skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the term you're looking for is "athleisure". It is mostly associated with Lululemon and yoga pants all day, but I'd argue that TNF was the pioneer of it decades ago as climbing and hiking became mainstream and people started wearing practical outdoor gear everyday.

My problem with athleisure is that, while I enjoy that outdoor gear has gotten more fashionable and fit better; the trend tends to slide more into the "leisure" category than the "athletic" category over time. For people like me who actually do all those things in the marketing material like climb and hike, I find myself quickly running out of legitimate outdoor equipment options. Hell, even Arc'teryx now makes suits and topcoats for the Wall Street crowd! At the end of the day, this stuff still needs to be made by somebody because climbing and expedition hiking isn't going away.

I used to walk into REI and be bombarded by choice, but now more and more of their floor space is being taken over by casual clothing. The backpack area is now mostly laptop and messenger bags. The climbing section has gotten smaller and smaller.
Optimistic answer: each sub-network can specialize in a certain skill or element of knowledge, and then as a group, the networks can contribute to a larger decision. Such specialization allows skills to be highly developed but used only when they are applicable, instead of trying to force-fit a certain skill onto an inappropriate problem domain. The human brain is believed to work in a similar way with multiple regions processing input in parallel and "voting" for the appropriate response, with other parts of the brain coalescing and merging their output into the final response.

Cynical answer: Neural net machine learning has reached its peak, and there's far more computing power than the researchers know what to do with. Add additional layers of processing and if the numbers change, that's a paper.
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Is that why I always have to solve a challenge? Because I use Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin?
Compression and HTTPS don't play nice together though. So in cases where every byte matters, and you can't get rid of HTTPS (an admittedly rather niche use case). This minification still has some uses.
Using a well established plant might be worse than using a young one. They grow into the situation they find and adapt. If your plant is used to standard house plant conditions it might be harder compared to one used to bad soil and little water. But probably you already took that into consideration?
Netflix working on technology to allow viewers to decide how the story unfolds
CRCs are linear, all 'attacks' are efficient on them.
"We can imagine that in the future, we will have giant AIs trained on thousands of tasks and able to generalize. In short, General Artificial Intelligence."

Don't know if I believe this just yet.
Quantum computer learns to ‘see’ trees
I used to live in Leeds and used the water for a few gardening projects were the PH of the water was very important so was also testing it, it was always perfect, never had to modify.

Now, when I lived in Hull, terrible water
So drop more calories, you are still eating above what you are expending. Like I said in another comment: our bodies aren't supernatural things that ignore thermodynamics, it's impossible for your body to create fat without spare energy consumed.

I have dropped weight only through calories counting, I've done cycles of bulk/cut while weightlifting, dropping weight boils down to "calories in -> calories out", we might not have a very good model of this, we might be overlooking a multitude of variables that control energy expenditure but we can't create fat from nowhere, we need to consume and have spare energy to store it.

It's not easy but it is simple. Again: I'm not saying our models for calculating TDEE or how energy restriction affects our body completely but if you are expending more calories than you are eating you are going to consume fat to create energy.

Try this: drop how many calories you are eating by another 100~200kcal/day for a week, see if the trend changes (a moving average works). If not, drop another 100~200kcal/day and watch for a week. Being STRICT is the "not easy" part.
A single typo took down the whole AWS network
> If Notepad++ wants to push an update that fixes DLL search paths purely for symbolic reasons, so that all their users are aware of what the CIA is doing by seeing the changelog, that's another thing entirely, and yes, I agree that's useful.

Of course it is. Notepad++ is an international project and these reasons are exactly why I upvoted this story.

(I'm honestly a bit confused as to what other reason one could come up with that is not an insult to Notepad++ developers' intelligence--"There, we fixed the DLL inject-y thing, finally now our users will be safe from CIA hacks"??)
1. Scrap your smartphone.

