skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO people should stop whining and just wait. Do you really think it's that easy to just re-write .NET features to .NET core? You do realise that they also need to make sure it works on Mono (Linux, Mac) as well?

I salute MS at their efforts and am very excited. Yes, we are waiting now for at least a year but whining does not help. If you want to help then make some PR's instead.

Also, nobody is pulling the rug from anyone, you will be able to use MVC6 with regular .NET, just remove .NET Core from dependencies and you're set.
Does this same paper come out every five years, or is it just me?
This is a really nice page!

It would be even nicer if there was some way to find out who made it and/or how to contact the author(s); and/or how and whether one can add more algorithms (e.g. I'd love to see timsort and introsort).

As it is, this site seems to be completly anonymous. Which is of course a valid choice by the author(s), but IMHO quite sad :-(.
> It's a little dismaying that the HN community seems to be so universally, 100% supportive of Thiel in this matter.

It is so simple. Thiel is right! Pragmatically. Ethically. Preventing character assassinations of blameless people is the work of somebody stopping a bully in the playground. If the bully whines he's being bullied because he can't bully others I'm sorry, we don't have too much sympathy for the argument.

Gawker is not just a tabloid. It is a tabloid motivated by political thinking associated with the social justice fanatics. It has been using its press and money to act as a political actor.
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Very cool. Right now I'm using 33mail with a custom domain
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One lesson I took from that paper was just how immature the modern software industry is. If you ask a software engineer to describe a system graphically they'll produce diagrams that look like the biologist's, not like the electrical engineer's. There's a general lack of standardized, accurate, and useful terminology or even models to describe the high-level structure of software. The best we have are a few analogies, some described design patterns, and low-level data structures and algorithms. We can describe things on the level of gears or resistors but we don't have a good vocabulary for things on the level of transmissions, engines, ALUs, or switch-mode power supplies.

Worse, we don't seem to care a lot about this lack, largely because it isn't perceived. A lot of devs think that we're in the space age when it comes to software, instead of virtually the stone age. And then we wonder why our software tends towards the "big ball of mud" model oh so often.
I guess we should start forwarding Go as system language disbelievers to

https://github.com/jjyr/bootgo

http://wiki.osdev.org/Go_Bare_Bones

Although the Wiki author doesn't seem to understand how to use the unsafe.Pointer type, and makes use of external Assembly instead, but the bootgo does it properly.
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Ok this is the first study that says there is a link, but let's assume for a moment that what it says is correct and it has the same effect in humans: Would the same also be true for wifi?

According to Wikipedia the average cell phone TX power is 500 mW vs 200 mW for 802.11n [0]. Cell phones usually operate at lower frequency than wifi, however wifi (at 2.4Ghz) is at the same frequency as microwave ovens.

In the study the rats were exposed for 10 minutes on - 10 minutes off for 18 hours a day (at an unknown TX power), if you work in an office you are going to be exposed continuously (apart from coffee / lunch) for 9+ hours a day, and even more if you then go home and use a wifi device.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm
+1 for a cool and thought-provoking idea but -1 for more sloppy/faulty reasoning and arrogance than could be overlooked by a sincerely interested reader.

I am sympathetic to the angle this is coming from. Yes, the field has a serious problem with shoddy statistics and post-hoc theories optimized for sexiness. But this paper vastly oversimplifies the problem domain
to the point of trivializing it.

The approach of this paper is to take techniques from a largely mysterious domain, apply them to a vastly different domain that we understand much better, and conclude that because we can't replicate our prior understanding of the known domain there must be a problem with the tools. My guess is that this approach looks less ridiculous on the surface because of how entrenched the brain-computer metaphor is--but don't forget it is just an anology: a knowingly incorrect abstraction. As the authors admit, lesioning a circuit board is totally different from lesioning a brain. So why on earth should we be talking about how much we can learn from brain lesions based on our understanding of microprocessor lesions? (not a rhetorical question--I am genuinely curious if I am missing something here because this absolutely confounds me)
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What does pressing esc key do? It usually has same functionality as pressing X button right? If pressing esc installs windows 10 too I am speechless
I'm too much of an idiot here. What frequencies, range, power? How about other ubiquitous signals like Wi-Fi?
The worst thing about it for me is that I have two computers not compatible with windows 10 (super old graphics cards). Yet the upgrade prompt continues to appear.

