skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly why so many of my friends and family use Hangouts née Gmail Chat.

We can use it in the browser at work just by keeping Gmail open in a tab. No IM applications to install or concerns about whether we're running Windows, OSX, or whatever.

Then the conversations follow when you log off whatever desktop or laptop you're on via the mobile app. About half of us use Android so it either comes standard or you can easily install. The other half uses iOS and unlike iMessage/iChat/Facetime, you can easily use it on iOS as well as Android.

I installed Allo today but so far I haven't had a chance to try it out. Frankly it gives me the same mild annoyance I felt when Facebook broke messaging out into a separate app (and when I just said screw it and uninstalled both).

As much as I use and generally like Google stuff, they drive me nuts with their approach a lot of the time. When GChat/Talk became Hangouts and started integrating Voice and SMS/MMS, it seemed like a move in the right direction, both for them as a company (wanting to be your one stop shop for messaging) and for me as a user (less apps, more seamless integration). Then SMS/MMS was split back off into Messaging, Voice...I haven't really heard much about Voice in a while which is weird because it was one of those things that seemed so promising at one point. And now Duo alongside the pretty great video chat already in Hangouts and Allo alongside Messaging alongside Hangouts.

I get the idea of maybe starting a secondary platform/service/app to see what sticks and what doesn't. At worst they can integrate the good bits into their main product (see: Inbox). But their messaging strategy seems more like publishing Inbox with the intention of just ditching plain old Gmail.
- Microsoft Cure For Cancer To Ship With Windows 10 Whether You Like It Or Not

(joke)
Hello and Goodbye Allo.
Not interested in yet another messaging product.
Ifmeaningful homomorphic encryption was an option, then we'd be living in a quite different world.
The police union is going to spend huge amounts of money--money that is going to come ultimately from tax dollars--defending this indefensible conduct. This insanity won't stop until those unions are dismantled.
But again, it is only us humans that value diversity. You would be obliterating the only species that would appreciate the thing you are obliterating them to preserve.
This obviously depends on the phone OS, but in Android 7.0 you can add an exception for whatsapp from the deep sleep the phone enters.
When the bureaucracy fails
Since this is not built-in, it may be possible to make with deepstream's onClientDisconnect.

https://github.com/deepstreamIO/deepstream.io/issues/191

Also they seem to be working on 'presence'.
https://github.com/deepstreamIO/deepstream.io/issues/118
I know the question wasn't directed to me, but the animation on the 'Cluster Messaging'[1] page really helped me understand.

[1] https://deepstream.io/tutorials/core/cluster-messaging/
Fitness trackers may actually make you gain weight
Like flying to the moon, colonising Mars isn't a 'bad' idea. It won't harm anyone, most of humanity will keep on doing what it's doing. It doesn't take away important resources from environmentalism or other pressing causes, that's a zero sum fallacy. Musk's point is to push forward relentlessly to a future which incrementally improves humanity's chance of survival. Even if we stop messing up earth, an asteroid or a north korean engineered super flu could still end us while we watch solar powered TV and eat kale chips.
Favorite Stepanov quote below - apparently mixing mathematics and bad fish is quite potent:

Question:
What is the origin of STL? Has STL been conceived to be what it is now, that is "the" C++ Standard Library, or does it come from some other project? Could you tell us a history of STL?

Answer:
In 1976, still back in the USSR, I got a very serious case of food poisoning from eating raw fish. While in the hospital, in the state of delirium, I suddenly realized that the ability to add numbers in parallel depends on the fact that addition is associative. (So, putting it simply, STL is the result of a bacterial infection.) In other words, I realized that a parallel reduction algorithm is associated with a semigroup structure type.

The full interview can be found at:

http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html
I think when someone on HN refers to a specific piece of tech as magic, they're not saying that it's literally magical.
Cancer is just a name to group a lot of different diseases under; there can't be an universal cure...
> On the other hand, sending life to Mars, due to that radiation, would make it evolve much faster, right?

The bottleneck in evolution isn't mutations but selection events (~= number of organisms).
Bootstrap? No one uses it any more, it's too popular.

-- HN whenever Bootstrap comes up (paraphrasing Yogi Berra).
Thoughts on CSS Grid Layout percentage tracks and gutters
ahem Perhaps not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Well, that money will come from the city / state budget. Which can be used as a weapon in the next elections. And these can be huge sums of money. For instance, NYC paid out $202M in NYPD-related settlements in 2015.

http://cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-city/ny...

I don't see unions getting dismantled happening, it's the same wishful thinking as making guns illegal.
Is the Android app available worldwide? I can't install it in Poland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segal%27s_law

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
Yep, me as well. Thanks!
This isn't a pro-union or anti-union issue. This is a police brutality and police corruption issue.
First thing I thought when saw the release of this app is that it will record everything I do because it's google.

