skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yes, but if it was THAT simple (as those things have to, generally, be voted on by elected representatives) then it would have been done already.

But yes, that's the real solution: and it's not happening at all in the Bay Area.

The Bay is 40,000 units under what it would take to level prices (not reduce, level) and people are still protesting "ruining the character of neighborhoods" by building.

I get wanting character or style... but legislate that, not less density.
In several years, the job market may be such that everybody is struggling to find decent jobs. However, I doubt that computational biologists are likely to struggle significantly more than programmers in general in such a situation.

That doesn't mean that a particular Phd program is the right place for you right now. Maybe it isn't. Maybe there's a better fit in another program, maybe no program is the right fit, maybe it's a good fit an this is just somewhat normal graduate school anxiety.

I guess the deep question is the nature of your motivation for a Phd. There is inherently nothing wrong with pursuing a Phd as an ambitious challenge. There is inherently nothing wrong with pursuing a Phd as vocational training [but it may be a hell of a roundabout way of doing so].

Good luck.
Thanks for the link - could be interesting!

I do wish people would use standard podcast streams rather than Soundcloud, I love Soundcloud for music but for podcasts I want to be able to open them in overcast / gpodder / the iOS podcasts app.
Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed 'public service' with NSA leak
It also shows "the male rats exposed to cell-phone radiation actually lived longer than the control group". I'm not quite sure how to take such jarring results.
Provided a doctor was required to certify that the health condition existed and was disabling, I'd consider myself unqualified to second-guess the existence of a diagnosed health condition. I'd be interested in data over anecdotes – everyone seems to have the latter.
For those on Oracle or MS SQL, be aware of the PIVOT and UNPIVOT features. It's not as general as this, but it's terse and works well for the case, i.e., running an aggregate across specific buckets.
I just tried to sign up with a standard email address without Tor and did not receive a confirmation email otherwise.

Best of luck to you.
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But wouldn't this require everyone who needs access to the $foo password, to have access to the private gpg key that created the $foo password in the store?

Without the ability to allow one of many private keys to decrypt a stored password I'm not sure it's that practical.
Very nice one! Not all the planets are orbiting in the same plane. Is that stylistic choice or does it reflect some factor?
It was inevitable this would spread beyond Kazakhstan. I previously wrote about this: https://www.devever.net/~hl/policymitm
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That's only going to help you minimise per-user passwords on internal/ish systems you control.

LDAP alone doesn't let you eg securely provide people access to the password for the domain registrar.
Could you give a quick sketch of how you designed your sql parser (traspiler?)? Thank you!
Yes this is the really interesting review imo :)

The wavefront divergence problem is really calling out for a Mill-style NotAResult flag for speculation etc so it can get more pipelines per thread again ;)
A study with cancer happy rats does not mean there is a connection to humans.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/10/massive-15-year-study...
I've been using a self-hosted version of Full-Text RSS [1] to turn excerpt-only RSS feeds into full-text RSS feeds (which I use in conjunction with Calibre [2] to generate a weekly Kindle book containing all of the latest articles to read on my Kindle). Full-Text RSS works great and the developer is very responsive.

1. http://fivefilters.org/content-only/

2. https://calibre-ebook.com/
Not correct:

"In effect, Australia fought two wars between 1939 and 1945[2] – one against Germany and Italy as part of the British Commonwealth's war effort and the other against Japan in alliance with the United States and Britain. While most Australian forces were withdrawn from the Mediterranean following the outbreak of war in the Pacific, they continued to take part in large numbers in the air offensive against Germany."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Australia_...
Ask HN: Feedback on blogpost
I'm trying to get into regular blogging and I'd appreciate any feedback on my blog. Here is a sample blogpost:

http://www.tjbarbour.com/post/WhyFluentWins/

I'd love any feedback on the post or my blog in general. I'm mostly trying to be more active online to help in my job search for a remote position.

Thanks!
Small nitpick, but you can have a 'single fitness function' represent an entire environment. That's the entire concept of a fitness function: to simplify the merit of solution within an complex environment (or set of constraints/inputs/etc.) into a single figure. Obviously nature has a much complex fitness function than the efficiency of this one CO2 process. I think its more correct to say a "simpler fitness function".
static-analysis tools, like pyflakes, can also find some of those things (semi-obvious problems like variable name typos that would remain undetected until that actual line was executed)
As an older consumer I have found that as I age I am more and more sensitive to these sorts of effects.

