skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good news & glad to see the continued investment in Firebase. It's quickly become the go-to BASS for our client's React apps; works great with Redux/Thunk.

Any update on the multi-domain hosting [0] issue?

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/fcpBcB...
>...I just think that GMO cultivars should be required to be identified the way chemicals are, and meet similar safety standards to other food additives.

This idea that GMOs are unregulated is a myth. If someone wants to argue for more testing, that is one thing, but in doing a simple google search it is easy to see that there is certainly oversight:

>...The three main agencies involved in regulating GMOs are the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

>...APHIS regulates the planting, importation, or transportation of GM plants pursuant to its authority under the Plant Protection Act (PPA),[23] which authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to “prohibit or restrict the importation, entry, exportation, or movement in interstate commerce of any plant, plant product [etc.] if the Secretary determines [it] is necessary to prevent the introduction . . . of a plant pest or noxious weed within the United States.”[24] By regulation, APHIS classifies most GM plants as plant pests or potential plant pests and as “regulated articles.”[25] Under the PPA, a regulated article must receive prior approval from APHIS before it is introduced.[26]

>APHIS grants authorization to use GM plants in three ways: through a notification process, a permitting process, or a determination of nonregulated status.

>...In a 1992 policy statement, the FDA reaffirmed that in most cases it would treat foods derived from GMOs like those derived from conventionally bred plants, and that most foods derived from GM plants would be presumptively GRAS. However, with respect to a GMO product “that differs significantly in structure, function, or composition from substances found currently in food,” premarket approval of the substance as a food additive would be required.[47]

>...The EPA regulates pesticides and microorganisms developed through genetic engineering.

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/restrictions-on-gmos/usa.php
Not pissing it, funneling it. Pissing implies waste, while this is all about some people making profits, and others retaining political power.
Contractors Workers Comp Insurance – Employee vs. Independent Contractor
China isn't really an example of what the article is talking about. In China, everything runs on Beijing time. Everyone in Western China is expected to shift their day to meet up with Beijing time. If they followed the FA the people in Urumqi would not shift their day, instead would use the appropriate local hours. I.e., right now they operate say 9-17, if they followed the article they would operate say 13-21.
I also had a very different experience, was part of various "gifted" programs from 4th grade until I graduated high school. Many of my classmates are doing extremely well (grad school/consulting/tech) - I don't think problems with these programs are intrinsic. My classmates from high school are on average doing better though, I think there might be some survivorship bias going on.
You can take out a bunker or a building with precision, without naval assets, or a railgun.
What position did he come in as? Seems awfully odd to have a new-hire making such a decision. From the sounds of it, he effectively tied up resources for almost a year before being pushed out?

There are two problems there, from what I can ascertain:

1. The guy wanting to rewrite your product.

2. Management that allowed him to do so without proper motivation and/or cost-benefit analysis.
> Soylent is trying to do something more ambitious than other packaged food manufacturers. It's not unreasonable to expect there to be some small hiccups. If you can't tolerate that, then don't buy it.

Really? It seems to me like it's Ensure for computer programmers.
Same here. It's a bother to use a computer without apt-get or homebrew.
which programs from /usr/local/bin get run by root under current macOS?
A solution is under active development. We don't communicate timelines, but it's a high priority for the team.
OctoJam 3 Showcase – results from this year's OctoJam
No eight player Micro Machines? :(

(It used to have a special cartridge with 2 extra controller ports and each player could use half a controller)
I'm probably misunderstanding you, but can I rephrase your comment as saying 'int i is the natural way of declaring a pointer to an int, and not int i'? Because if so, I don't recall that from the K&R (and I've read it front to back several times, not that that means much - I can't even remember if they use int* i or int *i, and I don't have my copy at hand here).
I love homebrew! I have it all on of my macOS machines. Best, easiest way to install common software I use between computers (Where supported, anyway) and developer packages. Now if we could just get http://linuxbrew.sh/ up to the same caliber....:)
You are right that certainly one could lets say edit the source of chrome and add support. There is no technical limitation here, however see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_...

