skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customer tracking's already a big thing, except for using a personal tracking devices (like mobile phones; based on identifiers their radios scream out loud) instead of facial/gist recognition.

Not to say your favorite taxi or banking app may include some unadvertised extras that cough "improves your customer experience" by enhancing your device screams.
"You will need to merge master back into your cleanup branch periodically, but that is usually easier than it would be to recall all of the context relating to the original change."

Won't there be merge conflicts when you do this the first time as the clean feature branch code be different from the flag based feature on the master? Of course, all the subsequent merges should be conflict-free.
After high school, I saved up and spend 4 months traveling across Indonesia. I was almost fluent in it by the time I made it to Sumatra.
I want to add, that I did not understand all the rage against school 42 in a previous post. Those guys basically offer free Education. This is awesome. We are VERY happy to see another school in the US using this peer-learning and project-based approach to train software engineers. When we launched Holberton School last year we knew there would more school like this coming to the US, but we are glad that school 42 is the one launching today! Congratulations to the whole team 42!
I believe the US recently paid about as much for the functionality of a coin flip on an iPad and the software was only used for a few months.

OP is talking about much more complicated software than simulating a coin flip.
Nothing wrong with head shops.
I'm sure a Gaussian process could model the equivalent of feedback control; they're pretty flexible (if not as flexible as NNs). The trick is coming up with something that can learn the feedback controls, or lack thereof, on its own. Unsurprisingly, they're reinventing reinforcement learning.
I think the point he was trying to make is that, this type of tech will drive talent out of countries such as Russia.
1. Software using Semantic Versioning MUST declare a public API. This API could be declared in the code itself or exist strictly in documentation. However it is done, it should be precise and comprehensive.

I know it's a derivative of Semantic Versioning, but this should probably be corrected.
Going through that whole process to run the trial could easily lead to depression.
The logic isn't even close:

Odometers increment on driven cars. The odometer did not increment. The car was driven. Unsatisfied.

People having sex are together. People who are together don't text each other. During a certain hour a person didn't text 68 contacts. At this certain hour, this certain person had sex with 68 people. Satisfiable.
Why “Make America Denmark Again” Will Not Happen
It's going to play out just like in the anti-spam/anti-virus domain. Someone is going to develop a face-CAPTCHArizer service that throws bitmaps at a photo to make life difficult for commonly used face-recognition and feature extraction algorithms.

Upload a photo, toggle a true/false positive control, get your online-safe photo back. Looking forward to an announcement on HN.
And yet people shake their heads when RMS discloses he wants absolutely no photos uploaded of him to services like Facebook.
In that case: I don't think I've ever seen any team have problems with how to delete a flag. The struggles tend to be about when.
> I think this is similar to the issue that Americans tend to pay relatively high taxes and get relatively little in return, compared to citizens of other countries. I don't know to what extent this is a

I don't think it's too much of a leap to assess the majority of the blame to the way our system works. Our elections are privately funded, so political gain is easily bought by anyone with enough money, and one way to have enough money is to use your political capital to ensure the country remains an excellent place for you to make money.

There's no aspect of the past few decades of US law that doesn't have direct fingerprints of someone's personal financial interest on it. We pay a lot to get a little, because the people providing a little would prefer to extract from us a lot.
Did you intentionally pick the one thing I didn't say was broken? Friggin' writev() still doesn't work, Scott! That breaks about 20,000 tools, often subtly. The fix somehow didn't make it into the latest insider build.

And I can't tell you how much I look forward to updating every Windows component then rebooting twice so I can maybe run cmake in a console window. Geeze, Scott, you've lost the rabbit.
Definitely. ClojureScript is what I usually choose for my own projects, but the reality of the front-end job market is that JavaScript still dominates, so improvements to JavaScript itself will still have a significant impact on the lives of developers everywhere regardless of the existence of other compile-to-JS languages.
Hey everyone. Debra Cleaver here, founder of Vote.org. I am ready to answer all of your questions about voting in the US, as long as they are non-partisan. Partisan questions should be directed to your local political party. I'm especially keen to talk about ways we can use technology to modernize the election process. My current focus is how we can use electronic signatures to roll out online voter registration in states that don't have it, and for people who don't have driver's licenses.
So how will this backfire?

If it's an everywhere issue, then I doubt that it will result in e.g. mass migration towards the few places that won't do it; people have shown in practice that they do not "vote with their feet" (or with revolutions) unless the abuse escalates to either very severe state violence or very severe economic hardship.

