skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There's been some other papers recently showing the persistence of memories even when synapses and spines are lost (for example, during hibernation)"

Interesting; do you have any links to those papers with more information?
Suspected, perhaps. Not known, AFAIK. (Which may merely mean not known by me.)
At-will employment does not extend to firing people in order to not comply with a court order.
One small but big example: still, or until recently, it was hard to use email addresses as usernames. Usernames are useful for sites with discussion but none other.
Google obviously has the need to be adored; if somebody with a reason contradicts what they say (what can you know - you are just a founder of Boston Dynamics, not a mighty Googler!), they get rid of them. Seriously Google, you were once great, now your search is unusable and I can't see anything worth coming from you :-/ If PR dictates your focus, what is Ray Kurzweil going to do there - developing a new VA synth instead of singularity? Do we need to travel to Osaka to see real humanoids from Hiroshi Ishiguro and get the feel of the future? Does Japan have to be again 20+ years ahead of the US? Are we going to stop humanity progress because some retarded internal politicians want to keep their power or some shortsighted capitalists want to keep milking their cows? We have the possibility to improve human condition tremendously with the robotic technology at hand and we are going to be stupid about it and fall back to "business as usual" idiocy? Is this Larry why Tesla inspired you so much when you were still young and idealistic? Even Intel seems to be 5 years ahead of you when it comes to releasing consumer humanoid robotics... [sorry for a rant]
> So an American government agency destroyed an American business merely as collateral damage of trying to persecute an unrelated guy who'd revealed their wrongdoing.

I'd argue they destroyed it because it doesn't align with their view of how the country should work. The government hasn't moved much from treating encryption like munitions—they probably viewed lavabit as an existential threat.
And they accidentally disclosed that they're pursuing a guy who is concerned great power is in hands not competent to wield it.

Oh the irony.
With closure compiler:

function hide(a){if(a=document.getElementById(a))a.style.visibility="hidden"}function vote(a){var b=a.id.split(/_/)[1];hide("up_"+b);hide("down_"+b);(new Image).src=a.href;return!1};

v and item are merged.

http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home#code%3D%252F%252F%2...

Original Size: 212 bytes gzipped (318 bytes uncompressed)

Compiled Size: 164 bytes gzipped (182 bytes uncompressed)
I think you missed his point.

In places like Alabama, nearly everyone will have an accent. The implication being that anyone with a southern accent, which can be difficult to understand, would cause what you are terming "dilution".

I don't know? My own belief is that making New Yorkers go to school with people from Alabama provides an additional dimension to the education for all concerned. I believe there is value in it. Reasonable people are free to disagree of course.
I think I would have the same hatred of someone forced me to work on a Windows 8 machine or Microsoft server. You seem to have some buggy boxes why not throw your servers on linode.com and take a snapshot of everything when it's "working" unleSs your line of work requires some physical access constantly but I can't imagine something I can't stream to a server from some backend connection.
This isn't entirely true. Per-student budgeting at a number of state institutions is as high as it's ever been.
Why the hell would you even think to plot 2^Log2(x) instead of just x?
9^9^9 = 9^(9^9) = 9^387420489
I'm not sure this approach will work now that the Government has pushed the fight public.
I have played Go and I understand that it is a complex and nuanced game. However, I also understand that it's a game very heavily based on patterns and pattern-matching.

Have you read the research paper and seen how much of AlphaGo's architecture was designed around the specifics of Go gameplay? (Including a set of handcrafted Go-specific training features.)
A People’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 7: Magneto vs. Erik Lensherr
My most appreciated feature is having a user interface for plugin settings.
Imaging how these low-lifes would be treated if these were HIPAA violations.
Yes pretty much!

Speaking of python, there's also hylang: use python functions with lisp s-expr syntax. It's very cool
No, Atom is just slower.

16GB, 4790k with SSD.
Is there any chance to use Rust or Go to develop an Atom package? Not for the entire codebase, just for the parts which might be a bottleneck.
This was sort of understandable in the '90s when decent (for then) laptops were expensive. It is baffling today now that laptops are cheaper than many phones.
What does "in the end" mean? I've been working in Vim and then Emacs+Evil for four years or so and it is pretty clear that I'm still far from proficient. That said, it is an enormous step above a text editor (and somewhat better than any IDE I've tried).
It doesn't have to be surprising to be wrong. Obviously the people at the top make the rules, that's true by definition. But we don't live in a dictatorship, and we can complain when we don't like the rules they make. That's not childish, it's human, it's the basis of our society.
I lost my job because of "noncompliance" to their demands that they have complete access to my personal phone.
Thanks for the reply and for the polite disagreement :)

