skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prions remind me of the apocalyptic theory about strangelets and strange matter :

"One speculation that has resulted from the idea is that a strangelet coming into contact with a lump of ordinary matter could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet#Dangers

Also mere ideas could also been seen as some mind-folding catalysts, language being the infective mechanism.

Variants of this trope often appear in literature (science-fiction or not).

For example in "Viruses of the Mind" :
"Richard Dawkins analyzes the propagation of religious ideas and behaviors as a memetic virus"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viruses_of_the_Mind
http://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/ JS implementation for those wanting some "live" psychotherapy...
Catching up meaning as ridiculous and as insane?
There has to be some sort of record set with regard to the number of units sold vs the chances the unit would fail. It seems like everyone's xbox 360 would fail, no one was immune.
There is a lot of hype around emerging NYC tech scene. And this hype has been growing over the last 6-7 years. However, IMO, this is still a largely empty hype, due to 3 reasons
1. NYC hasn't produced a blockbuster startup, nor is there one in the pipeline. I am talking about tech startups >$50bn in value. The next giants are either in Valley (Uber, Lyft, Airbnb) or in China (Didi, Meuitan, etc) or in India (Ola, Flipkart). There is 1 in LA (Snapchat)

2. NYC tech portfolio is lacking startups in emerging technologies - self driving cars, VR/AR, 3D printing, drones, robotics, space, batteries and charging, energy

3. Lots of high profile failures, but few high profile exits
Pi Zero will never directly replace something like the arduino. Running linux (or any OS) can be a huge liability when you need to talk to some other bit of hardware that has strict timing requirements. That said, things like the ESP8266 and Arm Cortex M* processors are definitely becoming far more attractive than the AVRs in the lower end Arduino products (Due and others are also using ARM).
I don't know about overtake, but GCE is IMHO far superior to EC2 in terms of both performance (both hardware and network) and price right now. And they keep dropping the price by 30% pretty much every year. I expect to see a shift to GCP over time, yes.

Re Citus:

Considering that you get 2 GB of bandwidth per core on GCE, that makes a lot of sense for a distributed DB like Citus where there's a lot of inter-node traffic.

That other point there is that the maximum amount of RAM for a VM is 208Gb, which is not enough to scale up a Postgres instance. So a barrier to entry is porting your entire data layer to Datastore -- that's a significant engineering challenge that most people are unlikely to take up.

So Citus would fit in really well. IMHO focusing on AWS (where Amazon are providing their own DB services) is missing an opportunity on GCP (where Cloud SQL is MySQL based and fairly limited).
>There are other issues of a similar bent; there's a fight going on in Somerville (the neighborhood of MIT, Harvard, and Tufts students, now that Cambridge property deeds come platinum-plated) to allow more than four unrelated individuals to share a house. And they're facing fierce resistance.

Wait... there is!? Because my roommate just got a girlfriend, and when she stays over, that makes four of us. I should probably start attending public meetings about this.
Fuck BTLE. It's a nightmare to work with. Complex, extremely sparsely documented, and the Linux bluetooth stack is a PITA - not to mention that the BTLE part of BlueZ is ENTIRELY undocumented and you have to be really lucky to catch a bluez dev on IRC.

I wonder how all the cheap-ass Android device makers get BT(LE) running... or wait, often they don't and the user is screwed...
In his case 3 there will be no AmazonBasics version either, since there won't be a product for Amazon to analyze and copy.
I personally won't read to much into this, RFS has a very single minded political agenda, Mongolia has more press freedom than Japan and Italy, Georgia (in which the government closes TV stations at will) has more freedom than Greece, and Lebanon's press has apparently more freedom than Israel's.
A free press and whistleblowers are essential to democracy.

Without a free press & whistleblowers democracy cannot function.

It is clear from the last five years of leaks that elected governements around the world feel they must act in secret because they suspect the electorate would not approve.

Without much more oversight this will worsen.

