skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are reading the same text, but the author's rendition will carry an understanding of the material that is absent in the other one—and not found in the text, either. Doesn't that difference comprise relevant information?

Not to me, as someone who's never run into the material before. There's no knowledge-carrying particle that's transmitted vocally.

In fact, to me it would be a distraction. I learn better visually; I can stop reading, and start again, and quickly re-scan what I'd read before to catch up. It's harder to do that with a recording of a voice, and takes longer.
You will never remember, or "passively recognize" any characters, (especially low-frequency ones) unless you specifically focus on remembering them. Also, at least 75% of words meanings become trivial once you learn what their corresponding characters mean. Or you can spend all your time getting all those similarly-sounding kanji compounds mixed up in your head because you can only write them in hiragana.
'The survey results show that 76 of the 77 participating scientists said they had not encountered evidence of a secret spraying program'

I just want to know what the 77th said!
It's a pretty common trope that meat requires more resources to produce than plants, but it is wildly inaccurate.

Rather than breaking things down by meat or plant, we should just be looking at cost per calorie.

There are classes of plants which use much less resources than meat to produce a single calorie. These are generally grains, potatoes, and anything which produces edible oils (olive oil, canola oil, etc.)

There are also classes of plants which require much more resources than meat to produce a single calorie. Generally speaking, all fruits and vegetables, especially leafy greens (which are an order of magnitude more expensive per calorie than meat).

So, veganism or vegetarianism are not necessarily good for the environment. If you switch to being a vegan/vegetarian, but your grocery bill stays the same, then you environmental impact is probably about the same.
Having worked in DC and SV I'm not sure DC engineers are cheap, especially the ones who can clear.
It's upsetting that Ubuntu is so opposed to ensurepip that they won't even let it work in user mode. There is no way to use these Python standard library features without being root and installing separate Ubuntu packages.

This was Ubuntu bug #1290847, which is now marked as "Fix Released": they consider the current behavior okay.

Python packaging is good now, except on Ubuntu.
I suggest looking at https://www.pluralsight.com

Even though premium, they have some of the best stuff when it comes to Microsoft stack.
Yes it does, because a lot of people needing to deploy tools are not dev.
IRC is a very ill-suited protocol for device <-> znc though. E.g. IIRC it sends you a constant 200 lines of history (whether you've read that history already or not), because that's all it can do.
Next : the rise of the blogging of new economies economy
In most measures, vegetarians of most types are healthier than nearly all vegan populations and tend to not suffer from the typical dietary deficiencies that plague vegan populations.

I gotta run, but there's quite a few studies available online about this.
0.1% if the commercial offer for PHP, and they all involve using the command line or know a bit about coding. Again, it's better, but many people I know run PHP business with zero coding knowledge. They upload to ftp scripts they bought on the web, and make a living out of it. Some are kids trying stuff. The little things matter.
Layoffs around the corner...
The point is to have the ability to pipe to curl, will -T / --upload-file allow that? For now I'm happy with how it worked.
> What would be the economic incentive towards carrying out a sufficiently complex MITM attack on a blog or a newsfeed?

