skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only glanced at the pictures in the article and seeing the zodiacal signs and months of the year reminded me of ideas I've read on solarmythology.com. That the story of Jesus can be linked to the path that the sun takes during a year, and that 2000 years ago, due to the precession of the equinox the sun slowly went from Aries to Pisces at spring equinox in the northern hemisphere and that it must have been a pretty big change for people who were keeping track of that for agricultural purpose. Miracles like walking on water could be the sun crossing the milky way. Being dead and resurrected could be the sun lowering in winter solstice and coming back up 3 days after. I thought that was interresting.
>Tesla is actually cash flow positive by a large amount

Accounting tricks:

http://fortune.com/2016/09/02/elon-musk-tesla-cash-crunch-wo...

There are convenants in this deal whereby SolarCity becomes a subsidiary, rather than a true merger. Tesla won't assume its debt, which is junk. Why do you think that is? SolarCity is in bad shape. You are insanely optimistic.
We were considering RethinkDB for a mobile project, but ended up using Postgres on the backend and Realm in the apps with a custom REST API in between. This worked out really well for us, apart from all the work on implementing our own REST based sync (this was before Realm launched their backend product, which might have made a lot of that work unnecessary).

The reason we ended up with Postgres over RethinkDB was that our data model was very relationship heavy in ways that were easier to represent in a relational database than with RethinkDB's document model.
> the majority of people 18-25 voted progressive in most states

This is entirely normal - the young like things to change, the old do not. This voting pattern well predates the internet.

> I believe that in general, younger people have become better at filtering out bullshit because they've had access to much more information

I disagree. It's about the same as it always has been. Yellow journalism exists now, just as it existed in the 19th century, and people still fall for it now.

If the internet stopped people from falling for bullshit, "post-truth" would not have been 'word of the year' for 2016.
The problem is non security minded users probably won't take the time to verify the numbers in the first place. They should look into a method that verifies identities without user interaction. Possibly by having signal store users public keys after they verify their phone numbers or better yet provide users with signed certificates for verification purposes.
Chinese scientists use gene-editing techniques (CRISPR-Cas9) in humans
Oversubscription isn't exactly a rare thing in the ISP world.
It is quite common with any religion for monarchs to do inquisitions. In England, you cannot hold a government position unless you are a memeber of the Church of England. When the Church of England was first founded, various Catholics who refused to take part were given sham trials and executed, including Sir Thomas Moore. Today, a government official converting away from the Church of England in England is fired, even if he had been elected into his position. In Saudi Arabia, if any Muslim so much as converts from Islam, they are taken to court and then executed. The Romans crucified Christians or fed them to lions. That was well before Christians were in a position to do any inquisitions of their own. Feudal Japan executed every Christian (man, woman and child) that it could find after a protest turned into an armed conflict. I am not clear on whether that conflict was originally part of that protest or that it became an armed conflict when the response was to kill everyone. You can find plenty of other examples if you look and even more if you include theocracies.

As for why monarchies (and theocracies) do inquisitions, just imagine what would happen if there were a Catholic majority in British parliament, a Muslim majority in parts of Spain back then or some non-Muslim majority in Saudi Arabia. The Church of England would be disolved by act of parliament and those territories would rebel and institute their own monarchs under their religions. The existing governments are not so stupid as let such things happen, so they to try to stay well ahead of them, both then and now. That way all of the existing bureaucrats will keep their jobs and everyone in the business of selling religious objects of the state religion will continue to meet quarterly earning expectations.

I usually try to steer clear of non-technology comments on the internet, but I felt that my 2 cents were sorely needed in this discussion. This back and forth fixation on inquisitions in Catholic countries ignores the larger picture where the religion that the government of the particular country chooses is irrelevant to whether any sort of inquisition is done.
Not if you store the timestamp of when you gain downvote rights, and compare against that.
I recently took my Macbook to get a new battery at the Apple Store. While I was there, I asked for them to fix the lid as it was a little loose and was bugging me.

Not only did they not do it (they initially said no problem), they lied and told me I needed to replace the entire panel for $800 as it was a broken `spring` and could not be fixed.

I called bullshit and fixed it myself at home with a screw driver set.

$800 to tighten a screw?!
You can do that today. I work with a guy who lives in an off-the-grid place in what most of us would consider to be the middle of nowhere with satellite for his internet access.
Doesn't anyone else find this post funny for talking about discovery of social graphs while the main product keybase.io offers does exactly this? I mean the entire service acts an a nice centralized graph linking users nyms across various services. Irony much?
There have been a number of studies on how many deaths can be attributed to air pollution. It seems to be ~1 million deaths a year in China. Here's a typical source (a press release with good graphs, the original paper is linked in it):

https://www.healtheffects.org/system/files/HEI-GBD-MAPS-Chin...
Interesting. Is CNN and Fox News in fake news or Mainstream?
I've got no real input other than it would be awesome to get Larry Page. I'm likely in the 1% of the 1% in terms of how many founder stories I've listened to or watched, and I'm not tired of it yet. A good story can come from the most random places. Though I appreciate good intro music so there's a suggestion.