> Brazil also surrendered to vulture funds at the 90's, and paid it back with things running very smoothly

What was the impact of those policies on the population, especially on the poor? Honest question, this isn't a trick question -- in fact, I'll be honest and say my assumption is that neoliberal policies in Latin America hurt the poor and create the ground for the rise of so-called populist governments. With Brasil this theory of mine is made less clear by the fact that, if I'm not mistaken, Lula's PT continued many of the policies of Cardoso... I remember being very confused about that!
I was a lot happier a long time ago before I started reading HN / news in general. The "spark" that lit everything is gone.
Why is Wired telling me I'm running an adblocker when I try to view this article? I'm not...

(edit) Ahh - it turns out that Firefox's built-in "tracking protection" feature triggers their ad-blocker-blocker.
> The opportunity exists because the economies of India and China are growing, and the elites of those countries emphasize education.

That's a much smaller driving force than capital flight. The elites of those countries want to move assets and investment out of the country, so you buy the child a home (in-state tuition) you can move to after they graduate, send support money over to the student, etc.

The wealthy Chinese understand that US Dollars and the American are a more stable platform over the next few decades than China (which isn't terribly likely to exist as presently constituted by that point).

When Japanese nationals were buying up American property left and right, Americans took it as a sign that the Japanese economy would grow rapidly forever, and they'd take over the world.

In reality, Japanese elites knew better than anyone what the future held, and wanted to tie up their wealth in American assets.

Capital flight is a major, major factor.
It was an open secret that Lavabit was targeted because of Snowden account there, but that's a really good thing to be sure for real, just for the sake of transparency.

Even if in this case, it was non-intentional transparency.
Why We Suck at Work-Life Balance, and How We Can Suck Less
As a longtime Vim user, I've been pleasantly surprised with the quality of Atom's Vim bindings. Text navigation and pane management bindings mostly work as expected. You get multiple registers for yanking etc. That's the extent of what you get, however. There's no emulation for the colon prompt, no macros, and it obviously doesn't support any Vim scripting.

I've been happy with Atom after transitioning from Vim, but there are still a few pain points. One that's particular annoying is that Atom's search/replace is very poor compared to the power I'm used to having with :%s.
“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,”
he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight.
“What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t
have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed
when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it
necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his
door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with
it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s
money-gulping door.

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

In addition to the above, I'd point out that there's already a massive literature of ways to take supposedly anonymous metadata and derive a probable identity from it - and the system described in the article would have vastly more information at its disposal than any of the intelligence agencies could DREAM of currently...
I wonder if Apple would finance their legal fees if they resisted, or would that be considered some sort of encouragement?

It might very well help public appeal if there was a person resisting the government compared to a large corporation.

Then again, if they get to the point of ordering Apple to break their security seems like they already lost the case at that point.
Sonic Kayaks
Another minor thing I think belongs in the C standard is bswap. For such a common operation that's necessary for portable code, I personally don't understand why it hasn't been defined in either the C or C++ standard.

Currently, the only compiler I'm aware of that optimizes a bswap correctly is LLVM, which leaves a lot of code in the cold Aside from requiring people to write their own bswap, which is fairly maligned [1] for good reason, It leaves out a reasonably important optimization or potentially requires excess maintenance (platform libs, intrinsics, etc...) for people who do need portable code (the main reason for bswap).

I think languages are starting to take the place of platform independent interfaces, and my personal opinion is that bswap is fairly low hanging fruit. Given that one of the stated goals of C is portability, I think it fits well within the mandate.

[1] http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy...
'Hugely important' iron age remains found at Yorkshire site
Hopefully they document the fact in discoverable fashion, so your lawsuit can have that extra "human rights violation" flavor.
The U.S. Government Is Still Fighting to Bury the Senate Torture Report
To protect and serve...remind me who the criminals are again?
So I guess you just have to be super careful with variable and function names? That's the dark-ages for lisp, but still usable.
I'm not familiar with using attributes for cleanup, but isn't the problem caused by the predeclaration of the variables? That is, wouldn't this work (and be shorter and simpler)?

int f (void) {
_cleanup_free char *s1 = strdup ("foo");
if (!s1) return -1;
_cleanup_free char *s2 = strdup ("bar");
if (!s2) return -1;
// ...
return 0;
}
Didn't use -n in any of the examples...please...
I really wish there was a way to use Atom in client/server mode. I'd like to leave a headless session running on my home Linux server and be able to attach to it from work. Right now, I use SSHFS to mount the remote directory so I can edit locally, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

Considering that Atom is all just Node and Chromium under the hood, it's surprising that there's no way to run at is as a server.
I want to have sympathy, but I don't. Get a UPS. And after seeing the website I have to believe the other problems are as much a symptom of the man/setup as anything.
A similar thing happened in Zimbabwe. Using a race-based system, they changed control of farms from one set of people to another (with rather strong rhetoric about how certain people would never be welcome again). Turns out a bit of experience was required, so they had to back down on that position:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/zimbabwe-seized-...