We've already seen large scale MITM be used for political reasons: to DDOS github off the internet in retaliation hosting anti-censorship technologies.
I did indeed. Good catch!
I seem to feel more comfortable with redundant copies of libraries than virtual environments.
Security really doesn't cost much. To constantly maintain the best security does cost, but this is about something that they could have avoided with the tiniest bit of thought. Their simple approach of "it's secure as long as no one knows how to break in" is annoying and whether it affects many or not, it is about the possibility of bad things happening.
GTA isn't thought of as a big crime for some reason and it can cost the owner a lot. It would be nice to think my car had someone make sure that trivial snooping would not allow access to the car or that my car's head unit cannot control other parts of the car such as breaks and steering.
Teaching Jazz is the way to go for most people who want to make a living from Jazz. I know several successful musicians who started as Jazz musicians but make a good living in rock and pop music. Getting to be known as the best of the best on your instrument via your Jazz chops can open doors in other genres to be invited to work with very successful, established artists. To make a living directly from Jazz you really want to go into education. If you have some hustle and you live in a medium to large sized city, no matter where you are there are likely enough kids interested in learning to play Jazz that you could develop a viable income as a private Jazz instructor on your instrument. From there you're taking part in building the scene of the future.
I completely agree that laser focusin on one nutrient isn't good, buy even if you were fixated on omega 3s bioreactors making algae is healht and way more efficient than fish, and where they mostly get their omega 3's anywyas.
From here you can download this as .pdf .epub or .mobi
https://www.gitbook.com/book/ds8/textbook/details
I feel carousel can be better with a line below conveying what product is about or what is being shown in images. It took me a while to know about product. Good work.
Isn't the answer most likely "no"

From both the editorial title law, as well as the flawed logic of causation to draw a conclusion on evolution?
ULID – Chronologically sortable drop-in replacement for UUID
I am worried about the href changes:
'href' as a replacement for 'xlink:href'
and xlink:href is in the Deprecated list.

I have been implementing links within svg using xlink:href:

<text xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="google.com">text</text>

Would this break the apps using xlink:href?
Yeah. I have read about zfs to some degree before but somehow missed this until a couple of days ago. For all its flexibility this looks a very bad limitation. I think this and rebuild time (again related to vdev width) makes zfs very easy to mess up.

The goal of bachefs seem to very lofty though there isn't much detail on the implication of raid design. It seemed to suggest it solves the zfs fragmentation problem, gives better r/w performance with a simpler codebase. Anyone who understand the programmers guide well enough to comment on the viability of the architecture? Does it really solves all the problem of a non-distributed huge filesystem capable of working from a single disk to a big array?
That's only addressing perf on IE. It says nothing about perf overall.
I as told in Jr. High School that we ended bipedal in order to stand in the bush so we could see further what was coming up and then, with our hands now free, we could start building tools and use them. I don't know what this explanation is worth but I find it makes a lot of sense.
Well, consider that Japan has been the nr 2 economy for many decades, having been overtaken only as recently as 2010 by China. That's not nr 2 of Asian countries, nr 2 of all countries.

All the more special is that it's also the nr 1 non-western economy, i.e. not the US or Canada or Australia or Europe, which will feel familiar to anyone living in those countries. Even irrespective of it being an economic powerhouse, it feels culturally more differentiated from the west, than say South-America is from North-America, or Eastern-Europe is from Western-Europe.

Combine that with a long history of civilisation, and you've got THE major (economic) superpower with its own distinct culture. There's no such story in the rest of Asia, Africa or South America. All other countries are either economically struggling, or are culturally/historically insignificant, or are simply too small like Singapore.

I don't think we even have to fully explore the interesting relationship Japan has with technology as part of its post-war economic and cultural story and many other such facets like it, to answer the question. None of the interest in Japan feels at all illogical to me.
It's not nice to belittle individuals whose brains work differently than your own.
The same would seemingly have been true of OpenSSL (software that protects secure transactions online), but the Heartbleed bug wasn't detected for over two years.
It saddens me a bit, actually. SVG had lots of features way before CSS and now they're forced to adopt them to not confuse people who use HTML/CSS. CSS to my knowledge never even tried adopting features in an SVG-compatible way.
I have too. The ceiling for an engineers salary is much lower in DC. Also young people have a much lower salary as well. Some managers might be pretty close in compensation though.

We are talking about DMV. Working in the city is very uncommon for big primes. All their HQs are in Tysons

It's more than DC though. Big primes have satellite offices everywhere.
Search funds aren't all that uncommon among top-tier MBA students and graduates. There are a couple going on among my wife's MBA classmates. As a tech entrepreneur, I'm a little skeptical about whether their search will prove fruitful, but they don't seem to have huge problems raising capital.