When would you expect to start airing?
I was; the fridge outputs quite a bit of heat, good for raising seedlings on top of. But I would imagine the expenses involved in this stuff wouldn't make it sensible for a fridge (I don't think they draw that much power anyway).

I just had never heard you could harness this, it's cool.

Edit: Bit late to the party, 1821. Bit of catching up to do.
2014 - http://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-next-mission-internet...
But you just said they are all public data, it just happens someone spent the time to build a profile more "digestible". So in the end, really, this is public data.
The zcash dev team have stated they aren't trading ZEC [1]. You dispute that?

https://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2016-Nove...
How to Recover Deleted Photos from HTC Bolt
Not exactly what you're asking for, but intriguing nonetheless:

http://inhabitat.com/phillip-ross-molds-fast-growing-fungi-i...
The ultimate stealth cozy
tl;dr a man with social anxiety wants call girls to be covered by insurance
Ask HN: I need to roll-out a Twitter clone fast
2-3M users plus I need to host it in-house. What is my best bet?
Many of the responses given to this question are fairly weak, eg. "but what if you don't want people to see you naked?". Invasion of privacy affects someone's dignity, sure, but it's the fact that it makes one _politically neutered_ that's the actual issue and is harder to explain.

Here's one response:
"Imagine if you ever wanted to join the Occupy Wall Street movement or something like that. All of a sudden the government, who will now see you as a threat, can go through everything you've ever done and hold it against you. Remember that one time you pirated a movie? Jail time. Remember that one time you experimented with drugs? Jail time. They will dig up something from your past and use it against you. Oppression is not a theoretical idea and not only an historical problem. Having all information about yourself available essentially makes you politically neutered."

I'll be putting together a set of real-world examples to further emphasize the point.
And that's what I thought Keybase was until this article.

I got myself a Keybase account a while ago; is it reasonable to use it if Zcash is not something I would touch with a ten-foot pole?
It's democracy (with a small d) when I agree with it, ochlocracy when I don't?
I can't think of a way to do that automatically in a way that can't be MITM'd.
> ...a lot of Chinese cuisine has ways to cook these into something tasty.

Not exactly. They just like chicken feet. Cultural palate. You can go to a dim sum place (if you have one available in your US town) and get dim sum. If you don't like them already, pretty good chance you won't like them off the cart.
No, but cables can be duplicated, wireless bandwidth can't.
PoisonTap: steal data, show internal net, install backdoors on locked computer
You've underestimated the number of pizza delivery/haircut scheduling app developers on HN.
Alexis Ohanian at Next Web NYX – Lives Remaining: 0 [video]
I had a bad experience on that site. After leaving my shitty old Dell Dimension seeding for days/weeks at a time, I was banned for "account sharing". To this day I have no clue what happened. My password was fairly complex and not shared with anyone, or reused on any other sites. I argued my case but was told to go pound sand. Fuck what.cd.
It's good to hear it's gotten better. I haven't actually used Soulseek in years, but there's a few things in my library I haven't seen anywhere else. I have mp3s from Soulseek that are as old as middle school kids, that's a weird thought.
Hasn't heard of this before. Really interesting!
A similar law is about to pass in my country and we are 15 weeks away from elections. I believe the targets are FB and Twitter.

So what is my best bet to rollout a Twitter clone fast and host it in-house? Impossible?
I think it's meant to be satire, in the form of "A modest proposal" but applied to ML classifying criminals.
apache2, php7.0, mysql-server, libapache2-mod-php7.0 and php7.0-mysql.

Yes I'm not cool :P but when did I care about being cool...
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> The distinction of why a downvote is useless.

Actually I think it would be incredible useful.

You could use it to shift a community to a more useful direction.

A more direct way of eliminating common errors.

If on a cool new tech that's renewable if someone starts another bloody global warming discussion being able to downvote as OT could try and keep people on topic rather than having to down vote something you agree with.

There are issues with the idea, it can become censorshop, but I find it an interesting one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12971503

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12966673
It looks like they didn't split up the two training sets (criminal/noncriminal) into two testing and training sets?

Which would explain this 'paradox', it's just overtraining:

>The seeming paradox that Sc [the criminal set] and Sn [the noncriminal set] can be classified but the average faces of Sc [the criminal set] and Sn [the noncriminal set] appear almost the same can be explained, if the data distributions of Sc [the criminal set] and Sn [the noncriminal set] are heavily mingled and yet separable.