I know the machines aren't compatible because I upgraded one using the nagging prompt and... kaboom.
Requiring use of systemd-specific configurations and tools is absurd.
People who want to start a long-running process and check on it shouldn't even need to know the computer is running systemd. Straightforward usage of nohup, tmux, and other equally standard and/or portable tools should be the most that a system administrator who wants to kill unwanted background processes requires of end users.
This whole 'bot renaissance makes me think that somewhere 1000s of old IRC Channel admins are raising their hands in despair, and quickly shuffling through countless CD-Rs of old TCL and Perl code to see if they have something worth re-releasing.

Granted, the natural language stuff is way better than it was, but the current bot platforms that are springing up everywhere are nothing more than a language parser and an empty ruleset DB that you as the customer have to spend endless hours populating.

It seems a very unfinished solution right now; We're going to see a flood of sub-par bots* on the market that are going to cause the end users to disengage within months.

(*I'm sure motion.ai's bots are very good, and I am not singling them out here, just commenting on the whole bot thing in general)
sure. i was aiming to poke people citing occam's razor when controversial matter comes up because cognitive dissonance or whatever their problem is. sheep like to chose the easy path of denying things like you suggest ... until snowden gives up his life. and still they go about their useless business.

but after all, it _is_ a conspiracy theory because there would be at least two parties involved conspiring to blackmail. sheep also don't get what the term actually means.
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> It is really weird how we concentrate all sick people in one place, and then act surprised when they start growing weird diseases.

Ideally there are separate hospital buildings for patients with diseases, broken bones, new born babies, etc - often older hospitals that evolved over many decades are like that. Contrary to that are these centralized mega-structure hospital building from the 1960s to 1980s. Often the same small number of operating rooms (often centralized in one location, next to each other) are used for all kind of treatments.
Is there a service that lets me send mail from such an email address as well?

Let's say I use this for my Amazon account amzn.myusername@mailhero.io and I need to get in touch with Amazon customer support. For verification they require me to actually send an email from amzn.myusername@mailhero.io.

Or another case: as soon as I have to actually send an email to a service I signed up for and use my real email address, that is then known to the service and could potentially be leaked.
tl;dr--- Google is the equivalent of 90s-era Microsoft because it is angrily disliked by some Apple fans, and it incorporates Material Design in its iOS apps.
Making analogies between Microsoft in the 90s and X without mentioning the huge antitrust lawsuit[0] always seems dubious to me. The evolution of Microsoft as a business is not purely due to its product strategy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
A few years ago there was usually a huge "don't change my facebook" uproar every time facebook changed the functionality or layout of the site. Yet every time a change was implemented, a few weeks went by and most people forgot it ever changed and loved the new layout and/or functionality.

Facebook could and can do that because they own facebook, and you are the product (being sold to marketers, etc.)

I think people are slowly realizing that the situation is the same with Windows, there's always been complaints when new Windows versions came out, Win98 => ME => 2k => XP => Vista => 7 => 8 => 10. But usually people only experienced the switch whenever they got a new computer with a newer version of Windows on it.

Edit: http://www.allwelike.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/26-Faceb...
I believe what makes the current iteration of technology making jobs redundant unique is the speed/frequency with which this is happening. In the past the process was slow enough for the next generation to train for the next set of skills that were required in the economy. It is very hard for a mature professional to change job tracks and certainly almost impossible for a whole society to do so several times in the typical lifespan of a person. This is what is happening with the pace of change/redundancy today and the effect that I foresee is revolt like conditions in many societies.

We are already witnessing this revolt/discontent in the US in this presidential cycle in my view. People are very angry and I fear it will only become worse in the coming years/decades as promised solutions by the new crop of leaders elected by angry people don't work out as expected.
What "traditional" methods are you referring to? Hubel and Wiesel mapped the functional anatomy of the visual cortex in the 1950s by poking at cat brains. We've learned more since but their original model is still largely correct.
The author should launch iTunes on Windows and realize that Apple is pulling the same kind of crap on Windows.

Large companies have large egos.
I generally agree, but I wouldn't necessarily call Win10 a downgrade - it's definitely better than 8 (I would think twice about upgrading 7 as having Win7 means that you likely have a pretty old hardware).

I honestly don't understand what's going on. This looks like one of the most idiotic thing an IT company has ever done, and Microsoft doesn't care. They don't even try to explain it. And they fucked up big time - rarely any kind of scandal from the computing world reaches the general public, but this one did. I've been asked by random people for advice on whether or not to upgrade; people seem to know Win10 is "evil" and are annoyed by nagging.
Uh oh, dang is going to throw another tantrum...

