skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an extremely "average" height guy, height has been one "human variable" that has always confused me - anecdote after anecdote after anecdote from both proclamations from women, professional sports, and more importantly, our(Western) culture in general have made height seem to be the most important physical trait in a male; yet this article, along with actual research have time and time again either demonstrated this to not be the case[0] or relatively mixed [1] in preference.

Anecdotally, the answer to the article seems to be "yes" due to selective pressures, but the data suggests otherwise.

[0] (meta study) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277695/

[1] http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ebs/7/2/121.pdf&productCode=...
Can you please link to an analysis (or something) of the specific traces that were apparently left behind?
Apple MacBook vs. HP Spectre: How Thin Does Your Laptop Really Need to Be?
Buying is cheaper than building in many, many cases, particularly when it requires a userbase.
Just because you see Teslas and recognize them doesn't mean others do.

Also California is Tesla's home turf, not really a good example for the country or the whole addressable market.
>What if you know it won't be (such as a condition of the offer being incompatible with a prior contract you know about on the other side)

I'm pretty sure that's intent to commit fraud.

ANAL, ANA-Finance Guy.
I'm pretty sure the "intent" is the important part here if the primary purpose of a financial move is to manipulate the market that's where you start getting into trouble.
Making a non-sincere offer and publishing it in order to create media traction that would have a major impact on the market can quite possibly be illegal.

That said if the offer was intentionally non-sincere only an idiot would publish it as part of the PR, 30% premium on a stock however seems to be a pretty sincere and good offer to me tho.
[citation needed]

Lobbying from these industries players for bad regulation might have helped but regulation is usally nothing bad. I'm happy in EU knowing that most stuff I can buy is at least to some degree vetted for killing me.
Wait are the tumors learning? This headline is a tad confusing.
If Solar City was profitable, they would be making money.

Not losing $300 Million / quarter.

Musk has lots of work to do for sure.
Turn the data into eBay auctions?
The thing that disturbs me about this argument is that IMHO it's a slippery slope towards "back in my day, we didn't have this new-fangled stuff". We have to be extremely careful that our arguments have more substance than that. That requires a lot of introspection, to be honest.

See, my grandparents worried that the new technology that my parents grew up with would somehow make them dumber (growing up with radio, parents getting television); my parents' generation worried that the technology we grew up with would be bad for us (too much computer, too much gaming, too much Internet). The upcoming generation of parents will grow up wondering whether VR and AR is going to ruin their kids' chances.

Yet kids ALWAYS adapt. They don't view smartphones or tablets as anything particularly out of the ordinary. It's just their ordinary. I'm certain their brains will build on top of this foundation. That's the thing - brains are extremely adaptable. All of us adapted.

There's a term for this worry - it's called 'Juvenoia':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0x7ho_IYc

http://time.com/19818/whats-really-wrong-with-young-people-t...

Now, I'm not saying that this is a discussion that shouldn't be had - it certainly should. I just think we all need to be mindful about where our concerns might be coming from.
I would like to have the option to enable the head flying.

Dying (in game) is supposed to be at least a bit unpleasant, and something to be avoided.
Where is ice cream marked as vegetarian? I have never seen a label. I also never saw gelatin as a listed ingredient in ice cream
I think many of us have probably felt the temptation, but please do realize, you are building a reputation over time, and it is probably best to be remembered as someone who acts like a professional. If you work in the Bay Area, it is really common to reconnect with past co-workers years later at a different company.
Well, when the zombie apocalypse happens relying on the grid is unsustainable.

But in reality, there are also transmission losses (which I think are actually quite small when you have high voltage) when you produce energy away from where you use it.
I'm from Cincinnati and have lived here my entire life.

Much of the area formerly referred to as OTR remains unsafe after dark. In addition to the gentrification, they've also successfully rebranded "OTR" to just be considered to be the 2 streets (Race and Vine between Central and Liberty if you're looking at a map) that are revamped.

The remainder of what used to be called OTR is still derelict buildings, soup kitchens, and other obvious signs of a blighted area.
Even if it hadn't resulted in a rash of sexual assaults in the security/privacy community, much of the advice in this post about avoiding rock star dynamics would be well taken. Rockstarism is a scourge in software security. It's probably bad everywhere it crops up, including the music industry.
Interesting idea. Not that crowd driven investment algorithms are new, but I have not seen a machine learning one before.

What really ennoys me about this kind of businesses is that they pay tiny prices and shut the competitions once they have found what they were looking for, however Numerai might be completely different in that regard and I wish them the best!

