skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Type theory. The Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence shows that type theory, logic, and category theory are equivalent. Even ideas such as set theory can be grounded in type theory (due to the univalence axiom), as type theory can be used as a foundation (via homotopy type theory) for all of mathematics.

There are lots of practical uses. For example, the billion dollar mistake [1] is painfully obvious when viewed through the lens of type theory.

Software such as Coq can be used to write verified (provably correct) software and can be used by mathematicians for proving theorems.

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3186
Didn't consider that. However I would suspect anyone that anyone searching for them would rely on 10 seconds on the internet and they would stomp around to other sources.
The book "Concrete Math" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics) was written as a book-sized expansion of the Mathematical Preliminaries chapter of TAOCP ... so if you want to have a base of knowledge to help you analyze algorithms, it would appear this is a good place to start. I'm working my way through it now.
I don't know of any other company that has discontinued as many products people actually used. Sorry Google, even if I didn't already have several chat apps and even if I didn't prefer to type on a real keyboard I still couldn't recommend your new products to friends and family. I just don't trust you anymore.
I think Gwern understands many of the limits of his experimental design. He's has written extensively on a wide variety of statistical and scientific topics.

Here's an example related to placebo that's linked to from his blog. http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/689936-My-Paper-quot-Noo...

See also: https://www.gwern.net/Statistical%20notes

I'm not saying he's a perfect researcher, but give him some credit instead of assuming he doesn't understand what he's talking about.
How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
Quite. It's very effective at convincing that magical thinking/group think are a huge risk, but it's not at all convincing that the Fed is engaging in magical thinking. Ironically, it merely asserts it is so instead of engaging in the empiricism it clamors for. My first thought when I read:

"Oh my god, are we really saying that the entire FOMC decision-making process comes down to whether there’s a good jobs report on Friday? Why don’t we just inspect the entrails of a goat?"

was... well, incorporating a jobs report into the decision-making process, what's so wrong with that?

I'm not a macro-economist and so perhaps I lack the background to critique this post effectively. But it just seems like more doom and gloom. The great thing about gloom and doom in finance is that eventually someone will be right and say "I told you so", but it's still usually just magical thinking, too.
FASTQ, BAM, BED, VCF, etc are all standardized in terms of file format, but the semantics of the content are not. Harmonizing data across multiple semantics is still a very challenging problem that few people take seriously.
"Any system will be abused."

I'm a big fan of checks and balances. Alas, I can't (yet) imagine what that'd look like here.
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/lawyer-dark-web-child-porn...

"As a result, the number of visitors to Playpen while it was under Government control [increased] from an average of 11,000 weekly visitors to approximately 50,000 per week. During those two weeks, the website’s membership grew by over 30%, the number of unique weekly visitors to the site more than quadrupled, and approximately 200 videos, 9,000 images, and 13,000 links to child pornography were posted on the site,”
Who does want to work in warehouses? Haven't we all seen those reports of how uncomfortable it, both physically (hot heavy crowded work) and mentally (agressive metrics and no job security)?

The more uncomfortable the job is the more comfortable I am with automating it away.
“I agree that the solar inverter is a fertile field for engineering innovation. This short video is a good, quick overview: http://goo.gl/VkqaFs
It doesn't. They need a constant stream of new data for their business model to work. Thus, they benefit from continuously collecting data on users.
> magnesium

Yes! Magnesium changed my life!

I was certain that I was living with a hard depression... until I read somewhere that lactose intolerance can lead to magnesium deficiency.

I started taking Magnesium and felt the effect immediately. All of my body is physically relaxed. I struggled with muscle cramps and spasms, they are gone thanks to increasing my magnesium intake.