He hates TL;DR's.
There is an important difference between a new feature on a social network and a whole new OS. Many people have software and/or drivers installed that won't work on a newer OS.
The problem is that in recent times with online media the definition of journalist has blurred. There are Youtube channels, Instagram accounts and blogs with more monthly views than most local / regional newspapers, are they covered by journalist protection laws?
Just some icons and menu colors? If that's their biggest problem then they're doing well.
Do we have any evidence of this?
Yes and it's one of the many reasons I'm migrating to FreeBSD once 11.0 is out (chipset support).

Not saying it's wrong for all cases, but it's not for me.
You're making a lot of assumptions about the terms under which this certificate was issued, which you don't know. Without seeing the contract between Symantec and Blue Coat you can't claim that they're bound by Symantec's CPS.

And even if they are bound by Symantec's CPS, they can do a lot of damage before the CPS can be enforced.
That's alright for mere consumption, but what about derivatives? I mean, take a look at fan-fiction - it's practically a violation of copyright by definition, and yet it provides a template for budding authors so they don't have to invent their own characters and world from scratch to start writing interesting interactions - there are an awful lot of major authors that wouldn't have started writing if it weren't for fanfiction, by their own admission. For example, 50 Shades Of Grey was originally a Twilight fanfic, but it's pretty darn popular as its own unrelated thing now.
Win 7 became available starting at late 2009 and was popular well after 8 came out, I would suspect most computers that sold with it preinstalled would have no problem running 10.

Does 10 even have higher system requirements than 7?
Oh my god the number of arguments I've had with family and friends, even my girlfriend over this. Why do people think they can stop antibiotics when they "start getting better"?!? It's not a virus ffs
Very nice. My kids (9 and 11) would love this, if it wasn't in english, they currently use Scratch or code.org a lot. Any plans to make this available (translatable) in other languages? German in our case. Language is really a big entrance barrier in this age.
Does gigster have anything real at all? There are no gigs at all listed on their site... just a few full time jobs in SF, plus things for working on gigster itself. Seems like it might be a lean startup trick of painting the sky blue to try and build both sides of a marketplace.
Cannot read the article (ad blocker blocker) but that does not look like '50 year old computers' ; those were actually running some version of Windows making them relatively new and easy to infect.
Plenty of non-USA countries are concerned with the amount of each group in other groups. Ireland gives political parties less money if there aren't at least 40% female candidates.
I actually think it's a pretty okay marketing strategy. If you truly believe your own interface is a selling point,then you need to show it off to people who aren't familiar with it.

If iTunes truly has a superior user experience (ha!) people will think, hey wouldn't it be nice if all my apps were like that.
I agree! I just think Microsoft either has not taken into account the possible backlash from breaking people's printers, scanners, webcams, programs, etc. or maybe they have taken it into account and decided the backlash was worth the increased Win10 marketshare.
In which way was the Supreme Court rulling rigged?
Also, here's the PDF, which I find to be a better format for this particular content: https://www.cmu.edu/biolphys/deserno/pdf/can_a_biologist_fix...
iTunes on Windows is mentioned in the article. Does it help that Steve Jobs hated the whole idea?

Personally I'd say it was mild in comparison to the usability hell that Microsoft inflicted on Mac OS and later OS X users with its office programs.
They do and the authors point stands regardless.

Apple generally doesn't try porting their software, iTunes being a notable exception. Google Maps however is rage inducing on iOS.
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There is a difference between treating particularly unresponsive cases of S. aureus with phage therapy and it becoming the frontline standard of care for all bacterial diseases.

Additionally, Russia has done the investment in laboratory capacity in order to do phage therapy. Introducing it into the United States would require new equipment, space and staffing in order to facilitate more widespread culturing (as there are no "broad spectrum" phages), as well as the actual preparation of phage-based therapeutics.
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> this is the first study that says there is a link

From 2011:

WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk [1]

"Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same 'carcinogenic hazard' category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.

"Before its announcement Tuesday, WHO had assured consumers that no adverse health effects had been established.

"A team of 31 scientists from 14 countries, including the United States, made the decision after reviewing peer-reviewed studies on cell phone safety. The team found enough evidence to categorize personal exposure as 'possibly carcinogenic to humans.'"

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/
This story is HUGE

Entire copies of the SAT are getting released in China, and possibly the US. The College Board's ETS cancelled January 2016's test in China out of concern that the test that would be used was already available on the internet. Then they gave another test in March. Questions from that test started appearing online within hours after it finished [1]

The problem with this is that the College Board reuses tests. They do not feel it is feasible for them to issue unique questions for each test, according to [2]

This undermines the biggest criteria used to admit students to college

It means rich kids in China can buy their way into US colleges through these companies that compile actual SAT questions, and poorer kids who have done honest hard work will miss out on opportunities to study in the US.

