skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are "children" like this 12-year-old with a receding hair line, Adam's apple, and stubble:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/47ri8u/this_...

Claimed ages are accepted without question. To question the age is considered racist. There is an incentive to lie: minors get instant citizenship and lots of help.

So really, it isn't children. It's men.

Would you want a 30-year-old dude in your daughter's 7th grade class?
Except that the original statement isn't really that you can't write a python2 interpreter in python3. In fact, I'm quite sure that those exist somewhere on github, but that there wasn't some kind of transparent interop between py2 and py3.

That is, why can't the cPython3 implementation of the python3 language also execute python2 code? To which I think the simplest response is "why can't the gcc implementation of the C++ language spec link arm-compiled C++ and x86-compiled C++?"
Starcraft in particular always felt like work to me; the insane level of management required to simultaneously macro/micro...

I never enjoyed it.

Currently enjoying the apocalyptic wasteland / occasionally broken mess that is H1Z1: King of the Kill
That got me interested and lead me to this but of Wikipedia which claims they perceive the dance by detecting vibrations and electric field changes:

Dancing honeybees (Apis mellifera) describe the location of nearby food sources by emitted airborne sound signals. These signals consist of rhythmic high-velocity movement of air particles. These near field sounds are received and interpreted using the Johnston’s organ in the pedicel of the antennae.[10] Honeybees also perceive electric field changes via the Johnston's organs in their antennae and possibly other mechano-receptors. Electric fields generated by movements of the wings cause displacements of the antennae based on Coulomb’s law. Neurons of the Johnston’s organ respond to movements within the range of displacements caused by electric fields. When the antennae were prevented from moving at the joints containing the Johnston’s organ, bees no longer responded to biologically relevant electric fields. Honeybees respond differently to different temporal patterns. Honeybees appear to use the electric field emanating from the dancing bee for distance communication.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston%27s_organ
Show HN: Rock music discovery webapp in Clojure/Script
I went through so many terminal emulators on Windows, looking for one that could handle SSHing to a Linux box and running tmux/vim/irssi inside the session; MobaXterm was the only one I could find that could handle it. It's a shame it isn't free software, but I can't find any free software on Windows that does curses GUIs correctly.
What dataset are you using? I would be interested in checking it out.

If you don't know R or Python, I would say that learning Python might work out better for you. Python is a general purpose programming language, whereas R is really good at stats and visualization. Python is also pretty good at this, you can use pandas, matplotlib, and scikit-learn.
Gems can be used to installing anything. It often build java, go, C, C++ and I think I heard it could do rust once, but generally anything in faster languages to create faster versions of the implementation of the functionality for a given gem.

I bring that up to highlight some of the wrong assumptions you make. You make several needless assumptions and use those to draw funny distinctions between things. I am not even sure of the point anymore.

likely any of these systems could be used in a variety of environments for a variety of purposes.
The Trump administration will just get more and more desperate as they
1. get totally nothing done, and nothing passed, except singing a bunch of worthless EOs.
2. get caught in various scandals, and the investigations get more and more intense
3. economy stalls
> if i studied and worked more, i would be much far by now. Probably rich.

It's sad that we measure our progress in life in terms of material wealth.
See:
The History of Single Member Districts for Congress:
Seeking Fair Representation Before Full Representation - by Tory Mast

http://archive.fairvote.org/?page=526
I agree that computational fields are more well-suited to spearhead such approaches, but I don't think machine learning is a good example. ML researchers are constantly pushing at the frontiers of what our current technology can do; consider that a big factor in neural networks coming back into fashion was the ability to throw GPUs at them. The choice of hardware can make a huge difference in outcomes, and some researchers are even using their own hardware (the work being done on half-precision floats comes to mind); any slight overhead will get amplified due to the massive amount of work to be computed; and so on.

Maybe a field that's less dependent on resources would be a better fit. An example I'm familiar with is work on programming languages: typechecking a new logic on some tricky examples is something that should work on basically any machine; bechmarking a compiler optimisation may be trickier to reproduce in a portable way, but as long as it's spitting out comparison charts it doesn't really matter if the speedups differ across different hardware architectures.

When the use of computers is purely an administrative thing, e.g. filling out spreadsheets, drawing figures and rendering LaTeX (e.g. for some medical study), there's no compelling reason to avoid scripting the whole thing and keeping it in git.
White House blocks news organizations from press briefing
Conclave was originally designed for sharing classified information in Top Secret environments. Our entire security architecture, which includes some elliptic curve elements, is available on our website.
Some python 2

def flatten(x):
def flatten_generator(x):
if type(x) == list:
for y in x:
for z in flatten(y):
yield z
else:
yield x
return list(flatten_generator(x))

assert(flatten([1, [2,3]]) == [1,2,3])

ary = [1, [2,3], [4, [5,6]]]
print flatten(ary)
Say you have an area with two ISPs -- Provider A with 400k subscribers and B with 50k. Both have a soft data cap of like 50 gigs/month.