Specifically, one thing they mention is licensing with regard to browsers.

Parent's comment has relevance IMO because we're trying to shoe horn things to make everything work in the browser and thus via HTTP as if the browser was an operating system. The browser was built to browse web pages, and at that, didn't even necessarily need to be graphical (see lynx). It's becoming a monster and many of us don't agree with the hand-waiving style justification of adding more and more.

Once upon a time, some people had a vision of using something optimized for files for files, another thing for chat optimized for chat, and so on. There were protocols for these, and apps on top of those. Not all these things were built well, efficient, and/or easy to use. The browser and http were good compromises in many ways, but certainly not without massive problems either. Fast forward and we've just compounded the problems and we keep working harder to lock ourselves into another limited set of technologies we already knew had fundamental issues (people used to/still do complain about processor architecture in similar ways).

I like the browser as a unifying, networked experience, but HTTP + the web browser are not really designed particularly well for some of the things we try to use them for from many perspectives. On top of that, with the issues of JavaScript, security, state, and other things, it gets even more messy. Somewhere along the way we seem to have become disinterested in protocols, lower-level networking, and generally challenging the norms.

Ironic that a lot of web developers preach things like KISS, and yet the browser is a huge example of a project where one could argue that KISS + don't throw in the kitchen sink has run amok. I understand this is not a popular opinion with some people, but I still think it is a valid one. Sometimes I think a little more pausing and thinking things through on lower-levels and with regard to the bigger picture are undervalued and could save us from some of the nonsense of the last few decades.
Thanks for posting this. I think you need to work on finding your key differentiators and putting them up front in video & marketing materials.

Curious how you handle something like the task feature when the recipient is not an ivelope user.
Analysis shows Airbnb isn't the fastest growing private accommodation area
That's why you shouldn't put anything on the heap in C.
And I think that's the biggest problem: The entry-games that we present are mostly boring shooters, and the like. Non-gamers aren't going to spend time figuring out what kind of game they want, aside from friends recommending something, they'll probably just try what is popular or advertised.

I think movies have this same problem. Your weekly superhero blockbuster's are fun, they definitely aren't everyone's cup of tea. But if you weren't ever really into movies, and started jumping in, you'd think that's all there was.
People like you are what's wrong with science. Get off the strawman soapbox.

The actual analogy of my position: "That washing thing is radical, let's trial it in a quarter of the cases based on early results and compare outcomes."

That's the perfectly rational response to a radical, but promising change. Not to switch all the ORs based on preliminary results.

Pretending that "we should roll out GMOs slowly because we're bad at systemic risk and this is important" is the same as "burn people for talking about heliocentric systems" is just nonsense zealotry from you. Which is why people are concerned about GMOs -- doubting zealots is good practice.
Yea, stuff like that makes me think that while doing all codecs will be hard, a large useful subset will be not that difficult to do.
So can a destroyer from the 60s
Only the US would use a $10B aircraft carrier to launch a $100M aircraft to drop a $100K bomb on a kid hiding in a hole with a $100 AK-47.
Well a Tomahawk is also a precision weapon, which can take out a single building.
This is how war begins
> Even at $800,000 a copy, the LRLAP’s price could go higher.

Lockheed Martin, no surprise there.

I wonder what it would cost China or Russia to produce something similar.
GitLab pages down due to private/public key mismatch
Just knowing C probably not, but knowing how PHP is implemented internally did make me write PHP differently; and I suspect the same would be true for any scripting language.

(for example being much more conscious about pass by reference, the cost of various functions, the overhead of calling functions and doing data conversions etc).
"the people most worried about GMO foods don't seem to know or care about the many crops that were created by exposing seeds to high amounts of radiation or chemical mutagens"

I think you're right in pointing out that there is general ignorance about the roles of radiation and chemical mutagens. These have been around for a long time, introduced when there was less focus on the methods of food production. I think if there were more awareness placed on these aspects as well, people would be interested in, say, labeling for this, too.