The body truly is a machine... !
It is also better for you teeth.
3D Printer Hack: Embedding Water and Metal
Something 'funny' about new Fb messenger version is that it steals your SMSs from your inbox automatically

Yes, you can opt out, AFTER it read your unread SMSs
Getting Exascale Right, Not First
In homebrew/core and within taps we ensure those cases are handled by `revision`s and CI checks. Across taps this is harder and we're working on it.
Clearly parent argued opposite. We entrust law enforcement to be the sole provider of legitimate force to uphold the law. But that power must also be checked or else it becomes a blind eye to the illegitimate use of force.

I'm all for law enforcement having better weapons, armor, and information networks than any terrorist or criminal, but that doesn't mean they can use it as they wish. The law must apply to the lawmen.
iOS to Android Native UI Conversion
swear by this app for a few years at least; great for regular home region, but have also used it on while travelling in other countries without hesitation

A-B trip planning seems a departure from their humble/minimal roots, but obv. somewhere they have to go, so good on them
The research was obviously funded by Coca-Cola.
No, because cancer always evolves. If you don't kill 100% of cancer cells, the remaining cells are likely resistant to whatever you used to kill the specific cell type, and they will grow up and continue causing problems.

What you would need is something that recognized cancer cells and only cancer cells with 100% specificity/100% selectivity, and killed all of them. This is near impossible for something that can evolve.
You turn off telomerase, your HSCs stop proliferating, you have no blood cells and game over (a bit exaggerated, but not too much). Cancer is not hard because scientists are stupid, it is hard because it is highly heterogenous and very difficult to even determine common ground, expensive so that study cohorts are allows on the lower end of what is necessary and can be hard to interpret as you have only a single attempt with every patient, mouse model results can be nontransferable to humans etc. We will eventually get it but we will consider it solved after it has been solved for 5 years, not before we even reached a mere 90% cure rate.
ThinkPad and IdeaPad are notionally just two product lines with different target markets, but everything I've seen related to them suggests that the difference is more like buying from two separate companies.
If you rely heavily on Homebrew in this way you should instead vendor all the formulae you depend on so that updates do not happen without your manual intervention.
I wish I had've learned linear algebra in college because it is essential to machine learning
I believe that most soda companies add caramel coloring to their cola.
Could there be some kind of "allowed CP database"? I'm asking because I might donate my old childhood photos to such database. I really would not mind if someone jacked of to that stuff. If that could help to prevent some pedophile acting out their urges, it would be really great.

Is this too weird idea for HN?
>Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied.

What effectiveness? Who even does that? And from those who do it, who measured the effectiveness compared to plain water?
No windows phone client :-(
The benefits of this sort of encryption & privacy infrastructure:

* Protects you (user) from eavesdroppers between you and Google.

* Protects your data from eavesdroppers inside Google's data centers.

* Protects your data at rest (on disk).

* Protects your data from malicious employees.

* Enforces a great deal of scrutiny over who can access your data, and what they are allowed to see.

But, yes, they process and store your data, so there's no 100℅ secure approach to be had here.

---

SSL only handles the first two bullet points.
I've ordered from the third company to Australia, didn't take very long and was (and is!) extremely useful, not to say much cheaper than what I would've paid with Australian prices for most of the clothes for the first year.
Well, that's a neat approach!
Does anyone know what is a good practice to create a "vault" - the kind that is used for the Pepper in this case?

I have heard of it being a separate, ip restricted server with daily changing ip address, etc. A simpler use case would be to store oauth2 tokens or some kind of PII
Dihydrogen Monoxide is a fearful substance and should be banned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
Old newspapers don't (generally) disappear completely, they just get scarcer and harder to access. I would expect major newspapers to have complete microfilm/microfiche archives of their entire 20th century runs. I would think major libraries would, too. So getting access to a particular newspaper for an arbitrary date generally involves, worst case, a special trip to the offices of the newspaper or a library in the same city as it.

What would be needed to do something comparable for online papers? Keep them online, but de-list them from search engines? Take them offline, but keep them in offline storage at newspaper offices and libraries?
Looks like ZDNet picked up the story:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-reportedly-blocking-linu...

