skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just turn down your display brightness at night.

Personally I can't stand Flux. I hate the false colors it creates.
For those not that deeply involved into this: There is the whole field of bioinformatics that is involved in this kind of research, creating data in the range of multiple peta-bytes, using some of the biggest computing clusters around. That a big enterprise like Microsoft wants their part of the cake is obvious, especially as this is going to be a billion dollar market. But there is no reason to especially belief in Microsoft, they are just doing what everyone else is doing (and only with more money and/or expertise if they spent more than a few billion dollar on it, else this is mere marketing, nothing really note worthy). Maybe its a nice touch for the field that now even Microsoft has noticed it.
So, instead of depending on one service, you now depend on two.
I'm willing to bet that Allo (app) is their MVP.

Hopefully we'll see chat sync, SMS support, Google Voice support, Desktop App in the pipeline.
And also because the parents need to visit a doctor to get the box.
The catch is that using NPM and CommonJS modules for front end packages makes it so that tools like Rollup and the Closure compiler can't do the kinds of optimizations they are capable of. The code we ship is doing a lot of runtime dependency resolution that could be done at compile time if we constructed our modules properly.

I think that many of the front end tools we use now result in an optimized developer workflow, but usually not optimized code.
I think that's why those concepts are entertained by a large number of people in the scientific community, over drinks at least. Of course, if someone tried to get serious funding to study it, right now, there might be a different reaction.
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There is a lot of hype over encrypted chat programs.

Telegram's encryption is not end-to-end unless you opt into "Secret Chats"[1] and many claim their crypto is not secure[2,3] as they rolled their own[4].

The latest Google chat app Allo also backed away from defaulting to end-to-end encryption for all messages as it lessens the quality of their auto-assistant[5].

The Axolotl protocol (developed by Moxie and Trevor[6]) is available in Signal and was later adopted by WhatsApp. Signal has far fewer features than other chat applications, and people aren't clamoring much about it; I would guess because many people place features > crypto.

Wire (wire.com) uses this protocol as well[7].

WhatsApp being part of Facebook has already called into question their handling of privacy[8], the feature they were originally advertising as their main strength.

[1] https://telegram.org/faq#secret-chats

[2] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegra...

[3] http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916860

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12547130

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm

[7] https://wire.com/resource/Wire%20Security%20Whitepaper/downl...

[8] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/technology/relaxing-privac...
I have some bad news to give you: forecast.io is going to be replaced by darksky.net[1].

1. (http://blog.darksky.net/introducing-darksky-net/)
Extremely hard. I am so sick of hearing this. It all boils down to hand waving and assumptions instead of verification and scrutiny.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_lending
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Have you tried interviewing at game development companies? Many will test the hell out of your 3D math concepts and will reject you if you don't already know it well. They don't accept that you can just 'learn it on the fly'.

Honestly I'm not sure if I'm be able to handle a modern graphics programming jobs unless I studied and practiced constantly for at least six months straight. And I've worked on a bunch of 2D games before (and one 3D game).
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This is one of the side effects of ptsd that can make a big difference, since sleep really is so important. Mine is more of a hypervigilance (I can almost be asleep and then hear a sound and all senses are in overdrive, so usually I just get up and patrol the perimeter of the house and check locks/doors/camera systems), but many of my buddies drank themselves to sleep every night. Most of them have switched to MJ and swear it's the best thing ever for them vs alcohol.

As a side note, I also think MJ counts as a nootropic when used properly, and I often think about Carl Sagans Mr. X article about it in this light, in the sense that a different perspective can help you solve issues or think about issues in a different way than you might have otherwise. This is why I highly suggest that people trying MJ try to be productive while on it instead of just (read: only) vegging.
Something I haven't seen anyone mention yet: the part of discrete math where proofs, particular proofs by induction.

It is a huge help to be able to think in terms of recursive algorithms in many applications, and proofs by induction both give you the tools for thinking this way and the framework for demonstrating that recursive algorithms are correct.
There's something that confuses me: If a lawsuit has actually been filed, then there should be some sort of tracking number (case number, docket number, etc.) associated with it. Why didn't the article have that number, so that interested people could track the status of the case on their own?
Are you seriously suggesting that we get rid of police or that we rid them of their ability to use force to enforce the law?
The cloth diapers are also a nice touch! We ended up using mostly cloth diapers until the baby started eating solid foods.
Holy shit, Pavel sounds very much like JM Le Pen.
You don't need a Google account to use Allo. Being phone-number driven for setup and how you are identified within the App is really the key to answering your questions.

From articles/reviews of the app from official publications, Google is saying a Desktop app is in the works, it's just not ready yet.
> why isn't Allo just Hangouts 3?