2. If you must, carry a dumbphone.

3. Keep that off except when necessary.

4. If you must have a device, consider either an ultralight laptop (vastly preferable: they are in fact generative devices) or a tablet, with severely pruned apps, and no G4 / cellular internet (WiFi only).

I'm increasingly a fan of paper-based records and tracking systems -- index cards, etc. For books and research, online has certain advantages, largely bulk and weight -- I can carey a fairly formidable library in the palm of my hand, though the access, interface, and organisation leave much to be desired.

I'm inclined to say there is no generally acceptable mobile device or OS presently, though I somewhat favour iOS over Android for a better privacy and surveillance environment. Whatever CyanogenMod calls itself this week might be slightly favourable. What I'd prefer is a generally tablet/folio form-factor (e.g., non-wired, non-integral keyboard, lapable or tablet mode, and no, Windows Surface doesn't work either, though it's a fair start -- rubber keyboards aren't acceptable), but running a Real Operating System (e.g., Linux). I'm keeping an eye on what's coming from Ubuntu, though without much hope.
Oh, it's £1.2m COMBINED in new taxes.

I thought it was a per school rate.

Nonetheless, not great and an odd move
I don't get the solar business in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance

$1000 worth of raw materials (photovoltaic cells) would be much better used in countries like Syria.

In Winter there is not much Sun / daylight hours, and the energy usage is higher due to heating and lightning so other electricity production methods need to provide 100% of the demand anyway.

installation slowed by 85 percent

caused by the end of subsidies for solar farms and and incentives for homeowners

It's even more outrageous after considering - homeowners are on richer than people who are renting. Giving taxpayers money to...

(I could never understood solar business in the the UK and rapid decline after subsidies has ended only proves the point)

Next time similar opportunity arise - I'll raise the money and hop on the bandwagon... :)
It should be rephrased as: design so that many cases can be handled, thus reducing number of special cases.

They cannot be avoided, but their impact can be reduced. If you end up drowning in them, it means the design is broken and needs to be rethought.
How nuclear fears helped inspire creation of the internet
It might be hard to do for an existing site of considerable size, but for new sites it could be done incrementally as features are added.
Every about weight loss should mention sleep. Every study should control for it, a mere hour a day can do wonders to your well being
https://rollout.io/blog/rollout-statement-on-apple-guideline...
In unrelated news: chewing also increases satiety.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26188140
This is exactly what I thought. The solution isn't to buy a blender, but to chew your food properly.
The fossil fuel industries in most countries have an extremely complex set of tax breaks and subsidies of their own. So should solar also have that?
Title is Wrong. There is no consensus that this cave dates 700 years nor actually a Knights Templar Cave.
> That’s why instead of trying to encode the abstract values to maximize for, we encode very specific goals.

- Make 100 paperclips (utility function is “Did I make 100 paperclips?”)

That's probably a good idea. But humans would still have to set the goal in a way they know that the resources will be enough to achieve that goal.

Otherwise, if the AI is at 90 paperclips (or 90 million), and it runs out of resources, it could think "I'm out of resources - what now?! Oh, look, a human nearby. Let me throw it in the paperclip convertor to reach my 100 paperclip goal."

Or the instructions could say "Out of resources > alert humans, and suspend activity immediately."
I wasn't able to follow this. Does anyone have a good explanation? Is it really AGI?
Grammatical error in the first line. Good start.
It depends on your knowledge/experience levels. A very experienced develeoper's prototype would likely be much better than a junior's production-ready version.
Style is overrated. Changing attitudes and requirements force different styles. It is not an accident of nature that generally the nicest languages to use are multi-paradigm, therefore allow multiple styles.

Previous experience can be very misleading. It is safest to come at the code and design as a blank slate. Prediction (also known as educated guesses) is worse than actual understanding, especially deep understanding.

