skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Azerbaijan president often tweets about 'The fake Armenian genocde' (and before I get a ton of downvotes again, I use the quotation marks because I don't agree with his view')

https://twitter.com/presidentaz/status/507430784710361088
The read is just fascinating. I have sleepless nights sometimes thinking about DNA cell manufacturing. If we could program DNA, understand it structure, can we just manufactor, houses, cars, and machines from a seed that you drop into water and it grows into a design of your choosing with the help of sunlight.

Where can I find more information about how DNA actually ends up creating a little cell.
Well, FWIW, I can successfully reproduce this.

- Install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/djflhoibgkdhkhhced... and flip to Android - or pull your phone out

- Go to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csD7BPEGAfA (note the m.)

- One of the links in the description says "Music by https://www.instagram.com/aquastoneth..." and points (literally) to "https://www.instagram.com/aquastoneth".

Hmm. I don't have any contacts, but I wonder if I can figure out where to send this...
I'm utterly opposed to eugenics, and don't think it would be an effective or efficient route to improving society.
Last job I had, we were doing quite well but market conditions changed. They effectively now have a 0.00% software presence.

It just isn't possible, given the basic makeup of the company, for there to be anything other than very basic bug fixing going on - the leadership team simply can't cope.

When I was there, I pretty much ran on one-page specs, if there was a written spec at all.

We were violently successful. SFAIK, just because of parts cost, that's all scrapped now. :)

The people that are left are of the "fix one, create three" level. One has a degree in CS but has never actually learned the trade. I did what I could, but he was perpetually interrupted. God bless 'em, but it's true.

In the end, unless your business is critically dependent on software, you may be better off without us.
I do lots of road trips to places I've never been, and I can't imagine doing it without Google Map. No idea how people in the past did it. For me personally, I could maybe do without other Google services, but without Google Map? Forget it. Actually, Google Search seems irreplaceable either.
From my understanding, you are not guessing which human player won. Instead, two equal AIs play the remainder of the game and you have to guess which side will win.
I think it's important to note that the 30% increase claim comes from PageFair (https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/adblockreport/), which is a company that helps other companies bypass adblocker and still have ads on their site (ostensibly in a much less offensive manner).

They have an active interest in (over)estimating very agressively about the growth of adblockers -- it's their business model.
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Having a VAT exemption can be interesting in some cases though. Say you sell goods to EU consumers through an entity, you can sell them legally without VAT. That's quite a competitive advantage when getting started.
> Trump may not do what you think

That's very vague and open-ended. (He may not, but he may) + (If not, he could do anything) = Everything = Nothing

A talking point in the last few days has been, 'keep an open mind'. After a year and a half of Trump brazenly announcing his plans and several months of him implementing them, I have a pretty good idea of what Trump is. If he wants to change my mind, he'll have to change his actions.

> the capture of the government by the big banks

If Trump wants to avoid this, his approach of appointing Wall Street titans, removing key Wall Street regulations, and doing nothing for consumer protection (AFAIK), seems odd.

Again, rather than speculating, we have plenty of hard evidence. If Trump wants to surprise us, he has every chance to do it.
> Why isn't anyone else truly innovating? Why do all of the ad tech companies look like clones of one another?

Because simply (simplistically?) speaking, a lot of people out there want to make a lot of money, but do not have enough smarts to "truly innovate". So they end up "hustling" - cloning whatever is working, Facebook for X, Groupon for Y, Uber for Z... and there is a reasonable chance that such a strategy pays off with decent enough success rate, so I don't see this trend stopping anytime soon.
I suspect that if I had a site, piping assets from some arbitrary external company through my host would likely expose me to dramatically larger legal liability than the current set up.

It would also radically increase my bandwidth bills if the ads were anything but text or a small amount of (hopefully sanitised) HTML.

Both of these could be mitigated by adding an enormous amount of due diligence in terms of what ads I was willing to serve, but that would add a lot of extra cost to running the site.

There's no real technical barrier to doing it but I suspect the legal and operational barriers are more significant.

And yes, the DOM is involved too - ad blockers block URL patterns but also allow users to block DOM elements based on a selector-type syntax. The hardest ads to remove are ones where the DOM selectors are dynamic - i.e. server-side rendering producing divs with random CSS classes.
Current models ingest new data from a variety of sources, including surface observations, buoys, airplanes, and GOES-derived data. The derived data might be more accurate and might be used more extensively going forward - I'm not entirely sure.