As for the labeling of organic, what is acceptable under that label is also a contentious issue, with lobbying on both sides. To assume that those who prefer to buy organic are knowingly accepting that mutation-bred foods should be labeled organic I think is a little disingenuous. Of course, lines have to be drawn somewhere, if we've got a binary label, and that's why some would like more detailed labelling.
You know why we're doing it. We need to deter a resurgent Russia and China.

People like you thought that nukes made conventional militaries obsolete in the 50's. That was wrong then and it's wrong now. In order to maintain control of the seas and skies, we need to maintain our edge in aviation and in naval technology.
There's already a VLC web plugin, how would VLC.js be any different for the end user?

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin/
# Conversation with John Smith

## Family
* How is his daughter doing in ballet? (guaranteed, last discussed 1m3d ago)
* Was his wife's birthday last weekend? (70% certainty, Facebook feed. [Review post])

## Video games
* What is his current rank in League of Legends? (guaranteed, from your LoL friends list)
* Has he tried any new champions in League of Legends? (the answer was "yes" 1m3d ago)

## Shared occurrences
* Relate your experience with your participation in a hackathon last weekend.
o Has he been to a hackathon? (shared interest in software development)
o Does he have any techniques for making travel bearable? Has he ever been to upstate New York? (he travels often)
* Talk about your upcoming shared trip to Canada.
o Has he previously visited Canada? (unknown)
o Does he have his ski equipment ready? (the answer was "no" 1m3d ago)
o Is he ready to have a good time? (the answer was "yes" 1m3d ago)
o Relate an anecdote about the last time you went. (you have not already done this)
I think what the parent poster refer to isn't so much whether the voter understood the wording of the ballot and how to cast their vote, but whether they understood the implication of it. Indeed, the fact that no one is able to define what leave means even now should be evidence enough that no one could possibly have understood it at the time of the referendum.

Putting politics aside and focusing on design alone I agree with you though, the ballot is very much on point.
This is a textbook example of survivorship bias.

Survivorship bias, or survival bias, is the logical error of
concentrating on the people or things that "survived" some
process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not
because of their lack of visibility...A commonly held
opinion in many populations is that machinery, equipment,
and goods manufactured in previous generations often is
better built and lasts longer than similar contemporary
items...Again, because of the selective pressures of time
and use, it is inevitable that only those items which were
built to last will have survived into the present day.
Therefore, most of the old machinery still seen functioning
well in the present day must necessarily have been built to
a standard of quality necessary to survive.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias]
If you work out how many $$$ are involved, it's trivial compared to the price of the cars. As another datapoint, adding free lifetime charging to the now-discontinued low-end Model S cars was $2,000.

I'd bet that the dominant economic thing is how annoying it is to rent land and construct lots of little facilities. Reducing supercharging from free-for-all to mainly long distance charging is a way to minimize the annoyance while keeping most of the benefit to car owners.
What logic does it use? Any chance using relevance or linear logic to avoid vacuous truth proofs (like in set theory)?
Well, this is not absurd after all. Less ships, less ammo, ammo cost per unit is higher.

If the ships and weapons are performing as specified and there were no significant delays, that's a successful program.
But that's trivially mitigated - don't.
Thank you for that answer. This is why I like to comment and read here. A lot to wrap my head around and very thought provoking.

In closing, I'd encourage you to read "why we make things and why it matters" by peter Korn. Takes from persig, but gets much more into the philosophy of work.
Random Forests in Python
Virtual Reality.

As someone who has tried HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR (I own PSVR) and even Samsung's foray into VR via its flagship Galaxy phones (S7 Edge) I would have to say that at present, it's still overhyped. The technology is so new that most companies are experimenting and finding their feet.