Sometimes being fancy saves a lot of effort down the road. It is being fancy for its own sake or for purely imagined reasons that is dangerous.
Infinity Multiplication – Beyond Memory – Java
+1 come to daddy
at least it's better than a CIACaptcha "please click on the terrorist on this photo"
Fukushima: Wild boars take over Japan's evacuated towns [video]
Detector vans are mostly a hoax. It's thought that they worked by detecting electromagnetic radiation given off by CRTs, if they worked at all. Those are obsolete, so the point is moot anyway. But how should they be able to tell apart a TV and a computer monitor? Furthermore, you can use a TV and not connect it to an antenna—Smart TVs and Chromecast/Roku/Fire TV/Apple TV/... make that a perfectly viable use case. Such use isn't subject to TV licencing in the UK, only watching live broadcasts (including streaming) is.
It looks like you could get away with WebCrypto nowadays for up-to-date mainstream browsers:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=cryptography
The studies [1] and [2] found no evidence of any adverse effects, rather the contrary (lower incidence of knee osteoarthritis in the running group). One possible explanation is that the runners were less likely to put on weight over the years, leading to lower day-to-day stresses on the knees.

[1] Eliza Chakravarty et al. "Long distance running and knee osteoarthritis: A prospective study," American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2008, 35(2), 133-138

[2] David Felson et al., "Effects of recreational physical activities on the development of knee osteoarthritis in older adults of different weights: The Framingham Study," Arthritis & Rheumatism, 2007, 57(1), 6-12
A shot of its stronger solution was also routinely used as an anti-diarrhea remedy back when I was a kid. Tasted awful.
detector vans are a lie, especially now there are no CRT tvs. the "vans" they did use could detect the radiation coming out of the tv that matched the tv signal they were watching.

also useless for blocks of flats.
> It is a DSL from the logic family

I'm having trouble seeing what features GraphQL gets from the logic family. The query feels more like a way to execute a series of function calls with parameters, like a chain of promises. You can't really encode any logic or do even simple filters like "WHERE foo < bar", beyond what arguments have been added to each field.
Why does the article assume its healthier simply because it prevents hunger longer? Granted, people might eat less overall but that doesnt guarantee its healthier.
Nah, annotations are great when they're used for their stated purpose, that is, annotating code.

They shouldn't have been allowed to actually change runtime behavior or be used to control code generation.
Show HN: 288 Analog Clocks
4chan used to have a campaign where they'd collectively replace the obviously-unknown word in the ReCaptcha text captchas with the n-word to poison the results...
> The community built around the GPL UNIX-alike kernel

You mean the GPL v2 kernel that wont ever migrate to GPL v3, keeping it incompatible with anything a GPL purist should touch. Meanwhile Debian GNU/Hurd still isn't production ready.
They don't get electrocuted, but they still die from collisions with the lines.

https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/...
Analyzing DNS NULL Qtype Records
Because we are grumpy old grey beards. And it wouldn't fit with the background color, of course.

Can you imagine scrolling throught all that promiscuity of color and shape? Shivers. ASCII4ever!
Seems life expectancy of 70 years was considered normal a couple thousand years ago: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-90-10/

Edit: never thought I'd be quoting the bible here as evidence of something
If a standard feature in your language of choice confuses or upsets you when it is not misused... You may have a problem. The problem is typically lack of willingness to learn.
> Sports is ultimately about making the masses happy

That's an interesting assertion, but it's certainly not universally true.

How much sports rules should be for the people watching and how much should be for the people playing is a constant source of tension in the rules. It's also something that people tend to forget.

Even for the most popular sports the vast majority of competitions will be watched by almost nobody and engaged in for the pure joy of it. The rules need to take these people into account too!
Can you imagine if someone told Asimov that his story "Buy Jupiter" would be mistaken for a "link" to buy a copy of his work, by someone reading on an international network of computers that have access to all of the information in the world - and were so overrun with advertising that his own title was mistaken for one. Given "Buy Jupiter's" plot summary - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Jupiter [1] - this is extremely apropos!! Some things never change :)

[1] WHICH I'M LINKING ON A FREAKING ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA THAT CONTAINS IN EVERY LANGUAGE ALL OF THE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD (WIKIPEDIA).
SelfControl is nice, in the end it adds an entry on your /etc/hosts .

