skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most antibiotics are naturally occurring biological compounds (besides things like sulfonamides). Given how little upside there tends to be for developing new antibiotics vs. the public good that new ones can bring for treating resistant bugs, this is one of the very few areas where I'm firmly in favor of allowing patent protection.
NYT can't go a single, off-topic article without crap-smearing Trump. When a media outlet covers a person 100% negatively, at what point does its readership begin to realize there may be a conflict of interest? Or does the collective cognitive dissonance take care of that all by itself?
At least if they'd kept their findings secret, researchers could independently be researching the same thing.

Now independent researchers won't want to touch lugdunin because they'll need to license the patent, however they won't know whether licensing the patent is worthwhile until they do their research. This will prevent further research, not encourage it.
What was your opinion of Microsoft in the 90s?
Here's a video of the exploit in action https://youtu.be/wpIJVWXsBBI?t=70
I agree a lot! I was pretty skeptical of the show, but the intro sequence really got me to sit down and give it a chance. It's really polished.
Ugh, seriously? I think the vast majority of people wouldn't use a password manager if it were that difficult to use, especially on mobile where typing a truly secure password with different casing and special chars is a PITA. Getting a phone with a fingerprint scanner to unlock my password manager has been the mobile feature that has had the most valuable impact on me in the past couple years.
Using different usernames/emails for different services is not a bad idea (particularly as a defense against untargeted attacks). But using a simple algorithm for generating passwords (ie pretty much any algorithm a human can remember) is playing with fire -- if an attacker can recover your generated passwords from just a few different services (via lucky crack from a db dump, or some site stored or transmitted or logged it in plaintext, or you were phished, or you created an account to try out someone's random mvp on a slapdash server that was already pwnd, etc), a human attacker will be able to figure out your username/password for all of your services. (And if we're not there already, it won't be too long before automated password crackers can do the same.)

Plus, from a practical standpoint, what do you do when a site forces you to change your password because they fear their password db has been compromised (or has asinine rules about your password being too long, or make you rotate your password every 90 days, or they change their domain name 5 times in 3 years)?
> College students are testing about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago.

That's terrifying, if true.
We started using Aurelia on a new project at work when it was very early beta and glad to see it made it to v1 before we really went to production with the project.

Developer experience has been excellent, with the obvious caveats that it has been a bit bumpy when code relocated to other packages or decomposed into individual libraries, docs have been a bit of a teething issue as well, but have largely found I that I haven't needed too much documentation as of late.

As sayem_ said, you will largely just be writing Javascript, not so much framework specific implementations, which is awesome. I've had mobile (iOS/Android) devs jump in and begin contributing straight away - that's awesome as well.

Community is the icing on the cake too. There's a really active Gitter community, but possibly to it's detriment at times. The simpler questions which would usually end up on StackOverflow are usually answered in Gitter instead, which has it's impacts (harder [read: impossible] to search, community looks small from SO perspective)

Looking forward to the future!
Like AOL. Yes, I agree!
I can either be charitable or accusatory :) It's not so obscure as to how one might run Xcode tools on another Unix-like OS. It's just illegal. Apple tightly controls their entire stack.
When I started watching it I was expecting some cringe-worthy 80s nostalgia panning, but it was very tasteful. The little universe they set up for themselves is taken very seriously.
I enjoyed Narnia, but found His Dark Materials unbearable. It's been a while since I read it, though, don't remember the specifics. The soul mate with animal spirit thing just seemed Christian to me - stunned that it is supposed to be an atheist book, as another comment mentioned.

So I am not opposed to religious art. A bit tired of the "chosen one" theme in fantasy, but other than that, I tend to just view it as an expression of human yearning.
Out of curiousity: what do the 5 string types do differently?
So do you have any good books to recommend, or not?
Composition of matter patents got a lot harder for naturally isolated compounds circa 2014. We'll see if it gets granted.

Having said that, a patent for general anti-biotic+matter is probably valid and it's unlikely that this compound will be used for much else.
One other tiny detail I noticed was that the text (and not just the red glowing title) flickered slightly as if you were watching a VHS.
That's what I said.

> Of course the bank has your PIN (or hashed PIN)

All the previous poster said was that the bank said they sent him a card with the same PIN. The bank can do this by storing PINs or hashed PINs.

As rrobukef noted, storing a PIN hashed offers little additional security as storing them unhashed because of the small number of unique PINS that are possible.
How many people have a Google account? (Eg because of Android phone, or gmail?)
Thanks for the reply. Interesting, I didn't think of this possibility.
I'd have to see a proper source for this. If it is actually true, there could be all sorts of explanations, like college being more competitive, expensive and harder to get into.
Shouldn't advertisers be more interested in size of unit relative to screen?
It's pretty trivial to apply these signals to nearly any collectivist social movement.