Btw: The article kind of conveys the feeling as if machine learning is something new to the hedge fund business and that's absolutely not the case. There are already smart people working on really complex algorithms since a couple of years now.
More people should learn how to run a mailserver, if only to better make decisions about when to outsource and when to keep inhouse.
Releasing additional documents, though, brings more media attention to this hack, which might otherwise pass under the radar.
Evaluator; Parsers too. Prolog is an amazing idea (even with its limitation). But when you come from the bit array banging side of computer programming it's such an alien idea.
Political parties use to choose the nominees in smoke filled rooms. I don't find this at all surprising. Sanders spent a long term as an 'independent', so why should people whom he never supported or campaigned for, and never helped out, want to support him, and not the most popular candidate in their network, who has spent a political career building alliances?

Political parties exist for a reason, and that reason is not to run complete unbiased open primaries so that anyone may call themselves a party member and get unbiased support of the party.

Parties are biased, there's nothing surprising about that. Both Sanders and Trump are in effect, third party candidates, running campaigns trying to usurp the existing two parties into pouring support into their campaign, because third party runs don't work.
I would say the idea is, you're not dependent on the grid. You can use it, you can contribute to it, and the grid is still a necessary part of the energy ecosystem (along with fossil fuels), but renewables mean a sub-ecosystem is tolerant to interruptions at the grid level and may even be able to operate completely independently.
No - up to date iOS on iPhone 5s.
And that is a really good question. The interesting thing about this paper is it points out that prior to a glacial period there is a rise in temperature. The onset of ice ages appears to be much more rapid than the onset of warming.

This was one of the ideas used in the "Day After Tomorrow" movie, although soundly criticized for presenting a very short time frame change into an ice age, that an overly warm earth can trigger a transition into an ice age is not unheard of. Lots of time questions about time frame and mechanism.

I lost the paper I read that was suggesting the mechanism was water vapor (a pretty important green house gas) which as the planet warmed the air carried more vapor which hits critical mass, turns into a nearly permanent covering layer of clouds in the upper atmosphere, which then causes water at lower altitudes to precipitate out as snow. Sort of a self induced nuclear winter type scenario.

The key conclusion of the paper is that the system responds in a non-linear way. That makes predicting its behavior with models like the one IPCC uses very challenging.
It isn't what you know, but a a picture of the eye that will serve as the password, or the hashed picture of the eye.

The result is a password you don't know, but one the app or the bank can leak that you cannot change. Thus, this lowers security.
This is really disingenuous. The poor people left long before the transformation started because there was no where for them to live. The housing collapsed pushed most of the land lords out of business and the buildings were left vacant. The article itself says the population of the neighborhood fell to under 5,000, in a city of 300,000.

Most of the buildings in the neighborhood were empty and collapsing. Renovating the dilapidated building and infrastructure and bringing in new tenants is what seems to have had the biggest impact.
Your opinion is colored by the fact that you really want to hate vegetarian meat, as is seen by calling it "inedible" when in reality is is merely different and bland.
Table-oriented programming needs more tables and less code. Think spreadsheets, and systems with functional boxes interconnected by lines. Examples are LabView and Blender game programming.

Incidentally, the box with all the knobs is an art piece by Miller Levy, not a functional device. Here's the original.[1]

[1] http://www.millerlevy.com/
The point wasn't that I recognize Tesla's, but that Tesla's are a part of daily life in numerous places (see that 50% of the locations I mentioned are not, in fact, in California), whereas I have never interacted with SolarCity nor anyone else who has interacted with them. The point is that it's a very, very reasonable assumption that Tesla is more likely to be known by the average person than SolarCity.
I prefer the information density on the old web version and don't like the inline images. I'm mainly on subs where it's just text.
You're missing the point. The original question (and hence my answer) isn't about whether or not it is a good idea to use finalizers. I'm merely pointing out that both in the case of RAII and a GC, only the lifetime of memory allocated is being managed. Not the resource contained in it. They use different mechanisms to let the developer deal with the resource. In the case of RAII the time at which clean up code is executed is deterministic (destructors), whereas with a GC, it is not (finalizers). Said mechanism, can be implemented, should a language choose to, regardless of whether or not the underlying memory allocation scheme is automatic (GC). (IDisposable is mostly a made up thing that C# has syntactic sugar for, that lets developers eagerly release resources (other than memory) when they're done with it. My point is, neither the language nor the runtime makes any effort to enforce its usage, like it does in the case of memory allocation.)
It wasn't the "don't build security" that was the attack. It was "be a good boy and tell us who you are so we're protected from your incompetence" that I'm taking issue with.

I think it's particularly unfair seeing as your original reply to me was so brief that I missed the crucial point. Anyhow, we're done here.
Because knowing how they worked through the decision to come to a conclusion on using a particular product is valuable.

