skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed the Stephen's thoughts of evolution expanded through external transmission. I don't actually agree because natural selection gets really fuzzy with this model, but it's very engaging viewpoint.

It's also interesting that the whole article is about Fermi Paradox and Great Filter, but he never mentions those two concepts by name. I wonder why?
The cheap option is antibiotics, that's why we have this problem in hte first place! If you want the best of both worlds (limiting bacteria proliferation AND antibiotic use) the current methods for providing food at scale are impractical for many cost-related reasons.
I'm reminded of my friend Amirs' work on using AI to approximate convolution filters:

https://github.com/kallaballa/Mimikry

Some truly fascinating results to be had, depending on what you throw at it ..
Thanks for the feedback!

Yes syntax highlighting for large files is a hard issue. I'm not really aware of an accurate an high speed solution supporting editing operations in huge files.

In principle the underlying data structure used by vis supports all modifications with linear complexity in the number of editing operations since file load. This is independent of the file structure (i.e. single line files should be well supported). However the frontend code hasn't yet been optimized so in practice there might be some problems.

Unless one specifies the blackhole register when deleting large parts of a file this will create an in memory copy (to enable later pasting at a different location). Better would be to keep a reference to the existing immutable text region.
[video] Introducing Bitcoin Flexible Transactions
"Human response to light is not particularly well-modeled by a logarithmic response. It's --- no big surprise --- better modeled by a power law.

This stuff is confusing because there's two perceptual "laws" that people like to cite: Fechner-Weber, and Stephens's. Fechner-Weber is logarithmic; Stephens's is a generalized power-law response."

Neither would seem that useful, given the very uneven weighting of the eye towards certain wavelengths, and the fact that women have different color perception versus men (and that doesn't get into those who have had cataract surgery and can now see into the UV range, which throws perception off dramatically from what most people consider 'normal.') Those generalizations are outdated with any current science from roughly the 1970s on. Steven's power law was shown to not hold up very well when considering individual respondents.
I wish we would elect leaders that introduce a carbon tax.
Well the selection environment is a requirement to not getting sick from eating the products. You can't just have a nice chat with the microbe unions and ask them to behave and stay off the meat...
NY Proposed Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Service Companies [pdf]
It makes perfect sense. The code that GitHub displays when you hit the project page is from the main branch. It then follows that it makes the most sense to display the license that pertains specifically to the code which you see by default.

If one wants to checkout a non-main branch, ostensibly they can view the LICENSE file in that branch on their own.
Token Based Authentication versus Session: A Simple Explanation
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Productivity365
Not bold enough. Let them tackle nondeterminism first.)
Presidential Debates WILL DETERMINE WHO Wins the White House
Please read up on Arctic methane release and the Clathrate gun hypothesis. I wonder whether a doubling of the current greenhouse effect within only tens of years would still not bother you.
FB molesting JPEGs -> upload them as PNGs, reasonably sized and pray. with a bit of luck, none will be reprocessed into crappy JPEG with highest compression available effectively ruining them (yeah, shame for FB, generally it's a piece of sh_t when it comes to technical quality of the site, albeit much better compared to what bugfest it was few years ago)
Not really. There are unions for jobs like writing and teaching I'd consider pretty squarely "professional."
Killing by neglect or direct action is a line that is grayed by the lights of effective altruism.
That sounds a really long way of saying "I am apathetic to the problem" (or blunter still, "I don't care"), which while being a perfectly valid position, doesn't really add anything to the discussion.

On the flip side, I agree with you, but that doesn't really help anything or anyone either, except to provide some comfort that you're not alone?
Hope I'm not out of line helping you out with this, but laudable probably doesn't mean what you think it does, unless you wanted to praise Mylan's greed? But that didn't seem like something you wanted to do.
it's also GalliumOS[0], a distro optimized for chromebooks.

[0]: https://galliumos.org/
21 perfect examples of waster in Lean Software Production
> "Hey, I'm a follower of so-and-so religion, and our religious text says that God made everything within a week. So, please let's not discuss topics

OK, that's reasonable. Some people are religious, their religion is more important to them than scientific truth, and there's not much use discussing this sort of thing with them as there is little common framework to discuss within.

But

> that are hurtful to me".

What? Why would a topic be "hurtful"? Or "offensive", as you also hear a lot. That's what I don't get.
I just hope there's enough ressources spent into figuring out atmospheric engineering - we may only have one shot at this.
So much of this is the fault of oft-ignored local zoning boards. Everyone complains that Americans don't want to give up their cars. Well, of course they don't. In 99.9% of the US, it's illegal to live within reasonable walking distance of your job or your grocery store, and it's illegal to build densely enough to make public transportation practical. So of course everyone drives everywhere, they have no other choice.
If the price is dropping so rapidly, this makes a bad deal out of the 30-year loans solar installers are pitching in the US. Furthermore, if fossil-fuel-sourced kilowatt-hours compete by pricing downward, and thus pay solar owners less per kWh, it could make solar seem like a bad deal.
> It makes perfect sense.

