skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool thought and I agree that using high energy density compounds is a hard habit to break. I'm not sure it's one that will need to be broken, as you point out. If there are "synthetic" ways to create such fuel, I think plenty of R&D is underway and we'll hear about them as they develop. I'm pretty sure the initial excitement has worn off but I'm hoping that aglae-based fuels can eventually be competitive as well.
Sometimes I wish I had gone with physics in college. Nothing quite captures me like discussions about the bounds of our knowledge of the universe.
I agree, it has some fantastic situations, imagination, and probably a product of the times. I just think there is too many examples of it strung together in a completely haphazard way. A condensed version, I think would have been much more enjoyable, and less tiring.
Enhancing IFTTT to allow multiple conditions and actions
Coherent conservative reasoning would treat modern mutagenic breeding with at least as much suspicion as GMOs.

So, no, conservative reasoning is not an adequate explanation of the anti-GMO crowd.
Airborne tech is coming to the rescue
I lost most of my "grit" in a split second when I was hit by a car at age 17.

Until that moment, I was amazingly conscientious, and combined with a very high IQ it was logical to assume that I'd do very well in life. I still have the same IQ, but I can't for the life of me finish an education, save money, or eat the dessert last.

Apparently, "grit" is dependent on functions located somewhere in the left frontal lobe [1], and if you damage that particular part of the brain, no amount of training can bring it back to what it was. After years of training and therapy, I'm still essentially a reckless, gifted child. I've learned wonderful tricks to keep me on track in life, but they only get me so far.

I suspect that parenting has a similar effect to my training: It teaches the tricks, but doesn't address the underlying reality of sheer, physiological ability.

[1]: Probably the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Yeah, I think a better title would have been "ZFS for Git users".
Not sure if you're trolling or being facetious or whatever... but I'll bite... that's a gross over-simplification, don't you think?

I think the whole point is to get a better idea of what it means to be "the right person". What kind of traits can we develop to make ourselves more likely to be "the right person"? Nobody is sitting on the couch all day crossing their fingers hoping that they're the right person to create a tech startup, for example.
Imagine 10% of your community dies a year. Now imagine 0.1% does. Do these differing percentages make any difference to your sense of urgency and willingness to fight the problems causing those deaths? No? Well ok then.
yes it's about time, for example, that we had ECC ram capability in consumer-grade CPUs instead of having to pay double/triple for a XEON that doesn't even outperform (much).
Los Angeles March Capital Closes $240M Fund
Agreed, the books needs to be condensed into one book. You could have just as much clever humor, but with more focus.
Deep Neural Networks and Primate Neural Representations across Ventral Stream [pdf]
The primary issue I have is that it's.... small.

Of all the things that he could use his money and power on, it's garden-variety petty vengeance.

Of course, it's his money and time. He can do whatever he wants with them. It just seems like poor prioritization.
Yes, cruising around looking for customers is EXACTLY what you're counting when you include a "return trip" extra for a taxi. If they find another customer right after dropping off the prior then there are zero wasted miles.

Taxis use up more road spacetime the more time they spend looking for a customer, while private cars use up more road spacetime the more time they spend parked or looking for parking. Realistically, in dense places, private cars spend a lot of time looking for parking, and almost all of their lives parked, but cabs are occupied more often than not. On the other hand in sufficiently undense places, a cab would have to spend a lot of time looking for passengers while private cars never have to look for parking and have off-street parking -- but these kinds of places have low traffic anyway, so who cares? In the places where traffic is actually a pain, cabs improve it.
Not that it's super important or anything, but Sweden and Switzerland are different countries. :-)
Aha! I'm currently at a conference where one of the authors of [1] gave a talk [2] about this and there was an interesting follow-up discussion. Never expected it to be on HN already!

Some thoughts from the thick of things:

1. It's important to remember that nuclear physics backgrounds for such an experiment are hard to model (so that one can subtract them out). The field is littered with "anomalies" coming from systematics and backgrounds. This is why physicists are very cautious with this claim. The authors of the theoretical model claim that it should be easily testable (interesting signals in several different experiments) over the next 2-3 years, so that's one reason to be optimistic about knowing where this stands.

2. This model goes against the grain of most of our theories for how the baryonic matter (essentially nuclei of all kinds) could be created in the universe! If you believe in this newly proposed model as truly another force of nature, then one might need a new paradigm for generating all the matter we see.

There are some theoretically intriguing aspects of the model, so I'm looking out for the follow-up paper by the authors (sometime in the next few weeks?) dealing with several of these aspects.