Sure, a minority of idealists will do so, but in the thousands, not in the millions. That doesn't matter in the large scale - to do so, it would have to match something like the jewish and other refugee flow from central europe in 1930ies. Currently, for every talented person that would consider leaving USA for political reasons, there are ten or hundred talented people that would rather come to USA for economic reasons, even if their current country doesn't do much or any surveillance.
Arbitrarily. I suspect after that point another storage technology will supersede hard drives.
Sweden has a long history of strong legislation and rhetoric against all kinds of drugs (except alcohol and tobacco of course). This lead to some pretty strong advertising of the type "One marijuana will leave you a mindless and desolate husk! Don't do any of the marijuanas!". Shown in schools even.

Because of the propaganda to science ratio, this had the awkward effect on people who nevertheless ended up trying weed that they sometimes assumed that the authorities must have been lying about the other drugs as well. So, "Weed didn't kill me. I guess the other stuff is a lot less harmful than they made it out to be as well".
I read a recent news about proposed law being drafted in India related to needing a license for mapping the country, I clicked on this story thinking it was about exact issue I just read. Here is link :
http://www.voanews.com/content/proposed-law-on-use-of-maps-s...
This is a cool scheme to address the problem of URL-impermanance due to the fact that DNS name ownership/control can change over time. It allows you to specify a URL plus a date.

I wrote a short blog post about the problem a few years back, and the Tag URI scheme ended up being one of the best solutions I came across, which is how I know about it. Some links in that post and comments may be of interest to people: https://masonlee.org/2009/08/21/is-the-web-sticky-enough/
What this is about is content that gets moved to different addresses. Recycling addresses isn't that good either, but also not that bad.

What is really bad is when there is some document/resource/content that is linked to by others (be it in other web pages or in bookmarks), and then that document changing its address, as all those references now don't point to the document anymore, even though the document actually still is available somewhere. An address being reused for something different isn't really all that much worse than the existing references leading to a 404. But either of those is bad if the original content is still available somewhere.
Ask HN: How did you come up with a domain name/name for your company?
I am really struggling to come up with a name for a new company I am working on. Most of the names I've come up with are taken by squatters asking for a crapton for the url. How did you come up with your company's name/domain name?
I'd argue that we're offering the option to opt-in, not forcing you to.

We're not doing the even more super obtrusive pop-over window, which would be interrupting your reading.
Not a medical oncologist but 2A chems are basically considered "yeah, we can't directly link this to cancer but even healthy adults will want to stay away from this stuff; don't even think about bringing children/elderly/people with compromised immune systems around it". Other chemicals that fall into 2A are tetra-{flouro|chloro}-ethylene[1] and dimethyl sulfate[2].

You can certainly do things 'organically' without having to use Roundup[3]. Some of my hippie friends decided to buy distressed properties in Maine and 'do it all by hand' co-op style. You won't be supplying Walmart and making money hand over fist, you won't be able to use all your land all the time, but at the same time you won't be practicing short-term maximization (a mentality that directly contributed to the first Dust Bowl).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2A_carcinog...

2: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfate) Dimethyl sulfate is carcinogenic[7] and mutagenic, highly poisonous, corrosive, environmentally hazardous and volatile (presenting an inhalation hazard). It is considered a potential chemical weapon.[13]

3: Note that RoundUp is a Monsanto trade-name with a chemical composition that changes nearly, if not every, year due the rapid immunity weeds tend to develop against it. While wildly lucrative, its ecological impact is not unlike the overprescription of antibiotics (antibiotics indiscriminately kill good & bad bacteria :: RoundUp will kill other plants [i.e. not just weeds] that grew in tandem with those other plants to enforce "checks and balances" with a secondary-effect of allowing the rampant proliferation of more harmful weeds)

edit: RoundUp ORIGINAL(tm)[4] (emphasis added) is primarily glyphosate. That's what you get at Home Depot at 5% to keep your lawn nice, green, and dandelion-free. Industrial RoundUp is a) ~40% b) has the warning
Wear appropriate protective clothing to prevent skin contact. Applicators and other handlers must wear long-sleeved shirt, long pants, shoes plus socks and protective eyewear". (Again, that's the 'original' formulation. Farmers (at least in South America, I have no knowledge outside of that region, but I'd be willing to bet practices are similar worldwide) use special formulations, often designed for a specific region.) Regardless, glyphosate is still 2A[5] and just because you use it once a season on your lawn at 5% doesn't mean it doesn't cause cancer. If you smoke a cigarette once a year after getting sloshed on New Years eve, your odds of cigarette-related lung cancer increasing are quite slim; if you've been smoking two and a half packs of Reds for 40 years, on the other hand...