They're heavily mingled because they're identical and you're just testing your predictions with your training data.
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Laundry folding robot from Japan bags $60m funding
I don't know. Shipping is incredibly efficient these days. If only 10% of the CO2 footprint of your food comes from shipping (which is roughly right according to quick Google searches), optimizing shipping distance is really the wrong thing.

Instead, you should choose the most efficient producers, wherever in the world they are located---that is, optimize the 90% term. How? Buy the cheapest food! If Turkish pistachios are cheaper than California ones, then they are probably being grown more efficiently, with lower CO2 emissions. Price presumably reflects producer costs.

We certainly don't export $149 trillion of food annually. US GDP is only $16.8 trillion. I see $133 billion of agricultural exports in 2015, according to [1]. But again, I don't think this matters, and don't think that reducing food exports and imports would reduce total CO2 emissions.

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/foreign-agricultural-t...
As the framework, it's CodeIgniter or for ultra-simple projects Slim, templating engine is Mustache, and hosting platform is nginx reverse proxy + virutal machines with NAT on a dedicated box at OVH.
The magic of Facebook, Twitter, etc are not the technologies. Sure, as they grow, they need more elegant than off-the-shelf solutions. But hacking together a Twitter clone in a week is the easy part - getting people to use it, building a community, etc, is the hard part.
Elon Musk: Tesla solar roof will likely cost less than a normal roof
I can't think of a comment a that doesn't immediately invoke Godwin. This is like the setup to a Philip k Dick story. I wonder how many people outside of HN would think this is a perfectly normal result of a perfectly scientific study.
I think his point was that the previous poster should not have been so quick to call it out as a partisan issue, not placing blame on Democratic governance.
Not gonna happen. Releasing these "into the wild" is like releasing glow in the dark rabbits that only eat arugula. They'll die before they make it out of the drain, let alone before they make it to any natural microbial ecosystem where they were be viciously torn apart by organisms finely tuned to that environment.
I really, really hope so.
I haven't read the paper, and I don't really know much about ML, but this part stuck out to me from the abstract:

> All four classifiers perform consistently well and produce evidence for the validity of automated face-induced inference on criminality, despite the historical controversy surrounding the topic.

I realize the authors are intentionally skirting around this bit (it's not really the point of their paper), but the "problem" isn't that some physical features may indicate criminality, with some level of success. That's cool or whatever I guess, but hardly an issue or truly revolutionary I think from a social perspective (in person, people tend to understand "vibes" rather well, and bad vibes come from a number of things like body language or visual cues about a person. Humans have their own inference systems for these things, flawed as they are.)

No, the problem -- the "controversy" surrounding the topic -- IMO, is that, almost with 100% certainty, any implementation of this system will be completely left unchecked, will effectively be private, and will be totally unaccountable by any practical means.

Do the authors of this paper really think any implementation of this system would be open to the public in any accountable way, if used by say, LEOs? You know, as opposed to it being a big "every-criminal.sql" dump, based on hoarded data mining, and driven along and utilized by proprietary algorithms, created by some company selling to governments? LEOs in places like the US have already shown their hands with strategies like parallel reconstruction and the downright willingness to fabricate evidence out of thin air.

Really, who cares what some data science nerds think of their fancy criminal face models, and whether they think they're "accurate despite the controversy", when the police can just say "It's accurate, I say so, you're going to jail" and they can completely make shit up to support it? It's not a matter of whether the actual thing is accurate, it's whether or not it gives them a reason to do whatever they like.

It reminds me of rhetoric people said, about building walls around Mexico wrt the election. That can't happen. Who would build it. It'd be huge. Hard. Realistically? It'd be "easy". Humans have been building walls for a long, long time. It's not unthinkable. The difficult part is actually murdering people who would try to cross the wall by gunning them down -- and they will try to cross. I mean, you probably don't have to kill too many people to send the message. Just, enough of them. The Iron Curtain was a real thing, too, after all.

This is similar. The algorithm is the "easy" part. It's "only" some science. No, the hard part is dealing with the consequences. The hard part is closing the box of Pandora after you opened it.
"He recalled in 2011 that he once asked students in an engineering class if they understood how the feedback mechanism in a toilet’s water tank maintained the water level.

“I asked them, ‘How many of you have ever taken the lid off a toilet tank to see how it works?’” he recalled. “None of them had. How do you get to M.I.T. without having ever looked inside a toilet tank?”"

This is really surprising. Then again, this is not the first time I've glimpsed the possibility that attendnce at a prestigious school is a very noisy signal.
Overcomplicated, just send 'em an email with an <img> link.
People didn't call him a racist for tweeting the taco bowl. Here a leftist rag mocks him for it without throwing around much racist at all:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-taco-bowl_u...

This one, no accusations of racism:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11603760/donald-trump-taco-...

