skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At the facilities, exposure to radiant energy such as gamma rays renders any bugs unable to reproduce on the long journey to the U.S. Insects are in effect, sterilized, which does not actually kill the bug living inside the mango at the time. The energy waves directly attack the molecular structure that form the pest’s DNA. (The European Union lifted its own ban on Indian mangos this summer, but does not approve of irradiation treatment. Mangos destined for Europe are instead submerged in water at 48 degrees Celsius.)"

It doesn't sound like an intrinsically good thing for humans to be consuming food processed this way either...
I've heard of Epsilon, but never used it.

Back in the days when I actually paid for text editors, my favorite was Multi-Edit (http://multieditsoftware.com/). I remember UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/) being pretty popular too.

Nowadays, whatever work I'm not doing in Visual Studio is being done in Notepad++.
We don't know anything about the reasons - we have only third-party information, which describes that some called the police on a mentally challenged person who had no ill intent, and that person also was black. Maybe racism added to the picture - quite possible, maybe not - it's impossible to tell from just this. It is a fact that there are many cases when black people are treated with prejudice, it is also a fact that there are many cases where mentally ill people are treated with prejudice, and it is also a fact that there are many cases where there are misunderstandings between people not caused by racism or anything like that. If you're a lone elderly woman and see somebody going about your property that you don't know and behaving weirdly, you might feel threatened, whether it's warranted or not. Surely, race may have played a role, but we don't have any real reason to conclude either way without knowing first-person accounts.
This also detects when the GPS is used. If the phone has GPS and cell radio (for reception and transmission) disabled, it's a lot harder for any malware to figure out its location (not impossible -- there is some research about identifying locations in a metro network using an accelerometer alone).

While it's easy to prevent the phone from recording your conversation (just place it somewhere out of earshot, maybe next to a noise source for the duration of the conversation alone), it's much harder to prevent it from learning where you're going (if you're taking it with you).
Endpoint security: Is anti-virus dead?
Speaking of middle grounds, exactly what do you mean by "fighting" these things that you call evil? "Fighting" them by having armed cops hunt down anybody remotely involved in them and throw them all in jail for decades doesn't sound like much of a middle ground to me. Even more so when it doesn't work and you try to double down with even harsher laws, like seizing private property without even bringing any charges.

How about we legalize, tax, and lightly regulate all of those things as appropriate, and if you think that they're evil and want to fight them, you can spend as much time and money as you want convincing people to voluntarily stop doing them?
I personally recommend a vanilla front-end. Contact me for details.

^_^
UltraEdit, the TextMate of the 90s!
What is a good example of a twitch stream to show how great live streaming can be?
The Altair was very much like a modern PC in that it used a de facto standard S-100 bus and other standard peripheral connections, and was based on the Intel 8080 CPU which evolved into the 8086 used in PCs. It had the first commercial software. It was mass produced. It was able to run CP/M which has much more in common with DOS than Apple DOS.

The Apple II was more proprietary in nature and the line died out after the Apple III failed. Intel x86 based PCs are still made today. Edit - sorry, forgot about the IIGS.
The order form has this line "Note: As of 19 February 2016, CDs are temporarily out of stock. If you need a CD please email us for estimated availability.", which might imply that someone bought themselves a CD copy of this editor back in February.
Some options:

1. Build a product (SAAS) in a niche domain. Charge between $50-$100/Month. Get 75 customers.

2. Buy an existing SAAS in a domain that you have interest in (experience a bonus but not required). It should bring in profits of 5k/month (give or take). If the business is rock solid and at least 3 years old with a sustainable rate of revenue, then expect to pay 3X (3 years of profits) upto 5X (depends on many factors). You may even find gems for less than 3X multiplier.

3. Start a "Service" based freelance business but offer a specific skill. For example, "I will help you host wordpress sites for $x/month and fully manage it for you". Charge a flat monthly fee. Kinda like Step 1 but "service" based instead of "product" based. The trick is that you don't deviate too much from the scope otherise it will be difficult to do it as one man show and you will end up going towards a "agency" type model.