Also, don't forget part-time and executive MBA programs. Students in these tend to skew older (early 30s for part-time programs, mid-40s for executive ones), with 10/20 years of work experience in a relevant industry and deep networks that often include access to capital.
You can learn all those things you've just said, in Java, very little boiler plate.
Java to me, is a mixture of all languages, or most languages have at least elements of java in them. Hence useful to start with, picking up others are easy.
Why not? We do it with humans.
Not everyone is running debian flavored os, in fact not everyone is running linux.
Singapore startup creates hybrid rockets and 3D printed fuel to challenge SpaceX
He did say "or the GPS position for the North Pole" though, as well as (0,0)
I don't think it was done to score points, but it would not bother me at all if it were: no harm was done, and in fact there was some benefit.

You also seem to be suggesting that if this counterattack could eliminate the scamming, it would be ethical, but as it cannot, then it is not. If the counterattack caused collateral damage, I could agree, but in this case, it did not.

The bully analogy strikes me as something of a straw man: it is not equivalent. More than that, I don't think it helps to discuss the issue here by comparing it to a situation that has its moral ambiguities: it is less likely to be confusing, I think, to stick to the specific facts of the case at hand.
That's almost a tautology. With the system rigged to depend on unlimited campaign donations, every "complex" has the "congressional" part.
Show HN: C++11 port of Postgres
It would be interesting to know what a book on advanced theoretical physics would look like if the author assumed that the intended reader already knows everything there is to know about the mathematics involved. In other words, what does theoretical physics minus math look like?
Oh, looks like it's time to plug my website: http://ichi.moe

It's very helpful if you're trying to learn Japanese, or read some Japanese. Just copy-paste any sentence in Japanese and it will show how to read it, and what do the words mean. Read up on grammar, and you're ready to go.

Also I generated an Anki deck for learning kanji and all the words [1]. It's really big, and I'm almost halfway through it myself (about 1.5 years of study). Good luck if you try to attempt this challenge.

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/831167744
Got it. Lots of factors to consider though as you know. Depends a lot on getting good financing and buying cheap. Buy a company for 3.5X free cash flow, finance it for 5 years at 10%, and you're barely making your debt payments. Pay 3X and you're doing much better. Pay 4X and you're insolvent. Assuming no growth of course. Maybe your plan is to improve it so you can sell it later for a higher multiple, but that's not easy and at that point you're flipping the business rather than buying it for its cash flow. Might as well just flip homes or buy rental property.
I'm far from an expert or even intermediate in Japanese, but I think not. The names of the kana are just their sounds.

A sketch in Azumanga Daioh comes to mind, where one girl is talking about the character じ ("ji"), and another girl thinks she's talking about hemhorroids, 痔 ("ji").
Which is pretty much proportional to the adoption of negative interest rates, which wouldn't really be possible on such scale without eliminating physical cash.
Should I import an extra library? The first code example uses a function called read_url(), that's not a native python function.
Yeah ultimately it depends on what you try to achieve.
If you wan to reduce weight/bodyfat (note that there is a difference between these two), it's mostly all about whether you are in caloric deficit or not. IF helps with that because it's much harder to overeat in the 8 hour than when you eat the entire day. IF is also quite easy to stick to (at least for me). I just skip breakfest and don't eaet after 8pm. But in order to see more physical change I would highly recommend to either lift weights or do some HIIT.
Check the leangains.com guides on IF and workout.

Edit: Also it takes a while until you see change on your body (was the same for me), so keep going.
Wow. I didn't know that.