I was wondering that too. I honestly suspect some executive in Google's team wanted to have more visibility, team and power.
Hilarious, coming from a country where you can't dig a hole without meticulous verification that you aren't going to damage unbeknownst Ancient Greek/Roman/Renaissance artifacts.
This README[1] has instructions for installing Karabiner-Elements and has a few examples for mapping some common keys such as caps-lock to escape:

[1] https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/blob/master/usa...
Meta: seems like a setting or plugin in their Wordpress instance is stealing the default middle-click functionality (open in new window). I always wonder what the original intent with such things is...
I have a stupid question. Is there a dogmatic way of listing installed things and sharing that with other brew?

For example, I now list with brew list into a file and edit the file so that whole list is a big brew install. That way if I reinstall OS or go to another I can have same things.
Civil Forfeiture has definitely not been ruled legal (or illegal). It's actually one of the issue that the ACLU is actively fighting against. To give it credence in one of their articles would hurt a fight that they're still fighting.

I understand both of you. So, you could say that it is practiced, sure. However you cannot say that they are wrong, their approach and wording in their article is very much correct. As I said in another comment, they did their due diligence.
But we've always been at war with the Middle East!
that's just sad approach to life... well your body will come back with receipt for this behavior later, it always does. what you will do then, take more pills?

and exercise can be anything physical that makes you sweat, why the need to take only weightlifting into account?
No reason why but tears welled up in my eyes when I see the first toy. Congrats btw.
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It's fun to read all of this. I re-read John Siracusa reviews and some old blogs and yes, until Snow Leopard OSX was THE cool hackers' OS. And when Apple didn't invest in power users anymore, individuals took over.
> Distribution of child porn does not do direct harm. //

IMO it does, both to the user and the subjects of the pornography.

It's most likely the lesser harm compared to the original creation; though I'm not sure you could certainly say that in absolutely all situations.
By iron I mean whatever dissolves easiest. Some metals will be very rusty after two weeks in water.
There are. Data types are pretty much standardized on the basic level (eg. fastq, bam, bed, vcf etc.). Else, most is done by the big science consortia like TCGA, ICGC & PanCancer. And obviously the big databases from NCBI and EBI-EMBL. Trials are standardized by EMA and FDA.
To me, the message seems directed at a niche where people are concerned enough about their pulmonary function to drop a hundred bucks on a non-medical gadget; carry that gadget and a cell phone along on their workouts; and constantly monitor it's output during their workouts while not being concerned enough to consult a physician.

Good luck.
>locking existing users out of Linux

A serious question: What gives Linux users the right to expect that Linux will run on any given PC / laptop?

Think about it. These PCs/laptops are designed to adhere to Microsoft's Windows PC hardware standards doc (which was never, ever an open standard) and, with few exceptions, only tested against various versions of Windows. Linux users are failing to receive a feature that they were never promised in the first place so it's unclear that they have any valid cause for complaint.

Perhaps Linux, BSD, etc. users should be creating their own PC standards doc and asking OEMs to adhere to it instead?
XMPP http://xmpp.org/ ? Or maybe Matrix if you want a nice XKCD-927 project :)
Idk of the reliability, but I recommend looking at the recent build quality of HP laptops in person. It's pretty impressive. Still need to see that they're good for the long run, but they look like they're getting better.

Also Dells being finicky? Never heard of that, but wouldn't doubt it either. I think the XPS line works well with Linux. I know someone who used Ubuntu exclusively on it for a long time.
Giving devs a way out of ObjC is a pretty big draw :).
> Firefox was able to do nothing until Google chrome adoption forced the wider web to change instead of following Microsoft and ie

Do you have numbers to back that up? I admittedly don't, but I remember sites changing because of FF's popularity. If you can prove it, great, I'll believe you. But I remember it differently
They should consider going through and cleaning out the libraries every three years since those tend to accumulate a great deal of historical information.
Definitely guilty of not asking. Am currently awaiting birth of second child.
A related thought: for any app, there's a question ~ "How do I get the user to open the app regularly? How do I turn checking the app into a habit?"

Messaging apps have a nice solution to this: they allow your friends to summon you to the app by sending you a message.
Let's see some prosecutions of the police for harassment, false imprisonment, destruction of property, assault, battery, conspiracy to commit a felony, creating a disturbance, conduct unbecoming of a public servant, and obstruction of the law. Let's see them go to prison for abusing the citizens. This is a clear cut case of police attempting to fabricate charges in order to put away someone who is guilty only of contempt of cop.

