skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are reasons someone might switch bikes seemingly for no reason. This bike is geared for this section of the course, that bike is geared for the next section, etc. Chain is getting loose, and instead of taking two minutes to switch chains, they take 30 seconds to switch bikes. Maybe the tires are a different compound. It could be cheating, but it could be a variety of other reasons as well.

I do agree with "if the bike breaks, you're done". Most racing is done this way, with a limited amount of things you're allowed to fix before you have to call it a day. I don't watch Formula racing but I used to watch NASCAR and they're allowed a backup car if they trash theirs during practice or qualifying, but not on race day.
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Bluetooth audio works perfectly fine on OSX with some Sony BT headphones I recently got - even through a wall at 5+ meters.
This BBC article references Ascension Island:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_Island

A bit disappointed--was expecting something more along the lines of physics abnormalities, I guess. After reading the article, everything seems to make sense, in terms of human activities: the official UK denial over residents' right of abode; the secrecy over hilltop-stationed communications equipment; the lack of Leendert Hasenbosch's remains; Joseph Hooker's re-engineering of the islands environment, as well as subsequent efforts, over the ensuing decades.
> What kinds of things do you count as needing "that level of control"?

As a developer, I want complete control over everything on my development machine. It's not enough to just control my home directory. I want to be able to control exactly what system services are running, so that I can test services in the same environment they'll be running in in production. I want to be able to control exactly what versions of things are installed as system binaries, not just in my home directory, so that I can be sure there is no possibility of a version being there that I don't want there. I want to be able to control exactly what device drivers and kernel modules are running. And so on.

Perhaps not all developers take this attitude; it probably depends on what kinds of things you are developing.
I don't think they'll ship.

They either patent the product in which case cheap clones are produced before they get to market, or they keep it a secret and never release. Since the CEO is the inventor, I think they'll try to keep it secret.

Slow companies that want to do everything perfect just don't work once they lose that edge. They fail to compete.
Can you go into a little more detail about Telegram?

I find the whole tech platform very promising, and I have a group chat and a couple private chats going on it, but at least in my social circle, we haven't transitioned.

Do you do event invites with it? Do you do family group chats with it? Just wondering.
New drug development is mostly paid for by other party's. The major drug company's spend money on acquisitions, advertising, and minor tweaks to get around patents.

ex: Viagra> Uprima and Cialis

Sure, Pfizer for example does spend billions on R&D. But, far more of this is Development than Research. They also call a lot of dubious spending R&D.
As much as I love the Air, it's an absolute shame they won't let it have an IPS screen. This is the single reason I won't buy another Air. The Air has got everything else right and I have no problem with the resolution. But it stinks when everything washes out when I just want to lean back and relax a bit.
If I'm traveling I also use Safari but prefer Chrome when doing web dev.
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with facebook you can get in touch with people that might be othwerwise unreachable (it allowed us to do a proper high school reunion for example).

the key is to use it sparingly and not spend too much time, it has some addictive factor in constant news feed that make news sites look like static HTML pages. it can be a good tool but a bad master

linkedin is purely professional, basically your online CV + network of your colleagues. they tried to make it more FB-like but I don't know a single person who is not recruiter who actually ever checks that.
Same on the west coast, D'oh!
I dunno... Microsoft has been open sourcing some pretty awesome stuff lately.
It'd make a good debugging tutorial at least. The process of finding the right place to add HP isn't always simple (in other games) and you could always go through modifying game logic / items.
Sometimes you eat the jellyfish. Sometimes the jellyfish eat you. I guess.
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After reading the question, my understanding is that there have been fifty leads, five prospects and zero sales. I might be misunderstanding.

Looking at the numbers for this pipeline, increasing leads will not increase sales. A higher rate of conversion from lead to prospect will not result in higher sales either.

My advice based on my understanding is to close sales and have actual customers -- have people paying money. Closing sales is key to receiving feedback about what people will actually pay for and help establish a good pricing model for customers. It will help qualify leads into prospects and help narrow the market segment from which leads should be drawn.

Good luck.
Hi. In this post we discuss CRISPR as a kind of "GPS for the genome" that allows scientists to explore protein, RNA, and DNA interactions in intergenic regions. This is a cutting edge application of CRISPR. We ran through all of the human genome to find more than 2 million guide RNAs "between the genes" and made the data publicly available. Send us your questions and comments. If you're looking for a background in running CRISPR experiments, check out our first post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10973394
Anything can lead to conflicts on earth.
You could always buy an 8gb model. They just bumped the base model to 8gb.
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"Fully rational" in this case means "want to sell high and buy low". It's a very low bar to clear, especially in the job market for PhDs.

>Record companies have been treating musicians like crap for at least a lifetime now, and there are still people dreaming of record contracts.