Free Chelsea Manning. Pardon Edward Snowden. Drop the inditement against Julian Assange. Offer sanctuary to Mossack Fonesca's whistleblower. Lead by example.
YC W17? I mean if they can try fusion who knows.
Saudi Arabia Admits to John Kerry That It Created ISIS
+1

Or you may want to allow a one-click solution that I can deploy on my resources now and later seamlessly move to your hosted solution, when I need to scale.
It's brought on by being a big company that wants to leverage existing customer bases into new markets. Both Sony and Microsoft engaged in the "platform strategy" in the last two generations, while Nintendo sat back making traditional gaming consoles, focusing on building their own market rather than invading an existing one.

Basically, the console brand, to MS and Sony, is ultimately a tool that can be used to build a potentially bigger empire. Share and revenue prospects come before whether the experience makes sense, and in the echo chambers of such large companies, it's easy to fashion a story where every consumer is hungry for all of this stuff and wants a single source to deliver it.
Who makes them now though?
Near infrared light mitigates Alzheimer's disease-related pathology
In the words of the Stanley parable,

The end is never The end is never The end is never The end is never....

For instance, it's trivial to fingerprint most browser add-ons. What if organizations refused service to people with anti-anti-adblockers entirely? What if they kept a database of browser fingerprints they even suspected were using such tools? What if they opened up a new front, winning some sort of legal battle?

Hopefully the conflict is resolved with micropayments or something.
Yes.

I know someone on staff at the Wsj, and know their political views. I have seen their reporting and it is generally balanced. Yes, the papers always have an editorial line they are following, but it's not necessarily biased to push a view, but more so to match their buyers. Running a newspaper is not a public service for the Wsj.

The big surprise for most people is that people at institutions like Wsj and ny times try and be as professional as possible. They aren't acting like click bait interns at gawker.
coming in at #22 is Surinam with a "“public expression of hatred” towards the government is punishable by up to seven years in prison under a draconian defamation law."

The ranking for Slovakia at 12 seems at odds with its description "Defamation is punishable by up to eight years in prison, the harshest penalty for this offence in the European Union. Many legal actions have been brought by businessmen, politicians and judicial officials. Prime Minister Robert Fico initiated several during his first term. Censorship was tightened in 2014 by the adoption of a regulation limiting the number of journalists with parliamentary accreditation, restricting their movements within the parliament and banning them from photographing the personal property of parliamentarians."
> What they can't spare is the ten billion dollars it would take to actually deal with the MBTA's debt and deferred maintenance.

I'm pretty sure that debt was seven billion smaller before they dumped the Big Dig's debt onto the MBTA's books.

>investments on that scale, when they are not immediately relevant to the lives of 4/5ths of voters, are... challenging.

It's immediately relevant to all of us whether a few inches of snow shuts down or delays the Red Line and Orange Line.
Full text: http://alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/alzrt232

More recent info: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2015.00...
The shuttle will pick up at our SF office, 2 blocks from Embarcadero BART. It will depart on Saturday 5/21 at 8am (timed to get you to the event on time), and will return on Sunday 5/22 at the event's end.
> Running linux (or any OS) can be a huge liability when you need to talk to some other bit of hardware that has strict timing requirements.

Not just the timing is critical, also the failure causes (and modes) are far bigger in number when running an OS.

E.g. if you properly code in C or ASM for a microcontroller and avoid things like recursion, it's very hard to crash due to OOM errors.
Can anyone provide:

1. What factors were used in deriving this list?

2. Who funds this project?

I can't find it anywhere on their site.
Reference counted ones, by carefully controlling when the reference count for objects are released you can make sure that the rendering thread never has to do any of the expensive ones, and instead all (non-trivial) reference releases are shunted off into a different thread for deallocation. In the general case you don't care, and in the specific case you have a fine enough control you can get around the problem of unknown gc-pauses. It's slower - it is a dynamic language afterall - but it's consistent and real-time is more about being consistent.
We'll have to see whether grow-at-home will be permitted. Here in Canada it is illegal to operate a spirits distillery in your home. I wouldn't be surprised if it is not legalized, as it opens up avenues for "criminal selling", ie: people growing at home and selling it - bypassing taxation. And, let's be honest, government revenue from taxation is the real reason legalization is even on the table.