Netflix could approach Provider B and say, "Hey, how about we pay you to remove the data cap on Netflix traffic?". All of a sudden Provider B can advertise that their customers can watch all the Netflix they want with no buffering! People will jump ship and leave Provider A for Provider B, thus "creating competition".

Disclaimer: I personally think the internet should be treated as a public utility, but the above scenario is (probably) what anti-net neutrality proponents believe.
I see you've heard of startups before...

Seriously though, that is a likely outcome, but most good ideas do not sound like good ideas to begin with.

My bigger concern here is the types of files people use this service for, and as distributed host of these files, what are the legal ramifications on me for doing this?
Just to take a stab at answering it:

What if a company wanted to offer 2 networks for customers: 1 in which they tell you they'll shape the network traffic to ensure consistent performance for all non-video traffic and another in which they tell it's completely unshaped?

It would be interesting to see the two side by side as actual consumer choices. If I'm buying for an office, for example, I'd take the shaped-kill-the-video plan all dang day. If I'm at home...not so much.
The Obama feud with Fox News was heavily inflated by Fox News [1].

[1] http://www.mediaite.com/columnists/foxs-white-house-bans-fox...
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Git v2.12.0
Hmmmm.... So if you were immortal and wanted to ditch Earth, it would be best to go to a supercool dwarf with only 1 planet? Otherwise you might get pulverized before the end of the dwarf's lifecycle?
There is a case to be had for how vertical-integration makes businesses more efficient and means there can be some cost-savings for consumers (e.g. if Comcast zero-rated their own streaming video service and included it in their customers' cable Internet fees then consumers would save $10/mo they wouldn't be paying to Netflix - in much the same way Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer meant no-one pays for Netscape or Opera anymore).

A problem with simplifying the problem to "prioritizing traffic" when engaging with laypeople is that opponents of net-neutrality can set-up a strawman argument presenting NN as "treating gaming and porn traffic the same as vital 911 and emergency services traffic on the Internet!" (i.e. conflating NN with QoS), or arguing it's only fair that popular services pay for the extra data transfer they use (that's what peering agreements are for and is unrelated to NN), or worse: proclaiming NN will enable child pornography: https://thenextweb.com/us/2010/08/19/riaa-speaks-out-against... - we should call it what it is: anti-economic rent-seeking behavior on the part of the monopolistic audience gatekeepers.

I believe NN is an example of a "good" regulation necessary to enable free markets - I'd wager the majority of genuine (non-astroturf) NN opponents take the stance in the sincere belief that Government 'interference and regulation' should not impact ISPs' internal business practices - so you should frame it as something "that enables free-markets and increases competition which is better for the consumer and industry" (and avoid the R-word)
> the normal way to cope with larger than expected usage is to just start dropping packets where there's congestion.

And lo and behold, that's what ISP's have always offered to consumers. There's a reason connections are always advertised as "up to 50Mbps" instead of "50 Mbps", hell, even my "business" connection with the local cable company has absolutely no guarantee beyond "we'll have someone out to repair your service within 4 hours".
Don't paid peering deals (i.e. Netflix paying Comcast) only reinforce the competitive advantage that these horrible behemoths have?
I think the difference is chess is more a mental planning game, Street Fighter is muscle memory.

(Disclaimer: I'm a huge gamer.)
Redis on the Raspberry Pi: adventures in unaligned lands –
White House Bars Times and Other News Outlets from Briefing
I thought your comment was a joke at first glance, because I often make jokes in this format.

It's an actual transcript. I'm a little flabbergasted.
This is the TYPE of answer I like to see.
... are you joking?
They're not all 3 letters. (e.g. GHCQ, ASIO, CSIS, DGSI, etc.)
Trump Administration Keeps Major News Orgs Out of Closed Press Briefing
The overall, top-level IA people who set the standards and procedures that must be followed are NSA. However each department and organization is responsible for having professionals who understand the policies and can follow the rules.
As long as a competitive market exists, I'm happy to let the market work out who has the better strategy: hardware oriented vs rulesets, etc. But where there is no competition (e.g. the last residential mile), I want regulations protecting me as a consumer with various accessibility, privacy, and fairness guarantees.
The text is up and part of the audio as well.
Yes and they don't use mobile apps (like some shitty govs do) but just plain websites.
I still have a soft spot for tcsh for historical reasons, but yes, bash pretty much won.

Specially now with Microsoft's Bash on Windows
Google goes to the movies too! :D
I use a random pass generator.

Avoid all password managers at all costs. I put it down manually.

