skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same conclusion I came to as well thinking about stuff. There are a lot of genes that we don't know what it does. Unless evolutionary feature development is throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks, there definitely is information (not just physical description of how features should be and how it should function, but many valuable data as well) passing from parents to siblings via genes. I came across two some orphaned puppies. They grew up and knew how to do certain stuff and I didn't see anyone teaching them those stuff.
How Does Obama Respond to Russia’s Cyberattacks?
Although it's obviously hard to predict (the whole point is that AGI would out-smart us), I tend to think of scenarios like http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/2010_(episode) being more plausible than Terminator.
The enforce their monopoly by having low market share. Got it.
There was some discussion on the Soylent thread a while back saying soy protein can cause hormonal imbalances. Not sure if I believe that to be honest.
A true superintelligence should be able to figure out what people are. If it can't, we can tease it for being dumb until it becomes angry and designs a super-super-intelligence that can.
Man, Donald Trump Would Make for a Great Chatbot
Twitter’s Woes Signal the End of the Social Wars
I was recently talking with a journalist about how to get new ideas into the press.

She told me that you basically need to lie. If your ideas contradict the narrative, or are complicated in any way, you need to come up with a baby version of those ideas that doesn't contradict any sacred journalistic beliefs. Even then you'll face an uphill battle.
Flow daily routines – create habits that boost your productivity
nice user interface - how do you wrap pyhton's grammar in the browser ?
>"because they would just bounce and use a different network." //

Yeah, just switch to the other network that everyone and their granny uses ...?
Half of Afrika's People Still Lack Access to Electricity
Building client/server applications through specifications
One thing that is a little bit off in the analysis is the statement

"China, India and Africa are (and have been for a long time) the most populous regions in the world"

Actually, according to that data, Africa only overtook Europe in population between 1980 and 1990. I remember when that happened, because I'd always assumed Africa had far more people. They will, but it hasn't been for 'a long time'. It was quite recent really.
This seems so amazing that I had to close it immediately, scared of how much time I would lose with it.
Indeed. Or just get rid of escalators entirely. Stairs are much cheaper and can accomodate more people. And maybe it'll dissuade people from running around with more luggage than they can carry.

Lifts are of course perfectly acceptable for the diagonally challenged (wheelchairs, prams, whatnot).
you have a cutout underneath, with only a small overlap for the connection.
I've been using the 'Express' version of MS SQL Server in production for some years now with a handful of small clients, including my current 'in-office' employer. It's not hard to setup a 3rd-party backup solution, and - touch wood - I've never ever had any issues with either the databases or the dependent applications.

No doubt other databases might be 'better' in various ways, but the Express version really is nice to work with and (yes, sorry to admit) it's an easier sell to customers than non-MS solutions (at least for me).
Despite WhatsApp and Others, Kenyans Are Calling and Texting More Than Ever
At some busy stations (e.g. Canary Wharf during the morning rush hour) you'll find a big cluster of people at the bottom waiting for the standing side while there's space on the walking side. Obv. it gets dangerous if a trainload of people can't leave the station before the next trainload arrives. (Or more cynically, if they can achieve the same throughput with fewer escalators they'll save money on escalators).
Soy especially unfermented soy has pretty bad health effects when consumed in any meaningful dose daily.

Soy isn't "healthy" it's not used as a replacement for food in Asia, it's mostly used in small amounts to add flavour or as a condiment, and it's almost always fermented.

In the west people use unfermented soy as replacement for many type of foods including dairy, meat and wheat in excessive amounts.

What worse is that Soy protein prevents the absorption of other proteins as it contains a fairly large amount of trypsin inhibitors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypsin_inhibitor
To render soy "safe" it usually need to be heat treated to break down STI and a several potentially risky amino acids, this isn't viable with all soy products (e.g. milk) or products that already contain soy as an ingredient (you can't microwave a candy bar), and heat treating soy tends to lower it's nutritional value considerably as well as ruin the flavor and the texture in many cases.