If I understood you correctly, you are implying that musicians have better options than signing with labels and are acting irrationally by doing so? I disagree.
This.

Something that gnaws at the back of my mind is that the survival of our species is contingent on absolutely nothing catastrophic happening to the single planet we inhabit. All of our eggs are in one basket, so to speak.

Until we have a viable network of colonies offworld, we will continue to have this problem.
Weird. I submitted the same post yesterday (links are identical). How was it able to get submitted again?

NB: I'm glad it did because mine didn't get any upvotes and I was sure people here would enjoy it.
The abstraction is in removing the cognitive overhead needed to understand this. The original programmer can now allocate the time saved to higher level concerns. That is what C did for assembly and what Python is doing for C. Is that not the theme of abstraction?
A friend of mine returned to FB a few days ago, claiming that he had lost like 90% of his social contact. That sounds a bit much to me, bur one should definitely take this into consideration before leaving.
This, for me (in Canada). I now regularly throughout the day check several facebook groups related to my various hobbies. For example a group where serious cyclists from my area are buying/selling parts. Yes, I also check craigslist/kijiji, but the Facebook group is much more responsive, you can ask questions and comment, and I don't have to sift through a bunch of cheap parts I don't want. Also I trust it more because most people are somehow connected.

In fact I hardly ever check my facebook feed anymore, I mostly just go directly to the group I'm interested in.
Where does Nutanix fit with my OpenStack environment
> You can use Alexa to turn off the lights, ask it how much gas is left in your car, or order a pizza.

I'm getting a bit tired of these examples. Is there a comprehensive list of things Alexa can do?
The full echo happens to be on sale today, and the Echo Dot (which doesn't include the full speaker, only a smaller one, and you can plug it into your own) is about half the price, and does still have the always-on listening mode.
Heh. I think wizard mode pops up a dialog when you die "Are you sure you want to die?". Same effect, but probably less trouble!
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> With that kind of reasoning - unless you steal from the publisher right off the press somebody has already paid for the book, no

That is correct - this is well established in US case law as the "Fist sale doctrine"[1]. Meaning once bought, the book can be lended, resold, or scanned. However, I believe the Authors Guild was going for the copyright angle, and they lost.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
I know its going to be down voted, but

hear hear!! i second this.
I assume the videos available on iTunes are encoded in an H.264 profile that can be decoded entirely on the GPU, so the CPU would indeed be mostly idling during playback.
Oh, it's still working. It's just some people believe it may stop working.
As a side note, Syfy channel's Expanse show takes place in that kind of an environment. There are "belters" whole generations who have worked mining asteroids. There is the "Mars" faction, descendants of Mars colonizers, and of course Earth. They end up conflict + some added human interpersonal drama mixed in etc, etc.

As a show not top notch, but not bad either. It was interesting that it was exploring the Solar system as opposed the traditional space sci fi plot with aliens invading or having to go through wormholes to outer rims of the universe.
I've found in my travels within the UK as an American, that the reverse is also true. I tend to get a much warmer reception in Scotland than anywhere else.

(Except Shetland. I got the feeling they don't really like outsiders in Shetland.)
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I do all my C++ / Objective-C development on a 13" mid 2012 MBA, and it works perfectly. If you have to do a complete recompile it takes a bit longer, but overall, for me it's pretty good. I'm now getting this new Macbook. Can't beat portability.
> Is it possible both of [them] are right?

Absolutely. However, they give 0 attribution to their baseless assertions. I follow Theranos enough where neither of these statements are so obviously common knowledge that they don't need to reference something at least in passing.

Mostly, I am curious how this ended up happening.
Create your own PicJig: http://picjig.com/create
Curious about the security model for signature as a service.
Obama London visit: Drones to be banned in the capital
I knew a couple non technical people who bought and loved the first gen Air. The appeal broadened with later revisions, for sure.

I also know a bunch of developers who bought and love the MacBook. Not sure how they're making do with that single port but apparently it works for some.
OS X uses memory compression that compresses browser memory rather well which alleviates at least some pain points of using machines for development.
I don't disagree with the general message of your comment, however:

> There is a palpable sense of fear and unease on people's faces, not a smile to be seen.

I'm not sure that if you took a picture on the London Tube or the NY Metro you'd see any smiles either.
Don't feel bad -- we at Bloomberg always get classed a "media" company when the media properties came about a decade after the software (& hardware). It's just easier to say because it fits better into public expectation. To most people Amazon is e-commerce because nearly everyone buys things from them online or via mobile apps.
I have only experience with dear-imgui so far (mentioned in the readme), but nuklear should be very similar in its requirements. You basically just need a GL context (or other 3D APIs equivalent) to write a wrapper for, SDL is sort of overkill for this.

