skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the article is about a 2015 discovery showing that at least some organisms appearing to directly ingest electrons are actually emitting enzymes that grab an electron and a proton from the environment, then consuming the resulting hydrogen (search for Spormann).

The article also mentions that there is evidence for direct electron transfer, but it is yet unpublished.
It's not just "unfair", it's arguably unconstitutional. Our justice system is based on innocent until proven guilty. If you're found with 10,000$ in cash, even if you think there's a 90% chance that money was the result of illegal activity, that probability alone is not grounds to declare the money illegal. The fact that asset forfeiture laws have been twisted to allow this kind of thing in contradiction to the rest of our justice system is why people get so worked up over it.
A third-party store could do a lot of things differently other than just lower the revenue split — you could have a recommendation engine like Amazon, or you could add curation, or you could change the way search works, or any number of other (possibly crazier) things.

Heck, you could literally just copy Steam in every respect and you'd end up with something significantly different from the current App Store.
https://www.mashape.com/ is still independent and the main product (Lua on Nginx) is open source. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mashape
House Democrats Sit-In for Vote on Gun Control
I understand your pain. Tcl makes JavaScript look good.
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2B in cash
SEC Official Says Ethereum Hack Illustrates Blockchain Concerns
The German regulation has existed for a long time, I doubt that's due to the EU. However you want to be able to sell and drive a everywhere in the EU. It only makes sense to deal with this on a EU level to harmonize existing regulation and force members lacking such regulations to implement it. If that hasn't happened already (which I find hard to believe), it will.
Cool, wanted to checkout go anyways.
Your example doesn't seem to be running (zs2 -> zs), forgot to import nettypes?
Oh well, got it to build (go newbie here!), but it just says "panic: no such device".
So where does the ifindex = 15 come from?

Nice small project, would love to tinker a bit with it!
I don't understand all the JIRA hate, my team has 0 problems with it
This is broken.

Here's the short url of http://news.ycombinator.com --> lon.gs/amk

Going to lon.gs/amk redirects me to an overstock.com address for a specific product.

The site doesn't appear to have been hacked, at least there's no affiliate link in the URL I was sent to. It just appears the site is broken.
A new crop of hands-on universities
So it is always to be a client/server thing, right? Cloudy?
Is this a strict requirement? Like users to work cooperatively on the same document (a.k.a. Google Wave, sic transit gloria mundi).
Well hey, I guess I'm not crazy after all. :)
Urgh, one nonsensical statement after another. I think I need a shower after reading that.

Most of the authors' misguided ramblings seem to stem from a very naive misunderstanding of the word "computer", i.e. that in a technical context it refers to any system capable of universal computation (AKA "Turing complete"). "Universal computation" has precise Mathematical definitions, but can roughly be understood as the "complexity limit" of the Universe; just as nothing can go faster than light, nothing can exhibit behaviour that's more complex than that of a Turing complete system. The proof boils down to showing that a Turing complete system can, given a specially constructed input stimulus, produce response behaviour which is equivalent to any other system. These days, we call the system the "hardware" and the stimulus the "software".

As an analogy, the author's arguments would be like claiming the laws of thermodynamics don't apply to the brain, since we have no theory of conciousness and it certainly doesn't look like a steam engine. Just like "computer" in computer science, the word "engine" has a precise meaning in thermodynamics (any system which transforms energy from one form to another), and we don't need to know the precise workings of the brain to know that, for example, it's not a perpertual motion machine.

Likewise, we don't need to know the precise hardware or software of the brain to know it obeys the physical Church Turing thesis, and can hence be simulated by a universal Turing machine.
> Perhaps you have to hardcode a link in code and don't want to be tied to a page whose contents may break. If you control your URL shortener, you can hardcode your shortened one, and update the redirect as needed.

And when your URL shortener goes down, all links are dead. Shortening URLs is the last thing you want to do when you need to preserve pages that might go down. Caching is a better solution.
Create/Save OneNote Notebooks, Export Notebook to PDF and Image Format Using .NET
We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Note for .NET 2.4.0. This month’s release comes with the read/write support of Microsoft OneNote notebooks (.onetoc2). It provides the capability to create and manipulate notebooks. The API lets you create, save and export notebooks to a number of different formats. It also supports adding and removing child nodes from a notebook. As mentioned earlier, this month’s release introduces the capability of OneNote Notebook file format read/write support. Users can now create a Notebook using the API’s NoteBook class and save it to disc or stream using the Notebook API’s Save method. Aspose.Note API gives users complete capability to add and remove OneNote documents from a notebook. The AppendChild and RemoveChild methods exposed by the Notebook class can be used to add or remove documents from the Notebook document. This month’s release also introduces a new feature of saving the OneNote Notebook (.onetoc2) to PDF format.
can't agree more.