As cool as VR is, the cool factor wears off very quickly when you realise that screen technology hasn't quite reached the point where VR can compete with a 4K monitor on a gaming PC or even the level of immersion of a gaming console on a TV.
IF JOKER AND BANE HAD A FIGHT...
How about just... eating food? I know, I know... so unpopular, but "Paleo, Macro..." all of that crap? Let it go. Outside of people trying to sell you shit, including books, the best advice you'll ever get is just to eat a relatively balanced diet, keep up fiber intake, and maintain a healthy weight. Whether you prefer or personally thrive more on meaty diets, or eating a lot of barley isn't really that hard to figure out.

You don't need to chug slurry 24/7, or eschew all carbs to achieve it. Avoid too much of any one thing, avoid too much processed crap (not because it's inherently bad, but because it's usually loaded with salt and sugar), and learn to cook. It's hardly a science, but you have large historical samples of people living that way, compared to a couple years of someone telling you that you can spend the rest of your days drinking the latest gray sludge.
Most books from the early days were essentially that, although they weren't called that because it was just assumed. The K&R is, in a way, even if it doesn't mention assembly. It's obvious to see how a for loop relates to the assembly instructions (of course it isn't today, with all the trickery compilers do underneath).
Ugh, this is too true. Standard indeed.
Subtracting large floating point numbers in different languages
Thanks for the paper link. Is there a plausible way to use destructive interference to create true black? I remember patents around this.
I suspect they again went with a partially emulated build...

If you visit the site, there is a "*" next to "compatible with original cartridges"

When I went to read the footnote, it was written: "It is possible for it not be compatible with all cartridges."

I suspect like other past machines of TecToy, it will fail to run properly Sonic3&Knuckles for example (the megadrive version just before this one, had a sound chip that couldn't understand Sonic3 commands, and so just went nuts...)

Probably won't run Pier Solar either.
I wrote a blog post that goes over pointers in C that may be useful:

https://drewdevault.com/2016/05/28/Understanding-pointers.ht...
The correct link should be https://github.com/Azure/acs-engine :)
I wrote what I-hope-is-the-most-comprehensive StackExchange answer about this, just in case anyone else is battling:

http://expatriates.stackexchange.com/questions/85/how-to-ope...
> And the point of the ship is .. what? If you are a US taxpayer you should weep.

Same as any prototype or sufficiently advanced aircraft like the F-117, pave the way for future generations like the Beast of Kandahar, demonstrate or invalidate a series of bold ideas.

In particular, the number of innovations crammed in the Zumwalt makes it relatively cost-effective from a "things we had to try" point of view: new low RCS hull, new composite bridge, new launch system (VLS), new centralised control systems (TSCE). All of this stuff can now be iterated upon and integrated in newer ships. That the new gun system has "failed" in practice is itself a lesson probably worth the dollars spent on it.

Not to mention: look up the name of its first captain [1].

There's few institutions that can do R&D with a multi-decade horizon and the armed forces are one of them. Is there waste in the process, sure, the ghost of Admiral Rickover must be turning in his grave, but it is not totally wasted, unlike a certain aircraft that is somehow manufactured in a full 45 states (have the remaining ones managed to get a piece yet, I haven't followed).

[1] http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg1000/Pages/bio1.aspx - shame the USS Enterprise was inactivated in 2012.
One of the main problems with single-player video games is that a lot of people work alone and don't want to spend their free time doing something that feels kind of like work, but doesn't seem to offer much in return. They'd rather spend their time socializing or doing something that will improve them in an obvious way.

A personal anecdote - I loved single-player video games until I was 18, but I stopped cold at that age. 5 years later, I tried to get back into it. I played some games that I used to like. I don't feel the things I used to feel while playing. Leveling up in Diablo just feels like accomplishing a chore - it feels meaningless.