IMO (as an amateur) the bigger impact is for convective meteorologists that are continually watching satellite imagery and the work that places like CIMSS are doing in analyzing satellite imagery and detecting patterns indicative of severe weather. These detection algorithms will have a higher degree of confidence and can be triggered several minutes earlier now - possibly providing earlier warning for tornadoes.

CIMSS proving ground: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes_r/proving-ground/SPC/SPC.ht...
If people shopped for food like they hire engineers, they'd starve to death. I have to wonder if there's not some "corporate anorexia" thing that shares pathology with food disorders.
Let's be honest, this is not possible.
I've also been out from Facebook over a month now. The last time I did it I was out three years, but needed to join back when I moved to a new country.

This time I also stopped drinking alcohol, quit nicotine (in the form of snus) and deleted several of my accounts, e.g. Gmail and Linkedin. This feels suspiciously easy...
Thank you for sharing the eShares 101; reading it showed me two things that would have been dealbreakers before we could waste any time talking.

(They were required 8:30 AM start time once a week in the more distant office and How To Win Friends and Influence People being required reading, for the record.)
One would hope you aren't storing that sort of thing on your work computer to begin with.
"But will the quality of your internet life be the same?"

Initially? Probably not.

But given enough time, I think dependence upon Google and continued contributions of ones personal details will be a major detriment.

There is no free lunch.
I don't think people really have "vocations" built-in at some biological or personal level. Lots of people train for one thing, retrain for another, and work in a third.
What would Britain be without drink? (2016)
If you're interested in GPU ray tracing, I played with nVidia's OptiX a few years. It was a fun (and pretty easy, IIRC) way to do it on a GPU (nVidia anyway).

https://developer.nvidia.com/optix
The actual journal article contains more specifics that may help direct further research.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)3...

You're right that the BBC article is titled inappropriately. One sentence of the scientific paper's conclusion indicates that the problem is far from "cracked":

> With the available data, it is not possible to decide whether misophonia is a cause or consequence of atypical interoception, and further work is needed to delineate the relation between the two.

I don't find brain activity to be boring and I'm willing to put up with researchers trying in earnest to gain any insight into misophonia; this seemingly laughable condition drastically impacts my daily experience.
I wish I had a thousand upvotes to give this comment. This is the single most misunderstood concept in async python. I started and still contribute to hendrix (a "Twisted Django") and I can't believe how bright a lightbulb this is for people when they realize it.
And I cant believe I have to type this on HN of all places.

No one denies that monopolies are risky. In fact this is the argument against anti-trust regulations, which is basically a monopoly granted to very few people (which in practice, means a guranteed monopoly to a colluding subgroup of political class). There are probably more cases of harm done by this monopoly than by corporations monopolies.

Also one major difference, Corporations have to earn their monopolies where the political class dont. Only one of these two will not think twice before abusing it.

We already have a protection agaisnt monopolies aka free market.
Belgium is probably similar. One "trick" I've discovered for bureaucratic countries is that certain lawyers will be able to set up entities blazingly fast, in comparison to doing it all yourself.

That's because they have the contacts to get it all done (bank account, notary visit, required reports, etc) in a day or two, instead of 1-2 months.
I was at a multifamily technology conference in San Diego last year and during a panel with some 'experts', brought up the concern of devices like Amazon Echo recording people's conversations. The lady who responded misunderstood me and chimed in within something like: "you know, I haven't even thought of that. There are many opportunities for revenue with this technology". But that was an evil uber-landlord, not sure where Amazon stands on this. If they want to increase adoption for this technology, they better come up with a solid privacy policy and stand behind it.
It is highly unclear to me from visiting the page what "for Education" actually means here
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This is very interesting. I think I have a mild version of this. Since I was a young (6 or 7) kid I remember how it pissed me off when someone would make noises while I was watching TV. It used to be enough for me to storm out of the room.

Nowadays, I have more control, but it still bothers me when my office mate munches on chips or an apple at work. I usually put on my noise cancelling headphones and listen to death metal, and that takes care of the problem.
I do lots of road trips to places I've never been, and I can't imagine doing it without Google Map.

You've never heard of Bing Maps, or OpenStreetMap?

Aside from the fact that before 2005 or so, people used to travel to all kinds of fascinating, exotic places around the world with maps made of... get this... paper.
What made you want to switch?
Nuke Anything is another addon that allows you to delete any part of the page you like using the right click context menu.
In Austin, TX (USA), one of the few progressive cities in Texas, a plastic bag ban was passed four years ago to much grumbling. AFAICT, the residents have adapted to it and the prices for reusable bags are quite reasonable.

