skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the other commenters that there are plenty of people working on Scala (and arguably odersky is a much better researcher than he is a maintainer) that I wouldn't worry about people maintaining/upgrading Scala.

I do think 2.12 (and 2.11 before it) either had unrealistically optimistic deadlines or suffer from poor project management. 2.12 has slipped by well over a year at this point, which is sad for frameworks like Spark which are going to stick to 2.11 for their next MV cycle.
It probably falls into the realm of safer than a piston powered R-22, but less safe that a multi engine turbine powered helicopter.
How is that different from one shot?
In journalism school we were taught that a headline should be concise and honestly convey the meaning of the story. We hadn't yet heard about the progress of clickbait.
Pretty close! The bigger problem is actually vetting the data for privacy concerns. The original foia request included some code to run a whois on each domain. Not a privacy concern since it's "just" metadata ;)

They also claimed that the burden wasn't worth the public interest, so I pasted in some unsolicited HN comments from folks supporting my work.

I find out tomorrow if it worked.
Haha, not even close. Besides the obvious low pressure issues with surviving in a vacuum that cause the membrane to become permeable, "electricity" doesn't replace all metabolism for these organisms.

They still need a source of the common and rare elements required for life (CNOP + several metal cations), a pool of hydrogen, carbon electron donors, and water. Basically on par with stuff that most microbes are going to use.

The metallic reduction reaction that the first species discussed uses:
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Dissimilatory_metal...

And for the second, which absorbs Hydrogen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenotroph

This is a cool area of research, but everyone seems to have fundamentally overestimated what it means to the lay person.
Could the U.K. tech boom survive Brexit?
Well...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1le3if/so_i_discove...
Soundcloud Discover
I had a panel in mind, not an entire conference (we had a similar discussion in Germany a year or two ago about all-male panels). I got them mixed up for some reason.

-- edit --

I just remembered something; wasn't there a post going around the web some time ago about a woman (in Britain?) who got her talk accepted (in some sort of academic setting?) because she's a woman and not because of her talk and she didn't know that this kind of thing was going on and got really upset about it when she found out? Might be interesting to look at the situation from her angle as well. (Interesting to those of you who didn't read her story back then.)
Aren't amongst peers? I mean I get the concern about gender imbalance, really I do, but to feel that someone is a 'peer' in a professional context really shouldn't require identical genital configurations, surely?
What I find interesting about this is the way it contrasts to Russia's use of comment trolls. While Russia uses their trolls to degrade the quality of all internet discourse (tragedy of the commons as a feature?), the US would rather exploit the implicit partial trust relationship that is assumed of purportedly real people discussing things.

Or, maybe I just perceive them differently because of how they're reported.
There are occasional random security screening for trains. Amusingly you can choose to decline them and not board, which makes it even more of a theatrical display than usual. I guess it's for the terrorists who want to get caught?
I get Chomsky's point about the importance of fundamental models and understanding in principle, but I'm confused why it should apply to machine learning.

The problem with Chomsky's knowledge based approach is that it seems to be domain specific. You can learn the fundamentals of music but you can't apply it to physics. You can learn the fundamental mechanics of weather but you can't apply it to psychology etc..

General learning though requires exactly that and there the statistical model seems to be much better because it doesn't run into the domain problem.
It's also easier to stop a train, get off a train, or prevent collateral damage in case of malice/accident. Survivors are also a lot more likely if there is an accident, mostly because of gravity.
The last couple pages of the aforementioned paper give some thoughts on that. The author suggests an approach more like engineering that is focused on formalized mathematical descriptions of biological systems.
They conducted airflow tests in order to understand and model how airborne material would spread. They didn't conduct bioterror research.
Blix
Blix allows you to discover what's going on nearby, like parties, protests, and food trucks. Share moments with everyone within a few miles - not just your friends. Download blix on iOS at http://goblix.it - an Android version is coming soon
>That's the most interesting point to me, I deeply believed that organisms share the same basic set of genes.

this seems to support the idea that instead of evolving from a single ancestral life form, all beings were created with care

edit: or at least would seem to support the weaker assertion that singl life form ancestry evolutionary theory is inaccurate.

if this is logically incorrect please feel free to tell my why. downvotes are not for disagreement!
You might want to add the best kind of "investor" to the mix: a really large, patient and interested customer. They might understand they are underwriting 1.0 with a large check and work with you closely on tailoring the system.

Their incentive is to get the service to themselves as quickly as possible hitting all their required features.

The downside is that they may insist on over-fitting the solution to their particular needs.
Show HN: Blix - Discover what's going on nearby, like parties and food trucks
Great intro! I went on coffee tastings and tours in Seattle last time I visited and the head to head comparison between brews was a great way to train my pallet on the different flavor profiles. Treating it much like wine tasting has been a very enjoyable experience, so far. My wife is a sommelier, so that approach has come naturally.