--

Edited to add a link to the slides and elaborating on point #2 below

For more advanced readers (along with the caveat that I don't fully understand the details of their model):
We understand very well the production of nuclei soon after the big-bang [3] and there's no room to modify that theory. So, any more fundamental model will have to produce baryons before that era of the universe. The Sakharov conditions [4] for producing baryons require a breaking of Baryon number (you can't have a net excess of baryons over anti-baryons unless you break the symmetry between the two). Usual models produce baryon number by using the fact that U(1) baryon number is anomalous in the presence of electroweak sphalerons [5]. However, in the newly proposed theory U(1) B-L [6] is gauged and hence cannot be anomalous (thereby invalidating the conventional paradigm for generating baryons). Maybe a spontaneous breaking of that symmetry happens early enough in the universe to not mess with the theory of nucleosynthesis but I'm not aware of work along such a paradigm.

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[2]: https://indico.cern.ch/event/518614/contributions/1198831/at...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryogenesis#Sakharov_conditio...

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaleron#Sphalerons_and_baryo...

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_%E2%88%92_L
Thanks for the reply. I certainly know where I can get such information, but I think a project's README is a great place to have at least a single sentence explaining what the project is. Moreover, I suspected other HN readers may also not know what it is offhand and would find a quick summary in a comment here (such as the other reply above) useful so that each person doesn't need to perform the extra step to Google it.
For those who are also wondering, this is a preprint. [1]

Kaiyuan Yang, Matthew Hicks, Qing Dong, Todd Austin, and Dennis Sylvester, “A2: Analog Malicious Hardware”, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), to appear May 2016.

[1] http://www.impedimenttoprogress.com/publications/
Results :)

Medium post: https://medium.com/@dimitrieh/a-curriculum-vitae-latex-types...

Gitlab repo: https://gitlab.com/dimitrieh/curriculumvitae-ci-boilerplate
Do you fault the oncologist that doesn't cure advanced metastatic cancer? Or the patient who ignored the signs for years before quitting smoking?
Never say never. They just passed a law in California which makes it much harder for NIMBYs to prevent development. State-level laws can do a lot to curb NIMBYism, as the state government is concerned with having a healthy economy and doesn't care much about local efforts to fight change and development.
That's great for the small minority of people like you or me for whom that ("just make $120k. just go save $50k annually.") is a realistic achievable plan.

Everyone else who's not in this small minority still has a right to complain about coastal/urban housing prices.
Waze already has had these promoted pin icons for a while I think.
It's only really concerning if you're looking to apply very broad principles to it. If you look at the full circumstances (what Gawker do, what they did to Peter, what they did to Hulk) then I think it becomes a bit easier to swallow.
Funny. Today is the day Pratchett fans wear the lilac. Actually, I'm wearing one right now.
Hmm. That's bizarre. Heck, innovation isn't stagnant. Maybe they did do this. Could become bad PR for FB, if proven.
Why we left aws for packet.net
State Department Audit: Private Email Server Not Government Records Compliant
It only makes sense if Microsoft is planning to kill Windows Phone (or whatever it's called now).
Five ways to reduce the cost of large test suites
There's a Snopes entry dedicated to variations of that story:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/cookies.asp
Thanks for taking the time to read the article mywittyname. You make a valid point, and the more experience I gain, the more I see the barrier to entry being lowered. One thing that counterbalances this barrier to entry is that the development in the industry is exponential right now that even if you enter the field and overcome this barrier, you have to keep going. Resting on your laurels will make you irrelevant quite quickly as you need to constantly learn the new "tools" that come out. So I believe that if you have the ambitious to constantly learn, then you can stay relevant for the next 40 years.

PS I actually do see a lot of value in a CS degree. I find myself spending more and more time reading and learning about general CS theories and concepts lately. I find them extremely useful for expanding my higher level understanding of the field and I think it's really important. I don't think you can truly be a GREAT programmer without them.
As a result of the size of the legal team's war chest they've removed language that would allow Gawker's insurers to pay any damages. This will hold Gawker liable and Gawker probably can't afford to bleed $140M without going under.
It's the GPL that's incompatible with the CDDL and not the other way around, which is an important distinction. Other than other GPL variants and BSD and MIT style licenses, the GPL has restrictions which make it pretty much incompatible with everything.
rsync.net does: http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html
I remember attempting to read the Guide sometime in highschool and found it nonsensical and not fun at all. When I picked it up again several years later I enjoyed it immensely and read the entire series. I guess you need have a job and first-hand experience with neighborhood plans publicly displayed behind figurative "Beware of the leopard" signs to appreciate the humor.
Pretty much. Here is an example:

type
EGlassRNState = enum
EGlassRNState_Initial,
EGlassRNState_Weakened,
EGlassRNState_Shattering,
EGlassRNState_Shattered,
EGlassRNState_ActiveFrags

proc hasGlassShattered(mState: set[EGlassRNState]): bool =
EGlassRNState_Shattered in mState

proc hasActiveFragments(mState: set[EGlassRNState]): bool =
EGlassRNState_ActiveFrags in mState

assert hasActiveFragments({EGlassRNState_Shattered, EGlassRNState_ActiveFrags})
After all the advances that are on the way with ICs(5nm, 3D chips, different semiconductors) I wonder if cheap, small batch production that can be done by hobbyists and small businesses will ever be a thing.
Thankfully that was before I moved here.
It's less about how the world saw Yahoo than how Yahoo saw itself. They felt that Microsoft's position in technology / the browser was too dominant, so they pivoted towards the "discovery" experience. Problem was, Google provided a better experience by approaching discovery as a technology company and was able to build a sustainable market advantage as a result.