This author seems to think that video games, in general, are definitely for everyone. I don't agree. Just like there are people who don't like reading or listening to music who manage to live whole, well-rounded lives, there are people who don't like playing video games.
I use Blender on a regular basis. Not every day, but certainly a few times a month. Which is to say, not enough to be an expert that has the thing ingrained into my muscle memory. It's not that hard to use.
What are the chances that the rail guns will ever be installed if they can't even afford bullets for the regular guns?
Rev.ng is a suite of tools for binary analysis
Thanks for the recommendation. I used simplescreenrecorder on Linux before, it worked pretty well. I'll try OBS on Windows and see how that goes.
This only confirms one thing: How we're doing account security is inadequate at best. Perhaps LessPass comes up short, but that's more a symptom of the broader problem than it is a mistake on the part of LessPass and its ilk.
"People like me"... always a non-starter; it tells me that you're arguing with a model of who I am in your head, that probably has more to do with the people you argued with in the past than anything to do with me.

I don't think nukes end conventional militaries, but I think they end conventional conflicts between nuclear armed nations. That's why we're fighting Russia in a proxy war in Syria, and not with tanks in the Ukraine. As for China, how many times could our navy and air force obliterate them as it stands? Besides, they're just taking a page from our book, letting us front the R&D, then... stealing the designs.

Much cheaper, much smarter.
I've had success with Intel's Threading Building Blocks. Is there a reason I might prefer something like this instead?
How Comcast and NBCUniversal Used Minions to Fuse an Empire
as AnimalMuppet said under me it will survive analog hole quite well, but degrade quality. Look up Cinavia.

Its so bad you can actually hear distortions.
Blender's competitors are so expensive that most people haven't tried them, and of those that have, there is a significant risk of the sunk-cost fallacy tainting their opinion.
http://mskr.co

I wrote a (free) simple super-basic photo editing app natively for iOS, Android and Windows Phone and have over half a million downloads. It has been a good resume piece, but I don't have time to work on it anymore.

I also wrote mrgr (also on mskr.co) a similarly simple video editing app for iOS. Less downloads, but I'd throw it in if anyone wanted to buy either.
A lot less, since we just did their R&D for them.
Big data where big is volume, as in the mainstream. Influencers do not know statistics, do they?
It's a massive amount of hype for something we've been doing for 50 years.
‘Sixth sense’ may be more than just a feeling
My wife and I have been playing Guild Wars 2 in roughly the same way. I used to raid in vanilla WoW, she ran an Everquest raid guild. These days we just mess around in GW2 doing dailies or personal storylines. It's ultra casual, usually pretty easy, but it's fun to drop into for an hour or two.
$100/hr: 120K yr for 3-day/wk contracts, I like long weekends.. Java dev.
Truthers and Tweets: Analyzing Conspiracy Uptake Among Presidential Followers
Gary Bernhardt's new Destroy All Software series on computation [1] is basically designed for this.

Not all that in-depth, but it's a great starting point.

[1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/
DRM helps maximize the freedom of rightsholders. Would you call DRM technologies 'pro-freedom'?
Although I am not the big C++ fan, this is a wonderful talk and she has a great approach to teaching programming languages. Thanks!
By way of update from the standards trenches: threads are indeed a part of the WebAssembly plan, and we're also actively working on standardizing the SharedArrayBuffer API for JavaScript, which would allow an asm.js implementation with threads (either as a direct compilation target or as a WebAssembly polyfill). Shu-yu Guo has been working on drafting the SharedArrayBuffer spec and is planning to present an update in the next standards meeting in a couple weeks.
CAPTAIN James T. Kirk......just kidding James A. Kirk.
Isn't the point of rail guns that you can use any lump of feromagnetic material and it gets so mich kinetic energy that no explosives are needed? If yes, then those bullets should be really really cheap.
I almost forgot; use MVar [1] to keep mutable state around. Its seriously helpful.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Contro...