skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would hesitate to recommend using a personal domain for email. It's more complex and worse for security.

In addition to securing access to your email provider (Gmail for example), you now have to secure access to your domain provider too. And even if you do your best, they might fall for social engineering because they take phone calls--like in the famous @N hack:

https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
This is exactly correct.
Tesla's New Autopilot Update Is Released
They could still starve, though.
AllMusic: The Story of the Big Data Jukebox
I want to remotely disable Londoners' cars, says Met's top cop
Young Millenials?

Are they different to "Young persons"? And what is an "Old Millenial"?

Why not just describe the group of 18-24 year olds as "Young adults", which is what they are.
You might expect it, but I've encountered plenty of 23-year-old Senior Network/Software/whatever Engineers with just 1 year of experience. Basically as soon as they'd implemented a single feature, they would consider themselves senior.

Personally I say a senior engineer is one who solves problems by the most appropriate means. Maybe he fixes a "bug", maybe he/she knows enough about the problem domain, the use cases, the dependencies, the history and changes the documentation instead. Maybe he/she tells a junior engineer "figure out how to scale that" and uses experience to know what part of the system really needs to scale. And so on and so on. A senior engineer spends little time coding and lots of time mentoring.
Ha, "c" is hilariously bad. I suggest the file extension to be .C since C gets to use .c
Someone who shorted on its value, I assume.
Antibiotics are used as growth factor in chicken. Many are growthfactors in humans also. There could be some way to fight antibiotic resistance considering this fact.
A class action from fired employees?

Not if they signed an arbitration clause as a condition of employment...
>mostly in poor countries

Ice shelf melting will be devastating to coastal areas worldwide if it happens quickly. How many cities along the coasts of the world's oceans are above 20' in altitude? Or above 200'? [1] A 20' rise is likely, possibly in "decades", and 200' is the rough estimate if we lost both the Greenland ice shelf and Antarctica's -- and every time a new report comes out it seems like things are happening faster than scientists were predicting. I've seen this movie, and it doesn't end well. And 20' is enough to put New York City underwater. Are they just going to build a 30' dike around the entire area? What if the oceans start really rising toward 200'? Build another 30' onto the dike every decade?

If things happen slowly enough, sure, you could evacuate New York City, and the people there wouldn't number among the casualties, but where would you move them? Or the rest of the Atlantic coastal cities? Or the people in the Los Angeles basin? Some areas may be easier to protect from rising oceans, but there are probably 100 million people in the US alone living in areas that would lose homes to flooding with just a 20' sea level rise. Twice that and you probably get half the population, since most of the biggest metro areas are coastal.

Worldwide? We're probably looking at billions of deaths from a 20' rise in sea level, not even counting other negative effects.

[1] https://thinkprogress.org/study-were-already-in-the-worst-ca...
My approach is to slap myself in the face each time I need to use !important. That's enough to prevent me from slipping into bad habits but leaves me with an option if rewriting my CSS to work around somebody else's (or my own) hacks would be more painful than a slap in the face.

I do occasionally get strange looks from my colleagues.
A clean install of Sierra is actually smaller than El Capitan, so it depends how you define bloat.

SF Mono is indeed new. Thank you for pointing that out. I missed it. Very nice.
My computer - a 3+ year old i7 - opens the 20 million line CSV from http://files.grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/ml-20m.zip in ST3 in about 25s and opens the 1 million line CSV from there in little over a second. 10s to open a 100 thousand line file on a modern machine is unnecessarily slow.
Because "those darn, entitled, millennials!" is a thing. It's a way to get a reaction.
You're not going to get full speed, but it depends on what you want to be fast. Graphics intensive activities are going to be constrained by the specifics of the design you go for. Apart from that the biggest constraint is memory since every GB allocated to one OS will by definition not be available to the others. However CPU support for virtualization is pretty good these days. Most of the i7 and i5 CPUs have built in instructions to make it pretty efficient for processor tasks.

Personally I have a 2014 5K iMac i7 with a fusion drive. I have a Fedora VM on it I run occasionally. I run it using Virtualbox which is a free virtualization system. I've allocated 4 GB of memory and it's very performant. It's a great way to try out virtualization at home and you can run Virtualbox on Linux, OSX or Windows as the host OS.
Why do we need artificial intelligence when we have natural intelligence galore everywhere around us?

Human is intelligent, monkey is intelligent, raccoon is intelligent... clearly, it all goes all the way down to bacteria.

Bacteria is intelligent, that's where all other intelligence comes from. For any organism is a colony of bacteria (and/or their cousins - cells).

It has long being my theory that human's "I" comes from a single cell (which is essentially a variant of bacteria) living somewhere in the brain. The rest of the cells just ensure survival of this one and supply it with information.