4. If you are really good at something and have the skills to create a good tutorial, start something like https://www.laracasts.com and provide solid content regularly to your subscribers. Charge a flat fee per month.

All these 4 things are extremely difficult to start with BUT very possible to do. I have done #2 myself fyi and already grown it 6 times in 2 years.
I would consider the signal's value over time to be a sequence.
How I sold my company to Twitter, in spite of my own stupidity
I am not sure if having my data in mailbox.org is any more private that Microsoft or Google. My gmail doesn't even show any ads.
It would be so much fairer if they had a limit on the number of applications a company can file. They have such a limit on the number of greencards each country gets. Let the lottery happen at the company level and not in the common pool.
That would make sense, because for a game to be popular it would have to have a consistent viewership; something you wouldn't have with a single playthrough story based game. I think that story based games are very popular in the short term when they come out, but then die off (because most streamers have played them before their audiences). I think OP's point is valid.
> a restricted part of the game, like level one only,

Which kinds of games do you think constitute the vast vast majority of Twitch viewership? Because it's not the type of games which have a "level one".

https://www.twitch.tv/directory
The Google Pixel website no longer shows the Chromebook Pixel
you're right, I was making the assumption of a simple case:
you're coming as an Entrepreneur, you spend the full year in the US, so 365 > 183 , there's no need to even count further 1/3 and 1/6 as you weren't in the US before this.

Running a start-up by spending only a few hundred days a year in the US could be challenging, but if the law allows you to, why not.

F/J (Idk anything about M/Q/A/G) are only exempt 5 years. I have friends who did their undergrad and are on their Phd on F-1 who are still on F-1 but are now considered "us resident for tax purposes" because the 5 exempt calendar years are now used up, so they fall back to the 183 days rule.
Steam(Valve) could be next on Amazon's list.

Desktop application: Add
- amazon shopping
- streaming
- viewing
- social
...
I'm not even close to a physicist, but it has always bothered me that such a huge percentage of the matter in the universe would be nearly unobservable. It's the sort of thing that wouldn't pass my normal sanity check in a scientific computing model.

But I trust that these possibilities are being well considered. Is there any significant mainstream buy-in with regard to alternative theories of gravity?
Yeah, to the point where in Colorado you forget that there are still states where it's illegal. It ends up making you think of most of the rest of the country in the same light as the few remaining dry counties.
Likewise, try to find some "ECC RAM" for your server on amazon.fr. They don't make the distinction between "ECC" and "non-ECC" in search, hence returning basically every kind of RAM. Because, for some weird reason, French retailers like to specify that their RAM is not ECC in the title of the item. (Surprisingly enough, this doesn't seem to be an issue on amazon.com.)
Multi-byte NOP opcode made official
Maybe they found there wasn't a mass market for that sized tablet because virtually everyone in the market for a portable computing device in that form factor was filling the need with a smartphone, so there was a lot more money to be made make phones or tablets bigger than phone size?
The potato chip bag option would have plausible deniability. I would go for a whole lunch bag with sandwich in genuine tin foil as mylar film doesn't seem that thick to me.

Plausible deniability is really important if one expects to be frisked. Traveling in something like cycling gear could be part of the disguise, you can go through special gates at train stations and not be ticket inspected by machine. Nobody expects the guy in fluorescent clothing travelling at 15 mph.
more concerning for Google than for Twitch I'm afraid :/
> Establishments want to project an image of class. It used to be class was associated with flair. The more intricate and multi-colored flower patterns you had, the more wealthy you were. The more gold foil and ornate columns the better.

