skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really good stuff. The GUI is often where the ease of reasoning breaks down and I'm glad to see work like this trying to change that.
Trump Administration Reportedly Told the EPA to Cut Climate Page from Website
In my experience, that's true for all humans, not just for humans of the opposite gender. Don't assume they are like you just because you share some similar biological appendices.

I think grouping people by gender is not very helpful. There are always exceptions and usually quite a few. But maybe that is just so in my social circles.
How “creative AI” can change the future of music for everyone
Ask HN: What do you use to capture ideas?
Paper can be the most awesome but it's so easy to loose. How do you capture and organise your ideas or thoughts?
http://www.kdnuggets.com/
Lots of self centered emotionally driven actions and decisions most often leads to counter productive results though, so I don't know you can justify someone making things worse as not being his fault.

I also think you are speaking for other people with whom you seem to have no connection too. Maybe you think they're just voting for Trump, because they like his promess of bringing jobs back, or maybe, they're voting for him cause they want Iranians out of their country based on pure racism.
Re: brave publishing it like this

I wonder if he could (potentially) be prosecuted for it; the exchange includes "information reasonably assumed confidential."

Artikel 85 Wet op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten 2002
http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0013409/2017-01-01#Hoofdstuk7
Lenovo prevents price comparing
The announcement page for beta (December 11th) : http://play.freeciv.org/blog/2016/12/freeciv-web-with-3d-web...

Interesting quote from this article (not to diminish the feat of a webgl version on classic screens, gg guys!) :

> Support for virtual reality using Google Cardboard is also under development.

Flying around a world and manipulating armies sounds awesome, kind of like "google earth VR meets strategy games". I guess freeciv will need game controller support first to make this playable, though.
Swedish fake news checker turns out to be fake
Pioneer just revealed world’s first 4K Blu-ray PC drive
An entertaining article but his intelligence and beauty requirements (1 and 2 standard deviations above the norm respectively) are rather silly. Unless he's actually rich and handsome to make it match. Especially so given I'm not convinced about the distribution, variance might be lower than he assumes.
Merkel was acting on what she believed to be a moral imperative: that those fleeing danger have a right to asylum. All her decisions follow logically if you accept that premise. I. e. it would make no sense to make such a right dependent on the total number of refugees.

In the specific moment you're alluding to she made the decision to suspend the Dublin rules because they were clearly failing (i. e. refugees were clearly being mistreated by the Hungary regime, and the situation in Greece was deteriorating to the point where both the country and the refugees urgently needed relief). At that point, the basic right outlined above and the Dublin rules were in conflict, and human rights generally trump implementation specifics such as Dublin in these circumstances.

In any case, the Dublin convention governs the burden-sharing between nations and does not impact an individual's relation with these states, or their basic rights. That's comparable to, for example, medical care in an emergency: your insurance company may have all sorts of debt with the hospital, but the doctors are still required to treat your compound fracture.
A high speed getaway like no other
> Companies have found a way to keep consumers from price comparing. Lenovo (largest PC seller) makes the SAME model for Best Buy, Costco, Wal-Mart, etc., but gives them each a slightly different model number. Lenovo also sells the same unit on its own website with a slightly different model number. The one character difference in model numbers is probably a code indicating which store is selling it. So, not only can’t you price compare, but you can’t get a refund from your credit card company for the difference even if you have ‘price match’ on your credit card.
Better the Dutch than some other agency.
Fiber is carbohydrate also, but one that is not digestible by humans.
5 Calls: Make Your Voice Heard
There are companies out there(Sumologic is one) which provide free access depending on unstructured data volume. But in case, you have huge volumes of data in TBs and you want to manage it using open source, you might end up spending money in scaling and supporting system that you should instead buy paid versions.
Perhaps, but if everyone around you was using molasses instead of rocket fuel and pointing their spaceships at the side of the mountain and then posting "I've tried everything I don't know why I'm not soaring in space yet" on Facebook you might start by reference to those basic principles.
> Is the electricity subsidized enough to justify all the other headaches associates with running an operation out of there?

Yes, it is. Mining cost is overwhelmingly dictated by energy cost. And once you have a small farm running, it should be easy to scale up.

Also consider the possibility that they were stealing the power (I think I read that somewhere).
~4.4 GB in 150 ms are just about 30 GB/s.
>With the instability of their currency I can understand why someone would want to use or buy bitcoin, but why mine there?

I suspect you answered your own question.

