skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Windows Defender was shown to be pretty piss poor in general detections. The only thing it has going for it is its low resource footprint.
I with they'd start licensing OSX again.. even if it were tethered to a usb-interfaced hardware device for the license... charge $250 for said device and the OS and be done... let homebrew, and third parties install it internally, install the OS, and it just work (driver availability may vary)... add enough information for the hardware mfg's to release drivers for OSX... though this has been problematic for windows, a cleaner update/release model is much more possible with broader internet access... Apple can also "bless" certain hardware combinations and exit the desktop space (akeeping macbook/mbp lines).
> We're already at 1.3° C

You can't really make that claim yet. The sun is also at the peak of it's 30 year output cycle (and I believe there's also a greater cycle as well). We can't know the full effect for decades probably. Which is kind of the point of my statement.

We can freak out all we want, but the world will survive and the world (probably humanity) has faced much harder times with much worse technology.

Just trying to keep things in perspective.
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thanks! hope you like it!
Pretty good CSP implementation in clojurescript though, which compiles down to JS.
I could have sworn he has one about long chains of nitrogen as well.

An eyeopener for me, as even though i grew up on a farm i never considered nitrogen to be so "lively".

Edit: Ah, found it.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/10/14/who...
You are doing it right. Any potential life partner that does not have the "patience" and good judgement to see the wisdom of your choices is not worth spending time with anyway.
They look black to me...
It's still valuable to know. I am a diabetic, and so are a lot of other people. I would choose lower-sugar chocolate if it were available (I don't eat anything but plain dark chocolate now but I do miss Kit-Kats), but if it were actually worse for my glycemic control than the regular Kit-Kat bar, I'm not doing myself any favors.
Air Conditioning.
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Conspiracy theories aside, rational, open discourse is necessary for a free society. Another HN user put it very eloquently:

This U.S. election has been an important inflection point in displaying the bias and application of bias
by "apparently" disinterested entities like Twitter, reddit and the like - places that claim
to advocate diversity and openness, yet struggle to do so in the face of conflict.
If you are at that scale, it would probably be faster and cheaper to evacuate data on physical media rather than over the network. I believe one can use Snowball to do this:

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/faqs/#export
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I care. There isn't a Zotter in my country.
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Interesting. The theories of relativity have philosophical implications, and it's interesting to see that they didn't come only from mathematics and experiment, but also from reading and debating philosophy.
Because engineering our way out is literally the only option. No one is going back to pre-industrial life if they can help it.
Since this is just rumor, we probably don't know what the actual deal amount would have been after said and done, but probably more than they are getting with Fitbit.

I tell you, I feel for their CEO Eric Migicovsky.

SV lore is strong on how Mark and Larry&Sergey turned down offer after offer that in retrospect makes them look like prescient leaders and underdogs-turned-heroes. These are the stories that movies are made out of.

And how can you not want to follow in those footsteps?

And then you hand your company over at a fire-sale price, and for the rest of your life keep thinking... 700M... 700M... ugg it hurts.
You can't have 0% corporate tax
and free healthcare and education.

Sure you can. You tax more elsewhere, e.g. higher VAT, higher income tax, higher captial gains, higher giraffe tax ... The possibilities are infinite.

Taxation is ultimately a social tool to organise how people work as a group/nation, who does what etc.

I think Estonia has or had 0% corporate tax.
I don't know a better way to manage this incentive (I mean on a global, society level I mean). Any ideas?

In the case of smaller companies, there really isn't any choice: we don't get the good group plans. If it were free of course everyone would sign up, and then the company would be paying a large premium to the ins co for something the emp wouldn't use -- and for the emp, if they filed a claim they'd have a real problem because each insurance company would claim the other should cover the expense (I know this from experience).

The trick is to make a bigger group. Someone like YC could probably get all their portfolio companies into a single group. Individuals can join IEEE which makes a group, but you can't enroll your company in that.
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Because you paid for something you don't need, lining pockets in the process.
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Try the new Nestle chocolates, now 40% smaller!
Thanks for the feedback @asteadman! We might consider featuring the most recent photo more prominently because that's the most common use case, but we don't want to confuse the user by sending them to specific content without context. That's the issue with just directly linking to the most recent content in your bio. Older photos with "link in bio" in the caption get sent to the wrong destination. Maybe we can offer the single redirect as an option to the user. Thanks again for checking us out!
Depends on the time scale.
You are right in the case of Apple, but I don't think it is the normal process.

Although my experience in this matter is limited, this is was I was able to find:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-that-Apple-can-push-out-upda...
They don't have to replace it with anything if they don't want to. They could just make it smaller, sell it at a higher price (per weight).
You can use Crucial Advisor tool for that: https://crucial.com/usa/en/advisor

(& you can visit the home page and download the system scanner too.)
:( I mean, isn't technically sucralose (splenda) just a "different way to structure sugar" in that they tack a few chlorines on it?
Sounds better than sugar! I wonder if they consider using isomalt.
Here is patent [1].