It doesn't matter how grow-at-home laws will be written. There will always be those people who will exceed the "personal plants limit" to grow and sell to friends / the street. Especially if legally obtainable strains wind up being very limited, or if the tax is too expensive.

The whole system including strain restrictions and pricing (+ taxation) is going to be interesting to watch unfold. If officials think that your average daily consumers - not the new people who will toke once legal, but those who already consume daily - are going to tolerate an increase of any amount for the product... enjoy the black market that will continue to proliferate.

I do love the lackluster "legalization will keep weed out of kids' hands!" How exactly does that way of thinking even begin to work? ;)
I never thought I would see a Daily Mail article on Hacker News

http://shouldireadthedailymail.com
Good to see C++ is gaining more visibilities these days, considering the Oracle/Java combination I hope C++ can take away some JAVA dominance, at least nobody is going to sue you over C++ APIs.

Failed to compile with CMake 2.8

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:91 (MESSAGE):
REQUIRED_ARGS (missing: FOLLY_INCLUDE_DIR OLLY_LIBRARIES)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake-2.8/Module/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:252(_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
cmake/FindFolly.cmake:23 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
CMakeLists.txt:17 (find_package)
I think the trick that the US uses is that: the federal government is complying by outlawing it, even if individual member states legalize it.
Why does that make him a real hacker?

Seems to me the wife left him when there was no prospect of recognition/profit and came crawling back when that proved to be false.
Man, this is the perfect news story for 4:20.
Netherlands at the top? The place where offensive tweets gets you a police visit ? Allright.
IMHO the US desperately needs international CEOs to offset its inward-looking media and education system.
Emptying into a toilet is not easy to do when you live in a remote village and have to walk several miles to fetch the day's water from a well.

Any product that's low on water use is going to be highly preferable for these women.
You can buy an arduino for about $2: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Best-prices-high-quality-UNO-...
The LoPy is about the same size, and is shipping with LoRa, Wifi, and BLE on board.

http://www.pycom.io/solutions/py-boards/lopy/
Sounds like a lot of people in Seattle took the right lessons away from the 90s.
This website gives a good overview of the quality of its articles http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/
>I'm an outsider to this, but Obamacare seems like a tentative half-step towards a sane healthcare system like the rest of the developed world has. And as far as I can tell the only reason it's a half-step is because the red-tribe has been convinced for decades that it would help African Americans and so voted for people who worked against it.

Nope. The deciding vote against a public health-care option was Senator Joseph Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut and well-graduated meritocrat from Yale Law.
Have you considered hiring remote ?
A man collapsed at the airport, and I'm the only jerk who took a photo
I see. I guess near exact match functionality would be great for plasmids where there is a custom sequence inserted.

But wouldn't a pre-processing pipeline that either automates annotation of the plasmid based on commonly used motifs (m17 primers, t7, sp6 promoters, fluorescent protein sequences, antibiotic resistence...etc) or requiring the user to annotate their plasmid during submission be more ideal? I would imagine the more common use case is to search for these elements?
I wonder what PETA would have to say about this.
From my experience language and years of experience have very little to do with salary IF you stay at the same employer. To get frequent salary and title bumps you HAVE to move employers. It's the single fastest path to more money. Move every 3 years at a minimum and never accept a lateral move or for equal pay with new title. Your future salaries will depend on your previous comp, not by title.

Also, independent contracting is often a better option than employment in most parts of the country, but you have to be independent (1099-MISC, never W2). Being a W2 at a consulting company is just as bad as anywhere else. Independent consulting will get you a 2x bump instantly assuming you can find a full time gig but that's usually not that difficult. Furthermore, as a 1099, you'll be able to put away far more in retirement savings. I recommend an LLC with a 401K (not SAP), max out your personal contributions and then kick in another 6% from your 'company'. You'll be socking away ~50K in retirement alone this way while lowering your taxable income. Compare that to your 16K/year max as W2.

