skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I am looking at the exchange volume, which is not increasing - even with 0 fees! The blockchain volume is really hard to interpret.
Also known as the "Ulam Spiral" for Stanislaw Ulam who discovered it by accident in 1963, supposedly while doodling during a boring presentation.

This page is great, but the wikipedia page is too and provides other related work and coincidences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
You want people to be able to sue you even if you didn't cause them any harm whatsoever?
Other primates already have the anatomy required for natural language more or less, namely arms and hands. Signed languages are as complete and expressive as spoken languages, and there is speculation [1] that spoken and signed language use the same underlying grammatical facility or "language organ".

Kinda OT, but this got me thinking about why human evolution has preferred spoken over signed language - why did spoken language evolve as the favourite mode when we already had perfectly good anatomy for signed language? Spoken language has some obvious disadvantages that I can think of:

* limited iconicity compared to sign

* not good for communicating while hunting

* less private

* speech production requires fine articulations and motor control, takes longer to learn, extends adolescence?

* "The positioning of the larynx deep in the throat, and the tongue far enough low and back to articulate a range of vowels, also compromised breathing and chewing. Presumably the communicative benefits outweighed the physiological costs." [2]

Spoken has some advantages over sign though:

* communication over distance

* sound-based iconicity/ possible

* can communicate with poor vision

* can communicate while performing manual tasks (this is probably the biggest one)

Maybe early humans used a combination of both depending on the situation, and as the abstraction capability of the brain increased, spoken became the (hearing) norm. Either way, it seems like anatomical explanations for language evolution aren't very useful. Female Cosmetic Coalitions[3] is an interesting theory from anthropology which relates evolution of natural language with in-group trust.

[1] http://www.lscp.net/persons/peperkamp/Peperkamp_Mehler_(1999...

[2] The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_cosmetic_coalitions
Most poor people have insurance which is paid for by the rich.

If insurance companies start to charge skiiers their actuarial cost, I have no problem with this. If they don't I suspect it's simply because there aren't very many.
The lectures for SICP are also up on youtube: [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY
This is very good news. The worst thing cities can do is to create silly laws to curb construction, driving prices to insane levels. Hopefully rental prices will go down towards a more sustainable level.
Even if you claim fair use?
I'd imagine it comes down to accessibility. Many people probably have spare Raspberry Pis lying around as opposed to an Arduino with a wifi shield. Arduino would end up costing more and the processing capabilities isn't as powerful as the Pi. Not that the processing is important, but what if you wanted to tack on more functionality like adding a web cam, etc.

The other part probably has to do with language. Being that it's running on linux, you can program with a variety of languages versus just arduino language.
Smaller Plate Study
Or worse, works which could be used, but for which the process of actually figuring out who the holders are and tracking them down is prohibitively complicated and expensive.
The Art of Pivoting
I spend the rest of the year in places that are not Norway or Sweden - places where even the darkest African or Tamil does not suffer vitamin D deficiency.

I find it very entertaining to be accused of PC signalling a few days after being accused of white supremacy.
Here's a brief flyover and zoom out of Brooklyn:

https://twitter.com/mike_fricker/status/809221803931484161
Exercise makes your hungry, so it is particularly hard to eat less when exercising more. So it doesn't work for most people, because they aren't able to to both.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/why-do-i-gain-weigh...

The problem, most scientists agree, is that exercise makes us want to eat. Many studies have shown that if people start a new exercise program, their bodies begin to pump out much higher levels of various hormones that increase appetite. This reaction seems to be most pronounced if someone starts a new, moderate, aerobic exercise routine. (There are hints in some studies that intense exercise, such as interval training, may dampen appetite. But the relevant studies have been few and small.)
"[Chief US prosecutor] Jackson is away conducting his high-grade lynching party in Nuremberg. I don't mind what he does to the Nazis, but I hate to see the pretense that he is running a court and proceeding according to common law. This is a little too sanctimonious a fraud to meet my old-fashioned ideas." - US Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone [0]

"No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." - US Constitution Article 1 Section 9 [1]

"No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed." - United Nations Universal Declaration of human rights. Article 11 [2]

[0] http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p167_webera.html

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei#section9

[2] http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
Wordpress (with auto-updates enabled) + modsecurity with the owasp ruleset = I've never had a problem.
I'm sure if someone targeted me specifically that statement wouldn't be true, but I don't fear having a Wordpress site on the Internet at the moment.
I haven't read the article yet but your comment just reminded me of one of my all-time favorite movies: Pi (1998). Please watch it if you haven't!

[edit] took a look and this is quite beautiful. Of course the search for a pattern in the primes could easily take over your mind...
I managed to learn all this stuff by playing around with a breadboard and Arduino first. Sparkfun, AdaFruit + Arduino have a lot of beginner tutorials.