[4] http://greenhouse.ucdavis.edu/pest/pmsds/Roundup.PDF
[5] https://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVo...
The insurance companies lobby for the laws. They also sponsor the organizations that write the building codes, which are then adopted into law.
> That's not to say there aren't any potential health benefits but "toking herb" (or whatever) isn't the best way to present them to people who still demonize it

> Whenever pot-culture words come up in "reporting" about medical treatments I immediately tune out

Ever think that you're contributing to the problem? Just ignore the editorializing.
It's important to keep in mind that there are a variety of things that are different now from the preceding 15ky of agriculture -- the most important statistic being the one demonstrated by this graph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Human_populat....
NTRU Prime [pdf]
Can you make any recommendations on textbooks that would be useful for a non-specialist who wants to survey how "basic genetics work" and understand the current state of knowledge? I am not looking for popular treatments, but something along the lines of Less Wrong's "Best Textbooks on Every Subject" list. [1]

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gu/the_best_textbooks_on_every_subj...
Maybe AdBlockers are the solution to bankrupt all those people "producing content for the sake of producing content". I searched the other day to find out how many people think there is too much content on the internet, and all I found was: how to earn more with advertising platforms. It was the journalist/blogger type of people who think about profit before thinking about quality, because all they can produce is words.

So my task for you is to find an article telling that there is just too much clickbait and RAR (Read And Repeat) on the internet. I think we need to invent a name for this habit of creating content just to earn money. Some called it over-optimisation. But then they invented Page Rank. Than publishers got clever and outdid the PR. Now we have DA. Next what.. CrackUpBoom!!!
One might also expect the union to negotiate a signing bonus (as it were) for the members who missed out on pay during the strike. SPEEA did that during at least one Boeing strike.
Norton/Symantec Virus products vulnerable to horrid overflow bug
I can see where you got “conspiracy theory” out of that, but I would disagree: it has more to do with ordinary human behaviour.

It’s easy to keep things the way they are, even if that results in greater long-term cost and harm. This is particularly true if you’re the one in power and you stand to benefit from keeping things as they are—whether because you can make money from it, or just because you think it’s morally right.

You see this also in code: it’s “easier” to keep modifying a clunky legacy codebase than to rewrite it, even if rewriting would result in overall better software. It’s not usually a conspiracy to create inefficiency, but a series of penny-wise decisions often has the same pound-foolish effect.

Of course, I agree that if society’s attitude toward drugs changes, politics will naturally catch up.
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Agricultural workers die all the time using heavy machinery. If the increased risks from chemical exposure were similar in magnitude they would show up in epidemiological studies (which have been done).

I don't doubt that these chemicals could cause cancer, but if they do it's at a rate that prevents easy detection.

[Edit] -- And to be clear, I'm not advocating that Roundup is safe. Like everything in our food system it should be scrutinized and studied, trade secrets be damned.
A defensive publication suffices to make it unpatentable.
Maybe I'll check that out. I stopped reading Scientific American in the 1990s due to the editorial bent.
Not working on Safari.
Dev Edition has process separation and content process sandboxing.
I was initially just snarking, since I ain't done seen no subways when I lived in Indiana, but instead I learned about population distribution.

Personally, I would have figured a majority would have been rural (since there's just so much rural land area). I hadn't realized it was so sparse.
Interim OS (2015)
So attacking safety with bad science is no okay in achieving an end goal of up law reform, which doesn't even follow? Go look up moving goal post.
Twelve people. No control group. And as a person who has suffered lifelong depression, and up until 2.5 years ago had serious substance problems: duh, drugs change the way you feel.

I'm not saying there's nothing worth exploring here. My personal intuition is that psychedelics could be a huge help in some cases, especially for treatment-resistant depression. But this "study" isn't worth squat.
Russia has taxes AND police raids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU92eycwmxY#t=3m41s

“Right now, our government is doing things we think only other countries do.”
Google has the largest market cap so that isnt a concern here
Drugs and the Meaning of Life
Qualcomm has made its machine learning SDK available
> Posts like this claiming they are cutting-edge will enable to once again take control of browsers and once they are at the top, they will start playing their monopoly game.

Microsoft employs smart people. It has become clear that long-term, that approach simply doesn't work. There are legal consequences to being an abusive monopoly, and on top of that we've seen that the software ecosystem routes around the bottleneck pretty rapidly.
Both parties were consenting, but one was underage at the time of the incident(s). The mother was the one who pressed charges, if I recall correctly.
I wouldn't claim firebug was "far superior", unless "far superior" is a synonym of bloated.