Thanks but no thanks, google. Stay evil.
Brew is awesome. Note though that it gathers anonymous aggregate user behaviour analytics and reports to Google Analytics, see https://git.io/brew-analytics .

You can opt out with

brew analytics off
I have never had a problem with homebrew. I think some people like one or the other better as a preference though.
Microsoft prevents users from rolling back to Windows 7, maybe because Microsoft gets more data from its users with W10.

Data looks like the new business model of Windows.
I was going to suggest this as well. For an experiment that otherwise goes to great lengths to look scientific, this is a rather simple-minded blunder.
I'm not sure if you realize the great differences in generality between this study and previous studies in sound-meaning associations. First, this study drew from ~4,000 languages representing all the world's major language families (a scale I assume the /i/ vs. /u/ studies didn't achieve). Second, this study was sensitive to all associations in its methodology, as opposed to the high vs. low study, where the scientists came into the study asking a very narrow question (is there an association between high vowels and smallness and low vowels and bigness?). Here is the table from the study that summarizes associations that were very strongly attested in their corpus: http://i.imgur.com/iCOM8KQ.jpg

This study corroborates previous findings in sound-meaning association studies, but it also gives us a whole lot of new associations ('horn' and /k/, /r/? who knew?). Further, it investigates a previously uninvestigated (as far as I know) question: are there sounds that negatively correlate with certain meanings? (And it turns out there are.)
> So you're telling me you alter your biochemistry to become more productive without a care for how it affects your overall (mostly mental) health?

This is quite disingenuous, he specifically searches for nootropics with few side effects
It's great that we have all these research teams tackling the cancer problem from a machine-learning/genomics/personalised-medicine angle...

But do they have a common/open standard for technologies (ML, CV, etc), sharing datasets and findings, trials, etc? IMO something like HL7 [0] but for cancer research would be a game-changer.

I see a lot of promising approaches but not so good coordination, with everybody working in silos and developing their own framework... or maybe it's what I see on the surface.

[0] http://www.hl7.org/
The problem with this conspiracy is that you can't install Windows 10 on the machine either ...
You're right but maybe they can turn that into pills or shots to be taken when needed.
It was a compliment, as mentioned in other comments. I love the fact that it just doesn't error out, it offers a fix right there. It also humbly offers to surrender the rights to directories it no longer need. Coming from recent Dropbox helper agent debacle, I truly appreciate the philosophy behind this and applaud the team.
And a few days ago on HN:

- Oracle launches cloud service, predicts Amazon's demise
>but everyone at both school and work these days shifts seamlessly from mobile to dekstop and back

Maybe the communication protocol is based on Hangout. Some people reverse-engineered the protocol and open-sourced it. It's called hangups.

I'm not sure, but was WhatsApp mobile-only in the past and someone reverse-engineered the modified XMMP protocol? never used it.
Thanks for linking that. I researched melatonin previously and found these same studies.

It appears that there's not much of a tolerance effect when taking melatonin. This is unusual, our experience tells us that most drugs have a tolerance effect. Extended use of caffeine causes the body to make more adenosine receptors, meaning that it takes a higher dose to have the same effect.

This does not appear to happen with melatonin. Less science and more anecdote from a lot of users: melatonin also has an amount where it is less effective. You'll find several reports of people that see no effect at the higher doses (10mg), yet a lower dose (3mg) has a good effect.

This is all moot if you're in the UK or Australia, since melatonin is a prescription drug.
Last I checked, the US didn't invent Imperial units, there's nothing proprietary about them (they easily and readily inter-convert with metric) and Fahrenheit was Polish/German.

The DarkSky team is based in and focus is also the US and (partially) UK.
And then you can probably reduce it with a Karnaugh map. It's pretty neat.
Don't worry, running by Google, it won't stay around long./s
Thank you, I missed that one myself!
Astro Teller has every opportunity to make significant advances, but risks nothing and achieves nothing.

Elon Musk is the complete opposite.

I think the former really has no right to say anything about the latter.
We do have a `deprecated` caveat, but we rely on users to bring up that fact, as there's no way the maintainers can keep track of the status of every Cask.

There's also a fairly large push and discussion about removing duplication between Homebrew core and Homebrew Cask, so you should see things improve. There should also be Formula -> renamed Cask migration at some point, the issue has been raised in brew-evolution. (We have basic Cask <-> Formula support already).

Re: terraform specifically, looks like it's now in core, and `brew cask terraform` will know to do `brew install terraform` automatically.
This isn't true--the study considered 4,000 languages from all the world's major language families: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/09/06/1605782113.abst...
except for those with cancer
so smooth. much wow
Very true. I was just making a tongue-in-cheek conjecture about the justification/rationalization that might be employed.
That's a thing they shouldn't enable by default, but I don't mind it. As a developer, anonymous usage data has helped me out enough times.