The article indicates that Zimbabwe went from being an exporter of food to requiring food aid to prevent starvation.

Zimbabwe just recently took over all diamond mines. Which sounds sorta OK in theory, but I can only imagine it's going to result in less official output and more corruption. Seems like they'd be better just insisting on very high fees.
No argument here—high schools are part of the problem. Even more of a reason to invest there now rather than over seas.
The banner asks politely to disactivate the ad blocker. You just need to deactivate it on the page and you can read the article. You have a message of thank you. I think wired is very polite in its anti-adblocker policy.
Thanks, se anal together!
HR to security engineer: "You're quitting? That's a shame. Um . . . Tim Cook has a beach house he wouldn't mind you using for a while. Can you walk his dog?"

My point is, the individuals won't suffer.
We're confused because above it seemed as if your other choice would have been just not checking your work email with your personal phone. That doesn't seem as if it would have been a hardship.
Cool anecdote! I'm one of the co-founders. We'd love to do this in the US eventually. The gap is widest in the developing world, and the reliance is greatest on agriculture there for a family's food and income.
What We’ve Learned About Pluto
Also: If you've spent 10+ years on a language/system, you aren't gonna need to ask questions nearly as much
Agreed. However, it seems to me that "health in general" is potentially harder to quantify than specific health conditions. It might be of interest to people who deal with workers in the aggregate, such as insurers and employers.

But I could imagine individual workers wanting to know more about the specifics: Could standing at work help with my personal health and medical issues? That question presented itself to me when my doctor told me that my neck and upper body pain was caused by sitting at a computer all day. Switching to a standing desk gave me fairly rapid relief after struggling for more than a year.

Of course that's just my anecdote. If someone else doesn't have the same problem, then the question is completely different for them.
What would be my penalty if I gained access and used the same information they did in exactly the same way? I would certainly be arrested, even if the data was publicly available.
i'm guessing this is tongue in cheek, but i think it's actually a good idea. though i think the gender bias that keeps women out of traditionally male-dominated fields is usually more pernicious than the bias that keeps men out of traditionally female-dominated fields [0], the latter's still a problem worthy of addressing. men shouldn't feel odd about wanting to be nurses or teachers or house-husbands or any of the many things that are not traditionally seen as male roles.

also, the article for the "top 10 myths about teaching studio art drawing" would probably be more appropriate for a journal on studio art drawing. the ACM should be concerned with gender bias in the computing world. it doesn't have to be concerned with gender bias in studio art drawing just because you want a witty counter-example to show that gender bias against women isn't such a big deal (because actually, it is).

[0] i think bias against women is more pernicious because there tends to be less bias against men in this regard, and so any one incidence of bias is less likely to be terribly detrimental to their life overall. a gross generalization, obviously, but i don't think it's off the mark.
The Empire the World Forgot
>What's the killer app that single-handedly gets you to fork over $30k for a reliable robot?

It would have to be absolutely required for your life at that price. The car is the closest to this given that price point and many people forgo that, so I can't think of anything that you would absolutely need a robot for.
Embedded processors are reaching < 30uA/MHz operation and useful sleep modes in the hundreds of nanoamps. Super capacitor/battery density, and energy harvesting continues to improve.

I think we're incredibly close to battery-less consumer electronics.
> Time and time again I need boring crud screens, for the admin side of applications, but there is no easy default to choose.

crud is often a feature of frameworks. crud should be an external tool like documention tools (doxygen...).
For many of these students (like many HN-ers posting here), this behind-the-scenes expose would have been eye-opening - a great learning moment. Just the sort of thing a student would post.
One could argue that they aren't necessarily low-lifes: I'd wager many, many people would abuse such power if they could. Which is why it's more important to place constraints on positions of power, than to hope that we only staff those positions with wholly noble people (who are incredibly few in number, in reality).

The other consideration is that if they were doing so under the threat of HIPAA violations, they may not have abused the information quite so casually. Jealous husband fears a slap on the wrist, he abuses the database. Jealous husband fears jail time, he possibly [hires P.I. / follows his wife / etc.].