For what is worth the script for the timer app tokill slkck and set DND
START:
if application "Slack" is running then
tell application "Slack"
quit
end tell
end if
do shell script "curl 'https://slack.com/api/dnd.setSnooze?token=<YOURTOKEN>&num_mi...

END:
if application "Slack" is not running then
tell application "Slack" to activate
end if
do shell script "curl https://slack.com/api/dnd.endSnooze?token=<YOURTOKEN>
“Official” spark connector for tensorflow released
would it not be better to start with something like a cactus?
Plus the cost of the second stage.
I'm struck by how hard it would be to track down a bug that depends on the consistency of the clockrate...
I think the current design can survive ~10 reuses? [1]

However, the next and last iteration of Falcon 9, Block 5, is supposed to survive much more reuses, and easier to refurbish.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/590wi9/i_am_elon_mu...
I am not saying that the service is not useful. It certainly is . What I am arguing is that it requires the users to do some amount of work and so it is not free for them, and I am of the opinion that Google benefit from it much more than I do.

Anyway, I am not completely against it, as I said above depending on the situation I make use of it.
Twitter is now marking entire profiles as 'sensitive'
How to train your brain
Linux kernel is the opposite of boring old C, as in procedural code. It is nicely factored object-oriented C in most of the important places.
Unless you decide to compromise the design by manufacturing them in sections with dodgy O-ring connections.
Etsy did something like that, but on the production site.

Every visitor had a small probabillity it would run the code, and after a couple of million visitors, they had a pretty good idea of what styles were unused.
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Mercurial obsolescence markers exchange support is available on Bitbucket Labs
> Right now, a banker must process all of the monthly remits for each individual facility and compare them against what was agreed to in the docs.

OK; but what makes blockchain special for automating this as opposed to more generic software?

I'm a bit confused about the blockchain excitement. I can see it has potential for oiling transactions between unfamiliar parties. However, for big banks is it ever the case that the parties don't know each other? They'll have to agree on a common set of protocols to implement a block chain based solution, so what does it buy them over and above a more conventional API?
WikiLeaks claims first batch of CIA documents 'less than 1%' of total release
Also this neglects the fact that beer was a way to store water. If you simply boil water and store it in a clay pot someplace, it is possible for it to become infected again due to the container having small openings. Beer solved this problem allowing for transportable, safe, ready to drink fluids.
I just picked the first unicode character code point, just so happens to be a null character.
https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt is a c++ based ajax/js web api library with lots of interesting functionality. And uses boost for some underlying functionality.

Is there much difference between what they have already accomplished vs what this project is proposing?
There is probably not "any real toxic effect" with a small dose taken over a few months in an isolated study.

But what about a small dose taken over years, and interacting with the thousands of small doses of synthetic chemicals we have in our body because of processed food, hygiene products, clothes, surface treatments and medicine ?

This we have no way to know.

There are already so many reasons to get in contact with synthetic chemicals. I think it's sane policy to limit them a much as we can when we can, especially in something as ubiquitous as water.

Yes having drinkable water is essential, but some cities manage to have it with much less additives. It should be the default goal for anything related to public health.
> Water was a somewhat precious resource for most folks.

Again, this is not true. Water only became a scarce resource for some when population density reached a certain point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1yts0v/comme...
Well, I agree that naming is a problem, but let's put that aside for this discussion. However, I should have explained that I consider all identifiers to have the same length for the purpose of trying to make the representation of program "compact". So what matters is number of functions being called inside a function (in FP, even constants are considered a function).

