skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth listening to Jake Appelbaum's 'digital anti repression workshop' [1]. In this he explains why he takes the hard-drive out of his laptop and just uses a TailsOS thumb-drive for his computing. It would be actually hilarious when staff ask to peruse the contents of your computer for contraband, only to discover the laptop doesn't have a hard-drive.

[1]: part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHoJ9pQ0cn8

[#]: part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9fByRmAHgU
If you enjoyed this paper, you might enjoy Michael Jackson's {1} Principals of Program Design.

{1} Not that one, the other one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Jackson
Unable to edit my prior comment, but found research that appears to dispute your claim; citing notable research might help me better understand your claim.

It is very possible that I'm missing something, but that's not how evolution works to my knowledge, adoption of substantially new genetic features is rapid, but refinements or removal of unrelated genetic code is slow if it is not impacted by the substantive mutations.

For more information, see
"Long-term phenotypic evolution of bacteria":

http://www.columbia.edu/~gap2118/papers/nature13827.pdf
The CBP at the tunnel in Detroit are right pricks, this would work a charm on them. They have repeatedly harassed me and anyone unfortunate enough to travel with me.
Yeah, I see maneuvers of this sort as top management's equivalent to grabbing computer monitors, chairs, and coffee machines on their way out the door. The "PE turnaround" story provides a fig leaf to cover the violation of fiduciary duty, letting management + PE firm get away scot-free with stealing the liquidation money.

Admittedly this opinion of mine is based on propaganda from the 2008 election cycle . If it's fundamentally flawed, I'd appreciate if someone would take the time to CMV.
I love the Earley algorithm! It's relatively small, online and works with any context-free grammar. It seems to be the basis of many other algorithms I've read about in the literature, suggesting it is easy to extend. The grammar is pluggable, allowing the programmer to easily create an API around it. I wonder why it's not widely used... Whenever I see a general algorithm being employed in parser tools it's GLR. Perhaps a good Javascript implementation of Earley could change that.

Nearley implements Joop Leo's improved handling of right-recursion¹ but perhaps it can be optimized further by using the method of precomputation² described in Aycock & Horspool's 2002 paper.

¹ https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-3975(91)90180-A

² https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/45.6.620
I realized a while ago that inspiration isn't very helpful for getting you through adversity. Inspiration gets you going, but grit and discipline ultimately help you push through.

I'm going to go against the grain of most of what's being said in this thread and say that the best way to get through adversity is to discard a goal-based mentality entirely, in favor of a system-based mentality. Figure out the stuff you have to do every day. Get disciplined about doing that stuff. The 'small wins' you get from just executing the loop over and over again build up a lot of momentum over time.

I started with making my bed as soon as I got up every day, and just built on that. When there's something new I want to do, I set up a system for it. When the system isn't working, I change the system. Rather than deciding whether I wanted to do something or not before doing it, I'd just do it, then reflect afterward if that made things better or worse.

This approach got me through some really really bad times, helped me get fit, got me through tough, stressful workloads, calmed me down in times of chaos and helped me make the right long-term choices. I'm overall happier.

Here's some resources:

- http://www.slideshare.net/Scottadams925/goals-are-for-losers...
- https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/14555091...

edit: oh and one other thing I got out of this approach. People absolutely can change, it just takes a lot longer than people usually put on. I'm a different person from who I was ~4 years ago, mostly in a positive way.
The statement I quoted was pure bombast and hyperbole. I trivially disproved it by example. You are clearly ignorant about the challenges involved applying molecular biology to solve real problems ie the areas I cited to start. The onus is on you to educate yourself.
BuckleScript: a significant new OCaml to JavaScript compiler
Explaining the top 1% is exactly the goal of the article:

"Could the differences between the very rich and the hugely rich [...] be the result of pure, dumb luck?"

So if the model you're looking at indicates power law distribution at the top, that seems to lend further support to the author's thesis.
> But that is incredibly disingenuous to medicine. You're removing all the things we do incredibly well - to the point where infectious diseases, for the most part - until we reach this disaster warned about in the article we are commenting on - have ceased to be a major burden of disease in the modern world.

Please don't take it this way - I am in no way diminishing the achievements of modern Western medicine. To say that it has saved the lives of millions of people would be a gross understatement and this fact should rightly be celebrated. I was 'discounting' those things only because they are so obvious that you would frankly have to be dumb not to acknowledge them.

Surgery is a more complicated topic of course - someone gave me an example once of a doctor explaining to a patient due for heart surgery operation that they were saving some veins in their body as donor tissue for when they would inevitably be back for a repeat. So, it's not exactly ideal, right? Yet such surgery is proclaimed as a success.

Similarly when the 'cure' involves cutting away parts of the body as a lesser evil (or chemo / radiotherapy which is in a way similar) then there is also much room for improvement?