It's certainly trivial when you cherry-pick three phrases out of a 5000+ word essay.
The first time I saw a company town was in Baja and it was a gypsum mine. Oddly colorful place given everything was coated in the white powder.
Actually "lead" has many, many more than two distinct senses.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lead
Are you sure about that? I would think that the patent wouldn't apply to non-commercial investigations or research. That is you would be free to synthesize or extract this chemical in a laboratory environment. However, if you wished to manufacture the drug for commercial purposes then you would need to license the patent.
"Who brings the most value to the company" is the most utterly loaded question ever.

Companies are complex systems with many moving parts and team dynamics. If a new feature gets released, do you attribute incremental revenue to the dev who coded it, the product manager who specified it, the sales team who sold it, the marketers who described it, the executives who hired the people who did any of the things above, etc?

Bottom line: "value creation" is a totally sociological construct having more to do with the organization's culture (who's most highly valued) than any objective metric of "value add". You need to be in a place where the people empowered to make decisions about pay perceive that the work you're doing is valuable. No more, no less.
Life finds a way?
Indian Space Research Org has the lowest cost of launch, no market share
Interestingly, $700m of that purchase was in stock, with that stock now being worth about $3.2 billion after tomorrow's (assumed) price jump. That's going off of Dealbook's Facebook valuation tracker back in early 2012. Who knows of course how much of that stock was held on to up to this point, I suspect some made out extraordinarily well by keeping it.
>"As the owner and father of Vizio, I am very reluctant to let it go. But as the CEO and owner of the company, I know this is the right decision to make for our hard-working employees and loyal shareholders."

Why?
Alternatively, you can put your luggage entirely in a Pelican case, stick a firearm or equivalent (starter pistol, flare gun, AR-15 lower, etc.) in there, declare it, have the luggage inspected, and then use ASSA Abloy locks and fly with absolutely zero worries that someone will pilfer your valuables.
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Bingo.

If and when speed matters, ASIC beats a general-purpose CPU hands down, every time.
Also, separately, you need to consider BATNA [1]

If 10 guys all showed up on your door with a magic box that would give your business $100k in added shareholder value, you'd be rational to pay somewhere between 0 and $100k for it. The top end is determined by how much new value is added, but what you end up paying would have to do with how each person priced it -- if there were more of them, the thing would probably cost less unless the providers of it colluded.

Just keep in mind there's a push and a pull and, even if a factor adds a lot of value, it can be cheaper than a less-value-added one, because factor prices are set by supply and demand, not their relative value-added output (which can also depend on how well they're used, which is why some companies can pay so much better for exactly the same work as others)

(Which is really a broader recipe for success in business generally: figure out how to employ factors of production -- people, capital, etc -- more profitably than they cost to purchase in the relevant markets, and BAM, you've got a profitable company)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
Your use of "bent on" seems to suggest intent, I'm not sure if that's what you meant.

I think you would be hard pressed to find an application of technology (in normal human terms, not the uptight definition of "applied knowledge") that does not consume resources.

Electronics in particular consume electricity which must be generated and stored, as well as refined mining products. The production of these resources also consumes additional resources. Distribution and eventual disposal likewise. All of these at a greater rate than would be consumed absent electronics.

You might consider these costs worth the benefits of having these electronics. Or you might, if you're more careful, pepper "some" throughout the prior sentence. Many of the impacts could certainly be reduced, but almost none of them can be eliminated.

Making things has a cost, often a greater cost than not making them. Dismissing that as insufficiently narrow for discussion is either ignorant or dishonest.
I doubt it, but sometimes counter agents will want to see that (your real firearm) is unloaded and stowed in the proper kind of case (hard-sided - I use a very large Pelican).

More often than not, the TSA will want to hand-inspect firearm-containing baggage (with you present), and I couldn't say what they'd do if they didn't find the firearm in the bag they were breaking their routine to check.

Just buy a flare gun or a starter pistol and declare it if you don't want to or can't use the real thing.
Cool! Which coffee shop, just out of interest? (I'm in Oxford these days too)
1. Maybe. Quite probably. Who knows?

2. Do you want to find out for yourself?

3. Do you want to suffer the consequences if others find out for you?
This was my thought too.
Yes, I know, that is a pity. I didn't simplify anything though, I use all the vertices that the dataset gives me, the dataset is the problem here.
They do address other stuff. They have huge writes and needs better writes performance. Maybe not what you and I need, but hey, I suppose they know Uber needs better?