But as stated before fermented soy products (various soy sauces, miso etc.) aren't as an issue the fermentation breaks apart most of the potentially risky stuff in soy including STI's and amino acids like Valine (which is causally linked to insulin resistance, while most foods contain valine 10g of soy protein would contain about 400mg of it), honestly the fact that most traditional soy foods are fermented to begin with probably isn't a coincidence.
SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS.
Buenos aires has several public Brutalist structures: the University of Buenos Aires and the public library are some of them.

They are by far the most hideous buildings in the city.
Releasing Serverless Framework V.1, and Fundraising
Raspberry Pi:

IR remote for devices around the house: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-turn-your-raspberry-pi-infr...

RF remote for more devices: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-remote-control-rf-devices-r...

Home server for controlling various things around the house (farther down)

ESP8266:

A rotary mobile phone: https://www.stavros.io/series/irotary/

A button that orders food when pressed (Amazon-dash-like): https://www.stavros.io/posts/emergency-food-button/

Sensor board for sensing things in all the rooms of the house: https://www.stavros.io/posts/building-cheap-home-sensorcontr...

The above ties in with the Raspberry Pi farther up.

A LED strip controller: https://www.stavros.io/posts/wifi-enabled-rgb-led-strip-cont...

A toy bus with an OLED screen that shows which bus is passing by next (no post yet).

A self-driving RC car (no post yet).

A perfume sprayer that sprays perfume with an API (no post ever).

Arduino:

Nothing, the ESP8266 is better.

And these are just random ideas I got, you can do way more if you have a specific need for them.
Given the amount of Samsung products I've had fail, as well as colleagues who have had similar experiences, I consider them to be a sub-par brand.

Think Chineseium, but a bit further south.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/09/29...
You can get past onto the walking side - the standing side hits capacity first and so only people who aren't in a hurry are delayed. (I see this every morning at Canary Wharf)
Chinese Attack on USIS Exploiting SAP Vulnerability
Yes, why else would you be running SQL in a container for if not for dev....10GB is fuck all, and it's nice having multiple versions of a large test (or sanitized prod) backup available locally, which can easily be greater than 10GB
This reminds me of Project Thor [1]. The idea was to drop tungsten rods from orbit on the target. It would also be a weapon that is very hard to defend against with similar implications to these hypersonic missiles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
Ahaha, it has mine too! http://i.imgur.com/z9Be34t.png
> "we really can’t feed a whole planet with meat.”

If the food supply is limiting the population and making it more efficient increases the population, you're back where you started.

Same with any limit to the population.
Yes. Pandas is still constrained by memory.
> A single EBS volume allows 10k IOPS max. To get the maximum performance out of an EBS volume, it has to be of a maximum size and attached to an EBS-optimized EC2 instance.

Out of date; EBS volumes can be up to 20k IOPS per volume and what is "maximum size"? To get the maximum performance out of a volume depends on workload, the instance size you've attached it to (rather than EBS Optimization) and the number of IOPS provisioned, and whether you've prewarmed it from a snapshot restore or not.

> A standard block size for an EBS volume is 16kb.

A block can be 1kb -> 256kb in size. It depends on the application.

> EBS volumes have a volume type indicating the physical storage type. The types called “standard” (st1 or sc1) are actually old spinning-platter disks, which deliver only hundreds of IOPS — not what you want unless you’re really trying to cut costs. Modern SSD-based gp2 or io1 are typically the options you want.

The ST1/SC1 wording is misleading. You only need '100s' of IOPS when dealing with big blocks for ST1, and SC1 isn't performance oriented at all.
Would you say yes if a women pops the question?
If they have their way then Nestle's bottled water will really be a luxury item you can't live without. Most likely quite literally.
I recently built LibreSSL to replace OpenSSL on my laptop that runs ArchLinux. After installing, pretty much every thing works seamlessly so far. I rebuilt python because apparently the ssl module looks for RAND_egd (or something of the vein that LibreSSL has removed - and I didn't compile it with a shim). Other than that, dig is broken on my system ("ENGINE_by_id failed") although I have not bothered to fix it since drill works fine.