> For example, when I work in the Emergency Department (Most of my work these days) It is rare for me to 'pick up' a patient that has never had a hospital admission. Most people swing in and out and and out and in and out until one day they don't make it out again. They have chronic diseases caused by a lifetime of either 'just living' or living hard (smoking, drinking, eating too much) and the accumulated damage is BEYOND modern medicine's ability to fix it.

This is the real point that I wanted to get to. You can go a long way with correct nutrition and healthy lifestyle and yet there seems to be relatively little attention paid to it (I don't consider some leaflets in the GP surgery, or an article here and there in the press as adequate attention). And as you said in your earlier comment early diagnosis of a condition before it has chance to really set in and cause irreparable damage. This is not a problem for the individual doctors to solve, but it should be something addressed by medicine in general as well as government policy (and consequently a lot more money than is currently being invested into it it seems). Otherwise what you are doing is the same thing as we call 'firefighting' in IT - constantly fixing up the symptoms and not fixing the root cause of the issue.

And it is here that Chinese medicine could have the biggest impact (alongside Western medicine rather than in opposition to it) with it's emphasis on prevention, in-depth and continuous diagnosis, tailoring the treatment to the individual and holistic treatment of the patient (as an interconnected process rather than a collection of individual parts to be treated or removed as necessary). Uneducated people immediately think of acupuncture and herbs as being what Chinese medicine is about but these are only tools and are considered to be 2nd class medicine anyway compared to preventing illness and enhancing health.
Short Answer: The East Bay.
Is this like monit?
The US border guards even refused entry from Canada to the US of Trump supporters who had tickets.
> [banning use of antibiotics in animal feed] may very well be counterproductive if it leads to infected meat spreading further.

This isn't why they put antibiotics in the food; it's because animals that eat bulk antibiotics gain more weight over the short term than animals that don't. Probably by killing off all the gut bacteria (except the antibiotic resistant ones) that might compete for nutrients. The animals are grown quickly then killed.

If an animal is actually sick it's treated differently, or simply destroyed. Even farmers who don't use antibiotics to stimulate growth will treat their sick animals!

BTW the resistant gut bacteria we're talking about are the ones that get people sick like e coli.
VBScript was largely replaced on Windows by Powershell. Awk is still popular for what it's good at.
I think you meant hypocrite not hypercritical.
Who is "we"? People who already have wealth? Sure.
2 things

1) Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWUCX6osgM

2) Reminding myself of my blessings in life. Most of us have many things to be thankful for, even in our worst moments

Whatever you do, do not seek sympathy from others. It can be very comforting to vent your frustration to people and get their sympathy, but it does absolutely nothing for situation and only enforces your despair.
Yup, that's a pretty decent way around things. The trick is to support Oracle with open arms when they bypass IT, but make sure that IT charges back the costs for Oracle to the business units who use it.

The business wants an Oracle DBA? He gets employed by that business unit, and they pay him/her out of their budget. The business needs their database tuned? Charge the support costs to their cost centre. They want advanced database tuning? Again, consultants fees go to their cost centre.

After a while, there's a good chance that the CEO will be asking why their profits are down. No amount of golf is worth risking the CEO's bonus :-)
be very careful about semantics, the statement is:

bacteria will become resistant overtime when exposed to antibotics at concentrations insufficient to kill all of them, however when removing the selective pressure of antibiotics, they will "lose" resistance as that selective pressure is no longer applied.

As the poster above mentioned, energetically, resistance to antibiotics is costly, as bacteria will do things like increase the number of efflux pumps in their cell membranes pumping out antibiotics. When there are plenty of nutrients available as other strains have died, this is an acceptable tradeoff, however without that pressure, the strains with less defense mechanisms, but also need less nutrients to survive, will again outcompete and become dominant.

Finally, just to reiterate, it is exposure at levels not high enough to kill all strains that causes resistance development. If you maintain concentrations so high that no strains can survive, resistance will never develop. Unfortunately, this is virtually impossible in practice, as adverse safety events would also occur too frequently at those 'scorched earth' levels.
I still think Awk is better for one-liners, but Perl gets the advantage for full size programs.
Can a KF be implemented in or explained as a RNN?
>Most people without children just don't get how much more difficult ordinary life becomes.

This is a common thing to hear from parents but I feel it misses the mark for some couples that have rationally decided not to have children for precisely the reasons you stated. I think the difficulty you mentioned is actually a large reason as to why less couples are having kids in the first place.

Edit: completely reworded.
I experienced a traumatic first love. I was mostly a recluse (or a fake social person, relying on protocols or emotional hurdles among people). I was way happier alone minding my own business before, because the relational part of my brain wasn't really active (to the best of my own introspection that's how I describe it). And now that this other person is gone; it made me into a paradox:

I now know the physical and emotional values of interpersonal relationship, my mean of getting it isn't there anymore, I can't grieve because few people can understand, but I can't go back to the recluse old me after the memory of bonding as set root and left a mark.

