skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, thank you.

Having it on conda would be great (https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneas/issues/158 ), so if you feel like it, it would be wonderful!

The two points that proved difficult in packaging aeneas (as self-installers and as .deb for Ubuntu/Debian) are:

1. the package must also install/require-as-dep ffmpeg and espeak
2. the package must trigger the compilation of the Python C extensions as described in setup.py

Unfortunately I am a Debian/OS X user (I do not even own a Windows machine right now), but I am told that one can use the Win10 IE VirtualBox images.
Think remembering birthdays is difficult? Try memorizing two decks of cards in five minutes or less. That is what Joshua Foer did to win the 2006 U.S. Memory Championship...

“Moonwalking With Einstein” does just that: It takes the reader on Foer’s journey from memory novice to national champion.

http://www.salon.com/2011/03/06/foer_moonwalking_with_einste...
I loved that one. We spend an entire year on high school programming the 16F84 on assembler. We re-implemented all projects we did the previous year with nand gates like semaphore, infrared barriers for counting stuff etc with pics, and it was mindblowing for me.

I also remember we did a board for writing the program in the pic because it was too expensive in my country.
There is seriously something wrong with this community whenever a Star Citizen article comes up. Did you even click the link at all before coming up with your conspiracy theory?

This is a reply to a question that mentions, in passing, that for simplicity sake they are DROPPING ONE OF THE TWO targets they are CURRENTLY supporting. This is not "we need excuses to push deadlines", this is "we're cutting something to speed up development", with explanations accompanying it.

And that aside, HN of all communities should appreciate the level of transparency and technical insight CIG gives to their backers. Like the one in the post here. That you did not click because you were too busy coming up with "technical excuses".
Another good books to suggest are books written by Harry Lorayne[0]. You could also see his demonstrations in youtube. His books were published long before Moonwalking with Einstein, most of them are similar to Lorayne's system and I would recommend it for those who want to improve and train further on memorizing things.

Also for those who want a book that demonstrates the use of creating a memory palace, I would recommend The Memory Palace - Learn Anything and Everything[1]. You'll just learn the 37 plays of Shakespeare wherein almost of the descriptions were funny.

I also listen to a free audiobook Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It by William Walker Atkinson[2].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lorayne

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Palace-Anything-Everything-Sha...

[2] - https://librivox.org/memory-how-to-develop-train-and-use-it-...
> This is a very big deal, and may well go some way to explain why for many kratom has no withdrawal symptoms or addictive properties.

Take Kratom every day for two weeks and get back to me.

These are side effects you experience under Kratom intoxication:

> respiratory depression, constipation, histamine release and build up of tolerance (which is what leads to withdrawals upon cessation)

Each and every one of those.

Anyway[0]:

>RESULTS: More than half of the regular users (>6 month of use) developed severe Kratom dependence problems, while 45% showed a moderate Kratom dependence. Physical withdrawal symptoms commonly experienced include muscle spasms and pain, sleeping difficulty, watery eyes/nose, hot flashes, fever, decreased appetite, and diarrhoea. Psychological withdrawal symptoms commonly reported were restlessness, tension, anger, sadness, and nervousness. The average amount of the psychoactive compound, mitragynine, in a single dose of a Kratom drink was 79mg, suggesting an average daily intake of 276.5mg. Regular users who consumed ≥3 glasses Kratom per day, had higher odds of developing severe Kratom dependence, withdrawal symptoms, and inability to control Kratom craving.

> CONCLUSIONS: The findings from this study show that regular Kratom use is associated with drug dependency, development of withdrawal symptoms, and craving. These symptoms become more severe with prolonged use and suggest a stronger control of the drug.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24698080
Thanks.

> Coincidentally, I also started working on a new set of hash functions based on the mul32/xor/shift motifs precisely for the purpose of getting something that could be efficiently vectorized for performance while still able to run on, say, a 32-bit ARM core.

That's cool to hear. I'm happy to reimplement hash functions to fit my bizarre needs, but as per the post I really don't want to design them :)

What's your view on how switching from rotates to shift-xors affects quality? Is it mostly neutral as long as the constants are chosen correctly, or is there some quality loss?
That's a valid point. I suppose the whole blockchain idea has several modular interchangeable parts though, including deciding what chain is authoritative, who can mine a block, and so on.

In the original form though, it makes no sense to fire up your own bitcoin, because when it's small it's vulnerable to the attack you mention.
Wouldn't a progressive, Bernie-style [limited] redistribution be better to achieve such a goal? Appropriate corporate tax funded social spending sound like a more efficient way to help everyone than forcing a factory owner in California to move his factory to some random rural area.