It's nice to see LibreSSL being picked up by Linux distributions. I wish other major distros did this (I'm looking at you Debian). IIRC, Alpine was often used to built docker images. If that's still the case, I'd say it's good news.
Too bad that the good "fake" meat is milk based. Is there perhaps a way to produce milk without animals? Or at least a way to make cows produce milk without pregnancy?
Completor, vim8 asynchronous code completion framework
It may be even better to be quiet by default and explicitly turn on the verbose mode when the "extra, human readable messages" are actually needed.
The article title, reproduced on HN, isn't sufficient to determine what the context is. Atlas Obscura tend strongly toward this type of clickbait. It should be strongly discouraged.
He actually made very poor arguments to the point of not not even making one.

Then he made things worse by literally invoking the post facebook/liberal Internet Godwin's Law by tieing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to this issue trying to bait Graham with a nonsensical argument.

And the argument is nonsensical because nothing morally, ideologically or politically prevents one from being both supportive/attentive to the cause of the Palestinians seeking statehood while being against BDS or any other boycott movement because boycotts by definition prevent any type of dialog and make any issue considerably harder or near impossible to resolve.
Apparently they break down in the body into hormones similar to estrogen, and is accused of causing hormonal imbalance in men and women.

Here's a good example of the anti-soy party line: http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/soys-negative-effects

If it is really that bad is hard to say. There are plenty articles online that ask the question "will soy give you man boobs" and surprisingly you'll find Betteridge's law of headlines broken, as there are articles that answer this question in both affirmative and negative.
> Yep. It's not incompatible. Maybe most women don't want to spend their life in front of a computer. Maybe, as Margeritte Yourcenar used to mention, being a head of IT is a shit life and women are more clever than men in not trying to get so high.

Maybe women want to be at the bottom of the workplace totem poll? Are you seriously going to begin your hypothesizing there? Every single racist from the past said, "I've met plenty of coloreds and they're happy being slaves/segregated/living in ghettos!" It is absolutely ridiculous to begin there while discrimination is still looming large.

> Maybe if you start with an all-male community and overpromote women, then 10 years is still not enough to become head of IT. Those numbers are little proof of discrimination. We need to know the mean-time-to-promotion.

I never claimed these numbers alone are proof of discrimination. The discrimination has been proven in other ways, and these numbers simply highlight how effective it's been.

> Thank you for the insult, which tells a lot about the soundness of your personality. My evidence is:

Readers, note that I attacked his evidence, and his response is to attack my personality.

> - Around me, I see women be promoted, it's a pretty strong fact,

Strong fact? Your anecdotal evidence is worth zero. Around me I see <1% Trump voters. Doesn't change the fact that he has 43% of the nation's vote.

> - OP's study says women are promoted faster than men, so it corroborates my supposedly "magnified own problems" (If men aren't allowed to have problems, wtf),

Numerous people in this thread (and elsewhere, e.g. pg) have produced competing hypotheses for why women might be getting promoted faster. If you want to bury your head in the sand and ignore their reasoning, I suppose I can't stop you. It makes you look sexist, though, and it's why I and many others were embarrassed to see your comment.

> My position is very well documented because of people like you, and you're welcome if you want to discuss facts. On the other hand, if a rational reasoning triggers so much of your emotions, then it means you're associating my position with macho personalities like Trump, fascists or racists, and that means you're making a generalization about me. Did you know that generalizations trump the acurate perception? I'm much more in favour of women's rights than you think – I just can't stand the men-disparaging that we repeat over and over.

Rational reasoning? I'm not the one who needs to resort to ridiculous hyperboles to make my point. You speak of a generation of men being sacrificed, but there's no solid evidence to show that we're doing worse than women (quite the opposite). You speak of sexism being dead, but evidence shows women are still discriminated against in the workplace. You've completely failed to defend either of the claims I attacked.
Exactly. In my life I have never saw a congestion on the escalator. At rush hour, poeple who stand, queue up, sure, but they never queue up enough in order to block the passage of people who want to walk.

