skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, the reason that the MACHO surveys weren't continued was because the event rate was low (you expect 1% the event rate with 100 M_sun MACHOs than 1 M_sun MACHOs). Looking longer would solve the problem.

The thing I'm really bummed about is that MACHOs dropped out of the conversation ten years ago, so nobody new to the field would have known without digging that MACHOs still had a shot.
Stylesheets would be smaller, and only execute slightly slower on the client due to the expansions needed. Trading rendering speed for network speed is a good choice.
There's a reason for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker
And tomorrows reddit posting:

"Help, I've just been forced into an orange jumpsuit, blindfolded and put on a plane to Gitmo. Should I be worried?"
It is absolutely possible to create DPDK applications that send/receive data into the Linux network stack using KNI [1]. I'm not sure if I'm qualified to say whether DPDK is “for” something, but the means to achieve this exist.

[1] - http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/prog_guide/kernel_nic_inter...
Because an enormous chunk of the population still refuses to exercise and/or diet and articles like this help motivate some of that subset.
How does that work then? If I were American (I'm not) is it illegal for me to simply say or publish the sentence "I have received no National Security Orders"?
Reason should be some kind of benefit. But honestly, I dont know, here are just some facts.

You need to see the connection of systems. Neuromuscular connection of basal ganglia: central part of brain - neural pathway - muscle - and then feeling of movement going back to the brain through hypothalamus and to other areas - from hypothalamus it goes to brain like a shotgun fire.

The more you do the same movement the more you fire up the same lines. In order to get faster and more effective movement you add additional channels for signal transport in neuronal connections {this happens through release of BDNF, which induces insertion of new channels, for faster transmission}. This molecule happen to influence formation of memory, survival of neurons and supress your desire to eat.

There has been an article from 1998 about reduced cathepsin, which happens to reduce this BDNF. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9514826)

Sooo, again, I dont know, but this seems a bit like a side effect of firing up those circuits, because more or less the same way works memory formation (long-term memory potentiation). I would guess here plays a role effect of neigborhood - niche influencing neurons sitting next to those active pathways.

BTW.
Also movement should increase your bloodflow, waste created by neurons is now removed much faster, this should go the same for neurotrasmitters - molecules transmitting signal which just flow around and act as signal interference, thus removing part of interference and now you can fire clear signal.
What is it about the MRI/superconducting applications that precludes recapture?
Most definitely. My favorite feature in the auto save feature for unsaved files. So even if you close down notepad++ or it crashes (never actually happens) all you stuff is where you left it.
> Yes, please tax these companies out of town so they can take their corp taxes

I'm confused. You think the companies are valuable because they pay taxes, but shouldn't be taxed?

Truthfully, this is only a return to the previous state of affairs, a 1.5% payroll tax isn't that painful - the impact on Twitter would be less than 5 headcount.

The reason companies like Twitter originally sought a tax break is because of how stock options are taxed. If you work for twitter for several years and never cash in your stock options, they have to bank the potential payroll tax they would pay on the purchase value of these options. So many employees never cash in on options that this creates a kind of snowball that freezes a ton of capital. In effect, this means that current investors in a company like Twitter are banking money to pay the taxes of future potential employee-investors.

I agree this doesn't make economic sense, I don't think wholly opposing payroll tax is a reasonable reaction to it. I don't know what the solution is, but it's amusing to see this come full circle.
Can't you just add some random length data at the end. You are defeating compression a little bit, but are also making the length non deterministic. I thought pgp did that.
Since when?

Last I heard canaries were still going strong, although they're generally limited to one bit (letters: yes or no?) rather than any more detail.
Synergy. It's a keyboard and mouse sharing client/server application that runs on every platform I use.

I don't know if better alternatives exist because it has just been rock-solid for the last 12 years that I've been using it. I've used it in multi-monitor and machine desktop setups (e.g. an Apple laptop paired with a Windows desktop and linux desktop for enterprisey cubicle development), as well as to let me drive my gaming and media PC from my couch using an Apple laptop.

I was a bit bummed that the pricing model went from free-as-in-beer to free-as-in-speech, but couldn't be happier to pay $10 for a lifetime license.

I feel it belongs in this thread because even when I've neglected to upgrade various machines, or upgraded OSs on machines with the application installed, it just continues to hum along. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to deal with any problems in any capacity.
Embedmd: embed code into your markdown and keep it easily in sync
London Array blows away green energy competition
FWIW, you can easily open a business checking account at any bank and they usually have better online services than SVB. Often you can ask your personal bank to waive the fees on a business account if you've been with them for a while.
Are there any studies on what kind of exercise, or what kind of intensity is most beneficial to overall or mental health?