In the specific case of chain restaurants, I thought flair was an attempt to replicate the cluttered-junk aesthetic that certain local joints acquired organically over time, not to signal wealth.
Most self-censoring and social conformity is done subconsciously as an important evolutionary survival mechanism, thus most people are completely unaware of it.
Stretching the Limit of Silicon Nanowires for Next-Generation Electronics
Depends on the prospectus, most I've looked at that do this sort of thing says they will hold something in every sector to match the returns, but are nonspecific as to the exact composition of how much they aim to hold of each sector to match the overall returns(talking about total-market/return funds btw, S&P 500 was a bad example since a lot of REITs are not in the 500 anyway).
Well they could be getting nuclear weapons to deter an American attack. I don't agree with any first strike with nuclear war. Every scenario that's been tried has, predictably escalated to a global nuclear war.
Paywalling the laws of the universe
The visible light camera was intentionally not included in the original proposal for this mission. It was added later for PR purposes [0].

[0] http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Juno_Gets_A_Little_Bigger_...
Alcohol addicts cause problems for people around them and most westerners think that Saudi Arabia is overly restrictive for not allowing it.
We'll be up to 5 point releases when 11 hits in a few weeks. Sayeth the new arrival to FreeBSD org: "What the fuck, which one am I supposed to use?"

LATEST RELEASES
Production: 10.3, 10.2, 10.1, 9.3
Upcoming: 11.0

Edit: To be fair, it's worth mentioning that 10.2, 10.1 and 9.3 will sunset on 1/1/2017, so we'll be left with a slightly more sane set of production releases at that point.
Algorithms that work over multiple samples are not tied to a data structure, except in an overly broad and useless sense of "data structure". A time or frequency series is not a data structure. It can be stored in any of several data structures, with various pros and cons depending on other circumstances, but the choice of data structure has nothing to do with the algorithm.
Office Space is often cited as a slow burn sleeper movie, not so popular when it was released, picking up fans over the years.
Yea, how I fail the "True Maker test". I tend to plan stuff out, dig through a pretty well stocked set of parts. Then China markets for parts for projects that I can wait on, Digikey for a project I want to build tomorrow.

I do refactor parts (I've done the keyboard thing mentioned above) but now since I'm older I realize I don't have the time to dork around with a dodgy keyboard (ummm is that the reason I tossed it into the junk bin?) and want things to work after I fix my design errors, not after I fix a broken part.

I'm more a pragmatic Maker. Can I run to Home Despot and buy wood, fasters, plan, cut, assemble and install shelves? Yes. Can I go to Ikea, buy something close and make it fit that then looks really nice? Yes. With 400 linear feet of shelving in the robot lab, sometimes Ikea wins.

Likewise, some nifty Adafruit board is the quicker way to win.
We changed the title from “A mighty editor still being sold after 30 years for $250”, which breaks the HN guidelines for editorializing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If the cloud was inhomogeneous, yes. However, (unless I am mistaken, which is fairly likely,) the more symmetric a bulk collection of particles (such as WIMPs), the less gravitational radiation it would emit as it oscillated. In particular, for every particle falling in from one side of the planet, you have another particle falling in from the other side of the planet, so the mass distribution of the system does not change over time. I don't know how gravetomagnetic effects would come into play.
That's not entirely true. On Youtube, you can instantly rewind the video like you do on a video where as on Twitch, you have to go to the videos section, wait for that section to be uploaded before rewinding. There's also 60 fps on Youtube which beats Twitch's 30 fps.
5 NGOS using SMS for good
Would be interesting to see a YC versus 500 startups breakdown as well
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With a few exceptions, immigration status is irrelevant to US tax status. US tax status is determined by the Substantial Presence Test: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/subs...

Certain visas (specifically A, G, F, J, M, Q) are exceptions to the general rule. For example, the F (student) visa allows you to treat yourself as a non-resident for tax purposes for up to 5 years.

But everyone else, including undocumented immigrants all get treated as "U.S. residents for tax purposes" once they meet the timeline for the substantial presence test.
What makes you think appletv will ever support Amazon video?