Even on New Year's Eve, where demand is highest and the trains are overloaded, I haven't seen congestion on the stairs.
I got mine, ordered not in the kickstarter but later, arrived on time. Since then I did not really use it, so far other stuff to do and my existing ARM homeserver is working just fine.

If you can use it do to some serious work like porting stuff to it, I'd at least lend it to you. Send me an mail (in profile), I'm in Europe.
You don't have to. Or Perhaps we could make a "modular" GitHub extension that put together all GitHub extensions and let the user choose what he wanted.

That's probably a bad idea.
People who are really in a hurry are likely to take the stairs. There's no line for the stairs.
He wouldn't pass the Turing test though.
Even worse: it doesn't disable highlighting, it just tries to overwrite click-drag with a swipe gesture to navigate between (?) articles.

UX at its worst.
>Even if it weighed five hundred pounds, as long as the handlebars are on a lubricated pivot, forward motion and striking the handlebar will knock the bike over.

The weight point is different. You really don't flip 'over'. That direction is as likely as flipping 'under'. Given enough momentum and a very heavy/strong object you ride into, your front wheel will collapse.

Again, on a dutch bike, all this has to happen at at most 15 km/h. You put your feet down and you are standing still.

>p.s. as a NYC cyclist, whenever I see a Dutch bike I think it looks incredibly inefficient. But that’s cool, whatever, all bikes are good as long as they're ridden safely.

They don't just look inefficient. They are. By design. They are faster than walking, and that's enough. Our trips on average are about 10 to 30 minutes at at most 15 km/h (<10 mph). They involve about 10-200 turns, about 3-50 stops.

Why? Because that's how they build the cities. If you ride at that speed, you wait for a green light just once (and then follow the wave though-out town). You can go faster, but then you have to wait at the next intersection. Also: you don't want to get to work/school/friends needing a shower. The amount of energy put into it, needs to be identical to walking for the same amount of time.

People move children, groceries, even furniture by bike. So they pick a bike based on durability, size, stability and how well you can stand still while remaining seated on your bike.

They turn a distance you can safely walk in an hour, into a safe 20 minute ride. And like most cities in the world, the cities are designed around the 30min travel time from any point A in the city to any point B in the city. This is by bike or public transport. By car it generally takes twice that time.

Why? Because cars are more likely to get stuck in traffic. They often have to take detours (many streets are just one direction). They have a problem finding parking space, etc. And then you pay about 1 to 5 euro per hour to park your car.

But if police sees a race bike going 30 km/h (20mph) they would stop it.
Is soy milk in Asia fermented? Drinking warm soy milk for breakfast is really common across Asia.

Edamame beans, which are soy beans, are also commonly consumed without any kind of fermentation. They are just steamed and salted.

Tofu is also not fermented and is very common in Asia and made from soy beans.
Getting there! https://bestmotherfucking.website/
And a very tiny bit of additional polish (which would make a good basis for, say, browser defaults), IMO, even better: https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB/

14 style rulesets.
CPUs are space heaters. Launch some benchmarking software or heavy compilation, put your feet on your tower.
HN doesn't show the subdomain on the news listing. Sometimes it is important to show it. Therefore I use this Tampermonkey script: https://greasyfork.org/scripts/11547-hn-better-domain-names/...
I guess it should be relatively easy ( for FB ) to do something automated to detect copied videos - at least to where the later videos uploaded would have to do the same kind of tricks you see on youtube that decrease video quality when people are trying to sneak in copyrighted content (tricks like putting a big frame with some pictures on it around the actual video content).

On edit: take back relatively easy and say pretty doable, if they cared.
About the only sane portrayal of AGI-like scenario in the TV world is Person of Interest. Sometimes it felt like the writers of the series actually read what the real AGI researchers wrote. And in PoI, there's actually lots of cases of subtle influences like with the Aschen in SG-1.