Nope:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-05/donald-trump-...

Only the tweet from W. Kamau Bell:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/donald-trump-taco-bow...

The reaction to it wasn't OMG that proves he hates hispanics, it was WTF.

So what it boils down to is that when a guy who might be racist eats a taco, all you learn from the eating of the taco is that a taco was eaten. The tweet isn't relevant to answering the question. It's noise, it's not evidence in either direction.
Up until a couple weeks ago, I also had no idea how much biases can affect people's decisions and brains

My brain seems to have since rewired itself, to be able to understand biases and find out how to misconstrue anyone's intents, to the point of being able to delude myself, or other people who I can share communication with

Maybe a simple way of "teaching" them would be to communicate to them how they are potentially part of a large conspiracy, and that they have not yet realized?

Hopefully also teaching them how to question authority, including the authority over themselves and others before doing so, in order to minimize risk of harm to anyone involved.

The only thing you can be forced to do in this world is die. The rest is all in your head.
I had roughly the same reaction when I saw it was still up fairly recently haha. Waffles' problems had me thinking about the evolution of p2p over the years (downloading LimeWire Pro with LimeWire was my favorite), and I was pleasantly surprised to see them still chugging along.
why F# and not Haskell? Now we are leaving the .NET world. We are leaving a lot of libraries behind that bridge to many many things. For instance, my latest F# project was to make a REST service that bridged to a Digital I/O board, the DIO board manufacturer has .net libraries for their devices, I simply wrapped those, used Suave.io, 50 lines of code later I have a webservice for control of DIOs. The point about why F# is really good is the huge amount of libraries you get for free that very few other functional languages enjoy ( JVM based languages would enjoy this advantage too ), you can make bridges to other languages / environments, but that's not quite as straightforward. So to me, it's not the same argument.... F# -> Haskell (lose the libs) C# -> F# (don't lose the libs). Not only that, you can sprinkle it into your projects before fully committing to it.
I am just as shocked and appalled that it's getting upvoted. It's so un-scientific, it should be taught in class as a counterexample.
A friendly reminder that there has been no proof that Julian Assange is alive, for quite a while.

Also their 'insurance' file hashes no longer match the files.

And the latest messages are not digitally signed.
Also there was a set of moderators added all over related subreddits to suppress this.
I've been trying to implement a youtube-dl plugin that can download Echo360 videos (a proprietary, flash-based video streaming service that many universities use to host their l lecture recordings). This has been invaluable in order to figure out the protocol that the player uses (though it appears that their flash player doesn't use any crypto at all, which is a relief).
It seems pretty obvious that WikiLeaks has been compromised - is anyone buying this defense?

And more importantly, who/what will replace WikiLeaks?
For simplicity, I wouldn't cache anything. Run youtube-dl with the JSON dump option to get all the sources, find the best source, put the URL into a <audio> element and that's it. At least that's how I'd do it.
You eventually don't pay attention to the controls, just like you don't think much about the actual steering wheel. But you do have to be constantly aware of the situation you are in order to have the data to tell your subconcious to select the right gear, or to coast and such. You are constantly paying attention to stop lights for example, because if you don't you won't be in gear and you will get a toot for taking too long to react. The same applies for more complex situations like driving in thick traffic. You can't rely on a quick glance to know to slow down, you have to know ahead of time which gear to be in so you tend to watch what's happening more closely.

I have no studies to link unfortunately so this is of course just an anecdote..
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure we're not seeing such information availability providing avenues towards a smarter, more progressive planet.

The long-term view, spanning decades or hundreds of years, overwhelmingly argues in favor of information availability leading to progress. That progress doesn't happen all at once, gains are not always evenly distributed, it's gradual and eventual. All great leaps of human progress have directly coincided with immense increases in information availability. I'd be very skeptical that that is a coincidence. Ignorance is gradually boxed into smaller and smaller enclaves when confronted with unfettered access to information. The only way to truly retard that progression is through violence and that is always temporary.

What other explanation is there for seven billion people having such a drastically higher median when it comes to knowledge, versus what the median was 500 or 5,000 years ago? 500 years ago, the median on the planet was extraordinarily ignorant compared to today.

You can see ignorance collapse rapidly when confronted with information. Countries as varied as China, Vietnam, Romania, Colombia, Brazil, etc. have been or actively are incredible demonstrations of it in action the past few decades. Cuba will demonstrate it once again over the next ~20 years. China's last 30 years may be the single largest / greatest leap in history, going from a median that was hyper ignorant and impoverished agrarian to quickly closing the gap with the global median. That China leap directly coincided with a vast increase in knowledge availability for the median (even if state censorship is still present, the education level available to their median has skyrocketed).
That's the one! Breitbart is all about killing foreigners and hating non-white people, right?