Postgres is usually the first choice for applications like this so knowing why they chose something else over that could influence others that need to make a similar decision.
I wish someone would hack major news organizations, especially FoxNews, so that we can see the extent to which the news organizations collaborate and act on behalf of the political parties and donors.
I wrote about 4 versions of this comment before settling on this one. I did so with developer tools open, just to make sure that no data was being transferred as I did (nope looks like Hacker News is safe at least).

I think this may become standard practice for me. Actually, if somebody makes (or knows of) a simple browser extension that simply alerts me of when I'm sending data to the server, I'd use it.
Refugees in Greece need internet – stop riot to let WiFi guys work
One possible opportunity for a 'solist' could be so-called DevOps positions. They are often structured more as a group of loosely cooperating people working on independent tasks. You will get a lot more say in HOW you do things vs a traditional software development team. You will of course have to deal with doing Operations like work in addition to the development (how much vary a lot based on the company/job).

This is where I've ended up due after many years as a software developer at start-ups because you can land a more stable job that pays better while not being driven crazy by micro-management.
Efficient syntax for set operations and enabling and exposing relational algebra as simple constructs usually simplifies code (I do lot of data transforms at work). It does not require fancy constructs, just starting from the fact that a large category of programs can be expressed succintly with relational algebra and then implementing the clearest and most succint code to implement it.
I think the larger issue is why do we stubbornly try to make one thing taste like another?

For the same reason that people use birth control instead of abstinence: People like to "have their cake and eat it too." If we can get the part of something we value minus some downside we deem undesirable, we are all over it.
Literal grid operators are sometimes quite hostile to residential solar installations feeding energy back into the grid. So "the grid" is equivalent to buying 3rd party energy rather than generating it renewably yourself and the term refers to whatever mix of energy generation plants happen to be supplying it at the time.
With the surge of popularity of bacon, there are a lot of pigs being brought to market. Any part of the pig that isn't bacon ends up being cheap because supply/demand.
...stuck with outdated technology.

The retail price of electric power basically never decreases. Therefore, if a solar purchase makes sense today, it won't be regretted later. If it doesn't make sense, i.e. because the cost of financing the loan is greater than the projected savings on electricity spending, then it would be reasonable to wait for higher-performance panels.
If you use others' technology platforms to commit crimes, don't cry about it when it's all turned over to the feds.
fingerprints are usernames, not passwords: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
As mentioned in the article, another company Beyond Meat makes some products which are currently available in some stores. Their website has a locator for which stores carry them.
Milankovitch cycles are thought to be a major factor, by everyone from climate scientists to oil companies (who have refined the history of these cycles exquisitely to help identify petroleum in particular rock units deposited during rising or falling sea levels).

Another, much longer term factor (tens to hundreds of millions of years) has to do with the positions of the continents on earth, which affects how well ice can be stored. If there is considerable landmass near the poles and it's cold, then ice sheets can form, which increase the amount of reflected solar radiation (albedo) and decrease the amount of heat stored in the oceans (which have less volume due to ice sheet storage, and because sea level falls, the warm shallow seas that hold a lot of heat are much smaller). This can help cooling feedbacks. When the continents are arranged such that there is little polar landmass, these situations are reversed which leads to heating.
So, when a bank leaks my fingerprint, I can just get a new one right?
> I'm assuming the acquisition of the original cells is not done at all kindly, (as in, I suspect the animal doesn't survive it), and that this is done many, many times before they perfect the process

I was sort of under the impression it's animal stem cells, which doesn't necessitate death on the part of the animal (although I'll give you it's probably likely, to easy harvesting in some way). Like human stem cells, they aren't consumed entirely in use, which is good since US law precludes any new lines of stem cells in research[1]. There are 279 approved lines of cells in the US, but most researchers just use two or three lines. They just culture more cells from that line when they need them.

Well, it's only hypothetical in that it costs far too much at the moment, but if if trends continue from the extremely small dataset I've seen[2], we're seeing a 60% drop in price per year. If it's $18k a pound now, it should be under $10 a pound in 15 years (which might match the cost of beef with inflation by then). So, count on it in 15 years. Totally scientific. ;)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem-cell_line#Access_to_human...

2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/lab-g...
I think something like this was a plot point in the recent novel 'Ghost Fleet', portraying a high-tech non-nuclear war between China and the US.
Disable javascript? At least HN works without it.
some inspirations in this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11932417
WiFi is their phone line back to home and relatives around the world.
Can you clarify on the "pay tiny prices and shut the competitions once they have found what they were looking for" comment? Has this happened before? Is there anything here that makes it seem like this wouldn't be the case here?
It's just a hunch but I suspect that induced demand[1] works similarly in the housing market as it does with traffic, at least for otherwise desirable areas like Los Angeles/Southern California.