I used to love to play games, now I can only play "unrealistic" games. Anything 1st person makes me sick. This effect gets worse as I age.
This is just one study and there are baffling results if you look at the data. For example, there's no good explanation for why the middle exposure group often had ZERO cancer (just like the control), with all the problems in the high & low exposure group.

That says to me that the random variance is high enough to swamp out the signal here. This also has to be weighed against all the studies that found no link.

I strongly expect that future studies will fail to replicate these results.
Having been in a Miami-based startup... it's fashionable, but not technological. Just about every single tech show has a runway with DJ, and I don't mean finance. The major downside is the investment community is full of retirees who don't really make good VC's. The mayor of Miami is pushing for generating tech and startups, so at least there's a political will.
You're comparing completely different things.

It depends first on what is done with the ~1kg of CO2 captured.

If humans get their carbon from sources that are removed from the air, we don't have a net addition.
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Correct, I should have said, "single dimension fitness function"
I think that the author never understood why unit tests have been introduced. Nowadays, with BDD slowly gaining momentum,unit tests are even more imprescindible and they really do add business value. In the past TDD used correctly added business value, but BDD takes it one step further helping to write more valuable tests. When he speaks about testing all the registers states and all the possible combinations of inputs it is apparent that he is missing the point. The only thing that a well written unit test should accomplish is to make sure that a requirement is implemented correctly. And it must be written while designing the code. When I write some new feature I try to understand the requirements and model them into scenarios. At the same time I start writing the code to implement the feature required that is complete only when the respective scenario is green. During this workflow I change multiple times both the code and the tests and, contrary to what the author experienced, my velocity is not hampered by the tests, but it's actually increased. This happens because I can improve my design thanks to the tests that force me to see the problem from the users point of view. I don't really think that a person that only focuses on writing code without writing any scenarios can really tackle the problem in the best way.
Thanks for the link the WebPlatform. It's a great resource for me as someone who only occasionally touches the front-end.
I always wonder why it is so difficult to find good markets. Sometimes, it seems that coming up with a good product-idea is harder than building the actual product. Why does it work that way? Is this a flaw in how the free market works? Or is this just me - a developer - not knowing what other people need from me.
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> dangerous low carb diet

Oh please. If it didn't work for you thats fine. Don't go spreading baseless FUD.
Depends on your definition of chipsets, but iPhones do use a significant amount of Qualcomm chips.

One source of many:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+6s+Teardown/48170
it reminds me to "Make your solar system" Android video game.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.JavierGome...
People who likes this post may enjoy MYSS game too.
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You can do these with Ibis and various SQL engines:

* http://docs.ibis-project.org/sql.html#aggregates-considering...

* https://github.com/cloudera/ibis/tree/master/ibis/sql (PostgreSQL, Presto, Redshift, SQLite, Vertical)

* https://github.com/cloudera/ibis/blob/master/ibis/sql/alchem... (SQLAlchemy)
For those that are interested in what the current state of Lisp game development is, check out the latest installment of the Lisp Game Jam. The jam page includes lots of information about game development tools for many different Lisps, and the submissions include games written in Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, and Emacs Lisp.

https://itch.io/jam/spring-2016-lisp-game-jam
Be aware that this deliberately provides no internal encryption.
Another mistake, which had serious consequences to the Germans, was that a German weather ship in the North Atlantic accidentally transmitted their weather report using the Enigma key reserved for naval operations rather than the key used for routine information, noticed the mistake, and then immediately retransmitted the identical message using the routine key. Since weather forecasts have predictable content and format (and are thus easier to decrypt), this error allowed the Bletchley Park people to crack the operations key much more quickly than they otherwise could have.

This episode is described in the book Alan Turing: The Enigma[1], which was the basis for "The Imitation Game" film. I highly recommend this book if you're interested in Turing, cryptography, or the early days of computing. While Turing is best known today for his work on the theoretical underpinnings of computer science (due to the Turing Machine that bears his name), he also worked on the design of one of the early general purpose computers (the ACE[2]) after the war, on voice encryption hardware, and other interesting stuff.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Inspired-Imitation/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Computing_Engine
Mandate from Above: "All code that is checked in must have seventy percent code coverage"

Developer Response: Keep tests the way they are. Puff up shipping code by adding layers that just check and transpose arguments; enough of these layers and you get your 70% metric of code that's basically guaranteed not to have issues, and check in.