OK, I get your point about coupling. But I am not sure why you consider high coupling to be a bad thing, especially in case where you have an automated refactoring system.

It seems to me that to "decrease coupling" you have to add nodes to dependency graph, and this increases overall complexity.

Perhaps you could provide some example where high coupling (calling different functions from a single function) is bad, and how would you like to have it resolved.

Update: Actually, with automated refactoring, you wouldn't have to modify any existing functions (except maybe to call your new functions). You would just write new functions that would incorporate the new functionality using perhaps the existing building blocks. Then the refactorer would sort out things in DRY manner, as needed. So you don't need to care if the code is easy to refactor, it just needs to be easy to read.
What’s wrong with in-browser cryptography? (2013)
What concentration of alcohol has to be in water to make it resistant to getting stale? E.g. if I have ethanol and drinkable water, how much should I add to get the water protected from the bacteria without turning it into a serious alcoholic drink?
That is true, but mostly because said experienced developer actually has a design in mind while programming. At the very least a sketch of one.

It is usually better to just write it out and discuss instead of following through based only on your own gut, however good it is.
Not everyone is using the same ethical model as you?
> If lossy CSS minification is a thing that we are willing to put up with

I'm not, neat experiment though.
Self-Driving Car Challenge
The Architecture of Artificial Intelligence
> Alcohol would have the advantage over boiling water that the bacteria would not be in the alcohol in the first place so they could not have produced something bad for you in the water.

This might hold for liquor (depending on what destillation removes and retains), but 90-95% of beer is boiled water and the bacteria would most definitely have been in there in the first place.
I had totally forgotten how bad the word mush was. In perspective of this, I agree that we do get something back from doing unpaid work for Google, and that is a HUGELY improved user experience with the current reCAPTCHA like "click all the pictures of sandwiches" or "click the portions of the picture that has a street sign in it" compared to the earlier reCAPTCHA and other CAPTCHA.
I'm less aware of how the more modern captchas work under the hood, but I do know that the audio interface (provided for for accessibility) of an older version of captcha was used as an attack vector for defeating it. My understanding is that the optional audio file was run through an STT program to generate the answer text so that requests could still be automated. Translating speech to text is less computationally expensive than OCR, especially when captchas were typically using hard to read or intentionally distorted images of text.

Someone who knows more about this than me can certainly school me on that last bit, however.
"It's even more outrageous after considering - homeowners are on richer than people who are renting."

This is one of the more sickening, cynical arguments I've heard passed down from think tanks on to the public (and I'm a renter not a 'rich' homeowner).

This is just leveraging the jealousy of the home owner "haves" with the home have nots in order to artificially pump the profits of heavily polluting companies and give even more money to people with enormous stock portfolios who are not just relatively wealthy, but spectacularly obscenely wealthy.

Moreover, it does nothing to actually help the "have nots" and it's a HUGE fuck you to the idea that we should actually be doing something about global warming.

Even when green energy can stand on its own two feet without subsidies/tax-breaks-relative-to-coal it should get them because polluter should have to pay for negative externalities.

Instead, tax breaks are being dropped, the EU is slapping TARIFFS on solar panels (I guess the "free market" was only a good idea when it helped coal and oil companies?) and in my constituency they killed a wind farm because even though it wouldn't have spoiled the view or affected tourism, the Tories said it would spoil tourism.
>but it's not at stasi levels... yet...

Totally agreed. This kind argument is almost always provided in exasperated language that invokes the No True Scotsman fallacy.

Do we really need to wait until it 'x bad' before it's ok to say we have a problem? And if so, who gets to define 'x'?
An Early Look at Startup Graphcore’s Deep Learning Chip
https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/...
Absolutely. Almost no major historic events or developments had one single cause.
Facebook unveils Big Basin, new server geared for deep learning
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But you do need a microscope to look at germs.
Pretty much my thinking too.
Having backups is important. Not needing to use them, however, is still a very good thing.