Anyone have recommended books on coffee tasting? I read the history book, 'uncommon grounds' but it didn't really scratch my itch...
Relevant Research:

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/06/095679761456...

Edit: Free Link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441622/
Quantum computer makes first high-energy physics simulation
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952046 and marked it off-topic.
Former Apple manager explains why he couldn't deal w company’s secrecy anymore
> You are whats wrong with the world.

Oh dear. Comments like this are definitely not allowed on Hacker News. Please (re-)read the site guidelines and don't post anything else like this!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11948642 and marked it off-topic.
Why Gun Control Can't Be Solved in the USA
It looks like vertical splitting will work in addition to tabs on each split... I wouldn't mind seeing VS-style horizontal split within a file... Although I try to keep my files under 100 or so lines, I often have to work with existing code that's far larger in a single file.
It's still widely believed in Russia (more for the anti-American sentiment than particular veracity of the claim).
Powerless plane makes parachute landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQyrPVIIQdE
Oneshot is great for sharing a snippet of an article via Twitter. Blink is aimed at everything else, providing a way to share content from any app anywhere.
Hey if you've got suggestions. :)

Previously I had an Airport Extreme that was fantastic but didn't have UPnP which is more or less required to make our two XBoxes work. Right now I have a DD-WRT Buffalo N300 in front, with the Airport running most of the network and the wifi behind it. So far that's been the best solution.
Which is exactly why 'manned UAV' makes no sense.
Stripe launches native support for taxes and shipping
The United States has traditionally had rather poor governance, and that has not materially impacted our tech sector.

Furthermore, I don't think California is the most business friendly state in the union, but that has clearly not suppressed it's technological supremacy.
You can't put the headline in there before it's been published, whereas you can put any date you like.
That's probably what they were. I was trying to remember exactly, since that was over 6 years ago, and I've never had to use vi like that before or since.
It’s time for transparency in the US lethal drone program
If you are OK with building it yourself, you could do this with an ESP8266, a USB to serial cable, a solid state relay, a power brick, and some miscellaneous things like a power cord and a socket (and ideally some case to put all this in for safety).

The ESP8266 is a micro controller with built in WiFi and network stack and a serial interface, and several digital I/O pins you can use to interface to other things.

Various vendors sell small modules that couple an ESP8266 with some flash memory to hold your code. These often come with built in firmware that provides a serial interface similar to the old modem "AT" interface, but with commands for WiFi. There is a free SDK available for programming the thing in C/C++. There are several firmware replacements available. There is one that brings the Arduino environment to the ESP8266. There is one that offers MicroPython. There is one that offers Lua.

A solid state relay is a four terminal device. Two terminals are the control terminals, and two are the load terminals. Put a specified voltage across the control terminals, and the devices acts like a closed switch between the load terminals. If the control voltage is below the specified level, the device acts like an open switch between the load terminals. A typical SSR can handle AC voltage on the load terminals of well over what any standard household or office uses. The control voltage is typically around 3-30 V to close the virtual switch, which a logic one in a 3.3 V system (like the ESP8266) falls within, so you may be able to control the SSR directly from an ESP8266 I/O pin. (But you'd need to check the specs for the relay and make sure it doesn't require more current than the pin provides. If it does you might have to toss in a transistor to drive the relay).

This would be a good first project to get started in micro controllers or IoT or home automation or home sensing.
To be fair, you were not rigorous enough to call that a proof and I think you know that. So there's really no point in arguing semantics here, it's just giving maths a bad look.
Sure, they're getting better, but only with big name manufacturers like Google.

Go to your local home depot and look at all the home automation stuff. Its all no-name garbage and the stuff I recognize still aren't getting things right (all the QA problems with the nest, the documented security issues with garage door openers, everything relaying on the OEM's servers to keep things running with no fallback or no non-cloud options, etc).
After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here’s Why
The satellites themselves aren't that interesting; the cool part is supposed to be 20 at a time
Why not a distributed, not for profit, crypto, gawker?

No one can stop wikileaks or the Pirate Bay.
Author of Scala macros here. Here's a recent discussion on the future of macros in the brave new world of Dotty: https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/4our5m/keynote_scala....
Google Gets Practical about Dangers of AI
Well primarily because I wouldn't take VC money anyway, too much pressure to grow too fast. I'd rather have a company that lives and dies on it's own.

Second because I'm not at all a hardware guy.

Thirdly I'm not at a point where I feel entrepreneurial yet, I don't have enough experience.