>the electricity subsidized enough to justify all the other headaches associates with running an operation out of there

People tend to behave rationally so based on the other prospects, which there aren't many of in Venezuela, Bitcoin mining must have become a useful source of income.
I've often wondered how much energy has been waster on AV. All of those hard drives thrashing and all of those scans.
That is an interesting little board. May have to wait and see for actual docs.
Daily images of Earth taken from space
Show HN: Webmiddle, JSX framework for modular web scraping and data integration
With an iPad (soon to be universal) app that I primarily built for myself called Mindscope. It's basically Workflowy meets Scapple - visual and simple like Scapple, but you can drill down into sub-groups like Workflowy to not get lost in details. http://www.mindscopeapp.com
I'm from Venezuela, and happen to know a few people that are mining bitcoin down there. Electricity is incredibly cheap! You practically don't have to factor electricity costs in your operation. Yes, the grid is very unstable, but you can always by generators that run on gasoline (which is also incredibly cheap! a full tank of gas for your car will cost less than 0.1 USD.)

Now, this is obviously horrible for the environment. But what can you expect when your own currency is being rapidly destroyed by the power-hungry idiots that have taken hold of the country. Let's hope for a brighter future.
"R is based on S and Scheme"

From 2009 mail list of R on the similarities and differences between R and Lisp

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-December/181982.h...

R is much more functional then most people give it credit.

From Saint Hadley

> R, at its heart, is a functional programming (FP) language. This means that it provides many tools for the creation and manipulation of functions. In particular, R has what’s known as first class functions. You can do anything with functions that you can do with vectors: you can assign them to variables, store them in lists, pass them as arguments to other functions, create them inside functions, and even return them as the result of a function. http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Functional-programming.html

It isn't a pure functional language which is really only available in Academics and Haskell has nomads to get things out which is arguably not pure.

Learning Racket helped me to use the Scheme parts found in R. It really is a little mind blowing. R was mostly used by people with little computer skills and was used with a imperative mindset but when you use it more functional R really shines.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing

> 3.1[US cents/kWh] at Official exchange rate ( 13.50 Bs/US$) or 0.48 [US cents/kWh] at unofficial exchange rate (1.095 Bs/US$)

(This may have changed due to high inflation.)

For comparison, in the same table the price in continental USA is between 8 and 17 [US cents/kWh].

They were exchanging it for money or stuff in Colombia, so they were getting an effective price similar to using the black market bolivar/US$ exchange rate, i.e. 0.48 [US cents/kWh]
Electricity is practically free, and I imagine they didn't move there to mine but rather were born in Venezuela.
I have bitdefender and I was wondering how I can check if it does it on my pc and mac and how I can disable it (if possible). Could you help me in the right direction?
The idea here is following:

- Processing food, even in chemical ways does not necessarily mean it will be bad for your health.

- However, a lot of examples have shown that food that has been processed by the current realities of the food industry is often very bad for your health. Many times it's shown to be bad, many times they don't even check it.

- Basically if you process the food, the chances are very good that it is going to be bad. You have to be very careful when you do that (and back it with a lot of research) in order to do it safely.

- Food industry do not have a direct interest of doing it safely in the long run. They have an interest to make money and not get caught by existing regulations.

And finally:
- For you as a consumer it's very hard to know whether specific processing is safe or not.

- Many times it's hard for the producer to even know. But they don't really care, as long as regulations are followed (sometimes not even that).

- This leads to you knowing that if the food has been processed, the chance is very good that it's bad for you. Not because "processing" is some weird satanic black magical non-christian sinful process. But because it's currently implemented in such a way that it lets through a lot of bad.

- There is no reliable way for you to distinguish between good processed and bad processed.

-> If you wanna eat healthy, in 2017 you should stay away from processed.
Hi! Wanted to let you know that we fixed the airport bug! It should work as supposed now! :D
Yeah: 4% of users of my site means like 40,000 people :/. For websites that sell things, I always think of it in terms of "if you could do some more engineering work and get 4% more revenue, would you?". I do not understand people who feel like 4% is some tiny number.
Your app looks promising! It seems heavily inspired on Sublime and that's a very good sign. Is it available already?
There is an official Google extension which does exactly that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
What's an example of a process done by the food industry that you would not be happy to do yourself if you could do it for free?
Thanks for the links. I had heard of some of those issues but the sleep tracking and unsent text collection were new to me.
Yes, you are right, it is many a times stupidity to talk to a bot, but again until we do not bring softwares in our natural form of talking/thinking, AI bots will not move forward, so we have to use other ecosystems to help bots grow like i mentioned integrating other common daily to daily services as mentioned in my article.
Sounds like yet another hobby, you do not have to be a billionaire to build an bunker on backyard. And with all that fear-mongering about global warning, nuclear weapons, politics...

Also not everyone comes from America. Some are migrants from less stable countries, where government builds bunkers for civilian population.
Extremely beautiful women are neither on Tinder or on online dating sites. They are walking down runways, being photographed, or acting in films.
While I think the solutions presented in this article sound fantastic (in both senses of the word, unfortunately; it sounds way too ambitious to be realistic in the current political climate), the attack on vegetarianism is disingenuous.