I don't run a factory, but I am a full-time co-founder of a startup. There is no way I'd move our NYC-based operation to some rural area, there is little to no specialized technical community outside the major cities. For example, would I be able to attend weekly Machine Learning meetups in West Virginia? Would I be able to have lunch regularly with VCs in Ohio? I've been overseas doing a parallel medical trial, in a big city, and still it is very difficult to operate here. The depth of community just doesn't exist.

I realize a tech startup isn't a perfect example, but I imagine some of the same concerns would be applicable to factory owners. It is simply not realistic to assume that employers (who already don't have trouble finding talent) should move to where workers are, rather than the opposite.
You have audited code for everything you run?
The partisan differences aren't even especially large in most places. There are plenty of places deemed a "deep red district" or "deep blue district" where the typical outcomes are 60-40% or so (like CA-4, the "deep red" central valley district). The difference between a "deep red" 60-40% district and a 50-50 swing district is 1 out of 10 people having different opinions. For prognostication purposes these are considered solid districts for one party or the other, because it's hard to flip 1 out of 10 people in a single election. But in terms of what it's like to live in one or another, it's not a huge difference in who your neighbors are.
Can confirm this works amazingly well. A buddy and I used to do this in a high school class. We'd give each other lists of 50 random words and have them memorized in a minute or so by 'attaching' them to items in the room. It's surprising how long those attachments were maintained.
next week: hacker news is being manipulated by professional shills every day.
Extreme agreement from me.
> deregulating environmental controls. ... as those factories dump chemicals into local areas ...

Nope, Nope, Nope.

See: 1970's, burning rivers, toxic smog, many "Superfund sites" that STILL haven't been cleaned up.

http://americandecadesboyle.wikispaces.com/Environmentalism+...

Not sure if fracking is an environmental issue, but a study says it is.

http://www.newsweek.com/fracking-wells-tainting-drinking-wat...
Yeah. Isn't this a major problem with all of these alternative implementations? The 50% problem will always be an issues in small deployments.

It's still a problem in the largest deployment. Does anyone have a "solution" to this?

In this specific case, it seems like what they really should do is have a set of trusted nodes for ledger replication.
I agree with the difficulty in writing standalone programs. However, this is not the main use case for APL. You should think of it more as an alternative to something like R, which also isn't normally used to develop arbitrary standalone programs.

I use GNU APL as a smarter calculator, allowing to me manipulate datasets in a very flexible way. The programs I write a small utilities that I user interactively.

That said, the FILE_IO workspace provides access to low-level OS access. It can be a bit cumbersome to use, but it's good for building higher-level abstractions. As an example, last year I made an APL submission to Google Code Jam and while the solution to the problem was a single line of code, reading the data file and writing the output was significantly more.
My Chrome on Android is getting a certificate error for this website.
To enlarge on the point I often hear people mis-speak, but that never happens in a film, or someone hiccups, or farts at an inopportune time (rather than for comedic effect). These things would be repeated in an accurate portrayal of people but seldom appear in films. Accuracy in entertainment media is over-rated and can impinge on a story's telling.
Thanks sillysaurus3!

For founders, I am very responsive over email. If you have specific questions some me some electronic mail.

If you want to build a company but don't know where to start I recommend signing up for Startup School. https://blog.ycombinator.com/onlineclass/

Unrelated to this post, but related to dinosaurs if you like dinosaurs and want to dig some up this summer with me get in touch. I'm inviting roughly 100 people. We found a triceratops two years ago. It's been in the ground for over 65 million years.

http://imgur.com/a/X6h8v
And this site reports the current status:

http://istderberschonfertig.de/

Latest updates are that the new manager mentioned in Bloomberg article, Karsten Mühlenfeld, has fired technical director Jörg Marks, and that right after that Mühlenfeld himself had to go due to deep disagreements with the governing board. He will be replaced by an SPD politician, Lütke Daldrup.
I contributed on day 1, the main thing that's had me worried is the lack of updates on Linux support (which was promised in the KS). This reply reinforces their commitment on that, which is really nice.
I greatly up in rural Ohio and this is one of the best comments I've seen here. Well said.
Not opaque to me. I (and others) audit my machines. Unussual network activity from my secure work-only desktop will be detected and eventually traced to whatever process triggered it. That's basic network security imho that shouldnt go unnoticed on any regulated/secure network.
I doubt it, but I'm not old enough to have encountered agism yet.

If you are willing to try out the Boston area and you like maps or UI/Human Factors, email me so I can introduce you to a contact of mine who commanded medievac helicopters near Basra and is building a startup.
And what happens when you switch majors? All of your scholarship money gets revoked?

Honestly, switching majors if a bit of a failure of the system. Ideally we would expose students to more parts of a major in High School, so they can make better decisions. Most high schools do not do a great job of this in the US.

Most schools do not require you to declare a major when applying or during the freshman year.
Most people that have a major in mind when entering college end up changing it as well.

