skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a great book about this called "Life Beyond Earth" by Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro. It discusses possibilities ranging from silicon-based life to plasma-based and even radiation-based life. It's not speculative, but since it's rather old the science in it may be dated.

It's worth reading if you're interested in this topic.
Dutch market regulator bans T-Mobile's 'free' streaming music service
There's no need to reinvent solutions. The problem has already been given a proper mathematical treatment:

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Spitzer_lion.html
I think it's a case of boiling a frog: if you increase the temperature slowly, they don't notice and jump out. Or so the proverb goes.
The emu "war" example is also similarly dumb. We know that humanity is very successful at wiping out animals even when we're not actively trying, just as a consequence of habitat encroachment or over-hunting. If you want to kill a bunch of emus, that can easily be done using appropriate methods. Having a cohesive military formation go after them in the huge Australian outback and giving up after a week is not the way to do so.
I am rich, and don't have many friends.
Anyone have any other links of interesting news in this area? Massive thing happens in a massive country and even NPR is not talking about it. Interested to get some news/conclusions-so-far.
Neural net changing its weights is no different from any other software updating the values of its variables.
Wish I could upvote your more.

The jlibtool I know (and that you seem to have implemented) however is a drop-in replacement for libtool to merely speed up libtool (rather than tar-and-feather libtool out of existence as it deserves to) isn't it? It seems to be used by apache httpd last I checked.

Anyway, cudos to those who do something about it. I tried a couple years ago, but haven't followed through.
"After considering all of the evidence, the board did not find clear and convincing evidence of innocence and declined to recommend clemency in this matter."

Hey, just because he's not guilty doesn't mean he's innocent.

Isn't it is better that ten innocent persons be jailed than that one criminal escape justice? [0]

Edit: Obviously it's more complicated than this. I don't envy anyone having to make these sorts of calls. There are certainly legal minutiae here that the CNN article doesn't get into.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_formulation
Given the poster's other comment in this discussion[1], I think we can agree that a charitable reading is justified.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13244642
Eyewitness testimony is often incorrect. "Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts": https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-...
Hedge Fund Math: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
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Check Fig. 4 and the discussion:

"Column 1 in Fig. 4 in the first block of
columns (corresponding to wages) shows that IQ predicts
wages, but the predictive power is small (around 1% [Adj. R squared of 0.02 in Fig. 4). Column
2 in Fig. 4 shows that self-esteem, locus of control, antisocial
behavior, and neuroticism, taken together, are more important
determinants of wages [R sq. Of .05]. Both IQ and personality remain as
important predictors in wage equations when both are included
in a regression (column 3 in Fig. 4). The fourth column in Fig. 4
shows that achievement has more predictive power than IQ and
personality alone. When IQ and personality are also included in
a regression (column 5 in Fig. 4), achievement test scores remain an important predictor of wages, and IQ and personality
also remain important predictors of wages. After controlling for
scores on achievement tests, IQ loses around 60% of its predictive power. When grades are included, instead of achievement tests, the effect of IQ becomes negligible. A similar pattern
arises across the other outcomes studied."

The achievement measure is from a test (of learned facts and skills?) at age 10 (IIUC).

Further, the paper seems to go to some effort to decompose the raw data into IQ, grades. See table 2. The correlation between iq and personality is fairly weak.
> imagine if you left the company and couldn't exercise your options before you left

As I understand it, once you leave the company, you're no longer subject to restricted trading windows. So you should be able to exercise thereafter without restrictions.
> When someone is given the offer to be the CEO of a large company, do they get more than a day to decide?

Yes.
Dell sells laptops that support higher caps.

Apple does not. The issue is that consumers are limited by what Apple sells if they are reliant on MacOS. There is no competition for MacOS laptops.
> "My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.".format(locals())

Well that's a definite code smell.
Good tips, on that note you really don't have to use HBase or some always-on managed filesystem. You can actually use S3! I know this sounds weird as you'd rack up API costs way faster than storage cost, but we implemented a simple batching approach for timeseries data that could handle 100M+ messages for $10/day (over 100GB+ of data, includes all costs, processing, storage, backup). Did a 2 min screen cast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WqBuEA7s8 . This hopefully can be a lifesaver on costs for some people, and keeps your system overall simpler.
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Hmm, I was thinking... being ambitious, maybe a little greedy, should be a great factor for "success" in terms of importance and money.

I mean, many intelligent people I know don't care much about this kind of success anyway, so I think it's clear that it's more correlated to personality than IQ. Some personality types will have greater success, simply because they are searching for it.