I am going be getting a subscription to a non Google email. Not sure which one yet. I think it's called fast mail.

Avoid everything Apple.

Avoid everything social media. I still use them for lurking but every single service has its own email and generated pass.

Avoid posting anything anywhere forever. (As little as I possibly can)

Getting my info and my associates info completely wiped from all data brokers and all links from all search engines purged.

Use a custom ROM and a rootable phone. I'm not a fan of how big Google is. I'm not a fan of how little support they offer for their services (let's be honest it doesn't exist). But at the same time Google really does make great software at the cost of zero actionable support. It works for now. There are open source alternatives in the works to replace the core of Google services I just haven't checked if I can use it as a daily driver just yet (without many bugs).

I use chrome with privacy badger extension by the EFF

Another extension which is called uMatrix (have been using it since Beta, HTTPS-Everywhere). It will break your internet experience if you don't know how to use it.
Simply put the only firewall you will ever need. Doesn't use many resources and is extremely straight forward.

I also use the signal app for communication. As much as I possibly can. (It took me a year or two but I've converted over 50+ people into using it)

Stating the obvious. But I haven't gotten a single virus from torrents since the Napster days. You'll get them from software most of the time anyways (crack generators, old software etc...).
Sam Altman: I traveled across the country to interview 100 Trump supporters
I took a shot at using Markdown for a docutils/Sphinx "competitor" just to see if it could be done. My solution for extensions that don't require parser modifications was just to use custom HTML tags. Existing parsers know how to deal with those!

As soon as I finished it, I quickly realized that lobbying for its adoption and supporting it would be painful, but you might find it interesting.

http://steveasleep.com/computerwords
I would imagine that a lot of old data is secured by SHA1, which may be available for attack.

Does anyone have any idea about a broad risk-assessment of systems worldwide that might be vulnerable as SHA1 becomes easier and easier to beat?
I think it's because it removes an entire vector that these companies can compete on. They can compete on price, support, coverage, etc. – but service-wise, they all have to be the same. They can't differentiate themselves, which is important to entice entrepreneurs to get into the business.
I am baffled. I got Facebook's IPO (and invested) but I just don't get this.
IIRC, surgeons show an incredibly high rate of psychopathy and low empathy, while general practitioners show the opposite. Cutting people open is one part of medicine where you'll be much better off if you see the body as a problem to be solved rather than a person in need of understanding.
I will backoff from continuing this discussion here, as the submitted story is about the death of an innocent person. Thanks.
Right. When the Ames CTO left to form Nebula and took soem personnel with him, that also removed advocates from within NASA: https://gigaom.com/2011/07/27/ex-nasa-cto-builds-cloud-dream...

But my understanding is that the European OpenNebula grew out of some of the same initial NASA Nebula code, and some folks went to the US subsidiary they created.

Now, while I was paying attention at the time, I didn't exactly have a front-row seat, and my memory could be wrong - three open source projects and three companies all with near identical names is a bit confusing!
Calvin is a generalized consistency protocol, that we use in FaunaDB to support relational semantics (but not SQL) in our database.

Multi-query transactions can be useful, but the FaunaDB query language is functional, rather than declarative like SQL, so composing queries that can do everything you want is usually easier than SQL.
For me it is doing big data processing that your average laptop cannot handle well. I have the top Core i7 and I see it as a challenge using it to the fullest. You can run the heaviest clunkiest IDE with ease. Also the flexibility and resiliency of having multiple hard drives (a sacrosanct SSD for the system, and a HDD for messing around). Plus I can run VMs with ease when I get tired of Windows.

Easily extendable RAM, tons of usb ports, the list goes on... Plus it was fun to build and I learned a lot.
yea, this.. wow.

Is this the first hash function which went from "secure" to collision-as-a-service in a matter of days? Was sha1 particularly weak, or the published research particularly strong? or maybe something else?
Because the network is grass-roots, we can ignore the laws.
But this sort of thing happens all the time. The opinion that Kim is a dictator who really ought not to be allowed to have his own country is already widespread, but here is why he and other practitioners of assassination hang on:

In any state, ideas flow upward while authority flows downward. Let's consider a dictatorship for simplicity: it's not realistic to expect the dictator to think of everything other than for propaganda purposes. The dictator is presented with an endless supply of conflicting demands and requests, with different cost/benefit ratios. For any given idea, including his own, he needs to know roughly what the consequences are for implementing it.

For that to happen, junior intelligence and policy officials have to buy into and invest their political capital in an idea, and so on down the organizational pyramid of government. And the lower you get to the bottom of the pyramid, the more accessible you are to malefactors. So if you're a minor cog in the Chinese foreign ministry whose brief is to monitor North Korean affairs, North Korea might well take an interest in you and your extended family. And if you were to develop a reputation within the ministry for disliking Kim, it might become risky for your relatives to take foreign holidays, so you are incentivized to be cautious rather than prompting your boss to prompt their boss to Do Something about the Kim regime.