It doesn't make any sense to show the license of the main branch when I just switched to a different one, no. If they want to take the lazy route, just stop showing licenses on anything but the main branch.

And incidentally they could use that new feature to remove the search bar when not on the main branch since that's not going to search the current branch, but it won't provide any warning or indication that you're not searching what you thought you were.

> The code that GitHub displays when you hit the project page is from the main branch.

You are aware that github has a branch switcher right there on the "project page" right?
You do now, after people noticed what you were doing. You didn't then, when the GA integration was originally snuck in.
I've developed my last 5 projects (corporate websites with many different layouts) with SASS + Foundation 6 an no naming convention. Instead I relied on nesting selectors.

I can behave and usually not go deeper than 4-5 levels. It's a really neat way unambiguously tell a CSS rule where it should belong to. For example I can create a

section.hero-block{ /* things inside are scoped */ }

CSS selectors who live outside are pretty basic, utility style ones, they exists on one level, so they can be easily overwritten by the scoped ones if needed.
Frequency of Positive Words in Science Abstracts Has Increased 880% in 4 Decades
Deep learning is the opposite of incremental. For a long time it was not clear whether/how we can learn multi layer networks efficiently. ImageNet changed everything.
Not only that, but it will also re-invent the WinSXS hell in different ways. We now have modules, but also loaders in all sorts and flavors, we have AMD style, we have the noConflict style, and in the end, the web will probably re-invent snappy apps and flat image packages. Webpages will load an entire in-browser browser of a specific version required to use the page, and we'll all have come full circle. I bet we're gonna see in-browser virtualisation, because just sandboxing and containerization isn't enough.
Anecdotally, I use Google Fi in the DC are and love it.
The interesting thing about LibreSSL is that it's got such a halo around it that people just assume it's not vulnerable to any OpenSSL bugs.

Practically every OpenSSL bug posted here gets the standard "Luckily LibreSSL isn't affected by this kind of thing" response. On a couple of occasions I've taken the bait and linked to the LibreSSL source to show that the relevant bits are in fact not changed at all, so they were both vulnerable.

Not saying LibreSSL isn't doing good stuff, I just wish people would actually check if it's affected before using any opportunity to jump on the let's-hate-on-openssl bandwagon.

(I haven't looked into these bugs in the LibreSSL code since I don't have time for it right now, but I'm sure some message is forthcoming).
I can't find the source right now, but I've read that flexbox for page layout can still be problematic because a lot of times when you use flexbox it'll rely on the content inside of it to determine its flex width. So you'll get a bunch of page reflows while content is being loaded, which is less than ideal.
I'm not sure, I kind of disagreed with both statements you were making, and decided to pick holes in the latter, since it was providing support for the former.

If I'm missing a "wider point", can you elucidate?
How we use artificial intelligence in LiveChat
Leader's Guide: Building High-Performing Teams
One thing to consider. Google's Project Fi, while having limited phones, has excellent and reasonable plans for how mobile phones should work.

You don't really pay for overages, you just buy blocks of 1GB of data ($10/GB), unused bits of that GB are prorated and roll into the next month, the phone coverage is a combination of T-Mobile, Sprint and I think U.S. Cellular and Wi-Fi. You can change your prepaid data allocation at any time, there's no contract. My base phone bill every month is $30 ($20 for service and $10 for 1GB of data) x 2 so $60/mo. If you choose to pay for your phone over 2 years it costs the same as buying the phone (they don't charge interest or anything else).

Voicemail uses google voices transcription tech, etc. We switched a while ago from Verizon, got a Nexus 6P (I think the Pixels are next in line), and the coverage has been about the same. Call quality is a smidge lower though. And oddly for Google, support has been very good, you talk to humans, they're friendly and answer quickly.

Management of the line is done through the user's google account and is very straightforward.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/22/8469571/google-fi-pricing-...
Stop-And-Frisk Does More Harm Than Good
I commented on a thread started by an obvious spammer, of the 'I made millions working from home' sort (ironically, by saying "Spam")
Show HN: Amazon review exporter
It has a logo!
http://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-6304/
The Women of Atenco
Shanty Mega-Structures
I'm not sure zoning is the issue when you take a look at Houston, a sprawling car-centric city with very lax zoning rules.
You can't define a colour in the plugin. You HAVE to define it in a theme. It's ridiculous, because then you have to define it for EVERY theme you switch to.
Care to clarify on the points you are trying to put across??
There's a difference between not saving someone's life and bribing an official to stop someone else from saving lives. This is no different than if I got a law passed saying that nobody was allowed to sell or give food to you. When you starve to death, would you say you weren't killed?
The article mentions phage therapy in passing, and links to this Nature article: http://www.nature.com/news/phage-therapy-gets-revitalized-1....