Unfortunately, the TX state legislature has other ideas and will likely attack this ban this year: http://www.mystatesman.com/news/texas-lawmakers-look-courts-... .
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A lot of people don't realize who wrote that song; the original album credit said just "Christopher".
No it's not. That's like (and I know this has been said again and again) that "War and Peace" is a hardcover book. It's a non-sequitur.
>They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been?

Well at least we have a confirmation that emotions are real. :)
And it would be nice with an indicator telling whose turn it is.
I would prefer what you described, and I imagine it feels good to verbalize it. However, demanding that the President do anything simply isn't reality.

If I am reading him correctly, I agree with fullshark, in that we are better off if intelligent, rational people are advising the President.

Kalanick's withdrawal was news to me, and I find that disappointing.
Yeah but they could try and it would be fun to watch.

The point I was implicitly making is that setting up a new server for bots and declaring "no bots allowed" on the main servers is not quite enough.
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Not sure if this is the anecdote you're looking for, but my spouse did a few online Python classes, decided she enjoys it, and enrolled in a coding bootcamp. She's set to graduate in a couple weeks and already has an offer.
It's funny I was wondering recently if there is a fundamental difference between logic and memory. I mean it's obvious that memory devices can do logic, since after all Boolean tables are just data in the end, aren't they? And reciprocally transistors can be used to store memory (with a flip-flop for instance).

So is it true? Are logic and memory fundamentally equivalent?
Python can be compiled, interpreted, or translated into smoke signals and reconstituted on the other side of the valley. It is not per se any of these things.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13563855
Or a map?
HN is entertaining a lot of political threads and commentary lately so please enforce this rule equally since you're bringing it up only here. It appears that's the only guideline I broke; my comment was relevant to the parent comment being downvoted for no reason. It's just ridiculous you cannot criticize that country anywhere without being slandered yourself. There's no perfect government or country in history and that's why it's great in America that we can criticize government.
What about countries where making sounds while eating is the norm? When I lived in China the majority of people made sounds while eating and I never met someone who was annoyed by it. This fact, while anecdotal, seems to suggest that misophonia is learned or cultural.
Not only are you not required to route traffic over Tor, but you can create arbitrary tree network topologies for all VMs.

For example, see the screenshot on https://github.com/kbrn/qubes-app-print-vm-status. VMs can access the 'net through "sys-firewall" (i.e. in the clear); or through "[redacted]-vpn", which has firewall rules enforced by "sys-firewall" that reject any traffic not to the designated VPN endpoint; or through "sys-whonix", which obviously routes all traffic over Tor.

Another great feature afforded by combining Qubes and Whonix is that it's trivial to use Whonix as a disposable VM, so you can really be sure one browser instance (say, for porn) can never affect another browser instance (say, for Facebook, or for leaking the next tranche of NSA docs).
I think lost login captured it perfectly. I used to hang out late when I was younger, but nowadays My daughter and dog ensure that I am home for the night:)
Whether you realize it or not, your posts are being analyzed by everyone.

Use a free service like Rep'nUp to identify all unprofessional posts, images, and tags. You can then link back to each post and curate if needed.

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I know a Sr SDE that left amzn for the web store at Walmart. He came back in a year, said it was a ___-show.
You don't have to use that account for anything except Google Play. I use Maps and YouTube without being logged in, no GMail. I use Drive for the customers that use it. I don't use Google Now. I do use Google as search engine but in the browser, either Firefox or Opera.
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I can very much recommend maps.me as a google maps replacement on mobile.
Very cool! This is my favorite toy raytracer example:

http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/
I was long a reluctant kale, chard, collard greens consumer.

Had some free time, so started eating like a cave man, aka Troglodiet [tm], modeled after Four Hour Body.

Then got busy, didn't eat as well.

I was VERY surprised when I started craving kale and other big leafy greens. Now I just eat it raw by the fistful.

I figure my body never knew what it was missing, but then got a taste, and didn't want to go back.
And what actually are the symptoms?
Are any of you familiar with an open source/libre app for public transit routing information that'd replace Google Maps?
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By that argument, people using IE6 are also "bludgeoning the sites serving the ads"?
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Tldr: Macworld says to hot glue two mb pros together. Problem solved.

/fanboi
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The search function on Google Map is really handy for when I need to find food and stuff. And offline maps for when I need to go places with sporadic internet is awesome as well.

I know I know, you can actually travel with a paper map. But I'm spoiled, as are most people these days I'm sure. So without a phone app is just too much of a decrease in life quality.
Well it's not known to me. What makes you say that? We don't delete comments or posts like this, but if you know of specific cases we can certainly take a look.
> Corruption is everywhere, it just takes different forms.