Another trick: if a company ever offers you a larger than usual bonus for some reason (i.e. retention, goal met etc) leave the next year when it shows up on your W2 and ask the next employer to merely 'match' your current W2 without breaking out base salary and bonus. I've scored 50% pay increases this way.

Following the above methods, I was making $180K+ at my 8 year mark and $230K+ at my 12 year mark. Most of this happened in the midwest although I currently live in the bay area.
The place way out on the BART?
It sounds very plausible explanation of prion infection. I'm a layman and don't know how far the correspondence go---but if the correspondence holds, is there an agent that complements prions? That is, if prions are damaged receptacle, is there another protein for the damaged plug that propagates damage to other normal proteins?
It's not an anti-trust case because there are literally thousands of other retailers - both online and brick&mortar. Amazon has nowhere near a monopoly on anything here, they are running a store. Just like walmart, target, costco, Safeway, etc - all of which have their own house brands.
The reverse would be neat too, an Arduino which is also a AA battery holder.
wonder if this inertial/acceleration effect is what is responsible for "dark matter" in the universe, i.e. galaxy-scale gravitational anomalies that don't agree with existing newtonian and GR models.
It's the hipster effect[0]. The more people try to rebel, the more they conform!

[0] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.8001.pdf
When you're going beyond hobby basics, doesn't it make sense to shift over to atmel or any other long established vendors?

I appreciate what arduino has done, but at some point it's too much.
The article is very sweeping. You're getting only the pro side, not any of the critical view.

People are still heavily debating the experiments. It has not been empirically demonstrated to a standard sufficient to call the thrust real. That's why only a very small community is working on this. "NASA" in this context means EagleWorks is letting a couple people spend a bit of spare time and resources on it as a speculative project.

Mike McCulloch's work is interesting, but it's quite far from any mainstream acceptance or testing, as he himself would admit. It's mostly independent of the EmDrive stuff, but the enthusiast community has latched onto it as a way to escape the unpleasant reality that established physics says the EmDrive is a perpetual motion machine. I'm glad EmDrive is giving his work a boost because I think it should be tested, but there should be much better ways of testing Modified inertia by a Hubble-scale Casimir effect than the EmDrive (he's got a couple blog posts about it if you're curious).
1. Click on the "World Press Freedom Index" link in the first sentence of the article, then click on the "METHODOLOGY" link in the subheader (black and white bar).

2. Google gives multiple cited sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders#Fund...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reporters_Without_Borde...
You should go ahead and read Thomas Frank's book that he pulled this article from. He spends an entire chapter on how regulators and economists from the well-graduated "meritocratic" elite simply aren't held to any kind of empirical standard whatsoever. When they're wrong, they consider it as a civilizational mistake. It's only other people who can be individually incorrect and responsible for intellectual mistakes.
> The thing you stand to lose is the original making of that product.

I would argue that Amazon Basics is filling the niche between quality premium and questionable cheap products with reliable products at a fair price.

If you want a Lightning cable for your iPhone what are your choices? A $1 part from an unknown Chinese factory that might work, or the $29.99 cable from Belkin, Griffin or Monster that will work? You know the cheap cable is a roll of the dice but you can't stomach the alternative either. That's where Amazon Basics comes in, it's the Toyota Carolla of whatever it is you're looking for.

It's not like Amazon is edging out anyone, they're offering products in categories that are over saturated with thousands of competing choices and no way for a customer to distinguish a good deal from a rip off.
I'd be interested to see results from such a trial.

Closer to home, we twice found out that the pharmacy gave her a generic when she developed quirks 4-5 days after she started taking a new bottle. Sort of the reverse of a placebo effect -- she thought she was on the brand all along, and she didn't think to check until things didn't feel right.