The first tutorial with Arudino will teach you how to light up an LED. Then figure out switches. Then look into motors and play around with other things like temperature, buzzers, etc. Once you do a few of these tutorials everything just clicks together. It's really just sending 1s (current) and 0s (ground) through the wires.

You'll learn that you can essentially break apart anything like a scale or a clock and just tap into the electrical connectors.
That doesn't fully test your code. By testing "if a", "if b" separately, you could miss a bug that occurs when a b are both true.
You sound like someone who could benefit from 300μg of LSD to think his life through and perhaps make major changes, alternatively psylocybin. No offense, but it seems like you're mindlessly executing a social script meant for someone completely different. Like a Westworld host's loop (a tv series).

Regarding parties, if you want to make yourself social, try MDMA with selegiline. Selegiline is to prevent MDMA from being neurotoxic [0].

>BTW, during that seduction community time I spent endless hours at bars and clubs, surrounded by people having fun and pretending to have fun myself. I never had any fun there. It was more of a war zone which I tolerated in pursuit of a goal.

You weren't alone. Most, if not all, men go to clubs in hope of getting laid. Those that have fun find the whole process fun; a game. They are the most extroverted ones so it may seem like it's the normal way to spend free time, but in reality they're a small minority. Nothing weird with not liking it, or not getting along with those that like it.

>I did that because I was tired of being a virgin

Literally, or do you mean combined with being single? If literally, why all that work on seduction instead of paying a prostitute?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17881526
Fair use exceptions are very limited in scope compared to what you may want to produce using the characters or other properties of a work.
Ask HN: Hackers, what activity in your craft do you struggle with the most?
If you do this --- and it's a good idea, as anyone who has done the "keto" thing can probably attest (it really does persistently alter your habits), you should probably cut out beer too.
Their estates for one. Also these media are still popular and still get restored/remastered/re-released so as long as they are profitable copyright holders will care.
My apologies for leaping to conclusions. As you said, it does happen all too often though. I'll try not to let that taint my judgements in the future.
Others have mentioned the correct books.

When you need libraries: https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/
Invoicing. :)
Creating a chat application with Svelte and Socket.io
Don't mean to humblebrag, but thanks for reminding me that I have actually learnt stuff that not everyone knows. Imposter syndrome kicks in easily when caught off guard, especially when surrounded by people who appear more knowledgeable than you at most times.
In a first, brain computer interface helps paralyzed man feel again
People keep saying wp is bad. Ye it is from your point of view. But there are maybe billions who have no clue how internet works but they want a site/blog/shop whatever. Many of them don't even think about paying someone to make a website, or pay for tools.

So they pick wordpress: 1 click install in cpanel, no html, css, js, php knowledge whatsoever, pick a free theme from millions of themes, pick plugins from millions free ones, done. Maybe a bit of google to personalize it but that's it.

What do you offer devs who can make a quick 50 bucks in afternoon installing a plugin/theme, or even 100 for a quick website with admin panel and all that easy stuff?

There is a market for everyone and cms's will live one way or another. The simple & free stuff will always be more successful.
The article you cite says essentially the opposite of what you claim it does: that in effect there is no difference between sugar added to food and sugar naturally occurring in food.

In practice, I think the difference between naturally occurring sugar and added sugar is satiety: sugars that occur naturally are bundled with fibers, and fiber makes it more difficult to overeat. That's what's so dangerous about sugar soda (which really needs to be legally regulated).
Dreamwidth News: 1 January 2017
Washington Post Retracts Russian Hack of US Electricity Grid Story
On Fake news:

>An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid. Authorities say there is no indication of that so far. The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html
It's worse when you think of inaccessible government and corporate archives, most of which will be lost in a few decades.
To piggyback off of the idea to journal in 2017:

I built http://write.surge.sh a few weeks ago and have been using it to keep my own journal and have been successful (unlike the last few times I tried).

It's mainly worked because:

- it's duration-bound (every journalling session I do is 15 minutes only, you can set a different duration)

- inactivity within that duration erases your work so I have to keep writing for the whole session.

I was going to post it on Show HN but I'd love people in this thread's feedback on it as well. Source code is also on GitHub: https://github.com/krrishd/write

EDIT: also worth noting based on some criticisms of existing stuff in this thread, everything is locally stored and exportable/importable as JSON, the app is completely client-side.
I agree that this is an excellent article. I also agree that the situation you spoke to happens all too often. I recently worked on the backend API for a mobile app. Because the company wanted it done in a month, they said "no tests!" Now that they've released, they want me to go back and crowbar a bunch of tests into place. I can guarantee the next push they have for a release will be under "no test" conditions again though.