(Also, it pretty much predicted the state of NSA surveillance a year before Snowden thing happened, so there's that.)
You might be doing Stand-ups Wrong
Business idea: Start a tech comedy video podcast network. With the predicted explosive growth of IoT, there should be plenty of interesting material in the coming years.

And of course, https://twitter.com/internetofshit is already great inspiration for one.
There's a whole quasi-religious belief system in the parent comment that you seem to be unfamiliar with, that a lot of people here espouse. That may be why you're being downvoted.

Very basically, it goes like this:

- the space of possible minds is very vast. We are animals that evolved in one set of circumstances, and so our minds (and thoughts we can think) occupy only a tiny corner of the space.

- an artificial AI would operate on computer-like timescales, not human like ones. Therefore we would have only hours to react before it got control of the physical world (hacking the internet, making nanothings, ordering and synthesizing DNA).

- an AI could (and would) recursively self-improve until it hit some kind of physical limit very far from our current capabilities. From a human standpoint, it would have God-like intelligence

- such an AI could model people and their motivations successfully enough to persuade them to do whatever it wanted

- because the space of minds is so vast, a generic AI would have goals that would be inscrutable and alien to us. To survive as a species, we would have to design them in from the beginning, in a way that survives all the levels of recursive self-redesign.

There are too many assumptions about the nature of intelligence to unpack here, but I believe it fairly describes what a lot of people believe about AI, thanks to people like Yudkowsky who have a flair for writing about it engagingly.
I was just about to comment: And so far, not one mention of the health benefit of walking (well, actually, ascending stairs) vs standing still. Then saw that you had it covered. :-)
What happens when our knowledge becomes our enemy?
LMDB can hand you back a pointer to your object in the memory map, and we can easily use that pointer with Cap'n Proto without any calls to malloc().
source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12394385
The basic ebb and flow tech is simple. I'm prototyping it with a simple hardware timer. For now my plan is to simply add a programmable switch and some sensors once the system is up and running and go from there (maybe a webcam).

Here's an example video (mine is more DIY with less pretty containers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60uokf3WmTo
> That's when decreased throughput turns into increased latency via queuing.

Only for the people who stand, not for the people who walk, because the people who stand and queue up leave passage for the people who walk to pass through.

I can't comment on arbitrary metro systems around the world, but where I live this always happens. When demand is high, people who stand queue up for the escalator, but there is always enough space for people who walk such they are unimpeded.

Very rarely demand is so high that people queue up for the trains themselves (only saw this twice in my life, I think), but even then, there isn't any congestion on the stairs.
Personally I'd rather read the considered opinion of a restaurant critic when it comes to food, rather than that of a random poster on HN.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Or at least some evidence. Any evidence. And no, possibility does not count as evidence.so,do you have any evidence for your extraordinary claims?
Pre IE, no simulation levels
"Write to stdout only if information is useful as input to another program."

Maybe devise a new std console channel for this integration purpose alone? "stdipc" (as in standard inter-process communication) maybe?
786-350-3300+Sizzle+Call+Marketing+System+Free+Landing+Page
Blockchain Platform to Fight Blood Diamonds: Q and a Everledger CEO
I think by now it's pretty safe to say most websites don't care about the tiny % of people using Tor or disabling JavaScript.
> but now we're eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update

His lights probably got the last Windows 10 update and are now updating and rebooting whenever they feel like it.
AGI: Artificial General Intelligence

https://intelligence.org/2013/08/11/what-is-agi/
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690121 (9 hours ago, 6 comments)
There are a lot of tutorials how to install macOS in a virtual machine.

Google it or search on Youtube. This works well for testing purposes
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Best way to test your Rest API
TempleOS: AfterEgypt (walkthrough)
Swype vs. Swiftkey vs. Fleksy: Comparison of the Keyboard Apps
Why don't you use a virtual machine, if it is just for testing?

You find a lot of tutorials on the web, how to install macOS. It is not much harder than to install Ubuntu.