Maybe we'll get an official response from Lenovo.
> Enrolling your own crypto protocol [MTProto] is, in my opinion, something which you should not do

Signal did the same thing.

The question is who's more capable and builds a more secure system
Oh man, just coming out of the dark times (it's hard for the first few months), my little babyface is a bit over 6 months old. Everyone likes to offer un-asked for advice, and I'm no exception, but sleep sleep sleep. Bank it as much as possible before it's gone. Sleep dep is easily the worst part of being a new parent, it makes your brain go funny and makes it hard to cope with things. Be prepared to feel super depressed about your work performance for the next six months. That one actually hit me hard - your brain is how you do your job and your brain doesn't work properly for the first six months, so it's incredibly demoralizing. Lots of rewarding things in there too, but man, there's definitely a trough of sorrow you go through at the beginning!
I looked into it. firebase-server doesn't work with recent firebase clients and it's not a priority for the author.
That's obviously fine for you to do but it's worth noting that we remove software that no-one uses where "no-one" is defined by "no-one using analytics". That's actually our main use-case for analytics.
A note about combining SHA512 with bcrypt: Don't feed the raw binary output of SHA512 into bcrypt. Use the hexadecimal or base64-encoded form instead. (Dropbox probably does this already, since they mention base64 in passing.)

bcrypt is known to choke on null bytes. Each SHA512 hash has a 25% chance of containing a null byte if you use the raw binary format.

Using hex or base64, of course, decreases the amount of entropy that you can fit into bcrypt's 72-byte limit. But you can still fit 288 to 432 bits of entropy in that space, which is more than enough for the foreseeable future.
Same. Poor choice in domain.
> Any credible reason to suppose they were going to go through with it?

You mean, other than the fact that they did?

From the article:

In the end they decide on two criminal infractions [...] The tickets they gave him started a criminal prosecution in the Connecticut superior court

They didn't like what he was doing, so they gave him bogus tickets. They weren't "some guys talking tough" they were police abusing their power.
InfluxData closes $16M Series B led by Battery Ventures
Independent of any overly-optimistic time-frames, why does this not make sense?

I take it to mean that we will understand cancer so completely that we can render it a minor disease.

Oh man, I had to call in sick last week 'cause I had a nasty cancer, but I'm feeling fine now.
I have seen this one before, but was happy to read through it again. I have zero interest in having children, but think this is a great idea and would be more than happy for my taxes to help pay for it. The thing is, if this did exist in the UK (where I live), it feels like it would be the first thing to be dropped at the next budget - feels like the only chance it would have of existing in the UK would have been if it was introduced 25+ years ago :(
Universal Baby Incubation will never work. Mothers will no longer buy anything for their baby because sufficient is supplied by the state.
Still hoping that iMessage will switch to Axolotl rather than their broken E2E design.
Cops convicted in every country go to special resort prisons. Just repealing this, and pushing them to general population prisons for serious shit might be enough of a deterrent. Sure - it may be a death sentence, but one who gives them out should expect one himself.
Coke is 89% water (from the other % most is sugar).

Not really comparable to consuming 2 cans of salt, baking soda, toothpaste, etc.

And would you really be worried for people drinking several cans of lemon juice per day?
I've worked with mike to maintain formula for years and he is always pleasant and on top of things in what is a very hectic job.

Homebrew is such a good package manager (and not for the reasons any package manager is classically considered good). It's great because the community is so vibrant, the user experience is so well thought out, and the formula dsl makes so much logical sense. It's actually both a GitHub and Ruby showcase.