Regarding solo TDD, it is slow going at first, but you quickly make up that time later on, when you add code, break your tests, and can quickly jump in and fix the issue. Saves your reputation too, I think.
https://roots.io/

Problem(s) solved.

Disclaimer: not affiliated in any way.
There's a reason the takedown of a good private tracker is seen like the burning of the Library of Alexandria all over again.

It was very sad to see What.CD go down recently. They had every release of every LP, EP and demo, of every obscure artist you could possibly imagine. The curation and amount of content made commercial services like Spotify and TIDAL look barren in comparison. Best of all: there was no DRM on the content and you could freely use your VPN.

I just hope enough libraries survive for the content to last.
So gogs can be that and gitea can be something else, why are you still thinking that they don't have a good reason for their fork if they have different ideas about which niche they want to serve.
About that: you know what I've been waiting to see in one of these articles for about two years? Any reference to rates of "bounce with visible modal" and "email unsubscribes on the first email."

Any.
> That doesn't fully test your code.

I didn't say that. Be wary of people who say they fully tested your code :)

Anyway, there's another (non-waterproof) approach: try to trigger all possible paths through the code (instead of all basic blocks), but the problem is that the number of paths can increase exponentially with code size.

The code-coverage approach, in contrast, is very cost-effecitve. For example, roughly speaking, it triggers all possible exceptions that your code can throw.
Gelada baboons can talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPtcNucxiMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm1q-V2b1Sc
Perhaps I can chemically supplement myself to have the same powers that my African and Indian friends are born with. Why wouldn't I want my children to be born with that power?

Similarly, I'd like them to be born intelligent and naturally athletic.
> Um, that "open SKU" always exists - it's called the developer unit and can run any binaries so as a developer you can run your own game during the process.

Manmal seemed to be positing some kind of mass access semi-open SKU that didn't completely defeat the purpose of having a closed SKU in the first place. I'd argue that mass access to devkits would defeat the purpose of having a closed SKU in the first place.

I suppose you could argue I should've said "developing a third SKU is expensive", though.
It's only a short step to pulling that information from Google Earth, which already has it for many cities.
You remind me of a friend. We don't talk to each other anymore, though, because he found a way to focus his mad drive for computers. He's a brilliant programmer and a bit narcissistic. By getting into college I think he found a way to have his skills valued despite what other people might have to deal with regarding his personality. He's not always an ass, but he can be difficult. I'm quite sure that he's going to be lonely in the future, just like you, if he doesn't find friends able to cope with his most shiny traits.

OTOH, I'm the polar opposite, the complete loser, much like the stereotype of a fry-cook can come to be, and I have to say that being lonely as I am, I would trade places with you in heartbeat. While I don't inflict in other people and keep most things to myself, to have to deal with the minor incompetence of others in exchange to be completely isolated sounds great.
I love that this website is a throwback to the 90's, complete with table-based layouts and overlapping cells.
Interestingly the Copyright Term Extension Act is also known as the "Mickey Mouse Protection act"

artlawjournal.com/mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-copyright-law/
I've been looking into something similar. Are you not reading the state of the blinds in anyway? For example, in the case of a power failure or reset.

It looks like your code just has a default.
why don't these kinds of sites distribute their database in the same way they distribute their content?

At least that way if shit goes south the information is still out there even if the curation and "updates" to it will no longer happen.
Hello everyone, I'm Yash, founder of GrepPage. Just like tarrsalah I too wanted to share my notes with the world but also wanted to search them easily. That's why I created GrepPage.

With GrepPage, I can search my notes from Vim, command line or see them side-by-side Google search results. @azeirah, most devs I know have unorganized notes that affects their productivity. I was one of them. The time I wasted in searching for stuff was not worth it. I've saved days if not weeks by searching for my notes on GrepPage when I need them.

Here are some ways you can try it out. Let me know your thoughts.

Sample Note on a topic: https://greppage.com/evidanary/42

Chrome Ext: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/greppage-search/lf...

Command Line Client: https://github.com/evidanary/grepg-python

Web: https://www.greppage.com
I would hypothesize that vocal speech is much faster and relatively effortless. Hunters still use sign language, so it has its place. For private speech people whisper or lipread.
If I wanted to do this sort of thing, I'd probably use either intrinsics or C directly -- the compiler is already good at dealing with both, and will probably do a better job than LLVM IR.

The biggest reasons to drop to assembly is because there are high level constructs that the compiler is very unlikely to recognize and optimize effectively. Things like AES-NI, hardware RNGs, and similar.
The Year in News 2016
I wonder if there is a compromise that can be done to at least get the works out there. I get the feeling the big fear isn't really that "Steamboat Willie" would be freely available, but that the character of Mickey Mouse would be.