The Nature article hints that the main barrier to adoption is that it's difficult to for pharmaceutical companies to make a profit out of phage therapy: the cure is entirely natural, bacteriophage are the most common organisms on the planet, they reproduce very quickly, and evolve to overcome bacterial resistance.
"Friendster pre-dated it by 2-3 years, MySpace and Facebook by a year."

The BBS predates all of them.
> you also have to authenticate the HMAC-providing service

Yes.

But, to look at the Facebook approach, what is the risk surface presented by the HMAC service?

Done properly in the FB approach the password is irreversibly hashed before it arrives at the HMAC component, and cheaply HMAC'ed and returned, where the onion of hashing is completed.

It's good to bidirectionally authenticate access to the HMAC service, but in terms of protocol it strikes me as less critical than in your scenario.

Either the HMAC is done properly (in which case the eventual hashes will verify for legitimate users) or - if someone inserts a "fake" hashing service - the HMAC'ed results will not validate, and a bunch of legitimate users will experience login failure.

( edit: there's a risk of exfiltrating the input to the service, but it's meant to be a shitload of work to achieve any evil with that input anyway, which also can be shorn of user-metadata and other clues thereby making it a bit less valuable )

Maybe I have missed something but to my mind this threat scenario fails (by dint of fake services, exfiltration, etc) in a "safe" manner.

=== Now === consider your "authentication service" approach.

Plaintext goes into... what?

The real service?

A fake service that returns "true" in all circumstances?

A MITM that exfiltrates the plaintext?

Where do you put the root of the trust chain to this service? In an SSL Certificate? Pinned? From which CA?

Simply: I feel that in centralised password authentication services there are a lot more potential shenanigans to defend against.

( ps/edit: and - I know you would not, but - don't get me started on "three strikes": http://www.crypticide.com/article/42 )
Microsoft's $200m Wunderlist is down
The guy's running a business. He has a responsibility to his shareholders to make it as valuable as he can. Sticky apps/web sites lead to more ad impressions and higher prices. His business does not give people cancer or HIV.

You may find life more rewarding to assume people are good and try to see the best in people. As Dale Carnegie says in How to Win Friends and Influence People, if you assume the best in people and encourage them, they're more likely to want to live up to that image.
If you use Sublime Text professionally and you get audited/noticed, not having a licence would be a big mistake. $70 is pittance for "enterprise" software, plus I wouldn't want to work with somebody who's effectively dishonest.

If you're an amateur (in the literal sense, not as an insult), then you might be more inclined to pirate it. I guess the developers are savvy enough to realise this, and just put a nag-screen in instead.

Bottom line, some people have the luxury of having such well-paid jobs that open source is a real possibility nowadays. But ST is likely someone's income/living, and shafting the devs isn't cool at all. If you're not happy with this, you can always make another editor, but it turns out to be fairly hard to do (see Atom).
Ok so Mylan can get them made for $30 and sells them (now) for $150. Is a 5X sale price not acceptable? If not why aren't people going after every single product manufactured and sold?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending anyone here; that whole industry needs some fixing. I'm just tossing out the question.
It's also hard to not get a little cynical when some of the people who pontificate on the subject don't look like they are making many sacrifices.
> - Why not use the tools at your disposal to aid in development (and DRY) such as SASS/LESS?

Because there is so much tooling churn + barrier to entry.
The point is that sometimes it's better to repeat yourself than to use the tool of the month.
> How large are the compiled binaries?

> The executable itself is 2.2M [...] Bundle 95MB [...]

> https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/53tw4p/a/d7x2a91

People feared when many former Node.JS developers migrated to Go because they would probably migrate the same principles from the JavaScript community (NPM and the dependency hell). Now people will fear the migration of Electron-like applications to the Go ecosystem. I am glad that more and more web developer are stepping forward and contributing their skills to create desktop applications, but I still cannot wrap my head around the idea that embedding a giant non-efficient webview in every project is a good idea. At this point, a computer with +16GB RAM will feel like using one with only ~6GB because of the amount of Chromium instances open in the background.

Someone reported yesterday a problem in the SublimeText3 issue tracker [1][2] stating that after the automatic update to the latest version the software started to consume a lot of RAM and CPU, but then he explained that (while using a Mac) he had ST open for several months, WTF!!! He should be graceful that you could keep ST open for more than a week, try that with an Electron-based application like Atom and you will cry. Now imagine this scenario with the future Go+Electron-like applications in the following months.