Thanks homebrew team! Here to many more years of accessible packages on the Mac.
We should harness cancer to engineer intentional structures. Is it brain cancer, or is it a neural lace?
Note that one of those cops was a supervisor. He also supervises other cops. Leadership!
I started a similar one for the Indian market but so far haven't had much success.
It's easier to create packages for Homebrew but, as I'd be the first to admit, `apt-get` has far more advanced dependency management and resolution. They both have their strengths and weaknesses.
I think it's a pipe dream to imagine that all future interactions will be through mobile devices like phones. The way I see it mobile is adding extra time spent with tech instead of replacing desktop entirely. People spend more time online then they used to, a lot of it due to mobile devices becoming common place. Some time that used to be spent on desktop is migrating but not all of it. Desktop and Laptops will be a thing for a long time.

Another thing I find annoying is we went from mobile first to mobile only for a lot of things. The point of mobile first was to ensure that the less capable devices were not second rate citizens to desktop. Not that they are the only thing customers will use to access services.
I Have WhatsApp running on my iPhone, Windows PC, on my iMac and Laptop. I haven't tried Allo yet, but I'm not happy with any app like this taking off that isn't cross-platform.
As other posters suggested, maybe sell the Open Cola syrup and pair with a carbonator.

I want to try the Dollar Shave Club model in my country (Razors particularly have an incredible markup), but the import and tax logistics, plus starting capital requirements, are insurmountable for me. I guess I'll stick to software :)
Blockchain based remittance coming to India
Scala

sales
.filter(DateTime.now - 3.years < _.sold)
.groupBy(_.emp)
.collect {
case (emp, r) if r.map(_.price).sum > 100 => emp
}
.toList
.sorted

But yeah, you're right.
bendmebackmeanywayyouwantme? That rang a bell... but according to http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/garbage/ithinkimparanoid.html it should actually be bendmebreakmeanywayyouneedme ;)
While this is very impressive, it feels like trying to solve the wrong problem. The real problem is getting rid of passwords (Persona, anyone?).

Don't get me wrong, what's described there is super-important to secure the authentication of today, but what about a word for the authentication of tomorrow?

There already are various solutions. Passwordless[0] is a familiar one for nodejs, and I recently bumped into the promising Portier[1], which is, according to its authors, a "spiritual successor to Mozilla Persona".

[0] https://passwordless.net/

[1] https://portier.github.io/
Like the good old "chr1" == "1" problem? Well, yeah that’s true. But still I think we have those consortia in place, why do we need another authority. They just have to set (and somewhat enforce) the rules.
We're attempting to merge the two projects so eventually Linuxbrew/brew can go away. It's a relatively slow process, though.
They're not used for long but while they're used they're used hard.
you need only a bit of willpower to fix your own diet, nothing more. many people are unwilling to get into any form of unpleasant state (ie abstaining from sweet stuff, workouts etc), they are 'too soft' and avoid hardships. that's all.

and none of what you mentioned could be magically achieved by one person popping a pill to gain some short term effect, and probably lose something in longer run. feel free to experiment on yourself, just please don't force anyhow this pitiful activity on others.
Japanese fits perfectly, actually.

Nose - hana has N in it.

Sand - suna has S.

Round - maru has R.
Yeah, good call, I think you'd have needed ~1 gram resolution to get anything interesting.
I can only imagine how corrupt would be the process of selecting contents for the box if they were to implement it in Slovakia. That's a lot of stuff - a lot of opportunities to steal something from taxpayers.
Forgive me if this is overly intrusive, but were you breastfeeding the child? I was under the impression that you are extremely unlikely to get pregnant whilst nursing.
White noise? I find I fall asleep faster due to air conditioner and forced air furnace and occasional rain storms.

When I was a kid I could just barely hear my parents decompressing by watching Barney Miller and All in the Family (yes I am older) and that helped me sleep.
The EU's privacy laws are much broader than the "right to be forgotten" (which do not apply to public figures anyway, as Google has shown in the past).

When a disgruntled ex publishes a page saying you have a bunch of STDs[1], or a company crawls your social media info and starts using it to market some product without your conscent, and these are the first things your cutomers (and/or friends) see when they google you... you're happy takedown requests are a thing and there are laws to protect you.
Quantities matter, naturally. I'd worry about them as well, honestly. Especially if they were eating tubes of fluoride toothpaste. Luckily they are usually just ingredients in stuff, just like the chemicals in coke.