In my case I integrated imgui with my "weekend engine" Oryol, which has a very slim wrapper around 3D APIs, and I have this running in WebGL (via emscripten) and GLES2 on Raspberry Pi 2 (should also work on the original Pi). The resulting executables are small enough for most 32-bit embedded platforms (a couple hundred KBytes), and have a much shorter list of system dependencies. On Raspberry Pi it doesn't even need a window system, it runs straight from the Linux terminal and uses the Pi's EGL wrapper.

For instance here's the WebGL imgui demo (325 kByte): http://floooh.github.io/oryol/asmjs/ImGuiDemo.html
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Earth is massive. Pretty much nothing we can do on a human scale is going to impact that. To put it in perspective taking the entire raw iron ore mining output is only 5.3916492×10^-13 of the Earth's mass. (used a 2014 estimate)

Honestly I'd worry about heating up the atmosphere too much from the resources being delivered before mass even vaguely comes into the picture unless we figure out space elevators.
Hash table performance in C++, Java, and Python
I deleted my Facebook sometime ago when I noticed an acute "icky" feeling every time I used it. Whether it was the posts complaining about whatever the latest outrage was (Supreme Court legalizing same sex marriage, etc) or the barrage of games, or whatever else, the signal to noise ratio was awful.

That was about a year ago. I don't miss it, and I don't feel that I'm missing anything. I think there are plenty of niche, high value aggregators of content, and ways to "connect" that are more useful to me. Such as where I am posting now. And I don't have to feel bad about myself when I use them.
Not just an Israeli thing. I firmly believe messenger and groups (+ group events) are the only parts of Facebook that actually consistently provide value to users. The rest of it exists for the purpose of turning those users into a sellable product.
I'm not sure if it's a joke or not, but using the hosts file to block websites is a big way to gain productivity. Even better if you ask your admin to do it while not giving you the rights to change it back!

Edit: Also, Hacker News has built-in features to do this. Look up "noprocrast" in your profile! You have "maxvisit" and "minaway" you can use to keep you from coming here too much!
I opened up Chrome Developer tools and added img { display: none } which hides everything but the top banner, which you can scroll past ;)
How much do spouses support startup founders?
https://status.cloud.google.com/
> Also, message metadata is still being leaked by all of these E2E implementations and needs to be fixed.

Ricochet (https://ricochet.im/) solves that problem using Tor hidden services. Desktop only at the moment AFAIK, though.
You are referring to a hydraulic accumulator[0], such systems were built in the 19th century, though not for household use.

There is a modern effort to use the technology in a massively scaled up fashion by Heindl Energy[1]. Their concept uses pumped water to raise a rock weight 100 meters or more in diameter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_accumulator
[1] http://www.heindl-energy.com/hydraulic-rock-storage/overview...
if all the webs content ends up migrated into facebook, they wont have a ton of choice.

imagine all of yelp and craigslist locked, oh and every small business web page, requiring an account to view. stuff kids might not be interested in, but adults probably are.
Wow, that really isn't good for Apple.
I got early access to pre-order (can't remember why) at $99 and almost didn't do it. I'm SO glad I did. It gets used all day every day. I grab the last two eggs and say "Alexa, add eggs to the grocery list", hands are full of mess while cooking, "Alexa, set a timer for 5 minutes", etc. The fact that it works with my home automation hub is also nice, when I'm across the room and want the lights off, or want the garage door closed. I could live without it for sure, but it just makes things easier. The voice recognition, especially from far away is incredible. I don't have to yell, or say things exactly right (like in my car).

Knowing what I know now, I'd pay full price- especially with the new functionality and apps that get released every week it seems. I've even written a few of my own.

The speaker itself is just okay, we play music on it all the time for the kids, but there are way better Bluetooth speaker setups, so if that's your primary goal you won't be that excited.

If you can afford it and have a routine of any sort throughout the day where checking the weather, traffic, maintaining a grocery list (especially when you might not be the person going), getting a news briefing or listening to a podcast are part of it, then you'll find it useful immediately. If you don't, to get your money's worth, you'd want to start a routine of sorts.
Actually, it's mostly assembly (depending on the particular implementation). Lapack is Fortran though.
While you are correct, and on the face of it i would agree because I am cynical, they can never really lose that battle. I doubt a normal Facebook user can ever be in the same place as all of their Facebook friends. So family, college friends, high school friends, etc, will always be accessible online at the expense of the other parties real life presence.