The key idea is to add a glucosyltransferase from Lactobacillus, which consumes simple sugars and produces complex sugars.

It is not clear to me that this will be beneficial for human health.

[1] https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf;jsessionid...
Thanks! This is wonderful!
Yes.

But the government has more economic incentives to extend those futures than other participants because they stand to earn money from taxes.
The short answer is that there is no cutoff. There are certain cases based on the time you held the asset (long-term) and you having a low income, but most likely, tax is due on all capital gains, and regardless, they must be reported.

https://www.irs.gov/uac/ten-important-facts-about-capital-ga...
The VCs are not losing their own money. They lose the money of your pension funds and your city's investments. The VCs will be fine.
So you think you are singlehandedly saving "the" industry from the insidious promotion of Haskell?
That's just the cacheing that makes it fast. Obviously it's slower at some level than a static binary like a dump, but no big deal.
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> It is therefore immoral to force me to pay for a service I am choosing not to use :)

Only if you define moral as "everyone for himself, weaker ones be damned" and sure that's your privilege to hope (and vote) for, but not a society I'd want to live in.
In the U.S. can say the same of Apple Juice.
Just because I am born in USA, does not mean I consent to being income taxed.
Those places are called tax havens, but they still operate on taxes paid by the regular citizenry, which is unfair.

You are unfortunately stuck sharing your respective country with other people, and if you ever use a road, a doctor, an emergency service, have a standing army or series of power stations and central banks that keep the economy chugging along, you should absolutely pay what the people consider a fair share of taxes.
excellent read. found it after a neighbor had started floating the idea of me joining his 'business'. had been hit by amway folks before, but I dug in a bit more and found MoD. This all happened in PA, and I'd read it while I was living in PA, so it seemed to feel a bit more 'real' (no idea why though).
Except cab dispatchers have been universally rude to me on the phone whenever I tried to schedule rides. For that reason alone, I am glad karma kicked in and Uber emerged because they used to be near-monopolies, and they knew it.
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FYI there's a summary and video on the root domain: https://h4ck1t.com

Edit:

Turn your speakers down when you play the video if you don't like modem sounds.

This game looks fun. Reminds me a little of Uplink from 2001 (https://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/).
will do, thanks for the feedback! hope you enjoy the game
There are "get rich quick schemes" and then there are rational ways of getting richer. It seems you are practicing risk aversion for just the sake of it and worse at cost of enjoying life. Extreme belief in either direction is bad. Also its dishonest to compare tech startup with "get rich quick schemes" like Amway. If you really believe this you ought to reexamine your own prejudices that you seem to have ingrained from you past experiences.
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Most chocolate isn't anywhere near what you would consider to be dark chocolate. Hershey's Special Dark chocolate bars are something like 45% cocoa solids where as real dark chocolate is usually north of 70%.

To say that a lot of people don't like dark chocolate is very open to interpretation and I wouldn't at all be surprised if candy makers relied on that fact to support their dilution of products.

Manufactures have been altering their chocolate formulas for decades to reduce costs. Hershey once removed cocoa butter from a number of products, replacing it with oils, which under governing laws required that they re-brand the products from "milk chocolate" to "chocolate candy".

Companies even have different formulations base on the country and their general preferences. Nutella sold in the USA is very different in taste and texture from Nutella sold in Italy. Candy sold in the UK cannot have artificial anything so all products there are very different from the USA as well.

A lot of the oils used to replace cocoa butter and milk fats have a putrid bile like flavor and so manufacturers bump up the sugar content to compensate which radically changes the flavor profile. These changes have been introduced to markets gradually over time so the market grows accustom to the changes. That's why you hear about people from Europe describing US chocolate as rancid.

*typo
Of course they'll pass the savings on to the consumer, right?
I'm not sure that's true -- thinking about our own (small) datacenter, we can find 10 10 gig ports much easier than we could scrounge up 100 1 gbit ports that are in the right place on the network to do a big data transfer like this (i.e. we're not going to open cabinets to plug snowballs into 10 different top of rack switches). Sure we could buy more switches to fan out our spare 10gig ports into 1gig ports, but why bother when AWS has them built-in to the truck?

It seems that any datacenter that's big enough to have a PB of data is going to be able to find 25 40 GBit ports easier than 1000 1Gbit ports.

Even if you only utilize 25% of the Snowmobile, that's 250 individual Snowballs you don't have to handle.