Edit: Got back to my laptop and did some research myself.

Aerobic Exercise Training Increases Brain Volume in Aging Humans (and nonaerobic doesn't) -http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/11/11...

Findings show that although the more intense, motorized running exercise induced a rapid
increase in BDNF, the elevation was more short-lived than with voluntary running. Suggests that longer, easier exercises might be more beneficial. - http://202.120.143.134/download/20090702135031_277199777813....

Exercise effects on executive function are not doseresponsive, meaning that better fitness does not
necessarily lead to larger cognitive gains... physical activity levels that benefit cognition may
not necessarily be as intense as those levels required to increase cardiovascular fitness. - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michelle_Ploughman/publ...

neither duration (20 vs. 40 min) nor intensity (60 vs. 80% HR reserve) significantly affects the benefits of exercise if only the sBDNF increase at a single post-exercise time point is considered... -http://www.jssm.org/research.php?id=jssm-12-502.xml

High intensity interval training evokes (slightly) larger serum BDNF levels compared to intense continuous exercise. - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole_Wenderoth/public...

This meta-analysis provides reliable evidence that both acute and regular exercise have a significant impact on BDNF levels. (but animal models show that these can be gone soon after you stop training) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314337/

The effects of acute exercise on cognitive performance:
A meta-analysis - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Kai_Chang/publicatio...

I can recommend the meta-analysis (last link), data is unfortunately somewhat inconclusive. There are basically two theories, the inverted-U theory, stating that moderate exercise is most beneficial and the drive theory, stating that the largest effects will be achieved with the largest intensity. Chang et. al., however, conclude that: The size of the benefit is dependent upon a number of factors, but results indicate that benefits are larger for more fit individuals who perform the physical activity for 20 min or longer. The appropriate intensity depends upon the time of measurement — any intensity benefits cognitive performance during exercise, but lower intensities provide more benefit when the tests are performed immediately after exercise and higher intensities have more durable effects that can be observed even following a delay.
They were both about improving life through technology! It just happens they missed other important perspectives. That's part of what the talk is about, people with new found powers not sufficiently considering the consequences of their actions.

I would also say that the World Wars in fact do relate to the industrial revolution, as part of the reason they were so horrible was the new found power provided by scientific industry.
The claim here is a naive realization of existentialism. I'm not sure how much value examining the self in terms of social media adds to the discussion other than the parlance of our times. I don't think people do anything on Facebook that they haven't done through more conventional means. The only thing that's changed is the speed at which they do it. Exploring that difference would make for a more interesting piece than what was posted.
I want to say I've been using this for over 15 years now? With all the text editors out there this one is my favorite use out of the box.
Google announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11991958
The Democratic Party policies include support and protected class status for LGBT individuals, whose inclusion in the labor force expands the talent pool and are already account for a big chunk of the tech workforce.

But being free to fire someone because they prefer to date members of the same sex - or because they are black or a woman or not a Protestant Christian - does make things cheaper and simpler for business. Is that the world you would rather live in?
Hands-down winner for me is Radio Tray. Simple, works as advertised, and it's running pretty much 100% of the time my computer is on. It has never crashed. Very lightweight too, and the config file is simple enough that a quick glance at it in a text editor is all you need to make customizations faster than using the GUI preferences.

A very close second is the ext4 filesystem, but I don't know if this qualifies as software. I've done all kind of stupid things when formatting or unplugging drives and have never lost data. Full-disk encryption on everything and never a problem. SO reliable. I was doing a full backup to two separate drives at once, one external and one SATA internal. The power went out and I wasn't using a UPS. When the power came back on, everything was still fine but I was worried about data corruption so I plugged in yet another, my last good external drive with a known good copy of everything to compare against. Then the power went out again! I didn't even shout or curse, that's how mad I was. No data loss though, everything resumed from mid-backup and happily continued.
After some thought, The only advantage of signing before and after i can think of is without it you are left with the (theoretical?) problem of not knowing if the output from your implementation/version of the utility to decrypt/decompress is identical to the senders input to their implementation of the utility if the sender only signs the compressed/encrypted version.

Of course, if the compression/encryption method has some way of checking the integrity of the output (that's of equal strength to the signature) then then signing first would be completely redundant.

EDIT: so in many scenarios, signing first and last would have no advantage. For example if you get to decide what implementation will be used by the sender and the recipient (most package managers?)
> Express the exact same thing, in 1/6 the code, and somehow the shorter code takes longer to read and understand?