Based on eating out, I can say that groups of people still use their phones to connect to Facebook, even with large groups of "Friends" IRL.
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The documentation is reasonably comprehensive: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=h...
Chosen Ciphertext Attacks on Apple iMessage [pdf]
Last month I drove from Launceston to Scottsdale, I stopped counting dead wallabys at I recon about 120 (pademelons propably, hard to tell if their spread so thin). Many of those were in pairs, a bigger smear, followed by a smaller, joey-sized smear... Amazingly I only almost killed one, and managed to drive over a echidna (missed him)

Took the fun edge of an otherwise very pleasant island trip.
No. It's an API that connects to every other API. The list of things it can do would just be a list of all the things that can be done.
Pieter, I spoke with you back in 2013 at CodeMesh, about OSS development. I remember asking "if you default to merging PRs even if you don't agree with the, how can you assure quality control". And IIRC your answer was something along the lines of : "Why should I assume that I have the only answer for what quality is".

The frank humility of that answer has stuck with me over the years. And that simple 15min conversation has resulted in hours of contemplation. So thank you for making me think.
Adobe on QuickTime: You're up the creek without a paddle
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The status page at https://status.cloud.google.com/ has now been updated to include

"We are investigating an issue with Authentication services. We will provide more information by 07:30 US/Pacific."
# if you're bothering with a hostfile block, you probably want these
fbcdn.com www.fbcdn.com fbcdn.net www.fbcdn.net
www.static.ak.fbcdn.net static.ak.fbcdn.net
facebook.com www.facebook.com connect.facebook.com
login.facebook.com www.login.facebook.com
www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com static.ak.connect.facebook.com
www.static.ak.facebook.com static.ak.facebook.com

# might want to add these as well
google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com ssl.google-analytics.com
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Even with the slow movement it's quite jittery. Not sure how much that affects the experience.

The other thing is the demo environment is very dark. All the lamps are dim and angled towards the walls.
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Here's the Telegram iOS code by the way: https://github.com/peter-iakovlev/Telegram
microsoft writes the operating system they are infecting. then people with older computers think their hardware is too slow and buy a new one.

how can they not use vm's and heuristics to click all their ads and see if it infects their own operating system, before approving the ads, and then rechecking them every so many clicks?
>I mean, we still call it "the year of our Lord."

BC/AD is deprecated for non-religious uses.

The international standard is CE/BCE for common era/before common era.
https://status.cloud.google.com/ It's mentioned below the chart.
To add to the creepiness, when a child sits for the pledge (legal, AFAIK) and is punished. Add the comments from supposedly rational adults on the local news article about it... and you see some people really take forced patriotism seriously.
I'm on it, but still get asked all the time why I'm not on it. It seems like if you're not posting and commenting all the time people forget you exist.
Apparently since the last time I checked, git actually includes a helper script that allows you to use `gpg-agent` to decrypt your creds in an analogous way to how `ssh-agent` works. It requires a bit of setup since for some reason it's disabled by default, and it's a bit more moving parts (GPG key plus username/password instead of a single keypair) but it's a lot better than it used to be.

I hope this pattern catches on for services other than git.
The status page at https://status.cloud.google.com/ has now been updated to include
"We are investigating an issue with Authentication services. We will provide more information by 07:30 US/Pacific."
If google glass had more than 45 minutes of battery life it would have taken off.
Great article. I'm still using callbacks >.<

The before code should not have Promise: "const fs = Promise.promisifyAll(require('fs'))"
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I do my development inside a Linux VM running on MacBook 2015 with fastest CPU option. It is not a speed daemon, but various IDE works very OK. The lightness of the notebook is amazing, I never thought I would appreciate it that much.
So what you're saying is that without a local content requirement India is incapable of making competitive solar cells. I don't believe that's true. I think the local content requirement was simply a gift to politically well connected Indian firms. The Indian people should be thanking the WTO in this case, that rather than serving the interests of the crony capitalists, the interests of the people are being served.

Few countries have been damaged as much by protectionism as has India, and fewer have had such great gains by its gradual elimination.
What bothers me a lot is their fricking "Cloud Status" page.

None of their Google Cloud services are working for me, but the page says everything is operating normally.

This is not the first time this has happened either. Their status page has been truly useless. There is often degraded service or services going out for an hour or two with nary a blip on their status tracker.

This is not what I'd call "Normal", Google. You can do better with monitoring services, and you know it.
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I was looking for a fair comparison between Now, Siri, Cortana and Alexa and I stumbled across this [0]. I find it interesting because it seems you would need all of them to answer all your questions.

Do you have also some personal experince comparing with Now , Siri or Cortana? What went really bad or amazed in terms of speech recognition and speech comprehension?

[0] http://www.cio.com/article/2953989/software-productivity/10-...
You're going to claim that the Google CEO and Microsoft CEO being of Indian ethnicity somehow contributes to India's growth? I think it does the opposite, considering what people of their talent might or might not have achieved if they remained in India.

I'm not saying that they should have remained in India (far from it), but they chose not to so they could contribute to largely American growth.
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