IQ is still correlated simply because, in our society, we came to think that this kind of success is desirable, so many people want it, even if they are not that ambitious. So if you have a high IQ, you will probably have a decent income and moderate success, even if you don't want to be rich or something like that.
Yes, it's not. DNA testing has a much higher error rate that people believe, it's not magic. Especially when you get a negative result like that.
"A 30-year-old Ethiopian woman was arrested in Al Qasimi Hospital on Thursday after she confessed that her newborn baby is illegitimate and she is an illegal maid, an official at Sharjah Police told Gulf News on Saturday

The police said the hospital should have informed them immediately. “They should not accept such cases of unmarried pregnant women,” police said."

barbarians. the Irish pull the same shit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/967...
That's actually how GPU shader languages work, albeit in reverse. HLSL/GLSL always allow floating point shortcuts unless they could affect the value of a variable declared with the "precise" qualifier.
Baidu and KFC’s new smart restaurant suggests what to order based on your face
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/08/501199606/...
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The weird part is, I put a ! originally, and HN's software gave no indication that it'd strip it after submission.
Software lets you do Clarity like expert calls directly from your blog
Military hardware is hardened against EMP.
Firefox on Linux, I had to disable uBlockOrigin to see anything at all. It was a blank page, although ViewSource showed a large body of html and content.

This doesn't appear to be a commercial site at all. Weird that an ad blocker would be in conflict with it.

Also: I was able to read it with no problem with lynx, a text browser, after scrolling wwaaayyyy down to get to the article. Why don't designers (or whoever's responsible for this decision) put the content physically first, and the cruft last, in html? You can obviously arrange what gets displayed first in CSS/javascript. It would make life easier for text viewing people and their tools.
Sounds like the common denominator in all of these interactions is you. You might want to hire a dating/social coach who can give you candid feedback on how you come across as a friend.
But is it because we reward (unjustly) those that score well and go to prestigious schools? Society is certainly not a blind test; we cannot conclude that these 'predictors' will actually help an employer choose a high-functioning employee. It only predicts who an employer will pay more. Heck, for the best predictor that, we only need to look in their pants.
Just the same, there are city neighborhoods where everyone down the block knows one another and whose families spend time together often, and suburban neighborhoods falling into crime and dysfunction where few community bonds exist.

Neither of these is proof that one is inherently better than the other, just that there are many dependent factors which can change the fabric of a neighborhood in any setting. That's the point of the entire field of urban studies existing; to understand what makes these types of places happen. As you would expect, many of the communities that we have in reality don't implement the best solutions that have been discovered due to local resistance, funding issues, misguided political mandates, etc.
Ah, I may have completely misunderstood the parent comment then. Indeed, have never used these, in any country so far.

Neat.
Plus in The Netherlands has this as well. Same with Albert Heijn [1]. I don't know how it works at AH, but at Plus I do. When you're at the cashier, the cashier takes 2 products out to sample if you scanned them. You can then pass (right now they're lenient with customers forgetting since its still kinda new).

With Albert Heijn you can also order online and they'll deliver it (not all areas supported yet), and with Plus you can order online from an app. The disadvantage with not picking your own groceries (as being outlined in the video of this article) is that you can't pick an article which expires later, or looks/smells fresher. You don't get to check if your eggs are all intact. You don't get to check if none of your cookies are broken. Etc. Not saying that always matters, but it can be important.

[1] https://www.ah.nl/over-ah/services/zelfscannen
Having first class references has very little to do with manual memory management. As you said, confusing values with references is a very leaky abstraction, especially when you have mutable data.
I hadn't really used the cursors until now so I thought I would check. I agree with you, they're very awkward. When I press the left my brain then expects that the up and down keys will be the same size key, and I end up hitting the shift.

I seldom use the keys in day to day typing, so it's not a big issue, but they feel very wrong.

Apart from that the keyboard has grown on me, but I have changed my style to type much more lightly, partially because of how noisy the keyboard is.
More about data hazard. You can arrange your access pattern pretty well, but fast-math helps to avoid data dependency therefore better instruction level parallelism and pipelining.
>binding ESCAPE to Caps Lock has been an acceptable re-configuration for me as a vim user

I've seen a lot of people say this but I dunno. I'm kind of leery of doing something that would cause me to develop problematic muscle memory when typing on normal keyboards, e.g. on other people's machines. I have enough trouble flipping between Mac and Windows keyboard shortcuts already.
Show HN: Refinator, online lecture notes and PDFs with prerequisite lists
"Yet the opportunity not to be rich is one of the greatest opportunities with which young Americans have been blessed." Might just be one of the most entitled statements I've ever read.
I had one for about 10 days, and do java dev (intellij/jetbrains stuff).

