simply not the same as having a physical handicap (please note I am not trying to downplay the pains of physical handicap or any other illnesses). People simply do not know how to react to mental illness. Or they’re incapable of understanding. Many people would like to help their friends in these situations but without proper understanding, it’s arguably worse than being a bystander. Comments like “cheer up!”, “just get over it!”, “it’s not that bad” often are not that helpful at all. Even if their struggles seem reasonable to an outsider, the pain that the sufferer feels is very real, and to them, insurmountable. Never mind the fact that the social stigma often means speaking up about these issues means social or professional suicide, resulting in most of us not speaking out about it and feeling hopeless.

Posts about mental health show up on the HN frontpage every once in a while (or more frequently, in /ask), which is a step forward because there is simply not enough awareness on these issues that are so prevalent, especially among the HN demographics. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Side note: Greg Baugues started a community called devpressed[1] for developers struggling with mental illness a while back, and also gave a talk on the topic[2]

[1] http://devpressed.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIa-Mc2KSk
I can understand why you'd believe this, but I am actually a fan of bug bounty programs. I have both participated in and managed bug bounty programs before and I think they are absolutely a win for our industry. Frankly, they occupy a different market positioning than my own work.

Of course, you're free to believe or disbelieve that, but each of my points stand on their own weight regardless of my own occupation.
tldr: growth at the expense of margins, like AG did in the late 90s
What's the value proposition for investors here? The data they gather from associating the medication to patients?
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Just linking to their front page doesn't convince me. Do you have proof or a related discussion on reddit?

On https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ 4 of the top 5 stories are about Brussels.
uh, both sides did make sense... they're also both irrelevant. you want to remake all stop lights to never turn green unless a sensor says no cars are approaching the intersection over 5 mph? ok, so you spend a trillion dollars and update every single stoplight everywhere... then the sensors start failing, things are worse, and more people die. what we have now works... the last thing we need is more rust in the infrastructure.
What’s with the HUGE FONT SIZE?
I wrote the initial sort about a year ago (w/o looking at GNU version's source). I just looked at the current version, and confirmed uutil's sort does not do any external sorting, meaning the entire input is stored in memory. Maybe someone can confirm that GNU's sort uses temporary file storage to do something like an external merge sort to reduce memory usage?

edit: confirmed. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/930044/how-could-the-unix...
You might want to look up Issa's voting record on environmental and climate change issues before praising him too highly.
I was intentionally brief in describing my workflow, obviously different features require different flows. If the integration test can be covered by simple requests specs for the api, then I will write that first. If, however, the feature requires a bunch of pointy-clicky feature tests, then I will write the integration tests afterwards (I do a lot of single page web apps, so pointy-clicky specs can be important, but are too slow to test drive with).

[Edit: of course this is still a gross generalization, none if this is a hard and fast rule]
I have chosen not to speed on a road that I know is heavily patrolled because I don't want the speeding ticket.
Is the contrast on an old CRT really better than on a modern LCD screen ? I find that a bit hard to believe but I certainly don't have any way to check. You could run a plain vanilla window manager with a single xterm if you want to avoid distractions.
Show me where in the article he suggests that violent felons not go to prison?

He merely points out that punishments less severe than prison (i.e. fines) are ineffective against the poor, while prison is poor at rehabilitation.

[edit]

Furthermore his suggestion of deferred sentences would work great to imprison someone with multiple minor charges, as you mention these perpetrators having.
This is not about Celiac but about larger trend. Somewhat similar to mass usage of antibiotics.
That's excellent news. :)
I have had my Meyer's Parrot for 12 years. If I may ask, what do you do to keep your bird entertained? I let mine fly around the house when my wife is out of the house, and he generally likes to be handled, rolled around in my hands, head scratching, etc.

You are right about birds being able adapt to new owners. We got our bird as a baby and he was my wife's pet. After a few years she decided that she could not deal with his occasional biting. When she announced she was going to get rid of him, I wanted him, even though I rarely handled him before. My wife now has no physical contact except scratching his head through his cage bars, and I am the one who plays with him. I work with him on my shoulder.
I believe K5 also stopped accepting new accounts for awhile. It's a shame; there was a lot to like about how the site worked. The collaborative review process seemed like the future of how science and journalism ought to work on the Internet. Instead it became dystopian parable of how such things don't work on the Internet.
Oh, wow, thank you very much.

It's funny because I thought "you can't just copy and paste SO, there's a number of things to think of to be able to do it correctly". Guess I'm not the only one who thought that.

Anyway, most intellectual work is just applying known recipes (copy-paste, renaming a few variables), so it's just a matter of granularity and sources. The hate for SO copy-pasters owes a lot to the few beginners who don't understand that yet and take copy-paste literally.
In every human society in history, there have been people who choose to rob, rape and kill. There's no pleasant way to deal with such people, but it is the role of the state to deal with them, or you have anarchy. It isn't the role of the state to prevent "emotional damage", "bad wives" or "bankers".

The point of the question (which is an interesting question regardless of who asked it) is that we should challenge what the role of the state is. We definitely shouldn't blindly or unquestioningly accept that the state is there to do one thing or the other, to deal with robbers and not bankers, because "that's the way it's always been" or something. That is how states attain power over citizens and we end up with things like the scandalous overreaching surveillance revealed by Snowden et al.
...and so you are saying that software engineers should be extracting monopoly rents, but conservationists shouldn't? (I'm not sure I'd agree with either point.)

As the article points out, this is the least of our worries.
I was going to say that it is criminalised in South Korean, but I see they struck down that law last year.

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-south-korea-adultery...

"The law called for sentences of up to two years in prison. Adultery cases were only heard when a spouse filed a complaint, and could be withdrawn at any time by that spouse."
This is getting a bit meta, but I disagree. It would be trivial to abuse in discussions.

A: Bash would be way better for SQLite, really!
B: But Bash is a terrible choice because X, Y, Z, ...
A: If you make those arguments, you have to prove them.
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> Keep in mind, of those 35 years, it only makes sense to consider the last decade-onward (or so) in comparison. While the language hasn't changed a whole lot, programming methodologies certainly have.

The last decade has seen an explosion of modern C++ code using best practices that routinely exhibits the same memory safety issues. C is worse.

> There are definitely issues with C no doubt--but so many people say C is dangerous and difficult when in fact they don't even practice using the language.

I practice C all the time and I think it's dangerous and difficult. I've seen so many brilliant programmers accidentally create game-over RCEs via use after free, for example.
But not punishing shoplifting is a non-starter. So if inflicting emotional pain is worse than mere property loss, and we want to keep things equal/relative, that means we start punishing for inflicting emotional pain. This whole line of reasoning leads to either anarchy or more punishment for arguably moral issues.
Lockouts on the 5th attempt is fairly common.

If you need 20-30 attempts to get into your own account... that sounds like you're doing something wrong. :(
I hate to be pedantic because I totally agree with the idea you're articulating here, but it is misleading to describe Chinese characters as pictographic. The correct term is "logographic" because they are graphic structures that represent morphemes. There is a large variety of character types, some of which are pictographic but most are not. My favorites are characters that visually represent abstract ideas:
上 下 凹 凸
up down concave convex
https://www.imageidentify.com/
(by Wolfram)
iOS (and Mac) has Cathode: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

I recall finding the rendering impressive when playing around with the Mac version.