I think people need to differentiate between code review and code scanning. I look at code completely different when someone is pointing to it than when I'm scanning through a file. A ternary operator isn't tough to read when you're already looking at it. However, scanning through a file I'm going to have a lot more difficulty spotting a `?` than I am the indentation of an if/else block. I'm more than content to take 5 lines instead of 1 to spot it 2 months later when I don't know what I'm looking at.
In practice, with any real, widely used compression algorithm, encrypted output will never be compressed. You can generate 100,000 random binary files and run them through all the major compression tools and not one of them will compress by even a single bit.

In theory, some random outputs will be compressible by common tools (for example, a file that's all zeroes). However, the probability of encountering a random file that compresses more than the overhead from any common compression tool is vanishingly small.
'Robot lawyer' fights 160,000 parking tickets
Agree with this. I will regularly write queries plugging together all sorts of odd features in odd ways and it'll just run, run fast, and give me the results I want. Totally amazing.
Presumably not. But it is illegal for you to say "I have received one National Security Order this year".

Hence warrant canaries: they basically consist of creating a strong expectation of a (permitted) negative statement, such that its absence will be noticed. So far it's believed that you can't be compelled to maintain a no-longer-accurate canary against your will.

edit: Wait, I see what you're referring to. [citation needed], because as far as I know warrant canaries remain legal.
Fair enough, I concede the point.
Apps vs. Bots: Apple Messages Takes Different Path
Reliable: vim, Microsoft Word/Excel, SQLite, tmux, GNU coreutils, svn

I think most would agree with most of the items, although svn warrants an explanation. I prefer the paradigm of git, but svn always impresses me with its ability to handle large repositories and large files out of the box without falling over.
Handshake Technology:
http://www.ispd.cc/slides/slides_backup/ispd06/8-2.pdf

Warning: Slightly commercial in nature. But some good information about how it works starting on page 4. Worth reading from there.
Transport-level protocols in user space – your own private TCP
plumbers and electricians, during their apprenticeships spend a LOT of time in classroom environments. they are even required to spend X hours per year to keep their skills up as well.

so i would say they two are in fact very similar. classroom mixed with real world use of that knowledge is better then just sitting in class the entire time with no chance to get real world usage, help and walk-throughs, until after the fact. in which case apprenticeship might be better then a degree.
Exercise also increases BDNF gene expression, which deficits of are implicated in depression and addiction.
How good is the Notepad++ source code?
vim. been using it for decades now and i still stop every so often to marvel how much pleasanter it makes my workday.
It's hard to disentangle subconscious and conscious goals, but the goal of proscriptions against adultery and other reproductive mores usually have a foundation in primogeniture - the practice of passing land and property on to the eldest son.

Robin Hanson has his "Farmer v. Forager" framework to classify many things about which people disagree with respect to social ... policy.

I don't think anyone who isn't a bit ... off can openly promote subjugating women for its own sake; so it's a better story at least if there's a more rational explanation.
Yup, that's why MCI was a big deal. I can't find a reference, but I recall long distance call rates varying by distance under the Bell System. MCI said "ten cents per minute no matter where you're calling to" (can't find a reference for that, either).

But I think the selling point for alternative LD carriers (MCI, Sprint, and the "10-10-..." numbers) was that you could set a timer and know at the end of the call how much it cost. Under AT&T? Get the calculator and paper out.
it just wasnt critical to those making budget decisions.
IntelliJ lets you do a lot more from the keyboard. It's suggestions for code completion are very useful. It's amazing to see the code almost writing itself, several times faster than you can type!
The employer is actually taxed, not the employee, and it's a 1.5% tax, which is the same amount of the original payroll tax which was rolled into gross receipts a few years ago.

This is hardly armageddon.
It's ludicrous that we in this country can't have modern infrastructure.

One thing that bothers me, is that there is this narrative that high speed rail just somehow cannot work, and is a pipe dream, and not right for America.

We cannot afford /not/ to have high speed rail. We're already heavily subsidizing airlines to schedule flights to nowhere. And as of last time I researched it, a few years ago, there wasn't an HSR line in existence that didn't net revenue for the state.

Not building this line because of some NIMBY rich people in California is the sign of a crumbling civilization, where the elites are too concerned about their own comfort to prevent us from being left behind, technologically.
>The audio over bluetooth was frequently out of tune.

I agree. I have a Ford, and the interface is as good as any I've experienced with respect to Bluetooth enabled vehicles. But there's a definite drop in "sound quality" compared to USB based devices or CDs. I only ever use it when we're bored of what we've brought and want to stream Google Play.
Fed-really fund it . The Fed can issue new currency to fund
it. It is off the books as fed balance sheet is not counted against the deficit. Jobs jobs jobs.
To me, PSL looks the most promising, at least the conditionals would have come handy. CSS only 'recently' got features like the CALC() function which is a blessing.