(just bounced this off of one of our network engineers -- if we did have to handle 100 snowballs, we would buy switches, set them up in the big conference room next to the datacenter and run the 10 gig fiber drops over to that conference room where the snowballs would be. He said we're probably looking at $30K in hardware costs to set it up, so the Snowmobile might be cheaper even for 100 snowballs worth of data)
I hate that I have a thought this cynical, but... I think almost all success invariably involves some amount of collusion and rigging and grey-area manipulation. It's all showbiz in the short-to-medium run. Most people don't care about the rigging as long as they're enjoying the show. Somewhere out there there's a 'growth hacker' who's proud of his Product Hunt rigging skillz, and surely there are countless employers who'd be happy to have somebody with that skillset.

In the long run, of course, you can't get people to use a product they aren't interested in using. So hopefully there's some eventual 'fairness'.

The delightful irony: the things that drive people away from some product or community are typically the very features that were introduced (or showed up) to extract value from them. See: https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Dude, it's good that you write these articles and I appreciate them. But for gods sake, let them have today.

There are a lot of difficulties in running a community and I'm sure they considered different options but couldn't move forward because they were under too much pressure.

They deserve congrats for today.
As for std::algorithms not being zero-cost. I have seen cases were std::foreach was noticably faster or much slower. I have seen it in benchmarks and it seems largely to be a quality of implementation issue.

Good implementations can cheat and use knowledge my code shouldn't have about parts of the underlying system and bad ones do extra useless crap.

Benchmarking and profiling seem to be the only real way to gain confidence in your results reliably.
I'm trying to imagine the pollution controls that would make that economical. And the space network that would enable it. I think that even with astronomical fines for pollution on Earth, it would be a difficult value proposition. Consider a planet made of solid gold, and then consider how far away it would need to be to make it uneconomical to retrieve. Moon rocks have been valued at $50,800 per gram based on the cost to retrieve them, which should probably be taken as an upper bound rather than a typical figure, but the current spot price for gold looks like it's around $37 per gram. So if the Moon were made of gold, we would need to reduce our retrieval costs by three orders of magnitude to make it worthwhile. I don't have a remotely rigorous way to estimate from that where our current breakeven point might be, but I think it would be pretty close in.

Your idea is pretty crazy, but not completely crazy. There aren't any other particularly good ideas for making space travel profitable. On the other hand, it's difficult to imagine the advances in technology and the environmental concerns that would make it possible. Barring some absolute prohibition, it seems unlikely that spending millions or billions of dollars to manufacture things on Mars would be easier than improving manufacturing processes here on Earth.
I think it's a somewhat apt comparison in that if the ICE money-making portion does not use those profits to develop good EV alternatives, newcomers can leapfrog them.

On the other hand, Kodak was a little different, they feared selling digital would eat into their "film" business. But EV does not eat into the manufacturers' "petro" business because most MFG are not selling fuels. So it's not like they have a perverse incentive is what I'm saying and Kodak suffered from perverse incentives.
"The acquisition price was around $20 million, according to numerous sources familiar with the terms." http://www.recode.net/2016/12/1/13802154/angellist-product-h...
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Subsidies in the US will probably vanish next year as well, but I think the benefits still make them viable.
"The best Christmas present in the world is a blessing."

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Alfred wasn't a Baleen whale though, he was a normal toothed whale that sucked in his food.
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I found the naïvité and belief that flowers are put on Christmas trees truly touching. Such a pure reaction to something that can be so cynical. For that I'll forgive the tone-deaf singing.
Ah yes fixed, I trimmed the URL a bit too much.
Nope, I was just saying that I don't have anywhere near the level of knowledge to say which of either them is more right than the other. I just find it fascinating when two people who are good at what they do have a debate.
Right, "driverless cars" are still at least 10 years away, probably 20.
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Love the interface and the ~~game~~ as well! Perhaps HN influx made the server slow but I am having fun.
For the sake of both efficiency and reason, "off" needs no color of LED at all.
As an early fan of ProductHunt I became saddened to watch their community get diluted and become more of a place for "growth hackers" to hang out than people who actually make things.

But I also realize this was because they raised tons of money and was under heavy pressure to get traction at any cost.

So I think this can be a good news, now that they can just let go and focus on the startup community instead of artificially trying to grow
And when resources start running out elsewhere, it will eventually shift back, that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
My initial reaction was "Great!", then i shared this with my partner and her response was

"Fuck nestle. They are just saying what people want to hear"

Thinking more critically, I share her concern. The way they've been buying water away from local towns makes me think they just need a positive PR spin to distract us from the real issues.

* http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/23/boycott-nestle-water...
I wonder how much of that is due to "arms race" marketing and focus groups.

The current generations... our taste buds are shot, we're accustomed to so much sugar in things and HUGE portions. You can have sugar in smaller portions (like Coke, when it came out in 1886 was sold in a 6.5 oz size), and you could probably have larger healthier portions... but the mix is pretty unhealthy.

Current generations are kind of ruined... taught to look for bigger and bigger candy bars, trained to like sweeter and sweeter things... how do we keep these toxic preferences from harming future generations? And... what can we do for ourselves? Cutting subsidies on sugar producers... seems like Step 1.