People! Be nice to your fellow developers! When something asks you to send anonymized usage data, do it!
If you had a general purpose way to selectively kill specific cell types then there could theoretically be a universal cure ?
Since distribution and even possesion are crimes because they hurt children this argument does not hold up.
Sure, whatever safe hands mean. Safe in an NSA datacenter. Safe in the hands of the Chinese government. Safe with whatever sysadmin has access to it.

Instead of worrying about what "safe hands" mean, just keep it accessible only to me, and each respective conversation with the people I communicate with.
Is it possible to bring private prosecutions in the US? In the UK I believe you could criminal-charge these guys yourself with sufficient funds.

I am no longer shocked or surprised when I read stories about US cops like this: it seems a massive stain on the USA internationally. I'm sad (but not surprised) that no politicians in the presidential election are making a big deal of it.
wow OK, I stand corrected. I always, wrongly assumed that more than tiny amount would make digestive system go crazy and probably cause vomit or other unpleasant consequences
You have 3.5-5 hours a day to work out? I want your job. Also, as a former competitive weightlifter, if you are lifting intense for 1.5-2 hours, you are doing it wrong.
Investor participation and equity details for US Unicorns
Stop saying you're going to "solve" or "cure" cancer. that doesn't even make sense. Show some humility.
it's amazing there are fitness enthusiasts on the internet who still haven't heard of stronglifts.

also, i'm not sure if you're trolling us with your 11 sets of squats. are you serious? eleven sets?
End of startup or realization that you aren't solving a real pain / your solution doesn't solve their pain?

I've done a number of pilot projects with large companies, some go well, others don't. That's part of B2B startups.
Wow.. This dude..

I've tested a couple of the mentioned drugs myself and thought i'd chip in with my results and learnings

Modafinil/Armodafinil

Definitely works and the side effects are neglectable. It's much as he describes it but im not sure why he can't feel it some of the time as the effect on me is really strong, especially with armodafinil which was almost too much to be hanging around other people :) You feel very awake like a mild cocaine high but have an easy time focusing on the task you are doing, i can definitely recommend it for all nighters and situations where you have to get something out the door !

Melatonin

I've experienced quite a bit with this, since i have really really hard time falling asleep. It's actually a huge issue for me. i've found that "microdosing" works even better than taking the "normal dose" of 2-3mg. I found a supplier in the Netherlands who sells 300ug pills and they have worked wonders for me ! works just as well as the stronger dose but it seems that the lower dose makes you sleep better.

Just my 2 cents :)
For the naive people who think such things never happen because there is no recorded evidence (as if there would be official statements on such cases). Well, here is some, even inadvertently recorded.

Any European from England and Germany to France and Spain and Greece knows this kind of thing has been going on all the time -- and was especially hot during the cold war, late 60s student protests, etc, but all the way up to now. Because of more militant opposition parliament parties we've also had several documented cases and even some getting to court (usually for a slap on the wrist). No reason to think the US would be better in this regard.
How to scrape meta data from a url using HtmlAgilityPack in C#
> We can use it in the browser at work just by keeping Gmail open in a tab.

There's also https://hangouts.google.com/
Google had corporate/cross platform messaging before it was cool. Gmail, Google Talk was a killer combo for our small teams.

Dumb dumb dumb.
I think that the difference is that Gödel's theorem related to the general case, and not the specific case.

For example, the Halting Problem (which is, I admit, what I first thought of when I read this) proves that there is no general algorithm that can state whether any program will halt for any input.

However, it says nothing about whether you can prove that a specific program will halt for any input. You can easily make programs that are guaranteed to halt, provably.
There is a very interesting dynamic at work in medical research strategy where the scientific urge to completely map our biochemistry meets the engineering urge to make tangible progress in repairing things when they go wrong.

The truth of the matter is that most of the mapping of molecular biochemistry being done in this age of enormous datasets and genetics is of very little immediate application. Meanwhile paths that can use what we already know to generate enormous impact on disease get little attention. This is an age of personalized medicine as the mainstream, but really the overwhelming majority of serious disease mechanisms, those that are age-related or infectious, are exactly the same for everyone. Personalized medicine is a wondrous machine for making money by the look of it, but won't deliver on its promises.

For example in cancer the best path forward is to turn off telomerase and ALT, preventing telomere lengthening. That will work for all cancers, one type of treatment for every cancer type, and will cost no more to bring to fruition than any one of the recent examples of cancer therapies brought to market. But that gets a fraction of the attention that goes towards mapping every last part of the genetics and cellular biochemistry of cancer. The efforts to create therapies that spin off from that type of mapping work are largely very limited, in that they involve targeting a mechanism or marker very specific to only one or a few of the hundreds of types of cancer, and even those types are capable of evolving away from that marker or mechanism when it is successfully targeted.