Since their inception the dev tools were minimalistic (just the DOM Inspector and a JS Console), currently the Dev Tools of Chrome could get some trimming, ex. some tabs such as Sources and Resources could get merged.
The individual fields describing the character of the users are surely factual type data, even if fictional they don't amount to creative works. A mugshot (face image) is not likely to be considered sufficiently creative to amount to a work of itself, and that's the most creative component of a persons profile.
Of course it would. Have you not been following the tech industry, let alone the entire world, at all? Bad ideas become wildly popular all the time...
How to identify and fix N+1 queries in your Rails app using Scout APM
Senate passes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
This is an interesting idea. On the other hand, I think if you started packing everything into a tar file, that could as well be a js file.
Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713000, which arguably adds a bit more information (though the articles are comparable) and was posted earlier.
I read the article and the linked blog and I still can't tell what this has over plain Kubernetes deployed on AWS -- what am I missing?

> Storage for applications deployed on Supergiant is allocated on high-availability arrays, however, it does not use Kubernetes' persistent volumes. Currently available on AWS, Supergiant uses Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS) so that volumes can move freely around the cluster.

Kubernetes has EBS support, right? What does Supergiant do better here?
Introducing the HP Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution
Just a note: Logistic regression on raw pixels already gets you 88% accuracy. Nearest-neighbors on raw pixels gets you 95% accuracy.

You should not draw too much conclusion from a network with accuracy < 97%, because you probably just have bad hyperparameters (except for conclusions about which hyperparameters you need to tune).
Is there any literature in their efficacy in treating anxiety disorders? As somebody who's suffered from severe anxiety since my mid-teens and had it cleared up more or less from medication I'm extremely interested in seeing how Psilocybin would affect the disorder. I would be quite willing to try it out but I'm very hesitant because I suspect my underlying anxiety would undermine the experience and possibly leave me in a worse off state than before.
In my experience with large codebases and multiple teams, another developer might copy that flag into another part of the code to get some desired side-effect.

Yes, this is horrible, but in the real world...

I find you have to grep through the code and think about all the changes that impact your feature flag before systematically removing it. You're cleanup branch isn't being maintained and is could provide a false sense of safety.
I don't think anybody really believed that. Maybe some manager. Everyone I knew on the IE team at the time wanted to be on the bleeding edge, but they were up against it catching up years of no work on IE—the "Recommendations only" line was as far as one could tell something made up by marketing to justify the fact they were so far behind and what they were implementing as a result. (It's also laughable—for a specification to become a REC at the W3C, post-2001, one practically needs two implementations. Practically it's saying "we're always behind two others!")
For residential work, maybe, but that is already much less regulated. For anything commercial, where you are exposed to potential lawsuits from the general public it wouldn't make sense to ever use anyone unlicensed anyway.
> All imports must include the file extension (.js)

Or, .mjs [1].

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node-eps/blob/master/002-es6-modul...
Every Document Published from the Snowden Archive
Just having a photo on the 'net isn't enough. A photo must be tagged. Tagging usually requires a social network profile, and I think all mainstream social networks don't conceal the fact one was tagged.

So, if you search for yourself and don't see any photos of you - all chances are you're somewhat "safe". For a time being.

(A good thing about photo tagging is that a lot of tags go on memes and random pics just to gain the tagged person's attention. This must generate some noise.)
I, on the other hand, am looking forward to carrying this responsibility! I'm about to move my blog from Wordpress to a custom solution, and besides importing all the content, I plan to set up a URL router that matches all old posts' URLs and redirect them to the same posts in the new scheme. :).
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Deconversion – From Christianity to Atheism
Crop failures used to kill millions of people, and now that doesn't happen. Industrial agriculture is part of that story.
Agreed. "anti-science" has become the scientific communities "racism" term. Generally applied to shutdown an argument without any real discussion.

Edit: consider any topic should have valid opposition. Does any valid opposition exist for GMO's? or is being critical automatically equate with anti-science? If you can't name a single valid opponent, then there is a problem. Either no one is challenging the science or anyone who is challenging the science is attacked. Either case would not be positive for scientific progress.

All fields and subjects should have identifiable opposition. Health studies, genetics have many scientist on opposing sides without anyone being labeled anti-science. Physics string theory, gravitational theory the same. However, introduce private companies with lots of money into the mix with some politics and all of a sudden all opposition is anti-science. What is truly anti-science is that there can't exist opposition.
Bay area's problems are best solved with having some kick ass public transport which afaik nobody is working on. IMO, that is a real game changer as opposed to hyperloop, electric cars :/ Most european countries have this already and they are such great places to visit and live.
I see him deploy one etcd container and claim he has deployed an etcd cluster. Is that a cluster of 1 or am I missing something?
You can always make it worse. So don't.
That's not how it works though. Many of the people running the cannabis studies have mentioned that the THC or CBD cannabanoids don't work alone. Cannabis has over 100 such cannabanoids. Nobody is definitively certain of the effects of this list outside of the 5 main ones.

So "cutting all stuff that's potentially giving by-effects" is idealistic and not currently possible without reducing the efficacy of the cannabis.
Setting up Node.js on Windows 10