Bacterial intelligence is a result of billions of years of evolution. At some point, they learned about their DNA and mastered an art of self-modification. Then they learned how to create colonies of specialized instances of themselves. This colonies gradually became more complex. Human is just one of these designs.
But isn't that the wrong premise?

Our brains emerged without a designer or an undertanding of how the brain works (I assume you don't believe in god) from simple principles and through the evolutionary process.

Why do we need to understand the brain for brain simulation to happen?

I don't know how long it will take but I don't understand any claims about how long it will take.

It can be forever or it can be in a couple of years depending on what we uncover.

For all we know our giant network of computers and sensor are already kind of a brain simulation.
The first versions of Azure were a disaster. It took a good 4 years for MS to turn it around. So whoever this Deepak Patil fellow is - I wouldn't place him in high regard.
Maybe I'm boring but playing some video games or reading helps me. I journal as well but that's more of a daily meditative thing to help get all my thoughts out so they dont run around my head all day.
Kotlin 1.0.4 is here
I wonder if this finding could help with ulcerative colitis as well
his podcast is pure entertainment, he says so himself quite often. he makes fart and dick jokes and says dirty words and drinks liquor and smokes weed while on air.

if you take this seriously and are somehow indignant about the content or the sponsors, that's on you, not him.

"if you're looking for real science, then..." -- well no kidding dude. it's entertainment and can serve as a jumping off point to do your own research.

having said that his UFC content is really good, but you're probably not into that sort of thing, what with your 'meathead' pejorative which i guess you think is somehow cool because we like computers and supposedly shun exercise? that's cool i guess.
Fixu – Home services
You must hangout with different people than I do because the extent of my friend's personal experimentation is "I tried Yoga, I feel better. I think I'll keep going." None of them have ever done testing, cross-over trials, or any attempt at blinding their personal experimentation.
There's a very interesting question of if we can have a human-communicating, non-human intelligence.

It's likely that our first AI will be something like that: a mind which is internally very unlike our own, but which has a substantial fraction devoted to being able to explain the human understandable versions of its thoughts.

The scary part is that to us, it likely will feel very human, but to it, we'll likely be nothing but steering ants by laying out sugar.
I've tried the Just Mayo product a few times (on the premise of novelty), and honestly I'm a fan. I don't know if it would replace Miracle Whip on a sandwich for me, but it works just fine mixed in tuna salad. I would probably only buy it regularly if it were decently cheaper than "real mayo". *

*I know Miracle Whip is not technically real mayo, but I prefer the taste of it, and it's been my mayo of choice for years.
Good article, but misses the point on Oracle's risk against AWS. Understandable as Ben is more focused on consumer stuff.

Oracle's main money maker is their database product. Running on prem, collecting money through license and maintenance contracts. The more DB installs out there, the better.

Salesforce uses Oracle for their backend. But here's the rub - as a SFDC customer, I do not care which DB is running below it. And I don't need an DB in itself anymore. I have my customer data in my CRM, and runs in SFDC datacenters. SFDC is the largest known user of Oracle DB, but it is abstracting away the raw DB product from enterprise users. Like any other SaaS product does.

Which means the total number of ORA DBs will shrink, massively. Hence Oracle buying business apps left and right with all that DB money, to augment the sellable stack. Oracle is the elephant graveyeard of enterprise software, in CRM alone they acquired 5-6 different solutions and still sell a bunch of those (Siebel, Oracle CRM, Oracle OnDemand, Fusion, Peoplesoft, etc.).

SFDC has announced a big move onto AWS, getting away from running their own datacenters - they're moving upstream, going after the business end users. The underlying tech is a commodity, plumbing, invisible.

And what happens to price points of commodities? bye bye fat margin DB business...
Doesn't work for me on iOS 9 mobile Safari.
To summarize other comments:

If you are running a Fortune 1000 IT group, you'd be a fool not to use Oracle; if you are running a startup, you'd be a fool to use Oracle.

It's a pain to create something using Oracle. But it's just there :-(
Oracle selling higher-end products as a service makes total sense, and I agree, the subscription model has potential to make them a good deal of money. What I'm getting at, however, is why are they so aggressively taking on Amazon in the IaaS space? That's the part which doesn't make sense on the surface--they show up late and then attempt to compete on price. Since when has Oracle competed on price?

The conclusion I come to is that Amazon must be eating away at their customer base. Once a customer starts to move some of their IT into AWS, and it goes well, that puts Oracle on the defensive--not a spot they like to be in.

I doubt Oracle really wants to be in the IaaS business just for the sake of IaaS. They want to focus on higher-margin services. The IaaS part must be a defensive move to keep customers away from AWS and within the Oracle ecosystem.
Ask HN: Why is the FastMail mobile app so horrible?
I can't wait to use some of the new features in our production apps. Typescript is/was my bridge into javascript development, because IMHO javascript was a broken language for a long time, and I am not sure if I could have ever done as much as I have without its existence.