Feature with hundreds of requests gets shunned away. And things that people heavily opposes gets in just to be like chrome.

All the last features on firefox were corporate driven. Bookmark system by pocket. Video chat by Telefonica. Sync goals was probably to make their ad share revenue grow as now you are a logged in user. etc etc etc

Their most well paid dev is a javascript advocate!

Chrome gives you much less control of the web, but everyone uses not because it is fast, but because firefox is getting behind on everything. While the owners arguee about UI changes instead of doing what was successful in the past: put the patch someone already provided as an option and release!

the only interesting thing coming out mozilla nowadays that can change the world is fennec. the mobile version. But last builds on android cannot be completed without google proprietary apis anymore. and usability is crap now that they are trying to "fix" image viewing, which mind you, wasn't broken, it was just different than chrome.
Games is the biggest category. http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics/app-store/ says there are over 500,000 games active now.
> Most of the mystery essential genes are vague cell wall proteins. Probably what is going on is that if you knock out too many of these genes, you lose cell wall turgidity and the cell becomes nonviable. So what is important is not so much which of these genes you have, but how many of them you have.

Sounds like dependency hell. Gene A only works in the presence of Gene B which only works when there's Gene C which needs Gene A. Knock any one of them out and everything breaks.
Maybe someone with some technical background on this project can answer... what is to keep someone from poisoning the results?

For example, intentionally returning a result for a search term that is not accurate or even spamming results by returning irrelevant pages.
The entire reason indie devs were making so much money in 2008-2009 was due to the mismatch between a wealthy customer base demanding apps for their new iPhones and the tiny ObjC-competent developer community at the time.

Now that everyone and their dog knows ObjC or Swift, plus the fact that most mobile problems are solved, the easy money is long gone.
20-somethings start companies which serve 20-something customers (Facebook, Snapchat, etc).

30-somethings start companies which serve 30-something customers, or enterprise customers of the type they've worked at (where purchasing decisions are made by 30-something directors).

There are exceptions to those rules, but they're pretty consistent.

What's important is that entrepreneurs be consistently visible across age/race/gender/class/origin/etc demographics, so all markets are best served.
In some areas, if the algorithm takes postal code into account, it can, with high probability use it as a proxy for race.
Why does it look like the tankers have to wait around a long time before going through?
It didn't hold any in the pre Theranos world either. Remember voting machines?
Thank you!

That's another problem, there are so many good games coming out on a weekly basis, it's hard enough to stand out among those, let alone the 800 other games coming out every week.

We've experimented with various marketing ideas. Advertising is very challenging, especially when it costs more to acquire a user than we charge for the game. The F2P user acquisition market insanity has made this a complete non-starter. Press seems to have very little impact unless it's a big publication. So we're focusing on word of mouth and quality and a longer term outlook.
bookmarked, thanks for the guide!
The macOS Sierra developer preview: Different name, same ol’ Mac
Each of those links say that it can be used both ways. I was wrong that it wasn't used the OP's way, but not wrong in my own definition of it.
The challenge for them (which Ben has addressed on Exponent previously) is that their promise to their users historically has been anonymity. That directly goes against what brand advertisers need to succeed. At least DR players can see performance metrics even if they can't easily identify audiences. But for brands, they need audience data. So Snapchat has an interesting challenge on their hands...how to get more info from their users and convince them not to leave in droves when that promise of anonymity is taken away they make it available to advertisers. And I'm not talking about advertisers getting direct access to uniquely identifiable users. I'm talking about Snapchat collecting and storing that data. Their recent ToS changes make it seem like they are moving in that direction.
Is anyone suffering from lack of URL shorteners? Or does anyone really care what their URL shortener is implemented in? Is there even any way that the application code contributes to the request time more meaningfully than the persistence mechanism used?

Cool hacks are cool I guess but from the sounds of it, the C code is a bit scary. If you had to build this, why not build it in Rust? At least it wouldn't be so terrifying from a security standpoint and you'd still get whatever performance is supposedly needed.
http://perma.cc addresses this problem.
BMW Is Turning Its Electric Vehicle Batteries into a New Business
I think there exist records of hospital mix-ups with babies, with pretty profound differences changing them depending on what environment they wound up in, but this may be mostly anecdotal. One case in Japan like this but it illustrated wealth difference as opposed to what we're looking for here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1048109...

Provocative but not evidence. I did look up some twin studies but I can't find one with a clear vice/virtue environment study. Gwern is good at ferreting out this kind of information if you ask him.
I consider the fact that it is written in C a feature.
Generally speaking, if a paper is published in a bad journal, it often means it was submitted first also to other journals, but rejected by reviewers. Hence, it is more likely there's something wrong with it. Reading papers takes time, so it is useful to be aware beforehand of how likely the time is well spent. How is it in this specific case is then a different question. (Predatory open access is bad --- publishing work on your own website OTOH is fairly neutral.)
>> Certainly, a sentient being can learn new things, but that's a matter of rule-base and memory. No actual intelligence required, IMO. Sentience, to me, goes toward a concept of self. Of being aware that one exists and is responsible for one's own actions.