My response, trying to take that stuff and port it: Rip out about 75% of the junk code while cursing clueless management and developers who, ultimately, didn't write very good tests (none of the tests ran anyway, because they required an elaborate lab setup that involved undocumented APIs, installs of binaries meant for OSes that were nearly end-of-life, a SQL server and a bunch of other shit infrastructure. Beware test environment creep).
Why all the downvotes? You can't handle a joke?! So pathetic!
> site that takes a controversial topic such as this, and just lays out all the evidence

I would also like that site.

Recently I've been thinking about another way to educate people about these issues: a video game that simulates practical examples of data security and privacy. Interactive games offer different tools[1] to the storyteller, and I like the idea of letting people discover concepts on their own. Unfortunately, a project like this is way outside my area of expertise. /sigh/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhrKPLDCyY&list=PLJA_jUddXv...
Note that the irradiated group also lived longer. I'm surprised the headline didn't read, "New Study Finds Cancer Good for Your Health!"

PSA: health research headlines are generally worse than worthless.

Also, remember, "one study on rats" will never be sufficient to correct anything physicists know about EM waves.

UPDATE: Here's the WHO announcement explaining the 2B classification. I didn't find it very satisfying, but judge for yourself:
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
When is parallelism ever needed but for performance reasons? (Honest question, I'm quite a novice when it comes to concurrency)
reduce time needed to deliver fully functional software

Except you can deliver a cheaper product faster if it's not fully functional, hence the triangle.
Can you explain your thinking? That makes absolutely no sense to me
read up on how she decided to foist a social contract on the Ruby devs. She's poisonous.
Why is Prague the Thailand of Europe?
For one, other commenters in this thread (including the #1) post about receiving spam on iMessage. For two, you can't say that you receive less spam on iMessage for any particular reason, or that that reason can't apply to other messaging apps.
I don't care and I only want to work with engineers who also don't care and would rather spend their brainpower on actual problems, not bikeshedding.
This is where business sense comes in. If you want to make money, your number one goal isn't to have fun and learn something. If you want to work on something fun, then build what you want to build but don't expect to make any money. If you want to make money, you need to build what the market needs. If your enjoyment and the market intersects, that's amazing, congratulations. However, this is unlikely.

Once you accept that you are building a business, not a fun side project, you can start to think about how one lonely developer can make money. Preferably with spending as little money as possible to reduce risk. So to answer your question specifically - you target a market that people organically search for in the app store, with zero (or totally inadequate) options currently available. You will then immediately rank #1 or close to it, users will find you, and you will dominate without spending anything on marketing.

How do you find a niche like this? I could keep writing, but really this needs to be in a long blog post to summarize all of the different pieces of the "successful one-man side software business" puzzle. It isn't impossible but it's much harder than you wish it would be. No one pays money for something that is easy.
Years before Sarcos corporation got bought, they had working haptic whole-arm interfaces attached to outsized hydraulic arms. There used to be Real video format files on their site of things like a teleoperated giant arm casually holding an anvil like it was a beer mug.

There was webpage of historical haptics research up somewhere. They've had research hardware since the 70's. I remember one discussion at the Houston hackerspace, where such devices were falsely "debunked" based on bandwidth/processing requirements. {facepalm}
Powerful interests oft express that power by stifling voices deemed troublesome. To me, it does not seem a phenomenon uniquely restricted to particular countries, cultures, or individuals.
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Scroll to the last paragraph for TL;DR.
Unfortunately browsers exempt locally installed CAs from MITM countermeasures, to support employer/school mandated domestic surveillance in the USA.
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Is there a mirror of this anywhere? All I am getting is "Server Error in '/' Application."
My friend worked for / with the government on city surveilance for a short stint after his time with the army. He described an example of his work as follows:

An activism group was meeting in a city center and was to walk to another part of the city for a demonstration.

My friend's team had video surveilance feeds all over the city to track the activism group as they walked from their meeting place to the demonstration.

As the group began to walk, my friend's team was able to delay the group with Don't Walk signals. The delay was long enough for a police barricade to permanently get in the activism group's way and stop the demonstration for the day.

I may have some of the details wrong or his recount may not have fully been 100% honest, but it feels as this situation is very achievable with current technology.

The most worrying piece of this story is the activists are not being confronted with a human who can talk to them. They're being thwarted by a faceless group without the chance ever discuss their reasons for demonstrating. The government in this situation was able to get what they wanted in the near term, but at the expense of frustration of their citizens in the long term.
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Did you use any regularization? Did you train until the training accuracy converged?