Humans are complicated.
Mitsubishi Admits Cheating on Fuel-Economy Tests
I don't think the issue is that they've released multiple versions, it's more that they've had so many backward-incompatible releases.

Python and OCaml have had 3 each. Libc has had 6. 32 for something that's been around less than a decade is a bit excessive.

Are all these 32 actually backwards-incompatible?
Seems like a low tech solution to your problem is boxed wine. Trader Joe's sells some good ones for ~$12 (and they hold the equivalent of 4 bottles of wine).

http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/2762
I would agree with the analysis, but I think it's missing an interesting fact: The ARM threat was non-existant until DEC Alpha engineers created StrongARM and showed the world that you could make a fast ARM. StrongARM was effectively renamed XScale around the time Intel got hold of the IP.
You can actually use Amazon payments for that...
Docker is secure by default – a look back on the past year in Docker Security
Thing is, with the exception of Los Angeles, all those other cities in the top 10 also suffer under the chilling effects on labor mobility that RTP and DFW do.
I don't really have a problem with Google giving incentives for exclusivity of Google Search on devices. As long as that's voluntary for carriers / OEMs to enter into and other search alternatives have the same opportunity then that's just business. In a way I would see it as more of a problem if Google was requiring it without giving incentives. That would be evidence of an abuse of market power.

Like you I do potentially have a problem with the second point - depending on the details. I think Google has good technical reasons to take measures to prevent fragmentation of Android. Incompatible ecosystems arising would have very real negative consequences for the very competition that the EU is trying to protect. (as in, the only reason there IS competition amongst Android OEMs is because there IS an OS with strong compatibility protections). What I don't think they can do is level those protections at a whole company level - you can't say "Acer can't make a variant of Android if they are also shipping a phone with Google Services". Now I would be OK with it if there's real potential for harm to the ecosystem - if Acer is shipping the phones which are incompatible and claiming they run "Android", for example. But if they clearly fork it as a separate OS, put out their own SDK with separate APIs etc. then Google has no business telling them not to do it. So even this one I could go either way on depending on the exact details of the circumstances.
I suspect that EV-fanatic kids don't think much of the i8 -- it's a plug-in hybrid with weak all-electric performance. It would have made a great all-electric car.
How about we link to that instead of http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/aaduino/?ncid=rss&utm_sourc....

Edit: well that didn't work. URL changed back from http://johan.kanflo.com/the-aaduino/.

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11538219 and marked it well off-topic.)
It seems that float(p) with p undefined is treated as double. I need to double check my numbers. The storage test was done against 9.4 Indexes were turned off. Adding (Sensor, SampleTime DESC) index increases disk usage by 30%.

Not sure what you mean by precision or performance loss. TSDBs are way faster, I think it's a rather established fact because they're optimized for numeric array ingestion.
>or the whole thing is being subsidized by NGOs.

From another article in 2012:
"Women pack around six to eight towels in a packet and sell them for as little as 13 rupees (16p). On average, each woman earns the equivalent of £30 to £65 a month;"

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/22/sanitary...
Yea, some qualifiers about big news.

Also, there's roughly 0 unbiased coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict at this point. You kinda have to just read multiple sides from different news outlets and try to sift through the bias yourself.

E.g. most recently, it's hard to tell from a headline about an IDF executing an unarmed guy lying on the ground with a headshot whether or not it's a fair interpretation of the situation.
Welcome to capitalism, supercharged.

There's a reason that in the long run economic profit of firms is theoretically 0. If you're making substantial margin off a product, and doing so in volume, other companies will naturally want to compete with you to sell it. You either have to innovate faster than them (and thus win customer loyalty) or get into a brutal price competition which pushes both your profits to 0.

Keeping your products off Amazon isn't even a defense against this. It's hard to keep a lucrative product secret for long. Cash cows eventually moo.

Your margin is Amazon's opportunity. Get used to it.