I think sentience is somewhat more limited. Most animals are sentient, in that they can feel and perceive and learn from experiences. Few animals besides humans are sapient, in that they can reason about complex and abstract ideas separate from direct experience, have a sense of self, and other criteria.
> a higher standard means the government is not allowed to use data-driven algorithms to make decisions? Keep in mind that judges already had and continue to have latitude to independently conclude the same thing the algorithm does and act appropriately.

No, I generally agree with you. However, I'm very concerned that judges will rely too heavily on the computer, either through laziness or through misunderstanding the limitations of an algorithm.

> is your disagreement with the closed nature of the algorithms?

Mostly, yes. IMO:

* A spec, which the code meets, must be published. The spec should be comprehensible to non-technical readers - at least judges and lawyers. (EDIT: The spec governs, not the code that implements it.)

* The code also must be open and written to some standards of coding comprehensibility and documentation, so others can verify that it meets the spec.

If they just open source some code, it's useless. Even experts such as software developers probably aren't going to quickly grasp someone else's code.

> Which is an argument, but one that should also be applied to insurance companies, especially those brokering mandatory products like car and health.

I tend to agree, but I think it's still a matter of degree.
> New Supreme Court justice needed, the appointment of whom is literally the senate’s assigned job?

No Senate in a Presidential election year will ever allow a vote on a Justice when the Senate and President are of different parties. It hasn't been done in the past, and it won't be done in the future. The Court is still doing business with 8, as it has in the past and probably will in the future.
FAA proposes two new fines against Amazon.com over hazardous shipments
This blog post illustrates well the infuriating tendency of academics to teach by calling people stupid. The substance of his answers are:

1. " If you think it’s obvious, then you’re probably assuming what you need to prove" i.e. "If you think this, you're wrong."

2. "Just because you’ve got a completely deterministic method for working out a prime factorization, that doesn’t mean what you work out is the only prime factorization" i.e. "If you think doing it this way works, it doesn't."

3. "Look, it just bloody well isn’t obvious, OK?" i.e. "If you get frustrated that I keep telling you you're wrong, that's your fault for being wrong."

4. "If it’s so obvious that every number has a unique factorization, then why is the corresponding statement false in a similar context?" i.e. "I won't tell you what you did wrong, but instead I'll show you why your answer can't possibly be right."

It is unconscionable that he does not identify the actual fact people erroneously use without justification when thinking the fundamental theorem is obvious. FYI, that fact is

"If a number n can be written as the product of a fixed list of (not necessarily distinct) primes p_1, p_2, ..., p_n, then any prime p dividing n appears on this list."

(there is a minority of mathematicians who refer to this fact as the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, not unique prime factorization; the obvious argument is going from the fact to unique prime factorization, proving the fact is the unobvious argument)
This article is similar to "Why Used Electric Car Batteries Could Be Crucial To A Clean Energy Future" http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/09/3775606/used-sec....
Fixed, thanks for the head's up.
They must purposefully underbid knowing that they can run up the cost with impunity?
MonetDBLite because fast – R-bloggers
I don't understand how your token is different from an SSH keypair. Would you explain?
There is certificate patrol or something like that. It is very verbose and will annoy you.
How do you see this experience relating to Windows 10? Windows is the opposite of an obscure platform.
Senate votes down proposal to expand FBI surveillance powers
From https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/4p5ung/longs...

$ curl -i http://lon.gs/abf
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: foo
X-Evil-Header: evilvalue

there were also examples of XSS and data URIs.

(they claim to have fixed this elsewhere in the thread, but I guess some of the "evil" URLs still work)
And my anecdotal experience is that it's working extremely well. Take the Google Photos app that does automatic image recognition and tagging. The other day I was looking for a picture we took of our cat the first night we brought him home. I remembered we left him with a blanket in the bathroom but couldn't remember much else.

"kitten bathroom 2013"

And there was a picture of the cat sitting in the tub on a blanket. Simply amazing.
Wasn't there something posted recently about urls that are too short are too easily guessed and that it's good to make sure that these short urls are longer?
"You can use your common sense to figure why that's the case"

Im not sure about this:
"this exploitative practice still stacks the deck against property owners, essentially requiring them to prove their innocence to gain back their belongings. For people whose property has been seized through civil asset forfeiture, legally regaining such property is notoriously difficult and expensive, with costs sometimes exceeding the value of the property" - http://www.aclu-tn.org/civil-asset-forfeiture.html
I like to use single line URLs in a number of circumstances, particularly email and IRC. While some URLs can be trimmed (excessively long Amazon or eBay URLs for instance), others just need a URL shortener, and I'd prefer to use one I control.