However I have to agree with the decision to put it aside, because remember how implementing something seemingly simple as CSS went in the days if IE5,6. It was a disaster and something more complex like PSL would have been even worse.
Worth mentioning that this requires a 2/3 vote to pass which means it has pretty slim chances. The proposal has yet to pass through Board of Supervisors which always introduces its own amendments as well.
If you read it as "Good Morning America" of tech, it will appear that way. The article is reporting on new evidence of one particular mechanism of how exercise and the brain work. It's complex and each weekly article expands on our understand. That's why they're here each week; each week we learn something exciting and new.
Experimenting with cool html based uis for Firefox
yup, last neon plant within 3 hours of me recently closed. they will be outsourcing it all to a vendor in seattle, with an additional wait time of at least two weeks per project.
This is just disappointing. There's nothing wrong with a large project requiring government subsidies. If you leave people to their own devices obviously they will self-organize to the best of their abilities---they will put their money towards automobile based transportation. If we, the voters of California, decide that it is worth pursuing this project then at the same time we should decide that it is worth funding it.
The Linux kernel! It runs just about everywhere from dishwasher to modem to thermostat to PC to mainframe. One size fits all? Well, not if you want to optimize to the last bit, but within a very wide spectrum it actually does.
Very nice, took me about 1minute to set up my first test. Great first time user experience.
I think it's time for the powers that be to activate Plan B. I would prefer Plan B to be something like a basic income. But it could also be out-of-the-box ideas, like "let's have a major war to distract the homefront and focus energy on an external enemy."
We can thank the GOP for having a political system that will happily spend far more money on far worse infrastructure: blacktop highways that have nowhere near the longevity of train tracks.
Sure, with certain type systems you can write an "add" function and describe its type such that you can verify it really does return the sum of its arguments.

But all you've really accomplished is to move the potential bug to a different layer; before it was possible to write incorrect logic in the function and have a bug, now it's possible to write an incorrect type specification and have a bug. So now you need a type system to let you describe the behavior of your type system (and it has to be a separate thing from the type system). And then you're back where you started, just now with an extra layer of architecture.
Politics is far too important to be left to the politicians!

Politics is how we resolve disagreements, which is hard to do. Maciej argues (rightly, IMO) that avoiding politics for technology is basically retreating from a set of hard problems into a set of easier problems.

> From this he draws the conclusion that techies - currently doing a great job of solving the problems within their domain - should bow down and submit to control by the politicians who failed to solve the local problems he cares about.

He's saying that techies should directly engage in politics to achieve positive outcomes locally, before believing that they can use technology alone to achieve positive outcomes globally.

He's saying that what techies consider to be "problems within their domain" is worth some introspection.
Yes, in other words compression can move information from the content of the data (which is encrypted) to the size of the data (which is not encrypted).
> SF and it's voters apparently do not want you...time to go somewhere that does.

Everyone who thinks this way, please, yes, go!
If your cylinder is an airship, and you put that on a scale, you'll find that it has negative weight :)

I would think measuring the correct weight would be:

(weight of empty cylinder) + (weight of air volume that the cylinder could contain at atmospheric pressure) - (measured weight - positive or negative)

If you measured e.g. an empty cylinder, you'd end up with only the weight of air volume in cylinder at atmospheric pressure, which would be correct.
Someone should thtow in some non-UNIX software. So, OS/400: the OS of AS/400's. I know they can crash but I've never seen it or met someone face-to-face who has. Those jokers just seems to always work for years. OpenVMS was a competitor that also ran years at at time under load with cluster record being 17 years. These are still sold.
Git, Filezilla, VLC Player they just work have been using for years!
Yes: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/which-type-of-exerc...

TL;DR: Long distance running or other sustained aerobic exercise is best. Several meta-analyses also have shown that the mood and cognitive benefits increase with aerobic exercise duration and intensity.
Adam Smith at least wrote "Wealth of Nations" after writing "Theory of Moral Sentiments" to drill down into the morality of money. His point in it is that capitalism is a moral improvement on Mercantilism.
Or piss them off. Exercise is tiring and painful and time-consuming (especially if you count in after-exercise showers). Also, I don't like the whole culture around exercising and fitness. Gimme a damn pill or something.

More seriously though, I really find no pleasure in exercise and would like to approach it in the most cost-effective way (i.e. maximum benefit for minimum time used). Any hints on exercise regime optimised for that? I heard weightlifting is good.
Vim and Chrome :)