The mind is a fascinating thing.
Kind of hard for them know if you have that or not. As a visiting non-citizen you have no real recourse, though.
Stars can also be gamed. As Zalatax mentioned in this thread, Resume requires you to star it before use.
> We thought it would be forever in '99 and it collapsed

damn, you're right. if only the tech industry were still around.
They took a huge loan, bought the company and funneled its "profits" to the loan and now it's bankrupt? How is that legal?
That's not a prediction of the outcome. That's a statistic. A prediction of the outcome would be "you won't roll a 6."
Mass surveillance has always been around, it's just that today it's much easier to do in volume. In the old days the government paid people to collect and deliver random bits of information which were analyzed by lots of people and so was prone to errors. Today you can automate all of this and do it faster.
tldr; He has his own implementation of lightning network called "bitcache" and plans to use it as a payment method on his file sharing system. This seems more like a marketing piece for megaupload 2 than it does an interesting article on technology use.
> There's lots of XML parsers that are meant to parse documents.

You obviously wouldn't use such a parser for XMPP. You would use a parser designed for the purpose. Very few people would ever have to even think about the issue, there are XMPP libraries available for pretty much any environment in existence.
I feel this is the rub with this particular comment thread. If all they gave were stats, then they didn't make a prediction.
That's a feature of urban life in general. Cities are forced into lottery systems to prevent segregation. So people with means self-segregate by moving away. In my case, (nowhere near SFO) my son was assigned to a school in the hood that is in the other side of my city. Just logistically it's a stupid policy -- during the afternoon it takes us almost 90 minutes to get there due to traffic.

There's more craziness in these systems. More special needs kids end in urban districts, for example. In my region a school that recently completed an Olympic swimming pool outsourced several special needs programs to a pnother district 45 minutes away by bus. Parents who need those services migrate away.
I think this is half right. There is still an L1 ACK, so the STA doesn't have to retry sending the packet, it knows it was received.

I believe what happens is AP sends Nonce to the STA, STA uses the PSK to send Message 2 back to the AP. It will receive a '802.11 Ack' but then no Message 3 of the 4-way handshake will ever come from the AP.

Good drivers see this and flag an invalid password warning back to the user within milliseconds. But bad drivers... sure, they will just keep assuming magic dust got in the way and if they just keep retrying the handshake enough maybe they will see a Message 3.

I'm not sure why from a security hardening perspective it's better not to specify the AP should send '802.11 Disassoc' immediately after receiving an invalid Message 2 with a proper error code so that the driver can message the UI that the password is wrong instantly.
Nit: "falling on deaf ears"

I will concede to typo/autocorrect, but wanted to make the comment in case someone reads your comment and assumes the phrase correct.
The difference in performance is explained by the capabilities of the algorithms used by each parser library.

The Earley algorithm can parse any context-free grammar while Chevrotain appears to be restricted to the LL(k) class of grammars. Earley is O(n³) in the worst case but it performs better with more restricted classes of context-free grammars. Even if given the same grammar, Earley will still incur the cost of generality, a cost which LL(k) parsers don't have to pay.
"Mr. Zuckerberg is young, still skeptical that his radiant transparency machine could be anything but a force for good" This is naive bordering on delusional. I think Zuckerberg knows the real deal. Considering quotes like these:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks"
SRK+Shah+Rukh:+Bollywood+Latest+News:+Bollywood+Gossip,+Hot+Movies
Wtf? Why doesn't anything like this exist today? Windows doesn't have anyway to create an .exe (that I'm aware of) besides C#, C++, turbo basic and that's about it. All I really want is a way to write terse code and release it to other users without installation of a runtime ...etc. I can't even distribute PS, because you can't guarantee another user has the right version.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but if you're saying that San Francisco is easy on the homeless, I don't see it. It seems worse these days, the public bathrooms are often closed. And business's won't let you use their toilet unless you pay them something. It should come as no surprise then when you smell urine, residents haven't taken care of the most basic of needs. Then they'll say, "They spend 15 mins in the bathroom taking a shower in the sink." And again, I wonder where people expect them to clean up. The public showers often aren't turned on or available, except at the beach.

Isn't it obvious that the better off folks are doing this to themselves? If your a resident, you've got the money. Build them some public toilets and showers. Heck build them some housing. I think we are only talking about 10-20k units. If you even put $50M a year into this (small potatoes for SF), you'll see some marked improvements in a few (3-4) yrs.
How is that even slightly relevant?

Everyone knows that kids are a pain in the ass. Everyone who has kids says "I knew they were a pain in the ass but they are way more of a pain than I even anticipated."