I used to run a public one but it was getting abused for spam so I stopped.
Interesting fact in the linked page:

"Looking at data since the 1920s, the U.S. advertising industry has always been about 1 percent of U.S. GDP. It’s surprisingly consistent, mostly tracking between 1 percent and 1.4 percent—and averaging 1.29 percent."
I agree. All my interest in the platform (mobile in general) dried up when I realized people really wanted free, and the way to monetize that path was rife with dark patterns. I don't like playing games like that, why would I want to make one?
Does anyone else think its time to move away from Bluetooth and start over with a new wireless protocol? No network or serial or other protocols, just good full duplex high quality audio (with encryption and authentication). It just seams that we are having too many issues with the Bluetooth protocol and everything around it. Maybe a fresh start would be good?
That first paragraph almost made me stop reading.
Hmm, interesting question. I would say it's just rarer to make a sustainable business from it with no experience and existing users today, because you have no room for error or experimentation.

For example it took us 5 failures before we figured out what worked. Unless you're rich or have very understanding investors, you just won't get 5 opportunities to fail today.

Despite that, I still think anyone can make it to a sustainable small studio if they understand the app store market and their demo and have the resources to execute their plan.
Agreed with most of your points. I commented elsewhere in here, but a lot of their options here seem somewhat hinged on implementing better tracking (which , which seems to go against their brand promise of anonymity.

How do you see their recent policy updates[1] in this context?

[1] http://marketingland.com/snapchat-changed-terms-service-priv...
Algorithmic decisions aren't made in vacuum. These decisions are made via human inputs which may be biased.
Because browsers have a UX for certs that's designed around the common/high-risk case e.g. average users going to banking websites, and deliberately terrible UX for self-signed certs.

Compare with SSH, which prompts to save the fingerprint on first connect, and warns loudly if the fingerprint changes. This is a superior way to handle self-signed certificates.
> Sentences are not, generally, based on law and precedent.

Yes, they are.

> Within a wide range, sentences are heavily dependent on judges' discretion and ad-hoc and unscientific consideration of various factors.

Whether that's true in any particular jurisdiction for any particular offense is, itself, a matter of law (including case law or precedent.) Under the federal system, while there are a possibility of departures -- and which departures are allowed is also a matter of law and precedent -- sentences tend to tightly follow the federal sentencing guidelines (which are a law) as well as being bound by the specific criminal statute under which a sentence is issued, so sentences are very much prescribed by law and precedent.
Out of curiosity, what did you do instead of developing for Apple platforms?
> Judges often complain about sentencing requirements in the law

The laws, e.g. the U.S. sentencing guidelines, give you a pretty wide range for any given scenario.

> I'm pretty sure judges look carefully at other sentences for similar crimes and criminals (precedent)

Not really, at least not formally. Within the guideline range, it's mostly about extenuating or aggravating circumstances unique to the case, not a comparison with other similar cases.

> and I know many courts use formulas that consider past convictions and other factors in determining a sentence.

The sentencing guidelines do use formulas (add X points for prior criminal history, add Y points for amount of money stolen). That doesn't mean they're not totally ad-hoc and unscientific.

Here are the federal sentencing guidelines for larceny, theft, etc: http://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2015-guidelines-manual/archiv.... E.g. if the amount lost was between $200,000 and $400,000, you add 12 points to the score. If it involved more than 250 victims, you add 6 points.

There is no science or rigor here. Just the drafters of the guidelines picking round numbers of dollars for one column and increasing the other column two levels at a time. What purpose does it serve to sentence someone differently based on whether they stole $350,000 or $450,000? And what impact does the difference in sentences have on things we care about: deterrence, recidivism, etc? It doesn't: It's quackery. It adopts the pretense of science without being in any way scientific.
Show HN: An interesting game made by using UIViewPropertyAnimator API and UIKit
> [...] and the judge's reasoning is explained openly in the published legal opinion.

Published opinions are exceptional, rather than normal, for trial courts.
> We don't want new ghettos where police are afraid to go. Supposedly there are such in Europe now.

Do you have any examples please?
So wait, do you reject the possibility that this situation couldn't be the exact same as the one in the past? It seems like you're saying, "Yes, genetics was not an acceptable answer then, but it is now."

If that is what you're saying, then what makes it different now?
If you don't mind the risk of false positives (detecting changes that are legitimate), you can get that information from

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-p...
"Our algorithm has determined that having a username of socalnate1 means you will likely re-offend. Oh, but you don't know that because we keep the algorithm secret."
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