Lastly I'm incredibly lazy.
That's an important point. Time horizons can substantially alter how investors view their investments. For the most part, though, early stage companies are raising from investors who should be planning on long holding periods.
I posted this because I am mainly concerned about:

>According to data gleaned from the Java Community Process (JCP) by Java community members associated with Java EE Guardians—a Java EE advocacy group that includes Java's principal creator, Dr. James Gosling—progress on Java EE 8 virtually halted following the JavaOne conference in October 2015.

How sensitive could the Java market be to Oracle deciding to stop (or significantly slow) development of Java?

The Java market seems to be quite big, but since in the end it seems to depend on one company, could the Java language/market be at peril of becoming irrelevant like it happened to say Delphi?
Tesla strategy behind offer to buy Solar City
Introducing the Trello App for Slack
Is that a problem that anyone shipping products built with Qt is actually running into, though?

Yeah, it's a GUI App Framework, not a GUI library. Yeah, it would be hard for 2-3-4-5 App Frameworks to co-exist. But how often would that ever come up? Frameworks, unlike libraries, aren't intended to be mix-and-match. Complaining about that is like complaining that water is wet.
Gives the police something to do other than ticket bicyclists for riding slightly outside the blocked bike lane.
This criticism of the way biologists/geneticists/biochemists approach problems is I think quite misguided and misunderstands both limitation of testing things you can't manipulate with your bare hands, and how subtractive (take stuff out, see what happens) methods fit into the larger process of biological inquiry.

First, when you can't manipulate things directly, it becomes more difficult to tweak systems slightly to learn how they work. This is especially true if you start with something made from things you don't understand, and for which you may not even have a complete catalog. The radio paper raises some issues and acknowledges these challenges, but then sort of glosses over them, saying, "it's complicated, but that's just because we don't understand and don't use the right language."

Second, biologists don't just use subtractive methods, they try to use additive approaches to complement and test the hypotheses that come out of "it's broken when I take this bit out." Biochemists also try to reproduce complex behaviors by mixing only the purified components of the system in question. Biochemists and biophysicists also often measure very precisely physical and chemical properties to mathematically define the behavior of biological components.

The point is biology is hard, and we barely know anything about it. We have to start with simple experiments that point us to what's important and then progressively do better defined experiments to figure out how it works in detail. The next step here is: now that we know what proteins are important, let's figure out how they work exactly. We couldn't have gotten there before trying to knock out as many parts as possible.

TL;DR: this isn't the wrong approach, it's the right one, and given the limitations of the system, realistically the only one we have at this stage. It's also only the first step, now we get to try other approaches on what we've learned.
While politics isn't core to hn, there's been some discussions on how it relates to business, work/life balance and startups. While this article is written with slightly rose-tinted glasses - it's one of the better ones I've read that try and contrast what's actually different with the Nordic model, and the US model.
I think the paper is slightly too opinionated but remember it was 1995. No stm in haskell yet. No .net or javar threading libraries. (Ok... first version of java just released.) I wonder what nice abstractions existed then?

Perhaps the papers view was balanced for its time. Also maybe context switching was super expensive on a 286 or whatever was available then.

Windows and I believe Linux use message loops for UI and do fine. You can use callbacks for up bound stuff. Probably ok for a lot of applications.
Government systems are subject to FOIA requests and thus should not contain any data that is considered 'private'. A sane law would tell them "too bad, so sad, it's public now"
>> But isn't that the nature of scientific hypotheses?

I guess scientists don't guess completely at random though, do they? They use some sort of heuristics, or their instinct (I've no idea what is, no) to decide which hypotheses are worth pursuing.

Most statistical models aren't very good at taking background knowledge like that into account. Not to mention most are also sensitive to "noise" (which is to say, useful information that they can't make use of).
If you are interested in RTOS (real-time OS) courses I recommend checking edX for the expected September 2016 arrival date of a followup to this course:

edX course page: https://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-world-utau...

More information: http://edx-org-utaustinx.s3.amazonaws.com/UT601x/index.html

The excellent quality of the above course - which includes programming actual hardware (you have to invest about $50 for components) - raises the expectations for that upcoming course.

.

EDIT

The page is already up for the new course "Real-Time Bluetooth Networks - Shape the World":

https://www.edx.org/course/real-time-bluetooth-networks-shap...

> In this lab-based computer science course, explore the complexities of embedded systems and learn how to develop your own real-time operating system (RTOS) by building a personal fitness device with Bluetooth connectivity (BLE).