As the article itself points out: "Most of these staple crops — especially corn and soy — wind up in animal feed". So that means that eating meat has the same devastating effect (but on a larger scale, because animals eat a lot) as its strawman vegetarian diet of wheat, corn, soy and rice.

Of course vegetarianism isn't magically going to solve all the world's problems, but all other things being equal, eating less meat will reduce your ecological footprint. There's a lot more you can do, but eating less meat is an easy first step.
The meme is "Film at 11"
Professionalism doesn't get left at the door at 5:00.
FWIW, many of the folks I know that are shooting for the 'big payout' aren't really chasing after the fast cars and material side of things - it's simply what the definition of 'success' has been in the tech world for a long time. TechCrunch (and that ilk) is a sort of porn, and I've known some folks become addicted to that narrative. Some of the stories on HN probably feed in to that as well. If/when you're down, seeing so much seemingly easy success (and, let's be fair, some of it really was easy - there are people we read about who didn't slave away for 10 years to become an 'overnight sensation') is difficult to deal with. I don't think Dennis in particular was necessarily after the fast cars and million $ mansion (actually, he had a million dollar house already, on mortgage).
Maybe Earth should try looking for partners in its orbital circles instead :^)
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it is upvoted to the top because lots of people agree
I suspect electricity is pegged to the official rate. This makes it heavily subsidized even if it isn't. (The spread between the official and black market rate is huge)

So basically they are buying electricity at official rate and then selling the proceeds in the black market. Rinse and repeat. I suspect, also, their biggest challenge is to get the miners inside the country (since they are usually huge in size)
Inaccurate; the very point of columnar stores is that if I'm only interested in a column I only expend the memory bandwidth required for that very column and nothing else. Hence typical queries to a columnar store would never stream the whole 500 GB for processing.
The article is about how primary care physicians help people, and so the author includes a section about a person who thinks that a primary care physician helped him.

This form of the written word is generally known in English as "journalism."
Thanks, I know KDNuggets, but it's a news portal / blog, and not a forum - or am I missing something? : )
It's interesting how we humans perceive these deaths as more or less abstract because we don't know exact personalities why suffered (or even their number). While if we knew all the horrible details about these young women and what they went through, the overall impression of the story would be radically different.
Can you shed a light on how is the situation there? The media made it seem like nobody is surviving right over there. I hope you are safe.
Forget even Windows Defender. The one and only "AV" a normal user will ever need is…

Google Safe Browsing.

Seriously.

Anything you download is already checked with Google, why waste CPU cycles on checking it again locally?
It is not sufficient to have a record of facts when others have alternative facts. To your signed record of facts they would just introduce alternate facts with alternative signatures and claim you had made it up. Normal people don't have the tools or experience to differentiate, and the alternative facts support a story they want to believe, rather than hard truths.

News media won't even mention your so-called 'real facts', facebook and twitter might not let others see them. Before you know it you'll be denounced by your neighbours, work colleagues and friends as a traitor, a madman. You'll lose your job, or your partner will. There may be a show trial and public denunciation. This has all happened before: the USSR, McCarthy.

If you don't want that you need an alternate means of distributing real facts, and countering fake ones. It has to be hosted so deeply in our tech infrastructure that it can't be firewalled or jammed. It needs to be accessible covertly. And it needs to record all the alternative facts too, because they like to change their facts.

Let's call it Samizdat.
Germany Is Scrapping Law That Bans Insulting Foreign Leaders
Yeah, I hate how women are never normally distributed. Only men operate in statistically simple distributions.
I was led to believe that almost all images of the Earth were composite images. Is this still true?
Well, in France, except for car-commuting, we're going fast gain all those habits.
> And yeah, MIDI is old, and has a few hard design limits, and one could make a case for looking at another standard like Open Sound Control.

Yeah, I was actually thinking of MIDI (and USB) when I wrote the above (I have a full size midi master keyboard next to my deskop). At a certain level, we have pretty much all we need, and if the limitations of MIDI were a problem for some input devices (and they arguably are), it'd still be quite easy to spec a system that allows just about any device imaginable. Again, USB HID spec comes really close.

The real problem is just the lack of good, widespread, cross-platform APIs that steer applications into doing the right thing. Now we have APIs that encourage the application to look for keyboard events, then mouse events, then joystick events, and what else (and they implementations may lack support for other devices even if the underlying OS-level API made support a no-brainer).