Non-nullable types, tagged union types, and easy declaration file acquisition are definitely the biggest wins for me with this release.
There's a difference between protecting your data from a company that collects it when you use their service, and hiding from a state-level actor like the NSA.

I don't use Gmail. I don't use Facebook. For just those reasons. I do use uBlock Origin, NoScript, uMatrix, and Random Agent Spoofer, and depending on the site a VPN. I don't throw up my hands and pretend that a platform like Facebook is somehow fundamental to life.
We are meat vessels, carriers of information. Computers/technology, silicon is better carrier of that information?
There are others too, e.g. ATS
Sure but I think the person you replied to thinks the person the person you replied to replied to thinks it's a network attack because s/he said "shouldn't decentralized networks be resilient against this".
Easy in concept but the beef cartel would fight tooth and nail against something like this.
Yes, although the same can be said for the "no implicit any" flag when migrating from code bases EcmaScript. They seem to be doing a pretty good job of supporting both legacy and greenfield projects.
Can you share where you came by this information? I've got a relative with Crohn's.
Plenty of them use ad blockers, and if the pressure keeps up they'll figure out much of the rest too. The very environment driving this anti-privacy trend is just educating a generation of consumers, in the same way that the very instant people were able to get away from advertising they did.
I don't have a German dictionary, my point is that a german person can discover interesting relations between English and German using grep, for example the one you suggest about ('d','v') becoming ('th','f'). The use of gerl is not essential but is a handy tool.
I have to disagree with this; a senior developer will produce more value if not completely ignored; if involved with the company, they can then not only help steer the technological direction of the company, but also move tech towards the company's future goals, not the company's current state.

If left undirected, they will still move tech and be productive, but not necessarily in the direction the company wants to go.
Cash isn’t going away, but it will become digital
> But 500 years? What else in human history has taken that long to figure out?

Calculus took a few thousand years to figure out.
Seldon TensorFlow Deep MNIST Digit Classifier Demo
As a millennial, I almost always stop reading when someone unironically uses "millennial"
I've realised what I really miss: Being able to change my own desktop, including its entire behaviour, was incredible. I first found this enjoyment when running TkDesk[1]

[1] http://tkdesk.sourceforge.net/
Yeah, title needs to be more specific. General-purpose AI seems to be a forever-receding carrot just out of reach.
I don't know if it is the same thing you're talking about, but I thought it was interesting that they could assume that the horses would know that a blanket causes both relief from cold weather and overheating in warm weather, and also that they should think of the blanket based on how they were feeling. I thought those assumptions were almost as interesting as the part about symbols because of what they seem to imply about the horses' ability to reason through cause and effect.
Decentralized networks benefit from no single entity being a bottle neck on connections. All a conventional DDOS does is slow down that single entity- here someone is employing the network to slow down most entities which uphold the network, achieving a very similar result.
I'm assuming you are using an AMD GPU?

The last time I looked, there were significant challenges with getting a Nvidia or iGPU to work.
It is allowed to some degree e.g. secret shoppers. Sometimes these programs involve being reimbursed by a third party.
I've experienced the same response from doctors regarding an abnormal reaction to the drug finasteride, and it is extremely difficult to manage emotionally. They have never seen the problems I had yet have seen many people they alleged had psychosomatic issues so probabilistically it made sense on their end that I would probably be the latter. But many of them have dogmatically clung to the idea that since they don't understand how my problems could be caused by the drug it has to be impossible. The idea of psychosomatic diseases functions as catch-all that encompasses everything that can't be explained with our current understanding.

Few clinicians I've worked with were willing to admit that their medical science is not advanced enough to explain my problem rather than calling me crazy, even though it was just one lifetime ago that antibiotics were even discovered.
Everyone should install Millennials to Snake People. It's a great addon that makes the internet way better.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna...
The GitHub Load Balancer
An interesting point came through on Twitter yesterday: ads for/on TV are increasingly seen only by "the olds". This is going to be a fascinating turn of the worm as cord-based TV implodes further.
That's a cultural thing. On a team of mine, I would worry if people weren't asking as many questions. It means they aren't finding the problems and pitfalls.