MySQL handles it differently than Postgres, and gives them better performance for their purpose (based on their experience/test). They were explaining it in the parlance of the terms that MySQL and Postgres. If those are buzzwords, then MySQL and Postgres are both created using buzzwords?

Their explanation is not perfect (for me, why do their datamodel needs massive updates?). But I wouldn't write it off as buzzwords and dismissing Postgres because of data corruption. There are a lot of other things they were trying to explain there.
> Google has a heavy stake in making sure the web runs great.

Google has a heavy stake in making sure people keep using Google.com and it's associated services.
Low content comment: I love that someone wrote this, because I was literally wondering if an article with this title would show up on HN.

Really cool typography (also a fantastic show). I know almost nil about the subject, but the title font also reminds me a lot of Friz Quadrata [1], the font famously used by Black Flag, which gives me another kind of 80s nostalgia.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friz_Quadrata
After which they began to think differently about that slogan.
String: Linked list of Char. Nice for teaching, horrible in every other aspects.
Text and lazy Text: modern strings, with unicode handling and so on.
ByteString and lazy ByteString: these are actually arrays of bytes. Used to represent binary data.
Because haskell is lazy by default, and sometimes you want strictness (mostly for performances), there are two variants of Text and ByteString, and going from one flavor to the other requires manual conversion.
And Apple never manufactured a single iPhone.

So?
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Some of the words defined like comonad were added merely because they're defined in the fantasy-land spec. It's all still a WIP so contributions or corrections are welcome.
It gives ulterior incentives. I don't think it aligns with the interests of this forum.
There's a few projects that use ES/lucene as a backend/datastore once the feature engineering is done, but I don't see models operating on the native indexes directly, maybe the format is too different from one-hot (after turning off stemming/stopwords and other info-losing steps)

http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Where-Search-Meets-Machin...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11876542
Some feedback...
Should be a one page resume. No wall of text as the interviewer will spend one minute looking at your resume and your need to grab their attention. Emphasize the skill set the particular job opening is looking for. Make it a short list of bullet points that are easy to read.

Don't list too many skills if your don't have in-depth experience. Each interviewer will pick a few from that list to quiz you and you are bound to fail if your have minimal experience. Keep only the ones you are most comfortable and proud about your accomplishments.

If you have good GPA or SAT scores then emphasize them.
Explains some things.
I still remember the very widespread arguments that were made before Facebook was heavily monetizing their platform/s: that they would make more money by charging subscription fees.

That turns out to have been false. They're getting $14.34 per year per user in the US, up ~50% over last year. There's no scenario under which they could match that with a subscription service (most people would never be willing to pay).

They're averaging $3.84 per user worldwide, up 38% over last year. You can't go around raising subscription fees by 40% or 50% per year on most of the world, but you can optimize delivering them advertising. You can boost ad rates by 50% without harming the user experience one bit.

The ad approach won again, easily.In Facebook it's going to end up producing another eventual $20+ billion annual profit money printing juggernaut ala Google. No subscription service in history has ever come close to accomplishing that sort of outcome, none ever will.
Plus, python's std lib is a mumbo jumbo of all sorts, there is no API coherence.
Haven't read her stuff myself, but a friend was enthusiastically recommending Margaret Atwood the other day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#Novels
yes, excellent point, agree. I run the scan regardless in case I'm dealing with the non-intelligent exploiter type ;)
Has LastPass ever subjected their code to a proper, outside security audit in a form tptacek would endorse?
Money. Don't be daft
Is this a general thing or a Go specific one? This generic statement seems to be false given how many optimizations that actually need assembly exist in Go and not only.
About that... Naaa.
While i appreciate diversity, this is non gonna happen...
Swift is too different to be a serious alternative
Tap link, opens App Store, tap to install, wants me to login but I can't switch to 1Password without cancelling and starting again, enter password, agree to something about TouchID, T&Cs have changed so have to acknowledge them yet again. App installs to earliest screen that has a vacancy, so have to go through and find it.

The process can be quicker or longer than that.
Do you honestly think that I care what you believe? I made a statement. I would consider paying WSJ because of the high quality content if they weren't such abusive people, but because they are, they won't get a dime from me. I also never even mildly suggested that they should have no ads, only that they shouldn't make web browsers grind to a halt with so many ads.
Reddit censored Trump's AMA by removing it from r/all
Unfortunately unless everyone stops having kids it is not going to help. I would argue that what the world needs is more thoughtful people and that thoughtful people should be having more children.
I don't understand the obsession with voice control.

If you seriously can't just turn on a light switch, wouldn't you just want your phone to use geo-fencing to automatically turn on the lights when you get home AND it's night time?