In India, it takes a form that apparently disrupts startups.

What do you mean "under stressful foreign environment"?
Impressed the Cloud Vision API worked so well.
I also don't like how Google makes all this money from advertising and then dumps into their poorly done Google-X projects. That money would be better off spent in the free market it seems.

What is it about Google X that doesn't really lend to either real product development, or even cool tech (of late?). For the amount of money they put into it, I expect a lot more output.

At their core they are still a big company and attract the kinds of people who want to work for a big company. Usually, this at direct odds to people who seek out the startup environment. There are some notable exceptions but the basic premise generally holds true.
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Sure, and people used to get around with horses and buggies. But it's not much of an exaggeration to say that for a lot of people in a lot of places, life without the internal combustion engine isn't feasible.

Pointing out that people used to use an inferior tool to do the same thing less effectively is kind of a dumb response to someone mentioning how critical a tool is.

No real disagreement with the Bing/OSM recommendations tho
You are mistaken. For example:

- He wrote Slate's economics column, "MoneyBox," for a number of years.

- He wrote a book about the economics of the housing market.

- He co-founded Vox.com, which -- presumably -- reinvests its profits to grow the business.
No, you haven't read it correctly, and I apologize for the lack of clarity in my remarks.

My argument is that violence is only needed as an outlet because some people (a smallish minority) are willing to use it on a discretionary to further their own ends.

I do not have omniscient knowledge of the causes and dynamics of violence. If it were possible to make a few thousand clones of myself and put them on an island with abundant resources (let's not worry about reproduction in this example), I can't say that violence would never break out because opinions would inevitably diverge in the light of my clones' diverse experiences, and if the differences of opinion proved irreconcilable then conflict could break out and violence might might ensue. Since we're talking about my clones arguments are virtually guaranteed :-)

tl;dr a nation of philosophers would not necessarily be peaceful under all circumstances, and I think you'd be foolish to attempt to engineer such a thing. I don't know with which aspects of my personality can be ascribed to genetics and which are a function of my upbringing or adult experience.
>I would think that Walmart probably has a competitive advantage in most logistical areas. They've been moving goods across the country (and world) for longer than Amazon has been a company.

Walmart does not have a competitive advantage in logistical areas. Have a look at a youtube video of what happens in an Amazon FC. Amazon does not simply box packages and ship them.

I would say Amazon is implementing the physical manifestation of algorithms onto physical goods, but that only scratches the surface of the complexity required to optimize the entire chain from customer desire to fulfillment.
Anecdotally, I've not seen any issues, but then I've also been hosting on IIS. Obviously, YMMV.

ETA: Also, my comment above was meant to be from the perspective of that it is a technically finished product with an active support lifespan. I did not mean to imply that it was better (or worse) than any alternatives, but that under the accepted definition of "production ready" where a thing is finished and supported, it is suitable to that.
> Fatal Famililal Insomnia is erm.... fatal. Its certainly not because you didn't forget.

It might be. It's a kind of garbage collection. Long-lived dynamic programs with bad GC run out of memory and exit with fatal errors, precisely because they didn't forget.
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I'm a Microsoft employee on the Git team.

Microsoft is moving to Git and we use Team Services / TFS as our Git server for all private repositories. GitHub is only used for OSS since that's where the OSS community is.
I've also had this experience with DDG. Other people I've turned on to DDG have also experienced this.

I can't tell whether their search algorithms have gotten better or I've gotten used to DDG results.
This is one of the generation gap thing. Kinda like knowing how to install Windows 95 OS on a machine, you need to run all sorts of command line utilities before you can actually perform the installation, and you have to go out and get the drivers manually, and sometimes you have to use your floppy disk to install the CD rom driver so you can install the network driver from the CD, then select the right .ini file in the driver folder that matches your CD readers spec. People used to know how to do all of that, but nowadays?

I think we'll probably have a generation of drivers who will simply not know what to do and would probably get lost easily if their phone breaks/data-plan runs out.
Are these products being sold by Amazon itself, or just fulfilled by them with partners setting higher prices than retail?
Unfortunately, Microsoft turned it on by default for all installs which killed it. It was supposed to be a user specifically opting in so it would be treated like a request directly to the advertiser. Microsoft's end-run around that gave advertisers the excuse they needed and it died. I think it would have gained some serious traction if it had been specifically opt in.
just use Firefox :)
If money isn't an issue, then surely they won't mind a higher salary requirement. $130k is reasonable for the greatest tech talent in the world, right?
OsmAnd~ for Android; it's.. okay.