(Citation required for both of these). I have found it a mix on what schools require. Back when I applied to colleges (2000?), most colleges DID have me pick a major. A few pushed off till Sophomore year, but not most by any means. And MOST people did not switch majors when I was in school. Some did, and some dropped out, but hardly most.

I think this is telling that MOST people do not go to college because they are super
passionate about whatever subject. Most people go to college because they would like to find
a job that will ensure them middle class wages.

Great. So why do people major in History and "Business" and "Women's Studies"? None of these majors lead to a middle class job. If you want a middle class job, there are many majors almost guaranteed to get you there (i.e. education, nursing, programming.. all a big demand for people, all pay some form of middle class white collar wage).

If we fixed the job market (ie prevent jobs from requiring a bachelors or masters when many
high school graduates could be trained to do it AND increase wages not just at the top of the
spectrum), I have a strong suspicion there wouldn't be so many people going to college for
"bullshit" degrees and even if there were they would actually be able to pay their loans back
in a timely manner.

What? As an owner of a business, you would tell me I cannot require college degrees from my new hires? Fine, I will remove it from my job posting. During interviews I will ask what college the person went to. If I don't like the answer, I will send them home. You are NEVER going to legislate anything like this away. Businesses hiring want the best candidates. If they feel college students are better, then they will pick them. This would be perhaps the worst regulation you could possibly put on small businesses.
> imagine for a second someone telling you that 'you should just move from where you are because where you were born isn't good enough'. Not very considerate.

Reality doesn't really care about consideration.

Are God and Nature then at strife,

That Nature lends such evil dreams?

So careful of the type she seems,

So careless of the single life;

That I, considering everywhere

Her secret meaning in her deeds,

And finding that of fifty seeds

She often brings but one to bear,

I falter where I firmly trod,

And falling with my weight of cares

Upon the great world's altar-stairs

That slope thro' darkness up to God,

I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope,

And gather dust and chaff, and call

To what I feel is Lord of all,

And faintly trust the larger hope.

-Tennyson
If compile time is an issue, the new 'cargo check' tool may take some of the pain away.[1]

1 - https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/03/16/Rust-1.16.html
The Washington Monthly article Bloom and Bust (http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and-...) lists some of the causes of the rise in regional inequality.
>A stock's price can go up only because another's goes down.

Ah, the zero-sum game deception. That only works in the short term, else the world economies wouldn't be able to support a population that is double what it was 30 or 40 years ago.

That doesn't mean I disagree with the statement that capital assets are not valued purely on future earnings.
None of what you listed as human rights are in fact human rights. Being treated with dignity may be a human right, but getting free shit from others who produce is not, nor has it ever been, a legitimate right. No one has the the right to encumber the labors of another. We have seen the dire outcome to that way of thinking time and time again over human history and it never ends well. Currently Venezuela is going through a collapse due to that way of thinking about property rights. It's a road to nowhere.

That doesn't mean we can't be charitable to one another, but the idea that some stranger has a right to the results of your hard work? Insanity. That we are taxed to death in the west in order to try and create such a system is also insanity and is bleeding dry the real system of prosperity which is based on individualism and free enterprise. You want more homeless? Keep up that humans rights bs.

Lastly, it is magical thinking to believe we can solve the problem of homelessness. Some people choose to be impossible to help. Many homeless have options that they don't pursue due either to ignorance, substance abuse, treatable mental illness, or whatever else. It is an enormously complex issue. For those who want to be helped, there are programs, many of which are taxpayer funded. It's not like they can't get help, but most just stubbornly want to be drunk and hopeless. I have seen this firsthand.

Also, many are outright criminals, or former criminals who committed horrible crimes against others. I have extremely little sympathy for criminal individuals and they certainly merit no free food, clothes, nor anything else.
That's simply more precarious than making an anonymous object that adheres to a statically-enforced protocol.
I enjoy it so much I quit mainstream tech to do Haskell professionally 5 years ago.
[US centric opinion]

I don't think it will be an issue in general. In part because of the type of industry I imagine you are referring is probably similar to government where maturity is valued. In part because 28 is only likely to be an age issue to someone really young or in an organization that chews up young people. Mainly it is because internships are academic and blatant employment discrimination is less likely to occur in that context.

Good luck.
That's a bit of an oversimplification. T1 is auto-immune -- the body loses the ability to produce insulin, and you can detect autoantibodies in the blood. T2 is insulin resistance, and generally has no autoimmune component and no autoantibodies present.

Typically T1D comes on all at once; the autoantibodies destroy the insulin producing beta cells and the patient needs exogenous insulin starting immediately. A subset of adult onset T1D displays a much slower progression of the destruction of beta cells. This is called LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes of adults”) or slow-progressing T1D and more recently T1.5D.