Then again, I don't understand a lot of this home automation stuff personally. If we come home and it's hot, we turn on the air conditioner. If it's dark, we turn on the lights. These are hardly difficult tasks for a child, much less an adult.
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Assange hints that the leaks may be from the DNC itself.

Recall that a DNC insider, Seth Rich, who worked on exposing election fraud during the Democratic party's primaries was murdered several days ago. There are undoubtedly others inside the DNC who are actually upright folks who may be the source of the leaks.

Here is where Julian Assange hints that the DNC itself may be the source of the leaks -- the "egg on their face" bit:

"Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are," Assange told CNN, speaking from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

He basically says "if you knew the source of the leak, you'd be shocked because the people complaining the loudest about the leaks -- the DNC -- are the source. And I'm not going to say "Russia didn't do it" because it would help you narrow the list of potential sources of the hacked DNC info."

"Russia didn't do the hack but 'to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are'."

"And the people making a big fuss about 'the Russians did it!' will have "egg on their face" when they find out the DNC hack was an INSIDE JOB."

Link to the article: http://www.businessinsider.com/julian-assange-wikileaks-dnc-...
This does nothing to solve the real problem. The issue isn't (or wasn't) that we couldn't cure MRSA at all, it was a gradual evolution. In the 1960's we had 5 working drugs that would kill essentially any bacteria.

And then we had 4. We discovered new ones, at one point I believe up to 7. But resistance made it go down pretty much by one per decade, but each next one ended faster. And then it hit zero, in 2012 I believe.

Now we may (maybe) be back up to one. Big whoop. Not going to last.

The problem is that evolution is out-researching us, the problem is that we're losing the war, not any particular battle. Antibiotics used to last 3-5 decades. Now we're down to years. While we do find new antibiotics on a regular basis, the problem is the speed of adaptation. The problem is that science is losing/has lost the "battle with darkness" as it was called 700 years ago. We are now in the situation that there are people dying because they entered hospitals for unrelated reasons (where they were exposed to these bacteria).

The problem is that we need to let millions of people die of curable diseases constantly or risk a Spanish flu like incident that can be reasonably expected to kill somewhere between 500 million and a billion humans today.
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Or there is the middle ground of retaining the general purpose nature by making the "dedicated" hardware an FPGA. Potentially the best of both worlds. Xlinx has the Zynq (ARM+FPGA), Intel has bought Altera and is now doing CPUs with FPGAs in the package [2].

[1] http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc.html

[2] http://www.pcworld.com/article/3055526/intel-starts-baking-s...
A 'lengthy standup' is the problem. It's not in the intended spirit of a standup to be long.
Thanks for the feedback. I've been trying to direct the definitions to be informal and understandable but many contributions come in with a different voice. Some of the definitions are first draft attempts just to get something in place.

It's been awesome to see the sudden popularity of our humble glossary :)
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What was your underling doing seven weeks ago? Thirteen weeks ago? Didn't they mention a particular issue five weeks ago?

What about reviewing the data for long-term trends, rather than gut feelings?
Also Go has support for using assembly in a package natively, not all languages/build tools support that as easily.
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Well, potential researchers will also have to weigh the possibility that they spend all of the time and effort to research other possibilities for it only to find out that after all of the licensing fees, etc they won't even be able to break even on the fruits of their research.

It carries too high of a risk for financially-minded people (looking for a return on investment) to throw money at it.
You're right that it won't apply for non-commercial investigations. But how are you funding the investigation? It's typically funded by the proceeds generated from the research. Research is always hit and miss as to profitability, more miss than hit. Factor in potentially unknown licensing arrangements, even if you do have a "hit", and suddenly your research doesn't look like such a good idea.
In the case of the Hue (and presumably other smart LEDS), you can have multiple scenes, which is a killer app for voice control.
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Or a lot of things not connected to college at all.
Seems straightforward.
Right, it is.
Did you read this?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/high-availabi...

I'm not sure what more you can ask from documentation.

Does MySQL document Vitess, Galera, MaxScale, etc...?
Actually, C++'s STL is in a weird situation, compared to the standard library in other languages, because the STL is a spec, not an implementation. And there are as many implementations of the STL as there are compilers. This might arguably happen if there were multiple Rust compilers, though. Anyways, the result on the C++ STL is that in many cases, the same types have different performance characteristics on different platforms, or worse, different behavior/bugs.
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I am getting a 500. See http://imgur.com/a/eHCEx
You don't need a standard library to win if you don't have any competitors (in the browser). :)

Fitness for purpose is relative to the other options.
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500, everything I ever built is on github including my webpages, I am screwed.