[1] https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1387

[2] https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/sublime-3124-eat-up-my-cpus/...
Lawmakers grill Mylan CEO over EpiPen price hikes
I've done plenty of work in the UK. It's nowhere near far-fetched, it is in fact sad reality.
These operations are already supported by using structural regular expressions. As an example

x g/foo

will select all lines containing foo. Similarly

x v/foo

will select all lines not containing foo. Sorting etc. is taken care of by piping text through external tools.

I was more interested in common editing tasks for huge files which according to this thread a lot of people perform using sublime text.
What never ends? Low severity memory safety bugs in a large C codebase? Probably not.

You may think this is a lot. It's not. This largely appears a lot because OpenSSL treats a lot of very low impact issues as vulnerabilities. A lot of other projecs would rather start arguing that this is not exploitable, should never get a CVE etc.
This is a good sign. OpenSSL is taking security seriously by treating even low impact things as vulns. More severe stuff still happens, but I'm pretty positive there is a decline in severe issues.
HUGE Music video warns against Trump comparing him to Hitler Wait for the end
I hear you, toothpaste is not zero harm.

I'm just saying it's not an airy-fairy concern that this would be lethal, partly because of the sociology of toothpaste, and also because eating a tube surpasses the documented LD50 for adults.

Think of the warnings on acetominophen and then think this one through.
Most infectious diseases in humans are known to have originated from wildlife, so eradicating all current diseases will still leave us with new diseases entering the human population. Current rate at which new diseases establish themselves in the human population is about ~1 per year, moreso under unstable climate [Greger, Woolhouse].

http://czbiohub.org/projects/infectious-disease/

Looks like Chan and Zuckerberg's initiative on infectious diseases is focused on a rapid response once a disease establishes itself in humans. There is certainly a lot to win there, but it is still acting after the fact, rather than prevention. Would have liked part of the effort to be focused on monitoring wildlife to understand which diseases are at risk of jumping over.

Greger, M.Crit. Rev. Microbiol. 33, 243–299 (2007).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18033595

Woolhouse, M .E.J. Trends Microbiol. 10, s3–s7 (2002).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12377561
Please, tell me more about the theory behind your apocalyptic wet dream. 'Clathrate guns' didn't do shit in the holocene climatic optimum, or the previous interglacial. Go on, I need a laugh.
I read that as a Roanoke Colony situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony

They left, they died, they tried again until they didn't die.
There is another dimension to this problem; universities in developing countries are pushed to match what their colleagues in developed nations are publishing. In doing this professors where I am currently studying (Brazil) foist off research on undergrads and masters students.

The system gets even more ludicrous when it comes to translation and publication, but that is a tangential issue.
That's the case coming from my current job. Starting a new job on Monday. He had his fingers in everything, launched a product that was not ready for public release. Constantly micromanaged me out of using standard SE and EE practices despite my advisement against it and my push back. Suffered the consequences, manufacturers wary to sell because of all the problems with it. Can no longer support my employment because there have been no sales.
The biggest piece of software using Guile I know of is GNU Guix[0], a functional package manager and declarative GNU/Linux distribution. It has dozens of contributors actively working on it.[1]

I contribute to Guix, but I also have my own projects[2] written in Guile. The only software that other people actually use, however, is Haunt, the static site generator that renders my blog (everyone needs to roll their own, right?)

[0] https://gnu.org/s/guix

[1] https://www.openhub.net/p/gnuguix

[2] https://dthompson.us/projects.html
It's the largest Spanish-speaking population, maybe that's why?
Conspiracy the Reddit rundown on the man who deleted Clinton e-mails
Simplifying the protocol, making it easier to analyse (and prove) and especially removing legacy things we know are troublesome is the main goal of the draft TLS 1.3: now already live and rolled out across CloudFlare and Chrome, and which removes such things as renegotiation, all non-AEAD ciphersuites, MD5, SHA-1, static RSA, and many of the other classic TLS bugbears which keep bearing interesting vulnerabilities.

Which isn't to say the optional (but usefully fast) 0-RTT mode might not introduce a few more, for those lackadaisical devs who inevitably ignore all dire warnings and abuse it for non-idempotent requests like POSTs (or GETs that do something - bad idea!).

But even if it's not how I would have designed it afresh (the Noise Protocol Framework from Trevor Perrin is how I would have designed a new connection protocol now) it's still a big improvement over previous TLS/SSL iterations and a drastic enough change it probably deserves to be called TLS 2.0.
Verizon could be using one definition of GB and the phone another. (One more reason to use the unambiguous MiB, GiB units.)
And Australian Bushmen, Polynesians, south Indians show us the multiple waves of migration, but who are they compared to a fancy statistical model made from poorly understood DNA sequences by clever hipsters!
As a former boss used to say, there is no "fairly sterile" just as there is no "fairly pregnant".