"Build more housing" will tend to make developers very wealthy while doing relatively little to reduce rents or property prices, just like "build more roads" doesn't help traffic.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
> fingerprints are usernames, not passwords

While the article you linked to points out correctly why they aren't good as passwords, they also aren't good as usernames (though they may be good as an alternative by which a username is looked up, with a fallback to using the real username), since they can be destroyed.
No doubt. Parties are allowed whatever method they choose to select their nominee, including the party elites backing a popular insider.

However, we shouldn't confuse that with a democratic process. We should also recognize that such actions by the DNC would contradict their public statements to the contrary, that they intend to remain completely neutral in the primary process.

If the situation were as you claim, then the parties would not have much of an argument against stronger, populist 3rd parties, because the 2 candidates served to the voters in the General Election would no longer reflect a representative choice of American voters.
In elementary school we had philosophy classes, some got filmed for a documentary about it. It's all in french though, but I remember some very existential questions got asked (mostly once we got slightly older, I remember discussing life and death as well as suicide). Obviously we had never been taught anything about fallacies and critical thinking in general, but the simple exercise of open minded dialogue was pretty great for forming curious kids and we asked ourselves pretty deep questions.
I pity the provincial world you love in where nobody can tolerate a departure from slabs of meat. It's such a rural American perspective, alien to most of the world.

It beggars belief that you claim to be related to a vegetarian and you think that kids subsist on tofu, or even that meals are a major part of kids hanging out. Kids eat chips and pizza and pasta, all of which is vegetarian.
SolarCity was making their own "gigafactory" in Buffalo, NY last I heard - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600770/10-breakthrough-te...
They won't 100% be on AWS, but probably close to 95%. Netflix owns its own media CDN.
TFA has the same problem the Drake equation has in general. We lack the insight to judge whether -24 is a reasonable exponent. Why shouldn't it be -35, or any other number?
Personally, I find these miss one of the key points.

Today, we can kill everyone off with an exchange of the already existing nuclear weapon inventory. But that requires a reasonably large number of people to make mistakes or take action.

We're in the process of killing everyone off by screwing up the natural climate process which requires a large number of people to commit to inaction.

Within this century we will have the means and the understanding for a single individual to craft a DNA based pathogen that can infect and kill nearly everyone on the planet.

These are the three tests for graduation into the club of "long lived intelligent species." Fail any one of them and you don't make it. I call them:

* Action of the group
* Inaction of the group
* Action of the individual

We apparently passed test 1, we're not doing so well on test 2, and we'll have to be a lot better at eradicating hate in individuals if we want to have a hope of passing test #3.
A while ago someone posted an encyclopedia of kinematic mechanisms[1], and it made me wonder how many of them could be used as well-tested analogs of not yet implemented algorithms.

[1] http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/model.php
> We find that as long as the probability that a habitable zone planet develops a technological species is larger than ∼10^−24, humanity is not the only time technological intelligence has evolved.

I wonder how they turn a statement based on a probability into a statement that is an absolute truth (no probabilities involved).
What benefit would it be using tape over the jack hole? The built in mic I could understand. But, surely it wouldn't work unless something was plugged in? Or is it a reminder to himself and yo prevent him from pluging in headphones with inline microphone? Genuinely curious.
Some meat eaters and conformists in general have a bizarre insecurity that causes them to invent elaborate just-so stories to explain how anyone who is different from them.
It's fraud to offer someone a deal you know they aren't allowed to accept? It might be fraud to let it go through with prior knowledge, but if you clued them in that they shouldn't do so before hand, then I'm not sure how you could be found at fault for someone else's breach of contract.

It's probably only distinguished by whether you admit your intention was to never have the deal succeed, or claim that you came by the knowledge, or at least the understanding, after the initial offer.
The new version of the mobile web app has this issue too, where comments take ages to load. Older phone but 4g too.
>The threat of a physical altercation is a good check on people who don't seem to get that, yes, you are causing problems for other people.

Charming. Let's all try to solve problems by being kindergarten bullies.

This is what happens when you raise a generation of kids with nothing but the WWF for role models.
> Where is Tesla a household name?

https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/444228348319784960
If you are leaving something on a server for someone else to pick up then that information will be saved and logged.

That information might be deleted eventually if they are not asked to do otherwise.

Wasn't Facebook at one point bragging about their data-mining efforts on "unposted" wall-posts?

What I notice most in this article is that it mentions NSA and not GCHQ but the article says that the investigation started from the UK's SOCA.
A section of Yahoo's recent filing, in which the company writes that drafts of an email can remain on Yahoo's servers even though the user deleted the final draft.