Set a course for confrontation with the police union; it's necessary. Liquidate police by firing and prosecuting as necessary to effect a clean department that won't brutalize the public. There will always be more people to sign up to join the police, so we may as well get rid of the shitty ones. Cleaning house is long overdue, and we need to start realistically expecting to have to fire significant proportions of a lot of different police departments. Believe me, law and order won't simply break down overnight if we start holding the police accountable.

The only way we as the public are going to render comeuppance to the police is if we get political momentum going for harsh legal/criminal consequences when they abuse the public.
> it wont make you any more focused or any smarter

This depends on your brain chemistry. Most people I've talked to who have used Modafinil do have increased focus, just like other stimulants.
A bit of an overkill, no? Doesn't bcrypt suffice?
Theres a difference between explicitly locking out linux, and using a piece of hardware that doesn't have linux driver.
I was able to hook up my MBP to two external 4k displays and drive those and the internal screen at 60Hz with no problem. 2015 MBP with discrete AMD Radeon graphics chip.
The fine print in the book is education to completely clueless parent.

Basically how to bathe the baby, how to touch him/her and how to play with him/her. As a dude, I'd probably find that useful, as weird as it may sound. And it's probably important for the baby now that I think of it. Sensory deprivation could hinder development. And that could happen if parent is clueless enough.
But it's so hard to try to convince non-tech people to move to another app when they are so comfortable with Whatsapp...
Sorry, I probably failed to notice the "Thanks Homebrew team. <3" part first time round.
Don't know if there is but that's a great idea. I always had a pain of brew installing on new systems. Especially when you want to lock versions of some things (MySQL etc).
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I'm moving to signal / telegram / flavour-of month.

What's that, I have no contacts on any of those services? I guess that's even more secure.
...until Linux supports the new hardware modes.

Linux always lags in new hardware support. Other than the appallingly bad way Lenovo handled the questions on their site, is this news?
The "extreme suffering" was in relation to his emotional crisis, not because he was unable to use his phone.
I'm in Sweden and I can't find the app in Google Play, even if I'm searching for "net.darksky.darksky".
WhatsApp is Facebook. They're basically just two applications from the same company now. Are we going to have a ruling that data can't be passed from Lync to Skype in Microsoft, or from GMail to Googles Ad network?

Just because corporate policy in 2014 was they would be completely separate doesn't mean that in 2016 that is now seen as a good idea (for them). Facebook makes money off your data, it was pretty obvious this was going to happen eventually.

I do not understand the rage about this from people who know they're the same company.
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I think more people would start businesses, and go through the learning curve of running a business, if it weren't for the state of health insurance. Unless you're rich, the only affordable way to get good health insurance is through an employer.

If you've got kids, or some expensive medical condition in your family, a lot of people are going to suck it up and work for the man, for health insurance.
you can't have too much security, ever. especially not when loads of personal files and potential sensitive data are getting stored under said security.
Not sure if that's what you wanna do but you could do :

"ls /usr/local/Cellar/ | cat >> myInstall.txt"
The most famous UK cases being the innocent people convicted of the Guildford Pub Bombings - the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Sev...
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Finns don't really learn swedish, unless one lives in an area with a large swedish speaking population. In total swedish speaking population is only a few percent, but there are areas with a higher concentration. The reason it's bilingual is because swedish is the second official language in finland. Because history (sweden ruled finland up to 19th century, swedish speaking population retained considerable political power even after that).
How to install WhatsApp on your Windows, Linux and Mac

http://www.tricksonnet.com/how-to/install-whatsapp-windows-l...
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You're intellectually dishonest. It doesn't matter how many times I destroy your points you'll slime back with highly improbable interpretations of statements.
> First, you assume that the $200 laptop is slower than the macbook Air

No, I didn't assume that at all--hardware speed has literally nothing to do with my reasoning.

Hardware speed slows you down slightly, but it's a negligible factor next to crappy tooling. The programming infrastructure available for free for Windows is far, far behind that available on Unix systems. And if you use Linux, the tooling is there, but you're going to be fighting with software/firmware that doesn't support Linux for a good portion of your time.

> If you want to buy an MBA, fine do it. But don't try to convince others they wont be successful unless they too have an MBA (or a ThinkPad Yoga or a Microsoft Surface or whatever people consider a sign of success in your neighborhood).

I specifically said "A $200 windows laptop is enough to start learning". You can definitely be successful with a $200 windows laptop. But, as compared to working with more effective tools, it's going to slow you down.

Your comment is a child post to mine, but you haven't responded to anything that I actually said.
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"If you know someone who has better data, I'm sure everyone would like to read it."