This is pretty interesting where imgur has a http://imgur.com/r/gifs section but it's all mp4.
Not if you are a female; males are thrown into a hypercompetitive world to fight for resources/females and anything that gives you an edge helps.
Influential Reinhart-Rogoff Pro-Austerity Research Riddled with Errors
Playing outside the box office, too...
Power Ledger trials blockchain-based energy grid and market near Perth
I'd take pip over npm any day of the week. My experiences with Node have been horrible. Npm just grows okay but do not try to uninstall.
> "expressed as a pair of four-bit unsigned integers, each ranging from zero to nine, with the most significant four bits representing the base and the second number representing the power of ten by which to multiply the base. [...] Four-bit values greater than 9 are undefined, as are values with a base of zero and a non-zero exponent."

That is the stupidest data format I have ever heard of...
Actually, I think Korean is not a winner. Its block-shape dictates that a character like 이 take the same amount of space as 핥, so there's a limit on how small a character goes. (There are fonts that try to break out of the standard square shape, but I don't think any found wide use.)

I think proportional fonts have a better space utilization by their nature. Anyways, I don't think that's an important metric. It's not like we live in an age where paper is scarce.
I'm not discounting anything, but different people want, or need, different courses.

My book is geared specifically towards people who are to enthusiastically committed to learning Japanese, and want more information about the language they're paying money for to learn, with some assumptions about what that means: they, like me, and like many of my fellow students at the time, but not like everyone, want to learn Japanese properly, without hand holding because some grammar or some orthography is deemed too hard. We'll see whether that's the case as we learn, not as an assumption baked into the course.

Of course that method doesn't work for everyone, but for me, and for many others, but again not for everyone, getting kanji early was exciting, motivating, and awesome. I would have been angry at a promise of a better approach without kanji for half a year as a paying student.

So that's the book you get here, too: I am not making assumptions on how slowly you want material, this is a grammar for supplementing your course work, or deep diving if that's what you want to do. And if the Japanese used in the book is too much, too soon: it's a free book, find one you feel fits you better. But we're better off with a spectrum of works: rather than every book following the best methodology, we need all those methodologies, and then people who go hard, fast, can pick the hard, fast books, and people who don't can pick the slower, "better success rate" approaches and do well with those instead.

And another comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286516, expands on that a bit more.
I'm glad you like it! Maybe I'll get used to it in time myself.

I do still use things like "argmin", which you could argue is a "keyword"; by argmin_{x ∈ S} f(x), I mean what you would express in Python as min(S, key=f), which ends up translating to something like this in C:

int min_found = 0;
T min;
U min_item;
for (iter it = first(S); hasNext(it); it = advanced(it)) {
U item = itemAt(it);
T val = f(item);

if (!min_found || val < min) {
min_found = 1;
min = val;
min_item = item;
}
}

do_whatever_with(min_item);

Maybe this is what someone earlier meant when they said this paper algorithm notation was still too hard to translate into code, but I feel like argmin (over a finite set) is a sufficiently familiar concept that there's no need to spell it out in more detail, and indeed it's a standard library function in Python.
niftich's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205158 , from when this was posted 12 days ago, is unanswered:

> For what it's worth, the UUID RFC actually has a provision for using random bits instead of the MAC address in a version 1 UUID [ref], which results in a similar, but incompatible structure as to what's proposed here.

> I'm not sure what this new, incompatible format buys over that one, other than a different allocation of bits between the time and random fields.

> [ref] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122#section-4.5

niftich also gave an ASCII drawing of the bitfields in a ULID vs. UUIDv1.
Well, yeah. Fair point :) This was also in the days before bus trackers which made life extra interesting. On game days I'd often just start walking home and would wait and see if the bus caught up with me. These days it might not be quite so bad.
Ask HN: What are the main features of a Think Tank?
In a cashless society all transactions are controlled and monitored by third parties. There is no potential for individual volition except at the whim of those controlling the systems. Cryptocurrencies will mitigate this slightly but the loss of cash is going to be a huge blow to the individual.
I really don't understand what you're arguing here. It's undisputed that several distributed systems are written in Java. What I'm disputing is the idea that Java is used to build these systems because Java is particularly well-suited to building distributed systems.