The iOS app definitely needs chrome cast support.
it has always bothered me that such a huge percentage of the matter in the universe would be nearly unobservable. It's the sort of thing that wouldn't pass my normal sanity check in a scientific computing model.

How about this? -- A large fraction of bugs in a large, long lived computer system will be difficult to recreate.
Interestingly, the popularity of segment makes it impossible to know which "backend" analytics products the companies are using, since the point of segment is only installing one piece of code.
MultiEdit DOS version was a great tool indeed. looking at the activity of their forum, things are not very lively.
It should be detectable, but the Ĝ Infrared Search[1] didn't find any in the WISE[2] data. Jason Wright talked about this and related topics in a SETI institute video[3].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1134

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-field_Infrared_Survey_Exp...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDR-G2EDRM
Great Papers in Computer Science
Why do you think content owners would see this as IP theft rather than free advertising? Are people watching play throughs rather than playing it themselves?
That is not at all what I am talking about, and you're completely ignoring the entirely different social circumstances of people who have their own nation versus those who've been essentially subjugated by another for the past few hundred years.

I think the extreme poverty and destruction of culture at the hands of the US government has a lot more to do with issues of alcoholism in Native American communities than... whatever it is you're suggesting.
That's no different where Twitch streamers upload their entire play through a chunk at a time onto Youtube.
Monopoly and lobbyists: Research reveals why US drugs are so pricey
I think Google would pay more than they do now if the H1B program did not exist or if visas were given to people with the highest salaries rather than randomly assigned.
Correct, and Nintendo already puts the lockdown on that hardcore.
You know, this is like a game. If you limit applications by a company, they will apply through a subsidiary managed by a private holding company whose owners are not known.

More paperwork, but they will get around the system...
I think you should read more Chomsky or watch some of his talks. His political views are all based on pretty much common sense, and widely accepted moral principles. He doesn't give any simplistic moralism for explaining why people behave in good or bad ways. He acknowledges that human behaviour is very complex and poorly understood. Actually be usually avoids explaining why people act a certain way and instead just describes their actions.

I do think he has a powerful analytical brain and is very dry in his descriptions, they are consciously unemotional and descriptive in nature. However he has a real deep sympathy with the sufferer of his fellow man.
Personal anecdote incoming: I don't buy as many games as I used to as a teenager/college student, but the ones that I do spend money on now are the ones I see on Twitch.
The pictures there are missing (i get error 400 when i try to download them directly).

After 10min of googleing i found this [0] (it shows swap), and this [1] from 2012.

Nothing conclusive, especially considering that all the popular malloc-s can be tuned.

[0] https://suniphrase.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/jemalloc-vs-tcma...
[1] https://juliank.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/memory-allocators/

As a bonus, i found a phrack article on jemalloc. http://phrack.org/issues/68/10.html#article
This isn't on topic and has been discussed many times before
This isn't on topic
The vast majority of game developers are going exactly the opposite route. They won't add restrictions. In fact they'll spend a decent chunk of their design and development resources on coming up with ways to make sure the games are streamed more. Because it's the most cost effective marketing channel available today. Maybe the only cost effective one. And in the words of one game publisher, "The biggest challenge we have today isn’t making great games, it’s making sure people even know they exist".

There are some exceptions, of course. Nintendo are the big one (they have a truly draconian standard contract required to stream their games). But there's at most a handful of indie developers who are opposed to streaming. To the extent that it's actual news when it happens.
I'm a 20+ year daily gnu/x emacs user and purchased a copy of Epsilon in July after demoing it for a couple weeks. Since then I've been coding in Epsilon daily (Linux/C++):

What I love about it:
1) it's VERY fast,
2) the documentation is phenomenal,
3) the defaults are sane, and the configurable options are well thought out,
4) rock-solid stable.