It seems like an extension of trademark law with continued registration and payments on the characters would be a compromise that could break lose the original book / movie.

I would imagine many would hate to give up the ability to create new, original stories or do mashups, but we won't get that anyway.
Baby’s skull rebuilt at Stony Brook with 3-D printer model
But can I control the intensity of the fire via a proprietary smartphone app and subscription service?
What have you learned with it so far?
Bravo. It's time to watch "Network" again!

https://sfy.ru/?script=network
I'm not sure, I've never run such a site myself. Maybe someone behind 7 proxies could explain?

I do think this could be solved, with for instance public-key addressed content (e.g., a DHT where the content is references to files, addressed by pubkey and muteable only to the owner of the corresponding private key). I've been trying to figure out why this isn't done in practice for a while now.

Maybe it's a selection bias, where all dark file distribution networks run that well/securely drop off the map completely?
Wavesdropping Uber driver saves 16-year-old passenger from her pimps
In high school, I created the number b, whose absolute value is zero. I discovered the following additional interesting facts about it: ∅
Calm, cruel and connected: 2016’s year-end best and worst of IoT
Exactly.

Personally, I don't mind the idea so much of a perpetual copyright - provided it requires the rights owner to frequently and actively participate in the process to keep the protections active after the initial period. (and perhaps a fee schedule to reflect the supposed value of the piece) I think its possible for a copyright bill to exist that both the EFF and Disney can both support.
I remember reading Martin Gardner writing about this.

Has anyone found an explanation since then?
Bin Laden and his crew were Saudi dissidents who were trying to overthrow the Saudi government. Their grievance with us was that we are allied to/stationed troops within/prop up the kingdom they were trying to overthrow. Blaming "the Saudis" for 9/11 is like blaming the Queen for IRA bombings.
Because you want to get hacked.
Cracking Caesar Shift (ROT) Encoded Strings
Delivering on sustainable infrastructure for better development and better climate
>This also doesn't require a DB, it can run from flatfiles.

How difficult would it be to get WP to run off of sqlite? I'm not familiar with the code base to know.
I too was going to mention this course.

It is absolutely fantastic, IMO. Going through every week/lecture of it, I keep saying myself it must be an obligatory course for every freshman. We are surrounded with so many distractions in our ordinary daily life and most of us are terrible at habit formation. Procrastination and irregular sleep pattern are our most-common "habit". Long story short, IMHO, this course is a must for whom wants to form a habit, learn how to avoid procrastination / about the importance of sleep / how to avoid distractions and other relevant things.
Because gogs will suffer for it and that's a hell of a way to thank the project that you took the first 95% of your work from.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13297748
So, I've spent the last 7 days working on a new feature to help people set and work towards goals.

The concept goal: Learning Japanese! (I've been 'learning' for 3 years now).

Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/afAW49V.png.

Basically it's a moodboard that combines a timer, todos, insights, notes, images and links.

'How does that help me learn new things better' you ask?

The challenge with goals - as I see it - is keeping the path from the you of today to the aspirational you (the one that speaks Japanese) clear. January kicks off, a whole bunch of life gets in the way and when you finally get time to focus that path has become a nebulous mess.

The idea with Goals is to be able to open the app and immediately know:

1. What have I achieved so far: insights on hours spent, tasks completed and how close you are to your goal.

2. What do I have to do next: this is your "how". Tasks, links, audio files, notes.

3. Why am I doing this, again? images, media, notes.

The 'Why' doesn't really fit into most methods of learning but I think forgetting this is the biggest point of failure.

I'm going to grab a coffee and get this shipped. I'll post it to Show HN tomorrow and you can see if it's for you.
I'm in the same boat, but I work in TV. Free food and sodas everywhere. Saved my butt a ton. On days when catering is going to be bad for me being keto/vegetarian, I do a protein shake. Or two for two meals and just have a light day.
I've tried cutting sugar, and various other diets before, but they all got to be too time consuming and irritating for me. What did work for me was simply tracking my calories using Under Armour's My Fitness Pal website. The site is easy to use, and I quickly discovered that drinking a soda and eating a bag of chips left me starving at the end of the day, whereas eating grains and vegetables didn't. Just by counting calories, I naturally gravitated to healthier foods. I lost about 45 pounds too.

I'm not trying to diminish anything the author said. I think eating healthier foods is a worthy goal. I only share my experience in case others, like me, find adhering to prescribed diets and digging through ingredient lists too difficult, and want something a bit easier.
yes, but it can, and if people want it to, it should. besides, why wouldn't you want it to be a business? businesses make money, which can pay for development of new features and better support for users. sounds like a win to me.