So no, you don't know. You think you know but you don't. Continue not having kids. I will also continue not having kids. But don't be the "well I haven't seen it because I don't have a tv" guy because nobody gives a shit.
Solid advice! Would you mind sharing some of the systems you've implemented?
Orlando has a massive TSA theft problem. Watch your personal belongings like a hawk.
Ask HN: What services can charge $10/mo and have at least 1000 users?
You can ask of it as request for startups.
Some examples:
Dating Sites, Website Hosting / Builders, Mobile App Builder, Blog Hosting, ...
Rainbow, ALE's latest instant messaging and collaboration tool [video]
I heard the same story directly from a Facebook recruiter as well.
The App Everyone Has Been Waiting For
Here is two examples about how to use TiKV's KV API:
https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/cmd/benchkv/main...
https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/cmd/benchraw/mai...
Clipper could have been fixed. The flaw in it was repairable. It was dropped instead because the idea was already politically weak so it didn't take much to push it over the edge.
You save the parameters and the code of the model definition
That speaks at length about the prevalence of extra large flats and bedrooms in the USA.
Yes! There's an issue on that, where we'll be coordinating the work: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/494
Thanks for your attention.
Resistant bacteria usually become resistant by giving up a metabolic pathway.
>>>Basic income guarantees you a monthly starting salary above the poverty line for the rest of your life

If the poverty line stayed constant, basic income is a no-brainer. But basic income makes the cost of goods rise. Demand for goods increases, but supply diminishes. Nobody will do the crap jobs without higher pay, raising the price of everything. Basic income is impossible.
Crickets
We're not going to solve this by allowing pharmaceutical companies to extract a bigger profit. That would be a perverse incentive that would result in a slower progress and reduced therapeutic availability - specially in countries where access to healthcare is conditioned by personal wealth.

What we need to do is artificially create competition by funding state-owned pharmaceutical companies and redirecting all that publicly funded academic research towards them. We can even take a loss, because the overall benefits outweigh profitability.
And it can be used to uniquely identify devices and track them with fairly standard hardware
The problem is that kids are anchors and encourage a more diversified economy and workforce.

From a long term perspective, your army of high income engineers are a liability in the long term for two reasons. One, you're going to get old and systematically pushed out. And two most of these folks are in cyclical industries... boom cycles are fun, busts not so much.
Show HN: Benchmarking AWS SNS/SQS in a Microservices Architecture
So you know a bare-metal language and a scripting language. That's essentially opposite sides of the spectrum for industry and a great start. I'd recommend you do C# or Java next though as they are the perfect in between languages. Very fast and industrial strength, but more boilerplate than Python. After that you can jump to CommonLisp, Racket, Haskell, OCaml, F#, Awk, Red, Rust, Crystal, Perl6...etc.
It would certainly be nice if startups were ramen-profitable by default :)
Link 404's at the CDN for me.
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of application is it that you are running that requires Oracle?

Could be an interesting opportunity for disruption...
> courtesy of CRISPR

That's not how it works. Gene editing is unlikely to help us discover new antibiotics and that's what we need, not ways to manufacture them at scale. We already have those.
https://flippa.com/sell
Same, request the pat down instead of the body scanner.
> It takes me less time to install and configure Linux...Once configured they tend to be rather trouble-free.

Lies.

> ...so I think Linux can be declared ready for the desktop.

The rest of the world disagrees with you.
What space are you? Are you selecting an industry specific ERP or something more general purpose?
Wikipedia says Mickey Mouse was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Walt Disney died in 1966, but Ub Iwerks only died in 1971, so wouldn't it still be a few more years before that 50 years after death runs out?
How Do You Know If Aid Really Works? Turns Out  We Often Don't
I'm wondering what effect good virtual reality with a Metaverse as described in Snowcrash and Ready Player One will have on society.
There is a potential that a large percentage of people will be happy with their virtual life even if they are poor in real life (as soon as the virtual reality is good enough to spend pretty much all of your time there).
Sounds like it. Wouldn't mind a more full featured monit. Didn't have good luck personally with Nagios
Google is the key operative word there.

Without backing/promotion from Google, Go would be completely obscure and disused.

Google could promote a language that is a complete piece of crap and it would be instantly more successful than something well-engineered from some unknown hackers.
So you wanna sell domain, website and untested idea without customers?
Clearly the CIA's 'public facing' departments do not have the resources, nor the incentives (from a technical standpoint) that are deployed regularly in the 'intelligence' departments of the Agency.
Explore Trump's inauguration through CNN's crazy Gigapixel
What about machines doing most of the jobs so there are only a few jobs left? The value the machines generate would be enough to generate the basic income. Why is it impossible?
Seems like it's a statement being made about excessive hygiene norms. Personally I feel the soles of my feet afford some protection, but not enough for certain public places. I have no direct experience of Tesco, maybe they are especially clean.