So long as this goes unaddressed, we're importing rich kids who will arrive unprepared and return home without much further education. They're simply giving money to certain institutions in the US and not adding much to the development of US or Chinese innovations. The quality of schools could degrade, causing a weaker economy, etc. etc.

Hope the College Board can see how pervasive this is. The internet is a real game changer when it comes to maintaining academic integrity.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/reuters/howtogamethesat#t=26:21

[2] https://soundcloud.com/reuters/howtogamethesat#t=5:40
I am going to add that functionality soon. You will, of course, have to click the recaptcha for each message send... I hope everybody understands why. :)
Right, but you'd have to rule against Bolea, who was wronged, to get to Thiel. All Thiel did was help Bolea. So if Bolea did nothing wrong, then you have nothing left to accuse Thiel of. You may not like his motives, but he didn't actually do anything but help someone wronged seek justice.

Inasmuch as this creates a chilling effect to keep people from publishing stolen sex tapes... oh well.
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Security is not obtained by optimistically assuming actors are using their capabilities for good. Sure, there are legit ways they could use this, but the entire point of CAs is that they be trusted actors, and there are very strong reasons not to trust Blue Coat.

Your comment is like discovering the fox has been given the keys to the henhouse and saying "Maybe the fox just wants to hang out with the hens".
You could use gmail to send email from these addresses. Gmail requires you to verify that you own the email ids, which should be possible to do with the way mailhero works.
More than that, what it installs fits any classical description of malware. Windows 10 comes with an OS wide key logger, that logs what you write in any application, and sends it to Microsoft.

(This usually evokes disbelief. If you think I'm wrong, please consider what you would do if it turned out I was right. Then, if you're on Windows 10, lookup your "speech, inking & typing" settings. This is where they ask permission to do this. It is turned on by default.)
What's the argument based on? Compared to for example software projects under permissive licenses, Creative Commons, etc, can you show that copyright does more than to simply help somebody popularize (through marketing) things that likely already would have existed?
It doesn't say how good anyone is at game theory. It might be a proxy for how social they are. The outcome is based on how "selfish" people are, or how much retribution they expect in future iterations. I don't see how this could possibly be used to make a deduction about the understanding of game theory (or practice).
>What spirit of the project are you thinking of

Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

>how is hosting stuff on Github antithetical to it?

Github is s a proprietary cloud service: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
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The ones who deny science are crazy to me.
That is the scary part. If you include other dependent jobs like service industries (hospitality/truck repair etc) related to trucking/transport it might be north of 10%.
If you don't mind me asking, did you go back to being a developer by changing your workplace, or were you able to transition back within the same organization?
Exactly.

Example: almost all turkey meat that's so in fashion today comes from farmers that use antibiotics as preventative measure. I personally source meat from small family run farms that adhere to biological agriculture principles, (there only ill animals get antibiotics and those aren't butchered and sold later as meat).
The biggest risk for phage therapy is an adverse reaction to bacterial endotoxins as the phages cause them to lyse.
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> At the end of the 2-year study, survival was lower in the control group of males than in all groups of male rats exposed to GSM-modulated RFR. Survival was also slightly lower in control females than in females exposed to 1.5 or 6 W/kg GSM-modulated RFR. In rats exposed to CDMA-modulated RFR, survival was higher in all groups of exposed males and in the 6 W/kg females compared to controls.

Part of me wants to spam every genpop I know now with this link and the phrase: "scientists prove cellphone radiation makes you live longer!".
Indeed, the name of one of the major hospital-acquired human pathogens, Clostridium difficile, literally means "Clostridium pain in my ass to culture".
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Safari for Windows did as well, complete with confirmation dialogs that came out of the top toolbar like a receipt from an ATM and bubbly blue Ok buttons like OS X of its day.

As a PC user who aspired to buy a Mac at the time, I happened to like it. But I'd also wager it was one of the many reasons Safari for Windows didn't really take off.

But man was it fun to feel like you had some of the Mac's lickable UI on a PC.
No joke:

"We also collect your typed and handwritten words to improve character recognition and provide you with a personalized user dictionary and text completion suggestions."

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/speech-inking-...
Ask HN: Sim card/mobile plan recommendations for ~1 month in the USA?
Hey there!
Next week my girlfriend and me are going on a trip to the USA for around 5 weeks. Since I'm a freelance consultant I'm a bit dependent on internet access, so I'm looking for a mobile plan with some (>1gb) mobile internet.

If you guys have any recommendations for a good mobile plan available for non-us citizens I'd me more than thankful!

All the best, Martin
(from Vienna, Austria)