The questions should change, to be sure, but they shouldn't diminish unless we're not throwing progressively more complex tasks at them.
"When protesting against the construction and re-starting of subsequent nuclear power plants,"

This mindset really aggravates me. Instead of restarting nuclear power plants with additional safety precautions, you'd rather have CO2 emitting fossil fuel plants running instead? Those are arguably much more harmful to the collective health of Japan, and the world, in the long run.
no one was killed but the outcome was pretty expensive. Was it worth it?
I fully agree, in the AI class I took, the first two projects we implemented feedforward neural networks with backpropagation. The math may take some time to understand, but the concept is very natural. Definitely my favorite part of that class.
Hey, this is Maya from Lemonade, we believe people are inherently good and when faced with the option of embellishing their claim and pocketing more money or claiming what they deserve and make sure their cause receives the extra money left- most people (we hope) will choose the latter.
You should read this:
http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-11-prelude-ant-...
Bacteria are intelligent because they are "alive". A quantity that we can't really measure yet, and simply assuming we are all "machines writ in biology" is a cop-out.
How to Understand Gentrification
D-Wave will ship a 2,000-qubit quantum computer next year
Hi folks, authors here in case you have questions.

This is actually part 3 in a series. For developers who are still getting oriented around machine learning, you might enjoy the first two articles, too. Part 1 shows how the machine learning process is fundamentally the same as the scientific thinking process. Part 2 explains why MNIST is a good benchmark task. Future parts will show how to extend the simple model into the more sophisticated stuff we see in research papers.

We intend to continue until as long as there are useful things to show & tell. If there are particular topics you'd like to see sooner than later, please leave a note!
Batteries – Why Lithium-ion?
How IoT is changing the face of Hospitality? Let's see How
The Internet of Things (IoT) technology is bringing about transformational changes in every industry; hospitality industry is no different.
It is their right to do so as it is the user's right to attempt to bypass it.

Unfortunately when it comes to ads and adblocking there isn't a clear-cut solution that satisfies both security and ethics.
The interesting takeaway from this, in my opinion, is that modern browsers offer three fairly independent rendering paths (perhaps more): vanilla, 2d CSS transform, and 3D CSS transform. A project I worked on had a truly bizarre chrome-only intermittent rendering bug that we could not figure out for months. I eventually "fixed" it by adding a null (translate by zero or whatever) CSS 3D transform at the root of each affected element (sending everything down a different rendering path) and the problem went away.
I think the point is that the "easy" way is not always the right way. For example, it's easy to memoize results returned from a database for 5 minutes in response to a request for performance improvements. It's right to understand the business requirements (including performance), deployment strategy, cost of being wrong, cost of being right, and so forth.
Imagine there is a light source farthest to the right. Which bar would accurately reflect how you expect the light to decrease from the source? It should be the second (linear) bar, that the difference between the last few levels of black is imperceptible could be attributed to the fact that the MBA has a quite poor screen.
Hard to say exactly, but perhaps someone with large holdings in an already established crypto-currency might have motive to want Ethereum crushed, or at least be perceived with less legitimacy than whatever other coin they hold (likely BTC)

Off the top of my head the people with the largest long-term vested interest in bitcoin would be
1. Satoshi Nakamoto (whoever s/he really is)
2. Winkelvoss twins
3. Whoever stole coins from the various exchange hacks
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Notice I didn't say "Negative -> Positive". It says "Junior -> Senior". Thinking about it further, I don't think it's possible to properly get to the second state (tradeoff-understanding) without going through the first (win-seeking) at some point in your career... in fact, when I'm hiring Junior devs I select for win-seeking behavior. "Tradeoff-understanding" is more of a philosophical disposition that one (IMHO the best engineers) arrives at later. "Win-seeking" is kind of related to the "I'm always right" point: A junior will say "Of course this is the best possible thing to do and there are no drawbacks" where a senior will say "Wait a sec - this might be worth doing, but let's understand what we're changing or giving up".

So, in a sense yeah - the Senior is still "looking for a win", so-to-speak but in a deeper zen-state where they realize "There are no wins: only tradeoffs".
I work for a Fortune 1000, and we have production DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Access, and an old IBM mini computer...
FDA manipulates the media. That's one part.

The other part: FDA is controlled by the companies that come under its umbrella. Think of the fox guarding the hen house.

So in the final analysis, those companies control the media. But it gets better; sometimes, the parent company of a media company is in some sort of partnership with the companies that control the FDA.
My preferred solution is http://tachyons.io because it has a font relative scale for spaces. No more guessing of pixel values.
Cruise Automation, GM’s Self-Driving Cars, and the Founders Behind It
(long time ex-Oracle employee ... take with whatever size grain of salt you wish :-)

As the article mentions, Oracle aims primarily at its own installed-base, which limits how much "innovation" they can do .. can't piss-off the paying customers! Their world-view is incredibly narrow ... years ago they discovered that even though they have millions of paying customers, there is a core of only about 5000 customers that they really need to listen to.

Oracle should look carefully at IBM's recent moves within the Cloud eco-system: instead of offering the AWS-style "everything-including-the-kitchen-sink", IBM's purchase of 'The Weather Network's big-data division has lead them to offer high-level cloud-APIs for dealing with weather data without the need to put it all together (S3+SQS+DynamoDB+EMR...)
Quick question - what, modern day tutorial/mooc would you recommend for this ?