Instead, they should just look for events, any events that have an applicable type. (Whether implemented through callbacks or polling the state of interesting inputs is merely an implementation detail) Then the (optional) metadata can be used for establishing a default mapping. When the API is designed right, the user can always override any mapping with whatever he wants, or filter inputs to change the response of an analogue device, perhaps nonlinearizing it or coercing it to a binary input. And if the application provides its built-in input configurator, again using the well-designed API, the ability to bind anything to anything on anything just comes automatically. The application developer should never need to know that device 7 input 2 is actually wired to my belly button. :) And that the axes I use for aiming are actually sliders on my MIDI keyboard.
It's important to note the space shuttle was a poor design in large part because it added a lot of cargo on a man rated system. 1 failure to achieve orbit in 135 missions is an outstanding record, but very wasteful when sending cargo. A capsule seems better in large part because it does not.

Further, if the shuttle was only sending people to orbit it's design could be both reusable and vastly simpler because of vastly lower rentry temperatures and more redundancy.
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You can! Just make sure it's the exact same edition and language that came with the laptop. It will just pick up the OEM key from the ACPI table.
In high stakes games like college admissions, the pressure to win drives many people to commit fraud. I am skeptical that Chinese parents are committing fraud in greater numbers than American parents- it's just easier for admissions officers to filter and check the Chinese applicants (via interview to check the validity of the TOEFL score, as described in the article).

It would be interesting to read about what all parents do, instead of joining the popular parade of articles dehumanizing the Chinese.
Listen if Hitler is the only comparison you think people understand, and you think the only way to convince them that a thing is bad and should be avoided is because, like, Hitler, and because in some racism dream where you get darker than you are and a bunch of majority culture white rednecks confuses you for a terrorist instead of just a normal american of partially Syrian or Italian or Mexican or native American or Guatemalan extraction that's fine. Call trump Hitler all you want. You won't be the first, and apparently you have a fellow traveler as a professor at MIT. Just don't expect me to take you seriously. Not when you're comparing Trump to Hitler for putting a hold on visas of students from a country whose official policy calls for the destruction of Israel and which is actively hostile to the interests of the united states, and who might facilitate potentially dangerous technology transfers to same. Though for the sake of consistency, and to seem less partisan, you may wish to consider similarly comparing Jimmy Carter to Josef Dzugashvili because he put a much longer hold on Iranian student visas in the late 70's.

Your call.
You realize that the sunk cost fallacy proves what I'm trying to say? Most people really struggle with that sort of thing. It's one of the reasons why behavioral economics has taken off in recent history. People are not perfect actors.

Of course there are people with problems who don't turn to drugs that are also poor. The point I'm trying to make is that saying the best and only solution isn't necessarily to say that people are lazy and that they need to shape up. Or build a wall for that matter.

It's also worth noting that the reasons why Mexicans can move and abandon their societal networks is because of the strength of the dollar versus the peso, the cost of living they are willing to put up with, and the work they are willing to do. Where is an American going to go that gets a similar instant upgrade in purchasing power? What about the societal reality that people in America are not willing to do backbreaking labor like picking fruit?

And who says rural Mexicans have it any better?

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/03/mexico-los...
He's certainly trying to suggest that vegetarianism is worse, but he doesn't back it up. In fact, his off-hand remark that "Most of these staple crops — especially corn and soy — wind up in animal feed" undermines this point.
It's explained in the article
No, they are normally distributed. Men are just attracted to the top 1% (or even 0.1%) of women. It just happens that most women are not that physically attractive which is an important trait for both genders.

Once you realize this and figure out how much you are worth (sexually), dating will really become easier.
I keep being surprised by the power that such protests actually have. You'll read all sorts of statements like "what should anybody care about a bunch of hippies on the streets etc.", and in the US there also seems to be an undercurrent of regarding all protests as illegal, or highlighting the smallest incidents that could possibly scare the "soccer mum" demographic.

But then there are frequent examples of protests accomplishing everything from regime change (arab spring) to less-obvious but still substantial changes (see for example the G7/G8 agendas from before and after the meetings started to be a focus for mass demonstrations). Even Occupy, which has probably been the subject of more derision than any other movement, has actually had a major impact: The 99%/1% has become one of the leading narratives of politics in the US and Europe.
Hugo Barra joins Facebook to lead VR team
The $99B Idea: How Uber and Airbnb Won
Quality of the article aside, local agriculture is usually worse environmentally due to its smaller size: http://freakonomics.com/2011/11/14/the-inefficiency-of-local...
Except the paperclip maximizer case, all the others can be implemented by humans, without the help of a computer. How do you feel about human morons deciding who lives and dies?
I think Swift on Security posted a tweet about this a while ago, with a screenshot of completely banning all Office macros via group policy.
Silly question, but doesn't ipv6 make mitigating DoS attacks all that more harder? i.e. you can't easily blacklist IP addresses...