I feel like the network has enough capacity to overfit 180 training samples
Tabs or spaces?
Assertions are most of the time completely useless and just a waste of time.
If you put these assertions in one method it will break only at runtime. Usually it is a not very used method and the code that caused the assertion to fail is shipped in production and you realise only too late that it's broken.
If you had a proper unit test instead of an assertion you would have caught the bug as soon as you pushed the code and the continuous integration kicked in.
> Generation Z? That's a new one to me. Does this mean the apocalypse is just around the corner, or do we go back to Generation A?

Perhaps this book would help answer your question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Beyond_Zebra!
> People definitely have a tendency to anthropomorphize "true AI" that is very religion-y. This doesn't mean that we need to throw out science as a religion among religions, it means that we need to throw out quasi-religous thought about "true AI" and be careful whenever we step off the sure ground established by current scientific knowledge.

Okay, I agree with that. I like the description of religion-y AI as anthropomorphizing. I'd say the same thing about throwing out pieces of religions rather than the whole thing. I'm not religious myself, by the way. I just think if they went back to being just about hope and support then that would be a good thing. So many other values have been tacked on that some seem to have desecrated themselves.

> That's not what compatibilism says. Compatibilism says: you weren't fated to choose pizza, period, and if we reran the whole experiment enough times, so to speak, you would in fact choose pizza some of the time and pasta some of the time, without our being able to predict better than just collecting percentage statistics.

Still sounds like free will to me. I guess my brain's not ready to interpret what you're saying.
You're doing OIDC but OIDC requires JWT.
Well sorry but if you're not using JWT then this isn't OIDC.
The whole point of OIDC is token verification, you provide an identity and that identity can be verified.
I have high hopes for the shmif- port to vulkan, as far as I can tell, there's no good way to flag pinned memory as shared and build the shmif around that, but if it was possible it would be predictable synch, controlled colorspace conversion and ... oh well, QEmu integration first :-)

You might be able to reduce the fillrate cost by trying config/system/simple displaymode.. it removes a lot of features but you save at least a full extra renderpass.
Is that a GSM or LTE connection?
> you target a market that people organically search for in the app store, with zero (or totally inadequate) options currently available)

How did you go about finding such markets?
This is why HSTS pre-loading is so important: https://hstspreload.appspot.com
Thanks. I think I can't edit it now.
Here is the link to the actual paper: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.f...

The rats where exposed to more RF for 9 hrs a day than what is permissable for general public exposure to RF by various safety standards. It does seem like this was more of a study that found that pesticide killed butterflies by crushing them with it.

They calibrated the RF levels to be under that which causes heating, rather than levels humans typically are exposed to.

I would be worried about this increased cancer risk if I was a cell tower maintenance worker who liked to put in a days sleep while draped over the active antennas.
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If they did not properly account for longevity then it's easy to see how (live longer -> higher chance of cancer)
> But does insurance, banking(mortgage, payday loans), transportation laws really need 50 different laws?

Sure they do. You're insuring against earthquakes in California and ice storms in Massachusetts. North Dakota has a much different banking environment than New York City. Trucks pulling three trailers make sense in big empty western states with wide open spaces but no sense in high traffic urban environments with tight corners.
If I write testable code, coverage comes naturally and I don't worry about it.

I do think it's misguided to focus on coverage.

To me unit testing is a development tool. I write my class inside a test suite and extract it when ready.
Maybe a pull request would solve the concern?

Or opening an issue?
1. Lombok @RequiredArgsConstructor?

2. Do you not consider cyclic dependence a code smell? At least I have always avoided cyclic dependencies.
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My interpretation of a business is a repeatable mechanism for generating profit. Starting a business takes lots of effort and time. Once you have it running, a good software side business should take very little time. You put the time in at the beginning. Once it's working, you should be able to make money without trying.

By using pay-for SaaS companies, you might save time, but as a one-man developer, I'm not in a race for success. I want to build something that lasts ideally for years if not decades that sends cash directly into my bank account. If you rely on an SaaS product, you will be paying them money for decades. And if they go out of business, you need to put more effort into finding a replacement.

By building everything myself, I pay nobody anything, and the only risk is that I go out of business. And if I build more side businesses, I can reuse my existing infrastructure and reduce their costs as well.