I got 5-6 hours, then did the 10.12.2 update, and initially battery estimate went up a lot (15-16 hours initially) but it would ramp down sharply when real work was being done. I was seeing ~10% of the battery drain in an hour, meaning I probably could have done 9.5 hours of moderate work. Heavy duty dev (java/compiling, etc) I probably would have got at least 6 hours, maybe a bit more.... but I took mine back. Nice as it was, the price was just a bit hard to swallow relative to performance - was not really expecting 1% diff from 2015 model. I have a 2012 model, so it was faster than mine, but I'm looking at getting a 2015 and saving $1000.
More data will be created in 2017 than the previous 5,000 years of humanity
I think this would be your answers if you want to be questioned further.
If you can figure out a sensible way to formally specify what you want, that would be a good idea. But that gets very complex very quickly. E.g. if you allow the compiler to compute any algebraically equivalent expression in place of the expression you wrote, it can just add FLOAT_MAX and then subtract FLOAT_MAX (which mathematically should make no difference, right?), and then if it knows the input was reasonably small then it can optimize the result to 0.
So python now has 4 different ways to do this? Ugh.
Exactly. Many intelligent people I know don't even care that much about money, past a certain point.
The things you mention are incompatible with adult children staying at home longer.

The secret is to have some of those things be part of normal life from when they are little. Bring the laundry to the washing machine. Help fold it. Help cook Help clean, etc. Not that difficult.

The financial side can be introduced initially through games and later on in different ways.

It just takes forethought and consistency. And it doesn't have to be punishment but rather part of normal life.
"“Snowden infringed the privacy of at least [redacted] NSA personnel by searching their network drives without their permission"

Wait... the NSA is complaining their privacy was infringed upon because documents were searched without proper approval?

Wat?
Only if you are in UTC timezone I suppose
It is enforced by the browsers that implement HTTP2, it would be nice to see their adoption correlation.
I haven't worked on this in a few months, so I figured I'd just show off the current state of the project since I'm unlikely to be able to work on it in the next couple of months.

This is a _really_ simplistic proof-of-concept for something I've often wished to be able to use myself, although I should really support real books as well. Among other things, I've often felt that prerequisite and "read alongside" lists (ideally based on (topic, sophistication) pairs instead of being specific books as it currently is) would be great to have. The about page[0] goes into more detail on this.

Currently, I plan to integrate with MathOverflow/MSE's tag wikis, and maybe allow rep to transfer over in some sense from there by allowing you to link your accounts.

Any edits or additions would warm my heart. Contributions to the code[1] are welcome too! :)

This has also been posted[2] to /r/math on reddit.

--

[0]: https://refinator.herokuapp.com/about

[1]: https://github.com/mrkgnao/refinator

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/5jx53e/refinator_lets...
Building a RESTful API with Node, Flow, and Jest
An Introduction to Mutual SSL Authentication
I was playing around with the editor and it looks great! thanks for sharing
My background is from the hedge fund investment side (though I have been programming since 1983 and have been increasingly involved in tech the past few years) and I have found these principles to be invaluable. I try to reread them a couple of times a year and in the past handed out copies to CEO and owner of the corporate partner of my startup fund.

There's a resonance here with Andy Grove's constructive confrontation and the kind of zero based idea they had about lines of business after realising mistake with memory vs cpu.

I think the main difficulties with it come from Dalio's insistence that everything is a machine - hunan beings, the family, the firm and the economy. I don't believe that is true - even code has an organic aspect to it, and firms are certainly organic.

And I think that shows in the difficulties he has with sustaining the principles as he steps away. If you read the comments on glass door, few complain about the principles but they do complain the principles aren't properly applied. So I think that's because he neglects the human aspect and if it's a cult if is insufficiently a cultus. (see TS Eliot).

Any approach can end up becoming a substrate for opportunistic and political behaviour. And most people aren't cut out for quite that level of directness.

But I learnt much more from Dalio than the stuff where I think he gets it wrong, and it's pretty powerful stuff because he has set out a coherent philosophy.

Charles G Koch has similar ideas about getting to the heart of things and bring critical. He says if a supervisor isn't being challenged by employees after a couple of years then he shouldn't be a supervisor - but the obligation is on both sides. See his books or YouTube interviews.
In response to your question, have another question. Does a man having a child with woman mean she won't have other children? I don't see any reason it does.

Would a man having a child with 10 women cause huge social problem? It certainly does. Do you want to be a single woman with kids? Doubt it.