Vinegar might be somewhat of an exception - especially apple cider vinegar. Folks use it for a natural cure, some folks drinking a glass multiple times a day. I'm personally suspicious and it seems in these sorts of amounts it isn't the safest thing for folks [1]. Again, quantities, preparation, and dosages matter.

[1] http://www.livestrong.com/article/494866-recommended-amount-...
It seems absurd because you complete glossed over the most important part: " and for whatever reason, there's no working option for exposing a more standard AHCI interface instead."

This isn't linux's fault for not supporting some non-standard raid driver, this is lenovos fault for not allowing users to change the bios settings to non-raid.

Also, just because you are been using a Thinkpad sucessfully (which is largely been immune from the issues we are talking about compared to the rest of lenovo line), to use that to dismiss the very real issues regarding lenovo's recent moves is disingenuous at best.
This. Also companies that delete embarrassing threads are shitty companies, I wouldn't buy anything there. Support forums are everywhere, from Reddit to SO anyway
If that is indeed the case, then missing evidence should count as evidence against the officer.
Exactly. Hangouts has a lot of problems - its performance doesn't impress me, and the UI is confusing in a lot of ways, and splitting SMS/Conversations is something that really disappointed me, but still - it has the full featureset. I mean obviously, it suffers from the fact that it's heavily tied to Google accounts, which isn't ideal for trying to reach outside of the Google sphere. But otherwise, it does everything.

So why doesn't it get more love from Google?
>yeah, please drink half a litre, or even better 2 litre of vinegar and report back to us how that went.

And what is that supposed to prove?

People regularly drink "half a litre" or 2lt of Coke and report back just fine.

The main reason not to drink half a littre of vinegar is its taste and extra acidity.

If it had the same acidity as Coke AND better taste it would be fine to drink.
Does not seem to work with Google Apps account.

Which makes the list:

* Allo

* Google Fi

* Google Play Music Family Plan

* Google Play Store Family Sharing

* Google Spaces

* Google Trips

* YouTube Red

* YouTube Music

It's a growing list.

I'm always amused by the "One account. All of Google" header on the login pages. Google Apps accounts do not grant access to all of Google as the products do not work for it (it's not a permissions thing the domain admin can fix).
It seems that it is impossible to get to level 10
I reported a bug in Transit 4.0 yesterday and got prompt response directly from the CTO, Guillaume Campagna, along with a promise of a fix.

The live bus tracking was great, but the new GO feature makes it even better.
There is always a way to inject malicious code in a codebase you control. The Allo apps are closed-source and their code is solely controlled by Google. Doesn't matter which protocols they claim to be using, when they could simply push an update which silently uploads your private keys to their server (or breaks the claim in any of the many different ways).

This is the same reason even WhatsApp's use of 'end-to-end encryption' cannot be considered secure from WhatsApp.
I totally agree. I've been heavily drinking La Croix sparkling water when I crave a soda and I've never been more hydrated!
Indeed there's a whole field, and I think Microsoft has a strong potential to radically improve it.

Most bioinformaticians I know are poor developers, have limited knowledge of existing algorithms, and/or have critically limited bio knowledge. As a result you get buggy, slow and unmaintainable software (see: all the MRI analysis software posts recently), reinvention of classical algorithms (anything from basic statistical tests to full on clustering methods) or tools lacking the full scope required to actually be useful.

I think MS could change this by having strong CS/SWEs with longer tenures than you see in academia, backed by more money and essentially unlimited computing resources, with a high profile name to win them collaborators who can share good datasets. (Compared with Google, they're not trying to generate data in-house as far as I've heard.) Some of the most notable advances in bioinformatics have come from applying decades-old algorithms that never made it to bio before then. Even if MS just accelerates this by applying people who know about these algorithms, that would be very helpful.
'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real