It isn't. I don't doubt that there are hordes of people whose entire responsibility it is to try to work around Java's rough, eclectic edges when it comes to systems engineering, but the fact that horde of people exists at all is one, among many, symptomatic indicators that Java itself is not intrinsically a particularly good fit for that problem space.

You've inverted the cause and effect.

Java is very popular, and Java is used in a lot of businesses, and some of those businesses have/had needs for different shapes of distributed systems, and those businesses have/had an easier time finding Java engineering resources, and those engineering resources built some distributed systems, and so now some distributed systems are built in Java or otherwise on the JVM.

There are even cases (Storm and Spark come to mind) where the selection of the JVM had seemingly as much to do with where those solutions were trying to position themselves in the larger ecosystem (augment Hadoop or eventually supplant Hadoop, respectively) as it did the technical merits of Java or the JVM itself.

Also, being able to hire for a thing is almost always a political issue. Like your prior comment, "The other might be what? erlang? Good luck finding developers." It's really easy to find Erlang developers. You just have to be willing to pay for them. Additionally, the proportion of Erlang developers who have a lot of experience building distributed, fault-tolerant systems is almost certainly higher than that of the proportion of Java engineers who can say the same. You don't even bother learning Erlang unless you're building distributed systems of some kind. Java is used for everything. That's just simple selection-bias. The hard part about using Erlang is getting management to sign off on using it instead of Java or some Silicon Valley darling language du jour. Anyway, hiring considerations aren't an issue of technical design or implementation merit. They're political considerations.

If you subtract the set of open source distributed systems that were born inside companies with large pre-existing JVM investments already (introducing a different kind of selection-bias), like Hadoop (Yahoo) and Cassandra (Facebook) and Kafka (LinkedIn), and instead look at the ecosystem of distributed systems that were built up as standalone efforts outside any major corporate engineering org, like MapR, Riak, Aerospike, ScyllaDB, RabbitMQ, RethinkDB, etc. you immediately see a much different set of technology choices. Overwhelmingly these "outsider" distributed systems are written in Erlang, C/C++, and Go. The Java cohort is a limited minority in that space.
congratulations to the MaidSafe team. Looking forward to seeing a commercial product.
Steam on FreeBSD
Me too. That visceral feeling of how much it cost to press that shutter release and instinctive balance of the dread of missing the moment and spending the money...

Even now, every time I empty an sd card, pick 5 images and trash 100, I feel as rich as a sultan. Some parts of the future really rock.
Are the multiple root compromise exploits (that've been known since May) fixed yet in this RC? https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2016-Ju...
Ehhhhhh I think Britain is closer. Contactless payment methods are significantly more common in London. (In fact you'd be hard pressed to say a business which doesn't accept contactless /and/ Apple Pay)

I live in Sweden and there are places that won't take VISA- and banks only give out mastercards which cost the consumer monthly. Not to mention the fact that contactless and Apple Pay are nowhere to be found.

Maybe it's different in Stockholm but in Malmö you can definitely see a negative disparity when compared to Britain.
The freedom to think and do.
This is the kind of Palantir criticism I want to hear more of on HN. Could you flesh it out? What are the open or free alternatives?
Why do academics write in such an unreadable, handwavy manner?

> IT-enabled services transformation, as our colleagues Stuart Feldman, Kenji Kushida, Jonathan Murray, and Niels Christian Nielsen have argued in other venues, was based on the application of an array of computable algorithms to myriad activities, from consumption and leisure to services and manufacturing. The movement of these algorithms to the cloud, where they can be easily accessed, created the infrastructure on which, and out of which, entire platform-based markets and ecosystems operate. Platforms and the cloud, an essential part of what has been called the “third globalization,” reconfigure globalization itself.
Also see:

Steam on PC-BSD - How to Get Wine Running 3D Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B04EuZ9hpAI

Steam on PCBSD 2 - Using Wine as a Streaming Client: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ88B8aWdk0