Why should men get special status over women with the number of children they have? I really don't see any reason for that. There are men who deliberately get women pregnant and then leave them because they think they are great and winning life because they have so many children and let other people care for them. Those sort of people would support only having limits applied to women.
Snapdeal is just using the opportunity to get more customers into it's ecosystem, it says that it would take 1 rupee (0.015 USD) commission to deliver 2000 rupees (29.495 USD) and that too from the cash received from COD (cash on delivery). People paying online for products on e-commerce sites is all time high in India as they don't have cash to spare, so I don't really see a way it's going to be successful.

As for Paytm, I really doubt their commitment to the security of their products. This was my experience on vulnerability disclosure on their product - https://medium.com/timebender-technologies/paytm-says-to-me-...
I have suffered from RSI for some decades and one thing that helps alleviate it is to change my keyboard every 6 months or so .. and in that light, this change has actually been quite smooth for me. I've gotten used to it in a week, and will probably adopt it as standard from here on out, anyway ..
Maybe for some obvious exception cases. But for the bulk of the bell curve, who are not particularly influential or handsome, it's more to do with coincidence of social position. Lucking into a friendly crowd at work for instance.
Given that he's holding with bare hands... I would never do that. Just one specime with poison or something line that, and you're done.
> Vacating and dismissal are not findings of innocence in the legal system.

Actual legal question not related to the specifics of this case: why not? Doesn't the US justice system operate under the principle of "innocent until proven guilty?" Doesn't vacating a conviction mean that the former convict has not been proven guilty?
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I assumed it was a demo of tech they expect to sell to other retaikers, kinda like AWS
A fisherman's hands are almost as good as gloves. Not much going to get through that hide.
If Twitter had an interest addressing abuse, Twitter would strive to make it easier to report abuse than to create it. Instead, retweeting is one touch and amenable to botting while reporting is convoluted and a linear.
Under intense questioning and pressure, people have been known to confess to crimes they did not commit.

I recall reading about a druggie who confessed to being the Green River Killer or some other serial killer. The real killer was picked up after that.
>I happen to live in Germany

Then I really have no idea, haha. It's also quite possible that we're so inundated with sensationalized news these days that the idea of one single event sort of stopping people in their tracks just isn't something likely to happen anymore.
> The bay area has some of the worst roads in the nation

You haven't traveled much if you believe this. Try going to the northeast sometime.
The banker that encrypted files
What he wrote is against HN rules. What you wrote is against HN rules. And what I am currently writing is against HN rules...

The only way to win is to not play.
Done, and thank you for sharing your experiences and insights! https://bladesearch.com

ps. If you could share how you did your agent locator by zipcode, I'd be really interested to hear about it. hello at above domain.
Flagged because this seems to be some idle threat.

To 'protect jobs' fraud detection is a bad thing. So fraud prevention should be reduced to encourage 'innovation'?
There's several, depending on use case. Each make different tradeoffs, so you have to decide what's important for you.

For example Prometheus (which I work on) is great at reliable monitoring and powerful processing of metrics at high volumes, but it'd be unwise to use it for event logging or customer billing.

If you're doing IoT or event logging then InfluxDB might be a good choice for you, though if you're doing more text-based logging then Elasticsearch is nearer to what you're looking for.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMQe9oOKhMhIVw9WmuCE... is one comparison of the various open source options.
I'm a USian, and find the resistance to national ID pretty nonsensical. We've got a patchwork of id in the States, using driver's license and ssn as proxies for identification. If you're on the road, people often won't recognise your Nebraska state ID if they haven't seen one before. Hell, I've had supermarkets refuse my passport when buying beer...

And meanwhile there are a pile of states making it increasingly onerous to get id in order to limit voting.

Having a coherent strategy for id doesn't preclude banning fracking NY. It also doesn't imply that the government will require access to your social media accounts, or use tanks to investigate overdue parking tickets, both of which we seem to be running towards without a national ID...
Right! He was an NSA employee as well, so authorized to violate basic privacy. It came with the job.
Finally pulling the trigger on a 17" System76 Oryx Pro today with baseline specs aside from the screen and graphics card. It's got so much room for expansion that I'm comfortable looking at it as a 10 year investment. Going up to 64GB and room for 4 HDs, makes it a very comfortable futureproof purchase.
> But our current infrastructure is definitely not hardened against low to moderate effort.

Sure, but nobody thinks AI is a threat right now. They're claiming AI could be a threat in the near future, which is entirely reasonable.

And with battery tech improving steadily, and solar now becoming cheaper than fossil fuels, it becomes progressively easier to depend solely on disconnected, distributed power generation which is resistant to exactly the kind of attack you're suggesting.

We can certainly argue the probabilities of such an outcome, but I hope we can all agree that it's not outright implausible. Which doesn't even count the dangers of AI for our economy, which are even more plausible. So overall, AI has the potential for much harm (and much good of course).