Yahoo also never really sold anything. They were a publisher before there was a good marketplace for online ads. IBM was able to pivot because they had an established sales channel they could mine for dollars; but Yahoo's sales channels never got built out to the same extent before Google came in with a new model and obliterated them.
Also Unity3d works really well with it using the SimpleSQL plugin.
If so, that's recent. I uninstalled the app solely because the web version was much faster for me.
woah this almost seems like Facebooks version of Hot Single Girls Near you. Except they might actually be near you.
I don’t think there is a strong case to be made that the CEO matters much here. We’d need to see the counterfactual of what would have happened in her absence. Maybe the same, maybe better, maybe worse.

And in any case, there is no reason to believe that Yahoo’s or any tech company’s continued existence is normal. Yahoo was of a time, as was Digg, MySpace, etc.

It’s easy to say they “screwed up”, but success for any amount of time is the exceptional part. Regressing to the mean of “non-existent” or “not valuable” is…normal.
Cybercrooks Think More Like CEOs and Consultants Than You Think
Just my two cents, as humor is as personal as any other topic, and just as dependent of the audience than as the author.

I mostly had the same reaction when reading the books some 15 years ago. I won't go as far as saying that I didn't find it enjoyable, but it wasn't the "laugh out loud" experience I was expecting given its fame and popularity, especially in my/our (as in nerdy/techy) circle.

Eventually that kind of humor (also later discovering Monthy Python and Terry Pratchett) grew on me, and more than anything I is meant to provoke is a smile, more than a laugh (although it certainly can) and now I remember the characters and situations fondly.

Also, I find it has a sort of meme-like quality, making it "funnier" as people (and you) keep referencing to it and you understand the reference.
Scientists from across the country are now standing behind Tom Brady
Zippy Shell
Not speaking for parent, but I have terrible handwriting :(
They had to try and they had to pay somebody. It's entirely possible she was the best person for the job. It's just as entirely possible that the task was impossible, and both her and the board knew it, but had to try their best.
I am not an aerospace engineer, so take my comments with a grain of salt.

This will not really scale to the commercial airliner market. The author got most of his improvements out of propeller efficiency, and propellers are very efficient. However, they don't scale to jet speeds. I am not at all certain that an efficient electric powered jet engine could be produced (I suspect the physics just won't support it). If you are willing to take a step back and use hydrogen, I am very willing to believe that an efficient hydrogen powered jet engine could be built, but that would be completely new technology and I would bet it would take decades before it were available even if someone were to start working on it immediately. Besides, it is not clear to me what the advantage of using hydrogen over jet fuel would be. By weight, the energy density is higher, but by volume it is much lower.
Insight Health Data Science Expands to Silicon Valley
Irish Data Protection Commissioner to bring EU-US data flows before CJEU again [pdf]
Transit routing, and routing in general, is one of the last things tying me to Google Maps, sadly.

EDIT: Why the downvote? It's honestly the last thing. I don't know of an alternative, and instead of downvoting, give me alternatives! I want them!
Make that triple geeky. Today is also the day Pratchett Fans wear the lilac. Although I already mentioned that on this thread. What, you'd wear the lilac? WERE YOU THERE THEN? ;-)
I wonder if there is a way it could learn to get over that tall pipe in this one. It might be sufficient for it to learn to deliberately attack any enemies it finds, combined with its tendency to move right all the time. But I suppose that might be too complex a set of actions for this.
We need more tools like this. Following the Jepsen tests (http://jepsen.io) its obvious that very few systems take network partitions and non-optimal network conditions into account.
Your techtimes link doesn't have anything about Arab countries (or Clinton for that matter), the only fact in there is that Google and others were invited to an NSA talk about "security" in 2011.
First they took on the smartphone market, then GoPro, now drones. I, as a consumer, am very excited about this. If the first test results show it's capable and the quality decent, I will instantly order one.

Go Xiaomi!
Non Verbal Communication – How to tell if you boss hates you
The language backward compatibility with future versions is a big deal. Is this article accurate as to the state of the world?