Similarly, some T2D patients also show evidence of autoantibodies however their beta cells are still largely functioning.

So now we further split into groups; Type 1–LADA, Type 1.5 or “double” diabetes, and Type 2 diabetes with autoantibodies.

This is a good overview: https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/diabetes-resources/de...
How much faster is it? I saw a few random videos comparing Vulkan vs. DX11, and the difference was usually in the 10% range in both ways (sometimes Vulkan won, sometimes DX won).
Well, you still have it. GNU APL is there, and you really don't need a dedicated keyboard. It didn't take me long to learn the layout, and the Emacs mode provides a shortcut that pops up a picture of it to help you learn.

Also, all modern APL implementations use Unicode, which contains all the APL characters so there is no need to mess with special fonts something like that.
More non-points.

To summarize your statement: "I am correct because I have read the data. Since you have not read the data, you should go read the data, because then, and only then, will you see that I am correct. Until then, just accept that I am correct."

I still reject your claims because you have not provided any meaningful measure of support for them.
> Is your homemade framework superior to Laravel? If so, how?

Our cryptography is certainly superior to Laravel's.

https://github.com/illuminate/encryption

https://github.com/paragonie/halite

Beyond that, nobody has paid me to look deeper and I haven't had any reason to.

> There are vulnerabilities in there, I've seen enough code like that to almost guarantee you.

If so, then anyone reading this thread who's aware of any vulnerabilities will be interested in: https://hackerone.com/paragonie
> up ... because another's goes down

This is very unusual. Typically stocks in the same industry are highly correlated.
New Rustacean Bonus 8: Giving back (by teaching)
Well they say "We start, invest in and buy wonderful internet businesses. Here’s a few of them..." so maybe they are just an investor in Buffer?
I am 60, when I was young in rural France, people like me run away from the countryside where we were born as it was some kind of intellectual desert.
People who were left there become victims of crooks who told them to invest a lot and work hard. Forty years later those countryside people are really impoverished even if they contribute to create astounding value for the companies (disguized as not-for-profit for social and fiscal reasons!) who sell their dairy and meat products.
I think this article is of high interest to people who are interested in the society they live in and who wonder how to make it better.
While the proposed solution is certainly something people like us would reject, the author has certainly a great courage to propose it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance#Measuring_i...
Liquidity and diversification.
Ask HN: What are your app monetisation strategies?
Hey guys - I've been an Android developer myself for over 4 year now. One of the biggest pain points has always been the monetisation part - which I've always felt is out of my control.

I've been focused mostly on free apps with ads - mostly Admob - but the little control over what ads are displayed, their format, etc always seemed to bother me. That's why I've started working on an ad network for mobile apps - where the advertisers buys directly from the app publisher the ad spot - and the publisher has full control over which ad is displayed and when.

I wanted to ask you what monetisation strategies to you have for your apps and if you've ever felt the same way when you added ads in your app.
> An object might be null and this only gets picked up at runtime - using Rust it's been very nice to have to explicitly say when things can be null.

This point actually frustrates me greatly about C# 7. At some point, there was talk about non-nullable references being introduced into the language, which has been put on hold for at least another version. Personally, I think that feature should have been in the language since version 1. Every runtime error due to a null reference is one too many.
I think you exaggerate. Consul is probably the go-to discovery service discovery for new projects at startups and tech companies that aren't afraid of the bleeding edge, but if you count installed base and less bleeding-edge companies ZooKeeper probably still reigns supreme.
Very good point. I have thought for a long time that the whole fake economy where people seem able to buy things they can't actually afford must backfire in some way. And so it does.

Maybe solution is change in legislation that will scrap the mortgage industry, and make sure people buy properties in cash, or not at all? For example, don't make mortgage interest tax-free, enforce harder criteria for mortgage takers (like, no mortgage loan can be for over 50% of property value or 100% of pre-tax annual income of the buyer's household?). Yes most people will become renters for life, as they are in Europe, but at least this problem will be solved.
would 75.748.86.91.mydomaininmysearchlist.com work?
This might help: https://experiment.com/birthday
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> w/r/t the Heroin problem, for a generation, Republicans have pushed an agenda of criminalizing drug addiction, labeling it a moral issue and throwing victims into prison.

Don't forget that Dems were also strongly for this platform in the 90s under Clinton.
> Technically MD5(128bits) and SHA1(160bits) lengths are sufficient for hashes, but they had cryptographic weaknesses

Not true. A 128-bit hash gets collisions after ~2^64 tries. A big cluster can find targeted 128-bit collisions. To attack something like git, the entire attack can be done offline.

The big MD5 X.509 break needed cryptanalysis to make it day I because the attack needed to happen in real time.