- Enhance your embedded system skills

- Write your own real-time operating system

- Design, develop and debug C code

- Implement a personal fitness device

- Communicate using Bluetooth

More info: http://edx-org-utaustinx.s3.amazonaws.com/UT601x/RTOS.html
It's absurd that an IoT device contacts a server hundreds of miles away when I'm inside my house turning on my lights via wifi.
I think it's the juxtaposition of "US government," "bioterror," and "NYC subway system" (i.e. place with lots of people) that collectively sort of create the expectation that the story is going to be about the government doing experiments that put a bunch of civilians at risk. I think there's also a certain expectation set by the fact that it is a news story that it's going to be a news story about something at least arguably bad that the government did.

I'm not sure that the headline is even clickbaity--don't know how I'd rewrite it. But I can easily see someone reading it to go to the story with an expectation of malice or at least stupidity.
Thoroughly enjoying following this. Please keep the videos and articles coming.
What do you think of this. I'm producing it:

https://www.facebook.com/kokonautweathersensors/

It's not using my network, but it's hackable enough that you can use it on your own network if you know how to flash it yourself.
Mainly, having account balances and arbitrary data storage, instead of bitcoin's unspent transaction outputs. See this article by Ethereum's inventor: https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/thoughts-on-utxo-by-vitalik-bu...

Also, having a convenient scripting language instead of dealing directly with opcodes, like you have to do on Bitcoin.
SMS Spoofing with Python for Good and Evil
It's just that it seems a bit unfair to decry (or place undue burdens upon) the vast majority of responsible alcohol drinkers because we've found a few people who have an unhealthy relationship with it.

Recognizing potential dangers is a far cry from saying that there's a risk of "losing the century" because of easy access to technology and entertainment, and it strikes me as rather belittling to the younger generation.

Millennials and their children are still humans, after all, and are just as intelligent, motivated, and adaptable as every generation before them.
We often forget that despite all the claims of NASA being a world space agency, the flag on the moon is an American one, not a UN one or a representation of some other world agency.

I completely agree that nationalism is horrible for something as important as space colonization. But make no mistake, unless we manage to form an international government before space colonization commences, there will be a scramble for space colonies, much like there was a scramble for colonies on earth.
Iris (GO web framework) faster than Nginx?
I experience crappiness in guitar tone that follows a very rigid weekly pattern. For instance, the rig reliably puts out amazing "mojo" Sunday evenings. Every Monday morning, there is something somewhat displeasing and blatty in the tone that cannot be EQ'd out.

High gain distortion are susceptible due to their nonlinearity. Any RF mixing in there gets modulated down into the audio band. I greatly improved the issue with ferrite beads, but not 100%.

Not all music equipment has good defenses against the ingress of RF. Shunt capacitors on inputs are often omitted, and series inductors are rarely used. The grounding isn't the best: often, unbalanced input and output jacks have ground connections to the audio circuit board, rather than to a Kelvin ground at the power supply. RF can get into the board via that path.
Sure, you can hate them all you want, but that doesn't change the stupidity of trying to pass laws that prevent people from participating in a market. Look how well the war on drugs is going.
Wait. US audiences == English-speaking, and English-speaking == US audiences?

By not using English, first of all, they're limiting which non-US audiences they can propogandize (for better or for worse).

Furthermore, not only is English not the only language used in the US, it's not even our OFFICIAL language! So they can impact US residences and Americans without using English at all. What an odd statement for them to make.
Yeah, Linux. mjg (pbuh) is a kernel hacker.
>Or as many female speakers as speakers called Steve?

Three is enough for a coven. After that, things get hairy very quickly. Disappointed this turned out to be a parody, it would be a marvellous and amusing thing to do.
https://www.huperwebs.nl/upload/screenshot-2016-06-22_15:24:...
This was not a guide. It was more like a bunch of notes.
The most recent CIDER should auto-inject those dependencies for you on cider-jack-in.
Not when your browser fork is re-purposed for something else almost entirely, like an inline image or documentation viewer. As I understand it, organisms often have novel uses for old tools.
> They found that not a single gene is shared across all of life

I think this is a pop-science misunderstanding of what the authors were trying to say. They couldn't find a single unique "minimal set" of genes- but there are genes that we know all organisms share, like the rRNA genes and homologous core ribosomal proteins. All organisms will also require some kind tRNAs and their genes from some source, even if the tRNA genes themselves are not highly homologously conserved.
Great move Branch
I think he's a Linux kernel developer.
The Nest generation of our store
Cool story, but it had absolutely nothing to do with my post. Save your rage for someone else.
Musk's rationale for this deal looks suspicious. Electric cars and electricity generation have very little synergy.

Musk is big owner in both. His relatives are involved with SolarCity. This looks like a attempt to boost SolarCity using Tesla's stock owners money.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/scty/interactive-chart?timefram...
Please don't respond to a bad comment by making a still worse comment. That just drags the thread down for everybody.