The thing that was always amazing about Java, was that with every release of the JVM and language, they never broke backward compatibility in one release. They gave people a good 2 years between versions that had breaking changes.

Is swift just not stable enough yet?
I'm tempted to write an article: Who Needs ZFS When You Got Git, but the title IS the article.

Don't get me wrong, I looove ZFS, and from a quick scan this article looks like a good intro to ZFS, particularly for someone familiar with git.
I get absolutely livid when I'm using Waze as my navigation and an ad pops up and takes up the entire screen WHILE I'm navigating. Awful implementation, I immediately X them, don't read them or anything.
(JP from Realm here)

Unless I'm missing something, what you're describing could easily be done by having the version number or branch in the Realm path, or whatever identifier you want. You should open an issue[0] so we can explore that more.

Strings are indexed, but I think you're referring to something like "full text search"? That's on the roadmap[1].

[0]: https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/issues/new
[1]: https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/issues/3650
A Curriculum Vitae LaTeX Typesetting Automation Adventure with Gitlab
Sidekiq for Crystal, 3x faster, 3x smaller
The BBC Radio Plays for the Dirk Gently books are terrific as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Gently%27s_Holistic_Detec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Dark_Tea-Time_of_the_...
The Bachelorette (Season 12 Week 1) Recap and Review
Stephen King, Cheryl Strayed, more writers sign petition against Donald Trump
Give it a read and then check out the Gitlab Repo

https://gitlab.com/dimitrieh/curriculumvitae-ci-boilerplate

;)
There is an exception to that where the playing field is so uneven that a small entity would be bankrupted just by trying to get to a legal result in their favour. I don't mean to suggest that applies here, though.
I see some merit in your argument. I have a little more take on this.

Leave a password free account and have a password based account also. It allows the stealer to use computer without hindrance and also protects your data from casual thieves at workplace.
For education, it matters. There are no choices or pivots available to a student; they have one path available to them in most cases.

For life, it may not matter. You have more options to find something where you excel more easily or are more passionate about something.
sed and less can both look at multiple files (sed with --in-place, and less always). sed -r is extended regexp (as opposed to -E in grep - why? who knows), less -r is to disable control character filtering, and less -R is to disable control character filtering for color codes only.
I had a Palm and never played that! Ever play Space Trader? That was probably my favorite Palm game...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Trader_(Palm_OS)

On that note, is there a Palm emulator anywhere?
Do it then, bud.
Codeship: An Introduction to the Docker Trusted Registry
Try being Conservative or Republican on any platform online and you will be harassed, bullied, and silenced. I've even been harassed for supporting the wrong library in an open source project.

Harassment and bullying seem to be just fine, as long as you are going against the current liberal narrative of the day.

Twitter isn't broken. We just need to grow thicker skins. I've been online since I was 12 (I'm almost 40 now) and have had the worst of the worst things said about me. I ignore them all, because frankly, it doesn't matter.

In addition to this, many of the people hurling these insults are teenagers or even kids. Since we don't have an accurate way to determine a person's age, I really wonder just how many of these new harassment laws are being passed due to a 10 year old insulting an adult (especially movements like Gamergate).

All of these 'safe spaces' are going to create generations of adults that can't cope with the many things they will face in the real world, including harassment and criticism (which is now being called harassment).
Well, shared_ptr has its costs. What about unique_ptr though? It's not a raw pointer, but it's for transferring ownership, so it shouldn't have problems of the reference counting.
It's worse than just that. They claim it's a "replacement" (!) for SQLite. That is an incredibly bold claim. From what I've gathered about Realm it isn't the same type of database as SQLite at all: Object store versus relational tables.
Great link, and the presentation slides are great. Thanks for sharing.
It's not that surprising considering the metrics that school uses.
If you are doing things no human has ever done before on the regular, I'd definitely consider subscribing to your newsletter and/or YouTube channel.
Sorry to hear that. Have drugs (such as Adderall) been of any help?
They're only successful because of government protectionism. Google android services aren't allowed in China and this Android fork using homegrown services is. They don't pay patent or licensing fees so that cuts the price of the phone significantly and they more or less ripoff Apple for design:

http://www.cultofandroid.com/66569/xiaomi-dont-copy-apple/

They're cheap and work "well enough" but I wouldn't buy a drone from them until there are a lot of reviews. Even then, it probably wont be available in the states if they still license fee dodge. The pricing is in yuan and a straight conversion to dollars is pretty much meaningless. There's always going to be a higher price in the states, or to any country they export to, for a variety of reasons.

I'd rather pay a little more and buy a DJI. They're reputable and have great reviews. The $500 model has a 2.7K HD camera and 4.5 stars on Amazon and I can get it here via Prime in two days. There's a lot of competition in this space already. I'm skeptical they'll break through.