Cancer is hard because the research and development community largely follows a terrible high level strategy for implementation of therapies, even though in the long term the mapping strategy is exactly what scientists should be doing.
And then Volvo will take the whole market http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/volvo-liability-self-driving-c...
You know what I really need? A new messaging app, so people can complain more about me not using whatever messaging app they're using.

I'm not saying that email and sms/mms don't have flaws, but at least I don't have to consider whether the recipient of my message has whatever random app is popular today. Have we seen the end of wide spread open protocols, because huge tech corporations are hell bent on controlling communications?
1) Law enforcement agents are allowed to participate in illegal activity in order to catch criminals. Otherwise it'd be pretty damn easy to root out undercover cops. 2) Honeypots are not entrapment, which has a very specific legal definition. The person needs to be "normally law-abiding" and can't be otherwise already disposed to commit the crime in question. Not only that, but in most states (not sure about Federal law which would be what applies here) the defendant needs to actually resist the illegal act and be further coerced by an agent of the government.

So taking over a pre-existing site centered around illegal activity and simply seeing who uses it is about as far away from entrapment as you can get.
Oh, I didn't know that. But wouldn't a larger mutation probability result in more variability and hence quicker findings of improvement paths? (plus avoiding local maxima)
Flash storage management is still hard to get right, especially when the power can be removed at any time. Making data structures resilient to arbitrary power removal while having good performance is quite a feat.
I see. I think it might be helpful to distinguish between financial accounting and managerial accounting.

Financial accounting is the primary role of a tool like GnuCash. It is focused on accurately and precisely recording transactions in detail and creating reports against external standards. There is an expectation that financial accounting data and reports are subject to audit.

Managerial accounting is for the businesses' operational decision making process. It will rely on financial accounting data for historical trends within the business but can use arbitrary sources for projecting the future course of the business.

From a financial accounting standpoint 'managing the data' is somewhere along the path to 'cooking the books' because the expectation of standardization and consistency. On the managerial accounting side, it's more a matter of slicing and dicing the financial data and spicing it up with data from other sources.

What the partners need is 'read only' access to the financial data and the historical method is via reports and this can be CSV fed into Excel or R or whatever else meets the business needs. The important thing here are flexible tools for analysis relevant to the specific business at a specific moment in time.

My advice is that any system designed around financial accounting is unlikely to be very flexible for analytics because financial accounting has a rigid set of abstractions. It's perhaps better to think in terms of a data pipeline and running tools over the output of the financial accounting data.
You can learn to code on a lot of machines, and indeed I've used a lot of machines in the past few years. However, I'd assert that a Macbook Air is the ideal machine for development because:

1. Unlike most default configurations, the out-of-the-box OSX installation on a Macbook is a full Unix environment. Indeed, it's possible to do a lot with the Unix environment that comes preinstalled, and the rest is easy to install with Homebrew.

2. Unlike most systems where the default configuration has been overridden with i.e. Linux, an MBA with OSX just works. When my livelihood is at stake, I cannot be messing around with wireless drivers, trying to get whatever video conferencing to work, fixing misconfigured displays, trying to print, etc. I don't blame the open source community for this: I think that it's on the hardware/firmware manufacturers that they refuse to provide open source drivers that support Linux for their products.

3. There are other alternatives that fit 1 and 2 but they are all either underpowered for the price (a lot of laptops that come with Linux preinstalled) or much more expensive, for no real benefit to a developer (other Apple laptops besides the MBA).

Yes, there are cheaper machines to code on, but what it comes down to is, you get what you pay for. I think that if you can afford it, the MBA is the best balance of needs for a developer. If money is more limited for you, your priorities would obviously be different.

I also have to say, I hope this does change. I have no love for Apple. I want nothing more than to see an affordable laptop that is as good as the MBA and comes with free software preinstalled.

I'm also worried that with Jobs dead, Apple has been making some very bad decisions with their product lines (bad for developers--arguably bad for Apple, too, but I don't care to argue that). While they haven't ruined the MBA yet, I don't believe the MBA is somehow immune. So it may be that the MBA will fall out of its current position.
Found it: http://imgur.com/a/uEzCF
this is not an advantage then, you don't need to be a seasoned architect to see all kinds of potential issues with publicly exposing these APIs, even with proper security. I mean this is the core of every bank, not some application X storing some small subsets of crucial data.

Best and easiest security to achieve and maintain is no public access at all (something like physically separated networks vs authenticated ones)