It's a beautiful piece of software and I've really enjoyed using it. No regrets on the purchase. To me it was worth the $250.
Show HN: Tools for containerizing external services for dev
I remember 15 years ago or thereabout and ITT Tech was advertising on daytime television. When was the last time a reputable institution of higher learning had a television advertisement strategy, let alone on daytime television. Their model has been predatory since day 1, and it wasn't too hard to see through it.
The chains they're talking about were the original local joints. Read the article, it's really good and detailed.
Funny because I thought Harris was quite dismissive "I don't appreciate your tone" (!)
This number reflects total number of LCAs, not visas. A single visa holder could have had multiple LCAs filed within an year. A visa holder from previous years' lottery could have had a new LCA filed this year.
This number, at best reflects how many job positions were filled by a company within an year using H1b holders from various years' lottery. An H1b holder could have changed job locations/clients and would be counted twice.

e: VISA to visa
“Hacking is a job … people train their entire childhoods … for …”
I seriously doubt this theory simply because in many countries there was no increase in ethnic diversity (in ex-Yugoslavia, where I live, there was even a decrees), and still exactly the same thing happened. It's the consequence of increased urbanisation of our lives and environment. In many truly rural areas kids are still as free-range as always.
Mosquitos aren't evil. Don't assign morality to amoral creatures.
"...presenting himself as an outsider challenging a "great" man (who naturally has many enemies)..."

Are you saying Chomsky is the underdog?
The article covers this.
If only there was a term to describe situation when specific individual's actions and qualities are ascribed based on general statistic for people sharing the same racial qualifiers.
Seems like whenever NPR reports on subjects I happen to know really really well I find myself disappointed. Makes me wonder about the rest of their reporting.
Agreed. Mosquitoes are important pollinators and necessary members of our food chain, we would be hurting without their help. Only reproducing females require a blood meal, further complicating the issue.

To that end, check out this [0] anti-mosquito laser weapon, which they claim can be tuned to target only females based on wing beat frequencies. While I disagree with the principal, a laser mosquito defense system gets cool points from me for creativity.

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/military/laser-...
If we trust the USDA [1], then it's not really proven to be bad.

[1] http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety-...
Yes it is correct. Lift always creates drag. You can think of drag as the work necessary to gain lift. When lift is generated, it produced what is called induced drag[0]. Induced drag and parasitic drag, which is the drag generated from the aircraft structure itself, are where all the energy goes in unaccelerted flight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-induced_drag
Which is referenced and embedded in the article!
My comment wasn't only targeting Twitch, nor only live streaming.

Just take for example all those YouTube channels where you can access a replay of a whole game on demand.

I just did a couple of weeks ago with the latest Resident Evil HD remaster because I was fond of this game I played back in 1996.

I thought about buying a copy. I wanted to revisit it. Well not anymore. I just skipped through the important cinematics and storyline for some hours, up to the game ending.
Repeating full text of the tweet here:

"Hacking is a job that many people train their entire childhoods and young adulthood for. I can't think of a ton of other fields like that."
Do you have any specific criticism in mind of anything he's said?
FWIW, Norway irradiates almost all of its imported spices, and has been doing so since 1982. It's done using gamma rays. The technique is actually recommended by the WHO and the UN's FAO. Wikipedia says

"a large amount of independent research has confirmed irradiation to be safe [5][6][7][8][9]"

and also contains the gem

"Irradiated food does not become radioactive, just as an object exposed to light does not start producing light."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation
I used epsilon for all my programming work until I discovered vi in '93. It ran on dos, and OS/2. United had something similar in uemacs.
I used EEL the extension language to write a log of all I did to help refreshing my memory when I filled by time sheet. It was a great editor with a built in shell, windowing and whatnot.
Both on DOS and OS/2 I ran the MKS Toolkit to emulate a Unix environment and it fit right in. Happy user. No idea it was still on sale.
Well, it's not the first time people try to steer Scala to a different direction. Paul Phillips for instance, after many complaints on the direction the language was going, forked Scala (but now his fork is largely abandoned). https://github.com/paulp/policy
Why should they sell it to Amazon? Valve is very profitable as it is.