He links to a site all over the place with mountains of data http://examine.com/

Also, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

(And many others)

Seriously, there is a lot of research into many of these supplements. It's not like Gwern is our only source of information. I have nothing against the information he is giving, but it's far from the only source.
The math courses in most CS programs are not particularly useful, except as a weed-out function, and even there, I would argue that it's not particularly useful, since the Calc 1/2/3/Diff EQ sequence is not all that beneficial for anything I've ever encountered, in school or my career.
Maybe overkill? Was there any reason to suppose this was more than some guys talking tough? Any credible reason to suppose they were going to go through with it?
We can't divert money away from the war machine.
I lost all my WhatsApp chat history after a phone upgrade went wrong, and it didn't cause me any problems at all. I recognise that my use case is not the same as everyone's, but if I want to save something from WhatsApp, I put it somewhere else.
They have an history about stolen passwords... I guess they learnt from it.
Also, I don't think any security would be overkill when you manage perosnal and professional data of millions of people!
Calculus (yes, continuous calculus) is pretty much the most important area of math you need to know to program well. In my books, if one can't integrate/differentiate a formula, they shouldn't be allowed to program a computer. Because that's how you end up with algorithms that take way too long to finish because the author couldn't bother to estimate how much computation the algorithm needs to perform at large inputs.
And to me, Shapify is just another generic "web 2.0" name. Lost in the sea of a million other "ify" domains. The point here is that they should at least claim the domain name for their product, regardless if that is going to be the actual public facing product.
It's labeled an opinion piece. I'd be interested in opinions formed by people who look at a lot of data.
> 2.36 kg plain granulated white table sugar

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guid...
there are much cooler activities than that, and ones you can actually do all year around, not just few weeks if weather/snowfall permits (realistically it shrinks to couple of weekends/a week for most people).

- sport climbing - you wouldn't believe how cool and stimulating the sport is, switch indoor/boulder when weather is bad. cool people in community too

- mix of backcountry skiing in winter and hiking anytime else will give you huge amounts of nature that is very relaxing on the mind (easy rule - the more mind works daily, the more body workout it needs to relax, and vice versa)
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> removing a factually true report that is just two years old seems a bit extreme

It might also be the case that old articles (say, of 25+ years) should be put back into digital archives. In such a long time the persons involved are no longer affected, but the public interest might exist, for historical archival reasons. So there would be an "invisibility interval" from year 2.5 to year 25.
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That's really just BS. What's the point of encryption if both the keys and the content is known by Google? They could as well use just SSL and that wouldn't make it safer than this kind of "encryption".
The problem then is that you've not recorded the user committing a crime (or committing a lesser crime, eg soliciting), only them preparing to commit one.

They could have tried a con like "we lost the site, gaussed it to avoid detection, please re-upload" and collared people for distributing. Not sure how well that would go though.
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Read elsewhere in this thread. Don't rely on cheap flash for archiving, you'll lose it. Think on the order of a year or so.
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You can use brew-bundle for that. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

On one machine:

brew bundle dump

On another machine:

brew bundle
One guy has done a nice work decompiling the BIOS and found that skipping over the hidden BIOS pages is hard-coded into the firmware. See this https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Installing-Ubu...
We really have crossed over into the USSA.
How does a baby shower cost the parents money? Every one I've ever been to has been a) Organized by someone other than the parents-to-be and b) Wildly successful in terms of ROI.

Source: Parent of 3 kids, uncle to 4 more.
I get your point; I don't buy an iPhone and then complain when it won't load android. however, I've been able to load linux on almost any laptop I've bought for the last 20 years, so they are making a significant change here, and haven't made it particularly widely publicized.
Yes, because I'd rather DarkSky focus on being a great weather API than being a mediocre geocoding API.
> Why is it a given that teachers "must" have low salaries?

I explained why: at least an order of magnitude more people are capable of meeting the minimal requirements to be teachers than are capable of meeting the minimal requirements to be developers, thus the former will always be less-well-paid than the latter.

> The sixty classrooms without teachers show otherwise.

They may not be due to pay but due to union rules. And, of course, even if teachers should make more that doesn't mean that they should make much

> In fact there is no reason why teacher wages shouldn't keep up with the general state of the community where they live in.

Are you saying that teachers should make a mean or median wage? I think that's a little silly, as it's hardly a profession requiring high innate talent and intensive study, unlike engineering, medicine, law, religion. Frankly, I think a welder or a plumber should be paid more than a teacher.

But it shouldn't matter what you & I think teachers should be paid: their wages should be set by the market, as should everyone's. That's the closest thing to fair we'll ever be able to get.
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Sounds like we need three, à la Minority Report.