I'm not defending them–law enforcement enjoys some protections that are arguably unconstitutional, and as such should be held to a much higher standard–but it's unproductive to examine what would have happened if the penalties were different, while simultaneously assuming that the actors would have made identical decisions based on different criteria.

And the reason that's important brings me back to my first point–built-in constraints are the only way to solve this sort of thing, which is the same reasoning the founders used to try to place constraints on American politicians.
The new features and updates are great, but the one thing holding me back from using it is the fact it is extremely slow and laden with performance issues. Anyone who has ever attempted to open a file with a lot of lines of code will attest to the fact that Atom has issues.

Ironically, Microsoft's open source Visual Studio Code editor is based in part of some aspects of Atom and it has exceptional performance and is a great editor in comparison. They need to focus on fixing the slowness. VSCode proved that Electron is not the bottleneck but rather Atom's code itself is.
I don't know if you were around then, or just speaking out of MS hate... but in the late 90s IE was the superior product. So much so that I often missed it because I was a Linux user and so didn't have access to it; Netscape had gotten really really terrible. Until Firefox came out the better option was IE.

I worked in a shop in 2000/2001 that was doing early Ajax type stuff (for a dashboard that controlled some embedded
hardware.) It wasn't possible to port it to Firefox even at that point, even at that point IE had some leg up.

Later, MS let IE6 bit rot forever. And it was loathsome.
What legal fees? It's Apple Inc which bears responsibility in this case, not individual employees. As the article suggests:

> if the engineers refused to write the code, rather than outright quit, “then I think that the court would be much more likely to find Apple in contempt,”
Program robots with those skills?
Electric motors have maximum torque at zero speed. Maximum power is at half of no-load speed.[1] You can design motors for higher torques at lower speeds; it's a standard design parameter.

[1] http://lancet.mit.edu/motors/motors3.html#tscurve
It's (ironically enough) a problem of unequal distributions. There are lots of not-college-educated lineworkers at auto plants that rake in lavish benefits while equally qualified (modulo experience) younger people who would love the work can't get in.

But then, that's only to be expected from above-market-rate wages...
The pending pane feature is really an improvement, because I found myself closing tabs way too often.
It's hard and really expensive, I don't think any big company would like to do that.
For large shops, source code building is non-trivial. It may require proprietary toolchains, metadata stored in some other dbs, or specific hardware / environments.
And the toolchain may even not work outside the shop, e.g., depending on internal infras.
Is this a joke? I can't tell...
Instead of forward, to slavery?
Ask HN: Dx
Tbh, I haven't posted to SO in years but I participated in their survey.
I remember the stupid marketing term gamification from a few years back. It was the "in" thing and my boss wanted games everywhere that promoted the product. Luckily that has gone away as far as I know.

But this is a great case of a good use of gamification.
Epidemiologist +1
Google didn't launch Orkut. Orkut did. Google only acquired it later, from what I recall. And then they let it rot and failed to see what they had.

Friendster was initially quite popular and not a bad product. But again, it was left to rot and it became slow, like unusably slow, and uncool. And then MySpace took its audience.
In Australia international students, a large proportion from China have built a reputation on endemic cheating. There is also culpability on the institutional side as universities allow them through degrees with different set of standards as the uni's appreciate full fee paying international students vs subsidised government paid national students. I met my wife, a foreigner at an Australian uni and she absolutely recognised her preferred treatment as a personal anecdote;

A quick Google shows this example article. Many more if you want to research this topic yourself vs imply someone is simply being racist: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/academics-accuse-un...

And I get what you're saying, and I'm not trying to tar all international students as doing this. More so it's a good topic to discuss, to stop this behavior and protect the reputation and achievement of those students that do work hard and truly earn their degree and other academic accolades. But at least at Australian universities this is a massively widespread problem, which uni's dont want to seem to deal with and it would not surprise me if this was more international.

Edit: Spelling
I mean, most people don't have that many problems with Ubuntu and Debian boxes, right? My first thought is, what is the author doing that most people aren't? Maybe stop doing that?
Logging into Windows 10 with a Favorite Photo
Thanks for the recommendation!
Lack of MRU tab switching and preview tabs are two reasons I haven't switched from sublime. Glad they are listening to requests.
The economic and social implications of this finding are profoundly disturbing. Why aren't more people upvoting?

The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is spreading the virus in much of Latin America and the Caribbean, will likely become increasingly abundant across much of the southern and eastern United States as the weather warms, according to a new study led by mosquito and disease experts at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.