The messiness and made-for-TV aspect of it are the means of leveraging sustained attention. A simple shooting not have garnered anywhere near the same level of attention. It's high-precision terrorism as opposed to the mass casualty variety.
They are strong competitors to each other, don't trust a word they say.
chad, in regards to history and how the internet will play out, I think you have to look at the power accumulated by information disparities. These online social networks have integrated population-scale monitoring into their design. For the most part, the entire internet has adapted to monitoring the individual in terms of groups and populations. This population-scale knowledge has created a huge information disparity between the people, the social network businesses, and their governments. For the governments especially, the social networks provide a bird's-eye view of the world with macroscopic detail. This amount of knowledge is unprecedented, and the implications of governments operating on this knowledge in secret, I think, are not yet understood.
What happened to this? I found a link to this site a week or so ago here on HN but now it seems the site is gone. I could never find a press release/Twitter account/blog post/about page for the site. Why is that?
Do you have a link to the clarification? I missed that one.
Funny how it says English and English(British) in those coloured bubbles :)
I believe its a set of three new ones everyday
It's a string of qualitative data that I want to interpret, like the team runs the ball Right, then Right, then Left.

My goal is to be able to analyze the next play and possibly give a probability attached to where the coach will call the play.

But that's just the first step. I would probably need to do a lot of different stuff with the data.
Acquihired implies you being acquired for your talent, but then what happens to your idea? Editas could just scrap it.
Original post is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697771
> Stores need to earn our best visitors, and Amazon is no longer deserving.

It totally makes sense that you would be unhappy with the change, but your comment comes off as sour grapes. Amazon cut your fees and now they're "not deserving" even though you say they're not your top-trafficked store and usually not the best deal anyway? Were they deserving of your visitors traffic before when they were still not offering the best deal but they paid you more?

> Seems like bad PR more than anything.

Bad PR for who? Most of the people shopping on Amazon don't care about affiliate earnings at all. They don't care if Amazon pays affiliates less or stops paying them entirely. There is no PR hit to Amazon for changing the affiliate payouts.
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A Google day is not responsive
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You can paint yourself as the victim, but that doesn't make partisan attacks against actual news more accurate.
Pretty sure you know what he means and would instead just like to educate him on why "reverse harassment" isn't a thing. Right?
I see. I meant it as "things implemented in the browser", without any of the million and a half libraries.
...the majority of that 33,636 number being suicides:

>21,175 suicides
FreeBSD's pkg is listed under Linux.
This is why part of my profile says "reformed rocket scientist". I spent a little under two years working for a NASA contractor on their sounding rocket program. The problems I was paid to solve were relatively un-interesting (find the best ways to fit the experimenter's data requirements into our ancient, antiquated, badly-in-need-of-replacement hardware). The problems the experimenters were solving were actually fascinating, but I didn't get much exposure to their side of things.

Now yes, I am struggling with Information Assurance people and their cantankerousness, but I also have the unique pleasure of being the primary data scientist on this very large project, which is exposing me to new things every day. I just haven't had an environment for learning this rich before.
voltdb has no client-sessions though you have udf ones
Using DNS for HA is a lose-lose scenario. I'll take a proper load balancer backed with a cloud provider's superior network any day.
$10,000 - $30,000 is enough to support yourself in most places across the country. Yearly minimum wage @ 40hrs/week is $15,080.
Ask HN: Aren't we smart enough to figure out health care?
I'm not sure which side this would fall on politically - possibly neither as I've never heard it proposed.

I'll brain dump and would love feedback. This is pretty high level and there are lots of details that would obviously need to follow. I'm most interested in feedback about the general idea.

- Why don't we look at healthcare as a simple math problem?

- For example, lets imagine with a population of 100 people, in a given year there will be 5 heart attacks, 10 MRIs, 200 office visits, etc.

- At scale we would know predictably what expenses would be. Factor in things like % of population who is unable to pay anything. The rest of the population evenly splits the bill.

- Doctors are fully responsible for determining what treatment a patient needs and gets.

- There would have to be some sort of accountability as the doctors would be the decision makers, to make sure you don't end up with a corrupt doctor. But they already do something similar by taking the doctors oath.

- Costs would change as doctors would charge based on their costs, which would change under a new system. This should normalize quickly and become predictable.

- A person's medical history is not a factor

- Healthcare cannot be insurance-based because its not actually optional. Unless people are actually going to be turned away if they don't have insurance, we can't have an insurance-based system.

- This system means everyone pays for wellness of self and as a whole, instead of paying individually for illness.
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Granting long interviews is fundamentally different from access to briefings.